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The Superstar Artist of The Wicked + The Divine Soars into Deep Space With The Killing Horizon
The post-post-apocalyptic future. Far from Earth, a specialist in studying dead alien societies is embedded with a military unit to excavate a new find. She’s done it before. It’s good work and it’s safe. She thinks it’s just another job.
She’s wrong.
Lost and alone, deep beneath the warped, skeletal spires of the millennia-dead city, she finds something powerful. Something unlike anything any human has ever known. Something that needs her to take it on a journey no living being has ever taken. Something that will make her a target for every side fighting a deadly war. It calls to her.
She answers.
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https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG192061- link to Seven Days by Gail Simone at Lion Forge.
Some Months ago Gail was named Chief Comics person at Catalyst Prime, Lion Forge’s superhero division. Last week, her first comic from them came out and it was impressive. It is an event comic that is going to reorganize the entire Catalyst Prime Universe. It has a gorgeous Sejic cover and the interior art by Jose Luis was very good as well. Simone’s dark sensibilities are on display here and the story flows well until it gets to its gruesome punchline. I am familiar with this universe but I think Gail does a good job of introducing the various characters.
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So what you’re saying @njerry is that Savage Dragon probably isn’t too long for this world? 😉
Speaking of Savage Dragon:
SAVAGE DRAGON #250 Gets an ‘All Out Action’ Cover
I should tweet this because at some point this will be a thing. In stores in 2020: pic.twitter.com/ECc8HVTdrl
— Erik Larsen (@ErikJLarsen) October 17, 2019
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I know this is the usual Jerry windup but Larsen was on Twitter this week saying he plans to beat Dave Sim with having the longest running creator owned book. He said as he’s 50+ issues behind he’ll never catch Spawn for numbers but McFarlane hasn’t produced most of those himself and it’s why he went back and redid that issue where they swapped creative teams across the Image line.
I do admire his dedication to the Dragon.
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I know this is the usual Jerry windup but Larsen was on Twitter this week saying he plans to beat Dave Sim with having the longest running creator owned book. He said as he’s 50+ issues behind he’ll never catch Spawn for numbers but McFarlane hasn’t produced most of those himself and it’s why he went back and redid that issue where they swapped creative teams across the Image line.
I do admire his dedication to the Dragon.Agreed.
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It seems we will finally get a Cinema Purgatorio collection (the Moore/O’Neill chapters) in April 2020
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Come to think of it, dancing with a stripper’s pole has become a workout kind of thing, hasn’t it? I could totally see Njerry doing this!
For a $10 cover charge and a two-drink minimum, you can see me doing it at the Hellfire Club tomorrow night!! Bring lots of dollar bills.
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The Solicitations for January 2020 thread:
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7 company solicits.
have added Archie, Black Mask, Dark Horse, Image, and Valiant
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Dark Horse Announces a New Predator Miniseries, Predator Hunters IIIChris Warner (Predator Hunters, Barb Wire), along with artist Brian Thies (Predator: Life and Death, Star Wars: Legacy), and colorist Wes Dzoiba (Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Comic, Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War) crafts the next chapter in the Predator Hunters story with Predator Hunters III.
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Continuing the story started in the first Predator Hunters series, with story ties that link back to Dark Horse’s first Predator series from 1987, Predator Hunters III kicks off with former drug runner Raphael Herrera’s worst nightmare reborn. After the fateful night when his men were wiped out by an unearthly monster, Herrera joined up with the Predator Hunters team. Now, years later, cartel soldiers are being wiped out in the jungles of Central America, telling Herrera the Predators have returned!
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Outside of the handful of books I already get, none of the new books grab me at all.
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Whoa! Never knew my edit would affect @Todd ‘s post.
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Anyways, have updated the Solicitations for February 2020 thread and have a few for this thread:
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Archie, Boom! Studios, Dark Horse, Scout, Valiant, and Image
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More tomorrow and on weekend
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Saturday update! – 19 company solicits for this thread (and another for March)1 user thanked author for this post.
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Giant Days spin-off/sequel!
https://aux.avclub.com/the-giant-days-team-reunites-to-do-wicked-things-in-thi-1840171535
In March 2020, Boom! Studios debuts Wicked Things, a limited series starring teen detective Charlotte “Lottie” Grote, now an adult navigating a twisty new crime plot. “This has been brewing for a long time,” says Allison. “It’s not so much crime noir—though there are pulpy aspects—as a kind of salute to the crime TV that helped shape me as a writer. There are far too many police dramas, and I feel like the balance for them was lost when the writing brain drain to premium cable away from the U.S. networks began. When you could show anything and say anything, they stopped being simple entertainment and became a little too brutal for me, while the network shows don’t have the subtlety of presentation to use the form as a box for good storytelling any more. I wanted the feeling of an ’80s or ’90s crime drama, an ensemble story that was about bad things but also brought you back safe into the warmth of the television squad room. It’s also a bit like The Mentalist. Or Monk. In short: don’t get me started.”
The character was a kid in Giant Days/Scary Go Round, this is set seven years after Giant Days.
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Image Comics announces Brubaker and Phillips’s Pulp (x)
Image Comics have announced “Pulp,” a new graphic novel by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips. Set for release in May 2020, the book takes place during the 1930s and follows Max Winters, a pulp magazine writer specializing in westerns who finds himself hunted by “bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past.”
Brubaker said in the press release, “When Sean and I decided to do something completely new for our next original graphic novel, he planted the idea of a Western in my head… And I found myself drawn to the era where that genre first hit big—the pulp magazines and the Great Depression. I thought about all these writers telling fictionalized versions of the vanishing days of the Wild West, as their own world was going through one of its darkest hours… And suddenly I realized I had the makings of a really great pulp story, but one set in the real world. A story that I really wanted to tell.”
Phillips added, “I asked Ed to write me a Western and this is as close as he could get. Hopefully I don’t have to draw too many horses. Or hats. Or six-shooters. What was I thinking?”
“Pulp” is the latest original graphic novel from the “Criminal” creative pair, following “My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies” and “Bad Weekend.” It will be released in hardcover in comics shops on May 20, and in bookstores on May 26.
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Private Dick Cal McDonald returns in Dark Horse’s Criminal Macabre miniseries (x)
Steve Niles is sinking his teeth back into horror and ripping into the world of the old-school supernatural private eye Cal McDonald with artist Gyula Nemeth in Criminal Macabre: The Big Bleed Out.” SYFY Wire previews issue #1 arriving in comic shops Dec. 11
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Image Comics announces Brubaker and Phillips’s Pulp (x)
Image Comics have announced “Pulp,” a new graphic novel by writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips. Set for release in May 2020, the book takes place during the 1930s and follows Max Winters, a pulp magazine writer specializing in westerns who finds himself hunted by “bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past.”
Brubaker said in the press release, “When Sean and I decided to do something completely new for our next original graphic novel, he planted the idea of a Western in my head… And I found myself drawn to the era where that genre first hit big—the pulp magazines and the Great Depression. I thought about all these writers telling fictionalized versions of the vanishing days of the Wild West, as their own world was going through one of its darkest hours… And suddenly I realized I had the makings of a really great pulp story, but one set in the real world. A story that I really wanted to tell.”
Phillips added, “I asked Ed to write me a Western and this is as close as he could get. Hopefully I don’t have to draw too many horses. Or hats. Or six-shooters. What was I thinking?”
“Pulp” is the latest original graphic novel from the “Criminal” creative pair, following “My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies” and “Bad Weekend.” It will be released in hardcover in comics shops on May 20, and in bookstores on May 26.
Sounds excellent. Can’t wait.
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Review: TKO Comics’ THE BANKS is a heist story that puts characters first
THE BANKS is a compelling story about Black women from three generations who come together for the heist of a lifetime.
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The Banks is one of TKO Studios‘ highest-profile series from its second wave of releases, and that’s largely due to the creative team. Roxane Gay is a New York Times best-selling author, Ming Doyle is one of the industry’s most talented artists, and Jordie Bellaire is arguably the most talented colorist in comics. Together they crafted a captivating story about three generations of Black women planning the heist of a lifetime.The concept for The Banks is immediately intriguing: Celia, an investment banker, gets back in touch with her mother and grandmother, both career burglars, to steal millions of dollars from her firm’s richest client, who happens to be protected by the man who killed her grandfather. It’s interesting that Celia turned her back on her family because of its criminal past but ultimately chooses a profession that causes more harm to the public than any crook ever could. Her job choice and excitement to plan a heist suggests that Celia is more like her mother Cor and grandmother Clara than she’s willing to admit.
The story goes back 40 years to show Clara meeting Melvin Banks, the man who would become her husband. Melvin lures her into a life of crime and when caught redhanded, leaves her alone to raise their child. But that didn’t dissuade Clara from becoming a burglar herself, though, or even of raising her daughter to join the family business. Between The Banks and The Kitchen (now a major motion picture), Ming Doyle has carved out an interesting niche for herself as an artist of 70s crime stories. She excellently captures the 70s aesthetics and clothing from the time period, so it’s a niche that serves her well.
What makes the series so special is how it presents each of the three women’s experiences. Each is radically different because of when they were born and how they were treated as Black women. That’s why, despite their similarities, Celia and Clara mix like oil and water. They hold conflicting perspectives of the world because they grew up in very different environments. The dynamic between the two is the most fascinating element of the story and the number one reason I read through The Banks in a single sitting. The scenes where they share a room are in many ways more exciting than the heist itself, thanks to Gay’s sharp dialogue and the subtle emotions Doyle captures on the page.
Unfortunately, Cor feels somewhat left out. She receives her own flashback, which shows the beginning of her relationship with Addie, Celia’s other mother. But in the present, she mostly serves as the mediator between her mother and her daughter. I would have liked to see her more developed and learn why she followed her mother’s path to become a career criminal and how she feels about being caught in the middle.
Like any good heist story, the action ramps up towards the end with satisfying confrontations and clever means of outsmarting their enemies. The ending was unexpected and perhaps a bit contrived, but I think it will leave most readers smiling at the end of their journeys with the Banks family. Unlike most heist stories, the plot isn’t the central element, the characters are. The comic will ultimately be remembered for its three leading ladies, the lessons they learned, and what readers themselves can take away from the series.
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Chris Samnee Back for Fire Power with Robert Kirkman (x)
Chris Samnee is back, and he’s launching a new creator-owned series with writer Robert Kirkman at the latter’s Skybound Entertainment shingle at Image Comics. Fire Power will be a martial arts story with a man who can shoot fire from his hands.
“Getting to create a whole new world with its own mythology and rules is always the highlight of my life. Getting to do that with Chris Samnee is definitely a high water mark in this dusty old career of mine,” said Kirkman. “With a massive cast of characters populating this sprawling globe-spanning epic Chris has proven more than adept at handling anything I’ve thrown at him in the time we’ve been toiling away on this series in secret. Kung Fu, Fireballs, Chris Samnee, crazy action, Chris Samnee, Chris Samnee. What more could I say to get you excited about this book?”
“With a massive cast of characters populating this sprawling globe-spanning epic Chris has proven more than adept at handling anything I’ve thrown at him in the time we’ve been toiling away on this series in secret. Kung Fu, Fireballs, Chris Samnee, crazy action, Chris Samnee, Chris Samnee. What more could I say to get you excited about this book?”
This will be Samnee’s first interior comics work in over a year, following his April 2018 finale on Marvel’s Captain America. Since that time, Samnee has focused on covers and original art.
“I’ve been a fan of [Samnee’s] stuff since he did Capote in Kansas with Ande Parks,” Kirkman said. “He was aware that I wanted to work with him for a while and he was kinda ending his tenure at Marvel and he was basically at a place where he’d done everything he could do at Marvel and was putting some feelers out to see if anybody wanted to do creator-owned work with him and I jumped at the chance.”
Fire Power #1 is scheduled to debut May 2020, with colorist Matthew Wilson and letterer Rus Wooton rounding out the creative team.
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Dark Horse Adapting Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology (x)
Dark Horse Comics have announced “Norse Mythology,” an 18-part adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s retelling of the same name. P. Craig Russell will script and contribute art to the series, along with Jerry Ordway, Mike Mignola, and more. Other contributors will include colorists Dave Stewart and Lovern Kindzierski, letterer Galen Showman, and David Mack, who will provide variant covers for the series. The series starts in May.
“I fell in love with the Norse gods from reading about them in comics as a boy, so it’s only fitting that they return to the medium that started it,” Gaiman said in a statement. “I cannot wait to see P. Craig Russell and his collaborators tell the old stories for a new generation.”
Published in 2017, Norse Mythology covers most of the stories from the Nordic sagas in chronological order, including the theft of Thor’s hammer, the binding of Fenrir, the death of Baldur, and Ragnarok. A radio adaptation, starring Diana Rigg, Derek Jacobi (as Odin), Colin Morgan (Loki), Natalie Dormer (Freya), and Nathaniel Martello-White (Thor), was broadcast by the BBC last Christmas. This is the latest in a long line of collaborations between Gaiman and Russell, stemming back to their days on “The Sandman,” including adaptations of American Gods and The Problem of Susan.
Norse Mythology” #1 will debut in comic book stores and online on May 27, 2020.
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The Solicitations for March 2020 thread is up and running with:
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AC Comics, Antarctic, Archie, Dark Horse, Scout and Valiant
lots more on Friday…
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The Solicitations for March 2020 thread has been updated.
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18 solicits (for this thread) and Order Forms
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Well, surprise surprise, a top secret beloved Millarworld project sequel is indeed, roll the drums:
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Fifteen years ago Peter Gross and I gave you American Jesus. Today the second volume is released after putting it together in total secrecy. You loved the Old and New Testaments. Now get ready for the best one yet! pic.twitter.com/ko27lHhgYA
— Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) December 18, 2019
American Jesus: The New Messiah #1
AMERICAN JESUS returns with THE NEW MESSIAH. A virgin pregnancy in ’70s New York forces a young couple to flee for their lives, as evil powers close in to destroy them. An angel in a dream foretells a dark future and a battle with the Antichrist. The teenagers go on the run with only their faith.
Debut in comic book stores now on December 18, 2019.
American Jesus: The New Messiah” #1 hit comic book stores courtesy of Image Comics. The first issue of Mark Millar and artist Peter Gross’s sequel to their 2009 graphic novel is set in 1970s New York, when history repeats itself after a virgin becomes pregnant, forcing her and her partner to go on the run from the Antichrist’s forces.
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Mark Millar teases Jupiters Legacy spin-off
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Mark Millar has teased that he’s begun work on a 10-part spin-off to his and Frank Quitely’s Jupiter’s Legacy – titled Jupiter’s Requiem. The writer revealed it on Twitter:
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I had given up on this ever coming out but now it is, 29 September 2020:
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The Solicitations for April 2020 thread is up and running with:
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AC Comics, Antarctic, Dark Horse, and Titan
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Anyone heard of Kona, a Sam Glanzman series for Dell comics in 1962?
No, me either
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Posted by Allan Harvey on Jumaat, 24 Januari 2020
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The big idea behind Bad Idea revealed and how they’re making it just about the comics (x)
A group of former Valiant Comics executives and creators have teamed up to form Bad Idea, a new publisher focused on high-end comic books available through an extremely limited number of stores – 20 to be exact, to start out with.
Bad Idea’s plans are to produce one to two single issue comics per month at a time. At a company-standard price of $3.99, these “pristinely designed, prestige-format packages” will have no variants and no collections. Further to that, Bad Idea does not plan to release any of their comics digitally.
The company will launch with Eniac from writer Matt Kindt and artist Doug Braithwaite in May 2020. The premise hasn’t been revealed.
Though no other titles have been announced, Bad Idea states that it has projects in the works involving creators Mae Catt (Young Justice), Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier, Harbinger), Tomas Giorello (X-O Manowar), Lewis LaRosa (Bloodshot Reborn), Adam Pollina (X-Force), Robert Venditti (Justice League), Marguerite Bennett (Batwoman), Eric Heisserer (Bird Box, Arrival), Jody Houser (Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy), Jeff Lemire (Black Hammer, Gideon Falls), Peter Milligan (X-Statix), Zeb Wells (Amazing Spider-Man), and more.
One other title, Megalith, was named with cover art from Lewis LaRosa included in Bad Idea’s announcement , but no official details were included.
You can go check out interviews with Dinesh Shamdasani and Hunter Gorinso on MultiversityComics
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@lorcan_nagle, all your dreams are coming true!
‘Transformers’ to Meet ‘My Little Pony’ in Comic Miniseries
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Destination Comics – A New Publisher From Comicsgate’s Richard Meyer and Chuck Dixon? With Sylvester Stallone-Written Expendables, And More
Posted on February 6, 2020 | by Rich Johnston | 0 Comment(s)In recent days, Richard Meyer has launched an Indiegogo campaign for a new graphic novel with the Expendables license, Expendables Go To Hell. The graphic novel is to be written by Bane co-creator Chuck Dixon, who wrote previous Expendables comics when Dynamite owned the license and will be co-written by Expendables star and producer, Sylvester Stallone. The comic will be drawn by fellow Bane co-creator Graham Nolan as well as Butch Guice, Jason Johnson, Kelsey Shannon and more. In three days, the campaign has already raised over $80,000, well above its $10,000 goal. The graphic novel sees the cast of the movies waking up in Hell, and dealing with armies from across history. It includes the main characters from the Expendables movies – but seemingly only has facial likenesses for Sylvester Stallone’s character Barney Ross. Stallone’s official Instagram account posted the following.
Images from the next Adventures of the EXPENDABLES – GO TO HELL!! … Thank you Chuck Dixon and your amazing team for working on this. Go out and get the graphic comic which is going to drop soon
Bleeding Cool understands that Dynamite Entertainment let the Expendables license lapse, is not involved in this publication, and the graphic novel will be published by a new publisher formed by Chuck Dixon and Richard Meyer, dubbed Destination Comics, and that future comics involving Sylvester Stallone will see publication there. I have been told that they already have digital distribution via Amazon’s ComiXology and Kindle services. As for the direct market, I am told that Destination Comics will be entering an arrangement with an existing publisher, just as Image Comics once did with Malibu, to establish themselves a place in Diamond Previews catalogue, before splitting off on their own. If such a deal is finalised, it may increase said publisher’s marketshare considerably, at least initially, as well as granting Destination Comics in instant and prominent position within the Diamond Previews catalogue.
UPDATE: After publication, Meyer contacted Bleeding Cool to say “I have not had any discussions with any other companies to do a Malibu-Image type of publishing deal. Nor has a deal of that type been offered to me by anyone.”
Meyer has proved a controversial figure in recent years. A US veteran who had published a number of comics, his involvement in early comics cancel culture saw him successfully demanding that the writer of GI Joe be fired. Creating a YouTube channel that tackled what he saw as overly-liberal voices in comics, or what he saw as token hiring by publishers, with rapidly increasingly insulting language, he gained a large audience, culminating in his Dark Roast video that made many deeply insulting claims against comics industry figures. A leading figure in the outrage activist group Comicsgate, he channelled that attention into crowdfunding his graphic novels, with similarly-minded creators. He is also involved in an ongoing legal case against Mark Waid on charges of defamation and tortious interference, denied by Waid, over Meyer’s publishing relationship with Antarctic Press. This happened after Antarctic dropped the planned publication of his crowdfunded graphic novels, and Meyer distributed contact lists of retailers who said they wouldn’t stock his comic, to his followers.
Chuck Dixon is a longstanding legendary comic book creator, who may have written more published comic books than anyone else. The co-creator of Bane, he is best known for writing Batman, Punisher and many war comics. Of late, his published work has become a little more political, including political, usually right-wing, polemics. These have included the graphic novel adaptation of Clinton Cash, Trump’s Space Force and the Vox Day comic, Alt-Hero. He also wrote the original Expendables comic series and has worked with Sylvester Stallone on other projects over the years.
No doubt, there will be plenty of commentary about such a new publisher and its place in the direct market. This is also the third comics publisher with well-known names to emerge this week, including Dinesh Shamdasani, Hunter Gorinson, Warren Simons and Jason Johns‘ Bad Idea Comics and Eddie Berganza and Eric M Esquivel‘s Alternate Empire. It could get a little crowded out there.
Bleeding Cool talked to Chuck Dixon when preparing this article, as well as other industry sources, but Richard Meyer did not return e-mails sent this morning. UPDATE: After publication, Meyer contacted Bleeding Cool with the correction noted above.
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JAMAL IGLE Draws AHOY’s ‘Greatest, Best-Looking, and Most Admired Super-Hero in the World’ PENULTIMAN
By Chris Arrant, Editor February 10, 2020 09:00am ET
Jamal Igle has drawn a variant cover for AHOY Comics’ Penultiman #1. Igle is a regular at AHOY, drawing their Dragonfly & Dragonflyman series.
Penultiman spins out of the recent Steel Cage! anthology by the publisher, delving deeper into writer Tom Peyer and artist Alan Robinson’s tale of male superhero ennui.
“Penultiman, The Next-To-Last-Stage In Human Evolution, is the greatest, best-looking, and most admired super-hero in the world!” reads AHOY’s description of the series. “So how can he stop hating himself? His android understudy, Antepenultiman, thinks he knows the answer!”
Penultiman #1 is due out May 6.
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The Solicitations for May 2020 thread is up and running with:
Ahoy, Antarctic, Archie, Aspen, Black Mask and Scout
also, IDW new titles in May – Continuum
Thursday edit: have added AfterShock and Valiant
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Also added Boom! Studios, Dark Horse, IDW, and lots more.
29 solicits for this thread, plus Previews Order Forms.
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At first glance that NOIR hardcover looked like something I would really enjoy; then I realized this is just a re-release of a small 120-page TPB Dark Horse first published in 2009 for $12.99. AND it looks like the new version, at 104 pages, does not include the 10-page Stray Bullets story by Dave Lapham that was included in the original release.
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Dynamite brings the May solicit thread up to 32 solicits
Most every comic features 6 sexy covers!
(note: only sexual innuendo for males)And why did we wait for 2020 to team-up Betty & Veronica with Red Sonja & Vampirella?
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The Great War Dundee comic that includes Pat Mills’ follow up to Charley’s War is free to download here:
https://www.millsverse.com/download-great-war-dundee-comic/
Haven’t read it yet it has a great cover from veteran war comic artist Ian Kennedy.
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Image to Publish 1970s-Inspired DRACULA, MOTHERF***ER
By Newsarama Staff March 12, 2020 01:59pm ETress Release
Bestselling writer Alex de Campi (Archie vs. Predator) and Erica Henderson (Squirrel Girl) team up for a pulpy, pulse-pounding, original graphic novel titled Dracula, Motherf**ker. This California-set, psychological horror story will hit stores from Image Comics in October.
Straddling two different timelines, Dracula, Motherf**ker travels between Vienna, 1889 where Dracula’s brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin and Los Angeles, 1974: wherein an ageing starlet decides to raise the stakes. Crime scene photographer Quincy Harker is the only man who knows it happened, but will anyone believe him… before he gets outlined in chalk himself?
“Most people who know my work are aware that I love pulp/exploitation cinema so me doing a book called Dracula, Motherf**ker shouldn’t really surprise anyone,” said De Campi. “Another thing I wanted to bring to this pulp fantasia was a sensibility from horror anime, with its love of transformation and of the noncorporeal, to push the element of man-as-monster in directions specifically suited to sequential art. Things like the abstract portrayal of Alucard (or Pride in FMA: Brotherhood), and the use of Superflat art in Madoka Magica were tremendously inspirational in this book, especially as that use of flatness dovetails nicely with the work of Gustav Klimt in with the book’s 1889 prologue, and with late-1960s pop art and the psychedelic liquid-light projections of the Joshua Light Show.
Erica Henderson has been an absolute dream to work with. She brings so, so much to the book, from her expert visual storytelling skills and her experimental, wildly exciting use of colour in this story to her appreciation of my Demi Moore jokes. When I saw there’s a nocturne page which is chartreuse silhouettes on a cobalt background, I nearly died, it was so striking. Erica’s so famous from Squirrel Girl so people frequently think of her in terms of her skill with comedy, but seriously, she can do ANYTHING. And watching what she does with Dracula, Motherf**ker? There’s a lyricism of line and mastery of colour that blows everything else she’s done out of the water. That splash on page two makes me think of Kuniyoshi, and she’s brought so much in from blaxploitation film posters, pulp detective novel/Robert McGinnis colours… I’m really not worthy. People will be talking about her art on this book for a long time.”
The perfect standalone story for fans of BBC One’s recent miniseries Dracula, this is an action-filled twist on the classic Bram Stoker vampire tale.
Dracula, Motherf**ker (ISBN: 978-1-5343-1700-0) will be available on Wednesday, October 7 and in bookstores on Tuesday, October 13. It can be pre-ordered at your local comic book shops on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, IndieBound, and Indigo.
Dracula, Motherf**ker will also be available for purchase across many digital platforms, including the official Image Comics iOS app, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, comiXology, and Google Play.
For media rights inquiries, contact Sean Berard at Grandview (sean@grandviewla.com).
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That looks good. I think I may get it.
I remember Alex de Campi from this one:
Liked it a lot at the time, but I only now noticed there was also a sequel… and that she also wrote an ongoing book with Carla Speed McNeil for a while!
Huh. Alright, I just ordered the first trade of that one (“No Mercy”). Love McNeil’s Finder, so I know this is money well spent.
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