Tag Archives: monster massacre

SDCC 2013: Titan’s New Projects

At San Diego Comic-Con, Titan Comics, the new venture from publishing giant, Titan, announced a brand-new wave of creator-owned titles set for 2014! The new titles span a mix of established comics and novelist talent, as well as up-and-coming creators and artists from whom you’ll soon be hearing much more – such as Victor Gischler, Tazio Bettin, Pat Mills, Carl Potts, Larry Stroman, Lavie Tidhar, Paul McCaffrey and Des Taylor!

The new wave of titles includes assassin black-comedy Accident Man co-created by 2000AD legend Pat Mills with a cover by the incomparable Howard Chaykin; a brand-new chapter of long-running science-fiction gem Alien Legion, by fan-favorite creative team Carl Potts and Larry Stroman; ladies of literature action-adventure Adler by novelist Lavie Tidhar and artist Paul McCaffrey; adrenal grindhouse-flick Sally Of The Wasteland by Victor Gischler and artist Tazio Bettin, with cover by blazing Image stalwart Tim Seeley; and femme-fatale espionage caper Scarlett Couture by famed good-girl artist Des Taylor.

At SDCC, Titan Comics made a splash with numerous launches including fantasy The First Kingdom Vol.1: The Birth of Tundran by comics legend Jack Katz; new horror fantasy collection Razorjack by Watchmen colorist John Higgins; the Eagle-Award-winning comedy Thrud the Barbarian by writer/artist Carl Critchlow; afterlife thriller Numbercruncher by Si Spurrier, artist P.J. Holden and colorist Jordie Bellaire; SF and fantasy anthology Monster Massacre; genre-mashing hormonal superhero Sharky by Dave Elliott and Alex Horley; and videogame tie-in Devil May Cry: The Chronicles of Vergil.

AccidentMan_GN_Cvr_CBR Adler-promo-image-CBR ALEG_CBR Sally-CBR scarlettcover_CBR

Titan Comics Launches Monster Massacre!

Titan Comics and ATOMEKA have announced the first volume of a brand-new graphic novel series, Monster Massacre – a SF and fantasy anthology headed up by A1 creator Dave Elliott and starring the greatest comics talent: past, present and future

Monster Massacre is an epic, heart attack inducing, spanky new graphic anthology series for fans of science fiction, fantasy, big monsters and all-out mayhem!

Hitting book stores on September 11, 2013, Monster Massacre Vol.1 showcases 10 stories from some of the greatest comics talent:

  • From the creators of Captain America a Classic Joe Simon and Jack Kirby horror story THE GREATEST HORROR OF THE ALL from Black Cat Mystery!
  • MONSTER PUNCH, starring IRA GERSCHWIN: MONSTER FIGHTER by Andy Kuhn
  • HITCH, a post apocalyptic zombie story by Dave Dorman
  • ZEKE & KRO, a macabre black comedy by Mark A Nelson
  • A Faery and a Human team up to con everyone in DESTINY’S ROGUES by Ron Marz and Tom Raney
  • DAIKAIJU – Dragons destroy Japan by Vito Delsante and Javier Aranda
  • EL ZOMBO by Dave Wilkins and Dave Elliott! Guest-starring SHARKY and MR MONSTER
  • Jerry Paris, Arthur Suydam and Dave Elliott bring us DEEP SIX – day one of the return of Cthulhu!
  • SHARKY by Dave Elliott and Alex Horley sees the novice hero and THOR face Alvin the Dwarf and Devlin the Giant Lice
  • LITTLE MONSTERS is a prologue to the graphic novel Kingdom of the Wicked by Ian Edginton and D’Israeli
  • Plus art galleries from Alex Horley and Steve White

Monster Massacre Vol.1 comes with a special wraparound cover by Garry Leach and Sunny Gho.

The series will also be available to read day and date on the iPad, iPhone, Web, Android and Kindle Fire, exclusively through the comiXology app and comiXology.com

Monster-Massacre-cover

Titan Comics in April Previews

IT CAME! #1

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131246

The store that orders the highest quantity of IT CAME! #1 from April PREVIEWS will win a FREE bespoke advert in IT CAME! #4 for their store, designed and illustrated in a 1950s style by creator Dan Boultwood!

Writer(s): Dan Boultwood
Artist Name(s): Dan Boultwood
Cover Artist(s): Dan Boultwood
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013
Witness a very British invasion!

Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 will love this hilarious B-movie romp, a knowing throwback to the heyday of low-budget SF cinema – in comic book form!

In IT CAME!, ‘director’ Dan Boultwood has unearthed a lost classic from the forgotten Pinetree Studios.

An enormous alien robot lays waste to the English countryside, annihilating bunting, villages and diagonally-sliced sandwiches alike! Only the pipe-chomping space scientist Dr. Boy Brett and his assistant Doris Night (a lady) stand a chance of stopping it from marching all the way to London – but can they possibly escape the grasp of GRURK and get the might of the British Army on their side?!

Keep your upper lips stiff, your ties immaculately knotted, and your notions of gender equality dialled back sixty years – for the sake of the planet!

IT CAME! #1DmC Devil May Cry™: The Chronicles of Vergil (HC)

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131245

Writer(s): Izu
Artist Name(s): Patrick Pion / Robin Recht
Cover Artist(s): Patrick Pion / Robin Recht
Number of Issues in Series: Collection
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 52pp
Price: $9.99
Street Date: August 28, 2013

The official licensed comic to Capcom’s best-selling videogame DmC Devil May Cry, packed with secrets from the world of the game!

While his twin brother Dante rots in Hellfire, the demon prison, Vergil recruits the reluctant human psychic, Kat, who can potentially guide him through the maze of Limbo! But even with Kat as his female astral guide, can Vergil free his brother – and turn the tide against the demons who control all of reality?

DmC Devil May Cry The Chronicles of Vergil (HC)

SHARKY (HC)

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131249

Writer(s):  Dave Elliott
Artist Name(s): Alex Horley
Cover Artist(s): Alex Horley
Number of Issues in Series: Collection
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 144pp
Price: $14.99
Street Date: September 11, 2013

SHARKY is the Earthbound son of ODIN and the grandson of ZEUS – and he just hit puberty!

Sharky is 16 years old. All his life, he’s been raised by his mom, with no idea of who his father was.

Now he’s hit puberty, only to discover that the “no-good-S.O.B.” who contributed to his genes is none other than ODIN – not to mention his mother is a child of ZEUS!

Whenever something sets off his hormones, he transforms into the demi-god SHARKY – complete with a body The Rock would kill to have – and the strength of a superman!

When two of his long lost ‘relatives’ visit Earth and decide to create havoc by raising the dead, Sharky has to pick sides, with the fate of the planet at stake. With no time for training, it’s a case of working out Superhero 101 as he goes – and if he fails, his friends’ lives are forfeit!

With guest appearances from indie comics favorites THE MASK, VAMPIRELLA, SAVAGE DRAGON, MILK & CHEESE, MR MONSTER and FLAMING CARROT!

SHARKY (HC)Monster Massacre Vol.1 (HC)

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131247

Writer(s): Joe Simon, Ian Edginton, Ron Marz, Dave Elliott, Andy Kuhn, Dave Dorman, Mark A. Nelson, Vito Delsante, and more…
Artist Name(s): Jack Kirby, Dave Wilkins, Dave Dorman, Andy Kuhn, Alex Horley, Tom Raney, Mark A. Nelson, D’Israeli, Garry Leach, Sunny Gho, Steve White, Javier Aranda, Sakti Yuwono, Jerry Paris, Dave Elliott and more…
Cover Artist(s): Special Wraparound Cover by Garry Leach, Sunny Gho
Number of Issues in Series: Collection
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 176pp
Price: $22.99
Street Date: September 11, 2013

The greatest talents from around the world come together to show you how much fun creating comics can be!

Monster Massacre is an exciting new graphic anthology series for fans of science fiction, fantasy, big monsters and all-out adventure! It’s also an introduction to a Who’s Who of comics talent: past, present and future!

From all around the world, the greatest comic talents are given full and free rein to explore the universe, in all its monstrous beauty, horror and excitement!

No matter your tastes in science fiction and fantasy, you’ll find something here to love.

Monster Massacre Vol.1 comes with a special wraparound cover by Garry Leach (2000AD, Marvelman, Global Frequency, A1) and Sunny Gho (Superior, Ultimate Avengers, Stellar Labs).

Monster Massacre Vol.1 (HC)

Numbercruncher #2

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131248

Writer(s): Si Spurrier
Artist Name(s): P.J. Holden
Cover Artist(s): P.J. Holden
Colorist: Jordie Bellaire
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013

Nothing worse’n a Mathematician in love. As he died, in 1969, a Mathematician glimpsed the equation that drives the universe. This allowed him to strike a deal with the Divine Calculator: to be reincarnated, with all his memories intact, for another chance with the woman he loves.

In exchange, when he dies for a second time, he’ll go straight into the workforce of the Afterlife, setting free another operative – a surly chap in a bowler hat by the name of BASTARD ZANE.

But the Divine Calculator has a horrible sense of humor, and he’s incarnated the Mathematician thirty years after his death, in a poverty pit on the other side of the planet. The Mathematician still has a plan to spin things in his favor… but Zane isn’t taking any chances with his cosmic get-out clause.

After all, they don’t call him BASTARD for nothing!

Numbercruncher #2

Chronos Commandos: Dawn Patrol #2

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131244

Writer(s): Stuart Jennett
Artist Name(s): Stuart Jennett
Cover Artist(s): Stuart Jennett
Number of Issues in Series: 5
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013

Nazi saboteurs have overrun Chronos Command, and made off with a Chronosphere core – a priceless piece of Allied technology that could change the course of the Time War!

Can the Sarge, his crack squad depleted after the white-knuckle events of #1, mount a daring recovery mission into the past with a unit of rookies? You’d better hope so — because all of history rides on the outcome!

It’s fully painted high-octane pulp action, just the way you like it!

Chronos Commandos Dawn Patrol #2

A1 #3

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131243

Writer(s): Dave Elliot, W.H. Rauf
Artist Name(s): Barnaby Bagenda, Sami Basri, Sakti Yuwono, Jessica Kholinne, Garrie Gastony, Rhoald Marcelius
Cover Artist(s): 3 covers to collect – Sami Basri and Sakti Yuwono (Weirding Willows), Garrie Gastonny and Sakti Yuwono (Odyssey), Rhoald Marcellius and Sakti Yuwono (Carpe Diem)
Number of Issues in Series: monthly
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 36pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: August 7, 2013

WEIRDING WILLOWS: Frankenstein’s Monster is in the Weir and the angry mob greeting him with pitchforks and flaming torches are Mice, Weasels and Rabbits.

ODYSSEY: From World War 2 to Iraq, you’ll always find Blazing Glory in the thick of it. But after 60 years of combat he’s starting to question what he’s doing and why.

CARPE DIEM: ARCADE FIRE – An extremely out-of-shape video game freak assembles his own army of gamers and plans a hit on a well-loved politician. The reason? Said politician made a really disparaging comment on the nutfreak’s favorite game.

Carpediem vs an army of vengeful nerds!

A1 #3 CARPE DIEM A1 #3 ODYSSEY A1 #3 WEIRDING WILLOWS

Solid State Tank Girl #3

AVAILABLE FROM APRIL PREVIEWS
Order Code: APR131250

Writer(s): Alan Martin
Artist Name(s): Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Cover Artist(s): Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Number of Issues in Series: 4
Full Color, B&W, or partial color: FC
Page Count: 32pp
Price: $3.99
Street Date: July 17, 2013

Tank Girl’s feeling a growing sense of terror!

The thing that Tank Girl, Jet Girl and Sub Girl snatched from inside Booga’s testicles has grown into something even more horrifying than having to write and read the contents of this sentence -an evil duplicate of Tank Girl… and she’s not alone!

The gang will have to draw on their innermost secrets and powers to defeat their disgusting doppelgängers before it’s too late!

Solid State Tank Girl #3