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M1: Monster Racing League #1 Rushes Back to Print

Co-writers Robert Windom and Lily Windom, Eisner Award winning artist Jae Lee, and colorist June Chung have hit big with the launch of M1: Monster Racing League. This high-octane debut broke the speed barrier with a quick sell-out at the distributor level and is being rushed back to print by Image in order to keep pace with demand.

Check out our review of the first issue.

The M1: Monster Racing League#1, second printing will also feature road-ready new cover art by Lee.

M1: Monster Racing League#1, second printing (Lunar Code 0526IM8423) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 8.

M1: Monster Racing League#1, second printing

M1: Monster Racing League #1 Introduces us to a Different Tokyo Drift

M1: Monster Racing League #1

When 17-year-old Dev moves to Japan, she stumbles into an underground world of illegal street racing, where speed is power and mutation wins championships. M1: Monster Racing League #1 is an intriguing debut that has us wanting to see what’s next.

With a description of “K-Pop Demon Hunters meets Fast & Furious,” we had to check out M1: Monster Racing League #1. The debut issue, from writers Lily Windom and Robert Windom is interesting and you can see its influences. The story is simple, a girl named Dev moves to Japan from San Diego, California and then gets into street racing. While the teaser text mentions Fast and Furious, it’s more specifically Tokyo Drift. A rather strict and ominous father, a rebellious kid, teases of trouble back in the US, and underground racing. All it’s missing is Han… might that might not be the case and we do have one in Kaito, a racer Dev outshines.

The Windoms put together an entertaining start with memorable characters that are full of personality. Dev is a grumbling teenager, angry over her move to Japan and what she left behind. There’s Marise, a chatty school mate who seems to be packed with energy and the inability to stay quiet as well as her brother Kaito, an underground racer.

All of that is draped in the art of Jae Lee with color by June Chung and lettering by Joe Sabino. The comic has style and the racing itself has visuals that pop. But, it’s Jae Lee’s art which you have to enjoy to appreciate the comic. For me, some of the faces look odd and at times look a bit similar. It’s a Lee’s style and it’s unique and distinctive. Overall, when it works, I think it works really well but when it doesn’t, it’s distracting. The page layouts, and color, also don’t keep this a pop infused comic. Instead, it’s more muted with the colors tending to be more muted and the page layouts handling the flow and excitement.

M1: Monster Racing League #1 is an interesting start with a lot of potential. There’s teases of something bigger as the racing progresses but the first issue dips its toes onto the track for an experience that’s entertaining, fun, and a lot of potential.

Story: Lily Windom, Robert Windom Art: Jae Lee
Color: June Chung Letterer: Joe Sabino
Story: 8.0 Art: 8.0 Overall: 8.0 Recommendation: Read

Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review


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Preview: M1: Monster Racing League #1

M1: Monster Racing League #1

(W) Robert Windom, Lily Windom (A) Jae Lee

An all-new ONGOING series launch from legendary JAE LEE (THIS ENDS TONIGHT, SEVEN SONS)!

When 17-year-old Dev moves to Japan, she stumbles into an underground world of illegal street racing, where speed is power and mutation wins championships. This high-octane sci-fi drama, set in a near-future Tokyo, is Fast and Furious by way of K-Pop Demon Hunters.

M1: Monster Racing League #1

M1: Monster Racing League from Jae Lee, Robert Windom, Lily Windom, and June Chung hits the streets, and shelves, this June

Co-writers Robert Windom and Lily Windom, Eisner Award winning artist Jae Lee, and colorist June Chung will kick comics into high gear with the upcoming ongoing series M1: Monster Racing League. This high-octane launch will start its engines in June from Image Comics.

This launch will include an eye-popping variant cover by Jon J Muth and additional, highly collectible covers by Lee.

Emmy Award winning writer and producer Jeffrey M. Howard is also developing an animated version of the series.

When 17-year-old Dev moves to Japan, she stumbles into an underground world of illegal street racing, where speed is power and mutation wins championships. This high-octane sci-fi drama, set in a near-future Tokyo, is Fast & Furious by way of KPop Demon Hunters, Arcane, and Akira.

This project marks the second project that the Windoms have written together after the graphic novel Family Time, which Lily co-wrote with her father at just eleven-years-old.

This also will be the first time that award-winning creator Jae Lee has been an interior artist on an ongoing monthly comic book series since the ’90s. Husband-wife duo Lee and Chung are known for their popular comic covers and interior art collaborations on titles such as This Ends Tonight and Batman/Superman.

Outside of comic writing, Robert Windom is known for executive producing the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, for which he won a Film Threat award. The critically acclaimed film was directed by Kelvin Mao; Windom, Lee, and Chung also co-created the Image Comics limited series This Ends Tonight and Seven Sons with Mao.

M1: Monster Racing League #1 will also feature a variant cover illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Jon J Muth, who is known for creating children’s books such as Zen Ties and illustrating graphic novels such as Grant Morrison’s The Mystery Play, for which he won the Eisner Award in the “Best Painter” category.

M1: Monster Racing League #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 10.

M1: Monster Racing League #1 
  • Cover A by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0285
  • Cover B by Muth – Lunar Code 0426IM0286
  • Cover C Blank Sketch cover – Lunar Code 0426IM0287
  • Cover D 1:25 copy incentive by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0288
  • Cover E: black & white 1:50 copy incentive by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0289

Preview: This Ends Tonight TP

This Ends Tonight TP

(S) Kelvin Mao, Robert Windom (W) Gerry Duggan (A) Jae Lee

THIS ENDS TONIGHT presents three intertwining tales of revenge that tears through Las Vegas on a single action-packed night.

Sin City has about 250 murder victims sent to the morgue every year — these three tales eclipse that in just a few hours with guns, knives, swords, poison, a spike strip and vehicular mayhem. THIS ENDS TONIGHT!

GERRY DUGGAN (X-Men & Deadpool) and JAE LEE (Eisner-winning artist of Inhumans and Hellshock) team up with co-writers KELVIN MAO and ROBERT WINDOM and colorist JUNE CHUNG.

Collects all 3 issues.

This Ends Tonight TP

Preview: This Ends Tonight #3

This Ends Tonight #3

(W) Gerry Duggan, Kelvin Mao, Robert Windom (A) Jae Lee

Comic books and Las Vegas will never be the same. The climax of sex, violence, and action rolls off a printer and punches you right in the face. This one has it all, non-stop action, comedy and tragedy that will give you whip lash — and it was all lovingly drawn by JAE LEE. Don’t miss out on the miniseries wrap up. There are infinite ways to die in this comic, and JAE LEE drew them all!

A LOT of them. The most fun ones.

This Ends Tonight #3

This Ends Tonight Paints the Las Vegas Strip Read with Blood

Under the glowing casino lights of sinful Las Vegas, three interconnected bloody revenge tales take place in This Ends Tonight, a new miniseries by the all-star team of writer Gerry Duggan, co-writers Kelvin Mao and Robert Windom, and artists Jae Lee and June Chung. The action-packed series aims for your jugular and paints The Strip red…with blood and satisfying retribution. The first issue, hitting shelves this July 16, launches the pulse-pounding comic event of the summer. 

The debut comic of the three-issue miniseries This Ends Tonight kicks off with some sweet sister bonding time as the starring pair fight assassins hunting them over a shocking family secret. The Thelma & Louise-like duo battle side-by-side, barrelling through Quentin Tarantino-esque action scenes to survive the bloodbath. The following two interconnected issues take place on the same night in Las Vegas, all centered around gory revenge. The stories were all conceived by Duggan, Mao and Windom, with the co-creators swapping lead writing duties from issue-to-issue. 

This Ends Tonight #1
  • Cover A by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0525IM306
  • Cover B (1:10 Kill Bill-inspired incentive) by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0525IM307
  • Cover C (blank sketch) – Lunar Code 0525IM308
  • Cover D (1:25 incentive) by Adam Hughes – Lunar Code 0525IM309
  • Cover E (1:50 incentive) by Adam Hughes – Lunar Code 0525IM310

This Ends Tonight #1 kicks off mayhem in July

Fan favorites Gerry Duggan and Jae Lee team up with co-writers Kelvin Mao and Robert Windom, alongside colorist June Chung, for an action-packed three-issue limited miniseries titled, This Ends Tonight. This trilogy of three interconnected tales will launch this July from Image Comics.

This Ends Tonight #1 follows two sisters as they fight their way across Vegas in a savage race to save their lives.

Each issue is a story of violence and mayhem set in Las Vegas.

This Ends Tonight #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 26:

  • Cover A by Lee – Diamond Code MAY230082
  • Cover B by Lee – Diamond Code MAY230083

ABLAZE reveals its May 2023 and beyond releases!

ANIMAL CASTLE VOLUME TWO #1

story by Xavier Dorison, art by Felix Delep · SRP: $3.99 · Available May 3rd

The acclaimed series returns!
On the Farm all animals were equal. In the Castle some are more equal than others.

Animal Castle Vol. 2 picks up shortly after the events of Vol. 1 with Miss B trying to convince the animals not to use violence, to end Silvio’s reign.

At the castle, the dictatorship continues. Thanks to the efforts of Miss B and her friends, the animals attempt to remobilize the pacifist movement of the Daisies. But Silvio the bull dictator is trying to keep them under his hoof to keep his power. Helped by his cruel canine militia, he decides to have the rebellious animals imprisoned in the dungeon. But Miss B and her friends will respond once again with trickery…and solidarity!

ANIMAL CASTLE VOLUME TWO #1

LOVECRAFT: UNKNOWN KADATH TP

by HP Lovecraft, Florentino Flórez, Guillermo Sanna and Jacques Salomon · SRP: $19.99 · 200 Pages · ISBN: 978-1-68497-133-6 ·  Available May 17th 

“I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” —STEPHEN KING

Randolph Carter, a traveler to dreamland, tries not to wake up before reaching his goal, the elusive Kadath: the home of the gods, a place of fantasy and overflowing imagination. Carter walks through a world full of threats and abominable monsters, but also of palaces, exuberant cities, and geographies that remind man of his insignificant role on the gigantic cosmic chessboard.

What are the reasons to keep going when everything around us is terrifying and lethal? Kadath may offer some answers to this question!

An adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath unlike anything you’ve read before. Collects the complete 8-issue series, plus cover gallery, bonus material, and the original prose story!

LOVECRAFT: UNKNOWN KADATH TP

FAMILY TIME TP

story by Lily Windom, Robert Windom, art by Asiash Fulmore · SRP: $14.99 · 132 pages · ISBN: 978-1-68497-132-9 ·  Available May 17th  

The O’Connell family (Lily – age 13; Tyler – age 11; and their parents) are vacationing in Ireland when they encounter an old man with a mysterious crystal that seemingly teleports them 1,000 years back in time. Unsure whether they have stumbled into a historical re-enactment, the family must befriend Rory, a timid local, battle a medieval tyrant named Ciaran and his henchmen, and figure out how to get back to the present, while Lily learns to use her newfound superpowers.

From the writer/creator of Seven Sons, Robert Windom, and his eleven-year-old daughter, Lily, comes a fun, fantasy adventure. Featuring cover art by Jae Lee, as well as Art Direction and cover art by Sanford Greene (Bitter Root) – both Eisner-Award winning artists–and anime-inspired interior art by new talent and Greene-protege Asiah Fulmore (DC’s Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld).

FAMILY TIME TP

Also coming soon and now open for pre-order and advance solicitation:

CENTAURS, Vol. 1

story and art by Ryo Sumiyoshi · SRP: $12.99 ·
200 Pages · ISBN: 978-1-68497-136-7 ·  Available June 14th  

An epic fantasy adventure set in an alternate medieval Japan, where humans co-exist with the mythic half man/half horse beasts known as centaurs, or “jinba”. The centaur race was long revered as deities in ancient times; however, with the advent of the sengoku (warring states) period, humans started to enslave and use them for military purposes due to their speed, stamina, and ability to communicate in human language. Centaurs living in the plains were rapidly subjugated; in contrast, large numbers of centaurs living deep in the mountains were still free due to their relative isolation.

A wild and proud warrior jinba from the mountains named Matsukaze, known as the redheaded rock tiger, is caught while protecting his son. He is traded to a feudal lord and taken to his land. There he meets another centaur, named Kohibari, whose village was burned down as a child. He is a tame centaur, who had his arms amputated when he was captured, and has given up hope of escaping his human captors. If they can get over their differences and work together, they just might be able to return to the wilds as free centaurs.

CENTAURS, Vol. 1

THE BREAKER VOL. 1-5 OMNIBUS BOX SET

story by Jeon Geuk-jin, art by Park Jin-Hwan · SRP: $90.00 · 1,900 pages · ISBN: 978-1-68497-172-5 ·  Available July 12th  

The story of The Breaker follows Si-woon Lee, a timid high school student who becomes the disciple to Chun-Woo Han, an extremely talented martial artist who is an enemy to the secret martial arts society known as the Murim. However, Si-woon is naive and unaware of his master’s past and the unseen underbelly of the society. How will Chun-Woo manage to teach Si-woon and help him survive in the brutal world of Murim?

Jeon Geuk-jin and Park Jin-Hwan’s fighting manhwa has been praised for its sensational action and captivating storyline, with many charismatic characters and stylish martial arts techniques that will keep you glued to the page! The Breaker Vol 1-5 Omnibus Box Set contains all 5 volumes of the bestselling, critically acclaimed series, collecting them into a handsome box set compilation. Each omnibus contains two volumes, 10 volumes in all. Plus, a folded bonus poster!

THE BREAKER VOL. 1-5 OMNIBUS BOX SET

New May 2023 issues for continuing ABLAZE titles:      

TRAVELING TO MARS #6

story by Mark Russell, art by Roberto Meli · SRP: $3.99 · Available May 24th  

Roy discovers that he is not alone in space, forcing him and the rovers to improvise a strategy for survival.

Eisner award-winning writer Mark Russell and artist Roberto Meli bring you a compelling new sci-fi series…a riveting story of planetary exploration and of finding meaning in your final days.

TRAVELING TO MARS #6

THE MIGHTY BARBARIANS #2

story by Michael Moreci, art by Giuseppe Cafaro · SRP: $3.99 · Available May 10th  

They’re barbarians. They loot, they plunder, they conquer. That’s what they do, and they do it alone…until NOW!

When an unstoppable force starts consuming one world after another, sorceress Morgan Le Fey uses her magic to assemble a team of skull-cracking warriors who must somehow work together to save all of existence. There’s the young trickster Anansi, Viking shield maiden Birka, the shape shifting Nanook, and their leader, heir to a fallen kingdom and mightiest of warriors, KULL!

Though their alliance is uneasy, they will do whatever it takes to cut the heart right out of their mutual enemy, leaving a path of ruin through everything and everyone that stands in their way!

Before The Avengers, The Justice League, The X-Men, before it all…stood The Mighty Barbarians! 

THE MIGHTY BARBARIANS #2

Dave Stevens’ Rocketeer takes flight again in a new one-shot

Dave Stevens’ two-fisted triumph soars again at IDW Publishing with the May release of The Rocketeer one-shot, an anthology of three tales by an astonishing assemblage of comic-industry heavyweights!

The development of this new Rocketeer comic project began during the making of the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, when filmmaker Kelvin Mao discovered that Danny Bilson and the late Paul De Meo, the original screenwriters of the 1991 The Rocketeer film, had written an unpublished Rocketeer comic book story guest starring aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart some years earlier. Mao, along with the film’s executive producer Robert Windom, approached superstar Adam Hughes to illustrate the tale, and the project evolved into a celebratory one-shot anthology edited by Scott Dunbier.

The Rocketeer one-shot includes an eight-page story by Bilson, De Meo, and Hughes; a 12-page story of Cliff Secord’s date night with Betty leading to trouble with a vaguely familiar adventurer/archeologist, written by Mao, drawn by Craig Cermak, and colored by award-winning Laura Martin; a four-page story of the Rocketeer fighting a Japanese Zero in the South Pacific, written by Robert Windom, drawn by the fan favorite Jae Lee, and colored by June Chung; pinups by Phil Noto and Maria Laura Sanapo; and more!

The Rocketeer one-shotwill be available in comic book stores in May with several variant covers for fans and retailers to enjoy, including Cover A by Adam Hughes, Cover B by Locke & Key artist extraordinaire Gabriel Rodríguez, and two special retailer incentive “Full Art” variants of the Hughes and Rodríguez art respectively.

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