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Preview: Steed & Mrs Peel #2
Here's a quick look at Steed & Mrs Peel #2, shipping this week from Boom! By Mark Waid, Steve Bryant and Mike Perkins. The new Hellfire Club is determined to bring their version of 'the future' to Britain – no matter the damage done to the crown The club has marked for destruction landmarks throughout London,[...]
Bravest Warriors #1 Sells Out Before Release, Here's The Second Print Cover
Wednesday sees the release of Bravest Warriors #1 from Boom!, the new comic based on Adventure Time's Pendleton Ward's TV show The book has a 17,000 print run, but has sold out days before release from Diamond Comic Distributors So Boom! are rushing out a second print, with the Pendleton Ward cover you see here,[...]
Avatar, Boom, Dynamite And Valiant Solicitations For January 2013
Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and Valiant busting to get into the front of Previews… well let's give them a little tickle by binding them fast together… Avatar Press DAN THE UNHARMABLE VOL 1 TPB Retail Price: $19.99 US Cover & Art: Rafael Ortiz Writers: David Lapham MR, Color, 160 pages Whether you're looking for a detective, hired muscle, a blackmailer, or bedroom entertainment[...]
A Mexican Home For Transformers, GI Joe, Walking Dead And Spawn Comics
Here's how it is being divvied up. The Mexican printing company has won the license to publish Spanish language versions of Boom! books by Mark Waid Irredeemable, Incorruptible and The Traveler It also has the rights to the GI JOE ongoing series and spinoffs A Real American Hero, Origins and Cobra, as well as Transformers series[...]
Preview: Mark Waid, Caleb Monroe And Will Sliney's Steed And Mrs Peel #1
Here's a brief look at Boom's new Steed And Mrs Peel #1, out next week. It is a shame they can't just call it The Avengers Ah well.   [issuu width=420 height=323 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120921165344-8237882489ea447988c348e371ab7e9b name=steedandpeel_01_preview username=richjohnston tag=bleedingcool unit=px v=2] Here's a brief look at Boom's new Steed And Mrs Peel #1, out next week. It is a shame they[...]
Boom!'s Deathmatch To Pit Fan Against Fan
From Boom in December, CBR reports a new comic by Paul Jenkins and Magno They report; DEATHMATCH #1 Writer Paul Jenkins Artist Carlos Magno Cover Whilce Portacio THE SUPERHERO BATTLE ROYALE YOU CAN'T GET FROM MARVEL OR DC! A powerful and mysterious supervillain has imprisoned the world's greatest superheroes, forcing them to fight to the death until there is[...]
Adventure Time Covers In December… Including Paul Pope!
But, it seems, Boom! is also publishing an Adventure Time comic in December And here are the four covers and their artists, : A: Chris Houghton, B: Tom Waga C: Logan Faerber and D: Paul Pope Adventure THB! Oh and here is the solicit for the issue in question. BRAND NEW ARC! PERFECT JUMPING ON POINT FOR[...]
Brokeback 2 Guns With James Marsden
It was modestly popular. The other night, James Marsden talking about his latest comics adaptation, 2 Guns based on the Steven Grant/Mateus Santolouco Boom comic The mashup may have affected him more than I thought. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqRnhOJv0OY[/youtube] James Marsden: I'm going pick you up, I'd going throw you over the table, I'm going to bend you over, I'm going[...]
Death From Paul Jenkins And Carlos Magno
From the BOOM! panel on Saturday at the Baltimore Comic Con… Filip Sablik ended the panel with these two screens, then wouldn't comment further Paul Jenkins Carlos Magno Death… From the BOOM! panel on Saturday at the Baltimore Comic Con… Filip Sablik ended the panel with these two screens, then wouldn't comment further[...]
Review: Planet Of The Apes 1
Mark Robert Bourne writes for Bleeding Cool; Credits: Writer: Corinna Bechko & Gabriel Hardman Artist: Damian Couceiro Colorist: Darrin Moore Letterer: Ed Dukeshire Editor: Dafna Pleban Covers: Gabriel Hardman Alex Ross Phil Noto Joe Quinones So, BOOM! Studios has been publishing a number of mini-series based on the original Planet of the Apes film and "Cataclysm" is the new ongoing by the writing team of Corinna[...]
Review: Higher Earth #4
Mark Robert Bourne writes for Bleeding Cool; Credits: Sam Humphries – Writer Francesco Biagini – Artist Andrew Crossley – Colorist Ed Dukeshire – Letters Dafna Pleban – Editor Frazer Irving – Covers Phil Noto Michael Golden Garry Brown To me, Higher Earth, published by Boom Studios, is a fusion of ideas used in many Sci-Fi based European graphic novels such as The Incal, Metabarons and in[...]
Preview: Hypernaturals #3
The Hypernaturals. Abnett and Lanning. Issue Three. Cosmic superhero stuff. Like what the a legion just couldn't do. That is all...
Marceline & The Scream Queens Get A New Baltimore #1 Variant
Yes, I'll run this blatant PR piece showing off the Baltimore Comic Con variant cover of Marceline & The Scream Queens #1 from Boom! on Bleeding Cool Why? Because everyone loves a bit of Adventure Time. Yes, I'll run this blatant PR piece showing off the Baltimore Comic Con variant cover of Marceline & The[...]
Kiss My Freelancers Pin Ups
Two pin-ups from the new Freelancers series by writer Ian Brill, and artist Joshua Covey from Boom! Orders are due today apparently… I think that is meant to say "Kiss My Ass". I'm never sure whether to take that as an insult or an invite. Okay, okay, I am sure I just pretend not to be. [...]
Avatar, Boom, Dynamite And IDW Solicitations For November 2012
From Avatar's Freakangels Slipcase collection to the new Supurbia series from Boom (with a BC quote in the solicits) to the end of The Boys from Dynamite to the beginning of Judge Dredd and My Little Pony at IDW – and a new Locke & Key series as well… Avatar and Boundless STITCHED VOL 1[...]
Adventure Time And Bravest Warriors Covers For November
Here's a look at the Pendleton Ward-derived comics from Boom! for November Adventure Time #10, Marceline And The Scream Queens #5 and Bravest Warriors #2 As well as the Adventure Time first TPB and San Diego cover exclusives… ADVENTURE TIME #10 Written by Ryan North, Shane Houghton and Chris Houghton Drawn by Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb,[...]
Swipe File: Bravest Warriors And 52
On the left, Malachi Ward's cover to Bravest Warriors #2 on the left, JG Jones cover to 52 #46 on the right. In Swipe File we present two or more images
Steed And Mrs Peel And Hypernaturals Covers For November
And publishers, like Boom! start to show off their covers for the next month Here, for example, are the covers for Steed And Mrs Peel #3 and The Hypernaturals #5 And the solicitations to boot; Steed And Mrs Peel #3 John Steed & Emma Peel are not fooled by the con the new Hellfire Club has pulled[...]
A Look At November's Relaunch Of Supurbia
In November, as part of Marvel NOT, Boom! will relaunch Bleeding Cool's very own Grace Randolph's Supurbia, with the first issue of an ongoing series And here are the covers (hey, it's a Boom! relaunch, of course there are going to be covers) of the first issue. Pick your favourite… In November, as part of Marvel[...]
Preview: Fanboys Vs Zombies #5
Have a little preview of Fanboys Vs Zombies #5 coming out next week from Sam Humphries and Jerry Gaylord. And a plot that makes more sense than Avengers
Hypernaturals #1 Sells Out Of Second Print, Goes To Third
Issue 2 of the Abnett and Lanning kinda-Legion Of Superheroes comic Hypernaturals is out next week, but the first issue still appears to be selling and Boom! are going to a third print Here's the cover above, and a preview of issue 2 below. The first print had a print run of 12,000, the second print[...]
Tuesday Runaround – Grant Morrison To Leave Superhero Comics Behind In 2013
I want to try out some new ideas and explore the opportunities that keep coming up to write novels and screenplays." JoeEismaWatch: Boom! seem really pleased about this hire on Higher Earth… and the morning glories it will bring. SaccoWatch: Moyers & Company on American PBS talking with Joe Sacco on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. MarketWatch:[...]
Speculator Corner: Higher Earth #3
We call it Issue Three syndrome.  Go on and try to find a Walking Dead #3. I understand that Boom! believes that Higher Earth #3 has been considerably under ordered Both the first and second issues sold out and went to second print fast, breaking Boom records. A super high concept, big sci-fi epic about an empire[...]
Adventure Time At San Diego Comic Con
Did we all see the giant inflatable? I swear he was turning round at one point… What time is it? You got it; it's time for the Boom! Comics Adventure Time panel Unfortunately, Pendleton Ward, the creator of the Adventure Time series, couldn't attend the panel but that didn't stop it from being totally algebraic as[...]
How Comic Book Publishers Are Investing In New Comic Book Stores
Bleeding Cool has talked about how BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse Comics, DC Entertainment, Diamond Select Toys, Dynamite Entertainment, IDW Publishing, Image Comics and Marvel Comics are all funding a new push to subsidise the installation of POS systems into comic book stores, to encourage a matter management of stock and instant responses to increased demand. But[...]
Joseph Linsner's 1-100 CGC Covers For Steed And Mrs Peel
For those of you who may have enjoyed a certain Emma Peel-alike as M in the new League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic, you might want to check out the Steed And Mrs Peel comic Boom Which has that all-important official veneer. And for the real obsessives amongst you, there are the Joseph Linsner CGC 9.8 graded[...]
REVIEW: Hypernaturals #1  by Abnett, Lanning, Walker and Guinaldo
Image is enjoying the BKV one-two punch of critical/commercial success as Saga #1 enters it's 36th printing (guesstimate based on wild speculation and gross, emotional fandom) but over at BOOM they are quietly bringing a real science fiction renaissance through the work of writers Humphries, Spurrier and as of this week Abnett & Lanning. The Hypernaturals[...]
Boom's Freelancers Take On The Catwoman Zero Cover
Here's a page from the new series from Boom!, Freelancers, starting in October Creative team, as yet, unknown… Here's a page from the new series from Boom!, Freelancers, starting in October Creative team, as yet, unknown… Here's a page from the new series from Boom!, Freelancers, starting in October Creative team, as yet, unknown… [...]