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.

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James Deckert traveled to Baltimore last weekend to attend the convention, and came back with a bunch of pictures from the show including some of the many sketches he was able to snag.

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Event organizer Jim Demonakos sent Major Spoilers the intial list of guests scheduled to appear at the Emerald City ComiCon in Seatle, Washington May 10th and 11th, 2008.

Now this may seem a wee early to be planning for a comic convention, but for those of you who are with kids know May gets to be pretty crazy with all the graduations, season finales, and general wackiness that infect kids during the month, so being able to plan ahead is key.

The line-up looks pretty sweet, so pencil in the con on your calendar now.

The list after the jump!

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Tom Brevoort, C.B. Cebulski, and Barry Kitson sat down with fans at the Baltimore Comicon to discuss all things Marvel.

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For a small convention, there is plenty of news coming from DC Comics. Take the jump for the rundown.

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During the Top Cow Productions panel at the Baltimore Comicon, it was announced Michael Broussard has signed a three year exclusive contract with the company.

Broussard began his career in 2006 as one of the hopefuls selected during Top Cow’s Talent Search and studied under Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri in the Top Cow Studio. His first published work appeared in Civil War: The Initiative where he assisted Silvestri and was quickly followed by his first solo professional work in Unholy Union, an over-sized crossover between Top Cow and Marvel characters written by Ron Marz (First Born, Witchblade). Broussard so impressed Top Cow Vice President of Editorial Rob Levin that he was given his biggest assignment to date and one of the crown jewels of Top Cow’s publishing line, the new The Darkness ongoing written by Phil Hester (Green Arrow, Deep Sleeper).

“Michael is one of those rare talents that is almost ready to go out of the box,” stated Levin in a prepared statement, “We’re incredibly thrilled to have secured him for our fans on The Darkness for years to come. Fans are going to be blown away by what he and Phil Hester do on this title.”

Take the jump for Broussard’s cover work for The Darkness First Look.

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“Baltimore is my home town, so I knew we had to participate in Marc Nathan’s show this year,” commented Filip Sablik, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Top Cow, “It doesn’t hurt that it’s also one of the top comic shows in the country. To make the show really special we held back a BIG announcement for our panel in Baltimore and a super sweet Kenneth Rocafort cover for our show exclusive.”

The panel in question will be Saturday at 3:00 PM in the “Batcave” (Rooms 318-320). The Top Cow panel will highlight upcoming titles as well as some exclusive announcements thrown in to boot. Everyone who attends will get a gift - BONUS!

Take the jump for the exclusive cover Filip mentioned, it’s sweet!

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Image Comics has announced its panels for this weekend’s Baltimore Comic-Con.

“Our next edition of the Image Comics Show will be a great one,” said PR & Marketing Coordinator and Image Comics Show host Joe Keatinge. “On tap for the panel will be Erik Larsen, Scott Kurtz, Dean Haspiel, CB Cebulski, Frank Cho and around half a dozen announcements I’m dying to reveal. We’re also doing a retrospective on the Mice Templar. Mike Oeming and Bryan J.L. Glass have been working on this book for around twenty years so we’ve dug into their archives to unearth never before seen conceptual art they’ll discuss during the show.”

Saturday
Mice Templar: A Retrospective
11:00-11:50 in The Batcave (Rm 318-320)

Sunday
The Image Comics Show
2:00-2:50 in Avengers Mansion (Rm 319-320)

Image also announced it is looking for people to videotape both panels for posting on teh Interwebs (contact Joe Keatinge at joekeatinge@imagecomics.com).

Keatinge added, “The first five people who contact me about filming both panels and throwing them on YouTube will receive a free copy of the Mice Templar #1 Retailer edition as well as a set of all four Image Comics 2007 convention exclusive prints! As this is our last convention of 2007 this may be your final chance to obtain these limited items!”

I know James Deckert will be attending the show and taking a ton of pictures for Major Spoilers, perhaps he or another Major Spoilers reader could help Image get its message out!

And you thought San Diego was crowded. According to Mantan Web over 500,000 fans attended the Comic Market, or Comiket, in Japan last weekend (170,000 on the first day alone), making it the largest comic convention on the planet.

The Mantan Web site has lots of pics from the event, and if you like cute asian girls dressed up in costumes, you’ll want to follow the link.

Via Mantan Web

If you want to see the San Diego Comic Convention before it became the crazy mad house it is today, check out the images by Alan Light, posted at his Flickr account.  There are some very fun photos including King Kirby and Will Eisner eating dinner together, and this awesome cycle that would make the guys at Orange County Chopper hang their head in shame.

via Flickr

Here’s something to ponder - Storm Trooper in a Bikini.

You can see the rest of the set at the Flickr site.

Speaking of pictures, did you go to Wizard World Chicago? We’re looking for readers to share their photo diary of the convention. Drop me an email at schleicher.at.mindspring.com, and I’ll get them on the site.

We mentioned the writing team of Millar and Hitch will be working on Fantastic Four in 2008 yesterday, now we have the trailer Marvel showed at its panel to announce the event.

Just a hint - someone escapes the carnage.

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…

From DC’s perspective every running series (Amazon’s Attack, Sinestro Corps., Countdown, and so on) is going to end with big suprises. Take the jump for other highlights from the panel including the announcement of new kids titles.

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