#Dark Horse Comics Solicitations
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Hellboy In Love, Manifest Destiny Deluxe Edition vol.1, The Witcher: The Lesser Evil, Saga vol.11 and a whole lot more from Dark Horse Comics & Image Comics in November!
DARK HORSE & IMAGE - NOV ‘23 RELEASES
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Soooo I’ve been seeing this post go around and I do wanna just take something I wrote about in the tags and make an actual post about it to clear up an (understandable) misconception I think a lot of people have:
The upcoming Tales From Hawkins #3 centered on Robin…
(Variant covers for Stranger Things: Tales From Hawkins #3)
…is a single comic issue not a graphic novel.
This distinction matters here for two primary reasons:
Length: A standard comic issue is generally about 32 pages, as opposed to graphic novels which vary a lot in length but are much much longer. I haven’t read other issues in the Tales From Hawkins series so I’m not 100% sure the length of this issue specifically, but I do know people thinking this is going to be the length of a full graphic novel will be expecting a lot more than what there will actually be, so that’s just like, setting yourself up for disappointment.
Availability: While digital purchasing and/or pirating will of course be options, if you would like a physical copy of this story you will not find it at a regular book store any time soon, you will need to to go to a comic book store (here is a helpful tool: the comic shop locator) or if there are no comic stores near you/getting to one is not feasible for you, order from a comic store that delivers to other places (for example, Midtown comics or Things From Another World). Comic publishers used to have some single issues available at bookstores via the newsstand distribution model but that ceased existing during the 2010s. I think it’s highly likely that once the Tales From Hawkins series is over there will be a collected edition (much like the other Stranger Things comics have gotten) and THAT would be available at regular bookstores, but that would not be for a while.
And just for the context of how I know for a fact that this is a single issue and not a graphic novel:
Every month comic publishers put out solicitations (also known as ‘solicits’) which list what books are available for preorder. Usually solicits are about 3 months ahead of release, so in the case of Tales From Hawkins #3, it was part of Dark Horse’s August 2023 solicits which were released in May.
Anything that is a hardcover, trade paperback, graphic novel, etc is labelled as such—with the remaining listed books being single issues. Plus this specific site reporting these solicits has everything sorted by category so super clearly labelling what’s what, and if you scroll through the page you’ll see that Tales From Hawkins falls under the single issue category!
And also just like… graphic novels typically don’t get variant covers like this, that’s a comic issue thing. Graphic novels also typically aren’t given numbers like ‘#3 of 4’, they’re given numbers like ‘Volume 3’ if part of a multi-book series. And the list price is $3.99 USD which while standard for a single issue is like unheard of for a new graphic novel.
#ALSO QUICK ADD ON: midtown doesn't have it available right now because we're past the pre-order date but before the actual release date#so once it actually releases the backstock will likely be available to order from 👍 TFAW seems to still allow preorders tho so i added it#included the covers to encourage ppl to actually read this LMAO#stranger things#robin buckley#stranger things comics#stranger things tales from hawkins#tales from hawkins#also like absolutely no hate to op of that post if ur not highly aware of comic book stuff its an easy misconception to have
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Episode 357
Non-Marvel/DC September 2022 Solicits
Comic Reviews:
DC:
Aquaman and Flash: Voidsong 1 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Vasco Georgiev, Rain Beredo
Black Adam 1 by Christopher Priest, Rafa Sandoval, Matt Herms
Dark Crisis: Young Justice 1 by Meghan Fitzmartin, Laura Braga, Luis Guerrero
Flash 783 by Jeremy Adams, Amancay Nahuelpan, Jeromy Cox
Earth Prime 6: Hero's Twilight
Milestones in History by Reginald Hudlin, Steven Barnes, Amy Chu, Melody Cooper, Leon Chills, Alice Randall, Toure, Tananarive Due, Pat Charles, Kathryn Parsons, Francesco Francavilla, Jamal Igle, Ray-Anthony Height, Denys Cowan, Eric Battle, Don Hudson, Ron Wilson, Arvell Jones, Maria Laura Sanapo, Domo Stanton, Jahnoy Lindsay, John Stanisci, Jose Marzan Jr, Mike Gustovich, Chris Sotomayor, Michael Atiyeh, Emilio Lopez, Hi-Fi, Dan Brown, Eva De La Cruz, Andrew Dolhouse
Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen's Boss Perry White by Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber, et al
Marvel:
Marvel's Voices Pride 2022 by Mike O’Sullivan, Stuart Vandal, Rob London, Andrew Wheeler, Daron Jensen, Alyssa Wong, Patrick Duke, Chris McCarver, Christopher Cantwell, Danny Lore, Luc Kersten, Grace Freud, Ira Madison III, Alex Philips, Charle Jane Anders, Ted Brandt, Kei Zama, Lucas Werneck, Brittney Williams, Ro Stein, Scott Henderson, Lorenzo Susi, Stephen Byrne, Lee Townsend, Rachelle Rosenberg, Rico Renzi, Jose Villarrubia, Michael Wiggam, Tamra Bonvillain, Brittany Peer
Miles Morales and Moon Girl 1 by Mohale Mashigo, Ig Guara, Rachelle Rosenberg
New Fantastic Four 1 by Peter David, Alan Robinson, Mike Spicer
Punisher War Journal: Blitz by Torunn Gronbekk, Lan Medina, Antonio Fabela
Who is Jane Foster Thor Infinity Comic by Torunn Gronbekk, Leonard Kirk, Matt Milla
Marvel Meow 9 by Nao Fuji
Image:
Beware the Eye of Odin 1 by Doug Wagner, Tim Odland
Clementine GN by Tillie Walden, Cliff Rathburn
Silver Coin 11 by James Tynion IV, Michael Walsh
Dark Horse:
Lonesome Hunters 1 by Tyler Crook
Ahoy:
Wrong Earth: Confidence Men 1 by Mark Waid, Leonard Kirk
Dynamite:
Samurai Sonja 1 by Jordan Clark, Pasquale Qualano
OGNs:
Runaways Diary by Emily Raymond, Valeria Wicker, James Patterson
Creepy Cat vol 3 by Cotton Valent
Additional Reviews: Obi-Wan ep6, Ms. Marvel ep3, Kevin Can F*** Himself s1, Star Trek: Prodigy s1, Spiderhead, Absolute Fourth World vol 1, Trevor: The Musical, Bone Orchard Mythos Passageway, Centaurworld
A new feature announced!
News: Kraven movie plot, Conan license to Titan, Omninews, Miracleman Silver Age, Riverdale spinoff featuring Jake Chang, Scout kickstarts Stabbity Bunny, new OGN series from Molly Knox Ostertag
Trailers: Stranger Things s4.2
Comics Countdown:
Batman: The Knight 6 by Chip Zdarsky, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Ivan Plascencia
Deadly Class 53 by Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Lee Loughridge
Newburn 8 by Chip Zdarsky, Jacob Phillips , Casey Gilly, Soo Lee
Nocterra 11 by Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, Marcelo Maiolo
Nightwing 93 by Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Wade Von Grawbadger, Adriano Lucas
Lonesome Hunters 1 by Tyler Crook
Something is Killing the Children 24 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera, Miquel Muerto
I Hate This Place 2 by Kyle Starks, Artyom Topilin, Lee Loughridge
Beware the Eye of Odin 1 by Doug Wagner, Tim Odland
Flash 783 by Jeremy Adams, Amancay Nahuelpan, Jeromy Cox
Check out this episode!
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May 2024 Marvel Comics Solicitations For Star Wars
All new Star Wars comics coming out in May 2024.
Including a new one shot to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of The Phantom Menace.
The May 2024 solicitations from Marvel Comics are here! This post will take a look at all Star Wars comics announced for May 2024 including some thoughts on which ones pique my interest or at the very least… seem interesting.
Some of the April 2024 Star Wars comics & magazines from Dark Horse Comics and Titan Comics are listed on TFAW as of me writing this, but no individual comics from Marvel…
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The Legend of Korra: Patterns in Time coming April 12th, 2022
An anthology of brand-new The Legend of Korra stories is coming on April 12th, 2022 from Dark Horse Comics. Here’s the official description:
“Your favorite characters from Team Avatar and beyond are here in this collection of stories, from the heartwarming to the hilarious. Join Korra, Asami, Mako, Bolin, Tenzin, and more familiar faces from The Legend of Korra, featured in stories specially crafted by a bevy of talented comics creators! Be sure to add these all-new stories to your Avatar Legends library”
This appears to be the Korra follow-up to ATLA’s Team Avatar Tales anthology! Both are comics anthologies featuring a bunch of new stories from various artists and writers.
The artist of the official cover above is Sachin Teng.
Of note is that this is a new namedrop of the “Avatar Legends” brand, which previously seemed to be only for the TTRPG, but now with this, the question from before is rekindled: is “Avatar Legends” the new name of the franchise, covering all Avatars/time periods?
Another thing to note is that Dark Horse’s releases have been revealed very early lately, through official, public publishing solicitations far ahead of news announcements. There’s a good chance that the release date for this will end up being later than what it says in this super-early reveal, but for now it’s April 12th, 2022!
Update! The creators featured in this anthology have been revealed by
Comics Beat: Michael Dante DiMartino, Kiku Hughes, Delilah S. Dawson, Jayd Aït-Kaci, Sam Beck, Heather Campbell, KaiJu, Alexandria Monik, Killian Ng, Rachel Silverstein, and Victoria Ying!
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Here we go--preview pages for issue 8 of Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow.
(MAJOR spoilers in these first couple of pages, proceed at your own risk!!)
HOO BOY HERE WE GO.
I ran out of ways to say, ‘THIS IS STUNNING’ re: Evely and Lopes artwork months ago, but you know. THIS IS STUNNING.
I love the way the blues and the yellows play off of each other, the purples, reds, and greens...
A while back there was a comment made by an art dealer in the comic art collecting business--he said he felt that the raw black and white artwork is always superior to the final colored pages.
And, listen. Evely’s inks are exquisite, there is no denying that each page of this book could be framed and hung on a wall as a fine art piece.
But goshdang, Lopes colors knock me out every time. Like, I now check out titles solely because Lopes is on colors. They are just amazing.
Also, I guess we should address the centaur horse man elephant in the room: Comet was a dude this whole time!
And he’s DEAD, MAYBE?!??!?!
I mean. It looks bad.
But also, Kara and Krypto took a couple of arrows to the chest in issue one and both (I HOPE) of them are still around, so.
‘But it’s a Kryptonite bullet!’ you cry. To which I say: Comet isn’t Kryptonian! At least, not traditionally. So it’s basically just a regular bullet to him. The Kryptonite shouldn’t have any additional fatal effects.
Regardless: Props to Evely for making Comet look darn handsome, right before the narrative brutally maybe-murders him. XD
But no, for real, I’m sad to see horse man maybe-die.
(Which would be in line with True Grit’s ending as pointed out by someone else in a reply on this very blog!)
(While we’re in some parentheticals, I can practically hear the five folks on twitter who doggedly hate this book and King’s Supergirl in general getting mad at Kara in that rage-panel there but you know what? 1.) It looks AWESOME, bathed in that cool blue color which is a SUBVESION of the usual ‘Kryptonian Hulks mode’ of predominantly red hues and 2.) Kara is allowed to feel strong feelings, given that her Super Horse has been brutally slain by genocidal space pirates right in front of her.)
(Okay, enough of hypothetical fan-wank. XD)
I AM SO EXCITED TO READ THIS. AND ALSO SO SAD TO SEE IT END.
Kara will show up elsewhere, though: She’s in a few panels in the Dark Crisis preview art (though they are pushing the Future State kids hard in this, so. I expect Jon will get more focus, ultimately.) Still! I must admit to having emotions over the Sampere art of Kara and Lois standing together at the Justice League memorial.
As for a more substantive appearance: Supergirl and Robin team up in World’s Finest! DRAWN BY DAN MORA, HECK YEAH.
Mora’s only ever drawn ‘Infected’ Kara for a cover, I believe. So I’m excited to see him draw ‘normal’ Kara.
Aside from that, no other news at the moment. Solicits aren’t out yet, though, so there could be more? Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
Until then: Pourin’ one out for Pony Boy. u_u
#dc comics#gif#supergirl: woman of tomorrow#supergirl: woman of tomorrow spoilers#dc comics spoilers#long post#seriously BIG OL' SPOILERS#beware!!!
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Labyrinth: How Did Jareth Become the Goblin King? His Comic Book Origin Story Explains
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Warning: contains spoilers for the Labyrinth: Coronation Comics.
Maybe yours is the kind of mind that’s never worried about why in the 1986 film Labyrinth, Goblin King Jareth – ostensibly a human man, albeit one who can turn into an owl – rules a species with which he shares zero physical characteristics. If so, then go in peace, friend, and enjoy life. You likely already are. If, however, yours is the sort of mind that regularly lets you leave home in slippers because it’s busy wondering how they get the horses to the Olympics, then step this way. The Labyrinth mystery has been answered!
In March 2018, Boom! Studios published the first of Simon Spurrier and Daniel Bayliss’ delightful 12-part Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Coronation series. The solicitation trailed the books as the untold history of the Goblin King, offering “a striking look into the history of the Labyrinth itself, and what happens to the little boys who don’t get rescued.” That’s right, “little boys who don’t get rescued”. Prepare to forgive Jareth for kidnapping that baby and trying to get its teenage sister to be his slave; that poor puff-haired sexpot didn’t know any better.
Fans of Labyrinth should absolutely read the Spurrier/Bayliss series (Spurrier also wrote another Henson film sequel series for Boom! Studios in The Power of the Dark Crystal). Coronation cannily weaves itself around the film’s existing plot, retelling it from a different angle while layering a prequel story over the top. It’s an extremely pretty companion piece to the film, with glints of Labyrinth’s pythonesque humour (one of the characters, for instance, is a sentient rose bush) and brims with love for the original (there’s an evil Ludo!). Story spoilers for it start below.
Jareth and Toby in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Coronation (Spurrier/Bayliss)
Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Coronation is set in the Goblin Castle within the timeline of the film. It goes behind the scenes to show what Jareth was up to while Sarah was arguing with door knockers and getting down with the Fireys. As a framing narrative, Jareth tells baby Toby a story about another young woman who fought her way to the Goblin Castle to take back a stolen child. Only this one – Maria – wouldn’t succeed.
Jareth’s story starts in Venice in 1797, with troubled young English nobleman Lord Albert Tyton (‘Tyto’ is the genus of birds that make up the barn owl family, linking Jareth’s paternal line to owls. It also sounds pleasingly like ‘Titan’, suggesting the family’s social status). He’s spent the past year on a hedonistic gad around Europe, avoiding familial responsibility and his stern father, who is demanding his return home. Deep in gambling debt with nowhere to turn, Albert accepted a magical deal from the Goblins, who want him to live in their realm. The Owl King who rules the Labyrinth, is ancient, say the Goblins, and needs an heir. They covet Albert’s good looks and noble bloodline and want him to assume the Goblin throne.
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In Europe, Albert had an illegitimate son with a taverna linen maid named Maria. In Venetian society, they’d been living as man and wife, count and countess, but it was all an unofficial fantasy. When Albert finally ran out of money and options, he made the desperate decision to return to England and leave Maria behind, knowing that his cruel father would never accept her. He told Maria that their son will be placed in an orphanage, so she won’t be able to use him to bring scandal on the family name, but instead offered the baby to the Goblins to rule in his stead. They transported the child in Maria’s arms to the Labyrinth, where the Owl King snatched him and sent Maria back to the real world.
Maria didn’t give up. She begged the Owl King, who relented and struck a deal: she has 13 hours to solve the Labyrinth until her baby son becomes one of them forever. Thus begins a packed adventure in which Maria learns about the Labyrinth’s cruelty and whimsy, and the extent of her own power, and finds herself a motley crew of companions to help her quest, just like Sarah in the film. It all plays out against the political backdrop of a simmering Goblin rebellion against the tyrannical Owl King, who stands for stifling control and surrounds himself with steampunk machinery, in contrast to the Goblins’ natural love of fun.
Maria in Jim Henson’s Labyrinth: Coronation (Spurrier/Bayliss)
In the final issue, Maria makes it to the castle, where we see that the Owl King had no intention of making baby Jareth his heir. He uses a crystal orb device to start to drain Jareth’s youth, enabling the Owl King to rule forever. Maria and her companions manage to break the Owl King’s spell, but not before the clock strikes 13. She’s too late. The Labyrinth has already started to change Jareth, and it’s explained that if she takes him back to the real world, they’re destined for a tragic end in which Albert drowns and Maria and the boy are destitute until Albert’s cruel father snatches the child and raises him in his image, without Maria.
Maria takes baby Jareth through a portal, and he soon returns fully grown and ready to assume the Goblin throne. Some doubt is cast on the reliability of Jareth’s narrative, and a few fun options are suggested for what happened in the interim. We’re shown, however, that Maria and an ersatz version of Albert who’d been conjured by the Owl King as part of a trick to stop Maria from solving the Labyrinth, have spent their time living in a fantasy ballroom inside a crystal orb – the same fantasy masquerade ball Sarah escapes from in the film. They’ve been there, not ageing, for three hundred years, meaning that two of the masked dancers at Sarah’s masquerade ball are actually Jareth’s parents. Unlike Sarah, Maria failed in her quest, and so choose fantasy – and a fantasy version of the lover who’d betrayed and spurned her – over reality.
So that’s the story of the first time a wish was made to the Goblins and a baby boy was taken to the Labyrinth, and now we know Jareth’s full name: he’s the Lord Jareth Tyton, Goblin King. Unlike Toby, who probably grew up to be an accountant plagued by some really odd dreams, little Jareth was never rescued and was changed forever by the magic of the Labyrinth, where he’s lived for centuries. When Sarah wished for the Goblins to take her baby brother away, history repeated itself as Jareth attempted to trap Sarah and Toby in the Labyrinth with him. Read much more about it all in the Spurrier/Bayliss spin-off comics. And in case you were still wondering: they just put them on planes. The horses. For the Olympics.
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Labyrinth is out now on Netflix.
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Spy Island #1
Spy Island #1
Dark Horse Comics 2020
Created by Chelsea Cain & Lia Miternique
Written by Chelsea Cain
Illustrated by Elise McCall
Coloured by Rachelle Rosenberg
Lettered by Joe Carmagna
Super spy Nora Freud (no relation) has a plum assignment. She's stationed on a tropical island. Her mission? Keep an eye on things. Her problem? The island is on the lip of the Bermuda Triangle, where anything can happen. Her other problem? This particular island is a den of intrigue, populated by spies, tourists, and evil villains set on global domination.
From the moment I saw this solicited, I mean the Sunday before release, I was intrigued. No I don’t utilise Previews and honestly I’m going to have to start soon but that’s another story entirely. So I am thrilled that I was able to grab a copy and I have to say it didn’t disappoint in the slightest. The idea behind the story, how it is realised upon the page and just the execution of everything from top to bottom is outstanding. So yeah I am all in for this one folks.
Right off the bat we open up with an eye-catching beginning. This is where words and visuals together create something greater than either alone could do. Then to see photographs inserted into the book creating the multimedia effect was brilliantly done. So the hook in the opening is what grabs you then doesn’t leave you a choice but to continue onward. By the way you will want to go onward willingly. The story & plot development that we see through how the sequence of events unfold as well as how the reader learns information is presented beautifully. The character development is intriguing because it’s an Island of spies so who knows what the truth is and what it isn’t so it’s going to take all the detective skills the reader can muster to figure things out. The pacing is great and as it takes the reader through the pages revealing the story, the characters as well as getting us into the story itself is extremely well done.
How we see the way this is structured and how everything works together to create the story’s ebb & flow is beautifully done. The way we see the layers within the story coming to life is fabulous and it makes us want to see more of these characters that surround Nora. How this is fully fleshed out is rather quite impressive in ways I wasn’t expecting it to be.
The interiors here are pretty darn spectacular. The linework we see is laid down extremely well and how the varying weights are utilised to create the detail work is beautifully rendered. Now the dude in his yellow trunks, thank god they are speedo’s, and how we see Harry literally being hairy is beautifully done and it wouldn’t be horrible if we had the tables turned and a full frontal male was seen for a change. The way that backgrounds are utilised to enhance the moments and bring us depth perception, a sense of scale and that overall sense of size and scope to the book is seen. The utilisation of the page layouts and how we see the angles and perspective in the panels show a very talented eye for storytelling. The colour work is divine. The myriad of hues and tones that we see within the colours and the various techniques we see utilised throughout is mindbogglingly brilliantly rendered. Seriously the colour work is beyond amazing.
This takes the spy thriller and turns it on its ears. This is a game changer for so many different reasons, the least among them is that it takes the female spy seriously and makes her the badass that she’s supposed to be. It’s fantastic to see such a great book as this being created and put out so that word of mouth will do more for this than any advertising could. Girl power at its finest people and you need this in your life.
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My new OGN #AgainstHope is now officially in the @DarkHorseComics April 2020 solicitations Support the creators! https://www.newsarama.com/48727-dark-horse-comics-april-2020-solicitations.html #graphicnovel #HopeWalker #crime #ruralnoir #noir #creatorowned h https://www.instagram.com/p/B7rC5udiMZ5/?igshid=mw5810x2281o
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DARK HORSE COMICS NOVEMBER 2018 SOLICITATIONS
DARK HORSE COMICS NOVEMBER 2018 SOLICITATIONS
American Gods: My Ainsel #8
Neil Gaiman (W), P. Craig Russell (W/A), Scott Hampton (A/C), Jennifer T. Lange (C), Glenn Fabry (Cover), Adam Brown (Cover), and David Mack (Variant cover)
On sale Nov 14
FC, 32 pages
$3.99
Ongoing
As Wednesday continues to gather the old Gods, Shadow’s past comes back in both good and bad ways, threatening to throw his new town comforts into disarray.
The Hugo, Bram…
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Episode 347
July 2022 DC solicits Comic Reviews:
DC
Flashpoint Beyond 0 by Geoff Johns, Eduardo Risso, Trish Mulvihill
Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country 1 by James Tynion IV, Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche, Yanick Paquette, Nathan Fairbairn
Marvel
Elektra 100 by Declan Shalvey, Ann Nocenti, Paulo Siqueira, Ty Templeton, Sid Kotian, Stafano Raffaele, Edgar Delgado
What If Miles Morales 2 by John Ridley, Farid Karami, Chris Sotomayor
X-Men '92: House of XCII 1 by Steve Foxe, Salva Espin, Israel Silva
Image
A Town Called Terror 1 by Steve Niles, Szymon Kudranski
Image! 30th Anniversary Anthology 1 by Geoff Johns, Andrea Mutti, Declan Shalvey, Clayton Cowles, Wyatt Kennedy, Luana Vecchio, Wes Craig, Jason Wordie, Skottie Young, Nate Piekos, Mirka Andolfo, Chiara De Francia, Fabio Amelia, Brenden Fletcher, Erica Henderson, Kyle Higgins, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Walter Baiamonte, Katia Ranalli, Becca Carey, Patrick Kindlon, Maurizio Rosenzweig, Jim Campbell, Dean Haspiel
Reckless: Ghost in You GN by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips
Dark Horse
Break Out 1 by Zack Kaplan, Wilton Santos, Jason Wordie
AfterShock
Kaiju Score: Steal From the Gods 1 by James Patrick, Rem Broo
Midnight Rose 1 by Jim Starlin, Nikkol Jelenic, DC Alonso
Ahoy
Wrong Earth: Fame and Fortune 1 by Mark Russell, Michael Montenat, Andy Troy
Archie
Fun with Little Archie and Friends 1 by Shannon Watters, Jamie Lee Rotante, Agnes Garbowska, Adrian Ropp, Erin Hunting, Matt Herms
Dynamite
Immortal Red Sonja 1 by Dan Abnett, Alessandro Miracolo
ComiXology
Love and War by Andrew Wheeler, Killian Ng
Scout
Vanity 1 by Jurii Kirnev, Natalia Tsarevnikova
Behemoth
Dark Beach 1 by Michael Ruiz-Unger, Sebastian Piriz
GNs
Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez, Danica Brine, Hank Hones, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Thunderous by M.L. Smoker, Natalie Peeterse
Chivalry by Neil Gaiman, Colleen Doran
Additional Reviews: Moon Knight ep3, Picard 2:7, Amphibia, Owl House, Doctor Who
News: Nimona adaptation from Netflix, Percy Jackson cast, All-Out Avengers creative team, new official Marvel tabletop game, Casper reboot on Peacock, Flash movie prequel delayed/canceled, Millie Bobby Brown's new movie, Round Robin round 3, X-Terminators, Alysia as Batgirl, Kevin Conroy story in Pride anthology, Matt Kindt launches new Dark Horse imprint, Jody Houser writes Ms. Marvel team-up anthology, DC diversity, Star Wars Visions gets a second season, Dreamer coming to DCU in Superman 13 co-written by Nicole Maines, Frank Langella fired from House of Usher, new Simpsons short featuring Billie Eilish, Archie NFT, IDW announces new series, DC delays Danger Street, Susan Sarandon replaces Sharon Stone in Blue Beetle, rumors about another DC overhaul, Grant Morrison announces first novel, Dead Boy Detectives coming to HBO Max, Venom coming to Thor, Wonder Twins casting, new Harley series by Tee Franklin, Connor Hawke is going to be ACE
Trailers: Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank, Stranger Things s4, Thor: Love and Thunder
Comics Countdown:
Reckless: The Ghost in You GN by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Jacob Phillips
Chef's Kiss by Jarrett Melendez, Danica Brine, Hank Hones, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
Nocterra 9 by Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, Marcelo Maiolo
Superman: Son of Kal-El 10 by Tom Taylor, Cian Tormey, Federico Blee
Sandman Universe: Nightmare Country 1 by James Tynion IV, Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche, Yanick Paquette, Nathan Fairbairn
Batman '89 5 by Sam Hamm, Joe Quinones, Leonardo Ito
Flashpoint Beyond 0 by Geoff Johns, Eduardo Risso, Trish Mulvihill
Seven Secrets 16 by Tom Taylor, Daniele Di Nicuolo
Batgirls 5 by Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Jorge Corona, Sarah Stern
Farmhand 16 by Rob Guillory, Jean-Francois Beaulieu
Check out this episode!
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CRONE #1 HITS STANDS ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH!
Our new series CRONE kicks off this week! The first issue goes on sale Wednesday and will be available at your local comic shop.
My pal and writer Dennis Culver and I have been working away on this for a while now so we’re very excited to finally sharing it with everyone.
From the solicit:
The Sword Saviour and Champion of Men once known as BLOODY BLISS is now nothing more than a reclusive old CRONE. Does she have the strength to answer the call for one last adventure? Only Dennis Culver (Burnouts, E is for Extinction) and Justin Greenwood (Stumptown, The Last Siege) know for sure in this story that is equal parts Unforgiven and Xena: Warrior Princess.
Writer: Dennis Culver
Artist: Justin Greenwood
Colors: Brad Simpson
Letters: Pat Brosseau
Editor: Brett Israel
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Check out an advance preview of the first few pages below:
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My variant cover for Ether: The Disappearance of Violet Bell #5 (of 5) by Matt Kindt and David Rubín On sale Jan 22 from @darkhorsecomics https://www.comicsbeat.com/dark-horse-comics-january-2020-solicitations/# (at Tacoma, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4Gkz_4gXRK/?igshid=12fbmzr29909f
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Advance Review – Berserker Unbound #1 (Dark Horse Comics) “In a world of relentless marketing, press releases and solicitation info, it’s a rarity that I go into a comic completely blind, but boy am I glad that I did on this occasion. And while it’s unlikely you’ll be afforded the same opportunity, I’d still highly recommend picking this new series up, and enjoy as it delivers a cracking blend of frantic fantasy violence and high-concept intrigue.” Rating: 4/5. https://bigcomicpage.com/2019/07/18/advance-review-berserker-unbound-1-dark-horse-comics/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B0ElbZfn65a/?igshid=1r1jb5khklxuz
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MONDO MARVEL MART!
'Target acquired, and it's the big one!'
- Iron Man, Marvel Vs Capcom 3.
Talk to a comic retailer whose been at the gig for more than a week, and introduce the word 'Diamond ' to the conversation. There'll be some kind of automatic reaction. Possibly a twitch, a flinch, involuntarily going into a diatribe involving missing boxes, inaccurate invoices, lost stock or even dropping so many copies of an issue of 2000AD into a puddle that it creates a national shortage, inadvertently invoking a premium for an issue.
It would be hard for any member of the comics community to have gone through their career without having some kind of altercation with Diamond. Previews serves the entirety of the Western World for new comics from all of the major publishers. It'd be a miracle if something didn't go wrong on a regular basis.
Inversely, you have to do quite a lot wrong to get your account with them cancelled. The distribution of comics is hardly a massive money spinner and each shop, especially for the UK wing is precious income not happily abandoned.
Here's a hot take, though.
We don't blame Diamond for the state of affairs.
They were placed in a position of 'Grow Or Die' that saw them take on exclusive distribution rights for most of the large comics companies in a very short space of time without much thought to whether they'd have the staff, offices, vehicles or other resources to actually handle this monumental task for the foreseeable future. They didn't ask to be put in that place. They were forced into it.
We regard the formation of Image much the same way many journalists look at the assassination of John F. Kennedy; the singularity that changes the future in a number of ways that cannot be understated. The history of comics can simply be divided as Pre-Image and Post-Image. Every other publisher was affected by their existence, whether it was contracts, paper quality, exposure, standards and practice, artistic direction or otherwise. Some thrived briefly. Others, however...
Marvel's tin ear response to realising that their biggest, um, draws were leaving as a collective was dismissive and unfortunate, given the artists involved were the clear reason for their largest pre-order sales in decades. They declared that 'The characters were more important than the creators.' and set about with replacing the Image Seven with artists clearly told to emulate their predecessors as much as possible.
This didn't work.
Sales figures dropped. Marvel assumed that the novelty of Image would disappear quite quickly and all seven would be back, sheepishly, within a short period of time. Instead titles like Spawn and Youngblood sold in huge numbers and the Image Seven became famous in a way that comic creators hadn't been in such a way previously and certainly without a great number of respected works behind them first.
While Image took itself out of Malibu, added a ridiculous amount of titles to their solicitations and even hired a tourbus to promote upcoming crossover 'Deathmate' with Valiant Comics, continously promoted (unwisely, in retrospect ) as having strong investment potential by industry magazines and in house ads for companies like American Entertainment...things got worse for Marvel.
Despite an annual assault featuring polybags AND each book being a first appearance, the Spider-titles beginning to intertwine their stories and absolutely flooding the shelves with new titles in an attempt to tie up retailer budgets away from ordering not just comics from DC and Image but also new publishing initiatives from Dark Horse, Malibu, Continuity, Topps, Chaos and even Harris, it still didn't work.
Marvel had not only had their dominace of the marketplace shaken but had Ronald Perlman's huge financial debts to try to compensate for. They saw the hologram high price books that made up the Spider-Man 30th Anniversary celebration as a model for any character they could.
By 1994, Marvel decided to add another tactic to their attempt to reestablish dominance. Not content with assaulting the customer's budgets with endless spin off books, they also wanted to control how their books were sold to the audience.
In short. They decided they wanted to cut the retailer, with their choice of control of what they could stock, out of the relationship between themselves and the readers out of the equation.
By 1995, they were to manifest this desire by foolishly buying a small distribution company called Heroes World, who would solely provide retailers with Marvel Comics, cutting Diamond and Captial out of the picture. Anyone with a brain could see Heroes World weren't set up to carry that much product and deliver to so many locations.
While Marvel tried to deal with a situation that was beyond them, Diamond and Captial set about signing up publishers on exclusive contracts. Diamond had the larger budget and won that particular war by securing both DC and Image and eventually also absorbing Captial in July of 1996. When Heroes World collapsed in 1997, Marvel would go back, tail between legs, to their now sole distribution competitor Diamond.
Which puts us where we are now. Diamond have that control due to the exclusivity contracts signed in the Mid 90s. Presumably these are permanent and even if they weren't, a new distributor would have a hell of a problem starting up without being able to secure product from the major producers of comics in the West.
There's an argument to be made for a collective starting out by translating huge selling comics that we never see in English speaking countries, but a hypothetical for another time.
Between the desperation of the 1993 polybagged annual shambles and the purchase of Heroes World, however, there was a significant clue to exactly what Marvel were up to.
Retailers receiving Marvel comics with the cover date May 1994 would have been annoyed to find an increased shipping charge. The first reason for that was a inserted preview for the Marvel Masterprints collection. $4.99 would secure a set of 6 by 10 prints featuring Mark Bagley Spidey art (Offer only good in U.S. UK retailers love paying added shipping costs for items and promotions that can't be redeemed in Great Britain . Honest.)
The second?
An eight page combination of comic and catalogue. Marvel Mart! 1 was published at a time when both Disney (long before buying Marvel) and Warner Brothers had their own stores offering up exclusive merchandise at high prices and this was obviously a goal for Marvel at the time.
MM1 takes us through a tour of a Marvel themed shopping centre with various branded stores (We personally loved 'Stan "The Pan" Pizza) as a group of hip young kids extoll their excitement at t-shirts, posters, stand ups, VHS videos, comic collection box sets with advertising and price in their dialogue. The sub-plot features Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson looking for a present for Flash Thompson in this shrine to order codes whilst distracted by a couple of shoplifters straight out of any SNK beat 'em up circa 1993.
They're defeated by a combination of Spidey, a second inflatable Spider-Man and, um, an elevator. The story ends with the kids taunting the shoplifters with the idea that they buy some Marvel phone cards to call their lawyer while Mary Jane suggesting they buy Flash a Marvel gift certificate (ordering code in her dialogue, obviously. )
What's troubling about this is many of the items in MM1 were either not being offered to direct market retailers at the time or were being offered to the public much cheaper than RRP. Again, via an insert that comic shops would have to pay shipping for. Presumably the mail order catalogue would have been the first step in pulling customers away from direct market shops via cheaper or exclusive items and onto these proposed stores where, obviously, the brand of Spider-Man on an item would be a more significant selling point than Todd McFarlane, Mark Bagley or Steve Ditko.
The bitter irony of all this is that all the progressive material published in this time, like Ren & Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, the Disney adaptions, Prince Valiant, Marvel Music and Barbie are long out of print.
We're inclined to think there's probably a larger audience for a trade paperback of Barbie Fashion than wants to see reprints of Fantastic Force or Hulk 2099 that's being constantly ignored. Maybe that's where the future is, looking for the untapped readers rather than attempting to drain every last penny or cent out of the readers who're already here.
That's it for now. Obviously the images of the two Marvel Marts are shot from a camera phone because bizarrely, despite searching for over a year, we couldn't find any legal scans of these books and you'd be surprised how difficult it was to find copies of the original comics that still contained these. As we get the opportunity to scan the pages online properly, we will. When we were still drawing up topics for Mondo Funnybooks, this was one of the things we wanted to cover the most as it doesn't seem to have been remembered very well so it's a pleasure to get to the other side of this subject.
In case we don't do this again before the 25th (the next thing ought to be an overview of the completed Doomsday Clock series but that's obviously down to issue 12 shipping.) We'll wish you all a Merry Christmas and a genuine thank you to people who have supported this via shares or our Patreon, which helps pay either for daft comics to research or in some cases, food. May we all end up singing Christmas carols with Batman and The G.C.P.D.
'You'd better TERMINATE that tingle, Buster!'
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