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comiccrusaders · 6 years

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The spin-off of the award-winning series PRINCELESS, Jeremy Whitley’s (SEA OF THIEVES, THE UNSTOPPABLE WASP) pirate adventure filled with action and romance returns with a stunning conclusion to the second year of Raven’s journey on the high seas.

Raven, previously locked up in a tower thanks to her brothers, is finally close to getting her revenge on the first of her traitorous family, her brother Magpie. She finds the perfect opportunity when Magpie throws a huge party for every pirate in his fleet. As Raven’s crew sneak onto the island, will their plan spell disaster for everyone involved? There are dancers, explosions, romance and more in this action-packed volume of RAVEN THE PIRATE PRINCESS!

Jeremy Whitley comments: “This is the biggest moment of the series so far. Raven is finally coming face to face with her brother Magpie and this conflict won’t be over until one of them loses everything.”

AfterEllen calls Raven “the YA lesbian heroine we’ve been waiting for” and Spartantown adds about Raven and the rest of her crew: “If you’re looking for a great story to get lost in with a diverse group of smart characters then ‘Raven the Pirate Princess’ is the one for you.” So if you want to experience this wonderfully diverse cast of characters, grab preorder RAVEN: THE PIRATE PRINCESS BOOK 6 with the Diamond item code SEP181362. Or grab it in a comic book store near you on November 28, 2018.

The second year of RAVEN THE PIRATE PRINCESS reaches its stunning conclusion! The spin-off of the award-winning series PRINCELESS, Jeremy Whitley's (SEA OF THIEVES, THE UNSTOPPABLE WASP) pirate adventure filled with action and romance returns with a stunning conclusion to the second year of Raven's journey on the high seas.

#action lab #comics #Indie #Jeremy Whitley

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englishmansdcc · 7 years

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You’ve heard of Free Comic Book Day, that ‘most wonderful time of the year’ that happens in May, yes? Well, on a slightly smaller scale is another industry effort to get you to go visit your bricks and mortar funny books retailer, where publishers don’t come up with freebies but they do produce some limited edition books that you can only get in your local shops – Local Comic Shop Day, which this year will be running on Saturday 18th November.

ONI Press are involved, Image Comics are involved, Titan Comics are involved… and now we’ve heard get Valiant are going in big on LCSD, too, with a massive oversized deluxe edition of their recent event series SECRET WEAPONS. (Anyone else think that acronym sounds like something you’d end up doing time for, if it was found on your person by the fuzz?)

The talent pool on the book is huge (screenwriter for ace sci-fi flick ARRIVAL, award-touted writer and artists, gorgeous cover from superstar artist David Mack…), the story inside is huge, the book itself is huge… look, it’s just HHHHUUUUGGGGEEEE, kids. Check out the preview below – and then go pick up your copy this November.

Valiant Joins Local Comic Shop Day 2017 with SECRET WEAPONS DELUXE EDITION OVERSIZED HC Award-Winning Publisher Celebrates Local Comic Shops with Exclusive Collection of the Year’s Best-Selling Independent Limited Series

Valiant Entertainment is proud to announce that it will be supporting Local Comic Shop Day 2017 on November 18th, 2017 with a special, limited-edition release of the SECRET WEAPONS DELUXE EDITION OVERSIZED HC – the first oversized hardcover collection of the year’s best-selling independent limited series from Academy Award-nominated writer Eric Heisserer (ARRIVAL) and Harvey Award-nominated artists Raúl Allén (WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR) and Patricia Martin (NINJAK) – to participating retailers!

Collecting SECRET WEAPONS #1-4 with a cover by multiple Eisner Award nominee David Mack (FIGHT CLUB 2) and exclusive to Local Comic Shop Day 2017, this oversized hardcover collection of Valiant’s sold-out, critically acclaimed series will not be available for sale anywhere else, and arrives weeks before the SECRET WEAPONS TPB arrives in stores on December 13th.

The SECRET WEAPONS DELUXE OVERSIZED HC will feature a beautifully presented, deluxe repackaging of the critically lauded series, and feature more than 20 pages of bonus material including character designs, process art, and more that won’t be found anywhere else! Eric Heisserer – the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of ARRIVAL and Valiant’s upcoming BLOODSHOT and HARBINGER feature films – joins forces with Harvey Award-nominated visionary Raúl Allén (WRATH OF THE ETERNAL WARRIOR) here for an all-new Valiant adventure… launching Livewire and an extraordinary new team of heroes into the fight of their lives!

The government has dispatched Amanda McKee – the technopath codenamed Livewire – to investigate the ruins of a secret facility formerly run by Toyo Harada, the most powerful telepath on Earth and her former mentor. In his quest for world betterment at any cost, Harada sought out and activated many potential psiots like himself. Those who survived, but whose powers he deemed to have no value to his cause, were hidden away at this installation. But Livewire, having studied Harada’s greatest strengths and learned his deepest weaknesses, senses opportunity where he once saw failure. A young girl who can talk to birds… A boy who can make inanimate objects gently glow… To others, these are expensive disappointments. But, to Livewire, they are secret weapons…in need of a leader. Now, as a mechanized killer called Rex-O seeks to draw them out, Livewire and her new team of cadets will be forced to put their powers into action…in ways they never could have imagined…

“Comic shops are the heart and soul of the comics industry and play a very crucial role to its continued growth. That’s why we’re proud to continue supporting Local Comic Shop Day’s mission of supporting the brick and mortar storefronts that bring comics to fans nationwide,” said Valiant’s Director of Sales, Atom! Freeman. “Our offering for Local Comic Shop Day 2017 might also be our most ambitious yet with the SECRET WEAPONS DELUXE OVERSIZED HC – a shelf-worthy collection to one of our most successful series to date and one that won’t be available anywhere else. In making this highly collectible item exclusive only to Local Comic Shop Day, it’s our way of saying ‘thank you’ to the hundreds of retailers who continue to support this industry week after week, Wednesday after Wednesday.”

Find out why Valiant has become the most critically acclaimed publisher in comics today with this can’t-miss presentation of the year’s most celebrated new series:

“✮✮✮✮✮… SECRET WEAPONS [is] like nothing else on the stands right now… A tremendous highlight for Valiant, and should not be missed.” – Newsarama

“✮✮✮✮✮… A multi-layered story that will stand among the best of the year… It’s absolutely fantastic.” – Graphic Policy

“✮✮✮✮✮… Dazzling and unique… This is in the running for the best book that Valiant has ever published – no small feat for a publisher that consistently puts out some of the best-reviewed comics in the industry.” – Comics The Gathering

“✮✮✮✮✮… Downright genius at times… This is high-quality comics, with art and story coming together beautifully.” – AiPT!

“✮✮✮✮✮… A charming and exciting superhero comic… SECRET WEAPONS doesn’t sacrifice character development for great action.” – Spartantown

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Local Comic Shop Day shines a bright spotlight on locally owned independent comic book specialty stores and their role in shaping the pop culture market. This year, Local Comic Shop Day will be Saturday, November 18th, the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

On Local Comic Shop Day, participating retailers will have exclusive, and in some cases, limited items debuting from supporting publishers. The goal of Local Comic Shop Day is to jump start the holiday buying season for storefront comics specialty retailers by giving comics fans more of what they most desire.

#LCSD2017: @ValiantComics goes in HUGE with SECRET WEAPONS Oversized Deluxe Edition for @comic_shop_day You've heard of Free Comic Book Day, that 'most wonderful time of the year' that happens in May, yes?

#David Mack #Eric Heisserer #Local Comic Shop Day #Patricia Martin #Raúl Allén #Secret Weapons #Valiant Entertainment

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lotuslandcomics · 4 years

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'THE BOYS' ARTIST DARICK ROBERTSON JOINS ERIC PETERSON AND JOE AUBREY FOR A WILD INTERGALACTIC RIDE IN SPACE BASTARDS

Humanoids, the Los Angeles-based publisher of some of the world’s most iconic and groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy graphic novels, is launching a kickass, intergalactic story like none other: SPACE BASTARDS. The Boys artist Darick Roberston and writers Eric Peterson and Joe Aubrey team up to unleash the galaxy’s most vicious and depraved...postal couriers?

In SPACE BASTARDS, violence is everywhere. Corporations are exploiting the weak and disenfranchised. And while America has taken to the cosmos, scientific advancements and technology have outpaced civilization as we know it. Even getting mail between planets is damn near impossible. Enter the Intergalactic Postal Service, a deadly organization with a brutal, mercenary business model. Whoever delivers the package gets the cash. And every delivery can be made by any means necessary.

"I have long admired Humanoids for the quality material they publish. I guess it was time to lower the bar,” said co-creator and artist Darick Roberston. “SPACE BASTARDS is a longtime brainchild of Eric Peterson and Joe Aubrey, their labor of love that I brought my own brand of crazy to with my character designs and storytelling. It's a fun world, where things like science don't get in the way of the fiction. It's a wild ride."

SPACE BASTARDS kicks off in January with the seven-part monthly "Tooth and Mail” arc by series co-creators Roberston, Peterson, and Aubrey. “Darick Robertson’s art for the seven-part story 'Tooth and Mail' is gritty, sleazy and hyper violent,” said Eric Peterson. “It really sets the tone for the series.” Later in the year, writers Eric Peterson and Joe Aubrey will be joined by all-star artists Simon Bisley (Lobo) and Clint Langley (2000AD) for a series of high-octane SPACE BASTARDS specials, a single one-shot followed by two annuals. “The standalone format of the upcoming SPACE BASTARDS specials allows us to really showcase the individual storytelling strengths of these amazing artists,” said co-creator and co-writer Joe Aubrey.

In SPACE BASTARDS, David S. Proton is a meek, unemployed accountant desperate for money. David joins the Intergalactic Postal Service only to be paired with Manny Corns (a.k.a. “The Manicorn”), a sardonic brute who thrives on the competition provided by the company. And things only get worse from there.

Originally funded on Kickstarter, SPACE BASTARDS has generated plenty of buzz for its larger-than-life cast and their death-defying antics:

“Injected with a rowdy cocktail of hyper-violent sci-fi thrills and a wicked sense of humor… Space Bastards is burning up the comics scene featuring an all-star roster of talent.” — SYFY WIRE

“Space Bastards is the cultivation of industry giants coming together to construct a reality-based in blood, booze, and rock-n-roll.” — BLEEDING COOL

The mega-sized, 44-page first issue of SPACE BASTARDS drops on Wednesday, January 13.

#darick robertson #space bastards #humanoids comics #eric peterson #joe aubrey #comic books #spartantown

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lotuslandcomics · 4 years

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KYLE HIGGINS, FORMER NFL STAR LANCE BRIGGS AND AN ALL-PRO ART TEAM PRESENT 'THE TRAP' ON KICKSTARTER

Former Chicago Bear star linebacker Lance Briggs, ULTRAMAN writer Kyle Higgins, rising star artist Danilo Beyruth, superstar colorist Tamra Bonvillain, letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and designer Sasha E. Head are creating THE TRAP, an all-new 120-page sci-fi graphic novel, now funding on Kickstarter.

In THE TRAP, Jaylen Robinson is a rising sports star from a not-so-great part of the galaxy: Earth. He’s worked hard his whole life. Everyone’s saying that Jaylen is the Next Big Thing for the interstellar sport of the future: surfriding. The future is his. This is his chance. Until it’s not.

Days before a big race, everything changes. Jaylen’s surfrider board needs to be repaired but he doesn’t have the money and he doesn’t have very many options. He’s desperate — desperate enough to agree to boost the ship belonging to one of Earth’s Interstellar Senators. But when the job goes wrong and Jaylen Robinson accidentally shoots the Senator, his once-promising sports career threatens to succumb to The Trap.

For former NFL star Lance Briggs, THE TRAP is a passion project, inspired by his life before becoming a seven-time Pro Bowl linebacker. “Before I played professional football, my life was very different,” says Briggs. “I grew up in Sacramento, CA during the 1980s and 1990s, with my mother and two older sisters. But while many people hear “Sacramento” and associate it with a place of power and decision making in the state of California, the reality— for many of its residents— is anything but. Our family struggled no differently than most in the south area. There were times when the pantry was bare and the fridge was empty. Days or weeks without power. Waking up to cold showers before school. For those of us who came of age in an environment like this, we have a simple name for it: The Trap. Put simply, the name translates to a community that has been failed by its governing bodies. The Trap is both a neighborhood and a resulting way of life— a system designed to keep you from succeeding.”

“The best science fiction is allegory,” said # 1 New York Times bestselling writer Kyle Higgins. “And while the world of THE TRAP has many extraordinary elements— technology, sports, species, and interstellar status quo— at its core it is very much an opportunity to explore the different challenges that we face, as we try to save those who come after us from repeating our mistakes.”

Briggs and Higgins have been working on the story of THE TRAP for the last year and a half and have assembled an amazing creative team, co-creator and artist Danilo Beyruth, superstar colorist Tamra Bonvillain, letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and designer Sasha E. Head. THE TRAP will be presented in an oversized, deluxe format hardcover (8 ¾ x 11 ⅝ ).

THE TRAP is a fast-paced epic about making mistakes and the need for second chances, set in a world where hard work and talent is anything but a guarantee for success.

For updates, follow @TheTrapComics.

To support the campaign, visit Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/457252441/467010265?ref=cy9014&token=dc248aab

#the trap #kickstarter #lance briggs #kyle higgins #tamra bonvillain #comic books #spartantown

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lotuslandcomics · 4 years

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'THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE' MEETS 'PAPER GIRLS' IN NEW SERIES 'HOME SICK PILOTS' OUT THIS DECEMBER

Bestselling writer Dan Watters (Coffin Bound, Lucifer) reteams with fan-favorite artist Caspar Wijngaard (Star Wars, Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt) for an ongoing series in Home Sick Pilots. The new ongoing horror comic will launch from Image Comics this December.

Watters and Wijngaard debuted at Image with their critically acclaimed, day-glo drenched miniseries Limbo back in 2015, and return to the publisher for a fresh, new, neon thriller.

In Home Sick Pilots, in the summer of 1994, a haunted house walks across California. Inside is Ami, lead singer of a high school punk band—who’s been missing for weeks. How did she get there, and what do these ghosts want? Expect three-chord songs and big bloody action that’s Power Rangers meets The Shining (yes, really).

“They say write what you know—well what I know is a teenage hellscape filled with pitfalls and secret etiquettes and beautiful broken people,” Watters told The Hollywood Reporter in an exclusive feature. “We’re about to send the Home Sick Pilots—the power trio of Ami, Buzz and Rip—out of that same hellscape into another, and hope that they survive.”

“We've all had at least one unforgettable summer as teens, late nights, parties, gigs, stolen booze, heartbreak and most importantly friendships. Except in this instance the teens are causing chaos in ectoplasmic power suits whilst haunted houses are fist fighting on the horizon,” added Wijngaard in the THR piece.

Home Sick Pilots #1 (Diamond Code OCT200017) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, December 9.

#home sick pilots #image comics #dan watters #caspar wijngaard #comic books #spartantown

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lotuslandcomics · 4 years

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Publisher TKO Studios Announces Wave 3 of New Graphic Novels

Following their first two bestselling waves of books, TKO Studios is proud to announce three new graphic novels available on Nov. 9:

THE PULL is a sci-fi epic that asks the ultimate question: What would you do if you only had six days left to live - give up or fight back? The creative team includes writer Steve Orlando (Wonder Woman), artist Ricardo Lopez Ortiz (Blank Panther vs. Deadpool), colorist Triona Farell (Black Widow) and letterer Thomas Mauer (Godkillers).

LONESOME DAYS, SAVAGE NIGHTS is a supernatural crime story about a private detective with one hell of a trick up his sleeve...and a monster under his skin. The book is written by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night) and Salvatore Simeone (co-founder of TKO Studios), drawn by Szymon Kudranski (Punisher) and lettered by Thomas Mauer.

REDFORK is a dark, horror tale about an ex-con who returns to his hometown to find something sinister is draining the very life from it. The creative team includes writer Alex Paknadel (Arcadia), artist Nil Vendrell (Shirtless Bearfd-Fighter!), colorist Giulia Brusco (Django Unchained) and letterer Ryan Ferrier (Kennel Block Blues).

Pre-orders for all Wave 3 books will be available on October 16.

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#tko studios #comic books #graphic novels #steve orlando #steve niles #alex paknadel #spartantown #ryan ferrier

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lotuslandcomics · 4 years

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BLOODSHOT'S 'ONE LAST SHOT' COMING FROM TIM SEELY AND BRETT BOOTH

Get ready for rampage as the action-packed storyline "One Last Shot" begins this January in BLOODSHOT #10!

For the explosive final arc of TIM SEELEY'S critically-acclaimed run, the New York Times best-selling writer will be joined by industry icon BRETT BOOTH and the amazingly talented PEDRO ANDREO to unleash all kinds of mayhem as Bloodshot faces retribution. The upcoming storyline will also feature two characters from Bloodshot's blockbuster movie starring Vin Diesel: Wilfred Wigans and KT! Feast your eyes on an early look at Booth's highly detailed pencils in BLOODSHOT #10...

"Coming out of The Burn storyline, Bloodshot feels like he should finally leave himself in the darkness and not come back, but then Wigans calls him and says he needs him," teased Seeley. "Every time he turns his back on humanity, he has another reason to come back to humanity."

Seeley enjoyed building a past for Wigans, hinting that the upcoming tale introduces a familiar face for longtime Bloodshot fans. "Wigans is a story generator and we get to tie his story back to the past with our villain, who I won't spoil for everybody. It's a nod back to some classic BLOODSHOT continuity by bringing back a new version of one of the bad guys."

BLOODSHOT #10, Part 1 of "One Last Shot", goes on sale January 13th, 2021.

#blooshot #valiant comics #tim seeley #brett booth #preview #comic books #spartantown

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