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Star Mage from IDW arrives in its third issue this week, written by science fictionally-immersed prose writer turned comics crafter JC De La Torre In fact, he's so immersed in sci-fi that he runs his own sci-fi themed podcast and has a TARDIS in his living room Star Mage debuted to a warm reception and[...]
Expect a third soon.
Following on the unexpected success of Dredd: Underbelly, this may prove a successful new business model for Rebellion, recreating 2000AD comics in US format – and just not telling anyone that's what you're doing.
And, you know, using nicer paper.
IDW's new fantasy sci-fi release V-Wars has also done pretty well[...]
Having said that…
It was great seeing the comic industry "return the favor." There were a number of book publishers promoting their graphic novels, but it was great seeing "comic book usual suspects" like BOOM! Studios, Image and IDW exhibiting at BEA/Book Con and pushing not just their trade paperback and graphic novel selections but also[...]
Plans! Everyone needs a plan! Mine is to read an awful lot of comic books today. What is yours? Lobster Johnson #4 just has an excellent getaway plan.
It will be out on June 25th, alongside X-O Manowar #26
IDW have a second print for Super Secret Crisis War #1.
Superman #31, the Doomed crossover that they forget to mention was a Doomed crossover on the cover has, nevertheless, sold out at DC Comics and will get a second printing now sold out at DC Entertainment[...]
Diamond, Image, and IDW were front and center with what I'd call "mini" displays compared to big cons, but with all the necessary space for having short meetings with publishers, retailers, and libraries.
More far-flung were Fantagraphics, Nobrow, and Boom/Archaia, each couched more closely to their large distributors Add to that the graphic novels published by[...]
What with Book Expo America going on in New York.
And IDW have Jonathan Maberry writing untold stories from his zombie post-apocalyptic Rot & Ruin books, from September.
This all-new series is set in a world fifteen years after the dead have risen and vastly outnumber the survivors of the zombie-apocalypse In the aftermath, humanity has found a[...]
Weird Love #1 from IDW and Yoe! Books has sold out of its 5900 print run, based on initial orders of 4900 and FOC numbers of 5200 Its second printing will be of 1500.
And while Saga #19 doesn't often get a second print, the three month gap between issues and certain… content matters saw Image[...]
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New Comic Book Releases for the week of May 21, 2014
Books reviewed in this episode are:
Image Comics: Invincible #111
Titan Comics: Ordinary #1 (of 3)
DC Comics: Justice League Of America #14
DC Comics: Justice League #30
DC Comics: New 52 Future's End #3
Image Comics: Saga #19
Marvel Comics: Original Sin[...]
And now it has taken another step.
At the Diamond Retailer Summit (dim sum-it) in Las Vegas (vegemite), IDW announced a deal (meal) with Layman (legumes) and Guillory (celery) that will create a new line of Chew tabletop games, starting in early 2015 The line (the lime) will feature many different play options from board to card[...]
That is exactly what happened when I got a sneak peek at IDW's newest offering Monster Motors from Brian Lynch and Nick Roche The book is coming out in June and I got a chance to bounce some questions off the writer and try to figure out just where the idea of turning classic monsters[...]
So you may have noticed that there's a Godzilla movie coming out.
Well, in August, after everyone will have moved on from it and are obsessing about Rocket Raccoon, IDW will have a new Godzilla mini-series out from Cullen Bunn and Dave Wachter.
Last seen in the monster apocalypse, Godzilla has all but abandoned humanity[...]
V-Wars, the new IDW series seems to have benefitted rather well from Free Comic Book Day.
In its wake, issue 1 that came out last week is now sold out at the distributor level, from a print run of 15,600 based on initial orders of 12,200 A second print run of 1500 will be lined up[...]
Though he's edited and curated many books of classic comics and strips, in 2010, he embarked editing the Yoe! Books imprint of fine collections from IDW and in 2012 produced Comics About Cartoonists: Stories About the World's Oddest Profession featuring the works of so many legendary artists that it puts a general lack of knowledge[...]