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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2008
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Warner Bros. gave fans their first look at next year's Wonder Woman as its DC Animated panel at Comic-Con International on Saturday
Panelists included DC Comics' Gregory Noveck and Paul Levitz, voice director Andrea Romano, producer Bruce Timm, director Lauren Montgomery and actor Nathan Fillion (Steve Trevor).
For highlights from the panel, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: DC ANIMATED
COMIC-CON: ULTIMATE UNIVERSE
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Marvel Comics staged its Ultimate Universe panel at Comic-Con International on Saturday night.
For highlights, with news on Frank Cho drawing the Ultimates and the future of Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: SECRET INVASION
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Marvel Comics staged its Secret Invasion panel at Comic-Con International on Saturday night.
For highlights, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: BLACK PANTHER
The upcoming Black Panther animated series was featured at BET's panel at Comic-Con International on Saturday.
The series, which debuts in February, is based on the first six issues of the Marvel Comics series by Reginald Hudlin (president of BET) and John Romita Jr., with the art style lifted directly from Romita's work.
For highlights from the panel, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: IRON MAN: ARMORED ADVENTURES
Nicktoons unveiled its new animated series, Iron Man: Armored Adventures, on Saturday morning at Comic-Con International.
The first two episodes were screened and then a question-and-answer was held.
For highlights from the panel, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: FARSCAPE
Boom! Studios and The Jim Henson Company revealed that Rockne S. O'Bannon, creator of Farscape, will be writing Boom!'s Farscape comic-book series.
"This is a dream opportunity for me -- to get to continue the Farscape saga," O'Bannon said. "The comic-book series starts off directly where the Peacekeeper Wars mini-series left us. It's like we're finally getting to experience Season Five of Farscape. Not only that, but the stories in the ongoing comic series will completely tie into the upcoming Farscape webisodes. Farscape lives!"
"I can't tell you how incredibly excited I am that Rockne will be part of the comic-book team. I'm a fan, and he's one of the best writers around," said Boom! Studios editor-in-chief Mark Waid. "I'm doubly pleased that both Rockne and The Jim Henson Company folks have responded to the idea of making this series a direct continuation of the Farscape TV series rather than an out-of-continuity tie-in. For fans of Farscape, and with the show's creator involved, the comic series will fill that outer-space-sized void the show once occupied."
"Farscape the television series was a huge production, but we still had to tailor our storytelling to conform to the inevitable television limitations of story length and logistics and budget," O'Bannon said. "The great thing about the comic book medium is that the scope and scale of the Farscape world is no longer restricted. In terms of where we can go, what we can show -- these new stories will be Farscape Unrestrained."
Not wanting to give away too much of what's in store in the new comic series, O'Bannon did reveal, "One of the places that we always wanted to explore in the television series was Rygel's home world of Hyneria. No matter how passionate we were about telling that story, we simply couldn't do it. But now one of the massive-scale arcs in our first four-issue comic series has us off to Hyneria!"
COMIC-CON: BRYAN SINGER TO PRODUCE FREEDOM FORMULA
Radical Publishing has announced that Bryan Singer, director of X-Men, X2, and Superman Returns, has signed on to produce Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland, based on Radical Publishing's comic-book written by Edmund Shern.
This is the third film deal by Radical Publishing, following the announcements of John Woo being attached to direct Caliber and Peter Berg producing and developing to direct Hercules.
The first issue of the five-issue Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland #1 debuted at Comic-Con International and will be in stores on August 6.
Singer's Bad Hat Harry Productions and Radical Pictures will produce Freedom Formula, with Singer and Radical Publishing's President and Publisher Barry Levine as producers.
"Creator Edmund Shern and I spoke about finding a property that originated in the Asian market, but was easily adaptable as a North American property," Levine said. "All he did was show me one image of the mecha, one paragraph of its characters and the world, and I green-lit it immediately."
Here's how Radical describes the property:
"Set in the future, Freedom Formula is a modern day Top Gun, where racing exosuits replace the classic, high flying fighter jets, establishing a dangerous new breed of illegal racing. The story follows a genetically engineered racer who discovers that his bloodline possesses the power to change society. Through a series of cataclysmic events, our protagonist comes face to face with his destiny and a means for revolution."
"Freedom Formula is a story that explores the misnomer of absolute freedom and realizing what's important is not the choices we can make, but the choices we do make," Shern said.
COMIC-CON: THE SPIRIT
After its Punisher: War Zone presentation on Thursday, Lionsgate showed off its other December comics movie, Frank Miller's The Spirit, on Friday at Comic-Con International.
For highlights from the panel, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: FAMILY GUY
Seth MacFarlane (the voices of Brian, Stewie and Peter) and Seth Green (the voice of Chris) were featured at the Family Guy panel at Comic-Con International on Friday.
To listen to the panel, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: DC NATION
DC Comics is staging two DC Nation panels at Comic-Con International.
To listen to the first one, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: SUPERMAN
The creators responsible for the next couple of years of Superman stories were spotlighted in a DC Comics panel on Thursday.
Panelists include Sterling Gates, Jamal Igle, James Robinson, Geoff Johns and Renato Guedes.
To listen to the entire panel, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: J.G. JONES
Final Crisis artist J.G. Jones was spotlighted in his own panel at Comic-Con.
To listen to the entire panel, CLICK HERE.
COMIC-CON: BILL WILLINGHAM
Fables writer Bill Willingham was spotlighted in his own panel at Comic-Con.
To listen to the entire panel, CLICK HERE.
OCTOBER SOLICITATIONS ROUNDUP
For previously posted October solicitations, click on the publishers' names below:
* Archie Comics.
* Aspen Comics.
* Bluewater Productions.
* Bongo Comics.
* Dark Horse Comics.
* DC Comics.
* Image Comics.
* Marvel Comics.
* Moonstone Books.
* Oni Press.
BRIEFLY
* The Dark Knight remained on top of the box office on Friday, pulling in $22.1 million and pushing its total to $261.8 million. It more than doubled second-place Step Brothers.
COMICS CONTINUUM BACK ISSUES
In case you missed The Continuum's coverage over the past month, here are some links. Click on the date to get the day's full report.
* Monday, July 21: DC Comics for October, The Dark Knight, Archie Comics for October, Thulsa Doom, Caprica, Len Wein at Bloodfire, Image Comics First Looks and DC Comics First Looks.
* Sunday, July 20: The Dark Knight.
* Saturday, July 19: The Dark Knight box office, Watchmen movie, John Woo to direct Caliber and First Looks.
* Friday, July 18: The Dark Knight, Watchmen trailer, Image Comics First Looks and Aspen Comics' convention exclusives.
* Thursday, July 17: The Spirit, The Dark Knight, Punisher: War Zone, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Terminator: Salvation, Marvel second printings and First Looks.
* Wednesday, July 16: The Dark Knight's Heath Ledger, World of Quest, The Cleveland Show, The Remnant, Savage, Zeroids and Archie Comics First Looks.
* Tuesday, July 15: The Dark Knight's Gary Oldman, BET's Black Panther and Marvel Comics roundup.
* Monday, July 14: The Dark Knight, Aspen Comics' tribute to Michael Turner, Dynamite Entertainment First Looks, Boom! Studios First Looks, Marvel Comics roundup and Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.
* Sunday, July 13: Hellboy II: The Golden Army and Fear Itself.
* Saturday, July 12: Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Dark Knight and First Looks.
* Friday, July 11: Smallville, Marvel Comics First Looks and Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Mike Mignola.
* Thursday, July 10: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Guillermo del Toro, The Dark Knight, Aspen Comics for October, Image Comics First Looks and Watchmen movie.
* Wednesday, July 9: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Ron Perlman, The Dark Knight, Dark Horse Comics for October, The Middleman, Marvel Comics First Looks and Archie Comics First Looks.
* Tuesday, July 8: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Luke Goss and Anna Walton, The Dark Knight, Batman Gotham Knight, Fear Itself, Dynamite Entertainment First Looks and Marvel Comics First Looks.
* Monday, July 7: Hellboy II: The Golden Army's Doug Jones, The Dark Knight, The Middleman, Moonstone Books for October, Dark Horse Comics First Looks, DC Comics First Looks and Longshot.
* Sunday, July 6: Wanted and The Dark Knight's Morgan Freeman.
* Saturday, July 5: Top Cow Productions First Looks and The Dark Knight.
* Friday, July 4: The Dark Knight's Christian Bale and Marvel Comics First Looks.
* Thursday, July 3: Wanted's Timur Bekmambetov, The Dark Knight's Christopher Nolan and First Looks.
* Wednesday, July 2: The Dark Knight, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Middleman, Archie Comics First Looks and Fear Itself.
* Tuesday, July 1: The Middleman's Natalie Morales, The Dark Knight and First Looks.
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