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Preview: Fanboys Vs Zombies #5
Have a little preview of Fanboys Vs Zombies #5 coming out next week from Sam Humphries and Jerry Gaylord And a plot that makes more sense than Avengers Vs X-Men. It all goes to hell… but then we take a quick trip through the calendar to see what happens 28 Days Later… [issuu width=550 height=423 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=120802150638-2c7f62a5f0914accae03f99a3e00545b[...]
Speculator Corner: Higher Earth #3
There's something about issue threes. Sleeper-successful comic books often begin to turn around with issue 4. For those big surprise success stories,
Dark Horse To Publish Sam Humphries' Sacrifice
The self published, micro-distributed comic Sacrifice by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose has suffered a number of delays of late.  But if we're not too sure when the next issue will be coming out, at least we know who will be putting out the collection. And, with Sam Humphries putting Our Love Is Real out through[...]
Higher Earth #2 Is Boom's Fastest Sell Out To Date
I'm told that the print run for the first print of Boom's Higher Earth #2 by Sam Humphries, Manuel Bracchi and Francesco Biagini was 7,550 And that it sold out faster than anything Boom! has previously published, seventeen days before it went on sale – possibly as an affect effect of the $1 first issue[...]
BC Mag #0: Defining the BOOM! Generation
Are you a retailer who would like to be included? Contact us. Reply to this article in the forum. Further Reading: BOOM, ADVENTURE TIME, SUPURBIA, HYPERNATURALS, FANBOYS VS ZOMBIES, PEANUTS, IRREDEEMABLE, INCORRUPTIBLE, HELLRAISER, IRON MUSLIM, EXTERMINATION, GRACE RANDOLPH, MARK WAID, SAM HUMPHRIES, SIMON SPURRIER Bleeding Cool Magazine Article By Rich Johnston From humble beginnings to winning "Best Publisher[...]
Dealing Cool #5: Big Developments & FCBD at Third Eye Comics
Many were new, many were regulars, it was a great mix. I gotta tell you, whether it's FCBD or just a regular day, it's a fantastic feeling to have an entire store packed with so many different people all stoked on one thing: COMICS. FUTUREFUN! We're prepping for a big signing with Sam Humphries today (Saturday, 5/12)[...]
Higher Earth Hits A Second Print From Boom
The new comic from Our Love Is Real's Sam Humphries for Boom! has gone to second print. It's got a second print And it's still only a dollar Higher Earth by Sam Humphries and Francesco Baigini. "Space is dead Why conquer other planets when there's a perfectly good Earth in the universe next door? Heidi, a girl[...]
Sam Humphries Is A Depraved Individual
And met some lovely people. Creator of the moment Sam Humphries is a very busy boy After coming out of nowhere last year with the one shot Our Love is Real his name has been everywhere. Our Love Is Real is a futuristic story set five years after the AIDS vaccine It's largely a story about people[...]
Fanboys Vs Zombies Vs Diamond
A year ago, Sam Humphries was one of the writers for the Fraggle Rock anthology But a year is a long time in comics. His self-published-and-distributed comics Our Love Is Real was a smash and brought him to the attention of bigger publishers Before you knew it, Our Love Is Real was picked up by Image,[...]
Dealing Cool #2: A Retailer Perspective from Third Eye Comics
Sam Humphries and Tyler James have both done incredible things with their micro-distro outreach.  I'd love to see more outreach like this from creators. As far as stuff we've tried, there's nothing that beats recommending quality comics that match up to your customer's tastes Promotions and gimmicks aside, we've found our best sales strategies are getting[...]
Michael Golden's CGC 9.8 Cover For Sam Humphries' Higher Earth
To follow up on the Joe Jusko Valen The Outcast covers, and Arthur Suydam's Fanboys Vs Zombies, here is the Michael Golden CGC 9.8 cover for Sam Humphries' Higher Earth. And, yes, retailers will have to order a hundred copies to get one… This is the latest in a series of promotional covers created by Boom![...]
The Very Legal John Carter Comic From Marvel
This is what a legally uncontested John Carter Of Mars comic book looks like, by Sam Humphries and Ramon Perez Marvel make this very clear "This new series, in collaboration with the Edgar Rice Burroughs estate, is an all-new graphic fiction adaptation of the legendary John Carter novels AND considered part of the official canon[...]
Sam Humphries To Co-Write The Ultimates With Jonathan Hickman, Then Take Over
Sam Humphries hit the headlines with the self distributed Our Love Is Real, asking the very important question, what if Judge Dredd had sex with his dog Since then we've seen him pick up Boom's Fanboys Vs Zombies, start a new self distribution comic Sacrifice and write a new project for Boom that I promised[...]
San Diego Comic Con Gets Zombified In Sam Humphries' Fanboys Vs Zombies
Sam Humphries is well known to Bleeding Cool readers He's scored monster self distribution hits with Our Love Is Real and Sacrifice But before writing about Mayan sacrifice and man-on-dog sex, he wrote Fraggle Rock comics. Quite a jump. And in April he's writing a new ongoing series for Boom!, Fanboys Vs Zombies, drawn by Jerry Gaylord[...]
Sacrifice #1 Hits $21 On eBay, Goes To Second Print
Bleeding Cool told you about the new Sam Humphries self-distributed comic, Sacrifice, a couple of weeks ago, drawn by Dalton Rose It went on sale in select comic shops this week, sold out rapidly… and is now selling for up to $21 on eBay The book is available digitally, but the rapid sellout has persuaed[...]
A Taxonomy Of Our Love Is Real by Sam Humphries
Our Love Is Real is a comic book by Sam Humphries and Steve Sanders that Bleeding Cool embraced when we discovered this Judge-Dredd-zoophilia book being self published Today it is in comic stores worldwide courtesy of Image Comics, although it appears a number of stores received severe allocations Nevertheless this is probably your best chance[...]
Our Love Is Real Gives Bleeding Cool Readers A Last Chance
Bleeding Cool has learned that before Our Love Is Real moves to Image Comics, Sam Humphries and Steve Sanders are creating one final secret fourth self-published printing of the comic Entitled The Crystal Edition and limited to a hundred copies (the previous three prints had three hundred copies printed each, making a cool thousand), and[...]