The Massive-Verse is a fictional shared universe, created by Kyle Higgins and published by Image Comics, including comics such as Radiant Black and its spin-offs Radiant Pink, Supermassive, Inferno Girl Red, The Dead Lucky, Radiant Red, No/One, and Rogue Sun, published since 2021 and retroactively established to have begun with C.O.W.L., first published in May[...]
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A little bird over at Image Comics has shared that the news that sales of Radiant Black collections have gone through the roof and are now pacing Saga's sales trajectory Now I'm told Radiant Black trade paperbacks sell from Image Comics in the high hundreds every single week Stores are racking them together and the reorders just[...]
Back in July, Bleeding Cool pointed out how Radiant Black #25 was published by Image Comics not just with variant covers But it also had variant endings The comic book saw a decision being between leading characters Marshall and Nathan as to which would be Radiant Black going forward Those who picked up the A cover[...]
Radiant Black #25 was published last week from Image Comics with, as common, variant covers But it also had variant endings The comic book saw a decision being between leading characters Marshall and Nathan as to which would be Radiant Black going forward Those who picked up the A cover or bought the digital copy[...]
We'll have some special guests, some surprise announcements and considering this panel is also on the heels of Radiant Black #25, I have a feeling we'll have a lot to talk about."
Kyle Higgins to Spill Massive-Verse Secrets At San Diego Comic-Con
Panel guests will include Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato, Melissa Flores and Meghan Camarena, moderated by[...]
We're hearing that today's Radiant Black #24 has another one of Kyle Higgins' sneaky QR codes buried somewhere in its pages that redirects to a Website allowing readers to cast their vote—not for Biden, DeSantis, Kennedy or Trump, but for who will be Radiant Black? What's this mean exactly? Will Radiant Black's fate really lie[...]
And they just ran this Kyle Higgins video talking about the big upcoming crossover event for the Massive-Verse, The Catalyst War, beginning with Radiant Black #25 in July "Everything has been leading to this moment", apparently, and just how they have tried to show what superhero cross-continuity could be, so this is what a crossover[...]
Kyle Higgins, Brian Buccellato and Geraldo Borges are spinning off a new comic book series, a true crime-style superhero comic, called No/One, a ten-issue series that will join Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, Radiant Red, The Dead Lucky, Radiant Pink, Inferno Girl Red, and C.O.W.L in the expanding shared Massive-Verse published by Image Comics, and will[...]
Kyle Higgins has announced a very special edition of his Massive-Verse title from Image Comics, Radiant Black #18 that will be only available at New York Comic-Con this year, the Radiant Black #18 INFINITE EDITION With capital letters, just like that The standard edition was published yesterday, which was designed to tell one story across all[...]
The lets-do-Power-Rangers-bettter-than-Boom-Studios comic book Radiant Black continues its spinoff into the shared universe of the Massive-Verse at Image Comics,as Radiant Pink gets their own comic book series in December Radiant Pink written by Meghan Camarena, Melissa Flores and drawn by Emma Kubert as a five issue miniseries, joining Radiant Black, Rogue Sun, Radiant Red, The[...]
A two-page teaser is intended to expand the Radiant Black universe that has been seen in Radiant Black, Radiant Red and Supermassive with an ongoing Rogue Sun to come next week, and all tied into the Image Comics superhero universe that includes Invincible and Savage Dragon.
From Supermassive One Shot, published by Image Comics
Melissa Flores previously[...]
So as we get ready to put a final dagger in 2021 tonight, I thought it might be fun to drop some out-of-context teases for (some) of what's coming next year."
Some are books we know, Ordinary Gods and Radiant Black Some from books we know are coming, like Supermassive, Rogue Sun and Radiant Red Some[...]
With signs of each other's characters appearing in each other's comics, we got the word that it would begin in Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa's Radiant Black. It was the crossover with Inferno Girl Red, and appearance of Savage Dragon that things were set in that direction But in February 2022, there are two new comics[...]
PrintWatch: We get news of second printings for Nocterra #6 and Radiant Black #7 from Image Comics, as well as Dark Blood #2 from Boom Studios, Marvel Comics ramping back up their second printings with Kang #1, Moon Knight #2, Star Wars: War Of The Bounty Hunters #3 and Star Wars High Republic #8.
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PrintWatch: Radiant Black #5 by Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa and published by Image Comics is getting a third printing, alongside a black-and-white 1:10 variant.
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PrintWatch: While The Nice House On The Lake #2 follows[...]
PrintWatch: Planet-Size X-Men #1 and WEB Of Spider-Man #1 from Marvel Comics, Impure #1 from Scout Comics, and Radiant Black #5 from Image Comics are all going to second printings Planet-Size X-Men #1 will also be getting a 1:25 second print variant cover by Olivier Coipel.
PrintWatch: Impure #1
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Which is very handy.
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PrintWatch: Radiant Black #3 by Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa is being rushed back to print by Image Comics yet again with a new cover by Geraldo Borges and Marcelo Costa In Radiant[...]
And also making the print runs of second printings a little moe financially savvy.
The comics currently part of that are Ice Cream Man #24, The Good Asian #1, Radiant Black #4 and Time After Time #1 Herw are the listings and covers where available.
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We love to see comics really embrace innovative storytelling and the latest issue out this week of Radiant Black promises fans just that—this story stands out a bit more than the others It's a deep dive into The Writing Life—and boy does it reveal some truths about trying to maintain creativity amongst a busy schedule[...]
No cover art yet.
PrintWatch: The Joker #2 from James Tynion and Guillem March has gone to a second printing with a new Vengeance: Daughter Of Bane cover, with a 1:25 sketch variant of the one-per-store variant of #1, coming to comic book stores for the 18th of May 2021.
The Joker #2 second printing
The Joker #2 second[...]
Issue #6 of the new Image Comics series Radiant Black by Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa will have… less Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa Because it will contain an in-universe story by Ultimate Spider-Man and Archer & Armstrong artist David Lafuente and Cherish Chen, writer/producer and co-creator of the RocketJump Film School.
Who's under the helmet of[...]
The project is edited by the other Ultraman co-writer Kyle Higgins, whose Radiant Black has given new life to the shared universe of Image Comics this year.
And there may also be some continuity between Radiant Black and Inferno Girl Red Radiant Black announced the comic in its back matter and there's more to come[...]
From the critically acclaimed creators of The Modern Witch Tarot Deck and Long Lost comes WITCHBLOOD, a blend of action, lore, and Americana-perfect for fans of Buffy and American Gods.
PrintWatch: Radiant Black #2 by Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa from Image Comics, has also sold out at Diamond and has gone back to print with a[...]
Last year we told you that Comics Vault Live, the monthly streaming show produced by Skybound and hosted by Shawn "Big Clutch" Kirkham, was delivering some returns for fans who purchased the limited edition variants covers with CGC grading – and this year we let you know those $100 covers were selling for a massive[...]
As are two launch issues from Image Comics, Deep Water #1 and Radiant Black #1, both selling out and getting second print runs.
PrintWatch: Last Ronin #2 Second Print
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(W) Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz (A) Kevin Eastman, Esau Escorza, Issac Escorza
Secrets are revealed as we begin[...]
And today, with the launch of Radiant Black #1 from Image Comics, Kyle Higgins is getting his, launching Black Narrative Press.
And on that last point I want to share two final bits of news this month First, if you take a peek at our inside front cover, you may notice a small logo for BLACK[...]
For new comics, there was a lot of Black around – Radiant Black even topped the second printing of The King In Black, and Carnage Black White And Blood.
Star Wars High Republic, Haha and Radiant Black Top Advance Reorders
Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders[...]
It seems Kyle Higgins and Marcelo Costa have a high impact vision for the future of Radiant Black and I'm told from a source inside Image that that vision is coming into sharp focus for them already Word on the street is that Radiant Black #1 orders broke 70K at FOC and it may even be[...]
We mentioned earlier today that Image Comics had been changing their tune regarding the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic book series published by Boom Studios and were starting to us the series to promote the new Kyle Higgins' series Radiant Black, going to FOC today.
That line of thinking looks smart when you consider Boom Studios[...]
As I mentioned last week, "it wasn't that long ago that Image Comics executives were rather dismissive to me of Power Rangers comic books", but that tune seems to have changed as Image is launching what looks to us like their own "Power Ranger" comic series, Radiant Black by former Power Rangers architect Kyle Higgins[...]