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All Four Artists For Russia's Bubble Comics Launches In January Are Women

It appears to be Russian day today on Bleeding Cool. Not only do we have the new trailer for Guardians, not only are we still responding to those supposed leaks, but we also a first look at Bubble Comics new lineup for January.

Four new superhero titles have been added to the lineupAllies, Igor Grom, Demonslayer and Realmwalkers.

And of the four writer-artist teams, all four have female artists and one has an all-female team. It's the kind of artistic credit spread that would rock the Bleeding Cool Gendercrunching numbers. But in Russia… it's just the norm.

And to show that Bubble Comics isn't just about the women, and they are willing to employ token male artists as well, Mateus Santolouco of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dial H has drawn variant connecting covers for all four first issues of their new titles. Together these four images coloured by Marcelo Costa and Mateus Santolouco form one epic picture showing all the main characters from Bubble Comics – the comic

Here are the four new titles.

Allies

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Genre: spy drama
Writer: Natalia Devova
Artist: Alina Erofeeva
Colorist: Victoria Vinogradova
First issue cover: Yulia Shevtsova
Variant cover: Mateus Santolouco and Marcelo Costa
Nika Chaikina was the best in her field: a master thief that became a secret agent, she has completed many successful missions around the world and saved the planet from the forces of evil multiple times.
But in the end the evil won.
Nika had lost everything she fought for… She will never get her old life back but she must move forward. Now she has to gain back her strength, overcome the pain, defeat her inner demons – and begin the new war. Because the evil keeps growing: a powerful corporation wants to control all the people with superpowers and establish the new world order.
After surviving a personal tragedy Nika can help people that gained superpowers to cope with changes in their lives – and avenge herself. But first she needs to put together a team. She is going to need allies…

Demonslayer

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Genre: action horror
Writer: Alex Hatchett
Artist: Anastasia Kim
Colorist: Lada Akishina
First issue cover: Natalia Zaidova
Variant cover: Mateus Santolouco and Marcelo Costa
Hell came to Earth!
Vicious Antichrist has united all the legions of Hell under his banner, and now our world faces great danger! But the mankind is under the protection of Demonslayer – perhaps the greatest hero in its history.
After taking on a mission of saving the planet, Demonslayer gathered a team of like-minded individuals that help him fight forces of evil! Little imp from Hell called Sneak, the shaman Black Hound, the witch Queen of the Rot, the homeless girl Yana and the living nightmare Balor that lives inside her mind – this magical squad doesn't look like your typical heroes but they are the last hope of the Earth in the face of the demon invasion!

Igor Grom

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Genre: detective thriller
Writer: Alexey Zamskiy
Artist: Natalia Zaidova
Colorist: Maria Vasilieva
First issue cover: Ilya Kuvshinov
Variant cover: Mateus Santolouco and Marcelo Costa
Major Igor Grom was the best policeman of Saint Petersburg… until the war on crime didn't break him completely. Grom had lost a woman he loved, his friends and colleagues – and, worst of all, he lost himself…
But Igor isn't giving up. He pulls himself together and gets back to what he joined the police for – helping people and saving Saint Petersburg. And even after falling to the very bottom he is going to open his city from new, unpredictable sides and see right into its dark soul. Maybe that's where he will find the answers he's looking for.

Realmwalkers

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Genre: fantasy adventure
Writers: Roman Kotkov and Evgeniy Fedotov
Artist: Anna Rud
Colorist: Anastasia Troitskaya
First issue cover: Ivan Elyasov
Variant cover: Mateus Santolouco and Marcelo Costa
We've got two kinds of news: a fantastic one and an even more fantastic one.
First of all, our Earth is just a part of the Collar of Worlds that consists of many parallel worlds. And, second of all, the gods that you read about in myths and legends actually exist. And any world that they visit will be destroyed in an apocalypse!
But don't worry: there are heroes that will not let that happen. The universe is protected by the Realmwalkers – the mighty warrior of the ancient lineage Andrey Radov and his wife Kseniya that can control plants and their friend – the former Ivan Tsarevich who transformed into the Grey Wolf. Whenever one of the Earths gets a divine intervention, our trio immediately races to help! And their coordinators in this journey are the deathless ruler of Eden Koschei and Vasilisa the Wisest that observe the Collar from the edge of the Universe.
Each new world is unlike the previous, each new monster is more dangerous – but the Realmwalkers are no weaklings either. They have magical abilities and incredible weapons – but the most important thing they have is themselves. Together this team can defeat any enemy and save all the worlds from annihilation… if they don't get tired of each other first…

Here's how the four variant covers slot together… and Mateus Santolouco at New York Comic Con!


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Find more about the publisher here, check their ComiXology page here, watch the movie trailer to Major Grom below.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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