Comics

Archaia Terrorizes with Moon Lake

If there’s one genre that comics lends itself to perfectly, it’s horror. That being said Archaia Press is releasing it’s first horror theme graphic novel entitled Moon Lake. Being a fan of horror I was intrigued by the concept of the book. Moon Lake is the setting for all of the stories contained in the novel and essentially ties them together. Like a lot of classic horror TV shows and comics not all of the horror is shown, in fact a few of the stories end just as the real horror is beginning.

White Lantern Variants Revealed

Here’s a little known fact about variant covers… they saved comics after the bubble popped in the 90’s. So now with practically every big title there is a variant. With Marvel and DC though, there’s practically a variant for EVERY title. Brightest Day is nearing it’s ninth issue and DC is still cranking out the variant covers. Well all of these covers are pieces of a whole and that piece is actually amazing to look at. The question everyone seems to have though… what am I looking at?

Top Cow Heading to Baltimore Con

Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that they will be returning to the 2010 Baltimore Comic-Con, Baltimore’s premier entertainment convention, this weekend August 27-28,2010. This marks the third consecutive year the publisher has had a presence at the show.

Top Cow Publisher Filip Sablik and Direct Market Liaison Atom! Freeman will be bringing writer Ron Marz (Artifacts, Witchblade) and artist Nelson Blake II (Magdalena) to the show. Marz, Blake and Sablik (Pilot Season: The Asset, Last Mortal) will be on hand for signings both days at the Top Cow booth. In addition, Sablik will be available throughout the show for portfolio reviews for aspiring artists.

The Walking Dead – No Way Out Teaser

Today Image released this teaser for Walking Dead #80 entitled “NO WAY OUT”. Wrestling fans should be familiar with this term as it was a once popular WWE pay-per-view. I’m pretty sure I remember watching the Rock and Man-Kind have a no holds bar match in which Folley bled a lot. Why am I rambling about wrestling instead of talking about the comic? Because this teaser image tells us absolutely nothing and is basically used to generate interest and knowledge in the product before it launches. Perhaps Kirkman will sake some tree branches and actually stop ripping off other horror and zombie sources for his story. Maybe the book will introduce a new writer or gasp… end! Oh wait, there’s a TV show coming so never mind. Any ways enjoy the teaser.

Chew #13 – Going Back For Seconds

You can’t stop the Eisner Award winning series CHEW, written by John Layman and illustrated by Rob Guillory. The first two trades were instant bestsellers, and the individual issues of CHEW are just as hot! CHEW #13 has sold out at the distribution level, just like previous issues in the “Just Deserts” story arc, and Image Comics is taking the issue back to press with a special variant cover!

Boondock Saints #2 Sells Out

12-Gauge Comics proudly announces the sellout of Troy Duffy’s BOONDOCK SAINTS: THE SECRET HISTORY OF IL DUCE #2.  Fans of the film series continue to seek out the new title, which has resulted in a steady flow of reorders from comic retailers across North America.  12-Gauge publisher Keven Gardner said, “Clearly, the Boondock fans can’t get enough of the McManus family and their adventures.  We anticipated this kind of demand and did a very healthy over-print with each issue, but it still wasn’t enough.  The legend of the Boondock Saints continues to grow!”  Eben Matthews, The Boondock Saints comic series producer, added, “The Boondock fans are the best.  Being a life-long fan of comics, and a long time fan of the Saints, I knew that Troy Duffy’s creation would translate perfectly into comic books.  I can’t say enough about this creative team and the job they have done.”

Bring Them To The Big Screen – Ms. Marvel

With the success of recent movies like Ironman, the X-men Franchise, and Spiderman, movie studios have now started to get their hands into as many properties as possible to make the big bucks. The list of characters that are now coming up to the big screen is a big example of Hollywood trying to capitalize in this genre, next year we will get a Thor and Green Lantern movie and the year after that The Avengers and Captain America will make their debut. But what other characters would be great on the big screen.