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JENNA JAMESON TO STAR IN NEW
VIRGIN COMICS SERIES

The Web’s Most Downloaded Woman Creates “Shadow Hunter” Comic for Virgin’s Celebrity “Voices” Line

SAN DIEGO COMIC CON—July 25th, 2007— World-famous entrepreneur, adult entertainment icon and New York Times best-selling author Jenna Jameson is creating and staring in her own series of comic books, it was announced today by Virgin Comics CEO, Sharad Devarajan, at Comic-Con, the industry’s annual super-festival in San Diego. The series, titled Shadow Hunter, debuts in comic shops and online comic retailers in December. The complete 144 page Shadow Hunter book will be available in June 2008 at all major book sellers. A new site, JennaComix.com will host additional information, previews and pre-orders of the comic art and books.

Shadow Hunter is the story of a provocative superheroine who survives a brush with death only to find herself fighting the legions of hell for her very soul. Cover art for the first issue has been created by Greg Horn, a top illustrator of comic books and video games. The story, while provocative and sexy, contains no nudity and is intended for a mainstream audience.

“Jenna Jameson is a cultural force,” said Virgin Comics CEO Sharad Devarajan. “She is an entrepreneur who is taking the taboo to the mainstream and has built an industry around her brand.”

“I’m thrilled to be collaborating with Virgin to bring this story to life, first as comics and eventually in film and other formats,” said Jenna Jameson. “Working with comics is creatively liberating – everything is possible. My character is sultry, sexy and kicks ass!’

“Jenna brings a defiance and edge to everything she does, said Gotham Chopra, Chief Creative Officer of Virgin Comics. “She’s a provocateur and there’s no doubt that our creative team at Virgin is going to have a blast collaborating with her. I can assure you every artist we have in our studio is vying to get assigned to this project!”

San Diego Comic-Con is preparing for record crowds when Jenna makes her very first appearance at this event that attracts more than 100,000 fans. Jenna will be speaking about Shadow Hunter and signing autographs for fans on Saturday afternoon, July 28 at 4:30 PM. Images from the series will be available from the Virgin Comics booth at the San Diego Convention Center.

About Virgin Comics
Virgin Comics LLC is a character entertainment company creating original stories and epic myths for worldwide audiences. The company was founded in November 2005 by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Enterprises Ltd., alongside entrepreneurs, Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman. Among Virgin Comic’s titles are the breakthrough new comics and graphic novels: Devi, Ramayan 3392 AD, Seven Brothers, and Voodoo Child. www.VirginComics.com

Trying to get in the door

Jabba!

Phil Yeh with his spanking new book

Phil’s book

Ain’t it cool?

Super Mario!

They stopped aisle traffic

I think I see Danny Antonucci

More later,

Gina

Lionsgate closed out the Hall H programming for Thursday with stars on hand for the crowd. Fantastic Four star Jessica Alba was out to promote her new R-rated comedy Good Luck Chuck with co-star Dane Cook. The premise of the film is that Cook plays a guy who when he sleep with a woman she breaks up with him and then finds their soul mate. When he meets Alba’s character, he tries to resist her to see if she’s the one for him.

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As the Project Management Coordinator for AWN, I spent Thursday back in LA working on business for some more exciting stuff that will come your way soon.  Finally at 8pm, I found myself on a late train to join in on the action.  Settled into my hotel room shortly before midnight.

 As I’ve said in my own blog, this is Gina Ruiz and Rick DeMott’s deal and you’ll be getting most of the coverage from them.  But it also didn’t make sense for me to blog in my own one and compete with this, so I thank them for letting me be a small part.  If I run across interesting things to share that they don’t, I’ll chime in along the way.  My main love is programming (I always feel you can never stop learning and improving), so I’ll try to give a flavor for some of the panels I see, for those of you who have never been to Con.  And also, as mentioned before, there’s my own panel Saturday night.

 Now I’m going to turn it back to your main blogging crew.  I’m looking forward to what they have to say next! 

 Until tomorrow (or rather, later today),

Shannon

Casting Announcements Come to Hall H

Comic-Con has never opened the 6,500 seat Hall H venue on Thursday before this year. Paramount took the gamble on going first and it paid off. Crowds are larger for Thursday than any other year before. Friday and Saturday are already sold out. Paramount’s panel is one of the premiere panels of the entire event, including looks at Iron Man, Star Trek, Indiana Jones 4, Stardust, Beowulf, The Spiderwick Chronicles, Hot Rod and Drillbit Taylor.

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San Diego Comic-con 2007 started with an early morning train ride for AWN’s Managing Editor Rick DeMott and myself. We met at Union Station a little before 6:00 a.m. lugging our laptops, luggage, schedules, floor maps, phones and cameras.

Rick loves the train!

The ocean is the last calm thing we see

Two hours later we were in San Diego and gawking in amazement at just how much the Con has grown in one short year. I couldn’t believe that it was only Day 1. At 9:00 a.m. the streets were completely packed. Thousands of people packed the blocks of the Gaslamp District. Everywhere we could see was a sea of people. We weren’t the only ones amazed at the volume. News crews and the general public were all commenting on the crowd.

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News from Dark Horse Comics:

Lucasfilm’s celebrated action/adventure hero, Indiana Jones, the forerunner of popular characters such as Lara Croft, will be making a triumphant return in 2008 with the yet-to-be-titled fourth installment of the Indiana Jones film series. Starring Harrison Ford and directed by Steven Spielberg, the film is slated for release in May 2008. Dark Horse Comics is excited to announce that it has acquired the comic book rights to the world’s most famous adventurer and will launch a new series in 2008. Fans can plunge themselves into the adventures of the fedora-wearing archaeologist well before then. In February 2008, Dark Horse Comics will publish the first of two Indiana Jones Omnibuses collecting Dark Horse’s previous entries in the saga. Then April sees the release of volume one of Indiana Jones Adventures—a digest-sized graphic novel designed for the enjoyment of young readers as well as adults. The Indiana Jones Adventures volumes and the Omnibuses will continue on a quarterly basis—including Omnibuses for the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and the original Marvel run of Indiana Jones comics.
A comics adaptation of the film will be released simultaneously with the motion picture, followed immediately by an all-new Indiana Jones comics series.

The magazines that gave a whole generation the shivers are back. Creepy and Eerie were the definitive horror and sci-fi comics of the 1960s and flourished up until the early 1980s. Dark Horse Comics has entered into an agreement with New Comic Company to create archive editions of this classic material, as well as launch new Creepy and Eerie comics for modern horror fans. The licensing deal will encompass publishing, select film and TV development, and merchandising. Many of today’s brightest stars will lend their talents to the venture, including horror legend Bernie Wrightson (City of Others) and modern master Steve Niles (30 Days of Night, Criminal Macabre).

Creepy is best remembered for its classic horror and was hosted by Uncle Creepy, while Eerie often ventured into science fiction and featured Cousin Eerie as its host. The rest of the gang includes Hunter, Child, El Cid, Marvin the Dead Thing, and the newly developed Creepy Family. The magazines, originally published by Jim Warren are remembered as presenting some of the era’s greatest genre comics work.

“Both Creepy and Eerie are fondly remembered by comics fans as representing the best of science fiction and horror, and Dark Horse is proud and excited to relaunch these classic titles,” said Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson.

“Mike Richardson and Dark Horse have an impressive and deep understanding of what it will take to help us correctly re-launch Creepy and Eerie. It’s a great fit for our brands,” said New Comic executive and Submarine Entertainment Co-President Dan Braun, who negotiated the deal in cooperation with CAA—who represents both New Comic and Dark Horse. Deals in TV and Film are expected to be announced shortly.

New Comic Company acquired all rights in all media to the Creepy and Eerie comic book series earlier this year and was formed by New York based Submarine Entertainment and Los Angeles based Grand Canal Film Works.

New efforts are expected to debut this fall with the classic tales being prepared for the hardcover Dark Horse Archive series.

New Comic and Grand Canal Film Works executive Craig Haffner added, “The depth of this library across the horror, sci-fi, and fantasy genres makes it truly tantalizing for a multitude of different platforms. Our association with Dark Horse will take us one step closer to realizing our goal of returning the Creepy and Eerie brands to their former stature and beyond.”

Dark Horse has set a tentative release date for the comics in early 2008.