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 […]
Bleeding Cool has the Image Comics May 2024 solicits and solicitations, including launches for Ain't No Grave, Bear Pirate Viking Queen, Blood Squad Seven, Grommets, Lego Ninjago: Shatterspin, Monolith, Lore Remastered, The Whisper Queen, as well as The Singularity original graphic novel, The White Trees one-shot and the Energon Universe Special. AIN'T NO GRAVE #1 […]
The prominence and appreciation of comic book colourists have increased in recent years, with some sought after and headhunted, making a name for themselves, including the likes of Laura Martin, Tomeu Morey, and Tamra Bonvillain, with cover credit now standard, as well as some getting co-ownership deals on specific properties. But one recent legal case […]
Here are Image Comics' full solicits and solicitations for April 2024. And they include the launches of Drawing Blood #1 from Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, Ben Bishop and Troy Little, the new Geiger #1 from Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, Redcoat #1 by Geoff Johns and Bryan Hitch, Rook: Exodus #1 by Geoff Johns and […]
Things move fast around here. Last night, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Ben Abernathy has quit DC Comics, where he was Batman Group Editor and Executive Editor. We asked why, and found a couple of possible answers, but nothing as to the where or where next, for the man. But as of this morning, […]
Here are Image Comics' full solicits and solicitations for March 2024. And they include the launches of Feral #1 by Tony Fleecs, Trish Forstner and Tone Rodriguez, The Last Mermaid #1 by Derek Kirk Kim, Napal Lullaby #1 by Rick Remender and Bengal, Sam And Twitch: Case Files #1 by Todd McFarlane and Szymon Kudranski, […]
We've been telling you a lot about Robert Kirkman's Energon Universe – the new shared universe published by Image/Skybound featuring Transformers, G.I. Joe and Void Rivals that has become the biggest Hasbro comic launch ever (as we told you first). But there's more to the deal between Skybound and Hasbro that's hit the market, namely […]
Image Comics' February 2024 solicits and solicitations include the launches of Cabinet by Jordan Hart, David Ebeltoft and Chiara Raimondi, Infernals by Ryan Parrott, Noah Gardner and John Pearson, Six Fingers by Dan Watters, Sumit Kumar and Lee Loughridge, One Hand by Ram V, Laurence Campbell, and Lee Loughridge, Dutch by Joe Casey and Simon […]
Ghost Machine was the big talk of New York Comic Con with Bryan Hitch, Jason Fabok, Peter J. Tomasi, Francis Manapul, Gary Frank, Maytal Zchut, Lamont Magee, Brad Meltzer and Geoff Johns all going exclusive with Ghost Machine through Image Comics and the creator-shared universe deal. With issue 1 launching it all in January. Can you smell […]
Recently, Mark Millar claimed that there hasn't been any significant success in the creator-owned world of comic books in the last ten years and that Saga was probably the last one. That other things have done nicely, but Saga was the last time there was a phenomenon. It's part of a thesis he has shared […]
Image Comics' October 2023 solicits and solicitations are here, with Maria Llovet's Crave #1, James Tynion and James Hixson's The Deviant #1, Larry Hama's GI Joe: A Real American Hero #301 with Chris Mooneyhan, and #1, with Herb Trimpe and Bob McLeod, Joe Casey and Nathan Fox's GI Joe: Dutch #0, Andy Sandberg, Rick Remender, […]
Image Comics will be celebrating The Walking Dead 's twentieth anniversary in October with variant covers across a variety of their titles in October. The first nine Walking Dead team-up variants revealed this week are from Skottie Young on I Hate Fairyland #10, Declan Shalvey on Time Before Time #28, Dean Rankin on Untold Tales […]
Void Rivals #2 has just dropped on Amazon Kindle, courtesy of Image Comics, Skybound and Hasbro. Void Rivals #2 by Robert Kirkman (Author), Lorenzo De Felici (Cover Art, Artist), Mateus Lopes (Artist) Format: Kindle Edition ROBERT KIRKMAN & LORENZO DE FELICI's new shared universe continues here! After the jaw-dropping reveal in the debut issue, everything Darak and Solila thought they knew about the […]
After just ten months in the role, former DC Comics and Tapas editor Bixie Mathieu Daggett has left her role at Skybound, where she was editor of the new Hasbro/Energon Universe line, even though for most of her tenure there, she couldn't tell anyone that's what she was doing. Editor of the Void Rivals series […]
Skybound today announced its 20th-anniversary celebration of The Walking Dead, the comic series created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore and published by Image Comics, which was adapted into TV series, books, games and now a movie. Image Comics has been publishing a coloured version of the original series for the past few years, and […]
Image Comics' September solicits and solicitations, in pictorial form below, mark their move to Lunar Distribution as exclusive distributors – though Lunar will sub distribute through Diamond as well as Diamond UK. Including the launch of Tony S Daniel's Edenwood, Richard Blake's Hexagon Bridge, Joe Casey and Ryan Quackenbush's Junior Baker, Ethan Parker, Griffin Sheridan […]
TF Con is the Transformers Comic Con set to be held in Orlando, Florida on the weekend of the 20th to the 22nd of October, 2023. It is expected that Robert Kirkman, Daniel Warren Johnson and Skybound may be turning up to promote the launch of the new Transformers comic book line being published by […]
Void Rivals is a brand new comic book by Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici, published by Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment, with the first issue out today in comic stores but available digitally on Kindle since yesterday. And it is owned by Hasbro. It's kicking off The Energon Universe storytelling sandpit which will include Transformers and […]
"VOID RIVALS and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbro and are used with permission. (c) 2023 Hasbro, Alt Rights Reserved, Licensed by Hasbro", That's what the indicia in Void Rivals #1 published by Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment reads. Published tomorrow in comic book shops but available digitally on Kindle now, or certainly in […]