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It’s new comic book day! What’s everyone excited for? What do you plan on getting? Sound off in the comments below! While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

The Beat – A Year of Free Comics: Get past the clichés with Chosen – Free comics!

ICv2 – Comic Back Issue Sales Are Up, But Market Has Changed – An interesting read.

The Beat – Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is heading to Showtime next year – Yes!!!

Reviews

Talking Comics – Buffy the Vampire Slayer #10
Newsarama – Dying is Easy #1
Atomic Junk Shop – Stargazing
Newsarama – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #100

Brian K. Vaughan’s “The Escapists” Continues the Tale of Chabon’s Kavalier & Clay

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Dark Horse has announced the perfect partner to the masterpiece inspired by Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. In Michael Chabon’s The Escapists, award-winning author Brian K. Vaughan successfully crafts a story of three aspiring comics creators with big dreams. Collects issues #1–#6 of The Escapists in a new standard softcover design!

This story of three aspiring comics creators with big dreams, small cash, and publishing rights to one forgotten Golden Age hero—the Escapist—is Brian K. Vaughan’s love letter to his chosen medium. The lives of creators Max, Denny, and Case—latter-day versions of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay—are brilliantly woven together with the world of their creations.

Discovering his late father’s decades-spanning vault of Escapist memorabilia at the age of six, Max became a fan of the Master of Elusion almost overnight. After exhausting the extensive stash of Golden and Silver Age comics, he needed more—and started writing his own Escapist stories. Now nineteen, he’s determined to make the character a sensation once again. Together with his friend Denny Jones, and their newfound artist Case Weaver, Max relaunches The Escapist comics. Through a couple of publicity stunts—including one that makes national news—the creators risk criminal charges to get the word out about their publication. Will it be enough to make the book a success? Or just enough to get them in jail?

Interwoven with Max’s struggles are the comic-within-a-comic stories of the Escapist himself, his ally Luna Moth, good old-fashioned death traps, betrayal, and a touch of romance.

Michael Chabon’s The Escapists hits shelves October 11, 2017!

Casanova: Acedia Celebrates Ten Years

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Bestselling creators Matt Fraction, Michael Chabon, Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon return for an all-new story arc this June.

Casanova: Acedia #5 begins a new chapter in the fan-favorite series as the world-melting CASANOVA returns. Casanova Quinn doesn’t remember who he is or how he got here—the only thing he knows is an awful lot of people want him dead and the world might be ending.

Psychedelic, sexy, and surreal science-fiction abounds and sees the continuation of Pulitzer prize-winning author Michael Chabon’s Metanaut backup collaborations with Gabriel Bá. The series celebrates ten trippy years of adventures with fans.

Casanova: Acedia #5 Cover A (Diamond Code APR160677) and Cover B (Diamond Code MAR168905) hit stores on Wednesday, June 1. The Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is Monday, May 9.

Casanova: Acedia, Vol. 1 (ISBN: 978-1632154774), is available now.

Preview: Casanova: Acedia #2

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Casanova: Acedia #2

Story By: Matt Fraction
Story By: Michael Chabon
Art By: Fábio Moon
Art By: Gabriel Bá
Cover By: Fábio Moon
Cover By: Gabriel Bá
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: DEC140722
Published: March 11, 2015

Tensions in Los Angeles continue to rise as Quentin Cassaday, aka Casanova Quinn, dives head-on into the mystery of Emil Boutique. Meanwhile, CHABON and BÁ continue their whirlwind tour of the Casanovaverse.

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Preview: Casanova: Acedia #1

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Casanova: Acedia #1

Story By: Matt Fraction
Story By: Michael Chabon
Art By: Fábio Moon
Art By: Gabriel Bá
Cover By: Fábio Moon
Cover By: Gabriel Bá
Price: $3.99
Diamond ID: NOV140529
Published: January 28, 2015

Marooned in Los Angeles with no memory of his past, Casanova Quinn takes on the mystery of his criminal benefactor’s tangled and bloody history—as strange occult forces from the future conspire to… do stuff? To him? To Los Angeles? To you? YES. Featuring the first in a series of backup stories by Pulitzer Prize winner MICHAEL CHABON and CASANOVA

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Casanova: Acedia – An all-new, mind-bending adventure begins

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Eisner Award-winners Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá, and Fábio Moon team up with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon for an all-new Casanova Quinn story in Casanova: Acedia #1, coming to Image Comics on January 7.

In Casanova: Acedia #1, Casanova Quinn returns to find himself caught between unlocking the riddle of his own past and discovering the hidden history of his mysterious new criminal benefactor.

Faction said in a release:

When we last saw him, Casanova Quinn crash-landed on our Earth from the ruins of his past with absolutely no memory of who he is, where he came from, or anything that happened to him before — but he knows he was somebody dangerous and that people are out to kill him. So new readers and Cass alike have the exact same blank-slate context for this all-new adventure in Los Angeles.

The idea came up at the end of a podcast with the two writers when Chabon mentioned a desire to write Casanova backups in the spirit of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s classic “Tales of Asgard” strip. Produced for the back pages of The Mighty Thor, these stories introduced young Marvel Comics readers to classic Norse lore.

Casanova tells the story of a hedonistic thief turned kind-of spy as he navigates the incredibly complex and stunningly psychedelic parallel world of interdimensional global espionage.

Casanova: Acedia #1(Diamond Code NOV140529) arrives in stores this 1/7 and will be available for $3.99.

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Matt Fraction’s Casanova Returns to Image

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Image Comics has announced the return of Casanova by Matt Fraction, Gabriel Bá, and Fábio Moon in a series of deluxe hardcover “Complete Editions.” The first of these, Casanova Volume 1: Luxuria, will be released in October 2014, followed by Casanova Volume 2: Gula in November, and Casanova Volume 3: Avarita in December.

Casanova “Cass” Quinn was born into a life of wealth and privilege but turned his back on it to pursue his own interests — namely stealing, spying, and living a hedonistic life with few moral compunctions. The black sheep in a family of international super-spies, Cass is pulled back into their sphere after an evil organization targets the Quinns. In a game of hidden agendas and double espionage across parallel universes, Cas must choose an identity. Is he the decadent thief named Casanova Quinn? Or is he the top secret agent named… Casanova Quinn?

Writer Fraction is known for his metafictional winks and deft melding of genres in the mega-hit Sex Criminals, and Casanova puts his skill at the forefront in a science fiction spy story shot through with psychedelia, with gorgeous art by renowned Brazilian artists Bá and Moon.

In January 2014, Image Comics announced that Casanova would return with a fourth volume, Acedia, co-written by Fraction and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.

Each Complete Edition of Casanova collects four issues of the critically-acclaimed series in a deluxe, oversized hardcover volume, complete with covers and extra content. Volume 1: Luxuria will be in comic book stores on October 22 and bookstores on November 4; Volume 2: Gula will be in comic book stores on November 12 and bookstores on November 25; Volume 3: Avarita will be in comic book stores on December 17 and bookstores on December 30. All are now available for pre-order.

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Image Expo 2014: Casanova Quinn Returns!

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In 2014, Matt Fraction, Fábio Moon, and Gabriel Bá team up with author Michael Chabon to bring the adventures of Casanova Quinn back with Casanova Vol. 4: Acedia.

Casanova escaped the complicated and stressful life of a dimension-hopping, identity-shifting, sexually voracious killing machine and we last saw him wandering out of the wreckage of a UFO that landed in the Hollywood Hills.

It’s our Los Angeles. It’s our Earth. And he remembers absolutely nothing of his past.

In a release Fraction said:

There has literally never been a better jumping-on point for new readers. Our main character has no idea what’s happened in the other Casanova books either… If that weren’t enough, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon joins series co-creator Gabriel Bá to create a dazzling array of backup stories that explore the worlds—and the people—Casanova left behind.

The Casanova series has roots with Image and the publisher has released previous volumes.

Casanova Vol. 4: Acedia picks up where Casanova Vol. 3: Avarita left readers hanging and will continue the science fiction series with Image Comics in 2014.

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