Comic News

Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers Preview!

Boom! Studios is adding another comic to their Disney “Afternoon Block” line up and this time it’s Chip ‘N Dale Rescue Rangers. Personally, Boom! has been handling the revival of the “Afternoon Block” quite well with Darkwing Duck so it’s great to see new additions. The series is penned by Darkwing Duck scribe Ian Brill and drawn by Marvel Superhero Squad artist Leonel Castellani. Hopefully the revival continues so that I can finally read the ongoing Bonker’s title I’ve been dreaming of. Also if you’re like me and you can’t remember the theme song for the show you may find yourself singing Duck Tales, like I am! Included are the first five pages of the first issue. Enjoy!

Vote for the next leader of the Legion of Superheroes!

Are you a Legion Of Super Heroes fanatic? Yes! No! Maybe so? Well now is your chance to show your true patriotism for the Legion. DC will be letting readers (yes you) to vote the next leader of this team from the 31’st century.  

Q: Who Is Jake Ellis? A: Fictional Comic Character

Writer Nathan Edmondson made people afraid to look into the light with THE LIGHT, a sell-out five-issue miniseries drawn by Brett Weldele (The Surrogates). Now, he brings new life to the spy genre with WHO IS JAKE ELLIS?, an all-new series from Image Comics.

The first issue of JAKE ELLIS will be in stores in January 2011. Tonci Zonjic (POPGUN, The Immortal Iron Fist, Daredevil) joins Edmondson on the book, producing action-packed art and covers for the series.

Soldier Zero Exclusives

Were you unhappy with your run of the mill cover of Soldier Zero #1 this week? Were the first 7 covers not enough for you? Well Boom! feels that same way and have added 2 more covers to mix! Some completionist out there is getting really pissed off right now realizing that they’ll have to buy 9 covers all together. At any rate the new variants are being sold through Mid-Town Comics with their own exclusive cover and yet another exclusive cover through Hastings which has been pumping out the exclusive covers since getting into the comics game. As is the norm, I’m sure some of these exclusives will make their way into other comic shops and then eventually the eBay. Pictured below are the covers and I do have to say that the retro cover is pretty snazzy!

Get Published With Radical

 Looking to have your artwork published in a Radical comic? Well, now is your chance! Radical Publishing is pleased to announce a new contest to test your illustration skills. Simply draw your best version of the villainous Jebediah Crone, based on a scene from Radical’s newest horror miniseries, ABATTOIR. For each of the first five issues, Radical will select a winner to be featured on a per issue basis, with 5 winners in total. For a chance to be featured in Abattoir #2, upload and email a link of your Jebediah Crone artwork to [email protected] no later than November 10th, 2010. Your illustration MUST be based on a scene of Jebediah Crone as seen in the pages of ABATTOIR #1.

Vlad’s Origin Revealed in : Me Without You

Cassie Hack has taken out some of the most dangerous slashers in the world. But could she have done it without the help of her enormous sidekick, Vlad? In January 2011, HACK/SLASH fans will finally find out how Cassie and Vlad became an inseparable pair!

The follow-up to the smash hit HACK/SLASH: MY FIRST MANIAC miniseries, HACK/SLASH: ME WITHOUT YOU reveals the origin of comicdom’s favorite hulking sidekick. Before Vlad roamed the country, battling slashers with Cassie Hack, he haunted the alleyways of Chicago as the living urban legend, the Meat Man. But even a cleaver-wielding monster gets lonely, and Vlad’s quest to find out who he really is will lead him on a bloody path!

Abattoir Signing at Golden Apple

On October 27th, starting at 5:00 P.M., Golden Apple Comics will present an autograph signing with Darren Lynn Bousman, along with writers Rob Levin and Troy Peteri, for the release of the new comic book from Radical Publishing, ABATTOIR.

From director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw franchise, Mother’s Day, Repo! The Genetic Opera) comes a chilling, supernatural tale set in the cold beauty of Middle America in the late 80s. After a brutal massacre takes place in a gorgeous house, real estate agent and family man Richard Ashwalt is assigned the impossible task of picking up the pieces and selling the property. As Richard inspects the blood-soaked grounds, a twisted old man arrives at the house with a sinister and terrifying purpose. Richard is about to be drawn into a web of shadows, murders and massacres that will shatter him to his very core!

Morning Glories – Teasers and News

You would think that by the third sell out Image would learn to just print more issues to begin with, but no, no they didn’t learn that yet. Morning Glories has been the most talked about Indie book and very likely Shadowline’s best seller thus far. So it should come as no surprise that the second issue is going back for a third printing and that the third issue (which hasn’t been released yet) is also going back for a second print. Also released from Image and Shadowline, is a batch of teasers with the same phrase and flower on each of the teasers. I will say that the Marvel style marketing is really paying off for Image. Nick Spencer must love it as well, since he’s become comics new golden boy with projects with Robert Kirkman and Marvel already underway for next year. Personally I just finish “Bad Kids go to Hell” so that I could see for myself any comparison between the two, but one day, one day soon I read this damn book.

Top Cow – Buy the Cow, Get the Milk for Free

Top Cow Productions, Inc announced today their plan to make a digital copy of the special anniversary issue of their flagship title Witchblade FREE with every copy sold through participating retailers.

Witchblade #144 marks the fifteenth anniversary of Top Cow’s premiere title about a new kind of comic heroine. To celebrate this landmark and usher Witchblade into a new age of comics, Top Cow and Wowio (www.wowio.com) have teamed up to offer a free digital copy of this issue with each physical copy sold. Participating retailers will receive download codes to distribute with each copy they sold which can then be downloaded.

Moonstone Books – Feb Releases

The fine folks at Moonstone Books have given us an early look at their Feb ’11 releases and I have to say that this looks like a good batch of comics! The first is a new series Savage Beauty which seems like a modern take on the Phantom, but with two beautiful girls instead. Next we have more Zombies killing Cheerleaders… or do they! One I’m personally looking forward to is a reprint of the Vertigo series Angel Town, which I’m looking forward to checking out myself. The last one that caught my eye was Air Vixens. Hopefully the interior art is the same as the cover because I love that art style. Either way it’s caught my eye and will be checking it out.