IDW Statement Regarding Bob Schreck

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IDW Statement Regarding Bob Schreck

San Diego, CA (November 3, 2010) – IDW Publishing today announced that senior editor Bob Schreck has left the company. Schreck is now the Editor in Chief for Legendary Comics, a new division of Legendary Entertainment.

“We appreciate all the hard work Bob has done for IDW, and are sad to see him go,” said IDW CEO, Ted Adams. “But this is a great opportunity for Bob, and we wish him the best of luck.”

Schreck joined IDW as senior editor in October 2009, after leaving DC Comics. During his time with IDW, Schreck was editor for several different series, including WITCH & WIZARD, STRANGE SCIENCE FANTASY and the MGM MIDNIGHT MOVIES line. He was also editor and writer for JURASSIC PARK: REDEMPTION.

Visit IDWPublishing.com to learn more about the company and its top-selling books.

About IDW Publishing
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The Transformers and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s True Blood; the BBC’s Doctor Who; and comics and trade collections based on novels by worldwide bestselling author, James Patterson. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints; Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studios; and is the print publisher for EA Comics and ComicMix.

IDW’s original horror series, 30 Days of Night, was launched as a major motion picture in October 2007 by Sony Pictures and was the #1 film in its first week of release. More information about the company can be found at IDWPublishing.com.

5 Days until Diary of A Wimpy Kid The Ugly Truth goes on sale!

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5 MILLION COPY FIRST PRINTING LEADS THE BIGGEST BOOK RELEASE OF THE YEAR ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9.

EXTRAORDINARY MARKETING CAMPAIGN

CONTINUES WITH MONTH-LONG BLITZ INCLUDING:

National Publicity and Advertising – Custom Store Wraps –

7 City Author Tour by Bus – Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Balloon and Promotions

New York, NY, November 3, 2010—Five days from now the biggest book release of 2010 hits retailers everywhere. With a 5 million copy first printing and massive distribution across the United States and Canada, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth, the fifth volume in Jeff Kinney’s #1 bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, goes on sale on Tuesday, November 9, 2010.  Wimpy Kid awareness is at an all-time high due to a dynamic pre-sale and ongoing marketing campaign that includes national publicity and advertising, a 7-city author bus tour that includes theater and charity appearances by author Jeff Kinney, custom designed materials, authorless event kits, and more. The already immense recognition of Diary of a Wimpy Kid will rise to new heights throughout November as the campaign continues with major marketing, advertising, and publicity the entire month, culminating in the first-ever Diary of a Wimpy Kid Balloon in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Among the highlights of the month long and seasonal blitz are:

  • On Friday, November 5, Jeff Kinney will appear on CNN’s American Morning and CNBC’s Power Lunch.
  • National advertising runs throughout the month on poptropica.com, cartoonetwork.com, in Times Square on the Toys R Us Geoffreytron (photo attached), and in trade and consumer press.
  • Custom designed exterior store wraps are unveiled this week at Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville, IL, (photos attached) and Children’s Book World in Haverford, PA.
  • Unique promotional items, including purple character-shaped Wimpy Kid wrist bands, water bottles, oversized posters and standees, reproducible event kits and more, ship to more than 3,000 retailers and libraries across the country.
    • Hundreds of authorless parties at retailers and libraries are planned.
    • Jeff Kinney will tour for charity and store events in Dallas, Austin, Little Rock, Memphis, Nashville, Birmingham, San Diego, and New York. Visit www.wimpykid.com for exact stops.
    • Photos of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Giant Helium Balloon will be released next week.
    • From more than 14,000 entries received, on November 10, 2010, ABRAMS will announce the winner of a contest to bring a lucky fan and three friends or family to the 2010 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to sit in exclusive grandstand seating.

“Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth is by far the biggest book release of the year,” said Michael Jacobs, President and CEO of ABRAMS. “From the excitement that’s been building since we announced the publication of Jeff Kinney’s new book in the summer through the amazing response we’ve have from customers, we’re confident that next Tuesday will be a huge day for books sales everywhere. From the start we believed that a Diary of a Wimpy Kid could fly, and it definitely will for retailers as well as for 45 million people who will have a chance to watch the balloon during the parade.”

Books in the core Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney include Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2007): Rodrick Rules (2008), Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (2009), and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2009). Jeff Kinney has also written and illustrated the Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself Book (2007), and The Wimpy Kid Movie Diary (2010). The series is a fixture on the USA Today bestseller list, the first book in the series has remained in the top 150 for more than 170 weeks, and the Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. It has also remained consistently in the top spots on the New York Times lists since publication of the first book in the series.

More than 42 million Diary of a Wimpy Kid books will be in print in the United States and Canada as of November 9, 2010. The books have been sold in more than 37 countries in 35 languages around the world. Published by Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS, Kinney’s work has been widely credited for its ability to turn reluctant readers on to books. In 2010, the movie adaptation of Diary of a Wimpy Kid grossed more than $75 million worldwide in box office sales, the book series won a Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award, and books in the series won numerous awards voted on by students and teachers in schools around the globe. In 2009, Jeff Kinney was named one of TIME magazine’s most influential people in the world. A second movie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, will hit theaters in March 2011.

About Amulet Books: Created in 2004 to specialize in books for middle grade and young adult readers alongside Abrams Books for Young Readers, which publishes books for readers up to age twelve, Amulet Books publishes bestselling and award-winning fiction and nonfiction. Amulet Books is an imprint of ABRAMS.

Review – Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #4

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Broken Trinity: Pandora's Box #4 COVA_stampedBroken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #4 is an interesting series.  I feel like this is something that should of wrapped up a bit before the recent start of Top Cow‘s event Artifacts.  This series leads into that, and there’s some cool things here when it comes to characters and always the action is entertaining.  While Artifacts leans a bit towards the emotional, this leans a bit towards the action.

The ARTIFACTS lead-in heats up!
The quest to locate and claim Pandora’s Box forces Finn and Glori to face the full depth of Elias’ depravity, while the legacies of the Ember Stone and Glacier Stone draw them into brutal conflict with each other.

From newcomers Rob Levin (Pilot Season: 7 Days From Hell, The Darkness: Shadows & Flame) and Bryan Edward Hill (Pilot Season: 7 Days From Hell, Broken Trinity: Aftermath), and artist Facundo Percio (Anna Mercury). Featuring covers by Tommy Lee Edwards (Book of Eli, Turf)!

The most interesting part of this story wasn’t so much the action, but the discussion.  We have a man who’s been given enormous power doubting his destiny and contemplating giving it away to someone he thinks can do better.  That dynamic and discussion is interesting.  I’d love to see a series who’s entire plot is around this.

The point of this series is simple and laid out at Baltimore Comic Con.  It can be enjoyed on it’s own, but along with Artifacts it creates a richer and deeper experience.

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Preview – Days Missing: Kestus #1 (of 5)

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DAYS MISSING: KESTUS #1 (of 5)

Retail Price: $3.95 U.S.
Page Count: 32 pages
Format: saddle bound, 6.625” x 10.25”, full color
On-sale Date: November 3, 2010
Written by Phil Hester
Illustrated by David Marquez
Cover by Alex Ross

Archaia and Roddenberry Productions are proud to present the thrilling sequel to the critically acclaimed series DAYS MISSING. DAYS MISSING: KESTUS continues the saga of The Steward, a mysterious being whose ability to “fold” days of time has resulted in critical human events being absent from our historical record. Their existence is not remembered…but the occurrences of these days have forever changed the course of our evolution.

Since humanity’s birth, The Steward has stood as a guiding force for our species. But now, he is not alone! The emergence of the ancient being, Kestus, may put everything he knows in question, and the future of those he means to protect in jeopardy.

T +13 (Contains material suitable for teen readers age 13 and above)

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Review – Hotwire: Deep Cut #2

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Hotwire: Deep Cut #2 CoverHotwire: Deep Cut #2 is a series I’m torn about.  I really enjoy the bright colors and art is very unique in it’s hue.  The story is interesting, and creative.  But there’s something that’s not quite clicking for me.  It’s not bad, but also nothing that blows me away.

While Bertus Rantz and his private security contractors investigate a crash, Detective Exorcist Alice Hotwire cools her heels in a detention cell – only to emerge to the cheers of her co-workers in the police force. As Alice avoids her fellow officers and deals with a rampaging Rantz as well as her paranormal ex-boyfriend, a blue-light housed in a robotic body has taken one of the crash victims on her own accord…but for what purpose? Can Hotwire and Mobey uncover the truth of the car crash and discover the identity of this mysterious entity before Rantz finishes his crusade against all blue-lights?

Created by Steve Pugh and Warren Ellis, written and art by Pugh Hotwire is definitely an entertaining series.  Picking up where the first issue left off, a pursuit is on for the individual who caused the car pile up, and it has a hostage who doesn’t quite understand the predicament she’s in.

Everything is very unique.  Nothing quite pops like this series (especially digitally on an iPad).  But, I can’t say I’m too invested in the characters of the world.  I can’t quite call this a “buy”, but it’s a solid “read.”

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Klaws of the Panther #2

AIM Agent – You can’t just stand there and let her torture me.  What happened to America’s vaunted policies against torture?

Wolverine – I’m not American, Bub.  Neither is the lady.  Sucks to be you.

The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

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Captain America joins the Avengers in a new episode of “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” on Wednesday, November 3 at 8:30 p.m., ET/PT on Disney XD. Frozen since WW2 and kept alive by the super soldier serum, Captain America is now a man out of time trying to discover his place in the world. But he may not have much of a chance, as his old foe Baron Zemo aims to destroy Captain America, even if that means going through the Avengers!

Review: X-Women #1

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Marvel just came out with the one-shot X-Women, which sounds cool at first glance, since it’s a one-shot dedicated to the women of the X-Men Universe. The artist commissioned for it is erotic artist Milo Manara. The comic is worse than I expected when I first heard about it. It is a wall-to-wall objectification of women as sexual objects. Marvel women are usually scantily clad, but this one takes it to a new level, showing more pointless angles of women’s body parts than in a year of a usual Marvel series. Throughout the comic, women (and occasionally men) are in various stages of undress well beyond what fits the story. Or a PG-13 rating. The women’s faces are all homogonized to a point you can only tell them apart by their clothes and hairstyles. They are frequently shown with their faces in poses that are clearly sexual in nature. They are in bondage, gagged, in “catfights,” and, most egregiously, apparently always on the verge of having sex with each other. There are no fewer than 28 shots of women embracing or caressing each other — all of the the familiar X-women characters who are not lesbians and from whom the behavior makes no sense in any context. Some of the embraces are almost explicitly sexual, including a shot of Kitty’s head moving between Rogue’s legs and Kitty and Storm embracing in a position usually designated with a number just under 70.

You can see some of the worst images here.

I think maybe the worst part of this is that the characters involved here are some of the strongest and most well-written women characters in superhero comic books. Storm and Kitty are among my all-time favorite characters. Storm is literally a Queen at this point. And Kitty is probably one of the characters that has had the greatest growth arcs of any character I’ve ever read, starting out as an awkward teenager with one of the weakest power-sets of any character growing to one of the smartest and powerful characters in the X-books. Seems like it was just a few months ago that Kitty single-handedly saved the Earth in Astonishing X-men and now she’s nothing more than another interchangeable woman filling out the perceived fantasies of adolescent boys.
And extra shame on Chris Claremont for being a part of this. He’s really fallen in my esteem. He wrote some of the greatest super-hero stories ever in the late 70s, early 80s, but his recent stuff has been horrible. In X-Men Forever, he betrayed everything he put into the character of Storm by making her inexplicably evil, then replacing her with a child version of herself. Literal infantilization of women (and notably the only black woman in his series).

It’s amazing that there is some really good work going on at Marvel and, at the same time, this horrible crap.

Plot: It’s not a horrible plot, as Claremont still has the ability to write good stories, but this is closer to the bottom in terms of quality Claremont stories than th etop. Rating: 4

Art: The art isn’t terrible and parts of it are quite good, but it is significantly sexist and treats women as identical, regardless of race. Rating: 2

Overall: Nothing here really works, even as erotica, this is a wasted opportunity for Marvel to highlight the women of the X-Men comics. Overall rating: 3

Recommendation: Do not buy

Marvel Unveils Onslaught Unleashed Liefeld Variants!

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Marvel Unveils ONSLAUGHT UNLEASHED Liefeld Variants!

­­­­­­Marvel is pleased to present your first look at superstar artist Rob Liefeld’s stunning Onslaught Unleashed variant covers! Featuring the return of one of Marvel’s most powerful villains and an epic team-up between the Secret Avengers and the Young Allies, Onslaught Unleashed will shock fans when it hits store shelves in February!

ONSLAUGHT UNLEASHED #1

ONSLAUGHT UNLEASHED LIEFELD VARIANT A #1

ONSLAUGHT UNLEASHED LIEFELD VARIANT B #1

Written by SEAN MCKEEVER

Penciled by FILIPE ANDRADE

Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS

Variant Covers by ROB LIEFELD

Rated T+ …$3.99

ON SALE THIS FEBRUARY

Onslaught Unleashed Liefeld Variant AOnslaught Unleashed Liefeld Variant B

Your First Look At Marko Djurdjevic’s Sensational Wolverine Poster!

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Your First Look At Marko Djurdjevic’s Sensational Wolverine Poster!

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at superstar Marko Djurdjevic’s awe-inspiring Wolverine poster! The Wolverine by Marko Djurdjevic Poster features everyone’s favorite mutant through the ages with an assortment of his greatest allies and foes in a larger than life connected image. This massive poster measures almost ten feet in width and makes an awesome addition to any collection.

Sections of this poster will also be featured as the variant covers for these December and January Wolverine books:

DECEMBER

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #1

WOLVERINE #4

DAKEN: DARK WOLVERINE #4

X-23 #4

JANUARY

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #2

Be sure to check out these exciting titles along with the Wolverine by Marko Djurdjevic Poster, hitting stores this February, bub!

WOLVERINE BY MARKO DJURDJEVIC POSTER

118”x30”…$34.99

FOC – 1/3/10, On-Sale – 2/2/10

UNCANNY X-FORCE #3 (OCT100658)

UNCANNY X-FORCE #3 DJURDJEVIC VARIANT (SEP108129)

Written by RICK REMENDER

Pencils by JEROME OPEÑA

Cover by ESAD RIBIC

Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC

Parental Advisory …$3.99

FOC – 11/11/10, On-Sale – 12/1/10

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #1 (OCT100643)

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #1 CLASSIC ARTIST VARIANT (OCT100645)

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #1 MODERN ARTIST VARIANT (OCT100646)

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #1 SKETCH VARIANT (OCT100644)

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #1 DJURDJEVIC VARIANT (OCT100647)

Written by CHARLIE HUSTON

Penciled by JUAN JOSE RYP

Cover by BRYAN HITCH

Sketch Variant by BRYAN HITCH

Classic Artist Variant by HERB TRIMPE

Modern Artist Variant by GABRIELLE DELL’OTTO

Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC

Parental Advisory …$3.99

FOC – 11/11/10, On-Sale – 12/1/10

WOLVERINE #4 (OCT100648)

WOLVERINE #4 TRON VARIANT (OCT100649)

WOLVERINE #4 DJURDJEVIC VARIANT (SEP108130)

Written by JASON AARON

Penciled by RENATO GUEDES

Cover by JAE LEE

Tron Variant by BRANDON PETERSON

Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC

Parental Advisory …$3.99

FOC – 11/11/10, On-Sale – 12/1/10

DAKEN: DARK WOLVERINE #4 (OCT100650)

DAKEN: DARK WOLVERINE #4 DJURDJEVIC VARIANT (OCT100651)

Written by MARJORIE LIU & DANIEL WAY

Pencils & Cover by GIUSEPPE CAMUNCOLI

Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC

Parental Advisory …$2.99

FOC – 11/11/10, On-Sale – 12/8/10

X-23 #4 (OCT100652)

X-23 #4 DJURDJEVIC VARIANT (OCT100653)

Written by MARJORIE LIU

Penciled by WILL CONRAD

Cover by LEINIL FRANCIS YU

Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC

Parental Advisory …$2.99

FOC – 11/19/10, On-Sale – 12/15/10

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #2 (NOV100600)

WOLVERINE: THE BEST THERE IS #2 DJURDJEVIC VARIANT (OCT100647)

Written by CHARLIE HUSTON

Penciled by JUAN JOSE RYP

Cover by BRYAN HITCH

Variant by MARKO DJURDJEVIC

Parental Advisory …$3.99

FOC – 12/13/10, On-Sale – 1/5/11

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