I have no clue either, but I guess we will find out sometime tomorrow after Marvel makes their presentation at the Diamond Retailer Summit tonight! We will certainly keep you posted!

Top Shelf Productions is having a HUGE sale! Yes! $3 Graphic Novels! Don’t believe me? Well then check it out for yourself here!

To celebrate The Surrogates movie wrapping principal photography, surviving San Diego, and all the cool new summer and fall releases, for the next ten days — thru Friday September 12th — Top Shelf is having a giant $3 graphic novel web sale. Below you’ll find over 125 graphic novels and comics on sale — with 90 titles marked down to just $3 (!) and a slew of other key titles just slashed! All we ask is that you hit a $30 minimum on sale and/or non-sale items (before shipping). It’s a great opportunity to load up on all those graphic novels you’ve wanted to try, but just never got around to picking up. Get ‘em while supplies last!

James Jean announced today on his official site that he’s leaving Fables. Stating that he wishes to focus more on his personal work and painting his final issue will be 81 completing the current story arc. This marks an end to Jean’s eight year tenure as cover artist for the series and it’s spin off Jack of Fables.

From his website:

Here’s a message I just sent off to the Fables team:

“This is a difficult email for me to write. Don’t worry . . . as far as I know, I don’t have any tumors or crippling neuroses, and my taxes are in order. But I feel like I’m breaking up with the prom queen on prom night, after having dated through grades 6 - 12. Feeble analogies aside, it has been an amazing opportunity to work on Fables these past 7 years (8 this October). But I feel that it’s time to devote myself full-time to painting and personal work. Shelly and I talked yesterday, and my last cover will be 81, at the end of the story arc. It has been a true privilege to work on a team that has produced such great chemistry on paper, and to have been a part of such an important book that has entertained and drawn together so many people.

I won’t be disappearing, though — I’ll still be here in my fortress of solitude painting away, my solace found in seeing a brand new issue of Fables arrive every month with the same story and interior art that has engaged so many readers. It’ll just come wrapped in a different (and hopefully more handsome) cover.”

It’s a bummer to see him go, but on the bright side best cover artist at the Eisners will now go to someone else finally.

I’m sure most of you Halo fans remember a while back when there was a lot of speculation about a Halo movie; there were even some people and a studio attached to the project: FOX/UNIVERSAL, Peter Jackson, Neil Blomkamp, with the script by Garland and rewritten by DB Weiss. I’m also sure that most of you are well aware that this project is now dead, everyone previously attached has picked up and moved on to other projects.

But yesterday latinoreview.com broke the story that while the previous incarnation of a Halo Movie is dead, there is another version floating around that is very much alive, with concept art and all. The script has been written by Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral, Derailed, 30 Days of Night, & Australia as well as the upcoming G.I. Joe and Spy Hunter movies) and is based on the Halo novel The Fall of Reach. Now, I love the Halo games as much as the next guy, but I haven’t gone as far to read any of the Halo fiction, but here is a summary of the 2001 novel from amazon.com:

“As the bloody Human-Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary battle . . . the desperate, take-no-prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo–the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict.

While the brutal Covenant juggernaut sweeps inexorably through space, intent on wiping out humankind, only one stronghold remains–the planet Reach. Practically on Earth’s doorstep, it is the last military fortress to defy the onslaught. But the personnel here have another, higher priority: to prevent the Covenant from discovering the location of Earth.

Outnumbered and outgunned, the soldiers seem to have little chance against the Covenant, but Reach holds a closely guarded secret. It is the training ground for the very first “super soldiers.” Code-named SPARTANs, these highly advanced warriors, specially bioengineered and technologically augmented, are the best in the universe–quiet, professional, and deadly.

Now, as the ferocious Covenant attack begins, a handful of SPARTANs stand ready to wage ultimate war. They will kill, they will be destroyed, but they will never surrender. And at least one of them–the SPARTAN known as Master Chief–will live to fight another day on a mysterious and ancient, artificial world called Halo. . . .”

Latinoreview.com claims that this is legit and that they have gotten their hands on 5 pieces of concept art by conceptual artist Kasra Farahani (Wolf Man, Hancock, Spider-Man 3) that they will be debuting every Monday for the next 5 weeks (including this last Monday) so be sure to keep checking in over the next four weeks to check out more concept art!

As far as this bot’s feelings towards a Halo movie? Eh. Could be good, could suck, no one really knows. Maybe if this actually gets picked up and has a director and studio attached to it I may have feelings one way or the other, but until then this is all speculation. Check out the concept art below and click the picture for a bigger version!

Whoa! Watching the Watcher getting punched in the face takes my breath away.The reason I think this picture is so cool, is because my perception of the Watcher is changed, possibly forever.

Whenever I see the Watcher in a comic book, I think of him as a god, He watches what happens on earth compiling all knowledge, but is never allowed to interfere. He knows almost everything there is to know, he has to dumb down to talk to Reed Richards. and if he were to tell people what he knows, the planet would essentially blow up.

He is basically the perfect nerd, and I always felt he was also untouchable. Hulk on the other hand is all brawn, even though this is the red Hulk, whom is seemingly smarter then the green Hulk, but compared to the Watcher they are both just as dumb. So I digress, this picture depicts the universe’s biggest nerd getting punched in the face by the world’s strongest bully, whom is also telling him to shut the fuck up, I love it.

On top of the fact that the picture is of something cool, it is drawn by one of my favorite artists Ed Mcguinness. I think this steals my top spot for my favorite Hulk picture, which was previously this: By Ryan Ottley

Which is still really awesome.

(SIDENOTE: The picture of Red Hulk punching the Watcher in the face is from the upcoming fourth issue of Jeph Loeb and Ed Mcguiness’ run on Hulk.  Just FYI)

There are so many geek-flicks coming out this year, there are some I don’t even think about. Punisher: War Zone isn’t due for a while yet (December 5, 2008 from what I can find), so it’s not surprising that we haven’t heard much about it yet. I like this first one-sheet though. Nicely done.

Embiggen to the full-sized version by clicking here.

A good human friend of mine has a website on which he posts some of his art. He is very talented and has some pretty sweet works of ol’ DD (one of my personal favorite superheroes). It’s worth checking out when you have a few minutes.