The Official Blog of The Venger: Dead Man Rising

Kindle Fire: Yes or No?

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:06:00 +0000

Well with the holiday season just about here I see all the store ads online and in the papers pushing the big deals etc. And one of the biggest sellers this year is going to be the Amazon Kindle...

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Comixology for November

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:45:00 +0000

Lately I've been cutting down on my weekly comic book buying. With so many comics moving up to the $3.99 price point I've just become really vigilant about what I'm picking up. I've dropped quite a...

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Comics Bulletin

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:52:00 +0000

As most of you should know I've been writing a semi-regular column at Comics Bulletin for a while now. The column is called What Looks Good and I rotate with a two other great bloggers- Kyle...

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National Graphic Novel Writing Month

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:11:00 +0000

Well to day is November 1st and when I was online checking out Heavyink.com I saw a tab on the site titled 'NaGraNoWriMo'. I gave it a click and read some of the threads there. Please go and...

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Thwipster

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:32:00 +0000

Just wanted to do a quick post praising this great website to get comic book trades and collectibles. I use Thwipster all the time. They have a daily email that goes out showing what the items for...

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The Avengers trailer is LIVE

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:43:00 +0000

Well the first full trailer for the Avengers movie debuted online today. It has almost everything you could imagine in there- hints on the real villain, a great glimpse of all the guys in action and...

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The Avengers

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:01:00 +0000

Can't wait to see this movie next summer. The filming is almost over and some info has leaked. But I just love this pic- Captain America and Thor! Avengers Assemble!

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Captain America Movie Trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:03:00 +0000

Here's the newest movie trailer for Captain America: The First Avenger showing in previews this weekend.

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Red Skull!

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:57:00 +0000

After seeing a quick glimpse of him during the Captain America mini-trailer during the Super Bowl we finally get a full reveal. Marvel released a fantastic shot of Hugo Weeving as the Red Skull in...

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And the Winner Is...

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:50:00 +0000

Last year The Venger: Dead Man Rising was nominated for the Eagle Award for Favorite American Black and White Comic Book Series. Well because of my extended absence from the blog I never got a chance...

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What Looks Good

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:29:00 +0000

Another quick post from me; but hey it's a start to regular blog updating! Anyway as I said in the previous post I have been 'away' from working on Venger for a bit. I have still been trying to keep...

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Captain America: First Avenger movie trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:30:00 +0000

Yes I know I've been away from this blog for what seems like forever. I apologize. I actually have been away from working on Venger all that time too. I'll post again soon and go into it some more....

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The Venger: Deadly Beginnings UPDATE 2

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:50:00 +0000

As promised here are the final versions of those two pages from Deadly Beginnings I've been previewing. We've already seen the original penciled pages by Jun Joe Monares. And I recently posted the...

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Captain America movie preview clip at SDCC

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:28:00 +0000

At the Marvel Studios panel yesterday they had the casts to both the Thor and Captain America movies present for questions and clips. They actually had some footage from the Cap movie even though...

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The Venger: Deadly Beginnings UPDATE

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:20:00 +0000

SDCC is still in full effect. The amount of announcements and news items coming out from the con is crazy. You really can't keep up with everything and I don't see how the publishers in attendance...

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Captain America Movie promo poster

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:03:00 +0000

I've been busy working on more scripts related to The Venger: Dead Man Rising. I'm really pushing to get the Special done soon. I'm going to be posting some more inked pages from the Deadly Beginning...

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The Venger on MyEbook.com

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:30:00 +0000

Well with all the talk of digital downloads of comics and the Apple iPad being the future of the industry I've been looking for ways to get Venger involved in it too. As a small self-publisher it is...

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The Venger: Deadly Beginnings

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 23:08:00 +0000

Hey everyone. It's been a busy few weeks of writing for me. I posted another What Looks Good column at ComicsBulletin.com so if you get a chance to check that out please do. I also finished the...

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Batman: City of Scars

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:39:00 +0000

There's a great Batman fanflick doing the rounds right now that I just had to blog about. Batman: City of Scars was created by Bat in The Sun Productions which is the team behind another excellent...

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The Venger vs the Wolfman UPDATE 2

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:03:00 +0000

Another quick update for you guys. I've been doing some rewrites on The Venger Vs the Wolfman story that will be appearing in the Venger Special. Barri has done a great job with the plot and anything...

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A Venger Classic

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:27:00 +0000

I came across this picture while going through some older Venger folders. This cool pic was created by John West, the colorist for the first issues of The Venger: Dead Man Rising. He wanted to throw...

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Captain America movie costume

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:18:00 +0000

The last couple of days there has been a lot of rumor talk regarding the costume Chris Evans will be wearing in Marvel's Captain America: First Avenger movie that will be filming later this summer I...

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Venger nomination for 2010 Eagle Awards!!

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Wed, 26 May 2010 19:10:00 +0000

I'm so excited and honored to post that The Venger: Dead Man Rising has been nominated for the 2010 Eagle Award in the category of Favorite American Black and White Comic Book. This really is awesome...

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The Venger vs the Wolfman UPDATE

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Tue, 18 May 2010 15:22:00 +0000

I haven't updated progress on this story in a while so I'll try to catch up. This is an 'illustrated prose' story that will be appearing in the Venger Special along with the Black Mercy and Deadly...

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Super 8 movie trailer

noreply@blogger.com (Matt Spatola) — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:44:00 +0000

The preview trailer for J.J. Abrams' latest top secret movie project is running before Iron Man 2. This time Abrams is working with Steven Speilberg on the film, slated for a summer 2011 release....

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