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We've been telling everyone that Boom! Studios' Lumberjanes has the potential to be a huge hit since it was first announced The first issue sold out with a print run three times its initial orders Well, it appears that the heat on Lumberjanes wasn't a one off fluke as the second issue is now sold out at Diamond. Whether the flurry[...]

A Big Trouble in Little China comic was announced by Boom! at this year's ComicsPRO Annual Meeting and made a big splash online There haven't been any new stories told in the world of the cult film since its release in 1986 and apparently fans have been clamoring for more Jack Burton[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas two weekends ago, Boom! Studios told retailers their new series with George Pérez would debut in September I couldn't help but notice that the title of the series was different than the one Pérez had been using when talking about the project for the last year[...]

Last week, we let you know that BOOM! Studios' Lumberjanes #1 had sold out with a print run three times its initial orders The week before that The Woods #1 sold out the day of its release with an overrun 50% above its initial orders So, that's one sell out from BOOM!'s BOOM! Box imprint and another from the[...]

Boom! Studiuos and Archaia's comics out in August (mostly)… Fairy Quest will always top my list But what will you be looking out for? FAIRY QUEST: OUTCASTS #1 (W) Paul Jenkins (A) Humberto Ramos (CA) A: Humberto Ramos; B: Humberto Ramos B&W WHY WE LOVE IT: FAIRY QUEST is the passion project of Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos, the[...]

Boom! Studios have been showing off their wares at the Diamond Retailer Summit. We got a name for the new George Perez comic from the publisher – Sirens! A female cast comic, the characters will be based on the many cosplayers that Perez has met over the year at comic book conventions. They will also be publishing a[...]

And that was it for six years until Boom and Jim Henson Company did a deal for a series of mini-series in 2008 and on ongoing series from 2009 before finishing in 2011. And that was it… until Saturday Tucked in the back of the Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day volume from Archaia, and without[...]

In the last couple of years, Boom Studios has been increasing the number of original creator-participant comics from the likes of Mike Carey, George Pérez, Sam Humphries, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Clive Barker, Max Bemis, Brian Stelfreeze, Si Spurrier and Paul Jenkins. This year has seen announcements of new series from James Tynion IV, Cullen Bunn,[...]

This week sees the release of Boom! Studios' latest original series, The Woods, from  James Tynion IV and  Michael Dialynas. The Woods is a sci-fi survival series about a high school that disappears and reappears on an alien planet. I understand that the first issue is the biggest standard-priced launch for an original series under the publusher's central imprint since Mark Waid's Irredeemable all[...]

Marvel and Young Avengers are some of the successful titles among the demographic. Image titles like The Walking Dead, Saga, and Pretty Deadly have gotten their attention, but Wayne Wise reports that at Phantom of the Attic there are "a lot of young women who are really invested in Marvel and DC titles, as well as[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 148 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we

In any case, not an amount to take casually). BOOM OR BUST! Boom has a few exclusive variants out for WonderCon…     CHASTITY BELT AND BRACES Marc Andreyko and artist Dave Acosta are revivig the Chaos comic, Chastity, for Dynamite Entertainment. In Chastity #1, in the 1980's, after a career-ending injury shatters her (and, really, her mother's) Olympic dreams, 17-year-old Chastity Marks finds an[...]

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[...]

This Monday is the Final Order Cut-Off deadline for The Woods #1 from James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas. In order to goose orders (some folk can't see The Woods for Warren Ellis' Trees) Boom! Studios is offering an extra incentive for retailers Any retailer who increases their order by 20% over initial orders will have[...]