For your (and our) Friday pleasure, Image Comics drops off a batch of sneak peeks for titles arriving next week. This week’s haul finds us gazing at Edgar Allen Poo, Invincible 45, Hiding in Time, Repo 3, and the Walking Dead 40.
Image Comics must be super happy as it has announced five titles (Dust #1, Invincible #43 & #44, Madman Atomic Comics #3, and the Walking Dead #39) have completely sold out at Diamond.
“Having such a wild variety of titles sell out at the same time showcases what’s great about Image,” said Erik Larsen, Publisher of Image Comics. “Each of these titles caters to a completely different audience, but every single one is in major demand. These are cartoonists, writers and artists at the top of the game doing the work they’ve wanted to do their entire lives with an immense amount of success. It’s books like these I dreamed of when we first formed Image. I couldn’t be happier.”
I haven’t read Dust, but Invincible, Madman, and the Walking Dead are all high on the Major Spoilers reading list.
To quote everyone’s favorite Cool-Aid icon, “Oh Yea!” Image Comics has really come through this week, dropping off 14 sneak peeks for titles arriving in stores next week.
Take the jump for today’s offering including Invincible #44, The walking Dead #39, Elephantmen #10, and more.
To quote everyone’s favorite Cool-Aid icon, “Oh Yea!” Image Comics has really come through this week, dropping off 14 sneak peeks for titles arriving in stores next week. The list is long and space is tight, so I’m splitting this over two days.
Take the jump for today’s offering including The Chemist #1, Hiding in Time #1, and a bunch of collected trades.
It’s Friday, and if you were paying attention you noticed there wasn’t a sneak peek from Image yesterday. That’s because the company sent us so many sneak peeks this week that it spilled over to today, giving you plenty to gawk at as you slide into the weekend. Alien Pig Farm, Ward of the State, The Ride, and Dynamo 5 are just a few you can feast your eyes on after the jump.
Image Comics has announced Tech Jacket, the first series by Invincible and Walking Dead writer Robert Kirkman, will be collected in a trade paperback. Tech Jacket tells the story of Zack Thompson, an ordinary teenager until his family was thrust into the center of an alien civil war. As usual when these things happen, Zack was fused against his will with a battle vest capable of granting him power far beyond those of mere mortals.
“Tech Jacket has always been a big favorite of mine,” Kirkman says. “Zack’s not like a typical comic book teenager. He’s far from a big dork or a wealthy heir. His family is working class - just like most people out there. In fact, he’s probably the creation of mine I relate to the most.”
If you haven’t read Invincible, then you are missing out, and if Kirkman’s great story telling in Walking Dead is any indication, then Tech Jacket should be a must have.
Tech Jacket, packed with extras, exclusive sketches and introduction by the author hits stores August 15, for $14.99.
Once again Image delivers the goods in the form of a bunch of sneak peeks for your Thursday pleasure. This week’s installment features previews of Invincible, The Walking Dead, Death Dealer, and the Weird World of Jack Staff.
This week Image rolls out previews of Repo #1, Invincible #43, True Story, Swear to God #6, Alien Pig Farm 3000 #3, and a lot more.
If you can’t get enough Invincible, check out Robert Kirkman’s Capes Volume One: Punching the Clock.
“While I’ve got my own personal sandbox of super-toys in Invincible, I ended up creating too many to fit in the box,” Kirkman explained. “The page of CAPES includes its own mammoth cast with their own personal dramas that deserved their own spotlight as opposed to the background of someone else’s book. I love this genre too much to limit it to just one title!”
Sounds good to us Robert!
Capes tells the story of Heroes on payroll who must punch the clock, take lunch breaks, and work overtime. But the life of a hero’s day isn’t 9 to 5 and betrayal from within could cause the operation to come crashing down. Punching the CZlock arrives July 11, is 144-pages, and will sell for $14.99.
Image Comics has provided Major Spoilers the cover images and solicitation information for titles shipping in August 2007.
SPECIAL FORCES #1 (of 6)
story KYLE BAKER
art & cover KYLE BAKER
32 PAGES FC AUGUST 22 $2.99
GET READY TO RAQ! It’s Black Hawk Upside-Down!
EISNER award-winning Kyle Baker brings you SPECIAL FORCES the wackiest boot camp since “Stripes”! SPECIAL FORCES follows a small-town autistic teen from his recruitment, through basic training, and then off to war in Iraq. With violent felons, mental patients, a violent mental hot chick felon and at least one “Don’t ask don’t tell”, his unit is composed of the military’s last line of defense. The very last line!
What happens when desperate army recruiters fall below quota at the same time the President calls for additional troops? Find out in SPECIAL FORCES!
Inspired by a true 2006 incident in which an 18-year-old autistic Oregon boy was recruited into the army.
Is it Thursday already? Image Comics has dropped off another sneak peek for you to feast your eyes on. This week we have Invincible #42, Negative Burn, Spawn, Superpatriot: War on Terror and more!
Image Comics has provided Major Spoilers with previews of four titles this week. For fans of the Luna Brothers, the Girls series comes to an end, After the Cape gets more interesting, and Invincible takes on the Sequids for the fate of the Earth.
Image Comics has provided Major Spoilers with two sneak peeks this week. First up is PvP collecting some of the funniest strips from Scott Kurtz. The other preview comes from The Complete Invincible Library Vol. 1. This is the collection that should have shipped at Christmas time, but because of issues with the printer, it had to be delayed.
Or - “The Calm Before The Storm Before The Even Bigger Storm…”
After yesterday’s apocalyptic epic tale of destruction, conflict, death, (Contrary to my inital report, Marvel says that 53 people died during the course of the battle, including 6 costumed superheroes. I fear for Nighthawk.) and crying Captain Americas, I feel the need to purge, to cleanse the palate with a nice fruity sorbet, as Wayne Campbell might put it. And nothing’s better to get the taste of ashes and broken friendships out of your mind than some nice, straightforward storytelling. When I want a breath of fresh air, I pick up Invincible, whose cover blurb of “Probably The Best Super-Hero Comic In The Universe” is, in my opinion, wholly true and incontrovertible. This issue is one of Kirkman’s periodic “take a deep breath and regather the strands of plot, because the roller coaster is about to hit the drops” issues, and as such, there’s a ton going on here.
When Image Comics sends us the sneak peeks, it goes all out. Six, count-em SIX previews ranging from Impaler #3 all the way to Elephantmen #7, and a whole lot in between. Some are outstanding, some are NSFW, but they all look good.
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