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Image Comics got things off a little early by holding the Image Expo prior to preview night and then still had panels at the show Here is a recap of our coverage of their panels and announcements. Eric Stephenson's Key Note Speech Grant Morrison To Return To Spawn? We'll Find Out Very Shortly Here Is Your Image Comics[...]

The just-launched Image series Outcast from Kirkman and Paul Azaceta is already in pre-production at Cinemax. I doubt we've seen the last of this sort of tweet from Kirkman before the end of the weekend…   BIG NEWS @comic_con Demons are the new Zombies! #OUTCAST pilot into pre-production @Cinemax Thx to partners @FoxIntChannels @Skybound #sdcc — Robert Kirkman (@RobertKirkman)[...]

Especially if they weren't going to buy the new Chew one shot starring Poyo.. Next week's Chew: Warrior Chicken Poyo #1, available in advance this week at San Diego Comic Con, sees our feathered friend not only beating back the vagaries of bad taste, but also violating the very laws of reality by taking a trip[...]

 But anyway, here's an archive of Joe Glass's Image Panel liveblog: The first Image panel of Comic-proper, featuring Nick Dragotta, Rick Remender, Richard Starkings, Jason Latour, Stuart Moore and Ryan Burton Follow the panel live here! Also at the panel we have Declan Shalvey, who's new title with Warren Ellis was announced yesterday at the Image Expo[...]

You can read the liveblog of the first Image Comics panel, the sci-fi themed I Is For Infinity, at San Diego Comic Con here, from Joe Glass. Featuring Nick Dragotta, Rick Remender, Richard Starkings, Jason Latour, Stuart Moore and Ryan Burton. Talking about a number of books talked about at Image Expo, Rick Remender also made a[...]

Image Comics showed off a bunch of previews at Image Expo yesterday, some we'd already seen for Rasputin and Wytches but a bunch that were new to us, including Fraction and Ward's Ody-C, Busiek and Dewey's Tooth & Claw, Williamson and Bressan's Birthright and Gibson, Leon and Churchland's From Under Mountains. Here, with plenty of glare[...]

Whether at the Image booth #2729 or the Top Cow booth #2629…. For ten dollars a pop, here are your San Diego Exclusive covers for Low #1, The Wicked + The Divine #2, Supreme: Blue Rose #1, Chew: Warrior Chicken Poyo #1, Nailbiter #3 Manifest Destiny #8 and The Walking Dead #129, Tech Jacket #1 and Aphrodite[...]

Entertainment Weekly has a six page preview of Scott Snyder and Jock's Wytches from Image Comics, out in October. And now, so do we. Shhh, don't tell anyone. And Scott Snyder gives a little introduction to the series too… The Oxford English Dictionary defines a witch as a woman with magic powers And admit it, I say "witch" and[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

With no cover variants of any sort. It sold out a week before release. The title is eligible for Image's returnability program Although no one is returning it, it's a $14 book on eBay, Image got 4,000 orders they couldn't fill and now have a massive second printing… But that means that Diamond discounted the reported figure by 10%,[...]

A new comic series from Jacob Semahn and Jorge Corona,  Goners from Image Comics, out in October. From the colonization of Roanoke to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Latimer Family throughout the centuries have been the famous first line of defense against all that go bump in the night The modern-day progenitor, Raleigh Latimer, and his[...]

Once upon a time, Brian Bendis used to write Todd McFarlane Spawn spinoff comicbooks. Then Bendis took the job writing Ultimate Spider-Man and McFarlane

In for a penny… First Ben Templesmith's The Squidder from IDW gets a second printing… Hack/Slash: Son Of Sam Haim #1, Nailbiter #3 and Southern Bastards #2 have all sold it of their print runs and Image Comics is putting out a second printing for each But nly guaranteed to be avalable if they are ordered today[...]

Image Comics  are staging their third Image Expo at San Diego in the Hilton Bayfront (to the left of the centre), also known as the Hilton Scott Pilgrim after a particularly successful hotel advertising covering a couple of years ago And they are doing it on the afternoon just before the San Diego Comic Con[...]

Or rather, that should be readers of Sex Criminals and readers of Saga… Jim Zubkavich was the fellow who renamed his Image comic Skullkickers as All-New Skullkickers, Superior Skullkickers, Uncanny Skullkickers, what ever adjective was doing well at the time So he's no stranger to the exploitative PR stunt to push his comic. Which is why we[...]

Enormous was an enormous comic from Image. It left. It is now being published by the far smaller publisher 215 Ink The demand for it however, hasn't dropped, even though retailers reduced their order dramatically or the new series. You know what happens next, right? The original Image once shot sells for $8 on eBay. The new 215 Ink issue, just[...]

This is the Week Of Howard Chaykin... a look through the days comics. Issue by issue, Moon Knight seems to be increasing in popularity, as a new

Today's Saga #20 is lovely. A beautiful book full of irresponsible parents, angry children, massacres, dancing and copious drugs taking. What's not to

It looks like Image Comics has a new hit on their hands I understand that not only has Outcast #1 by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta sold out of its print run from Diamond Comic Distrubutors (out in stores tomorrow and going to second print for next month) but that its total sales dwarf both[...]

Barbiere is working on Five Ghosts from Image Comics, Solar: Man of the Adam at Dynamite, and other projects too "Pulp Goodness" was another great choice for a Sunday panel at Heroes Con, with a wide range of creators working with legacy and new characters, and determining how to navigate influence and research while[...]

There's a lot to be said about The Wicked + The Divine #1. And thankfully writer Kieron Gillen has said most of it right here. Some things I'm glad I got,

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine #1, published this week, has sold out of 53,000 copies from Image Comics across nine covers, and has gone to a second printing. They also had a launch party for the comic, with attendees from comic books (Mark Buckingham and Al Ewing) and Hollywood (Felicia Day)[...]

I think that in this 2 year instance from 1995 to part of 1997, we were the closest that we have ever been to becoming a dinosaur as an industry. BC: Around the same time, there was this little upstart company called Image putting books out How did the launch of Image affect your store? MIKE: The[...]

In his Orbital Operations newsletter, Warren Ellis writes, Oh, the continuing stoooory of the TREES #1 overprint: according to Image, we have under 6000 copies of the overprint left That means we sold around 44,000 copies of TREES #1 Orders for TREES #2 are "over 30K" according to Image, so we approved an overprint to 35,000[...]

With the news that the Image Comics title Rat Queens had been optioned for a movie appearing in Variety, the speculators went to town, snapping up copies on sale on eBay for anything up to around $3.50 each. when three days ago, it would sell for $1.20 And then putting them back on eBay This listing with[...]

We mentioned Mark Millar had a mangaesque Millarworld project on the books that he was looking for artists for. But there's more to come. Millar writes,

But its the third new launch issue with a female lead character from Image Comics in September. This would be the first time Image Comics has launched three new comic book series starring women in the same month Ever. Welcome to the new ongoing series Oddly Normal by Otis Frampton. Oddly inherited her pointed ears and emerald hair[...]

Image Comics continue to lead the way in publishing new science-fiction comics, with a new series starting in September from Hoax Hunters' Michael Moreci with Vic Malhotra. Roche Limit is a crime series set in a colony on on the edge of an energy anomoly attracting the worst of the universe to its door And a[...]

well… That, folks, the only face on the page you may not recognise is Chris Thompson from Orbital and Bleeding Cool. Happy birthday Chris! Revenge #4 is published tomorrow from Image Comics It's great. Chris Thompson, presenter of the Pop Culture Hounding podcasts that appear on Bleeding Cool, also works at Orbital Comics in London. And his keenness for[...]

Even with a snake.   And The Superannuated Man shows is the kind of comic book that Image are happy to publish – and no one else in the front of Previews will Hell to the Yes, indeed…   So… what did you read today?   Plans! Everyone needs a plan! Mine is to read an awful lot of comic[...]