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Most notably, a game based on The Darkness was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2007, with a sequel in 2012. And now Top Cow is running a Kickstarter for The Darkness Complete Collection Vol 2 Hard Cover ending this week which will include The Darkness #1/2 Kickstarter Exclusive Issue by Marc Silvestri[...]

A lot has happened in those last two years, culminating in him leaving his position as director of operations at Image Comics studio publisher Top Cow and being named Sales Manager at Oni Press, effective today. Henry Barajas, photo by Raul Coto-Batres, used with permission. Barajas told Publisher's Weekly, "I'm excited to join Oni Press and their[...]

Darkness fans don't want to miss this epic introduction with art by Christopher Mitten with Top Cow fan-favorite colorist Bryan Valenza—and Troy Peteri returning to letter the series eight years later! It's worth noting that the snippet above only states that this is the creative team for the #1/2 issue, not that this will be the[...]

In 2009, Image Comics and Top Cow solicited Hardcore #1, a new comic book by Robert Kirkman, Marc Silvestri and Brian Stelfreeze However, it wasn't actually published until 2012, over two years later Top Cow's entire Pilot Season from 2009 were written by Robert Kirkman, and none went to series, along with Murderer #1 drawn[...]

A new series from Top Cow and Image Comics called St Mercy, by the creative team of John Zuur Platten and Atilio Rojo, will be set in the Wild West and tell the story of Mercedes Oro, a descendant of the Incan Empire protecting cursed gold used in human sacrifices, which is stolen by an[...]

Where can I get it? From a comic shop? There are comic shops? Yes, there are. Pirate Queen Anne Bonny Returns in A Man Among Ye #5, in July And now the comic book is returning from Top Cow/Image Comics after a hiatus with a new artist, Josh George, for a new arc, in July. "I'm really excited[...]

Henry Barajas, the creator of the Image Comics/ Top Cow La Voz De M.A.Y.O graphic novel, has launched a Kickstarter for a new Latinx graphic novel, Helm Greycastle, on Monday, November 9th This Latinx fantasy is rooted in real Mesoamerican history with a twist: what if the Aztecs and Mayans stopped the Spanish invasion of[...]

A Man Among Ye #3 continues the Image Comics/Top Cow-published historical-fiction pirate comic by writer Stephanie Phillips, artist Craig Cermak, colorist John Kalisz, and letterer Troy Peteri The first two issues blended fact and thrilling fiction in this gripping tale of Anne Bonny, Calico Jack Rackham, and Mary Read Can this third issue of A Man Among Ye keep up this[...]

This new series from Top Cow, as the first issue's letter from writer Stephanie Phillips, explains, lives "on the edge of fact and fiction." But does Anne Bonny work as a comics anti-hero? A Man Among Ye #1 cover Credit: Top Cow The first two issues of A Man Among Ye see Stephanie Phillips constantly subverting expectations in this[...]

Credit: Top Cow There's a big turn in Creative Destruction, where Loren struggles with a depressive episode by virtue of having a hand in killing someone just like him while the victim was laid up in a hospital Add to that the fact that Loren's CIA field agent girlfriend isn't around, and Creative Destruction ends on[...]

Just three years before Top Cow's debut of Sara Pezzini in the Witchblade franchise, Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Rob Liefield, Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, and Whilce Portacio separated from the comic industry conglomerates Marvel and DC and formed Image Comics. A cover of Witchblade #1 Credit: Top Cow Although the two newly formed distributors were releasing top[...]

Top Cow has reinvented themselves in recent years with indie creator-owned hits, such as Stjepan Šejić's wildly popular erotic romance Sunstone, as well as Postal, the crime thriller that put Batman and the Outsiders' Bryan Edward Hill and Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale's Isaac Goodhart on the map[...]

Šejić followed up this move by announcing exactly how long Sunstone, his most popular series and Top Cow's highest ordered title of all time, will last. Sunstone promo art Credit: Stjepan Šejić's Twitter. Stjepan Šejić tweeted: if you never read sunstone, here is all 6 volumes of it so far in pdf format[...]

Which for all intents and purposes looks like the kind of comic book that Top Cow just isn't publishing anymore. The series is as "an original series set in a dystopian world where special abilities run wild Metalshade is a lethal strike team of exotic, weirdly-powered antiheroes Their reckless, anarchistic nature is balanced only by the[...]

(Top Cow/Image Comics, creative team: Matt Hawkins, Colleen Doran, Bryan Valenza, Troy Peteri) The sneaky thing about this work — and some other near future science fiction cautionary tales from writer Matt Hawkins, like Wildfire, — is that this is actually a horror story Instead of jump scares and bloody blades wielded by relentless psychopaths, the[...]