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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[...]
Eye Lie Popeye in Massive/Whatnot's May 2024 Solicits
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 [...]
Cover image for ZORRO MAN OF THE DEAD #4 (OF 4) CVR A MURPHY (MR)
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[...]
Cover image for NINJA FUNK BAD MUSIC #1 (OF 4) CVR A MACK (MR)
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[...]
Cover image for FCBD 2024 EYE LIE POPEYE #1
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[...]
Zorro Picks Up A Foil To Unlock Retailer Covers On Kickstarter
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[...]
Comic Tom & Ben Templesmith's Crashdown- Massive January 2024 Solicits
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[...]
Cover image for QUESTED VOL 2 #1 CVR D CALERO BATTLE CHASERS HOMAGE
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[...]
Cover image for BASIC INSTINCT #1 (OF 4) CVR E 50 COPY INCV HILL (MR)
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[...]
What's Inside Cullen Bunn's Body Bag in Massive October 2023 Solicits
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,[...]
Rafael Albuquerque Creates New Assassin's Guild Comics For Massive
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[...]
Cover image for HARRIET TUBMAN DEMON SLAYER #1 CVR C WHITE (MR)
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[...]
Blake Northcott, Editor-in-Chief of Massive, The New Name For WhatNot
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[...]
Diamond Comic Distributors Is Suddenly Very Busy With News
We look forward to many years of working with another across all markets." There was also the news that Massive Publishing- the new name for Whatnot Publishing – would join Diamond's Deluxe Tier of publishers, alongside AfterShock Comics, Titan Comics, Ablaze Publishing, Frank Miller Presents and now Opus Comics, guaranteeing preferred coverage in the Previews catalogue[...]
Sean Murphy's Plot Holes in Massive/Whatnot August 2023 Solicits
It began shipping out in January 2022, And now it will be published by Massive, the new name for Whatnot Publishing, who are now a Deluxe publisher at Diamond Comics… here are the full Massive-Whatnot-Heavy Metal solicitations for August 2023. The Plot Holes are a squad of fictional warriors who transport themselves into the pages of[...]
The division
Massive Entertainment will be taking the lead on the game once again with Redstorm, Reflections, Ubisoft Annecy, Ubisoft Bucharest and Ubisoft Shanghai all providing support In a stream, the team said it wouldn't be talking about any further details surrounding the game until E3, where the title will get a full reveal. That's all we have to[...]
Forty-Three Thoughts About Forty-Three Comics – Superior Spider-Man Team Up, Revolutionary War, A+X, Justice League Dark, Superman, Sex, Satellite Sam, Alex + Ada, Revenge, Real Heroes, Fatale, Amazing X-Men, Origin II, Silver Surfer, Deadpool, Iron Patriot, Brilliant, Hawkeye, Survive, Game Of Thrones, Red Sonja, GI Joe, Ghostbusters, Godzilla, Transformers, Furious, Massive, Bloodhound, Tomb Raider, King Conan, Serenity, Vandroid, Pariah, Elfquest, Mind MGMT, Captain Midnight, Mass Effect, Empowered, Star Wars Legends, Blackout, Bravest Warriors, Midas Flesh And Hacktivist
Introducing the Garth Ennis of massive space robots… Game Of Thrones #19 starts us off where we mean to continue, with male genital mutilation, nice and early on a Wednesday. And, from the same publisher Legends Of Red Sonja #5 gives us someone who appears quite willing to do the same to the reader If the reader[...]
Thirty-Nine Thoughts About Thirty-Nine Comics – All New Invaders, Batman, Mighty Avengers, Batman And Robin, Hawkeye, Transformers, Animal Man, Origin II, X-Factor, Wonder Woman, Sex, Harley Quinn, Batwoman, X-Men, Midas Flesh, Jinnrise, Star Wars, Pretty Deadly, Deadly Class, Dead Body Road, Chew, Umbral, Krampus, Zero, Bad Ass, Peanuts, TMNT, Elfquest, Mind MGMT, Dark Horse Presents, Captain Midnight, X-Files, Massive, Judge Dredd, Mega City Two, The Mocking Dead, Samurai Jack and Aphrodite XI Hidden Files
Glass gets broken, but teeth stay intact. Massive #19 sees the Russians use every part of the helicopter, from tip to tail. X-Files Conspiracy: Ghostbusters #1 does bring up the question of exactly where Egon got his hair in The Real Ghostbusters. Judge Dredd #15 makes me wonder… exactly how can you listen well through that bloody[...]
Thirty-Three Thoughts About Thirty-Three Comics –  Young Avengers, Tom Strong, Nova, Secret Avengers, Now What?, Haunted Horror, Justice League Dark, Great Pacific, Satellite Sam, Sex Criminals, Uncanny Avengers, Pretty Deadly, Judge Dredd, Velvet, Infinity Hunt, Conan, Infinity Heist, Larfleez, Savage Wolverine, Rat Queens, Massive, Doctor Who, Rocketeer/Spirit, Samurai Jack, Mind MGMT, Kiss Me Satan, Zombie War, Fever Ridge, Dark Horse Presents, Vampirella, Army Of Darkness/Reanimator and Thunderbolts
That is, as the title of the book might suggest, Massive. Doctor Who turns off the television Seriously, if he tries this trick on November the 23rd I'm not going to be happy And, as we learned earlier, neither will Bunker. Don't you hate it when car passengers fight while you're actually trying to drive them somewhere?[...]
Twenty Thoughts About Twenty Comics Today – Morning Glories, Secret, Justice League, Itty Bitty Hellboy, Super Dinosaur, Angel And Faith, Mind The Gap, Skullkickers, Lazarus, Massive, Think Tank, Sex, Peanuts, Steed And Mrs Peel, Fanboys Vs Zombies, Regular Show, Uncanny X-Men, New Avengers, Wolverine & The X-Men, Uncanny Avengers
Thank you Massive for joining the dots on that one But I need something uplifting something silly, something sex-free, something… Something Itty Bitty Hellboy! There we go, from the Aw Yeah guys, a kids version of Hellboy that's just as entertaining as the real thing And as a result, probably read by forty year olds like[...]
PODCAST: Pop Culture Hounding Brian Wood
First up we tackle Adam Egypt Mortimer & Darick Robertson's Ballistic #1 from Black Mask Studios; then delve into Tommie Kelly's latest webcomic saga Them; and finally turn our attention to Brian Wood, Garry Brown & Jordie Bellaire's The Massive #13 from Dark Horse Comics Plus we give shout-outs to Matthew Craig & Jesse Young,[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks – From Half Past Danger To X-Men
Next week sees the launch of Half Past Danger from IDW, Bounce from Image, Akaneiro from Dark Horse, Green Team and a big expensive Green Lantern #20 from DC, Occupy Comics from Black Mask and Tank Girl from Titan. The week after that? Wake #1 and X-Men #1! DARK HORSE COMICS AKANEIRO #1 $3.99 DARK HORSE PRESENTS #24 (MR) $7.99 DEEP SEA[...]
The Massive Awakes
Where so much of DMZ was about Matty struggling to maintain journalistic distance and eventually realizing he couldn't, The Massive has no illusions of neutrality Instead, this is a story about an unusually well-equipped direct action group, trying to find their way in a world where there are no people to take direct action against[...]
Tales From ECCC: Brian Wood Is Massive
And this is what we learned. Brian Wood  might stay on Conan after his contract is up with 25 but no official word yet. He promised last year that Massive would have backmatter pages exclusive to the comic but they disappeared Why? Time is the biggest issue, but he plans to bring them back but not to[...]
Review: The Massive #3
His latest work, for Dark Horse, The Massive is another tale in the proud Wood tradition of dark, modern comics after bringing readers through the DMZ of NYC and the heartbreaking lyricism of DEMO. If you haven't read The Massive, #3 just came out this week wrapping up Part One of the story It's a dense,[...]
The Massive #1 by Brian Wood, Kristian Donaldson and Dave Stewart
Elliot Cole reviews The Massive for Bleeding Cool; The Massive, Wood's latest big new thing, regards a crew of Greenpeace-ish activists aboard a boat amidst (literally) tumultuous times. It's a great start to a series, apart from tiny thing which I'll get to presently, and the switching colour palettes easily guide you through and there's a nice[...]