NEWS AND MORE! December 20th, 2012

Bag-and-Bored-Wordbal2-1Not much news going around the comics world the past couple of days, but here’s some stuff we here at the B&B Crew found interesting, news or not! :)

- Mark Millar & Frank Quitely’s “Jupiter’s Legacy” is coming this April!  -> http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/JoshWildingNewsAndReviews/news/?a=71578

- Complex’s 10 Best Comic Books of 2012  -> http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/12/the-10-best-comic-books-of-2012/

- Vote for your favorites on Comic Monster’s “Horror Comics Awards”!  -> http://www.comicmonsters.com/horror-comic-awards.html

- Samuel L. Jackson won’t be in the upcoming “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie, but wants in on Star Wars!  -> http://comicbook.com/blog/2012/12/20/samuel-l-jackson-will-sit-out-guardians-of-the-galaxy-wants-star-wars/

- Kickstarter for Matt Miner & Joel Gomez’s “Liberator” only has 40+ days left to reach their goal of $18,000!  Help this really interesting premise (4-issue series about heroes ‘risking it all’ to protect animals) get published!  I think it’ll be awesome.  -> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mattminer/liberator-4-issue-comic-series-by-matt-miner-and-j

- Happy 200th Anniversary of the first printing of “Grimm’s Fairy Tales”!  Not comics, but awesome all the same, and it’s influence can be felt all over Pop Culture - including comics!  Check it out:  -> http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/19/grimm-brothers-anniversary-german-culture

- IGN released their “Best Comics of 2012″ awards, with award categories from many areas of the comic book universe:  -> http://www.ign.com/wikis/best-of-2012/Comics

- IDW picks up the rights to ‘T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents’ and a few others!  -> http://www.comicsalliance.com/2012/12/20/idw-acquires-thunder-agents/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

- Graphic Novel Reporter’s “Best Graphic Novels of 2012″ list!  -> http://graphicnovelreporter.com/content/best-graphic-novels-2012-feature-stories

 

AND AS USUAL, SOME AWESOME ART TO GO WITH YOUR NEWS!

Skeletor - drawn by the awesome Skottie Young!

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