Between The Staples

So I have mentioned this for a while now but now I will make a blog post about it. I am now in Seattle and going to the Emerald City Comic Con this weekend. I will try my best to do some blogging on Sat night / Sunday about the Con with some photos I can take or remember to take (likely cellphone pics as I don’t plan to stumble around w/ my camera — then again, I just might). I do plan on attending the DC Nation and Mondo Marvel panels along with going to various other panels and whatever else is going on.

As mentioned I took the weekend off from ‘puters. Lots of stuff from Chicago so you can hunt and peck to find what you’re interested in reading, some of the highlights:

As Zeek mentioned earlier this weekend, Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch bullshit everyone and in fact are doing Fantastic Four as I had thought.

DC bringing back Ra’s al Ghul!

Captain America is being teased with a return (of course!) and Alex Ross is involved.

Countdown: Arena is being put out where various “Elseworld” characters come together and fight. Sounds like a bad idea for a 1980’s video game.

Warren Ellis doing Ultimate Hulk / Iron Man 6 issue mini-series. Seriously who doesn’t think this will be a 6 issue romp of who has the bigger / plated dick?

WildStorm (The DC Imprint) doesn’t know what else to do until Authority and WildC.A.T.s are back so they will do with the Armageddon cross-over through all the WildStorm Universe titles - Midnighter: Armageddon,” “Tranquility: Armageddon,” “Wetworks: Armageddon,” “Gen 13: Armageddon,” “Stormwatch PHD: Armageddon” and “Wildcats: Armageddon” ALSO fill the stands with “Freddy Vs. Jason Vs. Ash.”

Best news is Dustin Nguyen will be drawing Detective Comics early in 2008.

You can scan through and find all the info from Newsarama or Comic Book Resources here:

http://www.newsarama.com/Chicago_07/index.html

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11587

Okay I cry bullshit on this but I guess if I Wizard World was every in Vancouver… wait.. *LAUGHS* … right where was I, oh yeah if WW was here and they were doing this for the sneak peak at the Avengers movie and I was attending, I guess I would be happy…

From the WWC: DC Nations panel (Source: Comic Book Resources):

DC Comics announced Friday at Wizard World Chicago that they will be screening a sneak peak of the new Batman film, “The Dark Knight,” amid tight security Saturday night. “Leave your cell phones, your camcorders and your iPods at home,” said Bob Wayne, DC’s Vice President of Sales. The screening will only be for fans in Chicago, so there will be no electronic devices allowed in the room. Utilizing a trick Batman would be proud of, there will be security present with night vision goggles to detect any recording devices at the screening. “We want it to be special for the people in the room, not for 2 million people on YouTube,” Wayne said. “And then you can also tell people, ‘Oh, you missed it, they showed the whole movie in 15 minutes! I can’t believe that Superman showed up…’”

More here:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11556

Well I hope someone sneaks a shot of this and puts it up on YouTube just to piss off DC and yet please the other 2 million plus DC fans. I am sure they will, this is a good way to have us geeks doing hunting online for any sneak peak.