If you’ll be in Vegas around the beginning of summer, you can stop in to the South Point Hotel & Casino just south of all the main activity on the Strip, and check out the Amazing! Las Vegas Comic Convention.

Special guests include Stan Lee, Jim Lee, Batman’s Greg Capullo, Uncanny Avengers’  writer Rick Remender, Deadpool writer Gerry Duggan, My Little Pony’s Tony Fleecs,  Superman and Teen Titans’ Scott Lobdell, as well as Humberto Ramos, penciler of Spiderman, and other artists like Star Wars and Transformers artist Livio Ramondelli. There is an extremely long list of exhibitors and artists, …

Continue reading →

Darth Mauls return to the Star Wars universe was met with much controversy. The character had other actually come back a few times in the EU. Once as a clone who fought Darth Vader to the death because he saw him as an unworthy Sith Lord. Once as a personality PROXY used to fight his master Starkiller in FU1. But his return in Clone Wars Season 4 was the first time the original Maul from Phantom Menace would be coming back in a canon story. I personally had the same thought process as when Jason Todd came back. If they manage …

Continue reading →

I first met Joel Gomez about 2 years ago at Long Beach Comic Con.  He had his own table and he was selling his art prints.  My friend and I wanted the same print so Gomez hooked it up and gave us a great deal on the prints.  Ever since then I started checking out his deviant art and noticed how awesome his work is.  At almost all the cons I attend, I always see his table and stop by.  Even if it’s just a quick “Hello!”

Gomez is a comic art veteran working for companies such as DC and Wildstorm.  …

Continue reading →

Oh pre-Marvel NOW Rick Remender, where for art thou? Once you were my favorite writer with titles like Venom and Uncanny X-Force knocking it out of the park each and every issue, you gave us fun and emotional stories, great character interaction and one of the most gut wrenching comic books I’ve ever read, so what the hell happened to you?! The first story arc of what’s supposedly the flagship book of the Marvel NOW initiative is so full of nonsensical bullshit Im surprised it wasn’t by Dan Slott!

The story begins with Wolverine holding a funeral for Charles Xavier, who …

Continue reading →

 

Long Beach Comic Con (LBCC) is securing its spot as my favorite convention!

LBCC has two shows, a one day event and smaller show in spring.  The other one is their big 3 day event in fall.

The spring event was this past Saturday and the experience was great.  Sure, there’s not as many vendors as WonderCon or Comikaze but I got to talk to more artists and discuss….art.  My brother and I are currently working (hopefully revealed in 2 months) on a shirt project so we made the rounds and asked them for critiques.

First up was David Mack (Dardevil), …

Continue reading →

I’m sure all of you guys are familiar with the picture above, “No Laughing Matter.”

The photographer behind that epic image is my friend Gaunt.  I don’t remember how long I’ve known him but I remember  chatting with him on Spawn message boards.  He actually already released the image several months before it went viral.  Everyone on the boards was really impressed with it and congratulated him on his great work.

I chatted with Gaunt to talk about his projects, artistic choices and why he loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Nerd Society (NS):  How did you get into photography?

Gaunt …

Continue reading →

A comic book I constantly kept hearing about was X-O Manowar. All my friends kept going on and on about how awesome it was, that it was fantastic and interesting sci-fi/superhero comic and so on and so on. So I decided to pick up the first trade which has the first 4 issues, and I was blown away. Mostly because I usually hate superhero comics in space, unless its a comic book about a sc-fi series along the lines of Star Wars or Mass Effect, a sci-fi comic almost always brings me to the brink of failing into a coma from …

Continue reading →

Dustin Nguyen, the superstar artist for Detective Comics, Batman: Streets Of Gotham and the current Lil Gotham will be appearring at Long Beach Comic Con (LBCC) tomorrow, May 11th.

The convention will also have other artists and celebs including J Salvador, David Mack and Joel Gomez

Cosplay is encouraged!

Check out the vid from LBCC’s previous event where one vendor was auctioning off his items.  I wish I had more cash….

You can check out more info and get tickets here.…

To celebrate the release of Iron Man 3, we’ve teamed up with Threadless and giving away 3 Iron Man shirts!

Check out the gallery above for some of my favorites, all 22 designs can be found here.

To enter the contest:

1) Tell us your favorite Iron Man character by commenting below.

2) The contest ends on Thursday, May 9th, 2013 at 11:59 PM Pacific time.

Thanks again to Threadless for the hook up!…

Thor, our mighty hero is back, but so is Loki! Crap!

In fairness though, Thor and Loki did work together a few times in the comics.…