Marvel announced today that they will be launching an eight-issue digital comic series, titled Captain America: First Vengeance, that will debut on Sunday, February 6th,  just after the debut of the Captain America: The First Avenger trailer, during Superbowl XLV. The comic is designed to tie-in to the events of the movie, and take fans [...]

I’m really looking forward to grabbing this one, on the weekend. The Dark Tower series is one of my favourites of all time, and Sean Phillips is one of favourite comic artists! It’s a marriage made in heaven! From the press release: The Man in Black has laid ruin everything Roland Deschain holds dear and [...]

From the press release: Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Journey Begins #1 Launches This May! Dark Tower: The Gunslinger – The Journey Begins #1 Launches This May! The Man in Black has laid ruin everything Roland Deschain holds dear and this May, the Lone Gunslinger embarks on an all-new quest to avenge his fallen [...]

As a massive fan of both The Dark Tower and Sean Phillips‘ wonderful artwork, this is some fantastic news! I really liked Jae Lee’s depiction of Mid-World, but I just can’t wait to see how Sean Philips draws Roland’s world. I had actually assumed that the series would come to an end after the team [...]

Marvel Comics have provided Hypergeek with a six-page preview of The Dark Tower: The Battle of Jericho Hill #1 (of 5). This is the one that fans of the Dark Tower series have been waiting for! Gilead has fallen, and Roland’s Ka-Tet are heading toward their infamous last stand on Jericho Hill! This is the [...]

Constant Readers of Hypergeek probably know that I am borderline obsessive about Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. In fact, on my recent trip home to the UK I made sure to bring back all of my first edition limited release hardcovers of the original series, with hand-sewn binding… all packed in bubble wrap of course! [...]

Marvel Comics just sent Hypergeek a Seven Page Preview of Dark Tower: Fall of Gilead #5, on sale today (Wednesday, September 30th, 2009.) Marvel did not issue any other weekly preview this week, so I assume this special preview is to encourage readers to pick up the series. Indeed, Dark Tower: The Fall of Gilead [...]

Hypergeek’s Hot Picks is a weekly column on the site, where I take a look through the list of comics being released that week, and decide which ones I think are worth picking up. I then pick out the comics which I am most looking forward to, and tell readers why I think they will [...]

I am a really big fan of Stephen King’s Dark Tower series of Novels. I first started reading them following the release of The Drawing of the Three (1987) when I was eight years old, and continued reading them until the seventh and final volume The Dark Tower (2004) when I was twenty five. Saying [...]