January 24, 2014

Dark Horse Donates Digital Comic Collection To Children’s Cancer Association

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, […]

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January 19, 2014

Angry Birds Launches From IDW

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. […]

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January 19, 2014

Let’s Kickstart This: Icarus-A Graphic Novel

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 […]

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January 10, 2014

Low-A New Aquatic Science Fiction/ Fantasy Epic From Remender and Tocchini

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 […]

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January 10, 2014

C.O.W.L. Features The First Superhero Labor Union

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 […]

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January 10, 2014

The Gods are Reincarnated in the Wicked and The Divine

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 […]

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January 9, 2014

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Sign Unprecedented Dead with Image Comics to have Five Years of Free Reign

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, […]

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January 9, 2014

Shutter-An All-New Urban Fantasy Adventure

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, […]

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January 9, 2014

Wytches Will Put Blood-Curdling Spin On Mythology of Witches

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 […]

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January 3, 2014

There is a Disturbance in the Force: Star Wars Comics Go Back To Marvel in 2015, Departs From Dark Horse

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 […]

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January 2, 2014

Chaos Unleashed in DEADPOOL VS. CARNAGE #1!

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 […]

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December 30, 2013

Archaia Announces Alyssa Milano’s Cyber Thriller Limited Series Hacktivist

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles)– Award-winning publisher Archaia Entertainment, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is excited to announce that Alyssa Milano’s HACKTIVIST will debut as a new, four-issue limited series in January. Set in the world of tech entrepreneurs and social media, HACKTIVIST is the story of two friends who operate one of the largest social media firms by day, […]

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December 26, 2013

The Legend of Zelda- Hyrule Historia Is Tops For 2013!

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE)– In a monumental year for entertainment, Dark Horse Comics has secured its place in video-game-art history with The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia™, which charted in the top ten as one of 2013’s best-selling books globally. In February, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia soared to the top of the Nielsen BookScan charts, making it the […]

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December 26, 2013

Archaia Casts A Spell with An Aurora Grimeon Story: Will O’ The Wisp

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles)– Award-winning publisher Archaia Entertainment, an imprint of BOOM! Studios, is thrilled to announce AN AURORA GRIMEON STORY: WILL O’ THE WISP, an original graphic novel debuting in January. From the creative team of writer Tom Hammock and artist Megan Hutchison (who both work as film production designers) comes an eerie mystery filled with danger, Hoodoo, […]

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December 26, 2013

Boom! Studios Aims to Put a ‘Curse’ On Horror Comics

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles)– Award-winning publisher BOOM! Studios is excited to announce the January debut of its newest horror comic series, CURSE, which puts a fresh twist on the werewolf mythology. The title features a creative team who are no strangers to the horror genre: writers Michael Moreci (Hoax Hunters) and Tim Daniel (Enormous), and artists Riley Rossmo (Drumhellar) […]

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December 26, 2013

Dark Horse Announces An Original Graphic Novel From New York Times Best Selling Authors Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt

By Staff Reports (MILWAUKIE)– Matt Kindt, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of MIND MGMT and Red Handed, and Brian Hurtt, the award-winning, New York Times best-selling artist of The Sixth Gun and The Damned, are soon to publish Poppy! and the Lost Lagoon, the first in a new graphic novel series for children. The book follows the story […]

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November 26, 2013

Boom Studios Annouces Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales

By Staff Reports (Los Angeles)– BOOM! Studios is happy to announce several sale promotions in its webstore for Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday to kick off the 2013 holiday shopping season! The BOOM! Studios webstore can be found at boom-studios.com. The promotions are as follows: ALL WEEKEND LONG (starts Thursday, Nov. 28, 8:00 p.m. PST; ends Monday, […]

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November 26, 2013

Superstar Storytellers MARK WAID & CHRIS SAMNEE Re-Team for DAREDEVIL #1!

By Staff Reports (New York, NY)– You just can’t keep the Man Without Fear down! Matt Murdock makes his All-New Marvel NOW! debut with an exciting new monthly series starting with Daredevil #1 this March! Beloved by critics and fans alike, Eisner-Award winning storytellers Mark Waid (Captain America, The Amazing Spider-Man) and Chris Samnee (Thor: The Mighty Avenger) re-team to […]

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November 26, 2013

Dark Horse Digital Cyber Monday Deal

By Nolan P. Smith Pastrami Nation (Victorville)– Want some excellent books this holiday season? Then here you are! Dark Horse Comics has announced their Cyber Monday sale, which is 50% off an entire order using the code ­­­­­­­­­­dhdcyber2013 on Dark Horse Digital. What is on Dark Horse Digital? How about Star Wars, Age of Reptiles, Empowered, Hellboy, and more? See […]

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November 15, 2013

McFarlane Toys Reveals Highly Limited Edition Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag Edward Kenway Statue

By Staff Reports (Tempe, Ariz.)— From one of the most anticipated video games of the year, Ubisoft®’s Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag, McFarlane Toys  is bringing to life the charismatic yet brutal pirate captain, Edward Kenway, as an exclusive limited-edition resin statue. McFarlane Toys’ highly detailed, hand-painted, cold-cast resin statue depicts the main character of the video game franchise– the […]

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