by Damon Martin

Most people know Tom Morello as the guitarist from Rage Against the Machine or Audioslave, but now the Harvard graduate is moving into writing, specifically a new comic book called Orchid.

The book, which is written by Morello and features art from Shepard Fairey and Scott Hepburn, will be released by Dark Horse later this year

Influenced by the ladies featured on SuicideGirls.com, Morello’s title character is a strong female lead in a future world where the rich and powerful rule with an iron fist and the powerless are left with the scraps.

Morello, usually known for guitar innovations, has also added a new riff to his comic book set. With each issue, he will release a new track that fans will be able to download that will serve as the soundtrack to the story.

The book was unveiled last weekend at San Diego Comic Con where Morello sat down with SuicideGirls.com to give an insight into his passion for comics and what to expect when Orchid debuts.

by Alex Dueben

Ron Marz has been a comic book writer for many years, with a long list of credits at Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Top Cow and just about every other comics company there is. His career has notably included a long run on Green Lantern.

In recent years some of his best work has been for Top Cow, where he’s been writing the company’s flagship comic Witchblade. He transformed the tile from a comic that was known in its early years for T&A into a complex superhero fantasy story that has led to Marz writing a series of miniseries (First Born and Artifacts) and ongoing series (Magdalena) for the company.

Marz is leaving the series with issue #150, and is busy writing a Green Lantern one shot and the Voodoo series coming from DC this fall. His big project this summer though is Shinku, a bloody horror story set in Japan that involves samurai and vampires, and is just as cool as it sounds.

Read our exclusive interview with Ron Marz on SuicideGirls.com.

by Blogbot

Continuing our tradition of cosplay at Comic Con, this year SuicideGirls rocked outfits inspired by a ‘historical’ character from Issue 2 of the new SG Comic (see top left) as drawn by Cameron Stewart (he and Missy came by the booth and signed copies of the comic for fans – see pic top right). The costumes, which were whipped up by Junker Designs, were such a hit the ladies of booth 1632 even made the cover of Entertainment Weekly’s Comic Con photo gallery!

Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi! We hope you had as much fun as we did.

XOX

For more images check out our SG at SDCC photo gallery.
(Images courtesy of Ackley, Bob, Callioppe, Chris Gore, Drama, Exning, KingMuerte, Lolana, Milloux, Radeo, Rambo, Rlei, Seena, Tank, and Tita.)

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by Aaron Colter

The bulk of this blog post isn’t about San Diego Comic-Con, I’m just using it as an excuse to get you to click on the title. And it worked. Fooled you, motherfuckers! You might as well stick around though, I mean, you did already click on the title, and you are already reading this sentence. The next one’s pretty good, you should read it too.

Comic-Con can actually be a lot of fun, but it’s expensive as hell and crowded as five pounds of shit in a four pound bag. If conventions are your type of party, there are smaller conventions around the country that are legitimately well-attended, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet with other fans and actually speak to creators about their work. If, however, you’re looking to blow a few thousand dollars, and can get a decent group of your friends to do the same, plan a year in advance, and set aside hundreds in cash for stuff on the show floor, then yes, San Diego Comic-Con is fucking awesome. If attending, my top three picks for things to get at SDCC are Mr. Hipp Strikes!, Any Empire by Nate Powell, and the 2011 Color Ink Book.

But, if you’re like me, and don’t really want to deal with all of that noise this year, next, or ever, unless absolutely necessary, then here’s some cool stuff that you can do this weekend that will still be pretty fun.

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by Blogbot

A column which highlights Suicide Girls and their fave groups.

This week, Zephyr Suicide takes us on a tour of a group that’s bigger on the inside than it is on the outside; it travels through space and time in a TARDIS and is called Doctor Who.

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• WHY DO YOU LOVE IT?: Doctor Who is just a fun show. I’ve been watching it for years, and got started on some of the older episodes from the 1960s. It’s got aliens, time travel, paradoxes, and robots — what more could a girl want?


• DISCUSSION TIP: Don’t say it’s a kids program!
• BEST RANDOM QUOTE: “Should I be worried that I find girls with plastic cups on their heads holding sink plungers and egg whisks mildly attractive?”

• MOST HEATED DISCUSSION THREAD: Pretty much any of the episode / theory threads. No one gets angry, but it gets pretty serious in there.
• WHO’S WELCOME TO JOIN?: Anyone! It certainly would help if you watched the show though — it could get confusing otherwise. 



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by A.J. Focht

Muggles made Hollywood magic last weekend as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 took the weekend box office, and made box office history. Deathly Hallows had the largest midnight release ever, with $43.5 million earned that night, shattering The Twilight Saga: Eclipse‘s previous record of $30 million. Sparkly vampires suffered further at the hands of the wizarding world as Deathly Hallows also broke The Twilight Saga: New Moon‘s opening day record, raking in $92.1 million in the US. It doesn’t stop there; Harry Potter nabbed the opening weekend record from The Dark Knight with $168 million. The entire world showed its approval as it collectively shelled out $475.5 million to see the Harry Potter series – putting it one-sixth of the way to James Cameron’s Avatar lifetime gross record in just one weekend!

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by Blogbot

If you’re attending SDCC be sure to stop by our booth (#1632) to say hi.

We’ll have issues 1-3 of the new SuicideGirls Comic for sale, as well as copies of our book, Beauty Redefined, DVDs, and T-shirts.

Girls on hand for photos and autographs will include: Radeo, Rambo, Tita, Bob, Ackley, Milloux, Lolana, and Rlei.

The ladies will be indulging in a little cosplay – maybe even as a special character from the SuicideGirls Comic!

See you at SDCC
XOX

Ps. SuicideGirls Comic artist Cameron Stewart will be hanging out at our booth on Saturday between 12 and 1 PM.

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