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Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. announced today that world renowned painter Alex Ross has donated an original piece of classic Catwoman art to Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization, Inc. (S.W.R.O.). The piece was created exclusively for Saved Whiskers Rescue Organization to raise money to help rescue animals. The piece will be auctioned through Ebay.
When an ancient foe rears his head, will Samson be able to overcome him, or is our hero doomed to a watery grave? Meet The Bad Guys, the series devoted to introducing new and ominous threats to the Superpowers Universe, rolls out issue number three by introducing Dagon, ancient man/fish god!
Project: Superpowers, the amazing re-vitalization of old public domain heroes, continues this week with the second issue of the second mini-series by Alex Ross and company, and I get the pleasure of checking out the preview issue that Dynamite Entertainment provided.
With the 70th Anniversary of Marvel Comics upon us (already?), the company is bringing its original hero The Torch, back for more adventures, with Mike Carey writing. Marvel sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of the issue that arrives on September 2, 2009.
The twenty-five cent Buck Rogers #0 edition arrives in stores on May 2, 2009, prompting the company to start the publicity early by sending us the cover to the issue.
In addition, take the jump to see the covers to the first issue by Alex Ross and John Cassaday.
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Dynamite Entertainment has announced the second chapter of Project Superpowers will feature a cover price of $1.00. The #0 issue features four covers that joing to form a super picture by artist Alex Ross.
Writer Jim Krueger is back on board and joined series by up and coming artist extraordinaire Edgar (DEATH-DEFYING ‘DEVIL) Salazar! Painter and artist Doug Klauba rounds out the Chapter two creative team with a special painted origin sequence in each and every issue of the series – first up, The Black Terror!
“We’ve been working hard to continue the action, intrigue and excitement we started in chapter One, as Joe in my office stated, and to quote George Lucas “Faster, More Intense, more Power in every scene”!” said Dynamite President and Publisher Nick Barrucci in a prepared statement. “Volume one dealt with quite a bit of introduction of the characters, with character build up. Now, Alex, Jim and Dynamite Editorial have ratcheted this new series up past full volume as we continue to explore the nature of power, and loss!”
PROJECT SUPERPOWERS: CHAPTER TWO #0
Alex Ross, Jim Krueger (W),
Edgar Salazar (main story) (A)
Doug Klauba (painted Black Terror origin story)
Three Connecting Covers: Alex Ross, Sneak Peek Cover: Alex Ross
Price: $1.00
Project Superpowers Spins Off Female Heroine
There’s something about golden age heroes and the time period in which their stories are set. I think it has something to do with the atomic bomb. Prior to the advent of the nuclear age, the world was still full of mystery, unexplored worlds, and magic. Times were simpler, with readers happy with their mystery men with tales set in far away worlds. Following the end of World War II those mystery men began to disappear into annals of history – fortunately the threat of the Nazi menace and the rising red menace gave heroes like Masquerade a reason to don the domino mask and fight crime.
Dynamite Entertainment has announced the third spin-off series from its popular Project Superpowers series, will be Masquerade. The four-issue mini-series will be written by Phil Hester of The Darkness fame, with art by Carlos Paul and Deborah Carita.
“Project Superpowers is such an epic, larger-than-life event that I’m thrilled to be allowed a small role in the event,” stated writer Phil Hester. “I believe Masquerade will give fans of the larger series a look at what makes these characters work on a human level. Masquerade is both a secret origin and a personal memoir of earth shaking events spanning from the golden age to the world of tomorrow.”
Take the jump for the covers and solicitation information for the first issue.
Can’t let it die, can you?
The readership seems to be divided on the return of the Earth-22 Superman. Some are in favor of the continuing adventures of the Kingdom Come storyline, even though the original follow up series tanked, while others are content with reliving the glory days in Absolute Editions. With the return of Magog, and E22 Superman, is DC trying to repeat the events from one universe to the other?
Dynamite Entertainment has announced it will release a chase cover to The Death Defying Devil #1 by John Romita Sr.
Admired by generations of comic books fans and creators alike, John Romita Sr. is best known for his legendary work on Marvel Comics’ Daredevil and The Amazing Spider-Man from the late 1960’s to early 1970’s. In the 1970’s he served as Marvel Comics’ art director, where he had a major role in defining the look of Marvel Comics and in designing new characters such as Punisher and Wolverine. In 2002 John Romita Sr. was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. John Romita Sr’s cover for The Death Defying ‘Devil #1 continues Dynamite’s exciting presentation of Project Superpowers expanded universe chase covers by legendary talent; also available is the new Black Terror series with chase covers by George Tuska and John Romita, Sr.
This is a 1 in 15 cover, so you better hope your local comic shop orders plenty for you to get this one.
Take the jump to see the full Romita cover, plus covers by Alex Ross and John Cassaday.
This time around: Who Watches the Watchmen? Who Remembers Earth 2? Who Knows What Evil Lurks on Earth-22? Who wrote the book of love? For that matter, who wrote the book of Leviticus? We check in on Ultimate Marvel, the Batman of the future, Danger Will Robinson! a faithful Spoilerite gets his just desserts, and there may be a Skrull among us!  All this and much more as we hit number 34
This episode is sponsored in part by the Mid-Ohio-Con (www.midohiocon.com)
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If you loved the Flash Gordon and Ming the Merciless figures that were released by Biff Bang Pow! in wave 1 of the Flash Gordon action figures, take the jump for the Alex Ross artwork depicting Dale Arden from wave 2.
Laura Vandervoort – Supergirl from the CW’s Smallville, has joined the list of guests for the 2008 Emerald City Comicon scheduled for May 10th and 11th at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center in Seattle, Washington.
“‘Smallville’ is shot just a couple hours north of Seattle and we’ve had many requests for an actor from the show to appear, so we’re very excited to have the lovely and talented Ms. Vandervoort out to the convention this year,” says Organizer Jim Demonakos. “In addition, Jamie Bamber, who plays ‘Apollo’ on the new ‘Battlestar Galactica,’ will also be appearing.”
In addition to the growing list of guests, the show has been gathering show exclusives for attendees. One of the latest is free copy of SuperPowers #0 with an exclusive variant cover by Alex Ross, that you can see after the jump.
Marvel Comics has announced the big project Alex Ross will be working on that features Captain America in an in-continuity story.
The title of series is Avengers/Invaders:
Set in current continuity and featuring Marvel’s mightiest heroes from the past and present like never before, this 12-issue limited series will reunite the award winning writing team of Alex Ross and Jim Krueger (Earth X, Universe X) for their first Marvel project in over five years! Ross will also provide covers for all 12 issues, in addition to character designs for the series, which will be penciled by fan-favorite Steve Sadowski.
The series will be packaged by Dynamite Entertainment and will arrive in 2008.
“It means something more to the world today, and that’s of course why we’re taking this confusing thing of the return of Captain America, that essentially is truly the return of Captain America, not in the way you would have expected,” revealed Ross of the series. “A lot of rich, creative room comes from that being opened up to us.”
If you missed our initial report, you can take the jump and see the full cover.
Alex Ross is coming back to Marvel, and guess what project he is working on?
According to Ross, this project has been in the works for two years.
In an interview with Newsarama, Alex said he would be the designer, cover artist, and co-storyteller with Jim Krueger.
It could mean many things. It implies as much a return of Captain America, sure, as it also implies my return to Marvel – and maybe some other things. But I can tell you that my ego wasn’t fueling the design of that image…
Of course he is being very cryptic in his interview without giving anything major away. It does look like this is an in continuity story, so we’ll have to wait and see what that means. To me the image evokes a phoenix rising from the ashes, and it looks like Bucky is by his side. I wonder if Marvel will go down the Dark Phoenix Captain America route, after all it worked before…
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