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32 Thoughts About 32 Comics – Everyone's Going To Greenland
From War Stories #12… Tini Howard and Philip Sevy's Poseidon IX #1 comes from Image/Top Cow wherein a bunch of shirtless cyborg men wage oceanic war against a giant sea monster Poseidon, as you can see, is a little sassy – but that sort of comes with the territory when you're a narcissistic robot-god surrounded by[...]
A League Of Extremely Disturbing Gentlemen In Today's Dying And The Dead #3
But don't think we've seen the bad guys propping up the Allies with humanity's fate left in the hands of genocidal mass murdererd before. Does everything go according to plan? The Dying And The Dead #3 by Jonathan Hickman and Ryan Bodenheim is published today by IMage Comics.   I mentioned the apology for lateness from Jonathan Hickman[...]
Could Star Wars Become The Third Biggest Publisher In Comic Book Stores?
And while they are just estimates, and only include North American stores (and there hangs a tale) they do provide some consistency. So, for the top 300 comic book sales of July (and just single comic books here, not collections), Image Comics, the third biggest publisher in the comic book direct market behind Marvel and DC[...]
Prints Charming: Wolf #1 And Beauty #1 Give You A Second Chance
HURLEY offer up a startling reflection on the cost of looking good in this procedural science fiction tale. both published by Image Comics, have sold out and gone to second print. Both second printings will be in store on the 16th September Bleeding Cool understands that Wolf #1 by Ales Kot, Matt Taylor and Lee Loughridge… Bestselling new star[...]
Matt Hawkins And Raffaele Ienco's Symmetry, Coming In December From Image Comics
Happy end of the week… Have an exclusive tease for Matt Hawkins and Raffaele Ienco's upcoming Image comic Symmetry. Coming in December… To quote Hitch-Hikers'… Slartibartfast: I'd far rather be happy than right any day. Arthur Dent: And are you? Slartibartfast: No That's where it all falls down, of course.   [...]
How National Lampoon Inspired A CBLDF Liberty Annual From Image Comics
D.A.Cox writes from the editor's page of this year's CBLDF Liberty Annual from Image Comics… If you were to ask me to name the greatest human achievements in printing since Gutenberg, I would have a pretty easy time naming a top three In no particular order, I would give you the works of Charles Portis, Jack Kirby's[...]
Okay, Well, This Teen Witchblade Definitely Wants To Be The New Batgirl
If you're not sure about Mia Goodwin's Tomboy then Stjepan Sejic's reworking of Top Cow's Witchblade as Switch might do the trick, reprinting his webcomic Twitch that recreates Witchblade as a teenage girl dealing with the new power foistered upon her. As with more a little more clothing sense than the original. Out from Image Comics on October[...]
Swipe File: The Island Of Alabaster
Island #2 published tomorrow by Image Comics Cover by Emma Rios.   And the cover to last year's Alabaster: Grimmer Tales, cover by Greg Ruth. So what is it to be? Swipe? Homage? Work of the lightbox? Complete coincidence? Or can you just not see any similarity? Sound off in the comments… In Swipe File we present two[...]
Rob Liefeld Reminisces About Giving Folks Their Big Breaks
Rob Liefeld posted some images from the second issue to his Facebook page to showcase a new colorist named Anthony George In doing so he also recalled how many other's he opened the door for. One of the greatest feelings in comic books is giving someone their first big break #Bloodstrike #2 marks the first published[...]
Faster Than Light #1, A New Image Comic That You Make Do Amazing Things
Faster Than Light #1 is a new Image comic coming out in September by Brian Haberlin and Vandyke Brian has sent us the cover and five internal pages – but that's just the start of it. Because, as with a number of Haberlin's books, the pages of this comic have considerable amounts of AR, a way to[...]
Shane Davis's Axcend Shakes Its Booty…
Shane Davis has been sending out some neat promotional gubbins ahead of the release of his new Image comic book, Axcend, which is already playing havoc with my spellchecker It doesn't like "gubbins" either to be fair Or, indeed "spellchecker" Maybe I should turn it off again Ignorance is bliss. Anyway, here is what just turned up[...]
Sex Criminals #11 Was Already Banned On iOS – But Grindhouse #7 Is Not
It too is unavailable on the Image App along with a number of select issue compatriots as a result of Apple's iOS policies regarding sexual graphicness Which this issue certainly had But apparently issues #5-#8 are fine. Intriguingly, I was able (and did) buy a copy digitally on iTunes the night before, around 9pm ET Tuesday[...]
Kickstarter And Image Comics – What's The Deal?
And quotes Amy Reeder, co-creator and artist on Image series Rocket Girl, saying, Creators who work for the top publishers occasionally crowdfund their own projects — like Reeder and Montclare, with the Image Comics-published Rocket Girl Their Kickstarter campaign raised $38,037, which covered some living expenses and production costs before Image's royalty checks began arriving But[...]
Todd McFarlane Tells Bleeding Cool About Spawn Vs. Satan
And before him, it was confirmed to me by senior sources at Image that Grant Morrison was to have been the new writer to the title I sent a message to Paul, asking what was up. Instead, I got an answer from Spawn creator Todd McFarlane. At this point I would like to point out that I have[...]
Image Comics To Give Away Condoms With Beauty #1
Hurley comes out from Image Comics on August. The winner of a Top Cow Pilot Season promotion, it is described as, Modern society is obsessed with outward beauty What if there was a way to guarantee you could become more and more beautiful every day? What if it was a sexually transmitted disease? In the world of[...]
Preview: Starve #2 By Wood, Zezelj And Stewart
I rather liked Starve #1 by Brian Wood, Danijel Zezelj and Dave Stewart from Image Comics. Well issue #2 is out tomorrow I haven't seen any previews around the place So here you go… I rather liked Starve #1 by Brian Wood, Danijel Zezelj and Dave Stewart from Image Comics. Well issue #2 is out tomorrow[...]
Si Spurrier And Ryan Kelly's Cry Havoc To Spotlight Colourists #ImageExpo (VIDEO)
A new comic book series announced at Image Expo, with Si Spurrier and Ryan Kelly, Cry Havoc, about a London hipster whose world undergoes a supernatural shift, who travels to Afghanistan and then somewhere else. [youtube]https://youtu.be/SBXTis5xUAw[/youtube] The beginning, middle and end of her story, told side by side. And with three different colourists for each era… Whic will also[...]