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Don't worry, we checked it twice. The Fifth Beatle – Dark Horse, November A fantastic oversized graphic novel that is not just Beatlephilia, but a beautiful story of loss and heartbreak Vivek Tiwary, Andrew Robinson and Kyle Baker chronicle the bittersweet story of Brian Epstein's life as a closeted gay man in the 60's They interweave absurd,[...]

Coming in June from Dark Horse Comics, a new comic book series that combined continuity of the Aliens, Prometheus and Predator films… UPDATE: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Goon, fit Serenity and Star Wars in there as well Pretty please? Coming in June from Dark Horse Comics, a new comic book series that combined continuity of the Aliens, Prometheus[...]

Next week sees issue ones for previous issue zeroes Ghost and Harley Quinn, the launch of Teen Titans Go and the Illegitimates, 8Bit Zombies from Antarctic, Midas Flesh from Boom! and the final Locke & Key. The week after that? Not so much… DARK HORSE COMICS BLOODHOUND CROWBAR MEDICINE #3 $3.99 BPRD HELL ON EARTH #114 $3.50 BUZZKILL #4 $3.99 CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #6 $2.99 CONAN THE[...]

I talked to Dark Horse editor Scott Allie earlier today (about twenty minutes earlier) about the inspiration for Dan Dos Santos' painted work… Stitching a logo onto Jayne's hat It must be serious. You can see his commitment. No you can't, actually Jayne's got no sense of commitment That symbol is for the New Resistance, a crew determined[...]

We've got plenty from Image, Dynamite, IDW, Vertigo, and Dark Horse this time around. New Titles Skybound from Image released Dead Body Road by Justin Jordan (writer), Matteo Scalera (pencils and inks), Moreno Dinisio (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters) To be fair, any book by Justin Jordan is one I'm going to check out and see what craziness[...]

Saturday March 22nd will be celebrating Hellboy Day, the twentieth anniversary of the release by Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1 by Mike Mignola and John

Above, Francesco Francavilla's illustration for Bee Vixens From Mars, part of Alex De Campi's Grindhouse comic book from Dark Horse… and below, the cover of Terror Blu #131, a long running Italian exploitation science fiction/horror comic book from the eighties… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some[...]

Madefire, entrepreneurs in the field of digital publishing through providing artists and writers new technology for developing "Motion Books" inspired by comic art and graphic narrative, have announced today, alongside Dark Horse, that Hellboy will be appearing in his first Motion Book, in an especially timely storyline: Hellboy in Hell. The Hellboy in Hell arc currently[...]

ICv2 reports that Xerxes, Frank Miller's sequel to 300, has not progressed since the complete two issues that Miller had handed in to Dark Horse in early 2011. Which means a release of Xerxes to accompany 300:  Rise of an Empire, just isn't happening Miller has been busy on a new Sin City movie, and perfume[...]

Except for a small pin-up in Adam Warren's Empowered from Dark Horse, Steve has cut down on work-for-hire and commissions to focus entirely on his creator owned property. I ask him about the runaway success of his books, and Steve laughs "It blows me away," he says Compare waiting months for Diamond or Comixology checks to[...]

Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight, from Dark Horse, is in its third issue, and that means it's on its second two-parter, each drawn by a different artist, with all written by Alex de Campi of Smoke and Ashes, and in January of My Little Pony with Carla Speed McNeil , a host of short films,[...]

We've got books from Marvel, Avatar Press, Image, Vertigo, Archie, and Dark Horse just to pick a few of my top choices this week. First up, Iron Man #19 continues with the second part of "Metropolitan", which is laced with Fritz Lang's Metropolis homage Kieron Gillen, Joe Bennet, Scott Hanna, and Guru eFX are bringing the[...]

Since The Fifth Beatle launched from Dark Horse Comics' "M Press" division on November 19th, it's been making the rounds of mainstream reportage because of its prominent subject matter—the life and times of Beatles manager Brian Epstein By November 30th, the graphic novel appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List at #5 in[...]

Today, Frank Barbiere, writer on Image's Five Ghosts and IRL friend Donny Cates, co-writer on Dark Horse's Buzzkill were taunting each other about the pirate plots of the new Five Ghosts storyline "Lost Coastlines" Barbiere asserted that Cates is this salty-language prone pirate (drawn by Five Ghosts series artist Chris Mooneyham). But wait, just kidding, or[...]

Kirkbride, and Robert Love, in this week's new Dark Horse comic Never Ending tease out the questions of "goodness" in the superhero role nicely also These teams are working in very balanced collaboration to give the sense of discomfort and questioning appropriate to the concepts behind the books To write or draw a superhero today[...]

I wrote my second (of three) stories for Dark Horse Presents along with two pitches for Dark Horse's consideration I turned in the script for Nevermore vol 2 #4 to Dynamite To be fair, I had written that a few weeks earlier but was letting it sit while I let my subconscious problem solve part[...]

That settles the score nicely. Sledge-hammer 44 returns from Dark Horse this week, to the delight of readers who poured enthusiasm on the first mini-series With writing by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, artwork by Laurence Campbell, who has already established that his style is perfectly suited to period pieces, and colors by the powerhouse Dave[...]

For that reason, it's an issue you're likely to read more than once, just trying to process what is happening at this most crucial point in the story. Brain Boy returns from Dark Horse with issue #3, and there's something about this book that really gets under your skin With writing by Fred Van Lente, pencils[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoZe4wVqhAo[/youtube] The Last Man Standing :Killbook Bounty Hunter Hardcover by Daniel Luvisi is published by Dark Horse tomorrow. Just in time for this natty trailer from Dark Horse Comics Well, why wait around for Paramount to make the movie? Meet Gabriel-last of a genetically engineered breed of supersoldiers known as the Paladin[...]

Monday November 18th and Wednesday November 20th  in NYC The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story graphic novel arrives in stores on November 19th and Dark Horse is offering an 8 page preview here and you can view their trailer here To celebrate the book release, The Fifth Beatle writer / producer Vivek Tiwary will be[...]

The graphic novel by VivekTiwary, Andrew Robinson and Kyle Baker and similarly titled feature film tells the story of the man who discovered the Beatles in a basement in Liverpool, guided them to fame and fortune and then died lonely at the age of 32. You can see an eight-page preview of the new Dark Horse graphic novel. Writer,[...]

In 2012, Dark Horse Presents debuted White Suits, a strip from Frank J Barbiere and Luke Radl Well, in February, it's getting its own forum issue mini-series, now drawn by Toby Cypress Here's how it was described back then; When a young girl trying to scrape by in a crime-ridden late-1980s Moscow ghetto encounters one of[...]

Mike Richardson is the sole owner and Publisher of Dark Horse Comics Bruce Zick is a Disney visual development artist, and has been for over thirty years But for the past three years (at least)he has been drawing this superheroic graphic novel, Atomic Legion, written by Richardson Naturally, it's being published by Dark Horse, and[...]

As revealed at NYCC, here comes Vandroid from Dark Horse's sci-fi line in February But it's not just about the comic. Written by Tommy Lee Edwards and Noah Smith, with art from Dan McDaid, it;s an attempt to recreate a fictionally lost sci-fi movie from 1984 Complete with fake soundtrack and a fake trailer for the[...]

A week alone in the wilds of Scotland has them dealing with their assorted personal issues, as well as an inconveniently timed cataclysm". Apocalypse Nerd is a dark sci-fi comedy ["The Road meets Withnail and I" or "Old Joy meets Time of the Wolf"], based on the Dark Horse graphic-novel by Peter Bagge[...]

The Guns Of Shadow Valley is an Eisner nominated graphic novel/webcomic written by Dave Wachter, current artist on Steve Niles' Breath of Bones. They're publishing their own Kickstarter edition in June for people who donated to their Kickstarter effort, which raised over $40,000 but Bleeding Cool understands it has also been picked by by Dark Horse[...]

There are a wide range of genres and interests represented, from several new Image books, to ongoing Vertigo, Marvel, and Dark Horse books It's a nice feeling to know that most comics readers will find something this week that strikes their fancy, but if I had to pick my top 3? Hmmm Drumhellar, The Occultist,[...]

On top of that, Knave has a new series being published by Dark Horse starting on the 27th of November, Never Ending His editing work includes Molly Danger and Image Comics' Popgun Anthology series, and he routinely works as an editor with new comics writers and artists to help them develop their ideas and bring[...]

"I'd love to sit with them when I have a particular script and pick their brain from time to time." Serenity: Leaves on the Wind #1 by Dark Horse Comics arrives January 29th See Georges Jeanty's work at http://kabalounge.com. Shaun Leonard is a film, TV and comics journalist currently based in Las Vegas, NV[...]

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