Tag: comic books
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Rock and Roll Never Dies: Zombie Rock Band Must Be Destroyed
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Press Release: Ink Pen Mutations announced today that their next title Zombie Rock Band Must Be Destroyed (ISBN-978-0-9776361-6-7) will come out this December. The book chronicles the efforts of main character Jim to stop the government and record labels from cashing in on their contaminated talent. Zombie Rock Band Must Be Destroyed takes the zombie…
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First Issue of Ape Entertainment’s Scratch 9 Sells Out
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New All-Ages Title is a Runaway Hit! Press Release: Ape Entertainment is pleased to announce that the new all-ages comic Scratch9 #1 written and created by Rob M. Worley and illustrated by Jason T. Kruse, has sold out from the publisher. This sell-out is an auspicious beginning for this break-out comic featuring a runaway cat…
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Richie Rich Set to Receive Comic Book Revamp
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Press Release: At New York Comic Con today, Ape Entertainment and Classic Media announced that Ape Entertainment will reimagine the classic cartoon and comic book character Richie Rich® for a modern-day audience in an all-new comic series that will turn the world’s richest kid into a globetrotting adventurer who uses his limitless wealth for good.…
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The Royal Historian of Oz #2 Comic Review
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$2.95, Slave Labor Graphics Story: Tommy Kovac Art: Andy Hirsch The first issue of Tommy Kovac and Andy Hirsch’s The Royal Historian of Oz playfully poked fun at writers who regurgitate treasured literary creations while indulging in the act itself. The basic premise behind the series is that Jasper Fizzle, a lacklustre writer who’s devoted…
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Toner #5 Comic Book Review
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2010 Story, Art: Jonathan Wayshak Toner #5 is the latest self-published offering from the innately talented Jonathan Wayshak. While he’s worked for mainstream publishers such as DC (the Ferryman miniseries, Authority: The Lost Year) and Image, it’s apparent why Wayshak has remained in self-publishing mode for the past decade. Toner is bawdy, perverse, irreverent, passionate…
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Magnus: Robot Fighter #1 Comic Review
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$3.50, Dark Horse Story: Jim Shooter Art: Bill Reinhold, Raymond Swanland (cover) Colours: Wes Dzioba With Dark Horse’s new retro-fitted Magnus: Robot Fighter, Jim Shooter takes us back to the year 4000 and the futuristic city of New Am, a technological haven where robots fulfil every duty from policing the streets to working as effeminate…
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New Indie Releases: Star Crossed Galaxies, Because I Am & The Dream Quest of Randolph Carter
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In the second of what should now be a regular mini-reviews post, I’ve selected a trio of indie titles that have piqued my interest over the past few week. Stylistically, they couldn’t be further apart. Star Crossed Galaxy #1 First up is Star Crossed Galaxy from Twilight Pop Productions, the first issue of an ongoing…
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Maximum Lifespan – Dr. Ed Park Interview
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in InterviewsA few months back I reviewed Dr. Ed Park’s Maximum Lifespan, an intelligent and multifaceted sci-fi thriller set in world where medical technology is close to unlocking the secrets of immortality. Ed, a Californian physician practicing Ob-Gyn, Laser Aesthetics and Anti-Aging, financed the book himself, and it has to be one of the slickest self-published…