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Film gets 2-week screening in Japan starting on November 18 The official website for the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt anime began streaming a second teaser trailer for the Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt: Bandit Flower compilation film on Thursday. (Note: The video on the official website is region-locked to Japan.) The film will have a simultaneous global release on November 18. In Japan, the film have a two-week limited screening in 15 theaters. The site also revealed a new visual. The first Anime NYC convention will host a premiere screening of the film on November 19. In addition, the convention will hold a Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt anime music concert led by composer Naruyoshi Kikuchi. The event will take place from November 17 to 19 at the Javits Center. A limited first edition Blu-ray Disc release of the film will be offered in the theaters screening the film in Japan starting on November 18. The release will include English audio and English subtitl

Hope you’re not sick of comic book shows on TV as another DC Comics property is heading to the small screen. It’s reported that TNT is nearing a pilot-production order for Titans, a drama based on DC’s “Teen Titans” team, which celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. Based on characters from DC Comics, Titans would be an hourlong drama focusing on a group of young superheroes-to-be who are recruited from every corner of the DC universe. And the show is described as a dramatic adventure series that will explore and celebrate one of the most popular comic book titles ever.Warner Horizon Television would produce the latest DC Comics television series, with the the Academy Award-winning Akiva Goldsman executive producing and Marc Haimes co-executive producing. Dick Grayson is leading the way on Titans after he sheds his Batman sidekick alter-ego of Robin and becomes popular superhero Nightwing, and will be joined by other yo

Were the right choices made that night? The story of Hector and his daughter Maria comes to a close… for now.

The high concept nature of Top Cow’s Pilot Season program sometimes leads to issues that don’t get the chance to show what they can do. “Forever” #1 has such a general and well-worn hook, a corporation that offers immortality apparently at the expense of someone else’s life, that it needs to not only establish it but also demonstrate what makes this take different from every previous one. Unfortunately, this issue doesn’t do that, presenting the cliched plot with very little new or interesting that would warrant a second issue. Ryan Chambers works for Longevity, the corporation responsible for a serum that can extend a person’s life. During the course of the issue, various threads connect to suggest that he and the other orphans from the orphanage where he grew up are somehow related to Longevity’s drug with several of them dying. Kane is even accosted by a man named Kane, who pontificates about the truth regarding Longevity. It’s all been done before and the presentation here doesn’

The “Pilot Season” project from Top Cow is always one worth checking in on, with its group of first issues that try to balance the demands of delivering a strong, self-contained comic and enticing reads to want to read more. It’s a chance to see creators who may be doing your favorite books in a few years (Jason Aaron and Jonathan Hickman are both alums) and it’s another sign of Top Cow working to fight against the image many have of it. The third “Pilot Season” book of the current crop, “Crosshair,” definitely fits that mold with lots of action and an intriguing plot that demands close reading. Former black ops soldier Justin Weller has been living a peaceful, suburban life for the past ten years, but finds himself under attack by his old team and, as a result, in the middle of a much larger and complex scheme that involves him having to kill the president. “Crosshair” is very high concept, borrowing liberally from “The Manchurian Candidate” as writer Jeff Katz admits in the text pi