Artifacts Archives

Titles like Artifacts, Tales of Honor and Artemis IX along with other great Top Cow series like Witchblade, IXth Generation, Aphrodite IX, The Tithe, The Darkness, Postal and Midnight Nation There are of course different tiers where you can get more books depending on what you choose to pay and other books that will be[...]

Walker, artist Bilquis Evely (Dynamite Entertainment) Best Writer: Keef Cross, Day Black Best Artist: Nelson Blake 2, Artifacts (Top Cow) Best Cover: Tristan Roach, Offset – The Man Who Travels With A Piece Of Sugarcane Best Male Character: Bass Reeves, Bass Reeves: Tales of the Talented Tenth – Joel Christian Gill, Writer and Artist Best Female Character: Ajala Storm; Ajala:[...]

With editor Marie Javins preparing comic books in advance for April, so that all the solicited creators match the actual published creators. Man, DC's Gendercrunching is going to look awesome when Tim Hanley gets around to April. Anyway, that leaves Ch-Ch-Changes without its usual go-to creative upheavals to report. So we have to look further afield… The short story by Henry[...]

I believe beads are in order? In the main story of Artifacts #40 by talent hunt Winners Steve Foxe and Adalor Alvarez, we hear word of an old enemy of the Witchblade, as a thief hunts through the Heart of Darkness for the mysterious Artifact Which has an "armless" side effect… Despite his eyes, Bloodshot is clearly[...]

Interesting things going on with Top Cow as we get the 40th and final issue of Artifacts with two stories from talent hunt winners We also get the first issue of a new weekly series called American Legends This is the last weekly series of the year for Top Cow and according to company President/COO[...]

Marc Silvestri writes issue #4 of Rise of the Magi and 2014 talent hunt winners Raven Heisenberg and Gustavo Brocanello tell a tale of The Darkness in Artifacts #39. ARTIFACTS #39 Story: Raven Heisenberg Art / Cover: Gustavo Brocanello 2014 Talent Hunt winning team! The story of the very first Darkness bearer told by Jackie Esacado. [...]

We've got two previews for books coming out this week from Top Cow. Artifacts #38 by Talent Hunt winners Devon Wong and Isaac Goodhart and the weekly series Genius continues with its third issue by Marc Bernardin, Adam Freeman and Afua Richardson. Artifacts #38 2013 Talent Hunt winners DEVON WONG and ISAAC GOODHART bring you the most shocking Darkness and[...]

Thank you, Monster & Madman #3 Artifacts #37 is full of the smart, erudite humor you've all come to expect from Top Cow I'm still trying to work it out. While A Voice in the Dark #7, the conclusion to volume 1 of Larime Taylor's creator-owned epic, gives a genuinely distressing glimpse into the thought process of[...]

A Voice In The Dark #7 from Larime Taylor and Artifacts #37 by Dan Wickline and Rom… yes, I know I'm Dan Wickline but I have to make this look official Both books are on sale this Wednesday. ARTIFACTS #37 by Dan Wickline and Rom When someone uses math to access an ancient and evil power, it's up[...]

The winners will work on upcoming issues of the Top Cow series Artifacts Four unpublished writers and four unpublished artists were chosen Along with the winners there were ten runner-up writers and ten runner-up artists that will be doing short stories for an as yet unannounced anthology annual. At the Top Cow panel at  Wondercon last weekend Matt[...]

Well, I love good art so I figure we'd run all the covers over this weekend in two parts. Here we have Aphrodite IX, Artifacts (I wrote that one), A Voice In The Dark, Cyberforce, The Darkness, Death Vigil and Rise Of The Magi. And tell me that last one isn't cool as hell. [...]

Still, at least they can get a signal…, Bleeding Cool's Dan Wickline writes Artifacts #36, and tries to get around the "if they had a cellphone everything would be fine" problem that so besets modern action adventure offerings. Oh dear Sinister Dexter #5 Gives us a pyschological insight into a disturbed minf[...]

So this Wednesday the latest chapter of Top Cow's comic Artifacts comes out It follows the story of ex-priest Tom Judge who uses one of the 13 artifacts called The Rapture His partner, Tilly is a "numeromancer" or "mathmagician" and it's her talents that lead to former Witchblade bearer/former Angelus Detective Danielle Baptiste calling them[...]

Here we've got a first look at Artifacts #35 by one of Top Cow's 2012 Talent Contest Winners, Hannibal Tabu Art and cover for this issue was done by Nelson Blake II and with later pages by Michael Avon Oeming The book will hit the shelves on Wednesday Feb 26th. Mercenary Michael Finnegan just can't catch a break[...]

It may be additional issues of Artifacts or something else. The last two writing and art winners were featured in Artifacts #34 and #35 currently on sale. The annual Top Cow Talent Search just passed its entry deadline and I got a quick moment to talk with Matt Hawkins writer and CEO/Publisher of Top Cow about the[...]

Two issues of Artifacts also made an honorable mention in China No sign of super-powered, laser blasting females or evil that is forever, though. United States Forever Evil (2013-) #5 (of 7) $3.99 Ms Marvel (2014-) #1 $2.99 Saga #18 $2.99 Earth 2 (2012-) #20 $2.99 New Avengers Vol 3 #14 $3.99 Green Lantern (2011-) #28 $2.99 Wolverine (2014-) #1 $3.99 X-Men Vol 4[...]

I mean they can't last that long, flying around like that… Artifacts #34, written and drawn by Top Cow talent hunt winners Eugene Ward and Martin Gimenez With a very polite psychopath… So. who's better? Men or women? I mean, especially with ears like those, Star Trek #29, they'd come in very handy as a pointy weapon at[...]

There's a bond there. Which is why I'm happy to be the first to share some artwork by Michael Oeming from Tabu's upcoming issue of Artifacts #35 from Image/Top Cow, after Tabu won their Talent Hunt competition in 2012. It's a busy couple of months for Tabu, he also has a story in the new Watson And[...]

And, as usual, China earns the Hipster Award for the week, having eight issues of Artifacts appear on the chart with no sign of zombies, Marvel, or My Little Pony. United States The Walking Dead #119 $2.99 Injustice Year Two #1 $0.99 Avengers World (2014-) #1 $3.99 Earth 2 (2012-) #19 $2.99 X-Men: Days of Future Past $10.99 Detective Comics (2011-) #27[...]

Neat trick, as Jonathan Hickman reverse engineers continuity from his Fantastic Four run into the continuing Infinity/Inhuman/Incursion events. Hawken Melee "Brimstone makes it taste good, like a cigarette should." Artifacts #33, written and drawn by two of Top Cow's 2012 Talent Hunt Winners, Kenny Porter and -ROM- darkness et folly Seriously, the names parents give their kids[...]

Also, get that Steve Pugh linework… But many Parasite could have done with a hand? Certainly women seem to be getting one over the men a little more this week. "I Was Groot!" Shame he lost his head over her. Looks like The Darkness in Artifacts just can't get into a relationship either these days[...]

Two indoor floors and a larger outdoor festival area made up the main convention area, with outdoor tent pavilions for the panels and art workshops and a discreetly hidden beer garden (Dubai is officially a dry city in deference to Islamic traditions but alcohol is widely available through hotel bars). John Rhys-Davies, the irrepressible Max Landis,[...]

And some of them, specifically the ComicsPro variant edition of Artifacts #13 and Witchblade #151 are already on eBay Which is fast But the Bloodshot glasses from Valiant are not yet They're probably still filled by peach schnappes in retailers' hotel rooms…   Retailers at the ComicsPRO meet in Dallas this weekend are getting all sorts[...]

Yesterday, resident Bleeding Cool Topcowologists, looked at the thirteen issue run of the turning-the-Top-Cow-universe-upside-down-and-see-what-scurries-out comic, Artifacts, as the thirteenth issue was published. But there are some observtions reserved solely for that issue And, by the way, this means you do have to have read the final issue before you read on Firstly to avoid spoilers, and[...]

One comic that today's Bleeding Cool moments man didn't mention is Artifacts #13, the final issue in Top Cow's universe defining series We ran an art preview on Monday, but today, we've got our best Topcowologists working on the series, and the moments that may have meant more. There is a minor spoiler of Artifacts #13[...]

Not to worry, because I did get to look at all the Image titles… Now, you know those "Previously On Buffy" one page summaries at the beginning of comic books to help new readers get up to speed? The one in Artifacts #12 just makes me more confused And that's what I missed, on Artifacts. Well this[...]