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Allplay Launches a New Edition Of High Society, Designed By Dr. Reiner Knizia

High Society

Allplay, publisher of board games like River Valley Glassworks, Mountain Goats, and Container, has released High Society.

The game is a new edition of the well-acclaimed auction game, originally released in 1995. Three to five players compete in auctions to gain points, earn point modifiers, and avoid negative cards. The player that bids the most across the entire game is eliminated; the remaining player that scores the most points wins.

While the core gameplay is largely unchanged, three new cards have been introduced in Allplay’s edition. These cards allow you to double your money before elimination or return money cards from the discard pile. The cards were designed by the original creator—Dr. Reiner Knizia.

High Society has an MSRP of $20.

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It’s one of two new comic book days! What are you all getting? What are you excited for? Sound off in the comments below. While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web to start the day.

ICv2 – An Animated Conversation About Rebuilding the Great Comics Readership On-ramp – Interesting thoughts. Agree? Disagree?

The Beat – Creators asked and WEBTOON listened, with requested changes coming to Canvas – Good they listened to creators.

Kotaku – Fired X-Men ‘97 Creator Says He Wrote ‘A Lot’ Of Season Two – Cool?

Kotaku – MultiVersus Adds Murderer Jason Voorhees And Matrix Villain Agent Smith – Superman can fight them both!

Reviews

The Beat – High Society
The Beat – Spaceman

Something Strange From Dave Sim!

Prolific creator Dave Sim’s meta-adventure through the history of photo-realistic artwork, the career and death of Alex Raymond, and much more, will be published by IDW! Sim’s originally self-published work is being completely remastered, redrawn, and reworked before it sees release as its own 18-issue series.

Originally serialized within the pages of the self-published Glamourpuss #1-26 (2008-2012), The Strange Death Of Alex Raymond is an as yet uncompleted work-in-progress in which Dave Sim investigates the history of photorealism in comics, specifically focusing on the work of comic-strip artist Alex Raymond the circumstances of his death on 6 September 1956 at the wheel of fellow artist Stan Drake’s Corvette.

This is on top of the other Sim projects IDW has in the pipeline, such as the Complete Book of Cerebus Covers, the digital/audio version of High Society and The Complete Zootanapuss Artist’s Edition.

Dave Sim’s distinguished career in comics began with his self-published hit Cerebus. An essential series that evolved through grounded and mature subject material, Cerebus is a modern classic that catalyzed Sim’s career as well as the comics industry on the whole. As a vocal proponent of self-publishing, Sim has spent much of his career improving and exploring his craft through his own self-published projects. More recently, Sim has contributed his iconic style to various covers at IDW, including The Colonized, T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and Doctor Who.