Friday, January 27, 2012 at 4:07PM | Matt Sager 
Here's a look at Punisher #8 from writer Greg Rucka and artist Marco Checchetto, in stores February 1.
The face to face you've all been waiting for as ex-Hydra and AIM agents work together to bring down the Punisher. Frank is up against a soldier who is more like him than either of them realize.
Punisher Friday, January 27, 2012 at 3:30PM | Matt Sager Marvel has released five new hi-res images from The Avengers, spotlighting each member of the team - in their casual, non-combat gear - along with Nick Fury, whose eye scars have grown noticeably. The eye is actually starting to look a bit infected.
Marvel Studios presents in association with Paramount Pictures “Marvel’s The Avengers”--the super hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel super heroes Iron Man, the Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.
Starring Robert Downey, Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon from a screenplay by Joss Whedon, “Marvel’s The Avengers” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when “Marvel’s The Avengers” assemble in summer 2012.
Avengers, Comic Book Movies Friday, January 27, 2012 at 12:44PM | Matt Sager 
Dark Horse Comics has just released this image, teasing the changes - and new titles - coming for the B.P.R.D. in 2012. Anyone care to speculate what's going on here? Is that a Beast of Burden by any chance?
B.P.R.D., Dark Horse Comics, Hellboy Friday, January 27, 2012 at 11:15AM | Matt Sager Here's a look at Uncanny X-Force #21 from writer Rick Remender and artist Greg Tocchini, in stores February 1.
Wolverine and AOA Nightcrawler face a strange and deadly new foe in Otherworld
Fantomex’s sentence is carried out and he is injected with an anti-reality serum…
Psylocke becomes Lady Briton!
Deadpool is decapitated.
Uncanny X-Force Friday, January 27, 2012 at 10:30AM | Matt Sager 
Louise and Walt Simonson will be appearing at MoCCA on Saturday (January 28), along with Bob Wiacek, Chris Sotomayer, and John Workman, as well as moderator Danny Fingeroth. If you're in the New York area, I definitely recommend this one. Here are the details:
COMICS OUT LOUD
Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:00 - 5:00PM
Featuring: LOUISE SIMONSON, WALTER SIMONSON, BOB WIACEK,
CHRIS SOTOMAYOR and JOHN WORKMAN
Curated by DANNY FINGEROTH
Comic books (and their cousins, graphic novels) are something we're all familiar with from childhood on. But if you're not involved in making them, how they come to be can seem a little mysterious and intimidating. Now, the curtain is pulled back as comics editor and writer DANNY FINGEROTH, in collaboration with the SOCIETY OF ILLUSTRATORS presents: COMICS OUT LOUD
In a manner similar to the Society's acclaimed ART OUT LOUD events, COMICS OUT LOUD will feature top comic book creators-one from each discipline of the medium-demonstrating and discussing their work processes as attendees circulate around the room and watch the process of "sequential art" (as the great Will Eisner dubbed it) being made.
You'll get to watch writer LOUISE SIMONSON, penciler WALT SIMONSON, inker BOB WIACEK, colorist CHRIS SOTOMAYOR, and letterer JOHN WORKMAN as they ply their crafts. Each creator will be working on a current assignment, so that attendees will get a sense of how team-created comics come to be. Event organizer, and longtime comics editor, DANNY FINGEROTH, will be on hand to discuss and demonstrate the role of the editor in the comic book making process.
COMICS OUT LOUD will be a rare opportunity to see top creators doing (and speaking about) their work. You will have the chance to find out everything you always wanted to know about making comics, but were afraid (or didn't even know) to ask!
$50 non-members, $40 members, $20 students
Food will be available for an additional $5.
Reservations are limited. To reserve your spot, go to:
http://www.societyillustrators.org/Product.aspx?id=7341
There will be two 15 minute breaks that will be designated for book and print signing.
Louise Simonson, MoCCA, Thor, Walt Simoson Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 6:08PM | Matt Sager 
While we await the premiere of The Dark Knight Rises, fan-made video projects are already proliferating, some of such high quality that they really raise the bar for the actual film. Perhaps none more so - to date, in any case - than this opening credits sequence, featuring some audio (but no video) from the DKR trailer, though mostly set to the excellent 'Suck Me Up Dub' by Massive Attack. The video itself is a very cool pastiche of still photos and mock newspaper clippings. Created by Doğan Can Gündoğdu, for a class - I'm hoping he gets an 'A,' and for that matter an editing job at Warners!
Batman, Comic Book Movies, Dark Knight Rises Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 3:02PM | Matt Sager Wonder Woman Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 12:34PM | Matt Sager 
Here's a look at Dark Horse Presents #8, in stores February 1.
A brand-new B.P.R.D. story, the beginning of Brian Wood and Kristian Donaldson's The Massive, new Skeleton Key, and the conclusion of Howard Chaykin's Marked Man?
Join the legendary anthology as Dark Horse Presents commemorates the 100th Anniversary of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan with Thomas Yeates, unravels the mysteries surrounding Neal Adams's Blood, Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson's Beasts of Burden returns, and more great comics!
* Brand-new B.P.R.D., the conclusion of Chaykin's Marked Man and more!
B.P.R.D., Dark Horse Comics, Dark Horse Presents, Hellboy Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 11:05AM | Matt Sager 
Columbia Pictures has released this synopsis for the upcoming Marc Webb-directed Spider-Man reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man:
The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Emma Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance — leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Rhys Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course with Connors’ alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become a hero.
The Amazing Spider-Man premieres on July 3.
