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Dark Horse Announces a Deal with MST3K for Comics and More

Join Dark Horse in a robot roll call: “Cambot, Servo, Gypsy, Crow!” The comic publisher has announced a new partnership with the popular entertainment brand and cult-hit comedy series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K), which is slated to include a brand-new comic series as well as a variety of Dark Horse–designed products.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 follows the motley crew of a human host and his two robot sidekicks aboard the Satellite of Love. The hapless host, trapped by mad scientists on a satellite in space, is forced to watch some of the most outrageously unfortunate B movies ever created. To keep sane, he’s built two robot sidekicks, and together they do a running commentary on the films, affectionately mocking their flaws with inspired wisecracks and acting as a demented movie theater peanut gallery.

To prove that there is still an audience out there, cocreator Joel Hodgson started the MST3K Revival Kickstarter, which resulted in an astonishing combined total of $6,364,229 allotted for new episodes and other licensed merchandise. Dark Horse is one of a number of licensees to sign on for the MST3K consumer products program.

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Fashion Spotlight: Kong Comics, Choose Your Belcher, Gravity Poetry

Ript Apparel has three new designs! Kong Comics, Choose Your Belcher, and Gravity Poetry, by MitchLudwig, alex.pawlicki, and Obvian are on sale today only! Get them before they’re gone!

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Around the Tubes

tws_cv1_dsIt was new comic book day yesterday. What’d you get? What’s you like? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you decide on that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Around the Tubes

The Beat – Breaking news: only 30% of the news on comics news sites is actually about comics – And we’re about 70%.

TechCrunch – Pixar offers free online lessons in storytelling via Khan Academy – This is pretty cool and if you want some storytelling tips, they are some of the best at it.

Arizona State University – The rise of graphic novels – This is a pretty cool event.

Newsarama – Coming Soon: DC Comics Commercials In Movie Theaters – About time. We pitched this idea years ago.

The Comichron – Exclusive: Comichron’s provisional Direct Market comics sales rankings and market shares for 2016 – Some interesting initial data.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

Newsarama – Batwoman: Rebirth #1

Newsarama – Daredevil #17

Talking Comics – Deathstroke #12

Atomic Junk Shop – Doctor Crowe #1

Comic Attack – Horizon #8

Newsarama – The Wild Storm #1

Preview: The Wild Storm #1

The Wild Storm #1

(W) Warren Ellis (A/CA) Jon Davis-Hunt
RATED T+
In Shops: Feb 15, 2017
SRP: $3.99

A troubled woman, barred by her employer from continuing her research, walks miserably through New York City. It takes her a moment to notice that everybody else is looking up. A man has been thrown from the upper floor of the Halo skyscraper.

And that woman-Angela Spica, sick from the transhuman implants she’s buried in her own body-is the only person who can save him.

What she doesn’t know is that the act of saving that one man will tip over a vast and secret house of cards that encloses the entire world, if not the inner solar system. This is how the Wild Storm begins, and it may destroy covert power structures, secret space programs and even all of human history.

New York Times best-selling writer Warren Ellis (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, RED, PLANETARY) returns to DC to curate Jim Lee’s WildStorm world, with this debut issue resetting the WildStorm universe with new iterations of Grifter, Voodoo, the Engineer, Jenny Sparks and others.

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Preview: Doctor Strange #1.MU

Doctor Strange #1.MU

(W) Chip Zdarsky (A) Julian Lopez (CA) Chip Zdarsky
Rated T+
In Shops: Feb 15, 2017
SRP: $4.99

A MONSTERS UNLEASHED TIE-IN!

Doctor Strange gets sucked into the monster event of the year! Too bad for the Marvel Universe that Strange is at his lowest power levels. What’s a Sorcerer Supreme to do?

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Preview: James Bond: Hammerhead #5

James Bond: Hammerhead #5

writer: Andy Diggle
artist: Luca Casalanguida
cover: Francesco Francavilla
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+

Kraken’s trap is sprung—and M and Moneypenny are caught in its jaws! As the Royal Navy moves in to retaliate, James Bond leads a covert Special Boat Squadron unit on a suicide mission to infiltrate a nuclear reprocessing facility. But time is running out. The nukes are flying, and death is only a trigger-pull away…

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Preview: Archie #17

ARCHIE #17

Script: Mark Waid
Art: Joe Eisma, Andre Szymanowicz, Jack Morelli
Cover: Joe Eisma
Variant Cover: Aaron Lopresti, Tula Lotay
On Sale Date: 2/15
32-page, full color comic
$3.99 U.S.

Cheryl Blossom’s unleashed on Riverdale, creating chaos and tumult at her whim! Only Veronica can stop her—but how will she get back from her Swiss boarding school in time to save her friends?

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Preview: Peter David’s Artful #3

PETER DAVID’S ARTFUL #3

Writer:  Adapted by Nicole D’Andria from the Peter David novel
Artist Name: Laura Neubert
Cover Artist(s): Laura Neubert
32 pgs./ A / FC
$3.99 (reg.), $4.99 (var.)

The adaptation of award winning author and comics legend Peter David’s novel Artful continues! This issue of the Oliver Twist spin-off has a princess, a wax museum and vampires. Dodger and Bram must rescue Drina from Fagin and his horde of vampires. Will they succeed? With a little help from a surprise source, they just might…

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Preview: Kong of Skull Island #8

Kong of Skull Island #8

Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Writer: James Asmus
Artist: Carlos Magno
Cover Artist: Nick Robles
Price: $3.99

It’s Kong vs. Kong as they tear through Skull Island, fighting to the death.

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