What The Con: Inaugural Washington DC Comicon THIS SATURDAY May 2

Hey East Coast Herders,

Just a reminder, the first ever Washington DC Comicon will be head at GMU (Fairfax) THIS Sunday, May 2!

From Washington DC Comicon:

Admission to the show is only $5! GMU students, faculty, and staff get in free! All active military personnel with current military IDs get in free!

The show will feature an amazing guest list for an inaugural show, a show exclusive comic, a full room of brick-and-mortar retailers bringing Golden Age, Silver Age, and modern comics inventories, manga and anime products, and toys! There will also be a sanctioned Magic the Gathering tournament!

Guests
Our guests for this premiere event include: Frank Cho (Mighty Avengers), Herb Trimpe (Incredible Hulk), JG Jones (52), the Fillbach Brothers (Clone Wars Adventures) sponsored by Laughing Ogre Comics, the Luna Brothers (The Sword) sponsored by Laughing Ogre Comics, Steve Conley (Star Trek Omnibus: The Original Series), John K. Snyder III (Doctor Mid-Nite) sponsored by the Hero Initiative, and Jo Chen (Runaways) sponsored by the Hero Initiative.

Show Exclusive Comic and Giveaways
Thanks to our friends at Top Cow Productions, the DC Comic-Con will be offering a show-exclusive Witchblade #136 DC Comic-Con Variant by co-headlining guest JG Jones. This exclusive comic will be available in very limited quantities at the Hero Initiative booth, and is selling for only $5, of which $1 goes to the Hero Initiative.

Additionally, the first 500 attendees will receive a copy of the Overstreet Guide to Collecting Comics, Gemstone's 2010 Free Comic Book Day publication.

About The DC Comic-Con
The DC Comic-Con, launching in 2010 on Sunday, May 2nd from 10am-5pm, is a result of the cooperative work of Marc Nathan, sponsor of the Baltimore Comic-Con (http://www.comicon.com/baltimore) and Brett Carreras, sponsor of the VA Comicon (http://www.VAcomicon.com). For more information, please visit http://www.DCcomicon.com.

Let's keep the comic life trucking with FCBD and Washington DC Comicon this weekend!

TC

Wanted Named in 83 Best Superhero Projects of the Decade We're Leaving

The Comics Reporter is still in the process of building his Best Of lists for the decade we are currently exiting.

His final superhero comics list, due in early 2010 along with his overall list, will be posted, shortened a bit, altered slightly and ranked #1 to #whatever.

Included on his Best Superhero Projects of the Decade is Wanted.



* Wanted, series and trade, Mark Millar and JG Jones, Image (2003-2005)

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MTV Splash Page reports on Wanted Director's Reason for Bringing Back Angelina

"Wanted" director Timur Bekmambetov has made no secret of his desire to bring Angelina Jolie back for the sequel to last year's hit film based loosely on the comic book series by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones. However, her character's final scene in the film made such a return unlikely—if not impossible.

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Wanted makes Complex's List of Top 40 Most Violent Comics

Mark Millar and JG Jones' "Wanted" made Complex's list of "Top 40 Most Violent Comics". We think that's pretty cool, but seriously, how did Berserker not make the list?

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‘MythBusters’ Takes On ‘Wanted’ In Special ‘Curving Bullets’ Episode

As much as Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman seem to appreciate superheroes, toppling fans’ suspended disbelief doesn’t seem to bother them one bit. Following their foray into super-powered phenomena, such as Spider-Man’s arachnid origins, the Hulk’s gamma-powered transformations and Namor’s undersea breathing capacity, the “MythBusters” team continues to tackle the paneled powers of comic book characters this week on Discovery Channel.

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Hollywood Reporter reports 'Pooh' writer tapped for Wanted 2

If anyone could bend a flying bullet, it's Pooh.

Evan Spiliotopoulos, co-writer of "Pooh's Heffalump Movie" and its DVD Halloween spinoff, has been hired to write Universal's action sequel "Wanted 2," based on a story by Chris Morgan. Like the original 2008 film, the in-development sequel is based on the comic series created by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones.

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Producer Talks Wanted: Weapons of Fate

Mark Millar and J.G. Jones unleashed their twisted take on the superhero genre in 2003 with “Wanted” from Top Cow. In the book, main character Wesley Gibson finds out that he is the son of a famous supervillain called The Killer, and that years ago, all of the supervillains banded together to wipe superheroes off the face of the planet, even going so far as to make people forget they ever existed. The story follows Wesley as he embraces his father’s legacy and joins the Fraternity, the group of supervillains that secretly runs the world.

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GameStop Offers Exclusive JG Jones "Wanted" Covers

Fans of the “Wanted” franchise can now obtain a limited edition “Wanted” collectible exclusively via GameStop. Pre-order “Wanted: Weapons of Fate,” the third-person action videogame based on Universal Pictures' adrenaline-charged thriller “Wanted,” due for release on March 24, 2009 for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PLAYSTATION3 Computer Entertainment System and PC from any GameStop retail outlet and receive one of three exclusive limited edition cover variants of “Wanted” #1 bundled with your order.

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WonderCon Programming Announced!

Top Cow will be in WonderCon. Check out our two panels on Saturday:

1:00-2:00 Extending the Franchise: Wanted—Matt Hawkins (publisher, Top Cow) and J. G. Jones (artist/co-creator, Wanted) have seen the Wanted characters come to life on the big screen with the film's release in Summer 2008. Now with guidance from Pete Wanat (executive producer, Universal), the video game Wanted: Weapons of Fate will continue the Wanted mythology in March. Come find out how they've turned a comic book series into a multimedia blockbuster, as Hawkins, Jones, and Wanat talk about the future of Wanted! Room 104

3:00-4:00 Celebrating 75 Issues of The Darkness—Top Cow publisher Filip Sablik and Michael Broussard (The Darkness) take a look back at 75 issues of The Darkness and look forward to the series' future. Plus get information about next month's 125th issue of Witchblade, which kicks of "War of the Witchblades," and information about Top Cow's 2009 initiatives such as "$2.99 in 2009" and "Let Us Win YOU Over" in this one-on-one interview and Q&A session! Room 104

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Wanted Graphic Novel Lands on ICV2 Top Trades List

These charts of the ICv2 Top 10 Superhero and Genre graphic novels reflect sales in all channels in Q3 of 2008. These charts are based on interviews with retailers and distributors, information provided by Nielsen BookScan (in the form of monthly Top 20 lists (for example see “Bookscan’s Top 20 Graphic Novels for August 2008) of graphic novels sold in bookstores, and ICv2’s own analysis of information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors on graphic novel sales in comic stores. READ MORE.

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JG Jones talks Wanted

When the movie Wanted hits theaters on June 27, the film will become Hollywood's latest effort to find success at the box office by adapting a comic book for the big screen. READ MORE.

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Interview: JG JONES

Newsaramaa Interview with JG Jones.

NRAMA: At what point did you say you weren't going to be a "painter" and decide to become a comic book artist?

JGJ: I went to grad school in Albany and then I moved to New York City. And I was working at a little local newspaper in Brooklyn to subsidize my painting habit. And I just decided I didn't like the people in the art world here. And I got interested in comics again because a friend of mine at the newspaper was a big comic fan. We drew a comic together, and I brought about five pages into a show at the Javits Center, showed them to Jim Shooter. I didn't know who Jim Shooter was, but this big, tall man kept saying, "I want to give you a job," and I kept saying, "I have a job." So I don't know -- it took, like, two months of them calling me for me to realize drawing comics was actually a job choice and something you could do in life. READ MORE.

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Interview with JG Jones

A special treat for you - an interview with the awesome JG JONES, courtesy of JD Lombardi. Read on for the skinny on WANTED, FINAL CRISIS, and more! CLICK HERE

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Yahoo's Exclusive 'Wanted' Theatrical Trailer

Check out the Wanted Movie trailer over at Yahoo CLICK HERE
And take a look at the official Wanted movie home page by CLICKING HERE

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Rumor Has It

Fans of "Wanted" will want to go see "American Gangster" when it premieres this coming Friday night (November 2nd) nationwide. I'm just saying.
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