Dark Horse are continuing with their trend of releasing free-to-air motion comics. This week, it’s the turn of everyone’s favourite ronin, Usagi Yojimbo, so feel free to spend the next few minutes appreciating Stan Sakai’s genius below… Full story.
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New Illuminations May Webzine Online Today
Check out May’s Illuminations for all of the major publishers’ brand new series shipping this July. A bumper pack this month as Avatar, Boom! and Valiant have been added to the list of publishers. It also features a look at Daredevil: Born Again in ‘History Books’, some great staff picks for your perusal, graphic novels […]
Nightwing #8 is heading back to press
DC have announced that Nightwing #8 has sold out after just a couple of days and is therefore heading for reprint territory. Could it be because the issue is a prelude to the expansive Night of the Owls crossover? The new printing is due at the end of May. Full story.
Agent Coulson joins the Marvel Comic Universe
Agent Phil Coulson, a key operative for the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, or S.H.I.E.L.D. as they’re more commonly known, has joined the Marvel Comic Universe in Battle Scars #6, which hits the shelves today! Coulson has been portrayed by Clark Gregg in Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Thor and Avengers Assemble (which […]
This Week’s Comics (25 April 2012)
These titles are due to hit the shelves on 25th April 2012. MASS EFFECT HOMEWORLDS #1 Dark Horse Mass Effect 3 lead writer Mac Walters kicks off a new series of single-issue stories featuring heroes and adventures essential to the story of BioWare’s latest blockbuster! Each issue will star one of the main characters of […]
Dark Horse offer ‘The Massive’ FREE for one day only
Dark Horse are offering a digital one-shot of The Massive, the new comic series by DMZ, Conan the Barbarian, and Northlanders writer Brian Wood which will launch in June. This lead-in to the series will be available digitally for FREE, but for one day only (Earth Day 2012 (Sunday, April 22)). If you like the […]
Pete’s ‘Bagge’ of tricks!
Peter Bagge, cartoonist and creator of Buddy Bradley, Hate, Neat Stuff, Martini Baton, Sweatshop, Apocalypse Nerd and Other Lives has a new series called Reset debuting with Dark Horse this week, and he has shared a little of his writing process… “…I used to do everything by hand, including writing out all my outlines and […]
DC ‘Night of the Owls’ Free Digital Checklist
DC have made a free digital booklet available that chronicles the entire Night of the Owlsevent. The booklet features a checklist of all issues that are part of the event, including Batman, Nightwing, Detective Comics, Batwing, Batgirl, Birds Of Prey, Catwoman, Red Hood And The Outlaws, All-Star Western and Batman: The Dark Knight. The digital […]
Top Cow’s Artifacts online for FREE!
Top Cow will be posting pages of Artifacts on their homepage (topcow.com) for free. From this week, you can go to the website and read one page per week for free. As this is the debut week, there are three pages up so far. A new page will be posted every subsequent Tuesday from here […]
‘House of Night’ in motion
Dark Horse have added another motion comic available for everyone online. This time it’s House of Night # “In the world of House of Night, society has known about vampyres for thousands of years, but humans have not always co-existed peacefully with them. In Beregen, Norway, there wasn’t a House of Night established for the […]
More ‘Night of Owls’ from writer James Tynion IV
DC continue their promotion of the Night of the Owls Batman crossover event with an interview with Batman back-up co-writer James Tynion IV. “I could see the epic size and shape of the story as it began last September. I was devouring every issue waiting to see what might happen next. When Scott offered me […]
Dark Horse talk ‘Resident Alien’
Dark Horse have posted an interview with writer Peter Hogan about Resident Alien, which launches today with issue #0. Hogan talks of his ideas behind lead character Harry and his experience working with artist Steve Parkhouse: “[Harry is] the ultimate outsider, and outsiders by definition make good observers. The fact that Harry has more sensitivity […]