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Even though the event is taking place over at another website, the Image founders getting together for a live chat is pretty cool. Check it out if you can tear yourself away from Major Spoilers for an hour or so.
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In celebration of IMAGE UNITED’s highly anticipated debut on Wednesday, November 25th, every single creator including Image founders Rob Liefeld, Jim Valentino, Erik Larsen, Marc Silvestri, Todd McFarlane and Whilce Portacio along Image partner Robert Kirkman, will unite for a one time only online chat event on Tuesday, November 24th at 7pm to 8:30pm EST.
The TRANSFORMERS enter a new and incredible era as IDW launches its inaugural ongoing comic series, expanding the company’s already impressive collection of TRANSFORMERS comics. Under license from Hasbro, The TRANSFORMERS starts off with two huge events – the death of IRONHIDE and subsequent resignation of OPTIMUS PRIME, the heroic leader of the AUTOBOTS.
Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that The Darkness: Shadows & Flames one-shot comic book will hit comic book store shelves late January 2010.
Written by up-and-coming scribe Rob Levin (The Darkness: Butcher) and featuring art and cover from Jorge Lucas (The Darkness, Sunset), the 32-page The Darkness: Shadows & Flames standalone takes readers back to the turn of the 20th Century to follow a horrifying tale of lost love and the depravity of man and powers beyond our understanding in the tradition of H.P. Lovecraft. Salvador Gomes is a broken man. He has lost his beautiful wife and young daughter in a fire and now spends restless days and sleepless nights looking for solace. In desperation, he makes a bargain with “The Shadow God,” but every bargain has its price.
“I’ve always been fascinated with the types of different stories you can tell within the greater mythos of The Darkness,” said Levin. “Readers are familiar with Jackie starring in horror-centric stories, but ‘Shadows and Flame’ gave Jorge and I a chance to tell another kind of horrific yawn, drawing on the great H.P. Lovecraft and examining man’s own ineptitude in a world in which greater, more powerful creatures exist.”
The Darkness: Shadows & Flames one-shot will retail at $2.99.
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BOOM! Studios is proud to announce today that KILL AUDIO #2 has officially sold out in only one week, continuing the success of the mind-blowing series
Fans should keep in mind, while Diamond Comic Distributors is completely sold out, first printings of KILL AUDIO #2 may still be found at a direct market retailer near you.
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Enchanting, dark, and whimsically magical, Peter S. Beagle’s The Last Unicorn has delighted fans for more than forty years. Now this enduring tale will be lushly transformed into a six-issue comic mini-series by IDW Publishing, launching in April 2010. Adapted from Beagle’s original novel by writer Peter B. Gillis, and lovingly illustrated by Renae De Liz with colors by her husband Ray Dillon, IDW Publishing’s The Last Unicorn captures the depth and richness of this classic story.
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It was announced yesterday that Micha Hershman has joined the Dark Horse marketing department. In his thirteen-year tenure with Borders Group, Hershman developed an extensive professional experience with comics, graphic novels, science fiction, horror, and related merchandise. After handling the buyer duties for the chain’s rapidly growing graphic-novel section, he became the category director for the company’s pop-culture section. Having engineered highly successful retail and online marketing campaigns for such recognizable brands as Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Twilight, and managed the children’s and fiction marketing teams, Micha comes to Dark Horse armed with both the experience and the passion needed to grow the brand’s presence in all markets.
“Dark Horse is a world-class organization, unmatched in its dedication to comics, their creators, and their fans,” said Hershman. “I couldn’t be more excited to join Mike Richardson and his team.”
“We are extremely happy to have Micha here at Dark Horse,” said President Mike Richardson. “The experience, knowledge, and enthusiasm he brings to our marketing team will be a huge resource as we look to grow Dark Horse over the coming years.”
Micha Hershman arrives in his new position at Dark Horse later this month.
When an MI6 officer’s body is fished out of the river Spree in Berlin, the British government begins to panic — not just because one of their spies is dead, but because of what he was smuggling across the Iron Curtain. A list. A list supplied by an East German Stasi double agent. A list identifying every spy working in Berlin, on both sides of the wall. A list that was not found on the spy’s corpse.
Zenescope Entertainment has been publishing some of the more popular and best-selling independent titles over the past few years. The Grimm Fairy Tales universe in particular has caught the comic world by storm with not only the flagship title but its spin-off titles such as Return To Wonderland, Beyond Wonderland and The Piper. And now the publisher is releasing its newest Grimm Fairy Tales mini-series entitled NEVERLAND. The story reinvents the Peter Pan mythology as fantasy, horror and action. It’s a merging of genres that Zenescope has done extremely well since its inception in 2005. This version of Neverland follows main characters Cross and Wendy as they journey into the mystical realm in order to save Wendy’s nephews from the evil and demonic being known only as Pan.
Over 14 million children live in poverty in the United States. They need a hero this holiday season and here to answer the call of duty is the G.I. JOE brand from Hasbro (NYSE: HAS).
Hasbro’s G.I. JOE brand, the Marine Toys for Toys Foundation and actor Dennis Quaid are joining forces to help make this holiday season a little brighter for less fortunate children. For every G.I. JOE: The Rise of Cobra toy purchased at stores from November 11 through November 26 (Veteran’s Day through Thanksgiving), Hasbro will donate a new toy (up to 300,000 toys with a minimum $3.99 value) to Toys for Tots.
The TRANSFORMERS action just keeps coming, as IDW introduces a third new series in January – TRANSFORMERS: Last Stand of the WRECKERS. Under license from Hasbro, Inc., IDW explores yet another action-packed storyline, following the AUTOBOTS special operations crew on a mission to space to confront a new foe.
HAUNT, the sales record-breaking new superhero series conceived by Todd McFarlane and Robert Kirkman, faces yet another sell out with both its first and second issues completely sold through on a distribution-level.
“Getting this reception a second time around has us all very excited,” Kirkman said. “HAUNT is having a tremendous launch at a period in time when the economy doesn’t really lend itself to people taking a chance on something new. Not only did the first issue set a recent sales record for Image, but as of last week the reprint and second issue are both gone despite very significant overprints. Todd and I are very appreciative of the fans and retailers supporting HAUNT. We hope to reward them back with years of stories to come.”
On Saturday morning, September 19th, The Super Hero Squad Show burst onto television screens across the nation on Cartoon Network to rave reviews and a huge audience. It instantly became the Network’s #1 show for Boys 6-8 and has continued its heroic growth in that demographic, increasing that audience by nearly 30%.
Titan Publishing is proud to present inventors extraordinaire and Oscar® winners, Wallace & Gromit, as you’ve never seen them before – in comics on your iPhone!
The first batch of comics includes strips written by Dan Abnett (Legion, Nova, The Authority) and Simon Furman (Transformers, Terminator 2 comic), with more to be released in the following weeks!
Arcana Studios, an award winning comic book publisher and transmedia producer, is proud to announce the launch of Arcana Magazine. Debuting on January 27th 2010, and solicited in the current November Previews (Diamond Code: NOV09 0599) is the new quarterly magazine simply entitled Arcana, the re-designed print version of the on-line comics based magazine Extra Sequential.
Since IMAGE UNITED’s announcement, fans have clamored for the one missing Image Comics founder, Jim Lee, to take part in the crossover event. Yesterday, Image revealed Lee will definitely take part with an all-new cover featuring the entire pantheon of Image superheroes at the hands of the resurrected Al Simmons.
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