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CMON reveals its promos for SDCC and Gen Con 2024!

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CMON is bringing amazing promotions and exclusives for some of the most anticipated games of the year. Check out all the details below and don’t miss your chance to grab these special items at their booths at San Diego Comic-Con 2024 and Gen Con 2024. See the timings and be prepared to seize these unique opportunities!

Dune: War For Arrakis – Ecological Testing Station

SDCC and GenCon are about to get Spice-y! At SDCC, get the free Dune War for Arrakis promo, a printed copy of the Ecological Testing Station Card deck, at CMON Booth #2446. Available free with purchase of Dune: W4A. Timed giveaways at 12 PM and 4 PM every day. GenCon giveaway details TBA!

Cyberpunk: Gangs Of Night City – Weapons Expo Digital Story

Jack into Cyberpunk at SDCC and GenCon! At SDCC, grab your free Cyberpunk: Gangs of Night City promo, the Weapons Expo Digital Story at CMON Booth #2446. Available free with purchase of Cyberpunk: Gangs of Night City. Timed giveaways at 1 PM every day. GenCon giveaway details TBA!

Marvel United: Symbiote Promo Deck

Unleash Marvel United at SDCC! Introducing Hybrid Hero Mode and Symbiote Companion cards in the free Symbiote promo deck! Available at SDCC at the CMON booth during timed giveaways at 11 AM and 3 PM daily. Find them at the Spin Master Games booth at GenCon (timed giveaways TBA). Fight the Master Plan!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles take on White Death!

In this thrilling crossover comic, the TMNT find themselves facing off against Bebop and Rocksteady in the midst of a zombie invasion. But a greater threat looms: Necromancer Shredder has risen and he’s more powerful than ever!

Written by long-time TMNT scribe Tom Waltz with interior art by Paul Pelletier. Variant cover by Kevin Eastman!

Tom Waltz will also be signing on Friday, July 26, from 2pm to 3pm EST. Come and meet the long-time TMNT scribe who brought this incredible story to life!

Bundle includes: Comic book features comic story + game mission, Bebop and Rocksteady miniatures, both playable in White Death.

Limited quantities for sale at SDCC (CMON Booth #2446 – while supplies last). Hyper-limited copies available as giveaways at Gen Con (details TBA). Copies have also been allocated for European distribution (details TBA), as well as for CMON Expo Asia 2024.

Don’t miss out! Limited quantities available at SDCC.

Unboxing: CMON Comics – Vol. 1

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CMON is known for its over-the-top Kickstarters but the publisher has used the platform for an interesting project. They have taken some of their popular properties and brought them to the world of comics… with a board game tie-in too.

Zombicide, Cthulhu: Death May Die, and Zombicide: Invader each has gotten a graphic novel and of course a tie-in for their respective games as well.

We open up the package to show off the three graphic novels and boxes for the games. We’ll do a further unboxing of the game materials at a later date.

CMON’s Comic Imprint Guillotine Press Brings Asmodee’s Twilight Imperium and Android to Graphic Novels in 2021

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CMON LTD and Asmodee Entertainment have entered into a licensing partnership to bring two of the most famous boardgame universes of all time to the pages of comics! The best-selling game worlds of Twilight Imperium and Android are slated to make their graphic novel debut in 2021. The deal is the latest example of Asmodee Entertainment’s continued expansion into licensed publishing opportunities. For CMON, this deal secures the first-ever licenses for their newly minted comics arm, Guillotine Press.

CMON has seen some of their games turned into comics through IDW Publishing and recently Kickstarted three graphic novels “CMON Comics – Vol. 1.” That project raised $501,632 from 12,261 backers and featured not just print comics but expansions for CMON’s popular tabletop board games. It’s slated to be delivered in February 2021.

As with CMON’s first set of graphic novels, these new books will be created by veteran writers and artists, who will bring their immense talents to the projects. Scheduled to be launched on Kickstarter in 2021, the books will be paired with tie-in game components designed to delight long-time fans of both franchises.

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Twilight Imperium, the genre-defining 4x strategy game immersing players into interstellar conquest and diplomacy for over 20 years, is set against the backdrop of a sweeping, epic space opera filled with iconic races, locations, ships, and characters. Twilight Imperium was first released in 1997 and has seen four editions released with the latest in 2017. The game was designed by Christian T. Petersen with art by Bill Heagy.

Meanwhile, the cyber-noir setting of Android explores a future where megacorporations compete across the globe and cyber-espionage is just business as usual whilst criminal gangs fight for dominance in the overcrowded streets below gleaming corporate starscrapers. Android has been explored through board games, card games, and roleplaying games for over a decade. Android was released in 2008 by designers Daniel Clark and Kevin Wilson. It features art by Julie Dillon, Henning Ludvigsen, Stefan Morrell, Aaron Panagos, Didier Poli, and Zoe Robinson. 2012 saw the release of the popular card game Android Netrunner by Richard Garfield and Lukas Litzsinger which featured art by Bruno Balixa, Ralph Beisner Del Borovic, Adam S. Doyle, Amelie Hutt, Thomas Lishman, Henning Ludvigsen, Ed Mattinian, Dallas Mehlhoff, Adam Schumpert, Mark Anthony Taduran, and Matt Zeilinger. That release saw numerous expansions well into 2018.

Both the Twilight Imperium and the Android game lines are products of Asmodee’s Fantasy Flight Games studio.

Preview: Starcadia Quest: Heart of a Star

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Starcadia Quest: Heart of a Star

James Roberts (Author) Aurelio Mazzara (Artist) Nicoletta Baldari ()

CMON games brings their most beloved game properties to graphic novels!

The Starcadia universe is expanding for the first time with all new stories. Expanding the world of Starcadia Quest, the latest stand-alone game in the Arcadia Quest family where players fight alien monsters and each other, find new gear, explore the far reaches of space, and do their best to not become alien chow.

Starcadia Quest: Heart of a Star

CMON and Spin Master Games Team-Up for Marvel United Coming to Kickstarter

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CMON and Spin Master Games are starting the new year by denting our wallets with a new board game coming soon to Kickstarter.

Marvel United is CMON’s next campaign and looks to be based on the popular Arcadia Quest board game based on the teased design but with Spin Master involved, maybe aimed at a younger crowd.

No date has been announced for the launch of the campaign.

(via Board Game Today)

Preview: Starcadia Quest #1

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Starcadia Quest #1

James Roberts (w) • Aurelio Mazzara (a & c)

Out in the Frontier, the toughest jobs in the galaxy are handled by Freelance Adventuring Crews, and on his sixteenth birthday (kinda), the delivery boy known as Starkid sends out a call for the best recruits he can get… at his local Stardollars coffee shop. An action-packed and hilarious QWST begins!

FC • 36 pages • $4.99

CMON’s Rising Sun Comes to Comics Courtesy of IDW Publishing

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Rising Sun, the award-winning board game published by CMON Limited and designed by Eric M. Lang, will see its epic setting, feudal combat, and political intrigue adapted to comics in an all-new comic book series from IDW Publishing.

Co-written by industry legend Ron Marz and David Rodriguez and illustrated by Martín Cóccolo, the three-issue miniseries will debut its first issue in November, and – as an added bonus – each issue of Rising Sun will feature exclusive content to enhance the game-playing experience for dedicated fans.

IDW’s Rising Sun storyline introduces Chiyoko of the Koi Clan, leader of a group of powerful warriors – the best each clan has to offer – on a mission to save Japan from dragons and monsters. But perhaps the greatest threat she faces is not the many monsters who are ravaging the country… but her very own team!

CMON’s Arcadia Quest Comes to Comics and IDW Publishing

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Starcadia Quest

Game developer CMON’s highly-anticipated tabletop game (and Kickstarter darling) Starcadia Quest will come to comics beginning in August, courtesy of IDW Publishing. The first-ever expansion of the Starcadia universe, this three-issue miniseries welcomes James Roberts – the fan-favorite and critically acclaimed writer of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye and Lost Light – to craft a wild new adventure for Starkid and his Freelance Adventuring Crew.

The comic is old-school science fiction with a modern twist mashing up classic space opera tropes with weird twists and turns. As it’s a game, the comic helps the world-building aspects of this world and setting.

Illustrated by Aurelio Mazzara and colored by David García Cruz, Starcadia Quest takes comic readers and game fans deep into the Frontier, where the toughest jobs in the galaxy are handled by Freelance Adventuring Crews. On his sixteenth birthday, the delivery boy known as Starkid sends out a call for the best recruits he can get… at his local Stardollars coffee shop. An action-packed and hilarious QWST begins!

The game and comic features solid character design, homages to science fiction movies and enemies, and acknowledges the stories and tropes that have come before. All of that and some laugh out-loud humor.

As a special bonus, each issue of Starcadia Quest will be jam-packed with additional pages’ worth of exclusive playable content, allowing readers to incorporate the issue’s story elements into their tabletop gameplay!

CMON’s Hate Gets an Oversized Trade Edition from Image and Top Cow

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This December, following the wildly successful Kickstarter campaign for the Hate board game, Image Comics and Top Cow Productions will release an oversized trade paperback edition of Chronicles of Hate, collecting books one and two of internationally renowned artist Adrian Smith’s dark fantasy series.

Smith first came to prominence for his atmospheric, moody artwork and game illustrations for such popular franchises as Magic: The Gathering and Warhammer.

In a world where the sun is frozen and the moon burns, Chronicles of Hate follows an unlikely hero who rises to free the Earth Mother from her chains. This isn’t a world for the weak. All we know is Hate.

Chronicles of Hate, Collected Edition (Diamond code: OCT180056, ISBN: 978-1-5343-1144-2) hits comic book stores on Wednesday, December 5th and bookstores on Tuesday, December 11th.