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The Mainstream #1 Has Sold Out At Diamond

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The anticipation for Zenescope Entertainment’s new release The Mainstream has been building for months, and the advance praise at last month’s C2E2 comic convention in Chicago has lead to an official sell-out at the distributor level. Graphic novel fans nationwide have eagerly snatched up copies of Talent Caldwell’s return to comics, featuring the writing talents of Michael Dolce and art by Tony Moy. Scheduled as a full-color, five-issue release, issue #1 of The Mainstream is now sold-out at Diamond.

The Mainstream tells the story of Chicago police detective Nate McAllister and an inter-dimensional police force known as The Keepers as they pursue an evil force that has maliciously crossed over from an alternate reality — with nothing less than the fate of our planet at stake. In addition to reader interest, the series has garnered glowing accolades in the comics press as well.

 

 

Zenescope Entertainment’s C2E2 Plans and After Party Event

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Zenescope Entertainment has announced its plans for the 2018 Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo (C2E2) April 6-8th at the McCormick Convention Center in downtown Chicago.

Zenescope will be exhibiting at booth #609 throughout the C2E2 weekend where the company will be unveiling brand new limited edition convention merchandise. Zenescope will also have dozens of graphic novel titles, coloring books, and art books on hand to be offered at discounted prices throughout the weekend. Convention attendees in costume are also encouraged to stop by the booth to enter into Zenescope’s year-long Cosplay Contest that includes a variety of different prizes.

On April 6th, Zenescope will also be hosting a post-convention After Party Event at Diversey River Bowl, located at 2211 W Diversey Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60647. Guests can join Zenescope from 7:30pm-10:30pm for a night of karaoke and bowling. This event is open to the public, but attendees can also purchase a VIP Ticket that includes a three-hour food and drink package. Zenescope’s special guests include artists Elias Chatzoudis and Jason Metcalf. Attendees will have the opportunity to go head-to-head with the guest artists in a “Drink and Draw” competition. Final artwork will be raffled off with proceeds going to SOS Children’s Villages of Illinois.

Tickets to the after party are available for pre-purchase now or at the Zenescope booth during the convention weekend.

New York Comic Con 2017: Zenescope’s Plans for the Show

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Zenescope Entertainment has unveiled its plans for New York Comic Con 2017, which runs October 5th– 8th at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The comic book and graphic novel publisher will be located at booth #1906 throughout the four-day event.

Celebrate Halloween early, as Zenescope will be hosting a cosplay photo contest during New York Comic Con where convention attendees who are in costume are encouraged to head to booth #1906 and have their picture taken at Zenescope’s “Red Carpet” photo booth. All photos will be posted to the Zenescope Facebook page, and will be entered in a chance to win a daily prize pack that includes movie tickets and limited edition Zenescope merchandise. Attendees not in costume can still take a keepsake photo with Zenescope’s beautiful booth models, and will also receive 10% off any purchase at the booth just by presenting their picture at checkout. Some exclusions may apply.

Appearing at scheduled times throughout the weekend along with the Zenescope booth models will be ultra-popular cosplayer Elise Laurenne, who will be signing prints and taking photos with fans daily.  Zenescope co-founders Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco and Zenescope Executive Editor and writer Dave Franchini will all also be signing at the booth Thursday through Saturday.

Lastly, Zenescope will have over fifteen exclusive variant covers with horror movie and cosplay themes for this year’s Comic Con. Also available will be one-of-a-kind acrylic prints with artwork by fan-favorite industry professionals such as J. Scott Campbell, Greg Horn, Eric Basaldua, Jamie Tyndall, and Elias Chatzoudis. Zenescope fans, collectors, and newcomers will have the opportunity to purchase some of the highly sought-after exclusive content while supplies last.

Shameless Writer LaToya Morgan Joins Zenescope For Robyn Hood: The Hunt

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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 Releasing Three #1 Issues in Early 2017

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Comic book and graphic novel publisher, Zenescope Entertainment, is set to launch three new titles in early 2017 as the company continues to expand its development of original sci-fi, fantasy and horror content.

In January, Zenescope debuts Day of the Dead #1 (of 6), as a Grimm Universe regular gets her own spinoff written by Dawn P. Marquez. The series follows Necromancer Mary Medina who’s drawn to New Orleans on a quest to find the mysterious being known as the Talisman, while a secret and dangerous group works behind the scenes to gain access to her unique abilities.

While not a new title for the company, Zenescope’s popular horror anthology series, Grimm Tales of Terror, returns for the start of a third volume in February. The fan-favorite series continues to reinvent well-known urban legends and ghost stories with brand new twists for a new generation of readers in its homage to series such as Tales From The Crypt and The Twilight Zone. Volume 3 of Grimm Tales of Terror will offer 13 brand new stories and debuts in February.

Finally, in March, writer Ralph Tedesco brings readers his brand new series, The Courier: From the Ashes. After a manmade pandemic virus kills off most of the world’s population, a very different world emerges from the ashes. Eve Harper, a smuggler-for-hire, is one of the best there is at navigating the extremely dangerous landscape and making deliveries to the rich and powerful who have erected strongholds to protect them from monstrosities that roam the wasteland in between.

Zenescope’s Grimm Fairy Tales Returns in December

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Zenescope Entertainment has announced that Grimm Fairy Tales, the company’s flagship series, returns this December.

Grimm Fairy Tales is the cornerstone of Zenescope’s Grimm Universe and its evolution shows just how much the company has grown over the past eleven years. The new Grimm Fairy Tales follows Sela’s daughter, Skye Mathers, who has taken over her mother’s responsibilities as the Guardian of the Nexus. And series creators Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco are taking the epic series back to its roots.

The new series will follow Skye as she attempts to guide those who may have untapped special abilities and are heading down the wrong path in life.  Each story will be self-contained and very much in line with the earlier issues of the original series.

Grimm Fairy Tales #1 features 7 covers by some of the industry’s best talent, including David Finch, Eric Basaldua, Greg Horn, Talent Caldwell, and Josh Burns. The creative team includes veterans and newcomers alike, boasting names such as, Grimm Fairy Tales co-creator and writer Joe Brusha, jaw-dropping interior art by Ediano Silva, colors by Ivan Nunes, and letters by Taylor Esposito of Ghost Glyph Studios.

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Zenescope Entertainment And Director/Producer Jack Heller Assembles Two New Projects

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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.

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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killorbekilled01-coverWednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!

We’re bringing back something we haven’t done for a while, what the team thinks. Our contributors are choosing up to five books each week and why they’re choosing the books.

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.

Anthony

Top Pick: Kill or Be Killed #1 (Image Comics) Praise the comic Gods or whomever for the beginning of another series from Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Elizabeth Breitweiser. If you haven’t read anything by this creative team, that needs to change…now. The premise remains fairly mysterious with the focus being on an individual whose vigilante actions of killing those that have wronged others begins to affect the people he keeps around him. The creative team and collaborative efforts of Brubaker and Phillips have yet to disappoint so this is a definite must read/buy.

Paper Girls #8 (Image Comics) – Fresh from its Eisner wins for Best New Series and Best Penciller/Inker for Cliff Chiang, Paper Girls continues to be one of the best titles being released not only by Image, but any publisher period. The mystery continues to thicken with a monthly treat of Chiang’s images with Matt Wilson’s bold colours and Brian K. Vaughan’s smart, fast paced script.

Tokyo Ghost #9 (Image Comics) – It is unfortunate that this has to be the penultimate issue of Tokyo Ghost. This series has been an entertaining, thought-provoking ride that will surely set up quite the finale from the fantastic creative team of Rick Remender, Sean Gordon Murphy, and Matt Hollingsworth.

Lady Killer 2 #1 (Dark Horse) – Writer/Artist Joelle Jones is back with more Lady Killers! The first series was an absolute delight, diving into the life of Josie Schuller whom juggles between her life as a 1950s housewife and contract killer. Colourist Michelle Madsen looks to pick up the reigns of Laura Allred from the last series and looks to be in more than capable hands judging from the gorgeous, sleek preview pages.

4001 A.D. War Mother #1 (Valiant) – The most anticipated one shot from the 4001 event from Valiant was a mystery for a good portion of time. When it was revealed that it would focus on a character introduced during the Book of Death and to be written by Fred Van Lente, the level of curiosity rose. Once some preview pages revealed the mind blowing pencil work of Tomas Giorello, the attention of many was officially grabbed.

 

Alex

Top Pick: 4001 A.D.: War Mother #1 (Valiant) – So this is Valiant’s mystery comic that’s tying into  4001 A.D., eh? With all the hype that the publisher have been trying to build around it, I really hope it’s half as good as they seem to think it is, because if my guess is right this could be a launching point for an entirely new set of stories in the 4001 A.D. time-frame.

Dishonored #1 (Titan Comics) – I loved this game when I played it on PS3 a couple years ago, so I’m excited to see where the story has progressed to since the end of the game. I’m also expecting this to be less than excellent, but I’m always

Evil Heroes #1 (Zenescope Entertainment) – I’m not gonna lie, this is here solely because of the name. I know nothing else about the comic…Moon Knight #5 (Marvel)

Moon Knight #5 (Marvel) – Moon Knight versus Moon Knight. Just when you thought this couldn’t get any crazier…

Suicide Squad Rebirth #1 (DC Comics) – I have never read anything Suicide Squad before, so with the movie coming this week, what better place to start?

 

Brett

Top Pick: March Book 3 (IDW Publishing/Top Shelf) – The third and final volume of Congressman Lewis’ recounting of his time during the Civil Rights movement. The third volume is powerful on its own, but when combined with the first two volumes you have a trilogy that’s a modern classic.

Jeff Steinberg: Champion of Earth #1 (Oni Press) – This first issue had me laughing and this series looks like it’s going to be completely out there and enough dick jokes to make the 8 year old version of me giggling.

Kill or Be Killed #1 (Image Comics) – Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Elizabeth Breitweiser, that alone is the reason I’m excited for this one.

Lady Killer 2 #1 (Dark Horse) – Joelle Jones is back with a new volume about our favorite housewife/killer Josie Schuller. The first issue is absolutely fantastic and has me excited to see what else is to come.

Sheriff of Babylon #9 (Vertigo) – The best comic on the stand right now. This issue as the various threads coming together and it’s done so in a way that’ll have you amped up to see what comes next and yelling at the comic in frustration of the disaster that is the US’s occupation of Iraq.

SDCC 2016: Robyn Hood I Love NY #1 Single Issue Coloring Edition

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Over the last six months Zenescope Entertainment has been an active player amidst the adult coloring craze.  The publisher’s initial foray, Grimm Fairy Tales Adult Coloring Book has been a runaway success selling out multiple times on Amazon.

Zenescope followed up with Alice In Wonderland Adult Coloring Book and plans Different Seasons, a Day of the Dead inspired adult coloring book due in early fall.

However, Zenescope has something entirely different planned for San Diego Comic-Con. The company is releasing Robyn Hood: I Love NY #1 in a Limited Edition Coloring version of the title.

Zenescope will be releasing the Robyn Hood: I Love NY #1 Limited Coloring Edition at San Diego Comic-Con Booth #2301.

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Zenescope Hits Motor City Comic Con with Robyn Hood: I Love NY

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Zenescope Entertainment will be revealing printed cover art surrounding the newest adventures of the company’s bad ass archer, Robyn Hood, at Motor City Comic Con May 13th– May 15th, Booth #303.

Zenescope will be releasing Limited Edition Cover Art Prints for Robyn Hood: I Love NY, which will hit shelves in June with four cover variants. In addition, at Motor City Comic Con, Zenescope will feature, US Veteran of War, bodybuilder and popular Robyn Hood cosplayer, Nora Aly.

Robyn Hood: I Love NY is an action-packed 12-issue series brought to you by the amazing creative team of Zenescope co-founder Joe Brusha, writer Lou Iovino, artist David Lorenzo Riveiro, and colorist Grostieta, with letters by Ghost Glyph Studios. The series will feature jaw-dropping covers by Jarreau Wimberly, David Lorenzo Riveiro, David Nakayama, Mike Mahle, and much more!

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