AWA Studios, the new publisher punching above its weight with solid and unique titles under the editorship of Axel Alonso, released a new video at this year's virtual ComicsPro. The video featured all the current writers thanking retailers for their support and offered previews of their new and upcoming books. https://youtu.be/aWzN-QpSoKcVideo can't be loaded because […]
J Michael Straczynski has his first prose novel in twenty years coming out in the summer, Together We Will Go. The creator of Babylon 5, Jeremiah and Sense 8, author of Changeling, the first Thor movie, Underworld Awakening and World War Z films, as well as Superman, Wonder Woman Spider-Man and Thor comics, and his […]
It's Thanksgiving Week, and AWA Studios is offering a massive graphic novel giveaway to subscribers of their newsletter. AWA Studios is one of the new publishers that we are thankful to have this year. Their Upshot imprint currently offers some of the most solid and sometimes surprising titles in comics now. AWA's Upshot series have […]
AWA Studios' Upshot Studios releases E-Ratic #1 on December 2nd, and today, they revealed a preview of the book's variant covers. The official synopsis reads: "You're fifteen years old. You're suddenly granted incredible powers. Cool, right? There's only one problem: you can only use your powers for ten minutes at a time. What do you do when […]
.There are comic book series almost every comic fan knows, there are comic book characters that most everyone knows, there are specific comic books most every comic reader knows, and then there are the more obscure issues that slip through the cracks. What makes obscure comics so interesting and vital is discovering those books that […]
AWA Studios' first wave of titles are now complete and being collected into graphic novels, and the publisher is collaborating with Amazon to offer them at a discount. Each book has a discount code to take 20% off the cover price when you order it on Amazon. They include The Resistance by J. Michael Straczynski […]
AWA Studios/UPSHOT will release The Resistance: Reborns, a new digital mini-series spinoff of the studio's flagship title The Resistance, exploring the origins of the newly superpowered humans after a global pandemic on Wednesday, June 17th on AWAStudios.net. The Resistance: Reborns is a spinoff of critically acclaimed series,The Resistance by J. Michael Straczynski (Sense 8, Superman: […]
AWA Studios announced Devil's Highway, a new 5-part comic by Benjamin Percy and artist Brent Schoonover. The series will launch on July 1st. The naturalistic thriller follows a troubled policewoman in a wintry small town hunting her father's killer and finding herself on the trail of a serial killer. Devil's Highway Written by Benjamin Percy […]
AWA Studios announced a free digital version of their comic titles this week. The inaugural title is The Resistance, the company's flagship title by J. Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato Jr. The comic will be available to read on the publisher's website and on WEBTOON and Tapas. AWA are converting their comics into a vertical […]
It's interesting to read J. Michael Straczynski and Mike Deodato Jr.'s superhero comic The Resistance in light of the covid-19 crisis in real life. In New York City where I live, the mayor declared a state of emergency and predicts there could be 1,000 cases here in weeks. Broadway theatres declared they were going dark […]
New publish AWA Studios will be launching their first four comic series on March 18th. The launch titles will be The Resistance, Archangel 8, Red Border and Hotell. It's one of the strongest opening lineups I've seen in years, offering thematically dense stories with strong political and social undertones. It's very reminiscent of the type […]
Artists, Writers and Artisans, the new publishing company headed by Axel Alonso and Bill Jemas, is preparing for its official launch in 2020. The company wlll start with four inaugural titles in March 2020. In preparation for the launch, the company is launching The AWA Retailer Council, an initiative to give comics retailers incentives to […]
As we wrote before, AWA Studios' Upshot Now #0 anthology was the giveaway to get at New York Comic Con this year. It's a 140-page black and white paperback comic full of gorgeous writing and artwork. It featured three full first issues of upcoming comics and the opening pages of five other series. You get […]
AWA Studios, the new comics publisher formed by Bill Jemas and Axel Alonso, came out with a full charm offensive at their booth at NYCC. They held a spin-the-wheel lottery for con goers to win one of several ashcan comics promoting their upcoming titles. There was a spirit of fun and games at the booth […]
Superstar writer J. Michael Straczynski had a very memorable run on Amazing Spider-Man in the mid-2000s, with notable improvements like "now Spider-Man has organic web-shooters like in the movies" and the unforgettable One More Day storyline, in which Spider-Man, totally keeping within his character, makes a deal with Mephisto that sacrifices his marriage, a storyline […]
Yesterday the science fiction universe said goodbye to influential and one of kind author Harlan Ellison. Author and friend to Ellison J. Michael Straczynski took to his facebook page to write a letter, talking about where he came from and how important Harlan's friendship was to him. The pair worked together a few times, Ellison wrote two […]
During an extended series of tweets on Thursday evening, Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski expressed at length that the award winning science fiction series' current television rights holder Warner Bros. has no intention of either doing anything with the license themselves, or of letting anyone else do anything with it. Won't work. They literally told […]
It seems like whenever a show with a devout following gets canceled nowadays, everyone hopes for an online streaming service to swoop in and save the day. But what if that streaming service were the number three porn site on the internet? That's exactly the question facing the producers of Sense8, the Netflix sci-fi series […]
Fans of Netflix sci-fi drama Sense8 might want to take notice, if they want to see a third season of the show. With its popularity and cliffhanger second season finale, it's been widely assumed that the show will be renewed. But with the June deadline approaching, fans are beginning to get worried, tweeting things like: https://twitter.com/postbadsense_8/status/869307102786965506 […]
By Joe Glass We now know that Stuart Immonen is returning to Amazing Spider-Man with writer Dan Slott thanks to ComicBook.com…or wait, didn't we kinda tell everyone this days and days ago due to some actual investigation and sleuthing? I forget. Needless to say, we now all know about it, and there's even artwork too! […]