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The Green Hornet expansion continues as Dynamite presents the original tales of comics’ most iconic hero! Matt Wagner, one of the most creative minds in comics takes the reins, bringing the characters to their basic roots a la All-Star Superman! And Matt Wagner is the man to do it! Rooted in the pulp tradition, the original tales of Britt Reid and Kato begin here! Joining Wagner is artist Aaron Campbell (Sherlock Holmes), whose stunning recreation of the industrial world of 1930’s Chicago is sure to wow fans across the globe!

Who wears the Black Mask? The true identity of Gotham City’s new crimelord is finally revealed and that identity will surprise everybody – especially Batman! And after the final showdown between Black Mask and The Dark Knight, will things ever be the same for Kittyhawk and the Reaper?

Deep within the fires of the gauntlet It’s Rhino vs. Rhino – with Spidey caught in the middle! When the young, teched-out upstart who’s taken the Rhino mantle refuses to leave the original Rhino, Aleski Systevich in peace, he forces Systevic to make a stand…and the tragic results will be felt in Spidey’s life for months to come. Witness THE LAST STAND OF THE RHINO!

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #625
AMERICAN VAMPIRE #1 (MR)
ANGEL #31
ANITA BLAKE LC EXECUTIONER #5 (OF 5) (MR)
ARMY OF TWO #3
AVENGERS VS ATLAS #3 (OF 4)
AZRAEL #6
BATMAN #697
BLACK LANTERN GREEN ARROW #30 (BLACKEST NIGHT)
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #32
CABLE #24
CAPTAIN AMERICA MGC #1
CHOKER #2 (MR)
DARK AVENGERS #15
DEAD AT 17 WITCH QUEEN #1 Of(4)
DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #9
DEATHLOK #5 (OF 7)
DIE HARD YEAR ONE #7
DOOMWAR #2 (OF 6)
FADE TO BLACK #1 (OF 5)
FARSCAPE ONGOING #5
GARTH ENNIS BATTLEFIELDS #4 (OF 9) FIREFLY PART 1 (MR)
GREEN HORNET YEAR ONE #1
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #46 (BLACKEST NIGHT)
GROO HOGS OF HORDER #4 (OF 4)
HERCULES FALL OF AN AVENGER #1 (OF 2)
HULK #21 FOH
I KILL GIANTS TITAN ED HC VOL 01
INCREDIBLE HULK #608 CHO VAR FOH
INCREDIBLE HULK #608 FOH
IRON MAN II MR POTATO HEAD TONY STARCH
IRREDEEMABLE #12
JOE THE BARBARIAN #3 (OF (MR)
KOOKABURRA K #3 (OF 3) (MR)
LOCKE & KEY CROWN OF SHADOWS #4
MAD MAGAZINE #503
MARVEL BOY URANIAN #3 (OF 3)
MUPPET SHOW #3
NATION X #4 (OF 4)
PRELUDE TO DEADPOOL CORPS #3 (OF 5)
REALM OF KINGS IMPERIAL GUARD #5 (OF 5)
SCOOBY DOO #154
SIEGE #1 (OF 4) DIRECTORS CUT
SIEGE #3 (OF 4)
SIEGE EMBEDDED #3 (OF 4)
SIMPSONS COMICS #164
SONIC UNIVERSE #14
SPIDER-MAN AND SECRET WARS #4 (OF 4)
SPIDER-MAN ANTI-VENOM TP
SPIDER-WOMAN #7
STAR TREK MOVIE ADAPTATION #2
SUPERMAN 80 PAGE GIANT #1
SUPERNATURAL BEGINNINGS END #3 (OF 6)
TITANS #23
TORCH #6 (OF
TORCHWOOD MAGAZINE #20 SPECIAL
TRANSFORMERS NEFARIOUS #1
ULTIMATE COMICS IRON MAN ARMOR WARS PREM HC
X-23 #1
X-FACTOR FOREVER #1
X-MEN LEGACY #234

Tonight (3/12/2010) will be a STANDARD CONSTRUCTED tournament w/ NO entry fee; prizes are TBA.

Of all the MMORPGs vying for World of Warcraft’s crown, Star Wars: The Old Republic stands a pretty fair chance against Blizzard’s juggernaut. But being a contender doesn’t come cheap, as EA’s chief financial officer Eric Brown explained in today’s meeting with Wedbush Morgan Securities in New York. In fact, Brown called The Old Republic the "largest ever development project, period, in the history of the company."

According to a report on Eurogamer, Brown outlined the average cost of an EA developed game at around $30 million. MMOs, however, cost "significantly more than that," and Brown estimates that World of Warcraft specifically may have required upwards of $100 million. "That’s lifetime [research and development] to actually ship it and obviously then there’s maintenance subsequent to ship and expansion packs," Brown continued.

So, if World of Warcraft took $100 million to get off the ground back in 2004, how much can EA expect to spend on their Star Wars MMO? Brown didn’t throw out any numbers of his own, but even if we assume The Old Republic costs the exact same amount to launch as Blizzard’s game, that’s still forgetting a couple key expenses: any costs associated with the Star Wars license, and, if you really wanted to be picky about it, the $620-million-plus EA spent acquiring developer Bioware and Pandemic back in 2007.

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Game streaming service OnLive will launch June 17, offering PC and Mac owners the ability to play games remotely through their web browser at $14.95 a month.

Between a dozen and twenty-five titles will be available at launch, OnLive executive Steve Perlman told VentureBeat. The company has partnered with various publishers including Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, 2K Games, THQ and Warner Bros. to offer subscribers a selection of titles including Mass Effect 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Borderlands, Dragon Age Origins, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, and Metro 2033.

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A massively multiplayer game based off popular science fiction television series Battlestar Galactica is due to launch this fall, license holder NBC Universal announced today.

A client-free and browser-based affair said to pack "state of the art graphics," Battlestar Galactica Online is being powered by Unity–the same technology used by EA’s broswer-based Tiger Woods PGA Tour Online.

Development of the game is being handled by independent Norwegian studio Artplant, the previous works of which include Riding Club Championships. Going by its website, Artplant "aims to become one of the lea…

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Alex Segura of DC Comics has announced that starting on July 1st, J. Michael Straczynski will be writing the flagship books for two members of the fabled DCU trinity, Superman and Wonder Woman. DC will announce the names of those who will be teaming with JMS on these titles, and the new directions these fabled heroes will be taking over the next few months.

In a statement posted on DC’s The Source blog JMS talked about what the opportunity to write the flagship title for the Man of Steel means to him: “For as long as I’ve been doing conventions (starting in the early Cretaceous period, when it was just me and a handful of pterosaurs on a panel debating whether or not mammals with opposable thumbs were really necessary to the writing of quality comics, a point still hotly debated today), there has always been the same question from folks in the audience: “Is there any one character who is your dream character to write for?” The answer has always been the same: Superman. When I first came over to DC, that dream was realized in part by Dan DiDio’s gracious invitation to write the first of potentially many Superman original graphic novels. Now the dream has come fully true with the opportunity to write for the mainstream title, in a story that returns Superman to his roots in a way that will have the whole country talking about him in ways that we haven’t seen in a long time.”

And he seemed almost as excited to be penning the Wonder Woman title (which Gail Simone is leaving to write Birds of Prey): “Similarly, the chance to write Wonder Woman — the nearest analogue to Superman in the DCU — is massively exciting. She’s a vital, powerful character, and we hope to bring a more contemporary sensibility to her character will retaining everything that makes her unique.”

The A-Team are back! Before you see their return on the big-screen, thrill to this special mission told in comic book form only! After a successful-but harrowing-completion to a mission in icy Alaska, Hannibal and the team are up for some much-needed leave in sunny San Diego to attend the wedding of a high-ranking U.S. official’s daughter. But when threats are made against the event, the A-Team is forced to quit their vacation and go undercover to foil what might be a terrorist plot.