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From Archaia, Plunder #1, written by, Swifty Lang with art by Skuds McKinley will set your heart racing, and is a gruesome story sure to send chills down your spine The story follows a gang of Somali pirates who find themselves trapped in the middle of a massacre, after they face off with an illegal[...]

I was lucky enough to have the chance to read an advance copy of Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Volume 3 #1 from Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios For those of you who don't know, creator David Petersen has brought a number of other writers/illustrators onto his team for this volume[...]

The final orders for Archaia and David Petersen's Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard Vol 3 #1 are due on Monday. Archaia state that if orders hit 10,000 by then, a 1:10 cover by Eric Muller will be unlocked. Currently orders are at around 8000. In an attempt to try and goose that number a little, here are the first[...]

From Archaia, an imprint of award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios, comes a new collection of tales from a mix of some very talented creators including: Skottie Young (Rocket Raccoon), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Dustin Nguyen (Descender), Ramón K Pérez (Hawkeye, Jim Henson's Tale of Sand), Becky Cloonan (Gotham Academy), Hannah Christenson (Jim Henson's The Storyteller: The Novelization),[...]

The dark tones often chosen by colorist Joana Lafuente accentuate the tone of the story very effectively, but could do a little more to help differentiate the male characters. Will a book like this expand the base of comics readers? Some will be turned off by the gruesome nature of the killings, from the severed tongue[...]

Coming from Archaia, an imprint of award winning publisher BOOM! Studios, and creative team Josh Tierney, Afu Chan, and Giannis Milonogiannis, issue #1 is spectacular If you're a fan of sci-fi comics, you absolutely must add HaloGen to your pull list! The story is complex, enthralling, and includes some very visually appealing art. It all begins[...]

From Archaia, an imprint of award winning publisher BOOM! Studios, comes a new sci-fi limited series entitled HaloGen The creative team will consist of Josh Tierney (Spera), Afu Chan (Spera), and Giannis Milonogiannis (Prophet, Old City Blues) The story will focus on Rell, an agent working for the HaloGen organization whose task is to find[...]

From BOOM! Studios and Archaia, comes Feathers #2, written and illustrated by Jorge Corona The story picks up where we left off in issue one with main characters Bianca and Poe's first encounter Two unlikely characters come together and react to one another's differences After the initial shock wears off, Bianca is convinced that Poe[...]

Last year, Archaia brought back their single-issue format with their series, Hacktivist Like their hard covers, the Archaia singles caught my attention because of their high production values including card stock covers Hacktivist had a brisk sell out and garnered a fair amount of praise The rest of the year saw Archaia put out series like The Last[...]

Award-winning imprint of BOOM! Studios, Archaia will release a new horror series entitled Plunder This February, writer, Swifty Lang (Feeding Ground) will team up with artist Skuds McKinley to bring us a terrifying thriller The story will focus on a gang of Somali pirates who find themselves trapped in the middle of a massacre, after[...]

I truly enjoyed every moment of this issue, and can't wait to read more of this intriguing new series! I was immediately drawn to Feathers #1 from Archaia, written and illustrated by Jorge Corona, because of the unique art style on the cover I wasn't expecting to dive into such a creative story when I turned[...]

We told you about Joe Corona's new Archaia / BOOM! Studios book Feathers back in October Now the official announcement for the series went out and included the original cover by Corona and the incentive cover by Ken Niimura (I Kill Giants) It also mentions a 10th anniversary cover by Ramon K Perez (The Amazing[...]

Marvel has already announced the Max Ride series adapting the genetically altered avian-ish teenagers of the Maximum Ride novels. And now Archaia are publishing Feathers, a new comic book series by Jorge Corona who has just had his new comic Goners published by Image Though Feathers is a little more all-ages…. A series created as part of his[...]

Do you remember when folks used to put out those videos of comic creators talking about their work back in the eighties and nineties? Well someone else does… Stephen Christy of Archaia has produced Comic Book Artists: The Next Generation, a documentary for AT&T UVerse featuring Stan Lee, Jim Lee, Francis Manapul, Ramon Perez, Kalman Andrasofsky, Marcus To and more. If[...]

As he says… [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/46092926[/vimeo] And now it will be a comic book from Archaia, a twelve issue series, and the first such title since The Secret History in 2007. More details to come, as and when….   Lantern City is not a television show Not yet But Bruce Boxleitner is planning for it to be one[...]

And colour is used as a way to simulate the effects of music and song in a very unmusical medium, creating a whole new visual language. And on Wednesday, Archaia/Boom! are publishing it If you have interest in what comics can do when challenged – as well as some Muppet archaeology – you owe it to[...]

In reality, he was a creative maverick in so many arenas of popular culture that it was surprise to hear that Archaia's Henson line editor Rebecca "Tay" Taylor mentioned that comics was the one of the few mediums that Jim Henson's creativity did not directly touch.  However in 2009, Archaia and The Jim Henson Company[...]

Even Grant Morrison, well known for his habit of trying to copy everything Alan Moore and Warren Ellis do five years too late and pretending that it's somehow special when he does it*, is getting into the Boom! Studios business with some mystery project we'll probably already be sick of talking about by the time[...]

So, it was a wonderful opportunity to attend "The World of Mouse Guard" panel. Hosting the panel was Rebecca "Tay" Taylor, editor at Archaia and BOOM! Studios as well as the man himself, writer and artist David Petersen Taylor and Petersen announced that Mouse Guard is turning 10 next year – Petersen chuckled saying, "it doesn't[...]

This is the Week Of Howard Chaykin... a look through the days comics. Issue by issue, Moon Knight seems to be increasing in popularity, as a new

Last year, Boom! Studios came to San Diego Comic Con after the merger/aquisition/whatever-actually-happened with Archaia, with newly exclusive signed George Pérez in their trophy cabinet. By merging their already-booked booths, Boom! and Archaia has quite a sizeable presence as a result So what for this year and what to announce for a publisher who's local show[...]

Ultimately this led him to Archaia Entertainment where he wrote a back-up story with artist Ben Bishop for 2013's The Reason for Dragons. Also last year Trujillo was featured in Northwest Press' Anything That Loves: Comics Beyond Gay & Straight in a semi-autobiographical comic with artist Dave Valeza This led to appearances and panel appearances at[...]

The FCBD 2014 Mouse Guard 56 page hardcover from Archaia was allocated, as you may have noticed eBay certainly has, its a twelve dollar book. But now, courtesy of Bleeding Cool, you can read the whole thing for free, below, including a new Farscape story that might indicate a whole new future for that project… [...]

Tucked in the back of the Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day volume from Archaia, and without a mention on the cover, was a new Farscape comic written and drawn by Ramon K Perez, who also adapted Jim Henson's Tale Of Sand for Archaia. Currently selling on eBay for $10, could this give it a fillip?     [...]

Joe #0 Marvel Comics: Guardians Of The Galaxy Archaia: Mouse Guard, Labyrinth, and Other Stories DC Comics: The New 52 Future's End #0 A special thank you to Bleeding Cool for supporting our little endeavor, it means the world to us! Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic[...]

Surely we're counting down the days now until Free Comic Book Day? In that case, we have twenty-one days to go… and so many Free Comic Book Day comics to preview. So this is what the Boom/Archaia collective are up to First, for the kiddies… we have the  kaboom Summer Blast 2014 An explosion of All-Ages awesomeness[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors recently informed retailers of the Free Comic Book Day comics they could still add orders to, and of those that had all their numbers filled. But also that one of the books was going to have to be allocated so that each retailer would only receive a certain percentage of their order. And it's[...]

When BOOM! Studios acquired Archaia Entertainment last summer, many wondered how the larger publisher would impact their publishing line One thing that was mentioned in the initial flurry of interviews was a desire to return Archaia to the single-issue format Right now it's looking like that will be a regular part of Archaia's publishing program. Bleeding[...]

I write the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated COW BOY at Archaia, BUDDY COPS at Dark Horse, PIGS at Image, produce kids' TV and edit when I feel like it.  In association with Dynamite Comics, my production company edits and packages the Gold Key line (TUROK: DINOSAUR HUNTER, MAGNUS: ROBOT FIGHTER, SOLAR: MAN OF THE ATOM, DOCTOR[...]

Hacktivist, debuting on January 22nd as a new four-part single-issue miniseries from Archaia, poses some very relevant and at times uncomfortable questions about the nature of information control in the digital age, but it does so through the lens of our own interaction with the world via social media and the developing technology surrounding it[...]