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In One Week, In Two Weeks – The Final Locke & Key And A Comic-Deprived Christmas
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[...]
Colbert Joins Obama In The Other Dead
We mentioned this a couple of weeks ago, along with a major Obama-related spoiler, but Stephen Colbert also makes his appearance in animal-zombie-comic The Other Dead #4 from IDW today. Or rather his poster does. A neat way to give a little three dimensions to an otherwise two dimensional isolationist gun-nut… and an appreciator of the Colbert[...]
Forty-One Thoughts About Forty Comics – Uber, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine & The X-Men, Satellite Sam, Sinister Dexter, Skin Trade, Three, Chew, Manifest Destiny, Wasteland, Batman, Batgirl, Wolverine, Deathmatch, 3 Guns, Nova, Thunderbolts, Adventure Time, Krampus, Protocol Orphans, Drumhellar, GI Joe, Justice League #3000, Superboy, Unity, Harbinger, A Boy And A Girl, Warlock, Doc Savage, GI Joe Special Missions, Indestructible, Alex + Ada, Lazarus, Memory Collectors, Dead Body Road, Powerpuff Girls, Star Trek, Wraith And X-Files
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Gun-Toting Obama Takes On The Confederate Flag In The Other Dead #4 (SPOILERS)
Here's the variant cover to The Other Dead #4, the zombie animal comic published by IDW, in which President Obama gets involved during a zombie animal outbreak. The variant cover on the first issue promised a gun toting President, but the insides didn't deliver, the only person who has spend time in the White House in[...]
IDW Delays For The UK This Week, Maxximized
Diamond Comic Distributors have told UK stores that their IDW comic due this week may be a week late The comics include; Maxx: Maxximized #1 TMNT: Classics Vol 7 TPB GI Joe: Special Missions #9 Star Trek #27 X-Files: Season 10 #6 Thunder Agents #4 Godzilla: Rulers Of The Earth #6 Zombie War #2 Powerpuff Girls #3 Half Past Danger #6 Diamond Comic Distributors have[...]
Twelve Doctors – Including A War Doctor – In Next Week's Doctor Who Comic
Doctor Who comic book writer Tony Lee writes; My first story for @IDWPublishing was 'The Forgotten' – and the most iconic image of the whole story was the end scene with all 10 Doctors. — Tony Lee (@mrtonylee) November 20, 2013 So jump six years forward, and I'm at SDCC learning that my 4 parter is the last[...]
Judge Death Comes To IDW's Judge Dredd
And who are those nine silhouetted figures in the back? Nine plus four equals thirteen, you know, IDW are starting a new storyline called "13 Badges"…   And who are those nine silhouetted figures in the back? Nine plus four equals thirteen, you know, IDW are starting a new storyline called "13 Badges"…   And who are[...]
Live From The Comic Shop: Wraith, Umbral, Rocket Girl Expand Their Genres
Image and Dark Horse continue to roll out new titles along with some of their ongoing that are gaining a following, and noir and occult comics are still prominent from both, with IDW jumping in with Joe Hill's Wraith debuting But I'm going to settle on three that have contributed to my reading experience and[...]
Mike Costa Comes Back Home To Detroit
I started with the franchise when it started with IDW about 5 years ago I was originally just what was supposed to be a 4 issue miniseries, and I was sort of writing it with Christos Gage It was popular enough that it ballooned up into two different ongoing series It is now the Cobra[...]
Where In The World Is Paul Smith, On Rocketeer/The Spirit?
IDW launched a Rocketeer/Spirit series, Pulp Friction earlier this year, by Mark Waid and Paul Smith.The first issue came out in July The second… at the end of October with new artist Loston Wallace. So what happened? And what is happening now? IDW told me; We're also huge fans of Paul Smith and were ecstatic when he[...]
How IDW Are Using Transformers Comics For Outreach
We've already pointed out (and ran video) of IDW's plans to sell My Little Pony mini-comics in mass market retail stores, aimed at children Indeed, just seeing them opened up by my kids has apparently changed IDW's mind about how they'll package the comics They are serious about using this as a way to target[...]