It wasn't that long ago that Lorelei Bunjes, lifelong comic book fan and Vice President Technology & Information Services at IDW Publishing oversaw the Doctor Who line at IDW when I wrote the Tenth Doctor story, Room With A Deja View. Bunjes began as a director of IDW in 2008, was promoted to Vice President […]
We have the full IDW Publishing January 2021 solicitations. As GI Joe gets a Yearbook reprint, Captain Marvel gets a Marvel Action series – and a Marvel Action Origin too, and John Romita gets a more affordable Artisan Edition – and a Smithsonian Birds Colouring Book! JOHN ROMITA AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ARTISAN ED IDW PUBLISHING NOV200362 […]
Last week, IDW told folk that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #1 comic book, written by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird and scheduled for publication on the 28th of October, had received 130,000 pre-orders from comic book retailers, but that they were going to a second printing already, and that they were providing retailers […]
There are comic book series almost every comic fan knows, there are comic book characters that most everyone knows, there are specific comic books most every comic reader knows, and then there are the more obscure issues that slip through the cracks. What makes obscure comics so interesting and vital is discovering those books that […]
Diamond Comics has issued the following missive to retailers explaining why they won't be getting quite as many copies of TMNT: The Last Ronin, the new Turtles comic book writer by Turtles creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Regarding TMNT: The Last Ronin #1, IDW unfortunately set print quantities in advance of FOC due to considerations […]
Black and white horror comics are getting no love this year. The Walking Dead is being republished in color, and now yet another classic horror graphic novel is getting the full-color treatment. It's like that meme with a couple passing a girl, and the boyfriend (COMICS INDUSTRY written over him in Impact font) is gawking at […]
IDW Publishing has announced a new bit of Transformers nostalgia-bait coming in 2021. Back in 1996, the Transformers: Beast Wars series captured the hearts of fans with computer-generated animation, and IDW intends to pay homage to that landmark series for its 25th anniversary. Erik Burnham, longtime Ghostbusters writer for IDW, will join with mainstay Transformers artist Josh Burcham for a […]
As part of the Locke & Key/Sandman crossover panel as part of the NYCC/MCM/Metaverse online event with Locke & Key creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, and series editor Chris Ryall. And we got some merchandise news… following up on the many key recreations that have been available to buy from the Locke & Key […]
Diamond Comic Distributors has informed comic book retailers that the Walter Simonson's The Mighty Thor Artisan Edition trade paperback edition, published back in June contains "multiple misprints resulting in several cut-off pages". However, they also note that the book will not be reprinted. Here's a look at some of the pages in question. Consider it […]
Mammoth Comics is a small comic book store in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Who appear to have a little monster of a problem themselves. Artist Jon Mastajwood created retailer exclusive cover for the launch of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin #1, completed two weeks before the cover deadline. However, when […]
Peach Momoko is a comic book creator and cover artist who began exhibiting at US comic conventions back in 2014. She drew a couple of stories picked up by Grant Morrison when he was EIC of Heavy Metal Magazine and has since become the hottest cover art variant creator in the business. In October, that means lots of covers […]
A Goosebumps comic in 2020 is likely to attract two very different audiences. Obviously, kids have always loved Goosebumps, and it will be no different with this title. The other audience this comic would thrill is that of comic book lovers who grew up on R. L. Stine's Goosebumps novellas, as this new comic series, Goosebumps: Secrets of the Swamp […]
IDW yesterday announced that Jeff Brustrom, Daniel Kendrick and Erika Turner have been picked to build a new initiative within the publisher's Kids, Family and YA division. Brustrom joins IDW Entertainment as the newly appointed Vice President of Kids, Family and Animation where he will oversee the development and production of a growing slate of […]
Rob Liefeld, more than any comics artist, has ever belonged to an era, is the living embodiment of what people think of as 90s comic art, and he embraces that with confidence and glee in his heart. You can see it when he speaks in interviews. The man loves what he does and seems to […]
Lanna Souvanny is a French artist living in Vancouver, Canada. Last year, she co-created the comic Noah Zark with Mark Waid, which appeared in the Steel Cage comic book published by Ahoy Comics, and is currently working on the ongoing series spinning out of that. However at the end of the year, she may be […]
One of the true powers of Megatron, one of the real reasons why he is a threat, has barely been explored. Much hay has been made about Megatron, the warrior, Megatron, the warlord, his brutality, and his raw power. The true power of Megatron, however, does not exist in his fusion cannon, but in his […]
Greg Rucka has written many a Star Wars comic book for Marvel Comics. But he has written novels too, including a 2015 junior novel Smuggler's Run: A Han Solo & Chewbacca Adventure. This was then adapted into a comic book mini-series published in German by Panini, written by Alec Worley and drawn by Ingo Römling. […]
With a look in at the War of the Threefold Spark, the powerful warrior Ultra Magnus once shared the battlefield with Megatron as they fought for the planet against prodigals corrupted by some influence from beyond the stars. This shows how he evolved from a reluctant leader of soldiers into a virtual legend through combat […]
Every week your Local Comic Book Shop, hopefully, gets in a weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond. Now some of these goodies sell out fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more. […]
IDW's new Transformers comic book, Transformers: Escape will tell a "world war" story through the eyes of rescuers and refugees, set on the planet Cybertron. Written by Brian Ruckley, architect of IDW's Transformers continuity since 2019, and illustrated by Bethany McGuire-Smith, Transformers: Escape is a five-issue monthly series slated for release beginning in December. As Cybertron […]
