Every now and then, Skybound Entertainment look for public investment. And they try and throw a few sweeteners for those who want to buy shares in the company. Well, they are doing it again. As they say, "We're a proven, $100M+ entertainment company with a legacy of turning original ideas into multi-billion-dollar franchises. From number […]
A couple of days ago, I got word that there were a small number of layoffs made last week at Skybound Entertainment, of The Walking Dead, Transformers and GI Joe comics fame. I was able to identify two, Guillermo Cummings and Patrick Coyne. Guillermo Cummings was at Skybound Entertainment for two and a half years, most […]
It's been a very good year for Image/Skybound with The Energon Universe – Robert Kirkman's reimagining of the Transformers and G.I. Joe franchises – continues to be a pillar of the comics industry, with Joshua Williamson and Tom Reilly's G.I. Joe #1 setting an all-time record for a Hasbro comic book launch (as we told […]
Image Comics sees Todd McFarlane launch Medieval Spawn #1 by Rory McConville and Marco Itri, and Spawn: Black Ritual: The Book Of Nyx #1 by Thomas Healy and Nat Jones, in their April 2025 solicits and solicitations. As well as the GI Joe Silent Missions one-shots. The return of Golden Rage with Mother Knows Best […]
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that as a result of Diamond Comic Distributors announcing they were entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Lunar Distribution, who have the exclusive distribution rights to Image Comics titles, told comic book stores that Diamond will no longer be subdistributing Image titles from Lunar to comic stores. Image Comics would print anything that was […]
Image Comics launches Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1 by Robert Kirkman, Ryan Ottley and Annalisa Leoni, Kids one shot from Garth Ennis, Dalibor Talajic and Ninth Circle, Universal Monsters: The Mummy #1 by Faith Erin Hicks and Lee Loughridge, You'll Do Bad Things by Tyler Boss and Adriano Turtulici. We're Taking Everyone Down With Us […]
Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley return to Invincible in comics to tell the story of the Battle Beast alongside the upcoming third series of the cartoon on Amazon Prime Video. With the prequel spinoff, Invincible Universe: Battle Beast from Skybound/Imnage comics in April 2025. Set between issues #19 and #55 of the original Invincible series, it will look […]
PrintWatch: The Walking Dead #100, Ultimate X-Men #9, West Coast Avengers #1, Snotgirl #16, and The Moon Is Following Us #3 all get second printings. And we have covers for… most of them. ULTIMATE X-MEN #9 2ND PTG PEACH MOMOKO VAR ULTIMATE X-MEN #9 2ND PTG 25 COPY INCV DERRICK CHEW VIR VAR (W) Peach […]
Image Comics' February 2025 solicits have dropped. The cover features Bug Wars #1 by Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar, with other launches include The Hive #1 by AJ Lieberman, the Creepshow In Love one-shot, the Stay Out Of The Woods one-shot from Joe Pruett and Butch Guice. And the first of the major Free Comic Book Day titles […]
Updated with new images: These are the full Image Comics December 2024 solicits and solicitations, debuting on Bleeding Cool (though we did break a couple of them out earlier while this was uploading…) With Doll Parts, Dust To Dust, Juvenile, Dread The Halls, Freddie Fix, Motherfu-kin' Monsters, Top Cow Holiday Special as well as the […]
GI Joe #1 by Joshua Williams, Tom Reilly and Jordie Bellaire launches in Image Comics' November 2024 solicits and solicitations… …as well as the launch of The Deadly Tales Of Gunslinger Spawn from Jimmy Palmiotti and Patric Reynolds, Hornsby & Halo #1 by Peter Tomasi and Peter Snejberg, Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika: Open For Business […]
Editis, the second largest French book publisher, is to buy Delcourt, France/Belgium's third largest graphic novel publisher, behind Média-Participations and Glénat, and produces around five hundred graphic novels a year in the BD format. Negotiations for the purchase have begun, and sources say that discussions are going well. Guy Delcourt, created the publisher 38 years […]
Image Comics' October 2024 solicits and solicitations sees the launch of Hack/Slash/Body Bags #1 by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli, Hyde Street #1 by Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, and It Happened On Hyde Street by Maytel Zchut, Leila Liz and Alex Sinclair, Nullhunter #1 by Michael Walsh and Gustaffo Vargas, the We Call Them […]
Image Comics' September 2024 solicits and solicitations have dropped with a new Creepshow volume, the return of Dead Eyes, the new Horizon Experiment from Pornsak Picketshote, Rachel and Terry Dodson, Knights Vs Samurai by David Dastmalchian and Federico Mele, Lady Mechanicka with Siya Oum, Daniel Warren Johnson and Riley Rossmo launching The Moon Is Following […]
Image Comics' August 2024 solicits and solicitations have dropped in catalogue form on Bleeding Cool, including launches for C.O.W.L 1964 #1 from Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel, and Rod Reis, Convert #1 by John Arcudi and Savannah Finley, The Power Fantasy #1 by Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard, Standstill #1 by Lee Loughridge, Universal Monsters: Frankenstein […]
Invincible and Void Rivals co-creator Robert Kirkman has a storied history with Marvel's biggest heroes, from the massive Marvel Zombies (that inspired action figures, merchandise, one of Marvel Studios' What If episodes) to Marvel Team-Up where Spider-Man met Invincible (which may have also just happened on Amazon Prime). But The Walking Dead, Kirkman's most famous […]
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 […]
On the 9th of January, Bleeding Cool reported that Ben Abernathy had quit the Batman Group Editor job (one that DC still hasn't found a replacement for) and on the 10th that he was heading to Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment. Almost three months later and Skybound has confirmed that scoop, as another box of shoes […]
We have Image Comics' full June 2024 solicits and solicitations, including Destro #1 and Scarlett #1 from Robert Kirkman's Energon Universe, the launch of Todd McFarlane's latest Spawn spinoff, Misery, Dandelion from Marvel TV writer Sabir Pirazda, Martin Morazzo and Vanesa R Del Rey, Falling In Love On The Path Of Hell from Gerry Duggan […]
At the Diamond Retailer Summits, they used to run Best Practice Awards for comic book retailers. Bleeding Cool ran dozens of them over the decades. But now Diamond isn't doing summits anymore. And so it seems that Image Comics and Lunar Distribution will be doing something similar instead. The Image Select Retailer Award, announced to […]
