May
19
Comics at E3
Blogging's a bit light this week as we're consumed by comicbooks' younger, bigger and better paid cousin, videogames. But comics fans checking out the wares at E3 in Los Angeles this week have plenty to see.
Efocus' pre-E3 event Tuesday night at the California Fashion Mart sported a superhero theme, with large cutouts of Marvel and DC superheroes adorning the walls behind booths spotlighting mostly new gaming hardware. "Booth babes" dressed up as Supergirl, Batgirl and Wonder Woman walked around handing out free Marvel and DC comics to guests, some of whom could even be spotted reading them as they took a break in the lobby.
Wednesday, the first official day of E3, saw a signing by none other than Brian Michael Bendis (picture courtesy of my cell phone) at the Activision booth to promote their upcoming Ultimate Spider-Man game. The game retains the look of Mark Bagley's art and was pretty fun to play. Villains include Electro and Venom, the latter of whom you play part of the game as while Spidey's temporarily knocked out of the action.
Activision was the biggest comics-related booth with all its Marvel licenses, including X-Men: Legends II, which will feature Apocalypse and includes Bishop and a cool-looking Toad. Topping all this off was a quick appearance by Ioan Gruffud and Michael Chiklis, stars of the upcoming Fantastic Four movie, to sign posters and unveil the new trailer for the film, which is now available online and showing in front of the new "Star Wars" pic. Of course, there's an FF game, in which you can play as any member of the team.
Chiklis is looking to make the fans happy, showing up in a T-shirt with orange lettering that said — what else? — "It's Clobbering Time!" Over at the Universal booth, the new Hulk: Ultimate Destruction game was on hand, in which you have Hulk run all over the city and smash things.
Not to be outdone, DC games were in evidence, though not as centrally prominent. Majesco had a fun, kids-oriented game based on the Teen Titans cartoon and a game in the works based on The Darkness, while EA had its very-cool looking Batman Begins on display next to its impressive looking array of cool games you never thought you'd see such as The Godfather and From Russia With Love. EA also was sporting Marvel Nemesis: The Imperfects in the same batch of massive booths.
Today you can catch Mark Waid and David Nakayama, writer and artist respectively of the City of Heroes comicbook based on the game, signing at the NCSoft booth. And Greg Horn, painter of many a cover for Marvel, will be at the Hip Games booth.
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