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See, I rememebr the days when every other week a publisher would sign an exclusive distribution deal with Diamond Comic Distribution, or Capital City Distribuion or… well that was it. Now direct market comic stores will only be able to get  their Boom! comic books through Diamond _ this won't affect the monthly comics, but it[...]

A one shot from Boom!'s Zombie Tales anthology of zombie books called Oblivion With three stories, one at the back, called Luthor by Mark Waid and Mark Badger. And it's the exact same story The dialogue, the scenes, they are one and the same, just drawn in a different style, with different compositions, panel breaks and[...]

Before you knew it, Our Love Is Real was picked up by Image, he was writing Ultimates for Marvel, Higher Earth for Boom!, launching a new self-series, Sacrifice… and also Fanboys Vs Zombies for Boom. The first issue of which is out next week, but not only have I heard that it's sold out from Diamond[...]

Jamie Delano begins writing an arc for Crossed Badlands from Avatar, Bleeding Cool Magazine begins with a preview issue, Boom! grabs Si Spurrier for Extermination and Dynamite push Prophecy and Pantha… these are the kind of books that go beyond where the Premier titles fear to tread, in June See what takes your fancy…. From Avatar [...]

Don't mix us up. The Boom Panel was an intimate affair, being held late in the afternoon  The running joke was that most of the attendees had already left to grab dinner CEO Ross Richie and EIC Matt Gagnon held court, along with managing editor Bryce Carlson and Supurbia artist Russell Dauterman Supurbia having been written[...]

I'm not even sure I made that last one up. And then there's Si Spurrier's new comic from Boom! Extermination, amongst the remaining superheroes after a successful alien invasion, trying to mount a strike back – if they can even work out what that would be Here's a little look at the covers to the first[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5krtZ8rj6U Grace Randolph interviews her own artist on Supurbia, Russell Dauterman including his background in costume

Bleeding Cool looked at recent speculator fueled demand for a number of comic books recently, resembling the speculator boom that occurred around the release of Chew and other Image titles a couple of years ago. Supurbia #1 took the crowd It rapidly disappeared from shelves, and by the end of the day, a copy sold for $16.50 on[...]

It appears, hot off the success of Supurbia, that Boom! are publishing something new from another creator I understand they may have something to do with Bleeding Cool as well But I know that it's not me. The filename of the image is Ext—. It appears, hot off the success of Supurbia, that Boom! are publishing[...]

This is the latest in a series of promotional covers created by Boom! to encourage retailers to experiment by ordering large on certain titles, in return for a very rare variant by a high end artist To follow up on the Joe Jusko Valen The Outcast covers, and Arthur Suydam's Fanboys Vs Zombies, here is[...]

Bleeding Cool's Grace Randolph has a sellout of her first created comic for Boom!, Supurbia, a week before it is meant to go on sale Which means that all the extra copies that Boom! printed for reorders have been sucked up by eager retailers before it's gone on sale Hopefully that means there will be[...]

TypoWatch: I know, I know, mote and beam, mote and beam. ConWatch: USA Today attends the London Super Comic Convention. And takes photos of cosplayers.

In April, Boom are publishing four comics I've written… The Avengefuls drawn by Joshua Covey, Captain American Idol drawn by Chris Haley, Scienthorlogy by Mike Netzer and Iron Muslim drawn by Bryan Turner, all with covers by Mark Stafford Parodying the Marvel movies, they also take on aspects from Holy Terror to Anonymous Vs Scientology[...]

It's a very complex and often difficult thing. Take Boom, for instance When things began to unravel for their Disney publishing line, they could not speak out, despite fans asking questions on their forums, in comments sections, and at panel Q&As without risking disclosing confidential information This, of course, can trigger fan outrage as they feel[...]

ShirtWatch: Threadless launch a new Normalmanish T-shirt… BoomWatch: Boom are running a new teaser campaign for an upcoming comic labeled "You Are Illegal On This Earth". AwardWatch: The French comics festoival Chamberry has announced a new annual comics award especially for Taiwanese artists. ValentineWatch: Two sides of a bad romance – Plastique and Captain Atom. WebWatch: The Image comic[...]

Boom's 9.8 CGC Joe Jusko retailer variants for Valen The Outcast have seemed to pay off for the company Retailers had to order a stack of copies, but then could sell off the variants for $200 a pop. And now Boom are doing it all again for the new Sam Humphries comic Fanboys Vs Zombies And[...]

Grace Randoph and Exec Producer of Adventure Time, Fred Seibert talk about the new Adventure Time comic from Boom for Bleeding Cool's Between The Pages video blog, part of Think About The Ink Seriously, how lucky are we?   Grace Randoph and Exec Producer of Adventure Time, Fred Seibert talk about the new Adventure Time comic[...]

With the release of Adventure Time #1 from Boom expected to fly out of the door on arrival, with a second print already on the way, here's a checklist of all the covers. I have to say, the San Diego Exclusive cover is a little disappointing Seriously guys, you should really step up on that one. [...]

It can however be on the expensive side. But when Andrew Neil, owner of Chapel Hill Comics in North Carolina offered to draw the cover to his retailer variant edition of Adventure Time #1 from Boom's kids line kaboom himself, well, that was a bit of a saving. I understand that the success of Adventure Time is[...]

She's written for Marvel's Her-Oes and for Boom's Muppet comics, but I was most looking forward to Supurbia, her own superheroes-as-desperate-housewives comic All superhero fiction is about power fantasy, and targetting the suburban family as a way to find people trapped and powerless in the lives they have built for themselves seemed rich with possibility. Then[...]

But before writing about Mayan sacrifice and man-on-dog sex, he wrote Fraggle Rock comics. Quite a jump. And in April he's writing a new ongoing series for Boom!, Fanboys Vs Zombies, drawn by Jerry Gaylord Humberto Ramos draws the cover for the first issue, costing just a dollar Here's the solicitation text. One is a decrepit mob of[...]

In an interview with Ryan North with Newsarama about the upcoming Boom! comic based on the surreal kids Cartoon Network series Adventure Time, North confirms that a number of indie creators will be contributing short stories and covers, in their own specific styles. And they will include Jeffery Brown, Emily Carroll, Scott C., Lucy Knisley and[...]

Bleeding Cool's very own Grace Randolph has a new superhero comic book to be published in March from Boom!, Supurbia Drawn by Russell Dauterman, and modelled on modern reality TV, this looks like a sex-filled, alpha female, superhero comic Here's the solicitation. What goes down when the capes come off? Meet the Real Housewives of Earth's[...]

Here we have writer Michael Alan Nelson and Boom! staffers setting the remaining print run on fire. Yup, a good old fashioned book burning And with each flame licking along the stapled edges, those remaining 25 copies get more and more scarce   Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported how today's Valen The Outcast Joe Juski 1-200 cover variant[...]

Next Wednesday, Boom have a new comic by Michael Alan Nelson called Outcast hitting the stands A barbarian book where a warrior-king is slain in battle by a necromancer who raises him from the dead and makes him his thrall The king breaks the necromancer's hold and goes on a quest to [...]

I understand that in Hellraiser #8, the ongoing comic book series from Boom!, co-written with Hellraiser creator Clive Barker, the lead character undergoes a slight change Kirsty Cotton, who has appeared in all the Hellraiser films played by Ashley Laurence, and was in the original novel Hellbound Heart, becomes the new Pinhead, as the traditional[...]

But Dave Sim's Last Girlfriend, a book by Dave Sim and Susan Alston was meant to come out from Kitchen Sink back in the day, but is now scheduled to be published by Boom! Town, Boom!'s indie comix imprint, in August next year. No figure in comics has been as polarizing as Dave Sim[...]

Hre's an exclusisve preview from the first of Boom's new monthly Peanuts comic, based on the classic Charles Schulz strip, by Pixar's Ron Zorman, Vicki Scott and Paige Braddock out this week from Boom! in pretty much every comic shop You also get some Charles Schulz Peanuts strips and a preview of the new graphic[...]

Last month, Bleeding Cool told you how France's biggest comics publisher was turning to a social networking fundraising system like Kickstarter to fund projects it might have considered uncommercial otherwise. This was considered quite shocking by some publishers who viewed this as an admission of incompetence, or lack of publishing will, that publishers should put their[...]

Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes is a new four issue series shipping in November from Boom, written by Gabriel Hardman, Corinna Sara Bechko and Gabriel Hardman, in the old movies continuity… I think we should come up with titles for other possible Planet Of The Apes comics Odds are Boom is going to need[...]