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Preview: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Official Graphic Novel Prelude

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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials Official Graphic Novel Prelude

Written by: Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly, Wes Ball & T.S. Nowlin
Illustrated by: Marcus To, Andrea Mutti, Nick Robles, and Tom Derenick

With over 6.5 million copies of the Maze Runner series of books sold and a franchise-launching film that earned over $340 million worldwide, it’s plain to see fans are in love with this sci-fi series about a group of young adults who are locked in a struggle for survival in the shadow of a gigantic maze. Readers got their first taste of Maze Runner comics at last year’s San Diego Comic-Con panel and then in the film’s Blu-ray release, and BOOM! has added three more stories that serve as an introduction to new characters from the upcoming second film, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.

As anticipation for 20th Century Fox’s Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials ramps up (out in September), gain more insight into the Maze Runner cinematic universe with this anthology collection of five short stories that go deeper into the lives of several key characters that feature prominently in the upcoming film, including Aris, Ava Paige, and Mary Cooper.

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Preview: Venture #1

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VENTURE #1

Writer(s): Jay Faerber
Artist Name(s): Jamal Igle (penciller/ Inker) James Brown (Colorist)
Cover Artist(s): Jamal Igle
32 pgs./All ages/ FC
$3.99 (reg.) $4.99 (var.)

Down-on-his-luck reporter Reggie Baxter has stumbled onto one of the greatest secrets of all time…superpowered high school history teacher Joe Campbell! But who is Joe Campbell and more importantly, how rich will Reggie become by blackmailing him?

Co-created by Jay Faerber (Copperhead, Dynamo Five, Noble Causes) and Jamal Igle (Molly  Danger, Supergirl, The Terminator: Enemy of my Enemy). Feature variant covers by series co-creator Jamal Igle.

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Preview: Mayday #3

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Mayday #3

Artist: Alex Diotto & Chris Peterson
Writer: Curt Pires
Colors: Dee Cunniffe

Rising star writer Curt Pires (Upcoming THE TOMORROWS from Dark Horse & THE FICTION from Boom!) teams up with rising star artist Chris Peterson (GRINDHOUSE from Dark Horse & upcoming BROKEN WORLD from Boom!) to make something truly unique. MAYDAY is a chance to go into the utterly bizarre world that lives in the shadows of Los Angeles.

When issue #1 came out it sold out at Diamond  Black Mask scrambled to get a 2nd printing going for stores. Then the announcement that Tim Kring’s Imperative Entertainment is developing MAYDAY for television has propelled this crazy little book into something even bigger. Issue 2 came out and upped the insanity on every level. This Wednesday issue #3 arrives.

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SDCC 2015: Michael Keaton to Star in and Produce Imagine Agents at Fox

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Imagine Agents TP Cover by Khary RandolphBOOM! Studios is heading into San Diego Comic-Con with a bunch of announcements leading up to the convention. For the first one, the comics publisher has revealed that Michael Keaton will star in and produce a film adaptation at 20th Century Fox of the comic series Imagine Agents, created by Brian Joines.

Written by Joines and illustrated by Bachan, Imagine Agents is the story of two agents who work for clandestine organization I.M.A.G.I.N.E. to keep kids’ imaginary friends under control. Little do they know that an abandoned “friend” from long ago is about to disrupt the status quo and turn everything upside down. The series was published from October 2013 to January 2014, with a collected edition released in December 2014.

BOOM! has a first-look feature film deal at 20th Century Fox that includes first-dollar gross on films based on any of its comics, which the publisher splits with its creators.

BOOM! Studios Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ross Richie will produce the film with Keaton and Anonymous Content’s Michael Sugar. President of Development Stephen Christy will executive produce with Anonymous Content’s Eli Selden. Senior Vice President of Film Adam Yoelin will co-produce in cooperation with Anonymous Content’s Ashley Zalta.

SDCC 2015: Funko Reveals Its Seventh Wave of Exclusives

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Funko has announced their next batch of San Diego Comic-Con exclusives! Their goal was to cover as many beloved licenses and characters as possible to remind every Comic-Con attendee why they fell in love with these stories in the first place.

In an effort to provide more of their products to Con-goers, they are NOT offering a pre-buy option this year.

Without further ado, here is the next installment of Funko’s San Diego Comic-Con exclusives list

Pop! Star Wars: Princess Leia [Boushh Unmasked]

Pop! Star Wars Princess Leia [Boushh Unmasked]

Pop! Marvel: Avengers: Age of Ultron – Grinning Ultron

Pop! Marvel Avengers Age of Ultron - Grinning Ultron

Pop! Hanna-Barbera: Lil’ Gruesome (Red)

Pop! Hanna-Barbera Lil' Gruesome (Red)

Pop! Marvel: Guardians of the Galaxy – Nova Rocket with Potted Groot

Pop! Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy - Nova Rocket with Potted Groot

ReAction: Terminator 2 – T1000 with Hook Arms

ReAction Terminator 2 - T1000 with Hook Arms

Vinyl Idolz: Ghostbusters – Marshmallowed Egon Spengler

Vinyl Idolz Ghostbusters - Marshmallowed Egon Spengler

The Doctor Is In! Doctor Strange #1 Is Coming This Fall!

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The Sorcerer Supreme returns for his first ongoing series in nearly twenty years!  And he’s making house calls! Today, Marvel announced Doctor Strange #1 – a new ongoing series from blockbuster creators Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo!

Prepare for a side of the Marvel Universe you’ve never seen before as the magical, mystical and all things weird lie at every turn. And if it’s bizarre enough, and you don’t know where to turn – call the Doctor. From inside his Sanctum Sanctorum – the strangest place in this or any universe, the Master of the Mystic Arts protects this realm from the supernatural.

A dark new power is rising. One that will have repercussions for all magic users. The threat is growing, and Strange knows he won’t be powerful enough to stop it. If he is to have any kind of hope, it will take a different kind of Sorcerer Supreme. Because all magic comes with a price, and it’s high time Stephen Strange balanced the scales.

In the release, Jason Aaron said:

None of Marvel’s other heavy hitters walk the same beat as Dr. Strange. None of them have to face the same sorts of repercussions whenever they use their powers. Being the Sorcerer Supreme is a unique responsibility. And it’s one that Stephen Strange embraces. Even though there’s no doubt that his job is one day going to leave him dead, damned or insane. So I want to celebrate all the weirdness that is Dr. Strange, while having him face a challenge unlike anything he’s ever faced before. One that rewrites the rulebook for what it means to be the Sorcerer Supreme.

The epic adventure begins this Fall as the Marvel’s mightiest magician takes a battle axe straight to evil!

DOCTOR STRANGE #1
Written by JASON AARON
Art & Cover by CHRIS BACHALO
Coming Fall 2015!

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Z2 Comics Announces Fall Graphic Novels including Ashes, Pawn Shop, The Abaddon, and Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland

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ASHESZ2 Comics announced today their fall 2015 graphic novel slate, including a reprint of one of Harvey Pekar’s final graphic novels and three graphic novels. The biggest surprise of the bunch is a new printing of Pekar’s Cleveland, one of his last graphic novels, and a love letter to his home town. It was originally published by Top Shelf in April 2012.

Check out below for the full slate of graphic novels being released.

Ashes: A Firefighter’s Tale written by Mario Candelaria with art by Karl Slominski.

(September 22, 2015; $19.99; 120 pages; black and white)

Matt always had an easygoing life. Girls liked him, his friends were more like family, and being a firefighter came naturally. Then the accident happened. Now, after the loss of his leg, Matt struggles to cope with his new handicap as he attempts to rebuild his shattered family and once budding career. A riveting tale about perseverance, hard work, and overcoming the odds, Ashes is a gripping tale told in stunning black and white.

PAWN SHOPPawn Shop written by Joey Esposito with art by Sean Von Gorman

(September 22, 2015; $19.99; 120 pages; full color)

A widower. A nurse. A punk. A Long Island Railroad employee. New York City is an ecosystem where everybody is connected, if only by the streets they walk on. This original graphic novel is the story of four people, in a city of eight million, whose lives unknowingly intersect through a Manhattan pawn shop.

Written by Joey Esposito (Footprints) and illustrated with a gorgeous mixture of watercolor and digital elements by Sean Von Gorman (Toe Tag Riot), Pawn Shop explores the big things that separate us and the little moments that inexplicably unite us.

The Abaddon written and illustrated by Koren Shadmi

(November 10, 2015; $24.99; 240 pages; full color)

cover_updatedLoosely based on Jean-Paul Sartre’s play No Exit, The Abaddon is the story of a young man who finds himself trapped in a bizarre apartment with a group of ill-matched roommates. He discovers that his new home doesn’t adhere to any rational laws of nature and comes to realize that everyone living in the apartment is missing crucial parts of their memories and identities.

Cleveland by Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant

(November DATE TK; Price TK; 128; black and white)

A lifelong resident of Cleveland, Ohio, Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) pioneered autobiographical comics, mining the mundane for magic since 1976 in his critically acclaimed series American Splendor. Legendary comic book writer Harvey Pekar’s collaboration with artist Joseph Remnant, titled Cleveland, was originally published by Top Shelf Shelf Comics and Zip Comics in 2012 and includes an introduction by Alan Moore. The book presents key moments and characters from the city’s history, intertwined with Harvey’s own ups and downs, as relayed to us by Our Man and meticulously researched and rendered by artist Joseph Remnant. At once a history of Cleveland and a portrait of Harvey, it’s a tribute to the ordinary greatness of both.

Transformers Get a Female Combiner

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Transformers VictorionIDW Publishing is wrapping up it’s event Combiner Wars in its various Transformers comic series. The event saw the return of Combiners, Transformers that connect to form a much larger robot. It brought back numerous classic Combiners like Superion and Bruticus, something fans have wanted to see for a while. It also saw the formation of new combinations, something that’s not ending with this event.

This weekend, IDW announced that Combiners are getting a bit of girl power with a new one made up of just female Transformers. Female Transformers were recently reintroduced in Transformers lore, last playing a role in the classic cartoon series. Female bots have shown up since, but it’s only been a character here and there.

In Transformers: Combiner Hunters, a one-shot follow up to the Combiner Wars event, six bots will combine to form Victorion. Writer Mairghread Scott said in the announcement this new bot will need to navigate a world of shifting alliances, imperfect heroes, and charismatic villains. Exactly what’s made IDW series so great.

The comic features the female Autobots Chromia, Windblade and Arcee meeting the new Victorion, the result of a recent Hasbro Fan Built Combiner poll designed to create a new female character for toys and comics. The characters who combine as Victorion volunteered to search for artifacts sacred to their culture and religion in the Sea of Rust, an unsettled area on the planet Cybertron that’s corrupted by toxic gases. This dangerous atmosphere corrodes armor and has unknown effects on a ‘bot’s processors and circuits.

While the exact make up of Victorion is being held tight, IDW has said that this is a bit different than others in that the six are a tight unit, and work well combined creating a more coherent and intelligent bot. The team’s alternate vehicular forms include two race cars, a pair of helicopters, a motorcycle and a rescue truck. And Victorion also differs from other Combiners not only because she’s female but she can manipulate gravity and has the ability to combine in different configurations. If the copter twins form her legs, she can fly, and when they make up her arms, Victorion can use her gravity powers as a weapon.

The next storyline is called Conquerers, and is written by Transformers editor John Barber and drawn by Combiner Hunters artist Sara Pitre-Durocher. Victorion will have an important role in that event, and the six robots will form an interesting relationship with Autobot leader Optimus Prime. Optimus is currently attempting to figure out his role in the post-war Transformers society. The current storyline features the Transformers of Cybertron on the hunt for lost Transformer colonies, and how they combine in a new society will be interesting.

(via USA Today)

David Tennant Joins Chew

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chew38_coverChew is getting a Doctor. David Tennant, who is best known as the Tenth Doctor in the BBC’s Doctor Who has joined the voice cast of Chew. The animated feature, based on the Image Comics series, created by John Layman and Rob Guillory. Robin Williams was originally going to have the role. Tennant will voice Chu’s mentor-turned-menace Mason Savoy.

The series already has a few other voices already, including Walking Dead star Steven Yeun, and Felicia Day.

Jeff Krelitz, who helmed the animated Torchwood: Web of Lies and Peter Panzerfaust, is directing the project. He is also producing with David Boxenbaum via Heavy Metal, the duo’s multimedia company.

The series is about Tony Chu who’s a cop with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means he’s a hell of a detective, as long as he doesn’t mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. It’s a dirty job, and Tony has to eat terrible things in the name of justice. And if that wasn’t bad enough, the government has figured out Tony Chu’s secret. They have plans for him, whether he likes it or not.

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