Star Wars #1 Sells Out In 24 Hours!

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The critically acclaimed and highly anticipated Star Wars #1, written by Brian Wood, has officially sold out of its first printing and will be going for a second run next month!

Set in the classic era with classic characters, this all-new Star Wars features artist Carlos D’Anda with covers by the legendary Alex Ross. The initial print run of this smash-hit issue came complete with a download code for a free digital issue of the comic through Dark Horse Digital.

You can read our review here!

While a second printing is in the works, hurry now to your local comics retailer and grab a copy from the first print run before they’re gone for good!

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Preview – Freelancers #3

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Freelancers #3

Art Joshua Covey
SC, 32pgs, FC, SRP: $1.00
COVER A: PHIL NOTO
COVER B: FELIPE SMITH
Diamond Code: SEP12 0885

Val and Cass’ search for their former instructor puts them on a collision course with the woman at the top of the Freelancer chain, Kathy Rushmore. Our heroines are outgunned and out of cash, but they literally can’t afford to fail. The fight that began way back at the Kung Fu orphanage spills out into the streets of L.A.!

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Review – Image’s The End Times of Bram & Ben #1 and Repossessed #1

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The End Times of Bram & Ben #1

endtimes01_coverWhat would you do if you were caught in the Biblical End Times? When Heaven raptures total bastard Bram Carlson in a “clerical error” – he’s sent back and immediately uses Armageddon to his benefit! Can his anxious roommate Ben save Bram from himself – AND the gathering forces of Armageddon?

Maybe it was because of the cover (though not sure why), but I went in to reading this new comic series from Image Comics with low expectations. Boy was I off on that one. I walked away having laughed almost the entire time and looking forward to what might one of the funniest series to come out in a while.

The series reminded me a lot of Chew in both it’s tone and look. That’s a huge compliment as Chew is one of my favorite series. The humor, the writing, the characters, it’s fantastic. My only issue at all is you’d think there’d be more chaos if this happened with people running amok.

But, again, the humor here is a draw. There’s few comics I’ve read in the last year where I’ve laughed this hard. This is truly a case of don’t judge a book by it’s cover. Do yourself a favor and buy this one this week.

Story: James Asmus and Jim Festante Art: Rem Broo Cover By: Jim Mahfood

Story: 9 Art: 9 Overall: 9 Recommendation: Buy

Repossessed #1

repossessed01_coverIn a world where Demon possessions are commonplace it’s up to a crew of overworked blue-collar repo guys to repossess the victims with old grimoires and big guns. The Dee Agency is hired by a rich NYC banker to repossess his daughter Sarah who ran away to Vegas. But the job is tougher than they expected and Demons of all sorts start popping up on the trail.

Take Ghostbusters and mix it with Hoax Hunters and you get this series. An action fueled comic that has three folks kicking demonic ass. The series was pretty solid and entertaining and this seems like it’ll wind up being an entertaining mini-series as it plays out.

I definitely like the characters and where the series will go, but overall I have a feeling this one might read better in one sitting (not a bad thing, some comics and stories are like that).

If you like Ghostbusters or Hoax Hunters, definitely check out this series. It’s a solid addition to their brand of entertainment.

Story and Art: JM Ringuet

Story: 7.5 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7.5 Recommendation: Read

Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Skullkickers gets “Mighty”

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BEST PRESS RELEASE THIS WEEK! – Brett

This April, Image Comics invites readers to keep jumping on board action and adventure with a big ol’ adjective shuffle in – The Mighty Skullkickers! Continuing their needling of a certain publisher.

“After twenty issues of critically-acclaimed bone-busting adventure, we felt it was important to re-remind retailers and readers that Skullkickers is the most enjoyable adventure series in the whole crazy comic industry,” said Image PR and Marketing Director Jennifer de Guzman. “And when you need people to take notice, you reboot that $#%@ just like the big boys do.”

Mighty Skullkickers #1, written by commercial sell-out Jim Zub and drawn by the young and impressionable Edwin Huang, continues the epic six-arc Skullkickers storyline. It’s good stuff. Really good. Tell your friends.

“Some jokes get funnier with time. Some adjectives describe a concept perfectly. When we sat down and discussed the ideas at the heart of Skullkickers, we realized all along it should have been called ‘Mighty’” says series creator Jim Zub. “Also, sales. Dirty, dirty sales.”

If you’re a diehard collector of Skullkickers who’s sad that you won’t have a Skullkickers #21 to add to your collection? Don’t worry, we’ve thought of everything. In addition to the regular “Mighty” cover we’re offering a special “issue #21 variant” B cover to make sure your collector streak is unbroken.

It’s back. It never left. It’s a restart that continues right where it left off. Mighty Skullkickers #1 will be available wherever kick-ass comics are sold on April 24! Pre-order it now from the February issue of Previews.

Charles Soule Officially Announced on Swamp Thing

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Friend of the site Charles Soule has been announced as the new writer on Swamp Thing starting with issue nineteen. Art will be provided by Kano. Soule might be a newcomer to DC Comics but he’s the excellent of 27, Strongman, the upcoming Strange Attractors from Archaia, and Mankind: The Story of All of Us.

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Around the Tubes

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The weekend is here! I’m spending it catching up on comics and doing a bit of organizing. What’s everyone got on their schedule?

Around the Tubes

Bleeding Cool – Phoenix Jones Is Recruiting – But Clark Kent Or Peter Parker Need Not Apply – Do you get dental with that?

CBR – Telltale Games Shuffles Into 2013 With More “Walking Dead” – MOAR!

Kotaku – Comic Books’ Disastrous Self-Censorship Offers a Lesson for Games Publishers, Too – Best to not repeat the past.

 

Around the Tubes Reviews

Comicvine – Alpha: Big Time #1

ComicsAliiance – Star Wars #1

Talking Comics – Sweet Tooth #40

CBR – Thor: God of Thunder #4

The Beat – The Beat Reviews for 09/0113: Ghosts Galore

Bluewater’s New Releases – 1/9/13

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Bluewater has done something new and unique this week.  The publisher has teamed up with comiXology to bring an exclusive winter cover from the new all ages Polka Spot comic book from this season’s Amazing Race winners, the “Beekman Boys”.

Also the comic you love to hate – 15 Minutes: Honey Boo Boo will be getting 4 exclusive homage covers of Supergirl and Wonder Woman.  ITunes, Kindle, My Digital Comics and Wowio will have a brand new cover featuring the tiny tot in these classic covers.  This is the 1st time a comic book company has distributed exclusive covers to different platforms.

Legend of Isis: Flight of Horus #3

Writer: Kenton Daniels
Artist: André Araújo and Jossie Lara

As the epic battle between Isis and Horus unfolds, the baleful enemies find themselves struggling for victory on the scorching sands of the Afterlife.  The diabolical Set springs his lethal trap, but not before Horus makes a most unexpected decision.

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Wrath of the Titans #1

Writer: Scott Davis & Darren G. Davis
Artist: Nadir Balan

Five years have passed since the legendary Perseus defeated the evil Gorgon Medusa, killed the Kraken, and assumed the crown of Argos. Things seemed idyllic throughout the kingdom and the news of an heir put the citizens in a celebratory mood. Yet lurking in the shadows is the one being in Argos simmering with hate and discontent. Hades and looks to take his revenge on the Pretender and his family, once though dead, let Calibus, out of the Underworld. Perseus stole his bride, stole his position, stole Zeus’ favor, and stole his life and now Calibus looks to take it all back. And with the news that a baby boy was born to Perseus and Andromeda, he is chilling that dish of revenge.

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Wrath of the Titans #0

Writer: Scott Davis & Darren G. Davis
Artist: Nadir Balan

Check out the series that started it all. Five years have passed since the legendary Perseus defeated the evil Gorgon Medusa, killed the Kraken, and assumed the crown of Argos. This special edition has never before seen images and character designs from the series.

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Ray Harryhausen Presents: 20 Million Miles More #1

Writer: Scott Davis & Darren G. Davis
Artist: Alex Garcia

The classic Ray Harryhausen sci-fi epic re-imagines it for a new generation. It’s been 50 years since the strange being from Venus rampaged through Italy. So it has been 50 years of secrets, misinformation, and outright lying. Once the world was convinced that the Ymir was a giant hoax and the mission to Venus never happened, it was lulled back to sleep, ignorant of the truth. But no one counted on genetics. Years of secret testing and breakthroughs in many of the gray areas of science created unintended consequences that could bring the Earth to its knees… and only an 11-year-old child can save it.

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Gearz #1

Writers: Dan Rafter
Artist: Thiago Silva

From the creator of the 10th Muse comes the newest female group of unlikely heroes. Lonely high-schooler Karen Miller just wanted a dog. Instead, she got three of the most powerful, deadliest and hippest robot bodyguards to hit the sleepy town of Westville. The good news? Karen’s three robots –quickly become her best friends. The bad news? Someone very high up, Oval Office high up, wants those robots back. And he won’t stop at anything. Can an ordinary, if slightly unpopular, teen survive killer robots, super-powered school custodians, snotty classmates, chemically boosted monsters and hooded assassins while staying on track to become class valedictorian? Karen Miller’s about to find out.

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Styx & Stone collected edition

Writers: Adam Gragg & Darren G. Davis
Artist: Stefano Caselli
From Arcana Comics

Who knows what darkness lies in the heart of men? Detective Melvyn Stone, that’s who. After a mandatory sabbatical in South Africa, Detective Stone returns to duty, but this time, he’s sharing his body with the ghost of a career criminal! As Mel tries to re-acclimate to the life of a cop, the mysterious and unusual murder of a popular college football player slowly begins to open the door to a Nether-world only found in his darkest nightmares. Joined by the ghostly James Wyatt and his new partner, Detective Claire Sanchez, Mel begins to realize the strange journey he is now on. How is he and James linked? What happened to him while he was in South Africa? And what is the significance of the River Styx? This special edition has never before seen images and character designs from the series.

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Baneberry Creek: Academy for Wayward Fairies collected edition

Writer: CW Cooke
Artist: René León
From Arcana Comics

Welcome to Baneberry Academy! This is a school not unlike your own, full of cliques of like-minded individuals. But there is one thing that makes this Academy quite a bit different, it’s full of fairies! That’s right, the winged creatures you believed were a myth are in fact real and those that have fallen by the wayside have made their way here. It’s a new semester at Baneberry and that means there will be new faces. Come meet the new students and staff at Baneberry Academy for Wayward Fairies!

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The Beekman Boys Present: Polka Spot my life in Pictures #1

Writers: Brent Ridge, Darren G. Davis & Michael Troy
Artist: Bernat

Also a special edition exclusive now available at ComiXology. From the popular TV series from Planet Green, “The Fabulous Beekman Boys,” and Martha Stewart’s former right hand man, Brent Ridge, comes America’s favorite Diva Llama, “Polka Spot.” In this new animated comic adventure from Bluewater Productions, the nation’s favorite Drama Llama takes over the fashion industry and gets into a heap of fun trouble doing it in a fun all ages, action adventure comedy.

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15 Minutes: Honey Boo Boo (Supergirl and Wonder Woman homage versions)

Writers: Michael Troy
Artist: Michael Troy

New exclusive homage covers for ITunes, Kindle, My Digital Comics and Wowio feature the tiny tot as Supergirl and Wonder Woman!  This comic book was featured on the National Enquirer. You better redneckomitize!    Bluewater Productions continues it’s examination of the under belly of FAME  in the second installment of their new “15 Minutes” biography comics line that focuses on the stars of reality television.  Alana Mitchell better known to the world at large as pint sized pageant queen “Honey Boo Boo.  Join writer/artist Michael Troy as we uncover Honey Boo Boo’s rise to FAME from her breakout appearance’s on Toddlers and Tiara’s to landing her very own reality series. Discover  why self-named Honey Boo Boo has garnered the attention, if not the hearts from Anderson Cooper to The White House.

You can download these titles on Wowio, Comixology, DriveThru Comics, Google Play, My Digital Comics, Overdrive, Iverse, PanelFly, iTunes, Kindle, Wowio, Nook, Kobo and wherever eBooks are sold.

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This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For – White House Responds to Death Star Request

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Through their petition system “We the People,” 34,435 people requested the White House and President Obama put in an effort to fund and build a Death Star. “We the People” has rules, such as if a petition gets 25,000 signatures, a White House official will respond. In a post entitled “This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For” Paul Shawcross, the Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, got that honor. Here’s the post in full:

Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.

This Isn’t the Petition Response You’re Looking For

By Paul Shawcross

The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn’t on the horizon. Here are a few reasons:

  • The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. We’re working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it.
  • The Administration does not support blowing up planets.
  • Why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a Death Star with a fundamental flaw that can be exploited by a one-man starship?

However, look carefully (here’s how) and you’ll notice something already floating in the sky — that’s no Moon, it’s a Space Station! Yes, we already have a giant, football field-sized International Space Station in orbit around the Earth that’s helping us learn how humans can live and thrive in space for long durations. The Space Station has six astronauts — American, Russian, and Canadian — living in it right now, conducting research, learning how to live and work in space over long periods of time, routinely welcoming visiting spacecraft and repairing onboard garbage mashers, etc. We’ve also got two robot science labs — one wielding a laser — roving around Mars, looking at whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.

Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Private American companies, through NASA’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO), are ferrying cargo — and soon, crew — to space for NASA, and are pursuing human missions to the Moon this decade.

Even though the United States doesn’t have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we’ve got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we’re building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun. We are discovering hundreds of new planets in other star systems and building a much more powerful successor to the Hubble Space Telescope that will see back to the early days of the universe.

We don’t have a Death Star, but we do have floating robot assistants on the Space Station, a President who knows his way around a light saber and advanced (marshmallow) cannon, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is supporting research on building Luke’s arm, floating droids, and quadruped walkers.

We are living in the future! Enjoy it. Or better yet, help build it by pursuing a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field. The President has held the first-ever White House science fairs and Astronomy Night on the South Lawn because he knows these domains are critical to our country’s future, and to ensuring the United States continues leading the world in doing big things.

If you do pursue a career in a science, technology, engineering or math-related field, the Force will be with us! Remember, the Death Star’s power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Paul Shawcross is Chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget

Preview – Eternity Kill TP

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ETERNITY KILL TP

88 pages FC  •  $12.99  •  Teen +
Written by Grant Calof  •
Art by Siddharth Kotian, Edison George
Cover by Edison George

Natural disasters are woven into humankind’s collective DNA. From the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh to the Book of Revelation, apocalyptic literature has permeated every chapter of humankind. But what if those disasters weren’t natural? What if those events were man-made? With a best-seller, a bottomless bank account, and a bombshell girlfriend, reclusive author / adventurer Kain Sennoa is the portrait of modern-day success — but he hides a dark, eternal secret no one knows… at least no one on Earth. Unbeknownst to humankind, an off-world war has raged between two immortal races to control our solar system — a millennia long battle that will finally come to an end here on Earth. As a super-human assassin closes in on the last survivors of an ancient, elemental race, Kain is forced to choose between revealing his true past, or sacrificing the woman he loves!

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