COMIC NEWS: Before Grim Hunt Begins, Kraven's Secrets Are Revealed!

Kraven the Hunter had single-handedly trapped and killed every type of beast that lives, until his obsession with Spider-Man drove him to his grave.


Now, his family looks to avenge the great Kravinoff name and in Spider-Man: Origin Of The Hunter #1 (available today), his daughter Ana finds her father's long lost journal and takes up her father's mission. With a framing story by Marc Guggenheim and Mike Mayhew, Spider-Man: Origin Of The Hunter #1, reveals a more in-depth look at Kraven and Spider-Man's epic conflicts!

The Kravinoff family has been carefully plotting The Gauntlet and it's just about to reach the boiling point. Before it does, fans have a chance to catch up on Kravioff family history by checking out the FREE Spider-Man: The Grim Hunt Saga, by Joe Kelly and Michael Lark, available in stores and also on Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited today! Not only will fans get a crash course in Kravinoff 101, but also will be treated to some sketches of the Kravinoff family by superstar artist Phil Jimenez and preview sketches from Michael Lark's work in Amazing Spider-Man #634 where the Grim Hunt begins!

Is everyone's favorite wall-crawler ready for what the Kravinoffs have planned? Before the Grim Hunt begins, Spider-Man: Origin Of The Hunter #1 and Spider-Man: The Grim Hunt Saga have some of the answers that you're looking for!

SPIDER-MAN: ORIGIN OF THE HUNTER (FEB100485)
Written by STAN LEE & MARC GUGGENHEIM
Penciled by STEVE DITKO & MIKE MAYHEW
Cover by MICHAEL LARK
Rated T+ …$3.99
ON SALE NOW!


SPIDER-MAN: THE GRIM HUNT SAGA
Written by JOE KELLY
Pencils & Cover by MICHAEL LARK
Rated A …FREE
AVAILABLE NOW!
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TOY NEWS: DC Direct Exclusive "Blackest Night" Figures Come To c2e2

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DVD NEWS: Get Morphed Into a Na'vi at The Grove in Honor of the DVD & Blu-ray Release of AVATAR!!

AVATAR INNOVATIVE DIGITAL EXHIBITION LAUNCHES
WITH HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE



Interactive Facial Recognition Technology Morphs Shoppers’ faces
into Na’vis in real time


WHAT:

To commemorate the launch of AVATAR on Blu-ray and DVD, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment in conjunction with the digital out-of-home company, Inwindow Outdoor will unveil an interactive digital exhibition.


The exhibition uses state-of-the-art facial recognition technology to morph shoppers’ faces in real time into the natives of Pandora, the Na’vi. The Avatar face-morphing exhibition is a large, freestanding structure that will encircle the main statute at The Grove.

WHEN:
Friday, April 16

WHERE:
The Grove, Los Angeles

MORE DETAIL:
The Avatar display is a 60’ x 10’ structure at The Grove and features three ‘morphing stations’ surrounded by vinyl and branded in Avatar themes. As mall shoppers approach the screens, facial recognition technology will hone in on their faces and transform them into Na’vi, the blue skinned species from the future made famous in the movie. Once the morph is complete, users can enter their email address via touch-screen so they can be sent the video of their transformation along with information on where to purchase the DVD. Read more...

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DVD NEWS: AVATAR - on DVD & Blu-ray 4/22/10

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCES AVATAR BLU-RAY DISC AND DVD
GLOBAL RELEASE DATES



Much-Anticipated Blu-ray and DVD Launch of James Cameron’s
History-Making Epic Begins April 22 -
Coinciding with the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment today announced that it will launch director James Cameron’s history-making motion picture AVATAR on Blu-ray Disc and DVD on Thursday, April 22.

AVATAR on Blu-ray presents the ultimate high definition experience for home viewing audiences. Fans around the world will soon be able to discover every detail and relive every moment of James Cameron’s AVATAR in the comfort of their own home. Blu-ray is recognized for presenting optimal picture and sound, and now AVATAR’s masterful cinematography, art direction and visual effects will lend itself to awe-inspiring clarity when you become absorbed in the extraordinary all-encompassing experience in the living room.

Since its global theatrical release last December, AVATAR has continued to make motion picture history. Written by James Cameron and produced with his long-time collaborator Jon Landau, AVATAR stars Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Wes Studi and Laz Alonso.

Oscarâ and Golden Globe® winning epic is the highest grossing film of all time, taking in over $2.6 billion in worldwide box office. Director James Cameron takes audiences to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization. AVATAR delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the epic nature of the story.



AVATAR will be available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD everywhere in the United States and Canada on Earth Day, April 22. Please see below for additional release dates around the world:

FRANCE – April 21
BELGIUM – April 21
NETHERLANDS – April 21
SPAIN – April 21
CHINA – April 22
BRAZIL – April 22
RUSSIA – April 22
NORTH AMERICA – April 22
GERMANY – April 23
JAPAN – April 23
SWITZERLAND – April 23
MEXICO – April 23
UK – April 26
DENMARK – April 27
NORWAY – April 28
SWEDEN – April 28
NEW ZEALAND – April 28
AUSTRALIA – April 29
FINLAND – April 30
ITALY – May 6

About Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
A recognized global industry leader, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (TCFHE) is the worldwide marketing, sales and distribution company for all Fox film and television programming on DVD, Blu-ray Disc (BD) and Digital Copy as well as acquisitions and original productions. The company also releases all products around the globe for MGM Home Entertainment. Each year TCFHE introduces hundreds of new and newly enhanced products, which it services to retail outlets -- from mass merchants and warehouse clubs to specialty stores and e-commerce - throughout the world. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC is a subsidiary of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, a News Corporation company. Read more...

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COMIC NEWS: We Are The X-Men

Find out more during Marvel’s X-Men panel at the inaugural C2E2 expo on Sunday, April 18.at 2:45pm.


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COMIC NEWS: MICKEY FINDS MYSTERY IN "MICKEY MOUSE ON QUANDOMAI ISLAND" FROM BOOM KIDS! & DISNEY

BOOM KIDS!
& DISNEY PUBLISHING WORLDWIDE
PROUDLY ANNOUNCE THE NEW EPIC
“MICKEY MOUSE ON
QUANDOMAI ISLAND”
BY MODERN MASTER CASTY
IN WALT DISNEY’S COMICS #707


BOOM Kids! is proud to announce the upcoming release of the brand-new epic adventure “Mickey Mouse on Quandomai Island” in the pages of WALT DISNEY’S COMICS this summer! Written and drawn by Italian modern Mickey master Casty, the creative mastermind behind this Spring’s instant classic “Mickey Mouse and the World to Come,” this story finds Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto and Pete shipwrecked on the mysterious Quandomai Island, where ancient beasts run wild and nothing is as it seems!

BOOM Kids! is pleased that the release of part 1 of “Mickey Mouse on Quandomai Island,” happening this June, comes hot on the heels of the story’s initial Italian release this past Spring! Mickey fans the world over will revel in this brand-sparkling-new, cutting-edge story by a world-famous creator at the top of his game!

“Casty is a modern master that soon will be spoken about in the same breath as Floyd Gottfredson, Romano Scarpa and William Van Horn,” says BOOM Kids! Editor Aaron Sparrow. “It’s exciting to bring this brand-new Mickey epic adventure to North American audiences so soon after its Italian premiere.”

The four part serial “Mickey Mouse on Quandomai Island” premieres in WALT DISNEY’S COMICS #707 this June, featuring a cover by Jonathan Gray, and a wrap-around cover by Casty and is translated by Disney comics fan-favorites David Gerstein and Jonathan Gray! The full-color comic is 24 pages at $2.99 - so there’s no reason not to take a vacation to Quandomai Island this summer! WALT DISNEY’S COMICS #707 carries a Diamond Code of MAR100826.



About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios (www.boom-studios.com) is a unique publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry's biggest talents, including Philip K. Dick's DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, The Henson Company's FARSCAPE, and the original Mark Waid series IRREDEEMABLE. BOOM! recently launched its youth imprint, BOOM Kids!, with Pixar's THE INCREDIBLES, CARS, and TOY STORY, as well as Disney's THE MUPPETS, DONALD DUCK, UNCLE SCROOGE and WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES. This year, BOOM! Studios celebrates its fifth anniversary.

About Disney Publishing Worldwide
Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW) is the world's largest publisher of children's books and magazines, with over 250 million children's books and over 400 million children's magazines sold each year. DPW's business units include: Disney Global Magazines, Disney English, and Disney Global Book Group. Disney Global Books and Global Magazines encompass a extensive worldwide licensing structure; Disney Book Group consists of vertically integrated publishing imprints in the U.S. which include Disney Editions, Disney-Hyperion, Disney-Jump at the Sun and Disney Press. In addition, Disney Libri, DPW's Italian vertical operation, publishes books for children of all ages. DPW's Global Magazines publishes a range of children's magazines globally and also family titles in the U.S., which include: Disney FamilyFun and Disney en Familia. Disney English is DPW's English language learning business, including Disney English schools in China and a worldwide retail licensing program. Headquartered in White Plains, NY, Disney Publishing Worldwide publishes books and magazines in 85 languages in 75 countries. Read more...

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COMIC NEWS: BLACK PHEONIX ALCHEMY LAUNCHES IRREDEEMABLE FRAGRANCES!

BLACK PHOENIX ALCHEMY LAB
RELEASES FRAGRANCE LINE
BASED ON BOOM! STUDIOS'
EISNER AWARD-NOMINATED SERIES
IRREDEEMABLE



TWO ADDITIONAL SCENTS "SKY CITY (BEFORE)" &
"SKY CITY (AFTER)" ARE C2E2 SHOW EXCLUSIVES
AND ONE SCENT "TONY" CAN ONLY BE FOUND AT
THE IRREDEEMABLE 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY
AT CHALLENGERS COMICS, APRIL 16th, 2010 8pm




Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (BPAL) will launch a line of perfume oils based on the characters and settings of Mark Waid and Peter Krause’s Eisner Award Nominated series, Irredeemable, at C2E2 on April 16, 2010.

PLUTONIAN

Soapy cleanliness sullied by blood and ashes.

KAIDAN

Rosehip, plum blossom, white sandalwood, jonquil, and amber-laden incense.

YUREI

White tea, hibiscus, Arabian sandalwood, white amber, white tea, ho leaf, pale Japanese flowers, and vetiver.

ALANA PATEL

Faded perfume, cigarette smoke, and gin.

BETTE NOIR

Benzoin, wild plum, smoky amber, bergamot, orange blossom, myrrh, and dark berries.

VOLT

Leather with a shock of eucalyptus, green mint, elemi, ravintsara and lime.

MR. QUIBT

Gleaming metal, electrical discharge, and a whiff of tinny cologne.


Additionally, two scents will be available only at C2E2:

SKY CITY (BEFORE)

Urban paradise: fresh air, lush green parks dotted with dandelions, blooming gardens, glossy marble, shining metal, and a hint of asphalt.

SKY CITY (AFTER)

The smoldering ashes of a dead city: smoke and cinders, scorched wood, creosote, tar-smeared concrete, singed bone, and dried blood.

Also, don’t miss out on one very exclusive scent, Tony, available only at the IRREDEEMABLE 1st Birthday Party At Challengers Comics:


TONY

Soap and water, hair gel, and a hint of aftershave.

What: THE IRREDEEMABLE 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY WITH MARK WAID
Where: Challengers Comics + Conversation located at 1845 N. Western Ave. 2R Chicago, IL 60647 (PH: 773.278.0155 / www.challengerscomics.com)
When: April 16th, 2010 8pm


The scents will retail for $26 each, and will be available from the Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab booth at C2E2 (booth #951) and at www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com afterwards.

About Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab (www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com) is a cult perfume house that crafts hand-blended body and household scents. They have over two decades of experience in the field, and specialize in eliciting emotional responses through perfume while creating unique scent environments that capture legends and folklore, poetry, and the stuff of dreams and nightmares

Black Phoenix has several literature-based fragrance lines, including Alice in Wonderland, and the works of Neil Gaiman, and H.P. Lovecraft. With the success of scent lines created to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund and the Hero Initiative, they have found themselves in demand as a creator of fragrances based on comic properties.

About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios (www.boom-studios.com) is a unique publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry's biggest talents, including Philip K. Dick's DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, The Henson Company's FARSCAPE, and the original Mark Waid series IRREDEEMABLE. BOOM! recently launched its youth imprint, BOOM Kids!, with Pixar's THE INCREDIBLES, CARS, and TOY STORY, as well as Disney's THE MUPPETS, DONALD DUCK, UNCLE SCROOGE and WALT DISNEY'S COMICS AND STORIES. This year, BOOM! Studios celebrates its fifth anniversary. Read more...

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COMIC NEWS: TURF #1 SOLD OUT

Second printing of TURF #1 to be available with TURF #2


The first issue of writer Jonathan Ross and artist Tommy Lee Edwards' critically acclaimed miniseries is sold out at the distributor level, and publisher Image Comics is rushing a second printing to press.

"This is so cool!" Ross exclaims. "Hope everyone who bought this debut issue is going to stick with us to the end because we have some insane stuff planned for this book!"

"I am so proud of the work that Jonathan and I have put into TURF and am really glad that the first issue has been received so well," adds Edwards. "Doing a second printing will hopefully ensure that our series gets into enough readers' hands and get them hooked, because the whole thing just gets better and better with each following issue."

Image Publisher Eric Stephenson says, "I'm ecstatic that the first issue of TURF has sold out. Jonathan and Tommy have worked so hard on this book, and they deserve all of the praise they've received for TURF."

TURF: New York, 1929. The height of prohibition. The cops turn a blind eye while the mobs run the city, dealing in guns, girls and illegal liquor. But the arrival of the mysterious Dragonmir Family from Eastern Europe with more of a taste for blood then booze coincides with a series of brutal attacks on the gangsters themselves. As the gangs fall before the fangs, only a handful of mobsters survive. But an unlikely alliance formed between tough guy Eddie Falco and a character from a LONG way from New York City -- a long way from Earth in fact -- offers the humans a glimmer of hope. As the strong willed young reporter Susie Dale from the Gotham Herald tries to survive in the middle of the maelstrom and an ancient prophecy unfolds, no one can guess who's going to win the battle for this particular slice of Turf.

TURF #1 Second Printing, a 32-page full color comic book for $2.99, will be in stores May 19, 2010, the same day as TURF #2 (MAR100405).

Some praise for TURF #1:

"This is a striking debut by Ross into comic book writing! ...Ross and Edwards have created such vibrant characters that they extend past any sort of cliché that they might have otherwise been stuck in. "
--Comic Book Resources

"TURF spins a great tale that mixes genres perfectly."
--Major Spoilers

"Ross creates a living, breathing world in which fantasy and reality blend together with a true sense depth, and it acts as an anchor for all of the characters and the actions that take place on the page... Don't miss a truly original piece."
--Multiversity Comics

"The story suggests it's ready to spring to weird life, which is a good thing for a first issue to do. And perhaps most importantly, the issue took me a lot longer to read than the typical five minutes it takes me to read a comic these days..."
--IGN

"Edwards' lines make the NYC of TURF seem very real, it's down and dirty, it's corrupt, but yet he also makes the more fantastical elements feel like they fit. Vampires and Aliens, Edwards makes it all seem like one, very real world."
--The Outhouse

"TURF is a hugely impressive debut that, as unlikely as it sounds, may possibly mark the entrance of a major new talent on the scene."
--Paradox Comics Group



Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of four major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com. Read more...

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TOY NEWS: Hot Toys - Iron Man 2: 1/6th scale Whiplash Limited Edition Collectible Figurine

Hot Toys is proud to present the 1/6th scale Whiplash Limited Edition Collectible Figurine from the Iron Man 2 movie. The movie-accurate Whiplash collectible is highly detailed and specially crafted based on the image of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in the movie, highlighting the newly sculpted head, muscular upper body, patterned tattoos, light-up functions, highly detailed accessories and weapons.


The 1/6th scale Whiplash Limited Edition Collectible Figurine specially features:
- Authentic and detailed fully realized likeness of Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in the movie Iron Man 2
- Newly developed head sculpt with real-like facial expression, wrinkles and beard
- Multi-layered stereoscopic hair sculpture with grey highlight on dark brown hair
- Newly developed upper muscular body and arms
- Highly detailed patterned tattoos on neck, upper body, arms, palms and fingers
- Approximately 30 cm tall
- Over 30 points of articulations
- Two (2) pairs of interchangeable palms
- + One (1) pair for holding metal-like whips
- + One (1) pair of fists
- LED chest light (white light, battery operated, battery included)
- Metal-like electricity generator with light-up function at the back
- Each piece of head sculpt is specially hand-painted

Costume:

- Brown-colored jumpsuit with burning effect and holes

- Hydraulic exoskeleton with brown-colored leather-like harness

- Brown-colored leather-like belt with accessories

- One (1) pair of brown-colored buckled boots

Accessories:

- Necklace with cross-shaped pendant

- Figure base with Whiplash nameplate and movie logo

Weapons:

- One (1) pair of metal-like whips with real-like flashes and wires











Artists:
- Head Sculpted by Kojun

- Head Painted by JC. Hong

- Head Art Directed by JC. Hong

*Product shown is not final, pending licensor approval

**According to Marvel, there are legal implications regarding the orange-color of the pants as shown in the movie. Therefore, the pants’ color in merchandise would vary from that in the movie and would be tuned to brown color accordingly

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