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Gail Simone Sees Red

Dynamite Entertainment announced that Gail Simone is continuing her critically acclaimed best-selling run. “I have always said that the thing that makes Red Sonja MOST dangerous is not her skill with a sword, or her speed,” states acclaimed writer Gail Simone. “It’s her cunning. Red Sonja is cunning. And she gets …

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“Hero Holders” Invade Retail Shelves

Status Media, the new digital creative company formed by longtime entertainment and media executives Alan Laifer and Gareb Shamus, unveiled their most ambitious consumer product to date, the “Hero Holder,” a mobile device holder featuring the world’s most popular Super Heroes. The first “Hero Holder” to hit the consumer marketplace …

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‘Divergent’ Takes Top Spot At Box Office

Launching a new franchise for Summit and parent company Lionsgate, the dystopian sci-fi film “Divergent” scored $56 million at the North American box office, benefitting from good word of mouth among moviegoers, who gave it an A CinemaScore despite mostly withering reviews. The top 12 films of the weekend, as of …

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MyNetworkTV Picks Up ‘The Walking Dead’

AMC, Twentieth Television and the FOX Television Stations announce the addition of ‘The Walking Dead’ to the MyNetworkTV programming lineup. Scheduled to make its exclusive broadcast television debut this fall, the announcement was made by Frank Cicha, SVP of Programming of the FOX Television Stations, Greg Meidel, president of 20th …

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier Premieres

Soon to hit the theaters is another action-packed adventure of one of Marvel’s super heroes. Following its success in 2011 when Captain America: The First Avenger was released, the new movie premiered in Los Angeles March 13. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a highly-anticipated blockbuster is set to break the record …

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Dark Horse Kickstarts Leaving Megalopolis & Guns Of Shadow Valley

Coming to shelves this summer are two of Dark Horse’s hottest new titles, originally funded via Kickstarter: Dave Wachter and James Andrew Clark’s The Guns of Shadow Valley and Gail Simone and Jim Calafiore’s Leaving Megalopolis! Dave Wachter (Night of 1,000 Wolves, Breath of Bones) and James Andrew Clark (Scar Tissue) began The Guns of Shadow Valley as …

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Howard Chaykin Returns To The Shadow

Howard Chaykin has created the most classic Shadow storylines, and now Dynamite brings Chaykin back to The Shadow! Written and drawn by Howard Chaykin, The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow #1 hits stores this upcoming May! In The Shadow: Midnight in Moscow #1, New Year’s, 1950–the end of a tumultuous decade…and …

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Heart of The Beast Returns In Hard Cover

Long out of print, Sean Phillips’ Heart of the Beast returns as a digitally remastered edition in May features additional scrapbook material and commentary by the creators.  Celebrate the 20th anniversary of this hauntingly evocative graphic novel written by Dean Motter and Judith Dupré, and featuring lavishly painted artwork by superstar …

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Dynamite Celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Chaos! Comics

Chaos!, a six-issue miniseries heralding the return of the shared Chaos! Comics universe, will launch its first issue on May 7th, 2014.  Popular horror scribe Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, G.I.Joe Vs. Transformers) will be joined the talented artist Mirka Andolfo in reuniting Evil Ernie, Purgatori, Chastity, and more in the cataclysmic Chaos! Comics …

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