COMICS NEWS: LEPRECHAUN, DC COMICS & STAR TREK

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LEPRECHAUN #1 – FREE ONLINE COMIC

Leprechaun fans will definately need to check this out.  The publisher, Bluewater Productions was cool enough to give ComicMonsters.com a complete issuse of Leprechaun #1 for online viewing.

From the cult film from Lionsgate. This is the tale of Lubdan, the king and sole survivor of theLeprechaun. The last of the Leprechauns! Atreasure dealer stumbles across his pot of gold and steals it. In this modern age, he finds buyers all over the planet through on-line auctions.

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Source: nytimes

JIM LEE, GEOFF JOHNS AND DAN DIDIO TO LEAD AT DC COMICS

Meanwhile, back at the Hall of Justice: DC Comics, the longtime home of Batman and Superman, gained a new executive team on Thursday, one that places some of the comics publisher’s best-known creative talents in crucial positions.

DC Entertainment, a division of Warner Brothers Entertainment, said it had named Jim Lee and Dan DiDio to serve as co-publishers of its imprint DC Comics.

Mr. Lee is a popular artist who got his start at DC’s rival, Marvel Comics, before illustrating DC series like “Batman: Hush” and running the company’s WildStorm Studios.

Mr. DiDio has been DC’s executive editor since 2002 and helped introduce best-selling projects like “Identity Crisis.”

They will be joined in the boardroom by Geoff Johns, the writer of comics like “Infinite Crisis” and “Blackest Night,” who was appointed the chief creative officer of DC Entertainment.

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Source: io9

NEW ABRAMS TREK COMIC REVEALS DELETED SCENES

Last year’s Star Trek movie is coming to comics, complete with deleted scenes as well as brand-new material from writers Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Tim Jones and Mike Johnson. Click through for an exclusive preview of the first issue.

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