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Preview – Creator Owned Heroes #7

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Creator Owned Heroes #7

Story by: Steve Niles, Scott Morse, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Jerry Lando, Paul Mounts, Darwyn Cooke Art By: Dan Panosian & Scott Morse Cover By: Dan Panosian Variant Cover by: Scott Morse
Price: $3.99

SPECIAL EXTRA PAGES ISSUE!

A brand new story by STEVE NILES and SCOTT MORSE, and more madness from DARWYN COOKE!

“KILL SWITCH,” Part Three
Locked in a Peruvian Prison, Kill Switch awaits a Mexican hit squad as he tries to discover who put a bounty on his head and why. The bullets fly as our hero is led into a deadly game of death against the world’s best and most eccentric assassins, but the gloves come off when they threaten his family.

“MEATBAG,” Part One
Detective Paul DeSanto works the seedy side of Los Angeles. He specializes in cheaters and losers, but he never chooses sides. In Hollywood cheats and loses work both sides of the street. After one of his operatives is eviscerated in an alleyway, DeSanto discovers the strange side of seedy.

Plus: LEAPING TALL BUILDINGS: INDEPENDENT SPIRITS a profile feature by Christopher Irving and Seth Kushner spotlighting EVAN DORKIN.

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Preview – The Shadow #7

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THE SHADOW #7

32 pages FC
• $3.99 • Teen +
Written by VICTOR GISCHLER
Art by JACK HERBERT
Covers by ALEX ROSS (25%), DARWYN COOKE (25%), JOHN CASSADAY (25%), FRANCESCO FRANCAVILLA (25%)
Fans, ask your retailer for these variant incentive covers!
• CASSADAY “blood red art” cover retailer incentive
• COOKE “virgin art”cover retailer incentive
• ROSS “virgin art”cover retailer incentive

NEW CREATIVE TEAM! NEW STORY ARC!
The Shadow is known for the mystic power which allows him to cloud men’s minds and read their hearts. But what happens when this power fails him? After the Shadow fails to stop a routine mugging, he travels to the Far East with his pilot and sidekick WWI ace Miles Crofton. In Nepal, he hopes to reconnect with his old masters and to consult with them about what could be amiss with his powers. Instead, he finds opium smugglers. As always, The Shadow faces danger… but he must also look within himself.

Preview – Creator Owned Heroes #6

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Creator Owned Heroes #6

Story by: Steve Niles, Jay Russell, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray Art By: Andrew Ritchie, Jerry Lando, Paul Mounts, Darwyn Cooke Cover By: Andrew Ritchie Variant Cover by: Dave Johnson
Price: $3.99

STARTING: a monthly feature featuring graphic strips and material by DARWYN COOKE.

“KILLSWITCH,” Part Two
Locked in a Peruvian Prison, Kill Switch awaits a Mexican hit squad as he tries to discover who put a bounty on his head and why. The bullets fly as our hero is led into a deadly game of death against the world’s best and most eccentric assassins, but the gloves come off when they threaten his family.

“BLACK SPARROW” Part Two
His only son is dead, tried and hung for crimes the boy may or may not have committed. Now a father waits by the graveside. All he can do is pray and hope that his only son is not the evil the townspeople claim.

Plus: Interviews, contests, art galleries, con photos, and original articles all celebrating the creator-owned spirit.

Preview – It Girl & The Atomics #2

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It Girl & The Atomics #2

Story by: Jamie S. Rich Art By: Mike Norton Cover By: Michael Allred & Laura Allred Variant Cover by:Darwyn Cooke
Price: $2.99

“DARK STREETS, SNAP CITY,” Part Two
It Girl comes crashing down to Earth. Can she figure out where she’s landed before the shadowy figure following behind catches up with her? Also, see what the Skunk’s old gang gets up to when left to their own devices! Joins us for world-bending new adventures starring Michael Allred’s Atomics!

Victor Gischler Begins Writing The Shadow With Issue #7! Check Out This Preview.

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Dynamite has announced writer Victor Gischler will be joining Dynamite! Having been the lead writer on the X-Men for the last 2 and a-half years, he’s moving onto one of the publisher’s premiere titles – The Shadow!

Joining Victor on The Shadow #7 is artist Jack Herbert with covers by Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Darwyn Cooke, and Francesco Francavilla.

In The Shadow #7, The Shadow is known for the mystic power which allows him to cloud men’s minds and read their hearts.  But what happens when this power fails him?  After the Shadow fails to stop a routine mugging, he travels to the Far East with his pilot and sidekick WWI ace Miles Crofton.  In Nepal, he hopes to reconnect with his old masters and to consult with them about what could be amiss with his powers.  Instead, he finds opium smugglers.  As always, The Shadow faces danger … but he must also look within himself.

SDCC 2012 – IDW Publishing Celebrates Three Eisner Award Wins

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[Might Thor Artist Edition]At the 2012 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, IDW Publishing collected three of the prestigious awards. The range of awards included Best Graphic Album – Reprint, Best Short Story, and Best Archival Collection/Project Comic Books.

Walter Simonson’s The Mighty Thor Artist’s Edition won Best Archival Collection/Project – Comic Books. This astounding edition collects scans of Simonson’s personal original art and is edited by Scott Dunbier.

Well deserved and praised, Darwyn Cooke’s, The Martini Edition, thecompilation of The Hunter and The Outfit graphic novel adaptation series of Richard Stark’s Parker, received two awards for Best Graphic Album – Reprint and Best Short [The Martini Edition Cover Image]Story for The Seventh. Cooke won the 2011 Eisner for Best Writer/Artist for The Outfit, and The Hunter won the 2010 Eisner for Best Adaptation from Another Work. The third installment of the acclaimed series, The Score has just launched and is now available for sale.

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Hope everyone had a great Valentine’s Day…. now onto new comics day!

Around the Blogs:

Comics Alliance – ‘Before Watchmen’: New Darwyn Cooke Artwork Emerges, Moore Addresses Legal Questions – Still not sure what I think.

Comicsvine – Comic Legend John Severin Dies At 90 – Another legend lost.

ICv2 – Stan Lee Media Loses ‘Conan’ Case – Would you have wanted to win?

MTV – Nicolas Cage Almost Played The Scarecrow In ‘Batman’ – So happy this didn’t happen.

DC Entertainment Officially Announces “Before Watchmen”

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Official Press Release

DC ENTERTAINMENT OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCES “BEFORE WATCHMEN”
This summer, DC Entertainment will publish all-new stories expanding on the acclaimed WATCHMEN universe. As highly anticipated as they are controversial, the seven inter-connected prequel mini-series will build on the foundation of the original WATCHMEN, the bestselling graphic novel of all time. BEFORE WATCHMEN will be the collective banner for all seven titles, from DC Comics.
“It’s our responsibility as publishers to find new ways to keep all of our characters relevant,” said DC Entertainment Co-Publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee. “After twenty five years, the Watchmen are classic characters whose time has come for new stories to be told. We sought out the best writers and artists in the industry to build on the complex mythology of the original.”
Stepping up to the challenge is a group of the comic book industry’s most iconoclastic writers and artists – including Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS), Lee Bermejo (JOKER), Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL), Darwyn Cooke (JUSTICE LEAGUE: NEW FRONTIER), John Higgins (WATCHMEN), Adam Hughes (CATWOMAN), J.G. Jones (FINAL CRISIS), Andy Kubert (FLASHPOINT), Joe Kubert (SGT. ROCK), Jae Lee (BATMAN: JEKYLL AND HYDE), J. Michael Straczynski (SUPERMAN: EARTH ONE) and Len Wein (SWAMP THING).
BEFORE WATCHMEN includes:
–       RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo
–       MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke
–       COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones
–       DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist:  Adam Hughes
–       NITE OWL (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artists: Andy and Joe Kubert
–       OZYMANDIAS (6 issues) – Writer: Len Wein. Artist: Jae Lee
–       SILK SPECTRE (4 issues) – Writer: Darwyn Cooke. Artist: Amanda Conner
Each week, a new issue will be released, and will feature a two-page back-up story called CURSE OF THE CRIMSON CORSAIR, written by original series editor Len Wein and with art by original series colorist John Higgins. There will also be a single issue, BEFORE WATCHMEN: EPILOGUE, featuring the work of various writers and artists, and a CRIMSON CORSAIR story by Wein and Higgins.
“The original series of WATCHMEN is the complete story that Alan Moore and I wanted to tell. However, I appreciate DC’s reasons for this initiative and the wish of the artists and writers involved to pay tribute to our work. May these new additions have the success they desire,” said Dave Gibbons, WATCHMEN co-creator and original series artist.
“Comic books are perhaps the largest and longest running form of collaborative fiction,” said DiDio and Lee. “Collaborative storytelling is what keeps these fictional universes current and relevant.”

Rocketeer Adventures Vol. 2 #1 Coming in March!

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Official Press Release

ROCKETEER ADVENTURES Vol. 2 #1 Coming in March!

IDW to release second all-new anthology of Dave Stevens’ beloved character

[Rocketeer Adventures Vol. 2 #1 Cover]San Diego, CA (January 24, 2012) – The second all-new, all-fantastic Rocketeer Adventures series launches into stores in March! Each extra-long issue—boasting 25 pages of story and art— will feature covers by Darwyn Cooke and Dave Stevens. The first issue’s line-up includes Peter David, Marc Guggenheim, Sandy Plunkett, Stan Sakai, and Bill Sienkiewicz, with Arthur Adams supplying a pin-up.

“The Rocketeer takes us back to another time,” said series editor Scott Dunbier, “one stuffed to the brim with heroism and thrilling adventures. Some might call these stories old-fashioned—and what’s wrong with that?”

Other contributors to the series include Kyle Baker, J. Scott Campbell, Eric Canete, Paul Dini, Michael Golden, Dave Johnson, David Lapham, John Paul Leon, Bill Morrison, Louise Simonson, Walter Simonson, Chris Sprouse, Tom Taylor, Matt Wagner, Colin Wilson, and more. Rocketeer Adventures is in the current issue of Diamond Previews.

As with the first series, a portion of the profits from Rocketeer Adventures will be donated to the Hairy Cell Leukemia research. Dave Stevens, the creator of The Rocketeer, died of the disease in 2008 at the age of 52.

ROCKETEER ADVENTURES VOL. 2 #1 ($3.99, 32 pages; full color) will be available in March 2012. Diamond order code: JAN12 0408.

Visit IDWPublishing.com to sign up for updates and learn more about the company and its top-selling books.

About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Toho’s Godzilla; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.

IDW’s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.

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It’s a new week of comics and it looks like there’ll be some solid stuff out.  But until then, hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween!

Around the Blogs:

The Times Leader – Comic industry wrote book on horror stories Tom Mooney Remember when – A nice bit of history, just in time for Halloween!

Benzinga – New Graphic Novel Tells the True Story of Lily Renée, Holocaust Survivor and Comic Book Pioneer – sad I missed this at NYCC.

ICv2 – New 52’s Remarkable Effects – Good to hear their doing well.

My Central Jersey – A life in comics – Nice to see such dedication and love of comic books.

Robot 6 – Grumpy Old Fan | Will DC’s past catch up with it? – Gives you a lot to think about as far as the shaky DC continuity.

Bleeding Cool – Darwyn Cooke’s Plans For Parker – The first two are great, can’t wait for more.

Kotaku – Sunday Comics: Liar, Liar, Abs on Fire – Each week Kotaku brings some great web comics.

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