Mike alluded to this in the last podcast, and it looks like quite a deal. Only available today, so diggity! It’s $100 for 130 stand-alone digital SW comics. Click pic for more info.

As an iPad user and Dark Horse enthusiast, I was a bit disappointed when Dark Horse unveiled their “app” for purchasing and viewing comics.  Why?  No Star Wars. But today, that has changed! Dark Horse and Lucasfilm have reached an agreement which allows Dark Horse to sell Star Wars comics online.  Check it out here [...]

 It’s true… Dark Horse Comics is ending the popular “Star Wars:  Legacy” title.  The final issue, #50,  should hit the stores in July, 2010. Dark Horse released a statement earlier today explaining that all good things must come to an end, and it was a hard decision to end the title.  There is no indication [...]

I have always been a sucker for Boba Fett.  Thirty-two years ago the infamous bounty hunter in Mandalorian armor made his debut in the Star Wars Holiday Special.  By the time The Empire Strikes Back came around, he was a full-fledged minor character with a handful of lines.  And fans loved him. Last month, Dark [...]

Felicia Day is bringing The Guild to the Comics world.  The Actor/Writer/Producer is partnering with artist Jim Rugg and Dark Horse Comics to adapt the acclaimed web show into a 3 issue miniseries, available late March. Comicsalliance.com has gives all the dirt in this interview with Felicia.  Appropriatly enough, the mini series is the Guild’s [...]

One of my favorite Sci-Fi comics back in the 80′s  was Epic Comics “Alien Legion.”  If  you have never read an issue, you should be ashamed of yourself!  It is essentially a combination of French Foreign Legion meets X-Men meets military buddies-in-the-trenches story.  The main story follows Force Nomad of the Alien Legion as they [...]

Dark Horse is reporting Domo-kun creator creator Tsuneo Goda will make a rare appearance later this month at a Northridge, California Borders. This Sci-Guy can’t help but wonder how long Goda will be in the US before he gets to try a Fuji Frost Slurpee. 7-Eleven is actually a Japanese owned company, and you can [...]

Kumoricon is Portland’s anime and manga convention and it takes place over the three days of Labor Day Weekend. This year it is in downtown Portland at the Hilton. There are some great special guests including manga editor extraordinaire Carl Gustav Horn, anime producer and manga translator Toshifumi Yoshida, Otaku USA contributor and Manga: The Complete [...]

Today we learned some wild stuff from Dark Horse. The most exciting news I heard today was Dark Horse’s announcement of the Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service live-action movie by Dark Horse Entertainment. If that mouthful of a name isn’t familiar then it is time to check it out. “Kurosagi” as it is known by fans [...]

As Day Two of San Diego’s Comic-Con rolls into night (and don’t expect these attendees, and especially presenters, panelists and booth dwellers are turning in early any of these nights) let’s take a look of some of the day’s events and announcements. Mangablog has the roundups of the manga announcements so far (One and two). [...]