Next month, Marvel is expected to release the first installment in the Ender’s Game comic series. The UnderWire blog posted a few screenshots depicting what looks to be from the first Bugger invasion, aas well as panels from Ender’s origin story.
Entertainment Weekly featured these two screenshots from the new Ender’s Game comic being featured at this week’s Comic-Con 2008:
Orson Scott Card is scheduled to conduct a workshop in San Diego this weekend on making it in the comics biz. From the ComicCon 2008 Saturday schedule page:
6:00-7:00 Impact University: How to Write and Draw Comics and Graphic Novels— Some of the biggest names in comics are on hand to teach you what it takes to make it in comics and graphic novels. The star-studded faculty includes Peter David (Dark Tower, X-Factor), Orson Scott Card Ender’s Game, Wyrms), Colleen Doran (A Distant Soil, Sandman), Brian Miller (Hi-Fi Color Design), and Comics Buyer’s Guide senior editor Maggie Thompson. Find out the best way to submit your work, learn the dos and don’ts of the business, and participate in a Q&A session. Room 7AB
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As reported on Wired.com’s Underwire Blog:
The third episode should please Futurama and sci-fi fans alike: Bender’s Game is ripe with nerd references and tributes to geek lore.
In addition to the telltale title riff on Orson Scott Card’s 1985 sci-fi novel Ender’s Game, Star Trek’s George Takei guest stars as himself in the new movie. Multiple homages to Dungeons & Dragons and The Lord of the Rings also can be seen in the preview (above).
Orson Scott Card dishes on the announcement that Marvel Comics have opted the rights to publish both Ender’s Game and Ender’s Shadow; think “story board” for the Ender’s Game movie.
It’s almost impossible to find anything online about the Enderverse Comics; outside of the occasional press release from last year, there hasn’t been anything official out there for us to look at, which makes it difficult to spread the gospel. The DabelBrothers.com site has no info, nor really does Marvel.com; even Hatrack.com (Orson Scott Card’s official site) has little info worth mentioning. We’d love to see a more comprehensive site put together to showcase the work, hear the stories behind the story development and artwork, and perhaps sneak previews into future work. But it’s dead out there, folks. So what’s an Enderverse fan to do?
Well, it’s not much, (and we question it’s copyright usage) but there is a site “across the pond” that features some screenshots of the Gold Bug comic:
http://forum.superpouvoir.com/showthread.php?t=6836
It includes this one, also found on the Marvel.com site:
