As we were walking through the endless isles of  vendors at Wondercon, a small booth caught our eye.   Gnomes, garden gnomes they were every where, but these were special.   They were ZOMBIES!!

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Start your San Diego Comic Con adventure off at dinner with your favorite creators, artists and writers from Forbidden Panel.  Friends and Fans are invited to join us  for conversation, dinner, and drinks.  You never know who might show up for this event.

Dinner will be at the Strip Club  ( A Steak House), in the  San Diego Gas Lamp District  at 7:30 pm.  This restaurant is  21 and over, make sure you have your ID with you.

For Questions email  andi@forbiddenpanel.com

See you then.

Having failed to get back the rights to “Fantastic Four” from 20th Century Fox, Marvel has decided it won’t help out Fox in any way in regards to its upcoming “Fantastic Four” cinematic reboot.

Bleeding Cool reports that Marvel is putting all its “Fantastic Four” comic books on hold.

The characters will still be able to make appearances in other comics, but they won’t be the focus. “Fantastic Four” art has also apparently been removed from Marvel offices.

Marvel tried a less aggressive but similar strategy in regards to “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” a move that has not exactly been successful considering the reviews and business that film has been doing.

via Marvel Scraps “Fantastic Four” Comics | News | Dark Horizons.

Based on the wildly popular DC Comics series “Hellblazer,” seasoned demon hunter and master of the occult John Constantine (Matt Ryan, “Criminal Minds”) specializes in giving hell… hell. Armed with a ferocious knowledge of the dark arts and his wickedly naughty wit, he fights the good fight — or at least he did. With his soul already damned to hell, he’s decided to leave his do-gooder life behind, but when demons target Liv (Lucy Griffiths, “True Blood”), the daughter of one of Constantine’s oldest friends, he’s reluctantly thrust back into the fray – and he’ll do whatever it takes to save her. Before long, it’s revealed that Liv’s “second sight” — an ability to see the worlds behind our world and predict supernatural occurrences — is a threat to a mysterious new evil that’s rising in the shadows. Now it’s not just Liv who needs protection; the angels are starting to get worried too. So, together, Constantine and Liv must use her power and his skills to travel the country, find the demons that threaten our world and send them back where they belong. After that, who knows… maybe there’s hope for him and his soul after all. The cast also includes Harold Perrineau and Charles Halford.

Writer Daniel Cerone (“The Mentalist,” “Dexter”) serves as executive producer with David S. Goyer (“Man of Steel,” “The Dark Knight Rises”). “Constantine” is produced from Bonanza Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. The show is based upon characters published by DC Entertainment.

Xbox Entertainment announced six committed projects, and programs based on the Deadlands RPG, Chuck Dixon and Jorge Zaffino’s Winterworld, and Warren Ellis’ Gun Machine in development as original programming that will be exclusively available on Microsoft devices, including Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Committed Xbox Entertainment projects include a Halo live action TV series with Steven Spielberg executive producing; a Halo digital feature exec produced by Ridley Scott and David Zucker; Humans, an adaptation of Swedish science fiction series Real Humans and several reality-based series.  Halo has the best initial merch prospects, with Dark Horse comics and USAopoly tabletop games among others.

Several of the projects in development are also interesting.  A script based on the Pinnacle Entertainment tabletop roleplaying game Deadlands has been ordered.  There has been some other merch based on the RPG over the past few years, including a board game (Twilight Creations) and comics (Image).

A limited event live-action series based on the Winterworld graphic novel by Chuck Dixon and Jorge Zaffino is being co-developed by IDW Entertainment and Xbox Entertainment.  A new comic series from IDW with Dixon writing and Butch Guice art will launch in June.

A pilot script is being written for Gun Machine, based on the hardboiled detective novel by Warren Ellis, with Ellis exec producing with Brett Conrad (Sons of Anarchy), who will also write the script.

Extraordinary Believers, a stop-motion animation series by the creators of Robot Chicken is also in development.

The new Xbox Originals strategy is similar to the exclusive content initiatives of Netflix and Amazon, but is exclusive to particular devices, while Netflix and Amazon are largely device-agnostic.  Xbox Originals will all include interactive features.

via ICv2 – Xbox Announces Originals.