The year: 1988. The place: Crestwood Mall in suburban St. Louis. The scene: crowded, as Saturday afternoon turns into Saturday night. In the crush of humanity, one bold voice stands out. A 14-year-old nerd skips energetically through the throng cackling about how he’s invisible, annoying the holy hell out of everyone within earshot. “I’m invisible! Ha ha! Nobody can see me! I’m invisible!” Only the green-sport-coated figure of a mall security guard can stop this shameless rampage of idiocy.

shirt.woot! :: Shirt of Stealth

Jimmy Purcell and Daniel Whitfield, both art majors, were celebrating the release of first volume of Forbidden Tales, a three-part anthology book published by the Forbidden Panel that their work is featured in, at the Naples Ristorante e Pizzeria.

The entire group was in high spirits, and the camaraderie among colleagues was easily felt.

Click the link below to read the rest of the story!

via Students’ work featured at WonderCon | The Breeze.

Cover 1A of ROBOCOP: Last Stand (Picture from BOOM! Studios)

Based on a screenplay by Frank Miller and adapted by the Stephen Grant, the art will be handled by Declan Shalvey and Korkut Öztekin. The new run, titled ROBOCOP: LAST STAND hits shelves this August and is available for pre-order now. Expect to hear more about this new series at San Diego Comic Con and reviews from Forbidden Panel as the release approaches. Get more information on the series at BOOM! Studios.

The new film has faced many delays and is now set for a early 2014 release. Check back to Forbidden Panel for more on the movie as the premiere gets closer.

Which came first, the theory or the show?

shirt.woot! :: The Alternative Atomic Model

EA will develop and publish the new titles, with plans for all interactive platforms and game genres. Disney retains rights to develop gaming titles for its own mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.

EA Labels president Frank Gibeau says: “Three of our top studios will fulfill that dream, crafting epic adventures for Star Wars fans. DICE and Visceral will produce new games, joining the BioWare team which continues to develop for the Star Wars franchise. The new experiences we create may borrow from films, but the games will be entirely original with all new stories and gameplay.”

Numerous “Star Wars” video games have been produced over the past few decades including the “Rebel Assault” and “X-Wing” titles in the 1990s, “Knights of the Old Republic” and “Battlefront” in the early-mid 2000s, and the “Force Unleashed” and LEGO related “Star Wars” games for the most recent console generation.

Electronic Arts is responsible for some of the biggest franchises in gaming including Army of Two, Battlefield, Burnout, Crysis, Dead Space, Dragon Age, FIFA, Mass Effect, Medal of Honor, Mirrors Edge, Need for Speed, Rock Band, The Sims, Skate, SSX and Wing Commander. Their BioWare label developed the mega-budget MMORPG “Star Wars: The Old Republic”.

However, they also achieved infamy as The Consumerist magazine awarded EA the title of “Worst Company in America” in 2012 according to a poll tabulating more than 250,000 votes. They won the award again last month for such complaints as day-one DLC, micro transactions, poor customer support, dismissiveness of criticisms, and their habit of acquiring and squashing smaller developers.

The company also announced today the arrival of “The Sims 4″ in 2014.

via Disney & EA Team For “Star Wars” Games | News | Dark Horizons.

“Torso” tells the true but relatively unknown story of Treasury Department agent Eliot Ness time after his Al Capone days, when he moved to Cleveland to be the citys public safety officer.

Torsos began appearing in the river, and Ness began receiving notes taunting him to catch the killer. Ness, who had no experience in police work, put together a team of ex-officers to apprehend the serial murderer.

The project nearly got going a few years ago with David Fincher attached to direct and the likes of Matt Damon, Rachel McAdams and Casey Affleck starring.

Lowery will start from scratch, rather than using the previous script drafts by Ehren Kruger.

This marks the third project in the past month that Lowery has become attached to, following the “Petes Dragon” remake and the Robert Redford-led crime drama “The Old Man and the Gun”.

via David Lowery To Pen “Torso” Adaptation | News | Dark Horizons.

Members of Kissed Alive spotted Dollins at the Zombie Kill Squad Cosplayers booth during Cosplay Con 2013 and asked her to introduce the band. She will also have a table during the after party to meet fans, take pictures and sign autographs. Kissed Alive is hoping to get Marissa onstage to join in a couple songs!

National American Miss California Marissa Dollins

2012 Inland Empire Zombie Beauty Queen’s Court – Marissa Dollins

The National American Miss Pageant is the largest natural all ages pageant in America. Marissa has competed in pageants for seven years now. She is currently Miss California and was last year’s National American Miss California Teen. She competed in the Inland Empire Comic Expo’s Zombie Beauty Pageant in 2012 (sponsored by Forbidden Panel), earning a spot in the Queen’s Court. She plans to take the top prize in this year’s Zombie competition. Dollins added she is “Honored and beyond excited to have the privilege of introducing “Kissed Alive!” at the Grand Prix after party!”

KISSED ALIVE is a KISS tribute band and will be performing after the race in Long Beach this Friday. You can find details about their show here. Check out the show and meet Marissa Dollins!

For more information on Marissa Dollins, the Inland Empire Zombie Beauty Pageant or Forbidden Panel please contact our spokesperson Martin Bright via martin@forbiddenpanel.com or at (909) 666-0509.

The first four episodes of “My Name Is John” is available from Forbidden Panel.

When asked how the idea for the book came to him, Sean says, “I had as much fun creating & drawing the comic, as I did actually experiencing the events I wrote about. Of course, I had to add my “what if…” twist to the real story, but it always makes it a bit more fun. We had many a fun time back in the day.. hope you enjoy my tales. And here’s to John, for putting up with all the comic torture I put him through. Thank you again, old friend. Sit back, relax & enjoy the ride.”Dortch brings humor and fantasy to the pages of MY NAME IS JOHN’s first four episodes published by Forbidden Panel. There’s love, life lessons, death, cursing and nudity and it is definitely a book for mature readers. Volume 1 of MY NAME IS JOHN is 36 pages of entertaining reading. Now available for digital download for only $1.00 in the Forbidden Panel Store.

My Name Is John, Episode 1

My Name Is John, Episode 2

As the sun was setting on another southern Californian, Friday night at Disneyland there was a rare site at the park, a line for entry into the Innoventions ride. Disney welcomed Annual Passholders to a pre-opening to a new display on the ride, Marvel’s Iron Man armory. As fans of the films will know, Tony Stark’s mansion in Malibu is home to all of Iron Man’s armors that will be featured in the upcoming IRON MAN 3. This is the first outing for Marvel by the House of Mouse to incorporate their comic book properties into the classic amusement park

INNOVENTIONS at Disneyland, California 2013

Passholders were granted exclusive access to Innoventions from 6pm to 1am today for the revealing of a corner of the ride where the armory will be open to the public starting April 13, 2013. Attendees to get to see the Mark I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII from the first two Iron Man movies and the Avengers, as well as, the Mark LXII from the IRON MAN 3. There are also pieces of the different armors of the film trilogy and a opportunity to try out the new IRON MAN 3 video game. The video game takes a headshot of the player (via the XBox Kinect) and puts it in the Iron Man armor and then using motion, the player becomes the superhero for missions.

The IRON MAN Armory at Disneyland’s INNOVENTIONS

While this is Marvel’s first appearance as part of an attraction at the Disneyland resort, it is not the blockbuster ride many were hoping for. Lines will definitely increase for the next month, leading up to the film’s premiere but afterwards will return to normal park attendance levels. It is great to see Disney showing their comic books properties but if fans have seen a Marvel booth at a comic convention in the last  two years, they have already seen this armory display; do not get into the Innoventions line if it looks longer than 30 minutes.