By Staff Reports This November, prepare for every Spider-Man…ever! Marvel is proud to announce Spider-Verse, the biggest Spider-Man story of the year from New York Times Best-Selling Spider-Scribe Dan Slott and blockbuster artist Olivier Coipel! Kicking off this November in Amazing Spider-Man #9 (with a special lead-in story on Free Comic Book Day), Slott and Coipel assemble an legion of […]
By Staff Reports This April, the fist of K’un Lun returns in IRON FIST: THE LIVING WEAPON #1, an all-new series written and drawn by comics superstar Kaare Andrews! And you’ve never seen an Iron Fist like this before! High above the city of New York in his multi-million dollar penthouse, Danny Rand a.k.a. Iron Fist is haunted by the […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)– March 22 marks the twentieth anniversary of Mike Mignola’s career-defining release of Hellboy: Seed of Destruction #1. After the character’s somewhat humble beginnings in an eight-page feature in Dark Horse’s San Diego Comic-Con Comics special, Seed of Destruction would begin the long life of the beloved “beast of the apocalypse.” In December, Dark Horse announced […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Genres collide in an adventure where steam-powered tanks clash with katanas in the new graphic novel Toshiro from writer Jai Nitz (Dream Thief) and artist Janusz Pawlak! “Toshiro bends and blends genres to make something altogether new. Janusz and I wanted to play with Victorian steampunk, alternate history, Lovecraftian monsters, and the magic of Tezuka’s Astro […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville)– Never fear, the Guardians of the Galaxy are here! Wait, who? That might be the response from many of you, but get ready for another heroic tale in the mighty Marvel manner we have all come to love. Just released, check out the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer! A rag tag band of […]
By Staff Reports What happens when over 80 creators from the world’s top video game studios join forces to create the ultimate dark fantasy game? The answer is SUBSTRATA, a brilliant new art book collecting designs for the heroes, enemies, and landscapes of this hypothetical new game world… SUBSTRATA is the brainchild of illustrator Paul Richards, who conceived of the […]
By Staff Reports (San Diego, CA)– 2014 marks both IDW Publishing’s 15th anniversary and the return of one its most integral and beloved creators, Ashley Wood (Popbot, World War Robot). This May, Wood and writer T.P. Louise, his co-conspirator on Lore (now in development as a major motion picture), launch an all-new, ongoing bi-monthly series, The Beautiful War. Wood and […]
By Staff Reports (NEW YORK)– During an action-packed event on Monday, February 17, at the 2014 American International Toy Fair, Disney Consumer Products unveiled its dynamic product lines that will dominate boys toy aisles this year with offerings inspired by highly anticipated content: Disney’s Planes: Fire & Rescue, Star Wars Rebels, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and The Amazing Spider-Man […]
By Staff Reports Paul Pope’s new graphic novel BATTLING BOY debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestselling list, and the original art is now the focus of a series of traveling art exhibits in the United States and Europe. Now Paul Pope enthusiasts can enjoy MONSTERS & TITANS: BATTLING BOY ON TOUR, a trade paperback that fans and […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)—Last week, the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) committee published their much-anticipated 2014 Great Graphic Novels for Teens list, adding, for the first time, a top-ten list. Not surprisingly, given the tremendous success of Dark Horse’s 2013 publishing line, the publisher landed six titles on this year’s list, with two making it into the top […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)– The most amazing artists in the world have come together to celebrate thirty years of Stan Sakai’s marvelous samurai rabbit saga, Usagi Yojimbo, in a new oversized hardcover benefit book: The Sakai Project: Artists Celebrate Thirty Years of “Usagi Yojimbo”. “It has been an absolute pleasure publishing Stan’s work over the years, and recently collaborating […]
By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE, OR)– Dark Horse Comics is turning pages for the Children’s Cancer Association with its digital comics. The entire Dark Horse Digital collection, which features over three thousand comics, will be made available for CCA’s program. The Children’s Cancer Association partners with six Portland-area health care providers, including Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital, […]
By Staff Reports (San Diego, CA)– Rovio Entertainment’s worldwide multimedia sensation Angry Birds™, is the newest property to join the IDW Publishing family! Beginning in June, the playfully fun adventures that took the world by storm will explode onto the page in the boundless world of comics. The immense success of Angry Birds began in2009 when the mobile game debuted. […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville, CA)– I often look to the crowd funding website Kickstarter for amazing new projects, and I have found some gems out there. Book of Da, God Hates Astronauts, Hex, 19XX; and that is only naming a few. Well, I think I found another massive hit waiting in the wings with Icarus. What is […]
By Staff Reports Marvel is pleased to present your first look at X-FORCE #1 – the exciting new series from innovative creative team Si Spurrier and Rock-He Kim! Every sovereign nation in the Marvel Universe makes use of superhumans to protect national interests and pursue a covert national agenda. The stakes are high, and the prizes are intelligence, security, resources […]
By Staff Reports Frequent collaborators Rick Remender (BLACK SCIENCE) and artist Greg Tocchini (Uncanny X-Force, Last Days of American Crime) will bring readers on another high-octane science fiction adventure, this time to the lowest depths of Earth after it has been ravaged by the sun’s radiation. LOW is set in the distant future, after humanity has relocated to radiation-shielded cities […]
By Staff Reports This May, Kyle Higgins (Batman, Nightwing), Alec Siegel (Captain America, Avengers), and Rod Reis (Justice League) take readers back to 1960s Chicago, in a time when the once-celebrated superhero labor union C.O.W.L. struggles to maintain their public image and regain the confidence of the people. A rise in “super powered” individuals dates back to the closing days […]
By Staff Reports What if every 90 years the gods were reincarnated? Coming this 2014, Kieron Gillen (THREE, PHONOGRAM, Young Avengers) and Jamie McKelvie (PHONOGRAM, SUBURBAN GLAMOUR, Young Avengers) team up to infuse new life into the old mythological characters in THE WICKED AND THE DIVINE. The new ongoing series will feature guest creators and surprise arcs with alternate endings […]
By Staff Reports The fan-favorite series TECH JACKET, returns with an all-new three-issue digital miniseries. Written by Joe Keatinge (GLORY, HELL YEAH) and drawn by Khary Randolph (Spider-Man, Hellboy), this miniseries is the perfect introduction to Kirkman and EJ Su’s exciting superhero. “Tech Jacket has always been near and dear to my heart and I’ve been dying to do more […]
By Staff Reports Starting with the new ongoing series THE FADE OUT, Brubaker and Phillips will have complete freedom, creative control, and ownership Ed Brubaker (Batman, Captain America, FATALE, CRIMINAL) and Sean Phillips (FATALE, Sleeper) and Image Comics have signed an unprecedented deal in comics publishing, a five year deal to do anything they want with total freedom, total control, […]
By Staff Reports In 2014, Brandon Graham (PROPHET, ELEPHANTMEN) will team up with four different creators to bring a series of science-fiction/fantasy miniseries set in a world ruled by eight houses to life. The first of the series will be 8HOUSE: KIEM, written by Graham and drawn by Xurxo Penalta and follows a soldier who must project her mind into […]
By Staff Reports Marvel Knights: Hulk and Glory writer Joe Keatinge teams up with artist Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining urban fantasy and globe-spanning adventure, SHUTTER. Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer on Earth—an Earth that’s far more fantastical than the one we know, filled with demons, gorgons, phantom ninjas, […]
By Staff Reports Scott Snyder (Batman, Superman Unchained, SEVERED) and Jock (Batman, Wolverine, SNAPSHOT) will team up for a new, ongoing horror series called WYTCHES. Everything you thought you knew about witches is wrong. They are much darker, and they are much more horrifying. WYTCHES takes the mythology of witches to a far creepier, bone-chilling place than readers have dared […]
Review by Jason R. Smith-Pastrami Nation Writer: Tim Siedel Artist: Gabriel Guzman Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Released: December 2013 Website: www.darkhorse.com The first issue to Star Wars: Darth Vader and the Cry of Shadows takes place a few months before and a few months after the events we know as Star Wars: Revenge of The Sith. It is a story […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville)– There is a disturbance in the force. Today, both Disney/Marvel and Dark Horse announced that the Star Wars franchise of comics will be leaving Dark Horse in 2015, and going back to Marvel Comics. This move was anticipated when Disney purchased Marvel, and now we know the official time frame of when it […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (California)– This February, bring home one of the best releases of 2013 with the next chapter for Marvel’s God of Thunder, Thor! Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World arrives on 3D Combo Pack, Single-Disc Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand February 25th and will be available on Digital 3D and Digital HD on February 4th! Bonus […]
By Staff Reports (New York)– This April, the Marvel Universe’s two craziest psychos go toe-to-toe in bombastic DEADPOOL VS. CARNAGE #1 – from blockbuster writer Cullen Bunn and red-hot artist Salva Espin! And you better believe it’s gonna be bloody! Carnage is on the warpath – moving across country, butchering as he goes! The authorities are powerless to stop the […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (California)– AMC revealed the poster for the 2014 return of The Walking Dead today. The poster features Rick Grimes and his son Carl, as well as the line Rick told his son at the end of the mid season finale: Don’t Look Back. The Walking Dead returns with all-new episodes Sun., Feb. 9 at […]
By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville)– Disney and Marvel Studios released new stills of three of the films slated to hit this year: Captain America-The Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy and Big Hero 6. The photo of Guardians of the Galaxy shows the first official photo of the cast, which to me looks pretty amazing. Check out the […]