SCI-FI, FANTASY and Action Movie Release Schedule List

Yes there are more films of interest in theaters coming to your area in the next couple years other than comic book-based superhero movies. Here are the sci-fi, fantasy, and other popular genre movie list for the next several years with intended movie dates and a link to the project or trailer if possible. If a film has robots, giant monsters, aliens, super spies, lightsabers, or magic you should find it below. 2018: January 26: Maze Runner: The Death Cure (Fox) February 23: Annihilation (Paramount) March 9: A Wrinkle In…

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2017 Officially First Down Year Since 2011 Comic Sales

It’s official official. Direct Market comic book sales fell year-to-year for the first time since 2011, with 2017 finishing up about 10% off from 2016. According to figures released by Diamond Comic Distributors Friday morning, DC Comics led the Direct Market in dollar share, powered by the two best-selling comic books of the month – Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s Doomsday Clock #2 and Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Dark Nights: Metal #4 – and four other Top 10 titles.  Marvel Comics, which released the other four Top 10 titles…

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Len Wein’s Final Story To See Print In ‘Swamp Thing Winter Special’

Legendary comic book writer and editor Len Wein passed away last month, aged 69. This week, DC Comics ran tributes to Len in all their titles. And yesterday at New York Comic Con, DC announced that his final story would see print in the upcoming Swamp Thing Winter Special, starring the character he co-created for DC Comics with Bernie Wrightson, and then a few years later, as editor, hired Alan Moore to write. The story will be drawn from Len’s outline by Kelly Jones, who most recently worked with Len…

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Marvel Legacy Branding Doesn’t Seem To Help Sales

This is the Top 10 Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday, 8th October 2017. It measures what are known as the “Wednesday Warriors”, those who can’t wait for the weekend to get this week’s comics. We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. Batman takes the top four (and he pops up in the fifth as well) Walking Dead outsells all Marvel titles and Paper Girls outsells them all apart from X-Men Gold. And…

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Marvel Q&A At New York Comic Con With Retailers Goes Bad

A closed Q&A between Marvel Comics and comic book retailers erupted at the New York Comic Con on Thursday after one retailer became vocally critical of the publisher’s decision to change the ethnicity, gender, and sexuality of some of the classic characters, Bleeding Cool reports. The tensions began when an unnamed seller “specifically [expressed] his distaste for Iceman ‘kissing other men,’ and Thor ‘becoming a woman,’” Newsarama writes. “The retailer’s complaints sparked an outcry among the other retailers present in the room, some echoing his frustration, with multiple attendees raising…

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Super Team Family The Lost Issues: Team Up

Super-Team Family is a comic book anthology series published by DC Comics from 1975 to 1978 that lasted for fifteen issues. The series published a mix of original and reprinted stories. This omnibus series had a higher page count than standard titles. It reprinted stories of superhero teams and superhero team-ups from Golden Age and Silver Age DC Comics titles. Recently I came across a special Blog that features Super Team Family The Lost Issues. It was created to make special covers about team ups that should have happened by…

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The Full COMIC BOOK SUPERHERO Movie Release Schedule

The Superhero movie schedule may not be written in stone but here it is using all the media outlets we can to get accurate dates. Our disclamer is that things are subject to change. Keep in mind the Aquaman movie was moved back to December 2018. The movie industry is always in flux with Marvel Entertainment the most stable of all the movie makers. Here it is for superhero the movie fans. 2017: September 1: The Inhumans (Marvel/ABC) [Editor’s Note: The first two episodes of this planned 8-episode series will…

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‘Calexit’ Comic Book Imagines California in Revolt

A new comic book hitting shelves this week imagines a full-scale revolt against the federal government in the state of California over President Donald Trump’s strict immigration policies. Calexit, a new series from Black Mask Studios, is set in a bitter future in which the state of California is plunged into a war with the federal government and a civil war within its own borders. The story in the the comic describes a world in which climate change has ravaged much of the state, while masked Californians battle the government…

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STAN LEE’S WIFE, JOAN LEE, DIES AT 93

Joan Lee, the wife of legendary comic book creator Stan Lee, died quietly today in Los Angeles at the age of 93 surrounded by family. Marvel confirmed the news in a statement: “We are so saddened to hear about the loss of Joan Lee. We lost a member of the Marvel family today and our thoughts and prayers go out to Stan and his daughter Joan in this difficult time.” A spokesperson for Stan Lee and his daughter, Joan Celia Lee, released the following statement: “The family ask that you…

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May 2017 Comic Book Sales

Diamond sent over the followinging charts and info for comic book sales for the month of May and more:  (BALTIMORE, MD) — (June 16, 2017) — The United States is dominated by Hydra, with Captain America at its head, in Nick Spencer, Steve McNiven, and Jay Leisten’s Secret Empire #1 from Marvel Comics, the best-selling comic book of May according to information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors, the world’s largest distributor of comics, graphic novels, and pop culture merchandise. Marvel Comics was May’s top publisher with a 38.05% dollar share…

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Misfit City #1 Review

Please welcome a new contributor to the articles on Comics Talk News, Tyrel Kessinger. He will be adding his reviews from time to time about independent comic titles and other points of interest in the comic world. Thanks for reading Comics Talk. Walt Boom! Studios Writers: Kirsten Smith & Kurt Lustgarten Art: Naomi Franquiz, Brittany Peer With its very ambitious tribute to the classic 80s movie, The Goonies, Boom! Studio’s latest release, Misfit City, attempts to draw readers in by tugging on their fond memories for the film. And while…

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Why Are Marvel Comic Sales Down?

Recently I have been monitoring the message boards and blogs about the drop in sales of comics in general and especially Marvel sales. Many people blame the drop in Marvel sales is because of the direction they are going by abandoning the classic characters and becoming more diverse in story telling. The classic Marvel heroes have been primarily white and not of color, so their efforts are to introduce more people of color like Miles Morales (Spider-Man) and Riri Williams (Ironman). While that may have been the perception in modern…

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Dan Slott Quits Twitter

Dan Slott, writer of Marvel’s Amazing Spider-Man, Clone Conspiracy and Eisner winner for Silver Surfer has quit Twitter because he does not like the political scene or the Pro-Trump Rhetoric on Twitter. Slott has been known for being very vocal on social media especially Twitter for years. When you make criticisms and comments on political themes and social pop culture everyone has an opinion. It seems that the comic world of creators are no different than any group of professionals in America with different ideas of how the world works.…

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George Perez’s Boycott Statement

George Pérez has come out in protest of United States’ President-Elect Donald Trump by pledging not to attend any conventions or comic functions in any ‘Red States.’ Pérez explains that he feels threatened by Trump’s statements and actions, for both himself, his wife, and his family and friends. Pérez provided this statement to the Comic World about his decision. I make no comment on his actions at this time. I think the statement speaks for itself: “Just as a confirmation and clarification, since I have been flooded with requests for…

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I Like Comics Anniversary Celebration Join Us

Join us Friday, November 25th and Saturday, November 26th for our biggest anniversary event yet! Joining us for this occasion is none other than Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk, who will be here SATURDAY ONLY with his new adult coloring book, Bait: Off-Color Stories For You To Color. THIS WILL BE A TICKETED EVENT to meet Chuck, and you can purchase your ticket at I Like Comics. So, what do you get with your ticket? $30.00 – Most important, you get to meet Chuck. You will also receive a copy…

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