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In One Week, In Two Weeks – A Is For Annihilator
How will it tie into Multiversity??? And then in two weeks… Barb Wire, Onyx, We Stand On Guard, Red Skull and the fourth issue of Secret Wars. DARK HORSE COMICS CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #24 $2.99 CHRONICLES OF KING CONAN TP VOL 11 NIGHTMARE $19.99 CONAN THE AVENGER #15 $3.50 FIGHT CLUB 2 #2 FRANCAVILLA VAR CVR $3.99 FIGHT CLUB 2 #2 MAIN CVR $3.99 FRANKENSTEIN UNDERGROUND #4 $3.50 GRINDHOUSE DRIVE IN BLEED[...]
Cullen Bunn Brings Back A Darker, Grimmer Voltron, But That's Not All
The cult kids combination toy comes back to comics yet again in September from Cullen Bunn and Blacky Shepherd (cover by Alex Milne). Though he does look a little worse for wear Almost as if he next door neighour's dog took him and buried him for a couple of weeks before dragging him out of the[...]
Babs Tarr's Redesigns Of Livewire For Next Week's Batgirl
Her first appearance sells on eBay for over $250 slabbed, or $80 raw. The character will reappear in next week's Batgirl #41, the first of the series' DCYou issue and the very tone and approach to comics that the revampres series inspired. So what happens when Batgirl gets Batgirled? Well, series artist Babs Tarr has been tweeting[...]
The Effect Of The Twix Ad On The DC Comics Readership? (UPDATE)
Scott R, of the comic book store Comics Are Go! in Sheffield Village, Ohio expressed his own recent experience regarding the double-page half-page Twix ads, printed on the same page as the comic book stories that have caused a modicum of fuss of late He writes, I've just had my third (!) customer drop their entire DC[...]
Jason Chen Talks About Digital Bundling And How StoryBundle Is Different
It doesn't matter if they like fantasy, sci-fi, romance, crime, horror, suspense or even comics, we've got bundles that will appeal to everybody. I started StoryBundle when I wanted to discover new authors but realized that it's really difficult to do so! You can either spend your time scouring the top 100 ratings lists (which are[...]
Southern Bastards Picked Up For FX TV Series
The comic Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour, much loved around these parts and published by Image Comics is to be developed as a TV series for US channel FX. Deadline reports that it, amongst other projects, has been picked up by Scott Rudin Productions, who have just opened offices on the Fox lot. Aaron[...]
Bill Jemas Is Publishing 10 Zombie Comics In September
Ten comics, two a week. DEDICATION #1 (MR) DOUBLE TAKE (W) Michael Coast, Matt Summo (A) Jean-Jacques Dzialowski (CA) Carlos Reno Thanks to some hungry customers, the closing shift at George's Market has turned into the graveyard shift Some of this series transpires in the Night of the Living Dead universe, most does not None of the film's creators[...]
Orbital Director's Commentary – Becky Cloonan Talks Gotham Academy (VIDEO)
By Chris Thompson As a long-term comics fan – and now events manager at Orbital Comics in central London – it's always fun to be part of something more than just the average signing Meeting your favourite creator and having them sign your stuff is all well and good, but what I really love are the[...]
Countdown To The Eisners 2015 – Best U.S. Edition Of International Material
While the American comics scene is highly regarded, it's always nice to be reminded of what good storytelling sans superheroes and world-shattering events looks like Sometimes it's enjoyable to just lose oneself in a good European comic, preferably translated Then again, some are still easy to follow if they haven't been translated because they let[...]
So Where Is Red Wolf's Shirt Anyway?
Where was Red Wolf's shirt? Comics' lack of Native Americans with shirts has become something of a joke between myself and one of my professors who works with Native American literature I regularly share portrayals of Native Americans in comics, and we discuss how wrongheaded many of them are And sadly, many mainstream publishers have[...]
He-Man Has A Multiverse Too
DC Comics has one Marvel had one And now  He-Man wants in. From the most recent He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe comic book from DC Comics Skeletor coming to terms wit a variety of versions of himself The Marvel comic, the cartoons, the toys and more… It's a Crisis On Infinite Skeletors!   [...]
Lando Beats Civil War For Advance Reorders
Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! There used[...]
Before Squarriors, Ashley Witter Created Scorch…
Ashley Witter has become one of the brightest new stars on the comic book firmament, with her detailed painted work on Squarriors, now for Devil's Due/1First Comics. But she didn't come to the comic fully formed Before the gorgeous drop dead work on Squarriors, in 2007 she put out a webcomic called Scorch And Scorch is now being kickstarted[...]
Go On, Let's All Use The #IM4PREZ Hashtag For Nefarious Purposes
Well DC Comics have been putting out a bundle of promotional items for June to help excite folks about the new books. Such as Prez bumper stickers. And encouraging people to use the following on social media. But hardly anyone has used that #im4prez hashtag yet… @graphicpolicy you are the first person to use that hashtag… and[...]
Image Expo Preview Book To Hit Comic Stores The Wednesday After
Bleeding Cool's Peter Svensson and Emily Dare should do a fine job on the scene instead. And there are plenty of comic creators in attendance to talk about their 2016 comics from the publisher We've already talked about Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay having a project to announce there I've also heard Si Spurrier will be[...]
Something Big To Chew Over Today
The comic book Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, which has an abandoned Showtime production and an in progress animation production to its name, is