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Review: Superman/Wonder Woman #1

superman wonder woman #1 coverSuperman/Wonder Woman #1 begins a bold new series that details the relationship between The Man of Steel and the Warrior Princess as rising star writer Charles Soule is joined by fan favorite artist Tony S. Daniel to tell the tale of a romance that will shake the stars themselves. These two super-beings love each other, but not everyone shares their joy. Some fear it, some test it—and some will try to kill for it. Some say love is a battlefield, but where Superman and Wonder Woman are concerned it spells Doomsday!

When I first heard about the launch of this series, all I could say was “huh.” Some descriptions later, I scratched my head as to what to expect. What the talented Soule pulls off is a first issue that balances the human and super sides of these two characters and that’s exactly what I hoped this series would be.

Superman/Wonder Woman has a dual role, showing these two titans in their complicated life. The tone right off is fun and epic at the same time throwing the two against a villain that’ll amp up the excitement even more for the second issue.

In between the action sequences we get quieter moments of the two characters interacting with friends, and eventually each other, that adds and define who they are and more about their relationship. Too often other writers have focused on the super and not enough of the human, Soule nails the careful balance between the two.

This issue features an amazing wraparound gatefold cover that opens up to a triptych with Superman and Wonder Woman in the center and that kicks off Daniel’s excellent art. Not only does he capture the characters in both quiet and action sequences, but also uses angles and panels in an interesting way that captures the vibe of each moment. We see the two in the beginning peacefully flying through the air, with the dark clouds underneath, the tone of what we’ve been promised we can expect going forward.

Overall, just in this first issue Soule has made me understand the relationship between these characters much better and given us a hint as to what they might see in each other, and offer each other. In the first issue he’s given us some solid action mixed with humanizing interaction. Soule is adding depth to characters that can both use some in their other series. These are depictions of these characters I can enjoy and he’s got me hooked to see what’s in store next.

Story: Charles Soule Art : Tony S. Daniel
Story: 8.25 Art: 8 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy

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NYCC 2013: Dynamite Brings Doodle Jump to Comics

Dynamite Entertainment announced their agreement with Lima Sky to produce original comics based on the hugely popular game Doodle Jump, as well as an art book collecting production artwork, behind-the-scenes art and photos, and other information on the making of the Doodle Jump property.

Doodle Jump launched in 2009, and quickly rose to the top of the charts.  It is the #3 all-time top paid app, and has been a top 25 app title for over three years.  It is available on more than 3,000 mobile handheld models globally, with hundreds of millions of downloads and updates.  It is also the winner of the Apple Design Award for excellence in design, user experience, and quality.

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NYCC 2013: Join Amazon Publishing, 47North, Jet City Comics and Skyscape

Join Amazon Publishing’s 47North, Jet City Comics, and Skyscape imprints, booth #2022, at New York Comic Con!  Meet their authors, take a sneak peak at the first titles out from Jet City Comics, and check out the best in new and upcoming fantasy, horror, SF and comics.

Each day the booth will host author signings including comics’ stars Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti; YA fan favorites Susan Ee and Sarah Fine; SF bestsellers Evan Currie and Christian Cantrell; Urban Fantasy newcomers Dana Cameron and Jack Horn; and 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award winner Rysa Walker.  Complete schedule below:

IN-BOOTH SIGNINGS

Friday, October 11

12:00-1:00pm Evan Currie signing SEAL TEAM 13

3:00-4:00pm Dana Cameron signing SEVEN KINDS OF HELL

5:00-6:00pm Sarah Fine signing SANCTUM

Saturday, October 12

12:00-1:00pm Jack Horn signing THE LINE

2:00-3:00pm Susan Ee signing ANGELFALL

3:30-4:30pm Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti signing prints of WOOL graphic novel

5:00-6:00pm Christian Cantrell signing KINGMAKER

Sunday, October 13

12:00-1:00pm Rysa Walker signing TIMEBOUND

There will also be giveaways throughout each day at the booth.

NYCC 2013: Dark Horse Releases Mandala Digitally!

New York Comic Con opens its doors to the public tomorrow, but Dark Horse is keeping the announcements coming! Today, Dark Horse premieres Mandala, an upcoming original graphic novel written by Stuart Moore, with art by Bruce Zick!

The earth—here and now. Humankind is secretly enslaved by a global mind-control cage called the GRID. Mike Morningstar and his spiritual spec-ops unit, known as “The Thirteen,” must alter time and take down the GRID before it’s too late. As fiction meets reality, the Thirteen need your help if they are to succeed in awakening humanity and changing the future. Are you awake?

To read the first chapter of Mandala for only $2.99, visit Digital.DarkHorse.com—and make sure to stop by booth #1175 this weekend, where Stuart and Bruce will be signing throughout the show!

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NYCC 2013: The Future of Marvel Television Unveiled

You love watching the Marvel Universe on Disney XD every Sunday. Now find out what’s next for your favorite animated series exclusively during the Marvel Television Presents panel at New York Comic Con! Join Marvel’s Head of Television, Jeph Loeb on Friday, October 11th at 12:15pm ET in Room 1A06 to experience never-before-seen episodes of Marvel’s Avengers Assemble and Marvel’s Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.! That’s right, you can be one of the first to see all new episodes featuring your favorite Marvel Super Heroes. This panel brings together fans of all-ages to learn about how families can Share Your Universe like never before with exciting news straight from the House of Ideas.

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IDW Publishing Previews: 10/9/13

The Colonized

Chris Ryall (w) • Drew Moss (a) • Francesco Francavilla (c)

A spaceship crashes into a separatist camp and manages to reanimate the dead! Now, cut off from any military aid, it’s Aliens vs. Zombies vs. Militiamen in a carnage-filled tale from the writer/creator of Zombies vs Robots!

TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-735-0

Danger Girl: Trinity

Andy Hartnell (w) • John Royle, Stephen Molnar, Harvey Tolibao (a) • J. Scott Campbell (c)

It’s three times the ACTION, three times the THRILLS, and three times the DANGER!!! Abbey, Sydney, and Sonya embark on three different knuckle-clenching adventures, each an epic tale of intrigue and derring-do, and each drawn by a different fantastic artist.

TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-736-7

Ghostbusters #8

Erik Burnham (w) • Evan “Doc” Shaner (a) Claire Hummel (c)

The Ghostbusters have their hands full in this issue! Kylie, Peter, and Ray have boarded the John Milton to meet its restless captain — the stubborn spirit of a teenager who was lost at sea in the ship’s original sinking!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

G.I. Joe: Special Missions #8

Chuck Dixon (w) • S L Gallant (a) • Paul Gulacy, Gallant (c)

A peace-promoting diplomat is gunned down and barely escapes with his life. The world watches as the man lies at death’s door in a high security facility. COBRA is watching as well and mounts an all-out cyber-assault to take their target down once and for all. Mainframe and Dial-Tone are the last line of defense in a deadly chess game with COBRA’s entire cyber-war division. The Joes pray for peace but program for war in DENIAL OF SERVICE!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

G.I. JOE: Special Missions, Vol. 1

Chuck Dixon (w) • Paul Gulacy (a) • Sean Chen (c)

The legendary team of Chuck Dixon and Paul Gulacy lead the G.I. Joe team undercover and into action! The BARONESS tries to get back into COBRA’s good graces—and it’s up to SCARLETT to assemble a team to take the villainess down!

TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-737-4

Jinnrise, Vol. 1

Sohaib Awan & Tom Taylor (w) • Tony Vassallo, Mark Torres, Andrew Huerta (a) • Tony Vassallo (c)

International student Andrew Marcus’ world is torn asunder when interstellar forces, the “Kibrani,” invade earth. With all hope seemingly lost, humanity’s last chance may be a long-despised and forgotten race: the Jinn (otherwise known as “genies”)! But are they our hope… or greatest fear? Combining the best of summer blockbuster fare and quest myths like Lord of the Rings, Jinnrise is a modern re-introduction to global myth.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 124 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-752-7

Judge Dredd #11

Duane Swierczynski (w) • Nelson Daniel (a & c)

Into the Cursed Earth,” part 3—It’s tough living in irradiated flyover country. But it’s even tougher to fight your way through it—especially when a mutant hillbilly gang is after your Lawgiver, your Land Raider, and your multi-eyed precog partner, and well… your hide. (“It’s almost supper time, Paw!”) And what that’s rumbling in the hills? Something 250 million years old, and just itching for a comeback?

Judge Dredd’s nightmare road trip to save the soul(s) of Mega-City One continues here! Don’t miss out, creep!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Kill Shakespeare, Vol. 3: The Tide of Blood

Conor McCreery & Anthony Del Col (w) • Andy Belanger (a & c)

With Richard III and Lady Macbeth defeated, Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, and Romeo face an even greater danger—Prospero, a rogue wizard who plans to destroy all of creation. Hamlet must embark on a perilous journey to a remote island whose inhabitants have gone mad and want the Dane’s blood… if they aren’t beaten to the chase by one of Hamlet’s allies.

TPB • FC • $19.99 • 140 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-732-9

KISS Kids #2 (of 4)

Chris Ryall, Tom Waltz (w) • Jose Holder (a & c)

It’s Back to School time for the Kiss Kids! The Kids try to navigate new school clothes, science fairs, and evil doppelganger robots, among other hurdles to rockin’ all night and partyin’ (after nap-time) all day…

 FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Magic: The Gathering Ongoing #1

Jason Ciaramella (w) • Martin Coccolo (a) • Eric Deschamps (c)

DACK FAYDEN RETURNS! After eliminating Sifa Grent, the Planeswalker that destroyed his hometown, Dack has settled down in Ravnica to do what he does best: break in and steal the secrets from Ravnica’s rarest artifacts. But upon uncovering the half of a strange gauntlet, Dack is led to a strange new plane: the realm of THEROS, a sun-dappled ruled by gods and inhabited by mythological beasts!

FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Mars Attacks Judge Dredd #2 (of 4)

Al Ewing (w) • John McCrea (a) • Greg Staples (c)

The Martian mayhem continues in Mega-City One! It’s all-out gang war as the Martians help muscle in on as much territory as possible. Meanwhile, Dredd brings in one of the Mafia dons for interrogation, and what Judge Anderson discovers sends chills down her spine. And what’s inside the mysterious sphere found in the Mafia nightclub?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Memory Collectors #1 (of 3)

 menton3 (w & a & c)

Three jaded fetish models are unexpectedly thrown into a violent world and made to confront a horrible and unperceived truth: Hidden among us are entities that feed on the very thing we hold most sacred, our memories. No longer content with their lives as hunted cattle, they become the hunters.

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

My Little Pony: The Magic Begins

Various (w & a & c)

The celebrated animated series comes to book shelves! Revisit the habitants of Equestria and learn about the magic that friendship brings in this adaptation of the television series.

TPB • FC • $7.99 • 112 pages • 5” x 7” • ISBN 978-1-61377-754-1

Popeye Classics #15

Bud Sagendorf (w & a & c)

“I want to personally thank everyone for the TREMENDOUS response to our Bud Sagendorf Popeye reprints. The many emails I’ve received from the fans and the high praise from the critics are so exciting! Sagendorf is getting his due and being compared to Carl Barks and John Stanley. And who doesn’t love POPEYE?! Now this issue is one of my favesI loved it when Bud took Popeye out west. Plus I love the extra feature pages Bud drew for this ish! You will, too! Thanks again Popeye fans!” Craig Yoe

FC • 52 pages • $3.99

Transformers Classics, Vol. 6

Simon Furman (w) • Jose Delbo, Geoff Senior, Dwayne Turner & Andrew Wildman (a) • Guido Guidi (c)

The historic comic book roots of THE TRANSFORMERS are re-presented for maximum Cybertronian enjoyment. Freshly re-mastered and re-colored, these stories are accompanied by an in-depth introduction as well as select issue notes by Mark W. Bellomo.

TPB • FC • $24.99 • 284 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-764-0

Transformers: Robots in Disguise #21

John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith and Livio Ramondelli (a) • Griffith, Casey Coller (c)

SHOCKPOINT! In the wastelands of CYBERTRON, SHOCKWAVE makes his move—and SOUNDWAVE and the DECEPTICONS step up to stop him! While the battle of the century rocks the ancient ruins of the Crystal City, dig back into the history of these titanic rivals!

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Triple Helix #1 (of 4)

 John Byrne (w & a & c)

Where TRIO stopped, HELIX starts! There’s a MONSTER on the loose in the City… but will the mysterious CHANGELINGS of TRIPLE HELIX destroy it before they realize it’s really an old FRIEND?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Preview: Six Gun Gorilla #5

Six Gun Gorilla #5

Written by Simon Spurrier
Drawn by Jeff Stokely
SC, 32pgs, FC, SRP: $3.99
Diamond Code: MAY13 0940

Following their harrowing confrontation with Auchenbran’s corpse army, Six-Gun Gorilla and Blue retreat into the wilderness in hopes of finding the natives of the Blister — weird, abstract creatures that may hold the key to Blue’s ultimate quest to return the “locket”…

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Preview: Red Sonja #4

RED SONJA #4

Gail Simone (w)
Walter Geovani (a)
Jenny Frison, Ming Doyle (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
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Red Sonja is just inches from death, when voices from the past call her away from digging her own grave, to fight possibly the last battle of her life, against the woman who taught her everything she knows about combat! With special variant cover by guest-star Ming Doyle.

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