Let’s just all take a moment and behold the beauty that is Dave McKean’s variant cover to Sandman: Overture. The cover artist is still able to captivate after all these years.
Entertainment Weekly revealed the cover and the first page of the comic (which you can see below) drawn by J.H. Williams III today. Neil Gaiman will have a panel at San Diego Comic-Con this Sunday, July 21st from 3PM-4PM to discuss The Sandman’s 25th anniversary.
This week is one of the biggest of the nerd calendar year. Tens of thousand of comic fans, movie buffs, cosplayers and more will flock to San Diego for the biggest Comic-Con of the year. Every year the event grows larger and larger and this year is no exception. Now there is way too much going on this week for everyone to see everything (if you are one of the lucky bastards going), so we will list the bigger events for the week. For the full rundown go visit the SDCC webpage.
Let’s go!
-The Walking Dead 10th Anniversary Panel- 4:15PM-5:15PM (Room 6A)
-Battlestar Galactica 35th Anniversary- 10:30AM-11:30AM (Room 6BCF)
-The X-Files 20th Anniversary Panel- 3:30PM-4:30PM (Ballroom 20)
-Mortal Kombat: Legacy Season 2- 6:00PM-7:00PM (Indigo Ballroom, San Diego Hilton)
-Stan Lee’s World of Heroes- 10:15AM-11:15AM (Room 6BCF)
-DC Comics The New 52- 5:30PM-6:30PM (Room 6DE)
-Dark Horse: Joss Whedon Panel- 6:15PM-7:15PM (Ballroom 20)
-Kick-Ass 2 and Riddick- 12:15PM-1:15PM (Hall H)
-Sony (The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Robocop, The Mortal Instruments, more)- 4:05PM-6:15PM (Hall H)
-Roger Rabbit 25th Anniversary- 5;45PM-6:45PM (Room 6BCF)
-Veronica Mars Special Q&A- 11:15AM-12:00PM (Hall H)
-The Walking Dead- 1:35PM-2:30PM (Hall H)
-Game of Thrones- 2:50PM-3:45PM (Hall H)
-Archer- 5:00PM-6:00PM (Indigo Ballroom, San Diego Hilton)
-Hellboy 20th Anniversary Panel- 3:00PM-4:00PM (Room 4)
-The Tick 25th Anniversary Panel- 1:00PM-2:00PM (Room 23ABC)
-The Sandman 25th Anniversary- 3:15PM-4:15PM (Room 6DE)
-Warner Bros. (Godzilla, 300: ROAE, Seventh Son, Gravity, The Lego Movie)- 10:45AM-1:15PM (Hall H)
-Lionsgate (I, Frankenstein, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire)- 1:35PM-2:35PM (Hall H)
-20th Century Fox- 4:15PM-5:45PM (Hall H)
-Marvel (Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier)- 6:00PM-7:00PM (Hall H)
-Kevin Smith- 7:15PM-9:00PM (Hall H)
-Futurama Final Season Panel- 12:00PM-12:45PM (Ballroom 20)
-George R.R. Martin- 12:00PM-1:00PM (Room 25ABC)
-Neil Gaiman- 3:00PM-4:00PM (Room 6DE)
-Supernatural- 10:00AM-11:00AM (Hall H)
-Breaking Bad- 11:15AM-12:15PM (Hall H)
-Doctor Who 50th Anniversary- 12:30PM-1:30PM (Hall H)
-Community Fan Panel- 1:50PM-2:45PM (Hall H)
If you are going to San Diego Comic-Con next week, your trip just got a bit better. Sony has announced that the Playstation 4 will be playable at the SDCC at their booth (301). They will also be giving away PS Vitas in giveaways all week long. If you happen to win one you get an upgrade from “lucky bastard” to “really lucky bastard”.
Check out the list of games that will be playable in Sony’s booth at SDCC:
PS4- Knack, Driveclub, Octodad
PS3- Beyond:Two Souls, Gran Turismo 6, Diablo 3, Batman: Arkham Origins, Puppeteer
Vita- Killzone: Mercenary, The Walking Dead, Tearaway, Dragon’s Crown, Spelunky, Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate
Entertainment Weekly’s new issue this week is their yearly Comic-Con issue and the cover gives us our first look at the fully-powered Electro played by Jamie Foxx. There have been photos of Foxx on set in make-up, but this is the first look we are getting with him all CGI’d up.
I like the look so far except for the outfit which may be a little much, but this is a comic movie so I can get past it. Now we just need to see what Paul Giamatti will look like when he is full-on Rhino.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 releases on May 2, 2014.
20 years ago on a random Friday night in September, a thirteen year old boy sat down to watch two new shows that would become some of the most memorable TV viewing of his life. One only lasted for one season (The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.) and the other would go on to run for nine seasons and 202 episodes reigniting the world’s obsession with aliens and the unknown.
20 years later The X-Files still stands up to most shows on the air today and to celebrate the anniversary there will a special panel at the San Diego Comic-Con. On Thursday, July 18th creator Chris Carter and Gillian Anderson will be joined by writers and producers David Amann, Vince Gilligan, Howard Gordon, Darin Morgan, Glen Morgan, John Shiban and Jim Wong to discuss the series and its place in sci-fi and TV history.
David Duchovny is not scheduled to appear…yet.
*UPDATE*
David Duchovny has confirmed that he WILL BE at the Comic-Con panel. So now it is a true reunion.
Looks like Adam Sessler and Kevin Pereira were the smart rats and jumped off a sinking ship early.
Rumors abound that G4, which has been on since 2002, will be “re-branded” early next year and morph into a GQ-style men’s channel and that may include a name change. This may come as a shock to some people but it really shouldn’t when you think about the channel only produced two real video game/tech based shows (Attack of the Show and X-Play). Now whether these show will survive the changeover is not clear. If one was to make it I would guess it would be Attack of the Show since it is more of a pop culture show than strictly video games like X-Play.
No word has been given on if the channel would still give special coverage to shows like E3, PAX or Comic Con.
But what about my need for Morgan Webb and Ninja Warrior?