Robyn Hood: Dark Shaman
(W) Joe Brusha (CA) Igor Vitorino
In Shops: Oct 18, 2023
SRP: $5.99
32 pages of story!
Robyn and Ghosthawk travel to the American badlands to uncover the source of the Shaman Warrior’s power. Their search leads them to one of the most evil forces in Native American folklore…and into a battle they will be lucky to survive.
Robyn Hood #100
(W) Joe Brusha (CA) Igor Vitorino
48 Pages of Content!
In Shops: Aug 23, 2023
SRP: $6.99
Join Robyn in this historic issue as she takes a trip down memory lane, reliving some of her most memorable events while battling new enemies-and, for the first time ever, she learns the true origin of her powers. Don’t miss this special Super-Sized Anniversary issue
Robyn Hood Annual: Invasion
(W) Joe Brusha (CA) Igor Vitorino
In Shops: Jul 12, 2023
SRP: $7.99
The Cult of Cthulhu has spread the Great Sleeper’s creations across the world in an insidious plot to prepare Earth for the coming of their master. The Starspawn are nearly invulnerable and Robyn is going to need all the help she can get to stop their evil from spreading across the globe. This action packed annual is filled with guest stars as the heroes of the Grimm Universe unite to stop the greatest evil they’ve yet to face.
Robyn Hood: Last Stop
(W) Joe Brusha (CA) Igor Vitorino
In Shops: Nov 23, 2022
SRP: $5.99
Deep below, in the New York subway tunnels, something is feeding in secret off the flesh of the city’s lost souls. Fighting to save herself and a handful of passengers after a train accident, Robyn finds herself trapped underground and in the creature’s deadly path. Can she save everyone before the killer in the shadows gets them first?
Divine Statues has signed a licensing agreement with Zenescope to produce a line of 1/4 scale statues based on the comic book and graphic novel publisher’s extensive line of highly popular characters. The first statue in the series will be Zenescope’s iconic female archer, Robyn Hood, with a planned release in late 2023.
Future statues will include other major Zenescope characters such as Liesel Van Helsing, the legendary vampire hunter, and Zenescope’s Cinderella: Serial Killer Princess. Zenescope and Divine expect to produce a minimum of five statues over the next three years.
Robyn Hood Annual: Children of Darkness
Writer: Joe Brusha
Art: Julius Abrera, Sergio Arino
Color: Robby Bevard
Letters: Taylor Esposito
Cover A: Igor Vitorino / Ivan Nunes
Cover B: Guillermo Fajardo
Cover C: Ivan Tao
Cover D: Pierluigi Abbondanza
Robyn’s true past and her ties to the Children of Darkness have always been a mystery to her. But now, as she tries to help Mystere and Talisman escape their own darkness, some of her past secrets will finally be revealed.
Robyn has finally taken down the monsters and villains that have plagued New York for far too long. Now, with the streets safe again, Robyn unfortunately isn’t going to get to enjoy them.
After being transported to an otherworldly, high tech, maximum security prison, she must fight for her life from some of the very creatures she has placed there. Will she survive with enough of herself intact to get back to the city she calls home? Find out, in Robyn Hood: The Hunt!
It seems even heroism has a price these days. Robyn’s life goes from being a hero to being a prisoner. A prison filled with old foes, and a strange potential ally. Even as Robyn’s very life is at stake, as things go from bad to worse. Will she escape alive? Who runs this strange prison?
The art is clean and possesses a nice sense of flow throughout the action sequences. Even the prison is oddly bright, almost sci-fi in design. Yet there is a sense of uniformity in the prison (spandex looking) clothes. Even the guards all look relatively the same.
Story: Latoya Morgan Art: Salvatore Cuffari
Story: 8.0 Art: 8.5 Overall: 8.25 Recommendation: Buy
Zenescope provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Zenescope Entertainment has announced that TV Writer and Producer LaToya Morgan will be handling writing duties for Zenescope’s newest Robyn Hood six issue mini-series entitled Robyn Hood: The Hunt with Salvatore Cuffari providing artwork for the series. This comes on the heels of the announcement that Bane creator Chuck Dixon will be penning Zenescope’s upcoming Van Helsing Vs. The Werewolf mini-series.
Robyn Hood: The Hunt is the latest installment of Zenescope’s modern day re-imagining of the centuries-old Robin Hood folklore. The Hunt follows protagonist Robyn Locksley as she’s transported to an otherworldly high-tech maximum security prison. There she must fight for her life against some of the very beings she has placed inside the prison while also attempting to stop a terrifying new evil.
Robyn Hood: The Hunt hits shelves July 2017.
Zenescope Entertainment has partnered with Director/Producer Jack Heller and his newly formed Assemble Media, to bring some of the company’s most beloved titles to film, TV, and the ever-growing new media landscape. Heller joined Zenescope founders Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco at Zenescope’s New York Comic Con panel where they gave the crowd a sneak peek at their first collaboration, a short film based on the company’s best selling comic book Robyn Hood.
The short, directed by Jack Heller, stars Banshee’s Lili Simmons in the title role and will be available via the Zenescope website, Popboom.com, and across multiple social media platforms.
In addition to working on a live action feature film of Robyn Hood, Brusha, Tedesco & Heller have begun development on another of Zenescope’s best selling titles, the anthology Horror series, Grimm Tales of Terror. Like Robyn Hood, they plan to develop Tales of Terror while simultaneously producing digital content around the project.
Zenescope Entertainment is currently in various stages of development on multiple film and TV projects based on their best selling comic book series, including Syfy channel’s newest show Van Helsing.
Zenescope’s third monthly series has been at times one which requires some patience to read. Although it has exhibited some signs of fulfilling some of its underlying potential, it has too often reverted to its previous performance by providing issues that are full of concept bu short of execution. The previous two issues seemed to have signaled a change in direction for this series, as both issues managed to carry a better story without losing touch with the characters that make the series compelling. The previous two stories were standalones, and featured stories which were a bit further off the script of the usual for the series. With the return to the usual format it remained to be seen exactly if the series had in fact made the jump to something better.
The story focuses not only on Robyn and Marian this time, but also on Liesel. Since being introduced she is an underutilized character, probably second only to Britney Waters at Grimm Fairy Tales as a character that needs more panel time. She is in town, and it happens to coincide with a supernatural serial killer making his mark on social media. Although the setup would tend towards more of a mystery, it ends up in another bloodbath battle for the characters, which Liesel even alludes to as what should be expected, both in the story for the characters and for the readers. Meanwhile Marian is dabbling in some risky magic to try to return herself to full strength.
It is perhaps not as bad as some of the stories that have come before, but this issue still represents a step back for the characters and the overall tone of the series. The previous issues show what this series could be, but this issue shows mostly what is has been, a decent series at times, but also one that has never really escaped the realm of being average. There is still some way to go with this series, and hopefully the creative team figures it out, because the characters do have a strong fanbase. In the meantime, readers have to be happy enough with stories such as this one, entertaining at times, but not much else.
Story: Patrick Shand Art: Roberta Ingranata
Story: 6.6 Art: 6.6 Overall: 6.6 Recommendation: Pass
