Comics Continuum by Rob Allstetter: Saturday, July 26, 2014

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SATURDAY, JULY 26, 2014

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: PRESS JUNKET INTERVIEWS

The Continuum continues its preview of the Guardians of the Galaxy movie with press junket interview videos.

For Chris Pratt, who plays Peter Quill/Star-Lord, CLICK HERE.

For Zoe Saldana, who plays Gamora, CLICK HERE.

For Chris Bautista, who plays Drax, CLICK HERE.

For writer/director James Gunn, CLICK HERE.

For Benicio del Toro, who plays The Collector, CLICK HERE.

For Vin Diesel, who plays Groot, CLICK HERE.

ARROW: SEASON 3 TRAILER

The CW has released its Comic-Con International preview for Season 3 of Arrow.

To watch the video, CLICK HERE.

And for video from the Arrow panel, CLICK HERE.

MARVEL ANIMATION NEWS ROUNDUP

Marvel Television has announced that second seasons of Avengers Assemble and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. will premiere this fall on Disney XD. Marvel is also developing a Guardians of the Galaxy animated series.

To see a clip from Season 2 of Avengers Assemble, CLICK HERE.

The second season of Avengers Assemble will feature Thanos as the main villain. The main voice cast returns, including Adrian Pasdar as Iron Man, Fred Tatasciore as Hulk, Roger Craig Smith as Captain America, Travis Willingham as Thor, Troy Baker as Hawkeye, Laura Bailey as Black Widow and Bumper Robinson as Falcon.

The second season of Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. finds the Hulks on Planet Hulk as Agents face a looming cosmic catastrophe. The main voice cast returns, including Tatasciore as Hulk, Clancy Brown as Red Hulk, Elize Dushku as She-Hulk, Ben Dishkin as Skaar and Seth Green as A-Bomb.

ASPEN COMICS ROUNDUP

Aspen Comics made several announcements at its panel at Comic-Con International on Saturday.

Following is a roundup:

* Lola XOXO will return in 2015 with a second volume by creator Siya Oum, as well as spin-off mini-series Lola XOXO: Wasteland Madam, written by Vince Hernandez and illustrated by Oum. Lola XOXO: The Wasteland Madam will feature a new heroine in the Lola Universe struggling to maintain control over a renegade force of post-apocalyptic survivors, while trying to come to grips with her horrific and tragic past.

* Dellec, created and written by Frank Mastromauro and Hernandez, returns for a second volume with art by Pasquale Qualano. The second volume focuses on the aftermath of the first volume's climax, while offering a jumping-on point for new readers.

* Legend of the Shadow Clan also returns next year, with creator/writers David Wohl and Brad Foxhoven returning to the family clan of ancient ninja heritage with art by penciler Giuseppe Cafaro.

* 2015 will see the debut of the first series of Aspen Sourcebooks line, featuring essential and never-before-seen handbooks of Aspen's most popular and longest-running titles, including Michael Turner's Fathom, Soulfire and Executive Assistant: Iris,. The books are written by Hannibal Tabu, with future editions planned for Aspen's later titles.

* The Aspen Novels prose imprint will release its second novel in November, Seven to Die, from author T.G. Roberts. Seven to Die, tells the story of Lex MacArthur, a San Francisco college student who comes into possession of an enigmatic clay pendant that unlocks a bevy of dormant superhuman genes. She's stronger, she's faster, and she's on a mission to find out why. As Lex sets out to discover who she is and where she really came from, she comes face-to-face with Egil, a killer who has been tracking Lex her entire life. At the helm of an enormous operation to eradicate all of Lex's kind, Egil captures Lex's long-lost mother, forcing Lex to confront him head on and save those she loves from certain death.

* Aspen will release Fathom: The Adventures of Ernie on October ComicFest 2014. The kid-friendly coloring and activity book will feature a story written by Hernandez with art by Agnes Garbowska.

* Aspen has signed on with The Powell Group to expand its multi-media publishing in the video game industry. Aspen also has teamed with the app beacon company Webble to produce a Cosplay Card Set.

IDW PUBLISHING ROUNDUP

IDW Publishing made announcements on Friday at Comic-Con International in San Diego.

Following is a roundup:

* IDW is teaming with BOOM! Studios on Star Trek/Planet of the Apes, which will pair the original U.S.S. Enterprise crew with Taylor, Nova and the cast from the original Planet of the Apes film.

The crossover will be written by Scott Tipton and David Tipton, with art and covers by Rachael Scott.

* Angry Birds Transformers is a four-issue series spinning out of the recent teaming of Rovio Entertainment and Hasbro.

Here's how the book is described:

"When a Deceptihog raid on the Autobird ship goes awry, the sought-after Allspark is hurled into the expanses of space, only to find its way onto the shores of Piggie Island, and as its inhabitants will soon find out, the Allspark is much more powerful than any creature could have imagined!"

The book will be written by John Barber. Cover artists include Sarah Stone, Guido Guidi, Casey W. Coller and Livio Ramondelli, with Ramondelli providing artwork for a framing sequence of issue #1. Marcelo Ferriera is the series' artist.

* Topps' Garbage Pail Kids will become an IDW series next year.

Peter Bagge, who provided the initial image of all-new character Comic-Con Ron, will be a part of the new series, planned as an anthology of loosely connected stories by a variety off creators, including some of Topps' official Garbage Pail Kids artists.

"As a child of the Eighties, I was at ground zero for the Garbage Pail Kids phenomenon," series editor Denton J. Tipton said. "The profoundly irreverent stickers spoke directly to the rascal inside each and every one of my classmates, and helped us drive our teachers to the brink of insanity. I couldn't be more happy to be working with some of the giants of alternative comics to push the buttons of an entirely new generation of educators, many of which likely remember when the poo-covered sneaker was on the other foot."

* The publisher unveiled Gabriel Rodriguez's cover to the first issue of Edward Scissorhands, the October-launching series based on Tim Burton's movie.