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After three years as President and Co-Publisher of Massive Publishing, which he co-founded with Michael Calero and Trevor Richardson, Kevin Roditeli states that he is stepping away to focus on his creative pursuits That's his official position and he is sticking with it. Courtesy of Kevin Roditeli Kevin Roditeli was a comic book retailer in Quebec, Canada,[...]

Mike Hoffman has been self-publishing his Eerie-alike horror anthology Eyrie for several years now as Mike Hoffman International, but this year, it was solicited in Diamond Previews for the first time for publication in April. Well, that is not to be, instead it has been pulled and has joined the new listings from Lunar Distribution through Massive Indies, joining[...]

Mercy Sparx is to be included in the first wave of the Massive Indies distribution partnership with Lunar Distribution. Last month, Massive Publishing announced a distribution program called Massive Indies, in which Massive acts as a sub-distributor between smaller publishers and Lunar Distribution, the exclusive distributor of DC Comics and Image Comics titles to the direct market of[...]

Massive Publishing is launching Detective Kaiju #1 by Michael Calero and Kit Wallis in their May 2025 solicits and solicitations, spinning out of their Quested series, and definitely, definitely not in any way related to Huge Detective, published by Titan Comics last year… Detective Kaiju #1 Detective Kaiju #1 DETECTIVE KAIJU #1 RELEASE: MAY 14TH PGS: 32 RATING: TEEN GENRE: NOIR/ACTION Price: $4.99 Writer: MICHAEL CALERO Artist: KIT WALLIS Cover[...]

Astrobots, the giant robot fighting comic written by Transformers legend Simon Furman returns from Massive Publishing in their April 2024 solicits and solicitations, now with artist Phillip Knott of IDW's Transformers: Last Bot Standing for volume 2… Astrobots Vol 2 From Massive  ASTROBOTS VOL 2 #1 CVR A KNOTT CONNECTING (MR) MASSIVE FEB251037 FEB251038 – ASTROBOTS VOL 2 #1 CVR[...]

Earlier yesterday morning, Bleeding Cool reported that in the light of Diamond Comic Distributors going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, that Massive Publishing had joined up with Lunar Distribution instead but had agreed to launch Massive Indies as a new sub-distribution initiative for independent publishers and self-published studios to go through Lunar without actually dealing with[...]

Something many other publishers have been scrambling for without even getting a reply, Massive Publishing has joined Lunar Distribution This comes after being exclusive to Diamond Comic Distributors, which is currently going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy and not paying their bills Bleeding Cool has previously reported on publishers in a similar situation but cannot even[...]

Massive Publishing, which incorporates WhatNot Comics, has stated that it is ending its exclusive distribution deal with Diamond Comic Distributors over its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing Last week, they posted the following, "Like many of you this morning, we learned that our distributor, Diamond Comics Distributors, have filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy In their statement[...]

Michael Calero and Kit Wallis launch Quested spinoff series Detective Kaiju in Massive/Whatnot's March 2025 solicits and solicitations… he's a kaiju, he wears a trenchcoat, he asks "just one more thing"… #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ DETECTIVE KAIJU #1 (OF[...]

Andrew Tarusov, Brendan Jones and Igor Vyunyshev launch Pinupocalypse in Massive/Whatnot/Sumerian's January 2025 solicits and solicitations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ PINUPOCALYPSE #1 (OF 6) CVR A FOXY FEATURE (MR) MASSIVE NOV240921 NOV240922 – PINUPOCALYPSE #1 (OF 6) CVR B TARUSOV (MR) NOV240923[...]

Massive/WhatNot/Sumerian have their December 2024 solicits and solicitations, including the collection of Ben Templesmith and the hosts of the Comic Tom 101 YouTube Channel Tom Garcia and Ryan Sargeant's series Crashdown. #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 */ CRASHDOWN TP VOL 01[...]

Well, at least Tony Hawk makes it into the future. By randy stewart from Seattle, WA, USA – Tony Hawk – 140TC, CC BY-SA 2.0, As well as more The Crow with James O'Barr and John Wagner, Liquid Kill, Vampiro Rockabilly Apocalypse and Eye Lie Popeye all part of Massive, Massive Select and WhatNot Comics November 2024 solicits[...]

IDW's new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Nation #1 gets a Massive Select exclusive cover set with Massive's Michael Calero homaging Jim Lee's classic mutant Marvel Comics cover to X-Men #1 You can see what they did there. Here is how the original matches up. And its original artwork, which sold for a pretty penny recently.   Here's how[...]

Napalm launch their new series Vampiro Rockabilly Apocalypse in the October 2024 solicits and solicitations for Massive Entertainment, as well as the first Astrro Bots collection, putting Simon Furman's Transformers credentials on the cover And the return of Liquid Kill with volume 2 by Max Hoven, Aaron Crow and Gabriel Iumazark. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:[...]

But Josh Blaylock of Devil's Due just can't let go. At San Diego Comic-Con, he announced a new series with Massive Publishing, launching an ashcan at the show for the new series The Disavowed, described as GI Joe meets The Boys. But mostly, GI Joe meets Josh Blaylock and is drawn by Pop Mhan. This new five-issue comic series follows the rise and fall[...]

Ed Brisson, Fred Kennedy, Chris Johnson and Nick Marinkovich launch a new Assassins Creed: Visionaries comic book in Massive's September 2024 solicits and solicitations, with two stories, one for Powder and another for Decima, going further back in time than Assassin's Creed has gone before, in any medium As well as the last remnants from[...]

Adam Lawson, Maxi Dall'o and Mike Spicer launch Kids & Monsters #1 in Massive's August 2024 solicits and solicitations, as well as the first collection of Liquid Kill, and more issues of Ramgod, Luchaverse Catalyst, and the launch of Eye Lie Popeye from Marcus Williams, for the final eye when that character will be in[...]

Don't expect any new Massive/WhatNot/Sumerian books solicited for June 2024 Instead, they are doing something else for the month before San Diego Comic-Con Massive Select, for their second anniversary, selling some of their exclusive, variant and premium covers of previously published titles direct to comic book retailers, without the tiers, qualifications or convention-exclusive nature[...]

Which is why Massive/WhatNot/Sumerian is running ahead with a licensed Popeye comic while they still get to have the exclusivity But also why they appear to be getting a little more leeway with how they portray him With Eye Lie Popeye by Marcus Williams launching for Free Comic Book Day in May, it will be [...]

Sean Murphy's Zorro: Man Of The Dead comes to an end with its fourth issue in Massive/WhatNot/Sumerian's April 2024 solicits and solicitations With new issues of JPG, Steve Schuitt and Alessandro Micelli's Ninja Funk, Misfortune's Eyes  by Brooklynn Prince and Aliz Fernandez, Quested by Michael Calero, Thomas Parson and Kit Wallis, The Fog by Steve Ekstrom, Marco Fodera and Crashdown by[...]

JPG, Steve Schuitt and Alessandro Micelli are launching a new Ninja Funk series from Massive/WhatNot/Sumerian in their March 2024 solicits and solicitations As well as new series Misfortune's Eyes #1 by Brooklynn Prince and Aliz Fernandez as well as more Sean Murphy Zorro, #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px[...]

Eye Lie Popeye is a new series from Massive Entertainment in 2024 in which the King Features cartoon character Popeye has been reinvented for a modern era as a manga warior in the manner of Dragonball to One Piece And telling us just how he lost his eye He's Popeye The Sailor Moon, he's Popeye[...]

More details to follow!" As well as plenty of that concept art, including surprising vehicles, suggesting this may be set in the modern day. Then has listed the project on Kickstarter after he got Massive Publishing, the publisher of Plot Holes, to pick it up "The idea for this book is Don Quixote meets Narcos, told[...]

Tom Garcia and Ryan Sargeant, the hosts of the ComicTom101 YouTube Channel, are teaming up with Ben Templesmith for a new comic book, Crashdown, from Massive/WhatNot in their January 2024 solicits and solicitations As well as the new Zorro comic book from Sean Murphy And The Dillinger Escape Plan: One Of Us Is The Killer[...]

Massive/Whatnot/Sumerian have released their December 2023 solicits and solicitations, beginning with Washed In Blood #1 by Kevin Roditeli, Rob Cannon and Kostas Pantoulas Previously published by Sumerian when it was known as Behemoth back in 2020 under the name Freak Snow, it's being repurposed for 2023 and 2024 While Quested gets its second series from[...]

and now Massive/Sumerian/Whatnot are launching a Basic Instinct comic book, by Sam Freeman and Vanesa R Del Rey as a sequel to the original As well as a new Assassin's Creed: Visionaries title by Rafael Albuquerque and more. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see[...]

Cullen Bunn's Body Bag is a comic book published by Massive Publishing, in a black polybag, with no details on what is inside it, or who is drawing it, other than it is written by Cullen Bunn And that, Dan Slott, is how you keep a comic book's content super secret From his Overlook imprint,[...]

Massive Publishing & Studio Lounak are to publish new Assassin's Creed comics based on the popular Ubisoft games franchise, beginning with Visionaries #1 in November In Visionaries, artists from around the world are given carte blanche to create and share their own personal take on the Assassin's Creed franchise by creating their own assassin Each[...]

WhatNot Publishing began as a spinoff of the Whatnot streaming online sales channel,later revealed to be part of Massive Publishing, and led to a Massive name change They also bought publishing rights to Heavy Metal Magazine for a Vol 2 relaunch but have not actually published an issue, despite the first one being lined up[...]

Massive Publishing (home of the Whatnot Publishing imprint, and which recently underwent a public facing name change) has named author, comic book writer, and screenwriter Blake Northcott as Editor-in-Chief of their line, effective immediately. Blake Northcott is best known to Bleeding Cool readers for working with Mark Millar, Sean Gordon Murphy, Mitch & Elizabeth Breitweiser, Scott Lobdell[...]