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Star Trek Comics Relaunch: Original Series Retold In JJ Abrams Continuity
The events of the JJ Abrams Star Trek movie basically reset the Star Trek continuity from scratch, to free up the film series to tell some very different stories with Kirk, Spock, Bones, Chekov, Sulu, Uhuru, Scotty et al. And now this new Star Trek universe will be explored by a new ongoing IDW Star Trek[...]
San Diego Comic Con Exclusive – Dave Stevens: Complete Sketches & Studies
The San Diego Comic Con exclusives get earlier every year. In August, IDW are publishing Dave Stevens: Complete Sketches & Studies, collecting all four of his sketchbooks, long out of print, in a hardcover volume. But they're making the collection available a few weeks earlier at San Diego Comic Con You can order copies now, one cover[...]
Kevin Eastman Working For Hire On Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Kevin Eastman, co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, one of the biggest creator owned comic book success story of all time, who sold his interest in the Turtles to MTV, now finds himslef co-writing the new comic book series from IDW, coming out in August. Work-for-hire. Suddenly an editor can say "I'm sorry Kevin, I don't[...]
Bernie Wrightson And Steve Niles Create "Frankenstein Alive, Alive!" For IDW
The other co-created Swamp Thing. And now together they are creating Frankenstein Alive, Alive! for IDW, from Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson. Wrightson of course has good form, illustrating the Mary Shelley novel over a period of seven years I think we can all expect to see this displayed at Tr!ckster and San Diego Comic Con 2011. [...]
Who Wants To Be An IDW Editor?
Bleeding Cool understands that IDW Senior Editor, Andy Schmidt, who worked on IDW's Hasbro books such as GI Joe and Transformers… and been stoleb by Hasbro He'll be working out of their Rhode Island headquarters. Which has left IDW with a problem They need a Senior Editor to step into Andy's shoes. They need someone, and I[...]
Swipe File: Locke & Key & Hellraiser
The Ghost Key from Locke & Key on the left from IDW in 2008, Hellraiser from Boom in 2011… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to[...]
Would IDW Restart Transformers From Marvel Continuity?
It all began with a question and answer session that long time Transformers comic book writer Simon Furman did on his blog and the IDW forums. He wrote "I actually would like to pick up the baton from Marvel issue #80 and run with it again There was a lot we never got to do, that[...]
Walt Simonson And The Mighty Thor To Get IDW Artist's Edition
Scott Dunbier was the man who created the Absolute format at DC, showcasing comic book work in a very European high quality oversized fashion. Then at IDW he created the Artist's Edition, effectively reproducing original art boards bound in a volume, with the Dave Stevens' Rocketeer: Artist's Edition. Well now there is a second Artist Edition[...]
And Now The Turtles Come to IDW (UPDATE)
Well, with a new Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TV series on the way and no one actually publishing a comic book of the characters at the moment, something was going to give. Kicking off this summer, IDW will be publishing a new Turtles series Creative team current unnanounced But it will probably look something like[...]
SCOOP: Life Of Agony's Alan Robert To Produce Film Of Own Comic, Wire Hangers
He doesn't do things by halves, does he? Alan Robert, bassist and original member for rock band Life of Agony and founder of punk band Spoiler NYC, is now making a live action movie of his own comic, Wire Hangers from IDW, which in a stunning departure for musicians-turned-comic-creatorse, he wrote and drew himself without swiping[...]
Final Set Of Retailer Variant Godzilla Covers Makes a Cool Hundred
IDW has arranged a second print of its retailer-variant covers for Godzilla #1 (launching next week) And, just like the first lot, Bleeding Cool has the exclusive And with the WonderCon cover at the end, and covers with IDW getting smashed, this now makes a grand total of 100 variant covers for the comic Gotta[...]