Josh Grelle (left) & Matthew Mercer (right)
To continue the recap of Game&Comic’s Anime Boston 2014 panel interviews, next up are some words from Josh Grelle and Matthew Mercer. Josh Grelle is most known for his work as Armin (Attack on Titan), Kuranosuke (Princess Jellyfish), and Kyohei (Wallflower) and Matthew Mercer is most known for his work as Levi (Attack on Titan), Tygra (Thundercats), and Leon Kennedy (Resident Evil video game).
Mike McFarland
We had the absolute pleasure of meeting Mike McFarland at Anime Boston 2014! McFarland is most known for his work on Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, One Piece, and his current work as Director and voice of Jean Kirstein in Attack on Titan.
Keep reading to learn more about the McFarlands work as both director and voice actor:
A colossal Attack on Titan announcement was made this weekend at Anime Boston 2014. FUNimation released the world premiere of the Attack on Titan English dub. The first 3 episodes were shown on Saturday accompanied by a panel including Mike McFarland (Director, Jean) , Josh Grelle (Armin), Matthew Mercer (Levi), and Trina Nishimura (Mikasa). An encore 5-episode marathon was then shown on Sunday.
Mixing the success of the past and the promises for the future, Marvel is celebrating their 75th anniversary with an interactive website spotlighting audio, picture galleries and more to revisit the histories of their beloved comics.
Marvel is launching the new site in April with interactive timelines and interviews with the greats such as Stan Lee and Roy Thomas along with Dan Slott, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Brian Michael Bendis and many more.
One of the longest beloved characters in the Marvel Universe, the legendary Wolverine, will soon be knocking on Death’s doorstep. Marvel recently released the above teaser indicating that Wolverine will be meeting his demise in the current Wolverine series:
Another comic book legend will soon appear on the small screen with the NBC series starring the once-con-man-now-detective character, John Constantine. Matt Ryan, known by Doctor Who fans in BBC’s “Torchwood” for his works in Showtime’s “The Tudors”, was recently released as the DC Comics‘ character John Constantine in new character photo below.
Constantine (source)
Hopefully not many readers will think of that Keanu Reeves 2005 flop Constantine, but rather the cunningly snarky antihero first introduced in the 1985 series the “Swamp Thing”. From 1988 to 2013, Constantine made his way as a lead character in “Hellblazer” and finally his own character series “Constantine,” where he fights to protect Earth against dark forces.
Dark Horse Comics
Starting Point Logo
In the past few years, we have seen the launch of the DC New 52, the relaunch with Marvel NOW!, and countless new series released by Image. Starting in June, Dark Horse Comics will be joining the ranks with their version, Starting Points:
Beginning today, Star Wars content will be available for the first time ever to Netflix customers in the U.S. and Canada. The entire Star Wars: The Clone Wars saga will be available for streaming including director’s cut episodes and the feature film. A sixth season titled The Lost Missions, will also debut featuring thirteen new episodes.
Award winning games developer, Telltale Games, recently released the second installment, “A House Divided”, of its second season of The Walking Dead Game this Tuesday, March 4th. This episode contains almost all that you could want as a Walking Dead fan, explosive action, scintillating dialogue, gut-wrenching suspense and guess what you get to control how each facet of the episode plays out.
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