X-Files reboot will premiere at NYCC

11 SEPTEMBER 2015

Those of you going to New York Comic Con are in for a historic event of major proportions: the premiere of the X-Files reboot. It will screen in a Saturday panel, with Chris Carter and David Duchovny doing a Q&A afterward.

As an intense X-Files fan with 2 NYCC tickets who just found out she can't go, this is killing me - but it's no doubt making many of you scream with joy, you lucky bastards. Enjoy.

The SDCC Daily

10 JUNE 2015

 

This was quite a day, between the Exhibit Hall maps dropping, Warner Bros and Star Wars. But a few other things came our way...


We got our first look at the new X-Files. At least that's what Twitter says, but I thought Gillian Anderson was restoring her red hair for the role.

Licensing Expo 2015, which is the least appealing name of any convention ever, had a bunch of good reveals that might whet your appetite for SDCC - from the Batmobile under lights to Wonder Woman costume details.

From yesterday, a haughty-looking Alfred Pennyworth to add to your Wayne Manor diorama.

Whether or not you've climbed on the Archie train in the last two years - or maybe you climbed on and got off after Afterlife's long hiatus - one of the most talked-about comics this summer is the new Archie title from Mark Waid and Fiona Staples. Today we got a look at both variant covers and they look just as spectacular as you'd expect anything from Fiona Staples to look. We'll also get a Mega Man sketch variant and a Dark Circle poster.

If you really liked Adult Swim's Meatwad Full Dome 3D Experience at the Con last year, it's now morphed into a free app called The Virtual Brainload.

Do you have any nerd friends in China? Consider buying them some DVDs at SDCC if you can get them to them; China has banned 38 popular manga and anime titles as part of their crackdown on offensive online content. Black Butler, High School of the Dead, Death Note and Attack on Titan are a few of the titles. Numerous video streaming sites have already been warned by the Ministry of Culture.

 

Mattel is bringing you these HALO-themed blasters.

In the category of things we want to see at SDCC: bath bombs that dissolve to reveal Pokémon characters, My Neighbor Tortoro characters and tiny Disney princesses. You can't get these at Lush. These Firefly cards are also pretty cool.


I think today proved that Comic-Con season is on. Strap yourself in for the ride.

Orphan Black & X-Files games coming out in July

20 MARCH 2015
 

                                                      courtesy of Hollywood Reporter

Happy spring, everyone - especially you beleaguered Northeasterners who've had such a hellish winter. (I grew up there and remember it well; now I have a palm tree in my front yard and I send you my sympathies.)

If you're eagerly awaiting announcements on the kind of exciting toys you can buy at SDCC, well, we haven't seen many official items yet. BUT we did get some interesting news from IDW Games this week on nerdy items they're releasing in July. Will these be at San Diego Comic-Con? They didn't say - but the marketing team would be squandering a golden opportunity if not.


X-Files Board Game

This will be drawn "from the first years" of the show, which I hope means we get Flukeman, Eugene Tooms and Leonard, the little twin from Humbug. It's designed by Arkham Horror's Kevin Wilson with art direction from menton3, who's been involved with the X-Files comic book. Apparently you can play Scully or Mulder, but let's hope you can be other characters as well because I know we all want to be Cigarette Smoking Man.


Orphan Black: The Card Game

Everyone's favorite clone show recently became a comic book; now it's going to be a game as well. Players in the card game can join up with the Proletheans, the Bird Watchers or the Neolutionists. A big-box tabletop game will come out further down the line.


IDW is also coming out with Kill Shakespeare and 30 Days of Night games this spring, and The Godfather card game will be out in August. In other words, there needs to be a Comic-Con tournament.

David Duchovny will be at the X-Files panel too

4 JULY 2013

3:30 pm on Thursday in Ballroom 20: that's the time and place of one of the most buzzed-about panels this summer. (I know the media wants us to care about Ender's Game and I'm sure some people do, but I haven't heard many people actually talking about it.) 

Now we know that David Duchovny will join Gillian Anderson and Chris Carter for the 20th Anniversary X-Files panel, which probably increases the line factor by... I have no idea. Get in line Wednesday night and camp all day in Ballroom 20? That sounds about right. 

Dexter, Divergent and Ender's Game will pull a lot of people to Hall H, but right now Thursday is feeling like it's all about Ballroom 20. We'll know more tomorrow when CCI will (probably) publish the programming - but this is clearly going to be an insanely popular panel. They had better bring out Flukeman, the fiji mermaid-twin, Eugene Tooms and at least two aliens to satisfy the conspiracy-hungry masses.

Scully will be at the 20th anniversary X-Files panel

28 JUNE 2013

No word yet on whether David Duchovny will be, but he's a "probably." Also Chris Carter and Vince Gilligan will be present for sure, and fingers crossed for Mitch Pileggi. The X-Files 20th Anniversary Panel is on Thursday - but Gillian Anderson is doing another comic book panel as well and signing at the Lightspeed Fine Art Booth at some point. She obviously loves us.

Other TV panel news: The Walking Dead and Falling Skies are on Friday, Breaking Bad and Supernatural on Sunday. I'm listing all of them as they get announced on the 2013 page.

And appropos of nothing, here is an article worth reading from Bleeding Cool on their predictions of Comic Con comic book announcements.