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Writer Robert Venditti in his nom de plume of Bad Idea Bobby writes about "The type of comic book only BAD IDEA would dare produce Titillating? Isn't strong enough Controversial? Doesn't do it justice.  No, this comic is provocation manifest Prepare for the most provocative comic book of all time BAD IDEA: AFTER DARK goes[...]

Robert Venditti's Tankers graphic novel about a group of brave soldiers who don lethal mechs and time travel back to save the dinosaurs but end up fighting the dinosaurs and then also fighting space-traveling ancient aliens, is hitting Kickstarter courtesy of Bad Idea ahead of San Diego Comic-Con. Joining him are some of the bigger comic[...]

Attendees just need to have followed this Kickstarter launch. They will also be showing off two videos, a super cut of Robert Venditti's Dinosaur Island research expedition videos complete with never-before-seen footage featuring Fronk Stapples And a WonderCon exclusive Matt Kindt character creation process video Which would have been WonderCon exlcusive if Bleeding Cool hadn't just[...]

I could not be happier with the finished product." MrBallen Presents: Strange, Dark & Mysterious is created in collaboration with The Surrogates and Six Days creator and writer on The Flash, Green Lantern and Percy Jackson & The Olympians as well as Andrea Mutti, co-creator of The Rebels and Port Of Earth, as well as artust[...]

In 2023, to gather research for his Tankers comic book series from Bad Idea and artist Juan José Ryp, writer Robert Venditti, and a small film crew set out on a 3-day expedition to Dinosaur Island Yes, you thought you hadn't heard much from Bad Idea in recent weeks. This may be why, Because, according to[...]

However, that did lead to the long-running Sandman Mystery Theatre starring the gas-masked superhero from DC Comics' Vertigo line, and gave DC two ongoing, if very different, Sandman comic books at the time.   It's one of a number of new titles that will be under The New Golden Age banner showrun by writer and former DC[...]

Yesterday, Bad Idea launched a Kickstarter for David Lapham's The Ends, promising a premium digital comic book experience to shame Amazon, as well as a print collection and a number of comic books drawn by David Lapham and written by big names such as Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid, Jim Cheung,[...]

Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid, Jim Cheung, Gerry Duggan, Zeb Wells, Tony S Daniel, Gary Dauberman, Matt Kindt, Robert Venditti, Joshua Dysart and David Dastmalchian are the first writers announced for new stories written to be drawn by David Lapham for the new digital comic book from Bad Idea Comics, and[...]

Rob Venditti & Riley Rossmo create a pacifist version of Wesley Dodds: The Sandman from the 1940s for a new series starting in October from DC

The Oddly Pedestrian Life Of Christopher Chaos by James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, Nick Robles and Isaac Goodhart, Lunar Lodge #1 by Tyler Marceca and Mirko Colak, and Savage Squad 6 #1 by Robert Venditti, Brockton McKinney and Dalts Dalton all launch in Dark Horse Comics' June 2023 solicits and solicitations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float:[...]

Which also means a week of publishers eking out their launches before it all drops in one go. Savage Squad 6 by Robert Venditti, Brockton McKinney & Dalts Dalton From Dark Horse Comics in June 2023 And it is in that context that  Dark Horse Comics presents a new action-adventure-horror comic beginning in June, called Savage Squad[...]

Bad Idea started off their Bad Idea Two: Part One announcements with a bunch of comic book announcements, with They're All Terrible, The Ends, Escape from Wyoming and now a double feature, the previously-published-via-First-Pin-redemption Werewolf by Peter Milligan and Robert Gill, accompanied by Society Of Fearless Frontiersmen by Robert Venditti and Tomas Giorello And we get[...]

And it seems that, with the third we have a four-issue series, beginning in November with Escape From Wyoming #1 by Robert Venditti and Jorge Monlongo, a science fiction Western with an unnamed back-up "B-Side" strip And we get our first look right here Informed Pre-orders can be taken from one of Bad Idea's 200+ destination[...]

Written by Robert Venditti, coloured by Ulises Arreola, and lettered by Dave Sharpe, this sci-fi comic book was intended to be published by some future iteration of the publisher led by Dinesh Shamdasani, Warren Simons and Atom Freeman All three also worked with Ryan Bodenheim previously at Valiant Entertainment including titles such as X-O Manowar,[...]

There's even a back cover pinup by an artist that's new to me, Jorge Monlongo. Of the two stories in the $1 issue, the title story is a fun black and white Dashiell Hammett pastiche from veteran writer Robert Venditti and crime comics lifer Lapham The second story is the first in a series called Save[...]

If you can';t make it to the store on Wednesday, and they won't do mail-order, you're out of luck. Bad Idea Publish Hank Howard Pizza Detective Comic For Only 24 Hours Any unsold copies must not be sold to anyone and must be sent back to Bad Idea. HANK HOWARD, PIZZA DETECTIVE in CALIGULA'S SAFE Written by ROBERT VENDITTI Art[...]

Robert Venditti tweets "Documentary filmmaker Brockton Mckinney takes you behind the scenes for a detailed look at my creative process Order the new Bad Idea series TANKERS today, so the dinosaurs won't have died for nothing." The two-minute video for Tankers by Robert Venditti and Juan Jose Ryp is right here. Extinction Day. 🦖: https://t.co/vhSwonlJmD pic.twitter.com/HHQiEDId7K — BAD IDEA,[...]

But who is to blame for this? Well, we get to see one Green Lantern courtesy of Robert Venditti and Dexter Soy who is also heading to Oa, noting that all the other Lanterns are incommunicado. Future State: Green Lanterns #2 Well, there's only one person it could be. Future State #2 Hal Jordan, Lantern of Earth, also on[...]

Today's Justice League takes a trip to Liverpool, and the football teams who play there, as writer Robert Venditti introduced us to the Finches and the Hammers. Today's Justice League Invents Brand New Liverpool Football Teams. Those familiar Liverpudlian teams the Finches and the Hammers, rather than Liverpool and Everton And if its nicknames, well, that would[...]

Last month saw the release of Justice League #44 from Robert Venditti and Xermanico, which saw the Justice League influenced to reveal their innermost resentments towards each other And like a celebration of Festivus, they call come to the fore, courtesy of The Spectre going wild with his spirit of vengeance stuff With each member[...]

With another perfect balance between the nostalgic flavor of the silver age and modern sensibilities, this Robert Venditti script again finds that sweet spot of Kryptonian excellence It scales it way down in terms of antagonists, this adventure is down to earth compared to the last issue but doesn't lose a step, hitting every note[...]

You have to see Superman as something to believe in, something truly above us. The cover of Superman: Man of Tomorrow by DC Comics with a creative team of Robert Venditti, Paul Pelletier, Drew Hennessy, and Adriano Lucas Credit: DC Comics. With what seems like elegant perfection, this script by Robert Venditti manages to accomplish every single[...]

Others have a micro approach in mind, such as Justice League writer Robert Venditti Venditti took to Twitter to launch a hashtag, #PullBoxPayItForward, encouraging those who can afford it to "pay it forward" by buying comics from local comic book stores, but not for themselves. By Luigi Novi, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19315569 The comics industry is a[...]

Back during San Diego Comic Con, Robert Venditti indicated that Hawkman's current run would reveal his ancient origins, including a Kryptonian version of Katar Hol Today, during the New York Comic Con "DC Nation" panel, Venditti confirmed that we will be meeting the Kryptonian version of Katar Hol in Hawkman #8 which will be out this January. For those[...]

Robert Venditti and Bryan Hitch have already shown that they can write a compelling Hawkman comic, and it's an absolute joy to read. #3 is no different, opening up with the Winged Warrior fighting a freaking Tyrannosaur Following that up with Feitherans, which resemble the classic Man-Hawks which often plagued Carter in the past, is a[...]

Hal's turning the tide of his battle, but he will have to take a major gambit if he's to save the day. Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #50 cover by Rafa Sandoval, Jordi Tarragona, and Tomeu Morey Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #50 marks the end of this series as well as Robert[...]

John Stewart enacts his plan against the Darkstars, and the Green Lantern Corps fly in to close the trap. Can the Corps win? Is it a good read?

This was in contrast to the last time he was seen in any major capacity as a love interest which was "in the animated film, almost a decade ago, where he was a lovable prick." Scott ended the panel by reminding everyone in the audience that they should read the acclaimed Vertigo series Y: The Last[...]

Words and photos courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Mike Sangregorio: Saturday saw the DC World's Finest Panel, moderated by one of the DC All Access hosts and featuring creators Liam Sharpe, Marc Andreyko, Dan Jurgens, Sam Humphries, Robert Venditti, Tom Taylor, Tim Seeley, and Mitch Gerads as panelists. The panel began by congratulating Gerads on his Eisner win the[...]

The panel was moderated by Marie Javins, comic editor and colorist, and included Dan DiDio, James Tynion IV, Ryan Benjamin, Robert Venditti, and Steve Orlando. Orlando is writing The Unexpected, which features new interpretations of existing characters Neon the Unknown and Firebrand He remarked that "Jody Houser likes to say that I was bitten by a radioactive[...]