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SDCC 2025: Bad Idea announces its Star Studded Panel, Special Guests, Giveaways, and More!

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Bad Idea makes its triumphant return to San Diego Comic Con, ready to reveal the next phase of its massive 2025 slate. They’re kicking things off with their biggest panel ever on Friday July 25th at 5:00 PM in Room 32AB. 

The next Bad Idea blockbuster, Cul-De-Sac, swoops into stores on August 6th. Get a blood-drenched, behind-the-scenes look at New York Times best-selling writer Mike Carey and fine art illustrator Jonathan Wayshak’s upcoming horror masterpiece directly from the series artist himself! Jonathan is ready to answer your Cul-De-Sac questions, show off all-new pages, and even unveil his jaw-dropping original art live and in person!

Joining Jonathan on stage is the masterminds behind the massive comic book event of the year, blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad, New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti, and visionary artist Tomás Giorello as they dive deep into all things Planet Death!

Plus, a battalion of Bad Idea impresarios including Bad Idea CEO Dinesh Shamdasani, Chief Operating Officer Peter Stern, SVP of Film & Television Benjamin Simpson, VP of Sales & Marketing Siena Fallon, and Creative Director Brockton McKinney ready to unveil never-before-seen art, show off brand-new covers, answer your questions, and just maybe tease several new, yet-to-be-announced comic book series. And of course reward attendees with a special, panel-exclusive reward!

All panel attendees will receive a special edition of the book that started it all, Planet Death #0, triple-signed by its superstar creative team, Derek Kolstad, Robert Venditti, and Tomás Giorello. Each copy will come with a limited edition SDCC Certificate of Authenticity, hand-numbered and exclusive to this panel giveaway.

Then join them for the Bad Idea San Diego Comic-Con Tiki Party! To attend the ultra-exclusive, invite-only, comic-con party of the year, first RSVP at RSVP@BADIDEACORP.COM, then show your Bad Idea First Customer Pin at the door. Celebrate with a little food, a lot of drinks, some great conversation with the staff and creators at Bad Idea.

WHEN:
Friday, July 25, 2025
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

WHERE: 
Bali Hai
2230 Shelter Island Dr
San Diego, CA 92106

Rideshare is recommended.

Planet Death #1 Feels Like the Warhammer 40K Comic We’ve Been Waiting For

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Planet Death #1

Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army of resolute men and women brace for the coming assault. They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission — destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Planet Death #1 delivers an action packed issue that feels like it was ripped out of the world of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000.

Planet Death #1 doesn’t deliver anything new in its concept, but instead delivers a visceral story that’s just packed with visuals that feel familiar but still keep you in awe.

Written by Derek Kolstad and Robert Venditti, Planet Death #1 is a fairly predictable comic that puts readers, and its characters, right into the meat grinder with a planetary invasion gone horribly wrong.

Kolstad and Venditti don’t give us massive battles with countless numbers of bodies thrown into the mix. Instead, the dup narrow the focus a bit and follow Corporal Scott and his battalion that are part of the first wave. The issue follows everything from the preparation to the drop to the attempt to survive those first moments where Scott winds up being the lone survivor of his team.

But Scott isn’t quite the faceless soldier and we get a tease of his motivation and a reason to cheer him on, for him to make it home. The experience is a mix of Warhammer 40,000 with All You Need is Kill, and add in a little bit of Starship Troopers. It’s a straightforward concept and idea that doesn’t veer too much from its basic concept.

The visuals by Tomas Giorello are impressive. With color by Sunny Gho and lettering by Tom Napolitano, the comic looks amazing with art that perfectly fits the concept. The futuristic settings and characters look great and the action is fierce and chaotic. But, like the story itself, the overall look of so much feels a bit derivative of what has come before. Corporal Scott’s preparation looks a lot like animation of a Space Marine in Warhammer 40K getting prepared. The aliens they face look like the Locust in Gears of War. None of it is bad but it all creates a bit of deja vu while reading the comic.

Planet Death #1 is an entertaining comic that knows exactly what it is. It’s loud sci-fi action and doesn’t deviate much from that. It’s all about the chaos and a mission with large explosions, lots of action, and a rock and roll attitude about it all. The bodies pile up, the death count is high. It’s everything you’d want and expect from this sort of series.

Story: Derek Kolstad, Robert Venditti Art: Tomas Giorello
Color: Sunny Gho Letterer: Tom Napolitano
Story: 8.0 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.0 Recommendation: Buy

Bad Idea provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: Zeus Comics

Preview: Planet Death #1

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Planet Death #1

Written by DEREK KOLSTAD & ROBERT VENDITTI
Art & Cover by TOMÁS GIORELLO
$5.99 | 64 PGS. | FULL COLOR
FOC JUNE 9, 2025 | ON SALE JULY 9, 2025

The explosive 64-page first issue of the record-breaking series premieres in a high end, deluxe prestige format!

From the minds of blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad — creator and writer of the box office dominating motion picture franchise JOHN WICK — and New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Superman ‘78, Green Lantern), along with artistic visionary Tomás Giorello comes a groundbreaking new sci-fi epic.

Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army of resolute men and women brace for the coming assault.

They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission — destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Corporal Scott and his battalion are in the vanguard but the human forces are no match for their brutal alien adversaries. Scott’s battalion is dead within moments. He is its lone survivor. The landing force annihilated, the battle is lost.

Against overwhelming odds, Scott dares the unthinkable — cross behind enemy lines, survive the lethal landscape, evade capture by ruthless enemies, resist natural predators, face human deserters and finish the mission singlehandedly. Locked in his suit of full combat battle armor, sustained only by what he can carry, and driven by Earth’s wrath, Scott must do by himself what an entire army could not.

Destroy the weapon.

Return home.

Planet Death #1

Preview: Planet Death #1

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Planet Death #1

Written by DEREK KOLSTAD & ROBERT VENDITTI
Art & Cover by TOMÁS GIORELLO
$5.99 | 64 PGS. | FULL COLOR
FOC JUNE 9, 2025 | ON SALE JULY 9, 2025

The explosive 64-page first issue of the record-breaking series premieres in a high end, deluxe prestige format!

From the minds of blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad — creator and writer of the box office dominating motion picture franchise JOHN WICK — and New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (Superman ‘78, Green Lantern), along with artistic visionary Tomás Giorello comes a groundbreaking new sci-fi epic.

Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army of resolute men and women brace for the coming assault.

They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission — destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Corporal Scott and his battalion are in the vanguard but the human forces are no match for their brutal alien adversaries. Scott’s battalion is dead within moments. He is its lone survivor. The landing force annihilated, the battle is lost.

Against overwhelming odds, Scott dares the unthinkable — cross behind enemy lines, survive the lethal landscape, evade capture by ruthless enemies, resist natural predators, face human deserters and finish the mission singlehandedly. Locked in his suit of full combat battle armor, sustained only by what he can carry, and driven by Earth’s wrath, Scott must do by himself what an entire army could not.

Destroy the weapon.

Return home.

Planet Death #1

Get an early look at Bad Idea’s Planet Death #2

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Planet Death #1, the 56-page, prestige-format debut issue is rocketing into stores everywhere on July 9th.

The sci-fi, action epic comes from blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad, creator and writer of the internationally acclaimed, box office dominating motion picture franchise John Wick, as well as the multi-award winning action-thriller Nobody and its upcoming sequel for Universal Studios, New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti and visionary artist Tomás Giorello.

You still have time to reserve your copy of this bone-crushing blockbuster. Head to your local comic shop and pre-order yours before Final Order Cutoff on Monday, June 9th!

And to whet your appetites, Bad Idea has released a brand-new batch of jaw-dropping pages from Planet Death #2! Catch our review of Planet Death #0!

Planet Death #0 delivers the action and is a visual treat but it’s thin on story

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Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army of resolute men and women brace for the coming assault. They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission — destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Corporal Scott and his battalion are in the vanguard but the human forces are no match for their brutal alien adversaries. Scott’s battalion is dead within moments. He is its lone survivor. The landing force annihilated, the battle is lost.

Against overwhelming odds, Scott dares the unthinkable — cross behind enemy lines, survive the lethal landscape, evade capture by ruthless enemies, resist natural predators, face human deserters and finish the mission singlehandedly. Locked in his suit of full combat battle armor, sustained only by what he can carry, and driven by Earth’s wrath, Scott must do by himself what an entire army could not.

Destroy the weapon.

Return home.

Story: Derek Kolstad and Robert Venditti
Art: Tomas Giorello
Colors: Dave Stewart
Letters: Tom Napolitano

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

Midtown Comics
Third Eye Comics

Planet Death #0 is a heavy metal trailer to this summer’s upcoming blood and guts, power armor and big-ass guns blockbuster comic

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Planet Death #0

Planet Death #0 is a heavy metal trailer to this summer’s upcoming blood and guts, power armor and big-ass guns blockbuster comic from writers Derek Kolstad and Robert Venditti and artists Tomas Giorello and Dave Stewart. The plot is simple: a group of human soldiers land on an alien planet to destroy a mysterious weapon and face incredible resistance while one of their own is being held hostage by the extraterrestrials. In this preview issue, Kolstad and Venditti don’t weigh the reader down with exposition or heavy world-building, but dive straight into the action giving a glimpse of what to expect in future issues.

Giorello’s line art and Stewart’s brash color palette are the stars of Planet Death #0. Most of the comic uses wide screen compositions with the occasional inset panel to show the details of the soldiers being literally welded into their power armor or reactions to the carnage from the human soldiers before they die gruesome deaths. Stewart’s color choices are like a blast from one of the soldiers’ rifles: green, orange, and red exploding. Coupled with Tom Napolitano special effects lettering, this is a comic that knows it’s a comic and not an illustrated screenplay for an upcoming sci-fi blockbuster. (Planet Death would make a great, expensive movie though.) In fact, the details in Tomas Giorello and Dave Stewart’s visuals are what populates this brave new fictional universe with Kolstad and Venditti keeping their text spare and additive. Each caption box adds to the feeling of unease as a battalion of highly trained, tech enhanced soldiers are about to go to their deaths.

The goal of Planet Death #0 is to set up the unstoppable force that the protagonist of the book must face to complete his mission. There are multiple pages of well-trained and well-armed space marine-type fighters attacking the planet, but they’re no match for the denizens of Planet Death. Heavy casualties is an understatement, and the results are like if the Rebels in Star Wars did a full frontal assault on the Death Star instead of finding an exhaust port shaped opening for a farm boy in a single fighter. The poses and multiplicity of splash page type image reminds me of early Image Comics (And Planet Death is apparently the best-selling single issue comic since Brandon Choi and Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.S. #1.), but Giorello is both a strong storyteller and creator of posters that would look cool in your local metalhead’s living room. There is an air of futility to the events of Planet Death #0 that hook you in like dying in an early level of a video game and wanting to come back and try harder next time. I’m really rooting for these space marines to take out these aliens, but hopefully, I’ll learn more about both sides’ motivations or psyches in the upcoming series. But as long as there’s kick-ass fight scenes, bring it on!

Planet Death #0 sets up a grim, violent military sci-fi yarn with overwhelming odds and well-choreographed action and compelling vehicle and weapon designs from Tomas Giorello. It doesn’t reinvent the genre by any means, but synthesizes its influences and leans on the visual shock and awe of the comics to make for fun, yet harrowing summer read.

Story: Derek Kolstad and Robert Venditti Art: Tomas Giorello
Colors: Dave Stewart Letters: Tom Napolitano
Story: 7.5 Art: 8.9 Overall: 8.2 Recommendation: Buy

Bad Idea provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Purchase: Midtown Comics – Third Eye Comics

Preview: Planet Death #0

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Planet Death #0

Written by DEREK KOLSTAD & ROBERT VENDITTI
Art & Cover by TOMÁS GIORELLO
$1.99 | 24 PGS. | FULL COLOR | ON SALE APRIL 30, 2025

PLANET DEATH #0, the comic that broke all the records with a whopping print run of 909,560 copies is storming comic shops this Wednesday, April 30th!

Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army of resolute men and women brace for the coming assault.

They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission — destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Corporal Scott and his battalion are in the vanguard but the human forces are no match for their brutal alien adversaries. Scott’s battalion is dead within moments. He is its lone survivor. The landing force annihilated, the battle is lost.

Against overwhelming odds, Scott dares the unthinkable — cross behind enemy lines, survive the lethal landscape, evade capture by ruthless enemies, resist natural predators, face human deserters and finish the mission singlehandedly. Locked in his suit of full combat battle armor, sustained only by what he can carry, and driven by Earth’s wrath, Scott must do by himself what an entire army could not.

Destroy the weapon.

Return home. 

PLANET DEATH is the massive sci-fi comic book event from blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad (JOHN WICK motion picture franchise), New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti (SUPERMAN ‘78, GREEN LANTERN), visionary artist Tomás Giorello (STAR WARS, CONAN) and ten-time Eisner Award-winner Dave Stewart.

Planet Death #0

Bad Idea announces over 900,000 copies printed of Planet Death #0

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Bad Idea has announced that the explosive debut issue of the upcoming sci-fi epic Planet Death has set a massive final print run of 909,560 copies — including 818,850 copies ordered by comic book retailers and an additional 90,800 reserved for comps, damages, and promotional use. 

That total reflects significant commitments from top retailers taking major positions for Free Comic Book Day — including New Dimension Comics, Midtown Comics, Third Eye Comics, Bedrock City Comics, Collector’s Paradise, Borderlands Comics & Games, DCBS, and Atomic Empire.

Early orders for Planet Death #0 had already rocketed past 655,000 — smashing records and marking the biggest independent comic debut in three decades, – a feat not seen since Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.s #1 broke the million-copy barrier during Image Comics’ explosive launch in 1992.

Planet Death is written by Derek Kolstad and Robert Venditti with art by Tomás Giorello, lettering by Tom Napolitano, and color by Dave Stewart.

Arriving in stores later this month on April 30th, Planet Death #0 is strategically timed and priced to capitalize on the biggest single day in comic book retail — Free Comic Book Day — hitting just days later on Saturday, May 3rd.

Planet Death marks a turning point for Bad Idea — the first time one of their comics will reach every comic book store worldwide, thanks to newly forged distribution deals with Lunar Distribution, Diamond UK, and Universal Distribution. Previously, Bad Idea self-distributed only to 250 elite Destination Stores.

Planet Death #0

Planet Death #0 has 655,000 copies ordered… so far

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Bad Idea has announced that the debut issue of the upcoming sci-fi epic Planet Death has sold 655,000 copies, making it the largest selling independent comic book in over 30 years, since Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.S. #1 in 1992. Planet Death #0, arrives in stores on April 30th and is timed to take advantage of the largest single retail day in comics — Free Comic Book Day — the following Saturday, May 3rd.

Planet Death marks the first time a Bad Idea comic is being distributed, via Lunar Distribution, wide, to all comic shops. Planet Death #0 is still currently in its solicitation period in which comic stores place their orders and the final sales count is expected to climb even higher. The current total represents orders from stores that have taken a position early. Major orders have been placed by New Dimension Comics, Third Eye Comics, Bedrock City Comics, Collector’s Paradise, Borderlands Comics and Games, DCBS, and Atomic Empire.

The all-new Bad Idea Prestige Format limited series is co-written by blockbuster screenwriter Derek Kolstad, creator and writer of the internationally acclaimed, box office dominating motion picture franchise John Wick, as well as the multi-award winning action-thriller Nobody and its upcoming sequel for Universal Studios, and New York Times best-selling writer Robert Venditti with visionary artist Tomás Giorello and ten-time Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart.

Millions of miles from home, hundreds of ships descend into the stormy atmosphere of a hostile frozen world. On board, an army of resolute men and women brace for the coming assault.

They are an invasion force, on an impossible mission — destroy the devastating enemy weapon garrisoned below. Corporal Scott and his battalion are in the vanguard but the human forces are no match for their brutal alien adversaries. Scott’s battalion is dead within moments. He is its lone survivor. The landing force annihilated, the battle is lost.

Against overwhelming odds, Scott dares the unthinkable — cross behind enemy lines, survive the lethal landscape, evade capture by ruthless enemies, resist natural predators, face human deserters and finish the mission singlehandedly. Locked in his suit of full combat battle armor, sustained only by what he can carry, and driven by Earth’s wrath, Scott must do by himself what an entire army could not.

Destroy the weapon.

Return home.

Planet Death #0
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