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Action Lab’s Spencer & Locke optioned for the big screen

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Action Lab has announced that its critically acclaimed crime series Spencer & Locke has been optioned by Hitman producer Adrian Askarieh and his company Prime Universe Films for a big screen adaptation. Created by writer David Pepose and artist Jorge Santiago, Spencer & Locke follows hard-boiled Detective Locke as he solves a brutal murder with the […]

Athena Voltaire takes to the skies with new ongoing series

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High-flying aviatrix and swashbuckling adventurer Athena Voltaire crosses the globe dodging poisons, traps, and creatures, battling adversaries old and new, and now she’ll be doing it in a brand new ongoing series from creator Steve Bryant and Action Lab Entertainment. “When Action Lab approached me about doing Athena Voltaire as a monthly ongoing, I was […]

Zombie Tramp: Origins remasters Janey Belle’s first adventures

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Action Lab has announced that it is remastered Janey Belle’s earliest adventures with Zombie Tramp: Origins, a series of reprints featuring the first impossible to find fan favorite series in single issues, in full color for the first time. This first issue reprint features a new cover by series creator Dan Mendoza (DollFace), as well as all new […]

Sony adapting Princeless comic book for the big screen

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Deadline has revealed that Sony Pictures has snapped up the rights to Action Lab Comics’ Princeless comic book series, and has set Michael Sugar (Spotlight) to produce a movie adaptation, with Stefani Robinson (Atlanta) penning the script. The Eisner-nominated comic book series from Jeremy Whitley and Emily Martin “follows a young black princess who, instead […]

Vampires get their teeth back in Action Lab’s Blood and Dust

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Action Lab: Danger Zone has announced that it is returning vampires to their dark roots in Blood and Dust: The Life & Undeath of Judd Glenny, a new horror series from creators Michael R. Martin and Adam Orndorf. For 40 years Judd Glenny has hidden in the swamps of Boggy Depot, Oklahoma, a town too […]

H.P. Lovecraft / Nikola Tesla comic book series Herald optioned

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Action Lab has announced that Romark Entertainment and Markerstone Pictures have secured the screen rights to the comic book series Herald from writer John Reilly, and artists Tom Rogers and Dexter Weeks. Herald tells the story of Nikola Tesla, whose experiments with time travel thrust him ahead in time to the early 1900s, where he […]

Action Lab announces Actionverse shared superhero universe

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Action Labs has announced that it is launching a brand new imprint for its creator owned superhero titles under the banner of Actionverse, which will also include a crossover miniseries featuring its top superhero characters. Things will get underway with Halloween Comicfest: Actionverse, which offers a preview of the Actionverse universe from Jamal Ingle (Molly […]

The F1rst Hero returns with Fight For Your Life

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Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, Anthony Ruttgaizer’s The F1rst Hero is back with a new mini series entitled The F1rst Hero: Fight For Your Life, which catches up with Jake Roth, the titular hero, who is the only person to manifest superpowers and not lose his mind. “Fight For Your Life picks up about a […]

Action Lab: Danger Zone announces new action series Aberrant

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Action Lab: Danger Zone has announced the upcoming launch of Aberrant, an action series from prolific Hollywood screenwriter Rylend Grant (The Art of War, Drive). Check out a preview of the first issue here… David, a U.S. Army Special Operations Commander, distraught after losing his entire unit to a superhuman attack, wages an absolutely brutal […]