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Get ready to patch up your supersuit for a new challenge, because Adam Warren’s Empowered is back, and the stakes are higher than ever for Emp! Already under official suspicion and suspended from her superteam, costumed crime fighter Empowered finds herself the bewildered target of every major supervillain in the capes-and-tights field …

Front and center, kiddos! Here comes action! Here comes adventure! Here comes The Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot—a roller-coaster ride through the minds of Geof Darrow and Frank Miller, the tag team that set you reeling with their hard-hitting series Hard Boiled! Everything you remember about being eight years old …

Comics master Kim W. Andersson has received Sweden’s most prestigious comics award, and in October, his horror-romance comics will be collected by Dark Horse for the first time in Andersson’s US graphic novel debut, The Complete Love Hurts. Tennyson wrote, “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have …

Lionsgate’s sequel Insurgent debuted to $54 million domestically — easily enough to come in No. 1 —  and $47 million internationally, where it topped the chart in 66 of 76 markets. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of Sunday, March 22, are as follows: RANK TITLE DISTRIBUTOR NAME WEEKEND REVENUE CUME …

In just one month since its record-breaking debut, Amazon today announced it has greenlit a second season of its first original hour-long drama series Bosch. Based on Michael Connelly’s internationally best-selling Harry Bosch book series with nearly 50 million copies sold, Bosch has achieved the biggest debut weekend among all Amazon Original Series and …

Following American International Toy Fair in New York, Disney Consumer Products (DCP) announced its 2015 plans for Marvel and its key franchises including The Avengers and Spider-Man. This year will see the roll out one of its biggest-ever licensing programs around Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, expansion in high potential categories …

With an all-ages Free Comic Book Day story right around the corner, Dark Horse Comics and PopCap Games announced Bully for You, a new, ongoing Plants vs. Zombies™ miniseries coming to comic shops, beginning in June! Eisner Award–winning writer Paul Tobin and artist Ron Chan join forces to uncover who’s …

In June, Drew Edward Johnson (Wonder Woman) makes his creator-owned debut, combining intrigue, secret agents, monsters, and more in Midnight Society: The Black Lake. Forty years ago, England’s greatest adventurers cast aside their friendship, making a choice that would come to haunt humanity. Now, secret agent Matilda Finn will face …

Never has the adage “silence is golden” more appropriately applied than to the return of Ricardo Delgado’s Eisner Award–winning series, Age of Reptiles, which heads back to stands in June for Age of Reptiles: Ancient Egyptians! Written and penciled by Delgado with colors by Ryan Hill (Effigy), the gorgeous and …

Valiant Entertainment – a comic book publisher with a library of more than 2,000 characters, including X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong, and more – and DMG Entertainment, a Beijing-based entertainment company, announced a new partnership to span motion pictures, television, publishing, and licensing that will culminate in …