Welcome to another HUGE HeroesCon guest list update! We hope you can join us for 3 days of everything we love about comic books along with the people who make them at the Charlotte Convention Center June 20-22, 2014. Tickets for Heroes Convention 2014 are on sale now!

CREATORS! Artists Alley tables are still available but they are going fast! Reserve your space today!

JUNE BRIGMAN – Artist: Power Pack, Supergirl, Star Wars, Brenda Starr
ROY RICHARDSON – Artist: Iron Man, Flash, Tomorrow Knights

RICH CASE – Artist: Doom Patrol, Spider-Man, Hunter: The Age of Magic, Annie Ammo

JOE EISMA – Artist: Morning Glories

GILBERT HERNANDEZ – Cartoonist: Love and Rockets, Marble Season, Bumperhead

JAIME HERNANDEZ – Cartoonist: Love and Rockets

EVAN SHANER – Artist: Flash Gordon, Adventures of Superman, Deadpool Annual 2013, Ghostbusters

BILL SIENKIEWICZ – Artist: Elektra: Assassin, Stray Toasters, New Mutants

MARK TEXEIRA – Artist: Ghost Rider, Wolverine, Moon Knight

LEE WEEKS – Artist: Daredevil, Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man

ALSO ADDED TODAY! 
PAT BRODERICK, MIKE LILLY, COMFORT LOVE, JOHN LOWE, BUDDY PRINCE, STEVE SCOTT, MATT SLAY, MICHAEL WATKINS, JEREMY WHITLEY, & ADAM WITHERS

Heroes Convention takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22 2014. Get your 3 day passes today! The full guest list (so far) is here.

ANDY’S PICK :: DOOP #1: Back in 2001, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred turned the mutant world on its backside by re-imagining X-Force a super-team that eventually morphed into X-Statix. Replacing the old X-Men reliables like Cable, Deadpool, Warpath et.al. , Milligan and Allred turned a team of misfit super-heroes into well… a bunch of reality star super-powered misfits.  Now the key players on the team were Dead Girl, Phat, U-Go Girl, Anarchist and my personal favorite Doop who looked like the love child of Proty II and Slimer from Ghostbusters. Milligan returns with artist David LaFuente (and covers by Allred!) for a five issue mini-series that is sure to be one of the gems of this summer.  And if you have never read the Milligan/Allred Mutant series, pick up a book or three from Heroes– it is a great read.

Along with today’s enormous Guest List update we’ve also updated our Artists Alley page with tons of great comic book-making folks! Check it out! We hope you can join us for 3 days of everything we love about comic books along with the people who make them at the Charlotte Convention Center June 20-22, 2014. Tickets for Heroes Convention 2014 are on sale now!

CREATORS! Artists Alley tables are still available but they are going fast! Reserve your space today!

ERIC CANETE – Artist:  Senior Artist at Riot Games, TRON: Uprising, Beware The Batman

SHANE DAVIS – Artist: Superman Earth One, Superman/Batman, Shadowwalk

DEREC DONOVAN – Artist: Bionic Bombshell, Youngblood, Adventures of Superman, Connor Hawke

TONY HARRIS – Artist: Ex Machina, Starman, Roundeye, War Heroes, Spider-Man

STEVE MANNION – Cartoonist: Fearless Dawn, The Bomb

JOE STATON – Artist: Dick Tracy, Batman, Green Lantern, Power Girl, E Man

SKOTTIE YOUNG – Artist: Rocket Racoon, Fortunately the Milk, Oz, All those cute Young Marvel Variant Covers

ALSO ADDED TODAY! 
Will Allred, Shane Berryhill, Duffy Boudreau, Clay & Susan Griffith, Dusty Higgins, Chris Kemple, Eric Layton, Jose Marzan Jr, Matt Miner, & Matt Webb

Heroes Convention takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22 2014. Get your 3 day passes today! The full guest list (so far) is here.

JUSTIN’S PICK :: FLASH GORDON #1: Fortunately for you, it’s tough to translate singing to type, so you’re spared a lousy, off-key reprise of the Flash Gordon theme song. But rest assured, it will resound throughout the store on Wednesday. Batman 66 scribe Jeff Parker joins forces with Evan Shaner (who drew one of the best one shots ever, last year’s Buddy Cops) to celebrate the 80^th anniversary of one of sci-fi’s most enduring icons. It’s not Flash fandom that draws me to this book; rather, I like Parker’s unobtrusive scripting, and Shaner’s clean, crisp art is highly enjoyable in its own right. I expect these gentlemen to turn in a fine adventure of the Man from Earth. Now, off to practice that falsetto…

HEATHER’S PICKS: It’s a two for one staff pick for me this week thanks to Marvel debuting solo books of two of my favorite characters this week.  That’s right, both Doop and Nightcrawler are getting their own series this spring.  I’m not sure how one week is going to be able to contain so much awesomeness.

DOOP #1: I was excited about the Doop mini-series from the moment it was announced.  Then I saw the previews for the first issue and I nearly punched someone, my excitement was so great.  Those pages from David Lafuente look amazing.  It’s also good to see Doop in the hands of one his creators, Peter Milligan.  I am so glad I only have to wait less than a week to read this book for the first of what is sure to be a million times.

NIGHTCRAWLER #1: Jason Aaron was one of my favorite writers before he brought Nightcrawler back, but the return of one of the best blue guys in comics earned him a permanent spot on that list.  I’m looking forward to Chris Claremont and Todd Nauck taking on Nightcrawler’s return to the X-Men.  I hope he has many new adventures in store (especially pirate adventures…).

RICO’S PICK :: DEAD LETTERS #1:  I’ve seen a black and white preview of this book and it sucks you in immediately. It’s a great first issue. The story begins as a classic amnesia fiction so we are learning what’s going on right along with the main character Sam. Writer Chris Sebela and artist Chris Visions will BOTH be at HeroesCon this year. You should probably get your copy of Dead Letters #1 signed and get a sketch from Visions this year before the rest of the world catches on to his greatness and he’s hard to meet, his bold art won’t stay a secret for long!

ANDY’S PICK :: EDGAR ALLAN POE’S PREMATURE BURIAL ONE SHOT: Is there anything more frightening than being buried alive?  not in my book.  Two of the most terrifying short stories by Edgar Allan Poe—The Cask of Amontillado and The Premature Burial–focus on this awful subject have been adapted by that living (and unburied) legend Richard Corben.  These adaptations should prove to be exciting and beautifully rendered.  Just look at the Cover!  And if anyone asks, when the time comes (and not before!) I demand to be cremated.

Westin rooms at are convention rate are sold out for HeroesCon weekend! Luckily for you, Heroes Head Honcho Shelton Drum has worked out a deal with the Hilton Charlotte Center City right on the other side of the Convention Center. A special rate of $124 is availablenow but we are predicting a quick sell out considering how fast the Westin blocks sold. So, book now! See you in June!

And don’t forget your 3 day passes!

Happy Friday and welcome to another HUGE HeroesCon 2014 Guest List update! We hope you can join us for 3 days of everything we love about comic books along with the people who make them at the Charlotte Convention Center June 20-22, 2014. Tickets for Heroes Convention 2014 are on sale now!

CREATORS! Artists Alley tables are still available but they are going fast! Reserve your space today!

John Beatty –  Inker: Secret Wars, Punisher, Batman, Thanos Quest
Ryan Browne – Artist/Writer: God Hates Astronauts Artist: Manhattan Projects, Bedlam
Rachel Deering – Writer: Anathema, Creepy, In The Dark, Diablo III
Michael Dooney – Artist: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Grimm Fairy Tales, Gizmo
Jeremy Haun – Artist: Batwoman, Bad Karma, The Darkness
Brian Hurtt – Artist: The Sixth Gun, Cowboys, The Damned, Hard Time, Queen & Country
Justin Jordan – Writer: Luther Strode, Green Lantern: New Guardians 
Matt Kindt – Artist/Writer: Mind MGMT, Star Wars, RAI
Tradd Moore – Artist: Luther Strode, Ghost Rider
Matthew Roberts – Artist: Manifest Destiny, Battle Pope: Mayhem
John Rose – Artist: Snuffy Smith
Matthew Wilson – Colorist: Wonder Woman, Young Avengers, The Wicked + The Divine

Heroes Convention takes place in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 20-22 2014. Get your 3 day passes today! The full guest list (so far) is here.

RICO’S PICK :: EMPOWERED SPECIAL #06 INTERNAL MEDICINE: Only Brandon Graham could give Adam Warren a run for his money with puns visual and otherwise. Empowered #6 will be a battle to the death by these to manga influenced American creators! No one is the loser here but the winners will be fans of wacky, beautifully drawn superhero action.