Archive for the ‘The Darkness’ Category
Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that The Darkness/Darkchylde/Witchblade: Kingdom of Pain one-shot comic book will hit comic book store shelves late December 2009.
Top Cow sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of The Darkness #80 and Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #2. Both arrive in stores next week (September 30, 2009).
Arriving in stores this week is the second installment of The Darkness/Pitt event. Top Cow was kind enough to slip us a sneak peek that you can read after the jump!
Top Cow has announced The Darkness/Pitt #1 is now available for free as a digital download off the Comics by comiXology iPhone application.
“We’re thrilled to be a part of Top Cow’s strategy to get more exposure for The Darkness/Pitt. The long-awaited return of Pitt deserves great exposure to a wide audience, and our patent-pending Guided View really shines with the material,” explained comiXology President David Steinberger, “Many thousands of people now have the opportunity to read the first issue and use Comics by comiXology’s unique in-app connection to retailers to pre-order the next issue.”
If the iPhone/iPod Touch app isn’t your cup of tea, you can also find the issue at the comiXology.com website.
Press Release
Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that the first issue of The Darkness/Pitt has sold out at the distributor level. The highly anticipated crossover series has been over five years in the making and was held back from release by Top Cow Productions until all principal work on the series had been completed.
Arriving in stores today is the first issue of Top Cow’s The Darkness/Pitt crossover. The company sent us a sneak peek that you can check out, before you purchase the issue later today.
Press Release
Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that Phil Hester, the current writer for The Darkness, will take over artistic duties on the series for “Bog,” a special two-part story which he has also written. “Bog” begins in The Darkness #80 which is solicited for a September 2009 release and will conclude the following month in The Darkness #81.
Top Cow has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of The Darkness #79 that arrives next week at your local comic book store. Take the jump to find out what Jackie Estacado is up to, and why he’s not going to take it any more.
The Darkness #78 arrives in stores next week, and Top Cow sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek.
This week image Comics sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Back to Brooklyn trade paperback, the Elephantmen War Toys: Yvette one-shot, Proof, Volume 3: Thunderbirds are Go!, The Darkness #78, and the Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft #3.
Dale Keown’s character, Pitt returns to comics in August as part of The Darkness/Pitt crossover event. The three-issue series will be written by Paul Jenkins with art by Keown.
The story behind The Darkness/Pitt follows Pitt and his human half-brother Tim on their mission to New York to track down those infected by an alien virus. But mob boss and current bearer of the mystical power of The Darkness, Jackie Estacado, doesn’t permit anything to go down in his neighborhood unless he knows about it. When the two forces attract the unwanted attention of the Federal Government, mayhem ensues!
”Darkness/Pitt has been a labor of love but it has been well worth it. As always, I’m excited to work with Dale on Jackie Estacado, a character we’re so familiar with, and I’m gratified he’s allowed me the opportunity to work with characters so near and dear to his heart in Pitt and Tim,” commented writer Jenkins in a prepared statement, “The book looks as beautiful as I always hoped it would, and I trust fans will forgive me for bringing a voice to some of Dale’s most beloved creations.”
Take the jump for a look at the two covers to the series.
Top Cow’s Witchblade/The Darkness/Angelus Trinity: Blood on the Sands One Shot arrives in stores this week (June 10), and the company slipped us a sneak peek to share with the Major Spoilers Legion.
Top Cow Productions has announced it is finally collecting the first six issues of the first volume of The Darkness and offering them in trade.
The Darkness Origins Volume 1 tells the story of how mafia hitman Jackie Estacado was blessed and cursed on his 21st birthday when he inherited the power of The Darkness. Readers will learn how the elemental force of The Darkness gives Estacado access to an otherworldly dimension and control over the demons who dwell there. This volume collects the origin of Estacado as the current bearer of The Darkness, and introduces classic characters such as the Angelus, Butcher, and Sonatine.
The 160-page book will feature the original six issue covers, and will be branded as part of Top Cow’s Origins line.
“We launched the Origins line with Witchblade and it’s proven to be very popular. It allows us to showcase the classic tales that established the Top Cow Universe, but also spotlight the more modern tales in our other lines like Darkness Accursed,” explained Publisher Filip Sablik in a prepared statement.
The trade arrives later this month.
Top Cow has sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of next week’s The Darkness #77, that features Jackie taking on his deadliest foe yet!
Top Cow Entertainment announced that Nelson Blake II will be the artist for The Darkness #78. The issue is still being written by regular The Darkness scribe, Phil Hester.
The issue, with is scheduled for a June 2009 release, will explore what happens when current Darkness bearer Jackie Estacado becomes fed up with the mysterious Sovereign, who has kept Jackie on a wild goose chase to recover his full power for the past few issues.
Blake was discoverd during a portfolio review by Filip Sablik and Rob Levin, at the the New York Comic Con.
“Phil Hester is a rare breed of storyteller in that he gets both the literary and visual side of the medium. You combine that with the fact that he absolutely gets the Darkness and Jackie’s universe and you have a dream project that any artist would be lucky to work on. In the issue we did together, he managed to stuff it full of action, and deliver on character. An absolute blast to draw,” said Blake in a prepared statement.
Take the jump to see some of Blake’s pencil work for the issue.
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