The worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan will release the seventh trade paperback collection of their ongoing multiple Eisner Award-winning series SAGA this March from Image Comics.
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LED Logo Light Boxes Coming From Valiant
By Dustin Cabeal
Usually, I see something from Valiant, and I'm like, "Damn, they really do try new things with product licensing." This time... well that gif above is kinda the best representation of my feelings.
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Preview: America #1... Mostly Variant Covers Preview
By Dustin Cabeal
If you're wondering why Marvel has 40% of the market, look no further than their variant cover game. They copied the page from IDW's manual. Anyway, I don't mind this. I'll give it an issue which is all I give Marvel Comics, one issue to impress. I don't read for the trade, sorry.
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Preview: Riverdale (One-Shot) from Archie Comics
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Learn the secrets and hidden tales from the summer before the eternal love-triangle begins in this special issue, which features four short stories focusing on the major players and events in the Riverdale series. You dare not miss this special commemorative issue in advance of the upcoming ongoing Riverdale series, written by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Afterlife with Archie, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and the writers of the CW’s Riverdale series, with stunning art by Alitha Martinez (Black Panther)!
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100% of Image Comics' Women's History Month 25th Anniversary variant proceeds to go to Planned Parenthood
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Image Comics is pleased to reveal the first five of 11 variants planned for March’s 25th anniversary theme month—“Women’s History.” The variants will serve to celebrate the careers of women in comics, the strides made throughout comics history made by the women’s movement, and the company’s history of shaking up the status quo. 100% of the proceeds made from these March Women’s History variant covers will be donated to Planned Parenthood.
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci is Dragged to Hell
P M Buchan, co-creator of the 44FLOOD folk-horror comic-book series HERETICS, will release Chapter Three of his four-part Gothic-horror series with artist Karen Yumi Lusted, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, at True Believers Comic Festival this weekend, on Saturday 4 February 2017 in Cheltenham, UK. Featuring a love story for the ages about two lost souls damned to hell, and based on the John Keats poem of the same name, La Belle Dame Sans Merci is a contemporary exploration of the concept of the femme fatale.
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‘Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal Tales’ Children's Book from BOOM! Studios Announced
BOOM! Studios and The Jim Henson Company are proud to announce JIM HENSON’S THE DARK CRYSTAL TALES, a new children’s book set for release this summer by acclaimed writer and artist Cory Godbey (Have Courage, Be Kind: The Tale of Cinderella). The publication is a follow-up to last fall’s best-selling JIM HENSON’S LABYRINTH TALES, also written and illustrated by Godbey.
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DC Exclusivefies People Already Working For Them
DC Entertainment continues to expand its roster of top-name talent, announcing today that it has reached agreements with artists Javier Fernández (NIGHTWING) and Jorge Jiménez (SUPERMAN, SUPER SONS) to create comic book content solely for the publisher’s DC and Vertigo imprints.
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Dark Horse To Publish American Gods In The U.K.
Dark Horse Comics will be publishing the highly anticipated adaptation of American Gods as periodical comic books in England, it was announced today. The adaptation of the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel by Neil Gaiman (How to Talk to Girls at Parties, The Sandman) will be adapted and co-written by P. Craig Russell (The Sandman: The Dream Hunters)—who previously adapted Gaiman’s bestselling novels Coraline and The Graveyard Book—and illustrated by acclaimed artist Scott Hampton (Hellboy, Batman).
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Valiant Taps Hollywood For New Comic Book
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Valiant is proud to announce that Academy Award-nominated screenwriter Eric Heisserer, writer of the internationally acclaimed, smash-hit motion picture ARRIVAL, as well as the upcoming HARBINGER and BLOODSHOT feature films from Sony Pictures, will join Harvey Award-nominated artist Raul Allen (Wrath of the Eternal Warrior) with Patricia Martin (Bloodshot Reborn) for SECRET WEAPONS #1 (of 4) – an all-new, Valiant Prestige format limited series starring the much-demanded, super-charged hero Livewire, in June!
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DC Reveals More Hanna-Barbera, Including Creepy Looking Snagglepuss
By Dustin Cabeal
What. The. Fuck. Is. That? Listen, the Hanna-Barbera comics have been some of the few licensed cash-ins I haven't minded because they're just so fucking weird and clearly not for children. Only a few haven't sucked and this next line-up gives me almost zero hope for the rest of the line. Howard Chaykin? Pass. Harley Quinn writers? Pass. Dan DiDio? Hard pass. Then there's Snagglepuss... it's just so fucking creepy looking, but I think I might have to read it.
Read MorePlanet Jimbot's "Savant" Picked Up For Dark Horse Presents
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Savant, a comic strip originally published by small-press publisher Planet Jimbot, is to be serialized from March onwards in multi-Eisner award-winning Dark Horse Presents.
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Dark Horse Announces "Number Ones" Anthology
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Trying to decide what to read next and not sure where to start? We have the perfect offering for your next binge read! Join our all-star roster of creators in the value-priced collection Dark Horse Number Ones, which contains full debut issues of eight different comics series for just six bucks and is slated for release on March 29, 2017.
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Valiant Teases New Series
Dark Horse Comics Unleashes "Lead Poisoning: The Pencil Art of Geof Darrow"
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Geof Darrow’s slick, precise inks and stunning detail have amazed comics fans for decades, from his early work with Moebius to Hard Boiled, his first collaboration with Frank Miller, to the overwhelming success of his current series, The Shaolin Cowboy. Now Darrow provides incredible insight into his process by sharing the pencil drawings behind his meticulous inks in a huge hardcover collection, Lead Poisoning: The Pencil Art of Geof Darrow. Dark Horse Comics will release the oversized 128 page book, 9x12” HC and priced at $34.99, in July ahead of Darrow’s appearance at San Diego Comic Con.
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VIZ Media Opens Pre-Orders For BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE Home Media & New Manga Series
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VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, has announced preorders for the home media release of BORUTO: NARUTO THE MOVIE as well as Vol. 1 of the manga series BORUTO: NARUTO NEXT GENERATIONS.
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Jeff Lemire's ROYAL CITY Interior Artwork Revealed
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Image Comics is pleased to reveal interior preview artwork from the forthcoming ROYAL CITY—a new ongoing monthly series written and illustrated by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire (DESCENDER, Sweet Tooth) and set to launch in March 2017. First announced in Entertainment Weekly this Spring, ROYAL CITY promises to be a sprawling, serialized graphic novel that will chart the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades.
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Action Lab's SPENCER & LOCKE Twists Classic Comic Strip Into Hard-Boiled Crime Saga
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When his grade-school sweetheart is found dead, there’s only one friend Detective Locke can trust to help solve her murder — his childhood imaginary panther, Spencer. But when they face both a vicious crime syndicate and memories from Locke’s traumatic youth, can this unlikely pair survive long enough to find the truth?
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Rue Britannia, The Singles Club, and The Immaterial Girl collected into THE COMPLETE PHONOGRAM hardcover edition this April
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New York Times bestselling creative team behind THE WICKED + THE DIVINE, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, introduce a Day-glo-soaked, music-obsessed experience in the fully-colored collected hardcover edition—THE COMPLETE PHONOGRAM. It will hit stores this April and features all three story arcs of the cult-hit series.
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Discover Science, Candy, & Awesome Adventure in THE NOT-SO SECRET SOCIETY from BOOM! Studios
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BOOM! Studios is proud to announce THE NOT-SO SECRET SOCIETY, an all new multi-platform graphic novel experience! The writing team of Matthew Daley (Lantern City) and Arlene Daley call on twenty-five years of combined education experience to create this thrilling, coming-of-age adventure which premieres today with free, weekly mini-comics and activities at www.teamNS3.com and arrives in a full-length original graphic novel this summer.
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