Wondercon 2010 Highlights

Wondercon took place on the 2-4 Of April at Moscone Center South, San Francisco, CA. Here are some of the highlights.

WonderCon 2010: IDW Announces 'True Blood' Comic Book

Today at WonderCon 2010 in San Francisco, IDW surprised the multitude of fans assembled by announcing it will soon publish the first True Blood comic book. Details after the jump.

True Blood issue 1, the first of a six-issue comic series (each issue 32 pages priced at $3.99), will debut in July at the San Diego Comic-Con. "We are working very closely with Alan Ball and all the other writers at HBO," IDW's AnnaMaria White told me, "to make it a seamless integration into the True Blood world. It's not gonna be adaptations of the scripts. It's gonna be additional stories in that world."

The comic's story was developed with Ball, along with series writers Elisabeth Finch and Kate Barnow. It's co-written by David Tischman and Mariah Huehner, with interior and cover art by David Messina. Fan-favorite artist J. Scott Campbell (no stranger to portraying the same kind of sexy that's made True Blood famous) will provide variant covers for each issue.

According to the publisher's official press release, the first story arc will find Sookie Stackhouse and friends "waiting in Merlotte's bar for a strangely portentous raging storm to subside. Soon, they discover they've been trapped by an entity that feeds off of raw emotions and begins killing off the patrons one by one until his hunger is sated."

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Wondercon 2010: Dark Horse Confirms ‘Buffy: Season Nine’ Comic

Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans worried what they'll do when Joss Whedon wraps up Season Eight – the hit Dark Horse comic series continuation of the late TV show – can breathe a sigh of relief. Today at WonderCon, the publisher confirmed that there will be indeed be a Season Nine, which will debut six months after Season Eight concludes. More details after the jump.

Previously, Dark Horse had announced it hoped to do a Season Nine, but now the publisher explained that not only will it definitely happen, but, unlike that of Season Eight, its story won't take three years to tell.

"We're going to be taking a shorter approach to it," Dark Horse's Jeremy Atkins told me, "With Season Eight, we didn't know how long it was gonna take to tell the story Joss wanted to tell. But we think that for this next time around it's gonna be a little tighter, a little more concise."

Dark Horse has not yet announced any writers, but their intent is to have popular Season Eight artist Georges Jeanty continue as the principal illustrator of Season Nine.

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Richard Hatch, best known for his role as Captain Apollo on the original "Battlestar Galactica" television series, is victorious in a thumb-wrestling match with a fan Friday afternoon at WonderCon.

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