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Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, the creative team behind Monstress, have sold their latest project, a three-volume graphic novel series The Night Eaters, to Abrams ComicArts And the first volume The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night already has an announced 100,000 print run.vMonstress has remained a strong seller for Image Comics, and the[...]

The spinoff from creators Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, Monstress: Talk-Stories, will follow the character Kippa as she tells the story of a significant moment from her childhood This two-issue miniseries will hold the Eisner award-winning series' fans over during the break between the fifth and sixth story arcs, as the series standard numbering will continue[...]

and his "Comics Omnivore" program has become a new widely adopted tool for retailers and publishers to attract new readers. Marjorie Liu (Down) Novelist-turned-comics writer, the first woman to win Best Writer at the Eisners this year, the powerhouse behind chart-topping Monstress, she also let a path of superheroes at Marvel and is most associated with[...]

Monstress is highly recommended for fans of high fantasy, epic monsters, beast people, and kick-ass female characters. SUMMARY: Script: Marjorie Liu; Art: Sana Takeda; Letters: Rus Wooton; Editor: Jennifer M Smith; Published By: Image Comics; Release Date: May 22, 2019; Cover Price: $3.99, 32 Pages. [rwp-review-ratings id="0"] [rwp-review-form id="0"] [rwp_box_recap id="0"] There is something so amazingly earnest[...]

This installment of Monstress finds Maika and Zinn reflecting on their lives as they explore Zinn's sanctum and navigate the automatons within. Does it make for a good read?

The meaning of said terminology still alludes me to a point, but I could completely understand other people being completely turned off by the inundation of Monstress lore terms throughout the opening pages. In fairness, Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda have built a massively complex world with a deep history in Monstress, and it is one[...]

Rosilyne Bean wrote from New York Comic Con 2017: Today, Image Comics closed NYCC with a panel entitled Image Comics: The Future of Storytelling. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ David Brothers (Branding Manager at Image Comics) hosted the panel, and was[...]

By John Odum Moderator Sona Charaipotra and creators Keith Chow (founder of Nerds of Color), writers Marjorie Liu, Sarah Kuhn (Heroine Complex), and Preeti Chhibber (Book Riot) made up the Asian American #WeNeedDiverseBooks panel, now focused on promoting a new hashtag: #whitewashedout. #whitewashedout was the brainchild of Ellen Oh (who had been scheduled, but wasn't able to[...]

This room was somewhat smaller than the one where he shared the stage with other Marvel writers, but the panel was considerably more engaging, with the guests sharing candid stories about their experiences in the industry, their struggles over writing about stereotypes, and wanting to create more diverse worlds in comics. Joining Pak (Totally Awesome Hulk,[...]

Attendees were greeted by a large image of a panel from Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's New X-Men, featuring Emma Frost, which was pointed out as an important representation of the importance of the growing diversity of creators and characters in comics. With a panel including Marjorie Liu, Jeremy Whitley, Shannon Watters, Joey Stern, Amber Garza[...]

Fan favorite Chip Zdarsky (Sex Criminals, Kaptara), may have been the big draw but the rest of the panel more than held their own with Kody Chamberlin (Punks), Keenan Marshall Keller (The Humans), Marjorie Liu (Monstress), Alex Grecian (Rasputin), and Michael Moreci (Roche Limit). Some of the panel highlights included when Zdarsky was asked to describe Kaptara he said quite simply, "It's He-Man." Chamberlin talked about how[...]

Marjorie Liu is at today's Image Expo event Paranormal romance novelist, Liu has worked almost exclusively in comics for Marvel, with small dalliances for Red Sonja at Dynamite and for Jim Henson's Storyteller at Archaia. But now she has announced Monstress, a new Image Comics title at the show, with Sana Takeda, who worked with Liu on Marvel's X-23.  Clearly a fruitful relationship! An alternate[...]

Image Expo already announced that Marjorie Liu would be attending January's Image Expo event Paranormal romance novelist, Liu has worked almost exclusively in comics for Marvel, with small dalliances for Red Sonja at Dynamite and for Jim Henson's Storyteller at Archaia. But now she seems set to announce a new Image Comics title at the show. Image Comics has received flak for not[...]

With Brian K Vaughan, Todd McFarlane, Scott Snyder, Emi Lenox, Jeff Lemire and Marjorie Liu making announcements, with surprise guests yet to be announced. All names mentioned have existing mage comics out – except for Marjorie Lui. Tickets on sale here for 20 or $50 VIP Bleeing Cool will have folk there reporting back And they're also running[...]

In October, Marvel only had 3 female writers credits, and 2 of those were from their own special anthology, Marvel NOW What? Not only did Marvel only have ONE female writer on a regular title in October, Marjorie Liu on Astonishing X-Men, but it was also the book's final issue! This is how your numbers[...]

Not even a full Smurfette. Comedian Sara Schaefer is contributing to What If Now? Kelly Sue's Captain Marvel is cancelled as is Marjorie Liu's Astonishing X-Men. When DeConnick's new Captain Marvel series launches, she'll have one-and-a-half books, but Marvel will still have one female writer on an ongoing book, it seems It's worth considering at the NYCC,[...]

We ran rumours of this the other week. But sadly it's true, Astonishng X-Men, the comic that gave us Joss Whedon and John Cassaday on X-Men and later the marriage of Northstar and Kyle that hit the headlines internationally, is no more from October. ASTONISHING X-MEN #68 MARJORIE LIU GABRIEL HERNANDEZ WALTA Cover by PHIL NOTO •Through thick and thin, from[...]

Coming down the pipe... If you are enjoying Si Spurrier's run on X-Men Legacy, then his five issue miniseries X-Club will be 99 cents an issue tomorrow on

Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool reported on Majorie Liu's remarks that she had been setting up an all-women superhero comic book with her Astonishing

Louis Falcetti reporting from Bleeding Cool, lets us know that Astonishing X-Men writer Marjorie Liu pitched an all female superhero team starring X-23, The Black Widow, Elektra and Mystique Mike Perkins was on board to draw it, it would have been a secret team in the Marvel Universe and it was pitched a year ago. Marvel[...]