Most of the news this week has been coming out of San Diego, unfortunately though not all of it has been good. Twitter lit up Saturday night with then news that a fight that broke out after the Resident Evil: Afterlife panel had resulted in one person being stabbed in the face with a pen. The alleged perpetrator was quickly arrested and the victim was transported to UCSD Medical Center. Violence at Comic Con is very unusual. Director of Marketing and Public Relations David Glanzer told Comic Book Resources that he couldn’t remember “anything near to this” happening in the 26 years he has been with the convention.

Non-stabbing related news is under the fold

San Diego has been generating more news than you can shake a long box at. Robot 6 has been posting very good summaries of all the news broken down by day. You can read Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

A few highlights that caught my eye –

Comics

• The 2010 Eisner Award winners have been announced. Winners included:
  Best Single Issue (or One-Shot)
  • Captain America #601: “Red, White, and Blue-Blood,” by Ed Brubaker and Gene Co (Marvel)

  Best Continuing Series

  • The Walking Dead, by Robert Kirkman and Charles Adlard (Image)

  Best New Series

  • Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory (Image)

  Best Humor Publication

  • Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 5: Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, by Bryan Lee O’Malley (Oni Press)

  Best Digital Comic

  • Sin Titulo, by Cameron Stewart

  Best Graphic Album — New

  • Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon)

  Best Graphic Album — Reprint

  • Absolute Justice, by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger and Doug Braithewaite (DC Comics)

  Best Writer

  • Ed Brubaker, Captain America, Daredevil, Marvels Project (Marvel) Criminal, Incognito (Icon)

  Best Writer/Artist

  • David Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp (Pantheon)

  The full list of winners is up at the official CCI Eisners page. We had the opportunity to talk with John Layman at Spokane Comic Con and you can listen to our interview with him in Epsisode #63

MMO

• Sean Dahlberg, Community Manager for SW:TOR confirmed on the official forums that there will be space combat in The Old Republic. This has been suspected since it was announced at E3 that players would be getting their own ships. Space combat will be “an alternative gameplay experience to the primary game” in which you will ” fly your personal ship to various ‘hot spots’ on your galaxy map. From there, you will blast your way through asteroid fields, enemy fighters, frigates, destroyers, and a variety of other obstacles”. TOR is expected to be out sometime next year.

• DC Universe Online now has an official release date of November 2 thanks to an announcement by DC writer Jim Lee. Also revealed at the DCUO panel at Comic Con was a lengthy trailer that starts setting up the story players will find in DC Universe Online. Enjoy!
  

Movies

• The full cast of the Avengers movie is now official, as well as who will be directing. The cast will include Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Samuel L Jackson (Nick Fury), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chris Evans (Captain America), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Mark Ruffalo (Bruce Banner/The Hulk), Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye) and the film will be directed by Joss Whedon. Sandwichjfilms on twitter posted video of all the introductions from the Avengers panel.