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Alyssa Milano's Hacktivist To Launch In January – In Print
Planned to debut digitally from Archaia, with a graphic novel to follow next summer, the plans for actress/producer Alyssa Milano's comic Hacktivist appear to have changed, after a preview was given away at San Diego Comic Con. Instead, it is coming out as a monthly series from Archaia Black Label/Boom! Studios Written by Milano, Collin Kelly[...]
Curse, A New Comic From Boom. Yes, It's Got Werewolves In It.
Curse is a new comic from Boom! by and all-star team of Michael Moreci, Tim Daniel, Riley Rossmo and Colin Lorimer The first issue ships in January and it is a four issue mini series. Laney Griffith is a man who will do anything to save his son from leukemia, but the cost of treatment has broken him[...]
Thursday Runaround – Dredding New York Comic Con
The event takes place in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium of the main library, 325 Superior Ave., and is free and open to the public. CAR TOONISTS Comics Beat outlines a new kind of Con War, the Boom Vs Valiant Vs Image Vs Dark Horse battle of the cars at NYCC…. COMIC BOOK JANE Thomas Jane and Tim Bradstreet[...]
What Comics Will Be On Sale On Christmas Day? (UPDATE)
As we get a Doctor Who Christmas special on the TV, we get one in comics as well. And for those looking for action figures at the bottom of their stocking, there's a Robotech/Voltron comic. Here are the books: DC: Forever Evil #4 and tie in comic Justice League #26 IDW: Doctor Who Special #1 Image: Saviors #1 Boom: Deceivers #1[...]
Twenty-Three Thoughts About Twenty-Three Comics – It Came, Astonishing X-Men, Black Manta, The Riddler, Mongul, Mister Freeze, The Walking Dead, Adventure Time: Candy Capers, Court Of Owls, Solomon Grundy,  Avengers, Fantastic Four, Harley Quinn, Avengers Arena, Kick Ass 3, Trigon, Sidekick, Killer Frost, Prophet, Manhattan Projects, Indestructible Hulk, Hit List And Robocop
Another look through a bunch of this week's comics! The Carry On team debut in It Came, as official British Army soldiers to provide some much needed
Marketshare Per Comic – A New Way Of Measuring Publisher Performance
From the new August figures; PUBLISHER MARKET SHARES RETAIL MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 33.70% DC COMICS 30.16% IMAGE COMICS 7.86% IDW PUBLISHING 5.70% DARK HORSE COMICS 5.47% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 3.01% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.05% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 1.34% AVATAR PRESS INC 0.95% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 0.94% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.83% UNIT MARKET SHARE PUBLISHER SHARE MARVEL COMICS 36.30% DC COMICS 33.14% IMAGE COMICS 8.51% IDW PUBLISHING 4.98% DARK HORSE COMICS 4.80% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 2.93% BOOM! STUDIOS 2.07% ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC 1.03% VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC 0.97% ASPEN MLT INC 0.65% OTHER NON-TOP 10 So that's the marketshare, divided into Units, the amount of titles sold and[...]
A New Comic From The Adventure Time Crowd. Raptors In Space?
Such as this, for a new… something from Boom! Studios, from Adventure Time comic creators Ryan North, Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb. Raptors In Space or somesuch? Either way, it's probably out in December Most things are now. As Baltimore Comic Con showed, it's about now that publishers are starting to begin to eek out their December[...]
George Perez' She-Devils – An Eight-Strong Superheroine Comic For Boom
Announced at the Goerge Perez Spotlight panel at Baltimore Comic Con today, is the news that Perez' project for Boom! Studios, for whom he had signed an exclusive contract, would be She-Devils Here's some art, exclusively provided to CBR. Eight women, all with super, or paranormal or heightened abilities, in one comic book You can see[...]
The Quoteable Avengefuls
Clearly they thought there were secrets detrimental to the national interest and held them as long as they could, before finally deciding they were just comic books. I've talked about writing the parody comic series for Boom! at length, so I won't bore you now, but I thought I might share the back cover quote with[...]
Boom! Launches Artist Search On Facebook
But now it seems that Boom! Studios wants to take that in-house Kinda. They have launched an Artist Submissions page on Facebook for pencillers, inkers, colourists, letterers… but not writers! It's just for art samples, not for messages, and Boom will reoply to people's contact information if they wish to. However, by doing it so openly, it could[...]
Mad Rupert To Write And Draw Regular Show Spinoff, Skips!
  kaBoom! is publishing a new Regular Show spinoff, Skips, a new four issue limited series by Mad Rupert, with variant cover guests Kel McDonald, Mia Schwartz and Tessa Stone. Debuting in November, here's the bumf, and the rest of the covers… WHY WE LOVE IT: No one is more mysterious in the crazy world of REGULAR SHOW[...]
Titan Comics Get The Doctor Who Licence?
We followed it up with the news that Boom, Arcana and Titan were in the final running for the coveted prize. I understand, as of this morning, that British publisher Titan Comics has successfully won the US license, and will begin publication with stories featuring the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi Doctors next year. Panini currently hold[...]
A Comic Show – Where Are Jeff Lemire's Haters?
Superior FOES is a truly unique book on the Marvel racks, Spenser made me care about Boomerang! And Deadpool Kills Deadpool is so out of touch with reality…Pandapool! Either that excites you or it doesn't I love Panda's, my nickname is Panda Baron! DC didn't disappoint with new writers clicking on three titles[...]
Writer-Owned? Or Creator-Owned?
This was a tweet from Mark Waid, presuming regarding the film 2 Guns, based on a screenplay by Steven Grant, and the 2 Guns comic from Boom! drawn by Mateus Santolouco Mark Waid was, until fairly recently, editor-in-chief of Boom! Studios. Grant declined to comment, but encouraged people to speculate as they wish and invited Waid[...]
Rise Of The Independents – How To Market Books Outside Of The Big Two
Ron Richards was there for Image, Filip Sablik and Stephen Christy were there for Boom/Archaia, and Dirk Wood was there for IDW. The first question asked was whether superheroes made sense for the indy comic book companies Ron gave his personal opinion, not that of Image Comics, and said he thinks Marvel and DC have cornered[...]
Where In The World Is That Doctor Who Comics License? (UPDATE)
At the weekend, Bleeding Cool reported rumours that the US Doctor Who comics licence, to conclude at the end of the year, was likely to go to either Boom! or Titan. We now have a few more notes and another name to go with that. Firstly, I'm told that Titan Comics have proposed buying the UK published[...]
Day Men #1 Sells Out 12,000 Print Run
 Day Men #1 has sold out at the distributor level of its full 12,000 printing after going on sale last week and Boom! are setting up a second printing, cover above. Thanks for the stats folks, here's the plug;   DAY MEN #1 is the first time Brian Stelfreeze has drawn interiors on a regular series since 2005[...]