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Sell-Outs and New Printing Roundup

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Brett

Check out some of the announced sell-outs and new printings from the past week.

Black Mask Studios

We Can Never Go Home #1 has sold out at the distributor level despite a large overprint. The series gets a second printing which will be on the shelves May 6, the same day as the second issue. It features a new cover by Jsoh Hood based on the original movie poster for the film Badlands.

BOOM! Studios

Adventure Time #36 is the debut of the new creative team of writer Christopher Hastings and artist Zachary Sterling. Finn and Jake jump through a portal and wind up having a spooky adventure on the Moon, not knowing that the evil Janice Bizzlethatcher has designs to fling the Moon into deep space! The second print will hit shelves on April 22.

Giant Days #1 is the exciting BOOM! Box debut from John Allison and artist Lissa Treiman about three girls who become fast friends as they enter University. Susan, Esther, and Daisy are away from home for the first time, and all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, “personal experimentation,” influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of “academia,” they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive. The second print will hit shelves on April 22.

Image Comics

Mark Millar and Sean Gordon Murphy‘s new series Chrononauts has gone to a new printing Chrononauts #1 will see its second printing hit shelves on April 22, a week after the second issue.

Marvel

Marvel has announced that Star Wars #1 has gone to a fifth printing. The new version will be available May 6.

Review: We Can Never Go Home #1

Posted on March 30, 2015 by Brett

A well worn mixtape, a stolen convertible, a duffel bag full of cash, a fully loaded .45, and super-powers. 17 and on the run is the only way to see America right.

Written by Matthew Rosenberg and Patrick Kindlon with art by Joshua Hood, We Can Never Go Home is a love letter to types of story almost no one seems to tell anymore- Crime Road movies like Badlands and True Romance, outcast against the world tales like Pump Up The Volume and Heathers, and character driven adventure comics like Love & Rockets and Stray Bullets.

The first issue of We Can Never Go Home is interesting. It introduces us to the main characters, and a lot happens, but where the series goes from here is up in the air. We’re given some hints as to what to expect towards the end of the issue, but really, the first issue of this series’ focus is on character, and that’s a good thing. Rosenberg and Kindlon take an interesting, and welcome, focus in the first issue, the characters themselves. It sets the tone, that there’s going to be some adventure, characters come first, and we should be paying attention to the details, what’s said, what’s not said, as we read the series. While the description of the series says we should expect a crime road story, the first issue gets us to that point.

No matter what’s coming down the read, the first issue is a hell of a start. I put it down thinking through all the details, what the characters said, and how they acted. What’s on the level? What’s not? I found myself pondering and debating with myself about every little detail.

Rosenberg and Kindlon focused on characters in the debut, and succeeded. We Can Never Go Home #1 is a fascinating start, to what’s one of the more interesting debuts of

Story: Matthew Rosenberg, Patrick Kindlon Art: Joshua Hood
Story: 8 Art: 8 Overall: 8 Recommendation: Read

Black Mask Studios provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review

Black Mask Releases a Trailer for We Can Never Go Home

Posted on March 20, 2015 by Brett

A well worn mixtape, a stolen convertible, a duffel bag full of cash, a fully loaded .45, and super-powers. 17 and on the run is the only way to see America right.

Around the Tubes

Posted on March 19, 2015 by Brett

So, it was new comic day yesterday. What’d everyone get?

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The Outhousers – Here are Some Statements on the Valerie D’Orazio and Chris Sims Cyber-Bullying Story – A very solid roundup of the latest blow-up in comics.

Engadget – The Pirate Bay’s new network is making ISP blocks useless – Interesting.

Lifehacker – How to Get Started Reading Comics That Have Been Running For Decades – Great to see this article on Lifehacker.

The Rainbow Hub – Opinion: What We Can Learn From Chris Sims’ Apology – A very good read.

Around the Tubes Reviews

Comic Vine – All-New Captain America #5

Comic Vine – All-New X-Men #39

Bleeding Cool – Batgirl #40

Comic Vine – Batgirl: Endgame #1

Comic Vine – Batman Eternal #50

Comic Vine – Batwoman #40

Comic Vine – Chrononauts #1

Comic Vine – Divinity #2

CBR – Ei8ht #2

The Beat – Giant Days #1

Talking Comics – Giant Days #1

Nothing But Comics – Invisible Republic #1

Talking Comics – Invisible Republic #1

CBR – Jupiter’s Circle #1

The Outhousers – Postal #2

Comic Vine – Princess Leia #2

Comic Vine – The Punisher #16

Comic Vine – Punks the Comic #5

The Outhousers – Rebels #1

Talking Comics – Red One #1

Comic Vine – Secret Identities #2

CBR – Shaper #1

Comic Vine – Silk #2

Talking Comics – Spider-Gwen #2

Comic Vine – Spread #6

Comic Vine – Superman #39

Comic Vine – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44

Comic Vine – The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #3

Nothing But Comics – We Can Never Go Home #1

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Posted on January 23, 2015 by Brett

The weekend is almost here! How is everyone spending it?

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SRQ Magazine – The Cultural Legacy of Comic Books – Some cool history.

Kotaku – Some Big Changes We’d Like to See in The Next Marvel Universe – What would you like to see?

Around the Tubes Reviews

The Outhousers – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw #3

CBR – Ivar, Timewalker #1

The Beat – Powers #1

The Bet – Reyn #1

Bleeding Cool – We Can Never Go Home #1

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Black Mask in March 2015

Posted on December 22, 2014 by Brett

MAYDAY #1

Diamond code: JAN151091
Writer: Curt Pires
Artist: Chris Peterson
Cover: Chris Peterson
SRP: $3.99
MR, Color, 32 pages, monthly

A washed-up, drug-addicted screenwriter and a transgender bartender stumble onto a Satanic cult’s plan to sacrifice people all across LA (geomapped in the form of a pentagram, of course) and bring on armageddon. As our intrepid, damaged heroes embark on a suicide mission to stop the crazy cultists, even they wonder if this is all really happening or if they’re just plain batshit crazy. Probably both.

The latest project from the mind of white hot scribe Curt Pires (POP) sees him teaming with art sensation Chris Peterson (Grindhouse) for a story that cuts to the very center of Hollywood mythology and depravity itself.

SPACE RIDERS #1

Diamond code: JAN151092
Writer: Fabian Rangel Jr.
Artist: Alexis Ziritt
Cover: Alexis Ziritt
SRP: $3.99
MR, Color, 32 pages, monthly

From the galactic core to the outer quadrants, one name strikes terror in the hearts of evil beings everywhere:

THE SPACE RIDERS

Sailing the cosmos in the Skullship Santa Muerte, Capitan Peligro and his fearless crew deal harsh justice to the scum of the galaxy while searching for the forbidden truths of the universe!!

Fabian Rangel Jr (Doc Unknown) and Alexis Ziritt (The Package) bring you a new and exciting space adventure that will DESTROY YOUR BRAIN! (in a good way)

WE CAN NEVER GO HOME #1

Diamond code: JAN151093
Writers: Matthew Rosenberg & Patrick Kindlon
Artist: Josh Hood
Covers: Michael Walsh
SRP: $3.99
MR, Color, 32 pages, monthly

“A well worn mixtape, a stolen convertible, a duffel bag full of cash, a fully loaded .45, and super-powers. 17 and on the run is the only way to see America right.”

Navigating the halls of high school is never easy. And for teenage outcast Duncan and popular girl Madison things are even harder. They share a secret- they can do things other people can’t. But their abilities and need for secrecy take them down a dangerous path. A love letter to crime/road tales like Badlands, 80’s coming of age films like Pump Up The Volume, and askew superhero comics like Runaways, WE CAN NEVER GO HOME still carves out it’s own path. It is a new chance to fall in love with the lost misfits and doomed dreamers who set off to find something bigger.

The debut creator-owned book from artist Josh Hood (JLA: Scary Monsters, Venom), and writers Patrick Kindlon (Menu) and Matthew Rosenberg (12 Reasons To Die, co-writer of Ghostface Killah’s new LP 36 Seasons).

GODKILLER #4

Diamond code: JAN151090
Writer: Matt Pizzolo
Artist: Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk
Cover: Ben Templesmith
SRP: $3.99
MR, Color, 32 pages, monthly

Godkiller returns for the second half of the beloved ‘Walk Among Us’ arc beginning with issue 4, where Tommy meets notorious bounty hunter Soledad and commences his training in the mysterious arts of quantum-physics-based magic.

Godkiller has grown in notoriety and fandom since issue 1 debuted in October, this is a perfect jumping on point since issue 4 will street alongside the first trade collecting issues 1-3 (100+ pages since two issues were double-sized) also dropping in March.

Don’t sleep on this unique series that earned sleeper hit status when stores demanded reprints of #s 1 & 2 and #3 topped Diamond’s Advanced Reorder Charts.

BALLISTIC, Volume 1

Diamond code: JAN151088
Writer: Adam Egypt Mortimer
Artist: Darick Robertson
Cover: Darick Robertson
SRP: $14.99
MR, Color, 132 pages

Darick Robertson (Happy, The Boys, Transmetropolitan) and Adam Egypt Mortimer’s madcap, psychedelic, transreal buddy adventure about Butch and his best friend Gun, a drug-addicted, genetically-modified, foul-mouthed firearm, as they attempt to elevate Butch from air conditioner repairman to master criminal in the twisted, post-eco-apocalyptic Repo City State, a reclaimed trash island built entirely from DNA-based, living technology with bad attitudes.

GODKILLER, Vol 1: Walk Among Us, Part 1

Diamond code: JAN151089
Writer: Matt Pizzolo
Artist: Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk
Cover: Ben Templesmith
SRP: $9.99
MR, Color, 128 pages

Fallen gods, weaponized orgasms, and quantum physics-wielding technowizards collide in Pizzolo and Wieszczyk’s beloved modern classic about a teenage orphan named Tommy and an escaped slavegirl named Halfpipe who travel through a post-nuke wasteland in search of a new heart for Tommy’s dying sister. “Saga meets Johnny The Homicidal Maniac.” -Aint It Cool News “A horrific yarn of quantum physics, culture jamming, and conspiracy theory.” –Wired

The sleeper hit of 2014, Godkiller’s devoted following has grown larger and more fanatical since its debut in comic shops in October. Collecting issues 1-3 here, this trade streets alongside issue 4 so the two books combined make for a great jumping on point as word spreads of this unique, grimy, beloved tale that is unlike anything else out there and on route to becoming a trilogy of animated feature films