THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS MEET THE STAR TREK CREW IN ‘THE SPECTRUM WAR’ THIS JULY

By Francesco Francavilla

This weekend at Wondercon, IDW and DC Comics announced a new crossover that will send the Green Lantern Corps to the Star Trek Universe in a story titled Spectrum War this July. Written by long-time Star Trek writer Mike Johnson and penciled by Angel Hernández, the miniseries will feature both the current Corps and the current Enterprise crew from the Chris Pine/Karl Urban film era.

By Gabriel Rodríguez

The miniseries will see Hal Jordan and co teaming up with Kirk and pals when lantern rings head straight into the hands of some familiar faces from the Star Trek Universe. In order to get them back — and keep the universe safe from certain mysterious villains who also want to get a hold of the rings — the two forces will have to pair up across the six-issue miniseries.

Considering DC and IDW have both been surprisingly open about sharing their properties with other companies in the past, it’s no great shock to see the two publishers finally decide to cross over their big sci-fi properties, and it will be interesting to see if this opens the door to further DC/Star Trek crossovers.
Star Trek and Green Lantern share quite a few thematic similarities that make them a particularly good match, including the fact that they’re both set in distant space, but it’ll probably be most interesting to see how the fight-first approach of the Corps will contrast with the more considered — logical, you might say — strategy of the Enterprise Crew.
Issue #1 is out in July.


Source comicsalliance.com

DC'S MULTIVERSE-MELDING EVENT BEGINS IN "CONVERGENCE" #1

The entire DC Universe, from the dawn of time through The New 52, must fight to survive against a threat that bends the Multiverse to its will.










Your favorite characters from every era and every forgotten series are all here! But are you going to say hello again just to say goodbye forever? 
















The stakes have never been higher as the heroes of Crisis, Zero Hour, Elseworlds, and more are brought together for Convergence!

BATTLEWORLD: DECIPHERING THE THEME PARK MAP OF THE POST-MARVEL UNIVERSE ( IV )

Following the map ....

13. NEW MARS

The home of Killraven and the War of the Worlds Martian tripods, and maybe some other pulpy sci-fi elements. Several Marvel comics in recent years have shown flashes of a future in which Marvel characters interact with tripods. Maybe this is where it happens?










14. CLASSIFIED

The second classified region sits nestled beside Utopolis, which doesn't offer many clues, and atop a cluster of pulpy and fantastical worlds. Maybe this is the Conan-inspired realm of Kulan Gath? But again, I've no ideas why Marvel would keep that a secret.








15. HIGHER AVALON

We thought this region might house the last of the Captain Britain Corps and the omniversal overseers now seeking new employment, and maybe the seeds of a rebuilt multiverse.
Of course, we had the wrong Captain Britain; this domain focuses on Faiza Hussain, the inheritor of the title in Paul Cornell and Leonard Kirk's Captain Britain and MI:13. Now she's starring in Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders, by Al Ewing and Alan Davis, with a team that includes White Tiger, She-Hulk, Prowler (in a Spider-fied costume) and a young iron person named Kid Rescue.









16. ARACHNIA

Arachne is the second Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter, so we hoped this might be a reference to Spider-Gwen's reality. We were partly right. This is actually the Spider-Verse book, helpfully titled Spider-Verse, starring Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Man: India, Spider-Girl, Spider-UK and Spider-Ham, and written by Mike Costa and drawn by Andre Aruajo.












More to discover....

MARVEL'S DAREDEVIL - TRAILER 2

INTERLOCKING POSTERS REVEALED FOR NETFLIX'S DAREDEVIL

Check out these 5 posters that come together to make one image.
The countdown has begun for Daredevil, which hits Netflix on April 10. While the anticipation is building, a new poster is released for the show featuring five characters from the upcoming show. 

From left to right, there's Eldon Henson as Foggy Nelson, Deborah Ann Woll as Karen Page, Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock, Rosario Dawson as Claire Temple, and Vincent D'Onofrio as Wilson Fisk. All the posters lock together to show the streets of Hell's Kitchen, where the show takes place.

Source: Comic Vine News - Interlocking Posters Revealed for Netflix's Daredevil

AN ANIMATED ’60S ‘BATMAN’ MOVIE IS COMING FOR THE SHOW’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY

“You can look forward to a new, animated Batman full-length 90 minute feature, coming out on the 50th anniversary.”

So sayeth Burt Ward, Robin the Boy Wonder on the 1960s Batman television show and film, at a recent convention appearance, revealing that the iconic camp series’ 50th anniversary will be celebrated by he and co-star Adam West by providing their voices for a new animated movie done in the style of their old show. 
A huge success in its day, remembered for its goofy humor, bright costumes, outlandish villains, and melodramatic cliffhangers, West and Ward’s Batman eventually became the black sheep of the comic-book adaptation world.
Its arch, winking tone marked it as a dated relic, and its “Pow! Ziff! Gorff!” sound effects became a dismissive shorthand in a million mainstream news articles supposedly proclaiming comics “aren’t for kids any more” (while simultaneously implying that they should be). But as comics gained increasing cultural legitimacy in recent years, the ’60s Batman has undergone a bit of a reevaluation. Despite all that baggage, it was often an incredibly entertaining show.
DC now publishes a (very fun) Batman ’66 comic book, and the entire run of the series was recently released on Blu-ray. After decades of dismissal, ’60s Batman is kind of cool again. With the show’s golden anniversary upon us, it’s a perfect time to give West and Ward’s interpretations of the characters one last great moment in the spotlight (although Ward does also say in that video above that there could possibly be two animated projects in the works next year). Will the Dynamic Duo get a duo of dynamic DVDs to dazzle devout Bat-devotees? Tune in next blog post to find out: Same Bat-time, Sam Bat-website!

Source: An Animated ’60s ‘Batman’ Movie Is Coming For The Show’s 50th Anniversary 

AVENGERS: ULTRON FOREVER

 500 years into the future, Ultron has won. Humanity is all but extinct - dead or enslaved by the Ultron Singularity.


Now, seven Avengers are brought through time by Doctor Doom to battle the machine god for the fate of the cosmos... or die trying!

STORY BY
Al Ewing
ART BY
Alan Davis, Mark Farmer
COLORS BY
Rachelle Rosenberg
LETTERS BY
VC - Travis Lanham
COVER BY
Alan Davis, Mark Farmer, Rachelle Rosenberg, [more...]