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This week will see the launch of a Kickstarter campaign for a new comics project, The Golden Guard, by Vito Delsante, Charlie McElvy and Carlos Caballero. I got a chance to talk with Vito Delsante the other day.

Jc: I think it is fair to say you’re a big comics fan, and particularly of legacy superheroes. What is it about them that makes you want tell their stories?

Vd: I think it’s less about the legacy and more about how the most current person in the line handles the responsibility of the mantle. Like, if you’re the most current Phantom (Lee Falk’s character) and you’re 24, let’s say, your reality, your Africa/Bengalla, is totally different than your grandfather’s. So, there’s a real chance, as a storyteller, to push the idea of legacy further. That’s what Sean and I try to do...

Boom! Studios has announced a Dawn of the Planet of the Apes miniseries.

The six-issue series will bridge the ten-year gap between 2011's Rise of the Planet of the Apes and the new film.

Michael Moreci (Roche Limit) will write the comic, with the artistic team yet to be revealed.

"While the apes of the world have yet to advance as a species, Caesar (portrayed by Andy Serkis in the films) must find a way to unify them to one cause," reads Boom!'s description.

"On the other side of the country, Malcolm (played by Jason Clarke in the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes film) must venture into the decaying Americas with his family to find a cure for the plague slowly killing his wife Rita."

Boom! will also be releasing the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Contagion prequel one-shot by Caleb Monroe and Tom...

This November, award-winning publisher Boom! Studios and Twentieth Century Consumer Products are pleased to announce they will launch Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, a new comic book limited series based on the new film from 20th Century Fox.

Written by Michael Moreci (Curse, Hoax Hunters), the six-issue series bridges the 10-year gap between the Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apesfilms, chronicling the fall of humanity and the rise of Caesar’s ape civilization. Additional creative team details will be revealed at a later date. While the apes of the world have yet to advance as a species, Caesar (portrayed by Andy Serkis in the films) must find a way to unify them to one cause. On the other side of the country, Malcolm (played by Jason Clarke in the Dawn of the Planet of the Apes film) must venture...

It’s made America a ravaged reflection of its former, healthier self. The Simian Flu that began to spread at the end of 2011′s Rise of the Planet of the Apes has taken a bite out of humanity and left apes as the emerging superior power in the San Francisco area. Tomorrow sees the release of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Boom! Studios has announced a limited comic book series that follows what happened in the ten-year gap between films, as well as a one-shot prequel comic that will be an Sdcc exclusive.

Composed of six issues and titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, the comic book series will come out this November, with the first issue set to be released in two different covers. The one-shot set to premiere at Sdcc is titled Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Contagion and serves...

Comic-Con 2012 is so close we can taste it! The epically badass geek convention is set to invade San Diego from July 11th to July 15th, and we can't wait to get over there and get crazy!

Comic-Con International has released the full schedules for Wednesday July 11th and Thursday July 12th, and there's a ton of stuff going on! It's going to kick off with a great first couple of days that will give you plenty of stuff to do! Wednesday looks like it's going to be an awesome day of pilot screens and Thursday has got stuff like Twilight... (fart) and Disney will be holding their big panel, along with a ton of other great stuff to check out!

I've gone through the schedule and put a *** next to all the event's we hope to be able to cover. If there's anything on the list you would like information on please let us know,...

The first issue of Boom! Studios' action-adventure series Hunter's Fortune is now available at retail level. Written by acclaimed indie creator Caleb Monroe, the comic follows Hunter Prescott, who must quest for the mythical sword Excalibur in order to earn the sizeable fortune left to him by his late uncle. "That's our starting point. Hunter's uncle Max dies and leaves him a beyond-wildest-dreams fortune, but to keep it he must complete the nigh-impossible task of finding a possibly mythical sword," Monroe told Newsarama. "For once the stakes are simply too high for Hunter (more)...

Spirituality has always been a part of human storytelling. In today’s comic books, whether it’s faith in a hero or submission to fate, spirituality of one kind or another plays an integral part in plot and character.

At Comic-Con this year, some popular comic-book storytellers sat down with a precocious audience to discuss where spirituality and religion fit into their works and into American storytelling as a whole, and how our modern tales might be doing a soulful injustice.

The panel, brought together by the Christian Comic Arts Society, included an Agnostic (Elan Rodger Trinidad), two Christians (Doug Tennapel and Caleb Monroe), and a witch (Holly Golightly). Remarkably, there were no fights or bitter accusations flung across the table, but rather a unified sense of pride and communion as storytellers focus on spirituality in their work, whether it’s of a religious or metaphysical nature.

It was universally...