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Image Comics announces sensual fantasy series Unnatural

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Image Comics has announced that writer/artist Mirka Andolfo (Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, DC Comics Bombshells) will bring her gorgeous sensual fantasy Unnatural —originally published in Italian as Contro Natura — to the American market with an English translation this July. “This is my first time as a creator in the American comic world, and I […]

Discover the smallest town in the universe in Outpost Zero

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Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment have announced the upcoming sci-fi adventure series Outpost Zero, which is set to launch this July from Eisner-winning writer Sean Kelley McKeever (The Waiting Place, Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane), artist Alexandre Tefenkgi, and colorist Jean-Francois Beaulieu. “For my first comic book work in several years, I wanted to go somewhere […]

Dark Nights: Metal and The Walking Dead top bestselling comics and graphic novels of March 2018

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Diamond Comic Distributors has released details of its sales figures for March 2018, with DC Comics’ Dark Nights: Metal finale topping the comic book chart and Image Comics’ The Walking Dead Vol. 29 leading the way in terms of graphic novels. Marvel was still the month’s top publisher however, with a 35.92% dollar share and […]

Rick Remender and Bengal’s Death or Glory launches in May

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Image Comics announced that bestselling writer Rick Remender and legendary superstar artist Bengal’s hotly anticipated Death or Glory will be arriving in stores this May. Check out a first look preview and trailer below… In DEATH OR GLORY, readers meet Glory, raised off the grid in a convoy amid truckers—the last men and women fighting […]

Image announces brutal revenge thriller Shanghai Red

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Image Comics has announces that Eisner-nominated writer Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Heartthrob, We(l)come Back), artist Joshua Hixson (The Black Woods), and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (Felix & Macabber) are teaming up for the brutal revenge thriller Shanghai Red, set to launch this June. “Moving to Portland, Oregon was the thing that jump-started my comics career, so […]

Stellar takes off this June courtesy of Image and Skybound

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Image Comics has announced the upcoming release of the spacefaring sci-fi series Stellar from writer Joseph Keatinge (Shutter) and artist Bret Blevins (New Mutants). “Stellar is a capstone to everything I’ve written before, in a lot of ways,” said Keatinge. “It’s a sci-fi book reflecting on sins’ past effect on the future, and overcoming them […]

Dark Knights Rising and Saga top bestselling comics and graphic novels of February 2018

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Dynamite Entertainment has released details of its bestselling titles of February 2018, which sees DC’s Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1 leading the biggest selling comic books, and Image Comics’ Saga Vol. 8 topping the graphic novel chart. Marvel Comics was February’s top publisher with a 34.86% retailer dollar share and a 36.94% unit […]

Ace Atkins’ acclaimed Crossroad Blues gets graphic novel adaptation

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Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist turned New York Times bestselling author Ace Atkins and artist Marco Finnegan (Last Fair Deal Gone Down) are teaming up for a graphic novel adaptation of the beloved first novel of the Nick Travers series, Crossroad Blues. After a New Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings […]

Comic Book Review – Kick-Ass #1

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Harrison Abbott reviews Kick-Ass #1… In October 2014, Mark Millar appeared to definitively finish with one his most lucrative properties; Kick-Ass.  Having developed the violent-universe and its larger-than-life characters over the course of 8 years (it started life in 2006 as a completely different project) 23 issues, 2 movie adaptations and a separate spin-off volume, Millar […]