Epic Snowball Fight For Freedom Begins – National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

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Epic Snowball Fight For Freedom Begins

Comic Creators Participate in National Human Trafficking Awareness Day

(December 1, 2011, Columbus OH) Comic Creators For Freedom announced today that the prep work for their third annual fundraiser against Human Trafficking Awareness has begun. Each year comic creators (web and print) collaborate to create an image that is available in both digital and print formats. This year’s theme is the “Epic Snowball Fight”. Poster prints will be available from all three fundraising campaigns. As always, the image will be available digitally in exchange for donations.  The donation drive starts on January 9th to coincide with National Human Trafficking Awareness Day which is January 11, 2012. The drive ends Friday January 20, 2012. The official website for the drive is www.comiccreatorsforfreedom.com. Artists who wish to participate must submit artwork by the end of the year and can contact organizer Lora Innes at comics4freedom@gmail.com.This years returning artists already include  Danielle Corsetto (Girls with Slingshots), Crystal Yates (Earthsong), Scott Christian Sava (The Dreamland Chronicles), and Thom Zahler (Love and Capes).  

This annual drive has raised over $15,000 to the cause with over 100+ creators helping in the event. Organizer and award winning creator, Lora Innes states, “ Human Trafficking has reached seriously dangerous proportions and it is one of the top 3 crimes globally falling right under drugs and guns. 80% of victims are women and 50% are kids.  This is movie level evil and it’s happening right now. Comics are often about heroes of all shapes and sizes and the ordinary person doing the extraordinary.  Be the hero in this and participate in the drive.”

A special podcast for the event is available at http://tgtmedia.com/podcast/ep193-comiccreatorsforfreedom/. 100% of donations are being split between Love 146 (www.love146.org) and Grace Haven House (www.gracehavenhouse.org).

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Get Killed in the 2nd Story Arc of The Strain!

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The plague is coming and we want to know how you will survive.
Win a chance to get killed in the 2nd Story Arc of The Strain!

We’re making preparations for the coming infestation, storing food, comics and weapons. The Strain #1 is on its way, infecting comic shops on Dec. 14th. And here’s a little contest to get you excited for the comics from Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, David Lapham and Mike Huddleston.

We want to hear how you will survive the vampire plague. In the comments below give us at least a 200 word description of how you plan to survive the coming epidemic. What supplies will you need? Where would you go to hide? Who would be with you? What weapons would you need? Give us all the details, we need help figuring out how we’d survive.

Official Rules:

1. Post a comment of at least 200 words on the Dark Horse Blog (http://www.darkhorse.com/Blog/741/strain-survive-plague-contest) by 11:59p.m. PT on Sunday Dec. 4th, 2011 and describe how you plan to survive the coming plague.

2. Come back next week as we post the top 5 Survival Tales, once per day through Dec. 9th.

3. Starting Dec. 9th. come back to the blog and Vote for the best Survival Plan Through Dec. 13th.

***We’ll post the winner on Dec. 14th, the release date of The Strain #1

The Winner of this contest will have their likeness drawn into one of The Strain arc two comics to be killed by a Vampire. We will finalize details with the winner individually.

The fine print: No purchase necessary. One online entry per person (one e-mail address per person/address). You must be eighteen years of age or older to enter. Contest entries only accepted if they are submitted by 11:59p.m. (PDT), Dec. 4th, 2011, to be eligible. Winner will be selected based upon the quality of submitted comments (as determined at Dark Horse’s sole discretion) from all applicable entries and will be notified by Dec. 13th, 2011. Entry becomes the property of Dark Horse upon receipt. Entry constitutes agreement by winners to be publicized and permission to use each winner’s name for the purposes of promotion of the Contest without further compensation. Contest void where prohibited. Odds of winning dependent on number of entrants.

Your First Look At Scarlet Spider #1!

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Your First Look At SCARLET SPIDER #1!

Get ready for a new brand of web-slinging action in your first look at Scarlet Spider #1! From the red-hot creative team of Chris Yost & Ryan Stegman, Kaine – the all-new Scarlet Spider – finds himself on the run  in Texas after saving New York City from becoming the world’s largest spider nest during Spider-Island. But when his escape is stopped by a super-powered crime syndicate, Kaine must put an end to their corruption the only way he knows how…violently.

“Scarlet Spider is a book that can deal with a character much like Peter Parker but at darker, more difficult place in his life,” said Stephen Wacker, Marvel Senior Editor. “The violent choices he’s made through years of struggle—the sins of youth, so to speak—have come at a brutal cost. He may hope that the things he’s done will be left to the dusty, yellowed pages of history, but someone ALWAYS remembers who you used to be.”

Redefining power & responsibility, no fan can miss the brutal debut of Scarlet Spider #1 hitting comic shops everywhere, this January.

SCARLET SPIDER #1 (NOV110519)
Written by CHRIS YOST
Pencils by RYAN STEGMAN
Colors by MARTE GRACIA
Cover by RYAN STEGMAN
FOC – 12/12/11, ON SALE – 1/4/12

Preview – Rust Vol. 1: Visitor In the Field

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RUST VOL. 1: VISITOR IN THE FIELD

Retail Price: $24.95 U.S.
Page Count: 192 pages
Format: hardcover (paper over board), 6” x 9”, sepia-toned
Ship Date: Nov. 30, 2011
ISBN: 978-1-936393-27-5
Country: U.S.

Written by Royden Lepp
Illustrated by Royden Lepp
Cover by Royden Lepp

Rust is a high-octane adventure set in the prairie lands of an unknown time. Life on the Taylor family farm was difficult enough before Jet Jones crashes into the barn, chased by a giant decommissioned war robot! Oldest son Roman Taylor struggles to keep his family’s small farm afloat as the area heals from a devastating world war. While the rest of his family may not trust the mysterious boy with the jetpack, Roman believes the secrets of Jet’s past may be the key to their survival.

Preview – Damaged #4

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Damaged #4 (4 of 6)

Executive produced by Sam Wothington
Created by John Schwarz, Michael Schwarz
Written by David Lapham
Illustrated by Leonardo Manco
Colored by Kinsun Loh, Jerry Choo, Sansan Saw
Lettered by Todd Klein
Edited by Renae Geerlings

UPC: 81390601059800411
Price: $3.50
Page count: 32
Format: Full color
Product to be distributed by Diamond Comic Distributors

As the mayoral election approaches, tension escalates in the city by the bay. With Henry Lincoln and his newfound apprentice, Isaac Lordsman, on the loose and back to their old ways, Frank Lincoln is compelled to hasten his retirement to go after his own brother and finally stop his path of destruction.  Meanwhile, policeman Jack Cassidy’s world is changing, and not for the better. Now in charge of Frank’s former task force, Jack is confronted with a series of troubling discoveries that corrupt everything he once believed in- and nothing can ever be the same.

Preview – Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #3

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MOUSE GUARD: THE BLACK AXE #3 (OF 6)

Retail Price: $3.50 U.S.
Page Count: 24 pages
Format: saddle bound, 8” x 8”, full color
Ship Date: Nov. 30, 2011
UPC: 811514010733 00311
Country: U.S.

Written by David Petersen
Illustrated by David Petersen
Cover by David Petersen

The new volume of the Eisner Award-winning MOUSE GUARD series continues! On an unmapped island, Celanawe and Em discover the land of Ilder ruled by a ferret king. Shipwrecked and with no sign of their ship’s captain Conrad, they become the audience of Ilder’s imposing sovereign and hear of his hunger, his power and his fear—all while a mythic weapon dangles just out of reach preventing destiny from marching forward for the bloodline of Farrer, forger of the Black Axe.

All Ages

Thor: Unkillable Thunder Christ on Kickstarter

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LOCAL AUTHOR USES SOCIAL MEDIA TO FINANCE SUPERHERO COMIC BOOK

Tucsonan author Eric M. Esquivel takes of advantage of internet to bankroll controversial new comic “Thor: Unkillable Thunder Christ”.

Kickstarter link:  http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1321764791/thor-unkillable-thunder-christ

Thor: Unkillable Thunder Christ tells the story of a rowdy immortal youth who is banished from his father’s Heaven to a world whose Gods are weak, absent and criminally negligent.

Rather than mope about his banishment and beg his Pop for a ticket back home, Thor elects to stay on Earth, and give her inhabitants the kind of God they deserve– one who would rather bludgeon their enemies to death with a hammer than be nailed to a cross by them.

Thor: Unkillable Thunder Christ will be published, marketed, and distributed by Moonstone books, the publisher who has brought us books like The Green Hornet, Voltron, The Phantom and Captain Action.

Eric is using Kickstarter to finance the first print run of the books (a common practice among “indie” publishers).

Eric M. Esquivel has been writing comics for seven years (in a row, even),  and can be found online at www.Facebook.com/ericMesquivelFanPage, www.Twitter.com/ericMesquivel, and at www.ModernMythologyPress.com

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GameTrailers Shows Off Batman: Arkham City Barcave Challenge Map

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Footage from the Batman: Arkham City Batcave challenge map has popped up in the latest video from GameTrailers.  You can take a look at the 4:15 mark the downloadable content will be available on December 20.

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Comics Alliance also has a bunch of screen grabs.

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