He’s been the leader of the Autobots for decades.
But in the first issue of IDW’s latest Transformers comic book, long time leader Optimus Prime has resigned the mantle of leadership, reports USA Today.
Whedon: “Buffy” Season Nine Coming (In Comics)
September 30, 2009 || Category: Collectibles | Leave a Comment
“Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” will have a ninth season–in comic books.
Following the success of the popular “Buffy, Season Eight” comics, creatoer Joss Whedon assures fans that the Slayer’s adventures will continue for a ninth season in comic-book form.
“Well, 40 issues was always the goal, and that’s how we’re playing it,” he said of the current [...]
Latest Spider-Man Issue Creates Controversy
September 15, 2009 || Category: Book News, Collectibles | 8 Comments
The latest issue of “Amazing Spider-Man” seems to be raising a few eyebrows s and has created some controversy within the fan community.
In the current issue (#603), super villain the Chameleon disguises himself to look like Peter Parker and tries to take over his life. The Chameleon is clueless about Peter’s dual identity but does [...]
The Empire Muggs Back: Star Wars Art for a “Mighty” Good Cause
August 11, 2009 || Category: Collectibles, Cool Stuff, Merchandise | Leave a Comment
Collectors and fans alike have a chance to own one-of-a-kind “Star Wars”
art pieces while giving to a good cause with The Empire Muggs Back.
Lucasfilm asked artists, comic book creators, toy designers, and
celebrity fans to get out their markers, paint brushes and glue guns and
transform blank Mighty Muggs (donated by Hasbro) into custom art
depicting their favorite [...]
Nimoy Donates Prized “Spock Ears” for Charity
August 6, 2009 || Category: Collectibles, Events, Featured | Leave a Comment
Los Angeles, CA - The world renowned star of Star Trek television, Leonard Nimoy, has has donated Spock ears from Star Trek IV (with authentication) valued at about $10,000 to be auctioned at the highly anticipated Company of Angeles’ Charity Awards Gala, along with additional one-of-a-kind Star Trek Memorabilia.
Co-founded in 1959 by actor Leonard Nimoy, [...]
“The Amazing Spider-Man” hit another milestone this week-the publication of its 600th issue.
As a celebration, the issue features the return of Doctor Octopus, a guest spot by Daredevil, a wedding and the return of Mary Jane Watson. In addition, there are several short stories by some of the iconic writers for everyone’s favorite web-slinger, including [...]
Adopt A Tribble at Comic-Con
July 16, 2009 || Category: Collectibles, Cool Stuff, TV News | 1 Comment
They’re cute, they’re cuddly and they love quadrotritecale. And you can pick up your very own Tribble from the Paramount booth at the upcoming San Diego Comic Con.
The tribbles are being distributed to promote the upcomign release of “Star Trek: The Complete Second Season” on Blu-Ray. Those who drop by Paramount’s booth can adopt [...]
DC Releases First “Wednesday Comics”
July 9, 2009 || Category: Book News, Collectibles, Featured | Leave a Comment
DC’s latest 12-part miniseries isn’t one going to have a huge, universe changing impact on the entire product line. Instead, the new “Wednesday Comics” will seek to take readers back to a time when newspapers boasted colorful comics sections using tabloid-sized paper and 16 colors.
The new series debuts in comic stores today and feature stories [...]
“TekWar Chronicles” Hits Stores This Week
June 22, 2009 || Category: Book News, Collectibles | 2 Comments
WILLIAM SHATNER’S TEK WAR CHRONICLES COMIC DEBUTS THIS WEEK
The TekWar Chronicles, a new comic book series based on the best selling TekWar novels by television and movie icon William Shatner is scheduled to arrive in stores on June 24th.
It is the first title to be released under the creative partnership between Shatner and [...]
Captain America #600 Hits Stores Today
June 15, 2009 || Category: Book News, Collectibles | Leave a Comment
The pivotal “Captain America #600″ hits stores today. Several years ago, the comic book series made headlines when it killed the central character.
Now, a little over two years later, it appears the 600th issue will undo that death. Or to quote the “Princess Bride,” to make so that Captain America was only “slightly dead.”
Confused yet?
If [...]
IDW corrects a grave injustice this week with the debut of the comic-book version of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.”
Released in 1982, “Khan” was the only classic “Trek” movie to not get a comic book adaptation. When “Khan” hit theaters, neither Marvel nor DC pursued adapting the movie as a comic-book. It did [...]
“Amazing Spider-Man #600″ Will Feature a Wedding
June 5, 2009 || Category: Book News, Collectibles | Leave a Comment
Apparently if you reach 600 issues, you have to throw a wedding. First it was the Archie comics, which will have the wedding of Archie and Veronica in issue #600 and now “Amazing Spider-Man” #600 is being advertised as featuring a wedding.
Could it be the reunion of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson? For those [...]
The reboot of the Spider-Man universe has been given a reset…at least in the daily comic-strip adventures of Peter Parker and his alter-ego.
The daily comic-strip version, which runs in syndicated newspapers acorss the nation and world, recently followed the official canon reboot of the character. The reboot found Peter and Mary Jane Parker making a [...]
If you’re attending one of the Disney theme parks “Star Wars” themed weekends this summer, you’ll have the chance to pick up one or all of the figures below. The figures have Disney characters as characters from the original “Star Wars” trilogy including Mickey as Luke Skywalker, Minnie as Princess Leia (gold bikini and all!), [...]
Free Comic Book Day Is Saturday, May 2
April 20, 2009 || Category: Book News, Collectibles | Leave a Comment
Walk into your local comic book shop* Saturday, May 2 and you could walk out with a free comic book. That’s right–it’s Free Comic Book Day.
(* provided your local comic book shop is participating in Free Comic Book Day. Find out which retailers near you are participating at Free Comic Book Day).
The selection of comics [...]
Tor Offers Preview of “Wheel of Time #0″
April 16, 2009 || Category: Book News, Collectibles | Leave a Comment
Eager to see how Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series will come to life in graphic novel form?
If you are, surf over to Tor.com for an exclusive look at the first ten pages of “The Wheel of Time #0: Dragonmount.”
The book features art by Chase Conley and is adapted to comics by Chuck Dixon. Look [...]
Wonder Twins Action Figures to Debut at ComicCon
April 15, 2009 || Category: Collectibles, Merchandise | 3 Comments
“Wonder Twin powers, activate!”
Fans of Zan, Jana and Gleek from the popular 70’s cartoon series “The Superfriends” will soon be able to add the characters to their action-figure collection. Mattel is gearing up to produce action-figure versions of the popular duo and Gleek the monkey as part of the DC Universe Classics line according to [...]
If you could invest under a dollar and make a little over $300,000 in return, you’d do it, right?
That’s what happened to a collector who purchased a copy of “Action Comics #1″ for less thirty-five cents in a second-hand store in the 50s. The unidentified person auctioned the comic off on-line for $317,200 last [...]
If you’ve got a couple of hundred thousand dollars to spare, you could own a piece of comic-book history.
A rare copy of “Action Comics #1″ was put up for auction today. The comic is one of the most valued in the world with copies valued at $126,000. Many experts expect this issue will go for [...]
USA Today Offers Look at New “Trek” Toys
January 22, 2009 || Category: Collectibles | Leave a Comment
With the approach of J.J. Abrams’ new “Star Trek” reboot later this year, USA Today has a sneak peak at some of the tie-in toys that will be offered along with the film.
Playmates Toys will begin offering action figures, remote-controlled starships, board games and even a tie-in “Star Trek” Barbies in stores on April 19.  [...]
During last year’s Presidential campaign, when asked who his favorite comic book character was, President-elect Barak Obama responded that he liked the adventures of Spider-Man and Batman. Obama went on to admit that he had, at one time, collected Spider-Man comic books.
Those comments caught the attention of Marvel editor-in-chief, Joe Quesada. When Obama won the [...]
Looking for the perfect gift for the “Star Wars” fan on your holiday list?  How about a flash drive that looks like their favorite character from the original trilogy?
Mimoco has a series of flashdrives, decorated to look like characters from the “Star Wars” universe, including Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Princess Leia and C3-PO.
Quantities are limited, so [...]
Looking for that special holiday gift that returns every year on the Christmas tree? How about a special Firefly ornament. We have them for you.
Firefly Serenity Vehicle Ornament (Only 1 left in stock - order SOON):
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Collectors mark your calendars for January 16. Â
That’s the weekend NBC/Universal will hold an auction, selling off props, costumes and set pieces from SciFi’s hit series, “Battlestar Galactica.” The auction is set to take place at the same time the popular sci-fi drama returns to our screens and begins its final run of episodes.
According to the [...]
Since the days of the Vietnam War, Peter Parker’s nemesis and Spider-Man’s biggest fan, Flash Thompson, has served his country. These days, Thompson is currently deployed to Iraq and “Amazing Spider-Man” writer Marc Guggenheim told the Los Angeles Times that fans can expect “a jolt” when the comic book series offers an issue that shows [...]
We’ll be talking a lot more about this baby on our next Slice of SciFi show #183, ready for download on Saturday, October 18 and one week later on the Sirius/XM Satellite Radio Network.
[Image courtesy of Gizmodo]
QMx Introduces “The Battlestar Galactica Cylon Raider Artisan Replica”
September 29, 2008 || Category: Collectibles | Leave a Comment
More than a year in development, QMx’s first limited-edition ship model has arrived — The Battlestar Galactica Cylon Raider Artisan Replica.
Limited to just 500 scale replicas, QMx is doing these a little different that other high-end collectible ships you may have seen in the past: Each ship is built by hand in the U.S. by [...]
A few months ago, employees entering the lobby of Lucasfilm’s Building A at the Presidio were greeted by a new member of the campus’ growing family of bronze statues… Darth Vader.
Fans can now buy this very limited edition piece of art standing nearly four feet tall and weighing a whopping 150 pounds!
Of course, to do [...]
The Doctor Who Tardis Zipperobe is a great gift for any Doctor Who Fan. A product of Otherland in the UK.
This is an original, custom velvet portrait of famed physicist Stephen Hawking hand-painted on black velvet by professional Mexican Velvet Elvis artist ARGO in Tijuana, Mexico for Indignico Inc. and The Toy Baronness in August of 2008.
