First Look: "VISIGOTH" Battles X-O MANOWAR #11 with Matt Kindt & Ryan Bodenheim
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Valiant is proud to present your first lettered look inside X-O MANOWAR (2017) #11– the FIRST ISSUE of “VISIGOTH,” an ALL-NEW JUMPING-ON POINT for 2017's best-selling comics powerhouse from New York Times best-selling writer Matt Kindt (ETERNITY, Mind MGMT) and astonishing artistRyan Bodenheim (The Dying & The Dead)! From “SOLDIER” to “GENERAL” to “EMPEROR”…to outcast! The whole of X-O Manowar's battle-fueled past year in the Valiant Universe has all led to this...and now the fate of Earth's last Visigoth – and the extraterrestrial kingdom he brought to order beneath his armored gauntlet – is about to be decided in blood and steel...
Ethan Young’s “Life Between Panels: The Complete Tails Omnibus” and “The Battles of Bridget Lee: The Miracle Child” Arrive in 2018
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Ethan Young has left his mark on the comics industry with acclaimed works like Nanjing: The Burning City, The Battles of Bridget Lee: Invasion of Farfall, and his Independent Publishers Book Award-Winning Graphic Novel Tails. Now, Dark Horse is thrilled to announce Life Between Panels: The Complete Tails Omnibus, a complete collection of his semiautobiographical webcomic along with a second volume of The Battles of Bridget Lee.
VIZ Media Launches Nintendo Gaming-Inspired SPLATOON 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, expands its catalog of manga titles based on popular Nintendo video game properties with the launch of Splatoon on December 12th.
Brutal sci-fi series VS arrives this February
Press Release
Superstar artist Esad Ribić (Secret Wars, Uncanny X-Force) will make his creator-owned debut, teaming up with acclaimed writer Ivan Brandon (BLACK CLOUD, DRIFTER) for the darkly satirical sci-fi series VS this February from Image Comics. Painted colors from Nic Klein (DRIFTER) and design by Tom Muller round out the powerhouse creative team.
DEATH OF LOVE arrives just in time for Valentine's Day
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Writer Justin Jordan (THE FAMILY TRADE, SPREAD) teams up with artist Donal DeLay (You are Not Alone, My Geek Family), colorist Omar Estévez (Heavy Metal Magazine, Batman ‘66), and letterer Rachel Deering (In the Dark, Vertigo Quarterly) for the least romantic Valentine’s comic ever: DEATH OF LOVE.
Seven Seas Expands to Classic Shoujo With Release of Riyoko Ikeda’s CLAUDINE Manga
Press Release
Seven Seas Entertainment is proud to announce the license acquisition of Claudine, the classic one-shot LGBT+ manga about love and identity in historical France, penned by shoujo pioneer and Rose of Versailles creator Riyoko Ikeda.
Limerence Press to Release A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns
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Limerence Press, an imprint of Oni Press, invites everyone to learn more about gender neutral pronouns and why they’re important! A Quick and Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, written by Archie Bongiovanni and Tristan Jimerson, with art by Archie Bongiovanni, is an educational comic guide for using they/them pronouns properly in everyday situations, and also includes resources for folks who use they/them pronouns themselves.
SuBLime Yaoi Manga Imprint Releases A STRANGE AND MYSTIFYING STORY
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SuBLime, the leading global English-language yaoi manga publisher, delivers the launch of new series A STRANGE AND MYSTIFYING STORY, available now after being previously out of print.
The series, by creator Tsuta Suzuki, is rated ‘M’ for Mature Readers. Print editions carry an MSRP of $12.99 U.S. / $17.99 CAN each. The digital versions carry an MSRP of $6.99 U.S. Readers have two methods of digital access to the series onSuBLimeManga.com – via a DRM-free downloadable PDF, viewable on any enabled eReader device and computer, as well as via the online manga viewer. Readers can also purchase a digital version through the NOOK, Kindle and Kobo eReaders as well as on Google Play. SuBLime will publish subsequent volumes of the seven-volume series on a quarterly basis.
Seven Seas Says “Let Them Eat Brains” with License of VERSAILLES OF THE DEAD Manga Series
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Seven Seas Entertainment is thrilled to announce the license acquisition of the manga Versailles of the Dead by Kumiko Suekane, a stylish zombie series about a cross-dressing queen and the French Revolution!
Preview: DOLLFACE VOLUME 3: Welcome to New Orleans
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Action Lab Entertainment's best-selling witch hunter Lila returns in this third volume, dealing with the heavy fallout from the events of volume two. Emily doesn't want anything to do with Lila, but Ivan won't stop searching for her. And Lila? She looks into her past and gets help from the last place she expected: a good witch!
Madefire Welcomes Image Comics’ THE WALKING DEAD, SPAWN, and more to its Award-Winning Digital Platform
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Madefire, the award-winning standard in digital comics and innovator of the proprietary Motion Book™ format teams up with Image Comics, the publisher of some of the top selling, award-winning comics in the industry, to make available a trove of back catalog titles to the Madefire platform.
Dark Horse is Proud to Present The Valderrama Bros.’ First American Work, “Giants”
Press Release
Carlos and Miguel Valderrama, A.K.A. “The Valderrama Bros.”, are emerging new talents and Dark Horse is thrilled to bring their first five-issue miniseries Giants to American audiences this December.
Comic Bastards Podcast - 020
By Dustin Cabeal
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020 - Well after some computer problems/cloud issues, I'm back! Episode twenty... feels like I should have been here much sooner. Are you enjoying this weekly podcast with just one dude talking? If so, please let me know or just subscribe to the show via the links below. Before reviews, I do cover one bit of news so hang on to the object in your hand that you're not very likely to drop, but fuck... maybe you will. Thanks for listening!
Books covered in this episode:
- Batman: Who Laughs #1
- Dark Fang #1
- Ninja-K #1
- Little Guardians
Review: Retcon #3
By Jonathan Edwards
God this book sucks. So hard. This issue finally touches on the “retcon” premise this book, and it makes something clear. You absolutely have to go into this book knowing the premise for it to make any semblance of sense. Otherwise, you’ll hit the third issue, and the resetting time concept will come completely out of left field (and, not in a good way). But despite all that, the premise also isn’t wholly accurate. Retcon isn’t so much the “reboot of a comic book miniseries that has never existed” as it is the events right before said reboot has always happened in the previous iterations of this universe. Of course, it’s possible that time is meant to always reset to the first panel of the first page of the first issue, but the exposition here suggests it goes back much further than that. And when I say exposition, I mean there’s a lot of it. In fact, Retcon #3 is practically nothing but exposition. Too bad none of it has any emotional impact since it’s trying to make a point of how “different it is this time,” but we never saw any of the previous attempts, so that doesn’t end up meaning much if anything.
Review: The Demon: Hell is Earth #1
By Justin McCarty
Only a month after DC reintroduced Deadman with a new number one, we get Etrigan, another lesser known anti-hero. I feel like special care has to be taken to grab the potential reader where the lesser known properties are concerned. Demon is an intriguing comic, but it doesn’t do enough to introduce us to these characters and their world.
Review: Evolution #1
By Cat Wyatt
Evolution is a new series by Image, and the divergence from the typical cover art styles caught my attention. This will likely be a good read for any fans of Lovecraft (as that is the impression I’ve gotten from the first issue).
Review: Descender #26
By Ben Snyder
Picking up immediately after issue #25, Descender #26 concludes the “Rise of the Robots” event arc. Unfortunately, the conclusion isn’t that satisfying because this issue actually really doesn’t even feel like a conclusion to but more so an introduction to a new arc. Every character is left on the precipice of a major story path, and it feels like a cheap, unnecessary cliffhanger. Despite this, issue #26 is still a worthy entry into the Descender story.
Review: Green Lanterns #35
By Cat Wyatt
First off, let’s talk about issue #35’s title: “Oh Bolphunga Where Art Thou? Part 1” (in case you were wondering, yet I had to check the spelling on that one). I don’t know about you, but this title made me crack up, perhaps it’s just my sense of humor. Anyway, we can clearly get an idea of the events that are about to occur in this issue.
Review: Ninja-K #1
By Daniel Vlasaty
Ninjak is something I’ve been aware of for some time now. As a comic book reader this should be obvious. He’s a character I’ve seen here and there. But one I don’t think I’ve ever actually sat down to read before. It’s kind of like that with a lot of the Valiant stuff for me, though. I’m aware of most of it, maybe even read an issue or two. But for whatever reason it’s a publisher I tend to pass by on the shelves. I don’t know why. It’s nothing personal. Nothing against Valiant or the books they’re steady putting out. I think that I just get so wrapped up in the DC, Marvel, and Image books I buy and read each week that I kind of forget about all the other companies putting new books out week after week.
Review: Dark Fang #1
By Cat Wyatt
Quick heads up: I’m what you call a vampire snob, I love vampire stories, but only when they’re done certain ways. When I spotted Dark Fang, I immediately knew that I was going to have to give it a try, the artwork alone was screaming at me to read it, that couple with the vampiric elements and I was sold.
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By Justin McCarty
I picked up Transdimensional having no prior knowledge of the subject. Not even the Kickstarter description. If I had, I probably would have skipped it. I am probably one of five comics fans that don't get into sci-fi horror. The Kickstarter describes the comic as being a sci-fi horror in the same family as Alien and The Abyss. I’ve seen Alien maybe (just the one - sad face from you probably), not The Abyss. I wasn’t the proper audience for this comic. However, if I was into this type of story, I could see its appeal.