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Preview of Venom: First Host #1

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Marvel launches its new series Venom: First Host this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here; check it out… MIKE COSTA AND MARK BAGLEY REUNITE FOR A VENOM STORY UNLIKE ANY OTHER! Before the AMAZING SPIDER-MAN…before VENOM… There was the FIRST HOST. And that First Host has returned […]

Cullen Bunn’s The Empty Man returning at Boom! Studios

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Boom! Studios has announced that Cullen Bunn (Bone Parish, Harrow Country) is returning to one of his most popular creations, teaming with artist Jesús Hervás (Lucas Stand, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser) for a new ongoing series of The Empty Man. Check out a first look preview here… Debuting in 2014, The Empty Man captivated readers as […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Unicron #3

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Unicron #3… Answers are revealed and stakes are raised in Transformers: Unicron #3 as the sins of Cybertron’s past literally comes back to destroy it. John Barber writes an engrossing issue with several great character moments and new moral dilemmas they must face in order to survive Unicron’s onslaught. As the halfway marker […]

Preview of Batman: Kings of Fear #1

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DC Comics’ new six-issue miniseries Batman: Kings of Fear launches today, and we’ve got a preview of the first issue for you here… Legendary artist Kelley Jones makes his triumphant return to the Dark Knight in this explosive miniseries written by former BATMAN editor Scott Peterson! Batman’s been overseeing Gotham City for years now and isn’t […]

Comic Book Review – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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Christian Jimenez reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula… This graphic novel follows the 1992 film adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula decides to come to London and discovers a woman, Mina, who resembles a lover of his from centuries past. A doctor, Van Helsing, who hunts vampires discovers Dracula’s plant to kidnap Mina […]

Hit-Girl to hunt Hollywood’s sexual predators in new Kevin Smith-penned comic series

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Mark Millar has announced that Mindy McCready is turning her sights to Hollywood’s sexual predators in a brand new comic book series entitled Hit-Girl: The Golden Rage of Hollywood, which is being penned by Kevin Smith with art from Pernille Orum. Here’s a look at the cover to the first issue by Francesco Francavilla… “I wrote […]

Marvel officially announces Infinity Wars: Infinity Warps

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Over the past couple of months Marvel has been teasing superhero mashups with promotional images for Iron Hammer, Soldier Supreme, Weapon Hex, Arachknight and Ghost Panther [see here and here], and now the publisher has officially announced its ‘Two-in-One Heroes’ event Infinity Wars: Infinity Warps. Check out the cover artwork and official announcement below… What […]

Comic Book Review – Rod Serling’s Planet of the Apes: Visionaries

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Calum Petrie reviews Rod Serling’s Planet of the Apes: Visionaries… Taylor is Thomas, and Ape City isn’t a crude, primitive grouping of huts, it’s a bustling and urbane metropolis filled with cars and skyscrapers and a vibrant ape culture. Apes wear modern clothes and drive modern cars, they have talk shows and nightclubs and alcohol. How […]

Preview of Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 3

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IDW continues to dig into the history of the galaxy far, far away this coming Wednesday with the release of Star Wars: The Classic Newspaper Comics Vol. 3; check out a preview of the collection here… The concluding volume that reprints for the first time the classic Star Wars newspaper strip in its complete format. The […]