Dark Horse has announced The Art of Splatoon 2, a girthy 384-page art book featuring illustrations, storyboards, and concept designs of Splatoon 2 characters, weapons, gear, locations and maps. Dark Horse has previously partnered with Nintendo to release English-language art books for other successful titles including Super Mario Odyssey and the original Splatoon released on Wii U. The Art of Splatoon
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Konami has unveiled a trailer for its retro game compilation Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection, which includes 8 classic 80s titles faithfully represented in their original retro aesthetic.* Here’s a list of the games included: Scramble TwinBee Nemesis (aka Gradius) Salamander (aka Life Force) Typhoon (aka A-Jax) Haunted Castle Vulcan Venture (aka Gradius II) Thunder Cross https://youtu.be/KpD5C4lBrIM Here a breakdown of
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On Thursday, SEGA revealed ten more titles included with their SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive mini. Here’s a list of the newly-confirmed games. Castle of Illusion World of Illusion Thunder Force III Super Fantasy Zone Shinobi III Streets of Rage 2 Earthworm Jim* Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Contra Hard Corps Landstalker This is in addition to the ten games already announced, so
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Bill Mantlo was a prolific comic creator before a hit-and-run accident in 1992 caused him to be in institutional care ever since. Mantlo created several characters during his comic career including Rocket Racoon, Cloak & Dagger, the Micronauts, and Rom. It may come as a surprise, however, that despite creating enduring characters that have appeared in video games, toys and
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On Wednesday, Ubisoft announced that they will be donating €500,000 to assist the restoration and reconstruction of Notre Dame cathedral. According to Ubisoft’s statement: “As the smoke clears on the events that unfolded on Monday at the Notre-Dame de Paris, we stand in solidarité with our fellow Parisians and everyone around the world moved by the devastation the fire caused.”
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On Wednesday, Headshot Horror Publishing launched an Indiegogo campaign for Pistolera, an all-new 32-page one-shot comic set in the 1800s. Sound familiar? That’s because the book was successfully crowdfunded on Kickstarter last month. Now, Pistolera creator Gilbert Deltrez is giving those consumers who prefer Indiegogo as a crowdfunding platform a chance to get the book. Written by Deltrez (Lair) and
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Comic book artist Mitch Breitweiser (Red Rooster) has started teasing a new project titled Norah’s Saga, a collaboration with writer Blake Northcott (The North Valley Grimoire) and colorist Kelsey Shannon (Jawbreakers). At the moment, little else is known about the book. Even Breitweiser himself jokingly refers to Norah’s Saga as a “super secret project.” All three creators have previously used
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Over the weekend, Ourorboros (Ori) Moon launched a crowdfunding campaign for a Wicked, a 36-page fantasy graphic novel written by Moon and illustrated by Joseph “SickJoe” Gay. Moon has worked as a writer and editor for several video game projects including the completely unrelated Bloody Chronicles and Panty Party. SickJoe is an independent horror artist who has also worked previously
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Coming off a successful Indiegogo campaign with Black and Red, comic artist Elliot Fernandez has been teasing Doom Kicker, an upcoming collaboration with Earthworm Jim creator, Doug TenNapel, for several months. What is Doom Kicker all about? Nobody really knows, yet. Fernandez is providing the artwork and will co-write the book with TenNapel, and the project is slated to begin
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On Thursday, game publisher Activision announced that FromSoftware’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has sold more than 2 million units across all platforms in less than 10 days. This total includes both digital and physical sales. Sekiro and its challenging gameplay is already infamous for its ability to make some grown gaming journalists cry, but it appears that gamers by the
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Earlier in March, writer Andre Frattino launched a Kickstarter campaign for Tokyo Rose: Zero Hour, an all-new one-shot graphic novel written by Frattino and featuring illustrations by Kate Kasenow. We got a chance to have a quick back and forth with Frattino, who was gracious enough to respond to our questions on the Tokyo Rose campaign. As always, the answers
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On Thursday, the government of Nepal banned the immensely popular online battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). The blanket ban follows a request from Nepal’s federal investigation authority, and prohibits all internet service providers, mobile operators and network service providers from streaming of the game, effective immediately. In a statement to Reuters, the deputy director at Nepal Telecommunications Authority, Sandip
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Comic book artist Cesar Feliciano (Gods and Soldiers) is partnering with writer Ben Goldsmith and colorist Jasen Smith to launch Chango: the Broken Veil, which is scheduled to begin crowdfunding in May. Feliciano has been dropping quite a few teaser images for the Chango project on social media, which you can check out below. The story appears to have some
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Long-time comic book creator James Hudnall passed away on Tuesday. A U.S. Air Force veteran, Hudnall got his start in the comic book industry in 1985 when he became the marketing director for Eclipse Comics, who published Hudnall’s first book ESPers in 1986. He would later work on titles for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including Alpha Flight, Strikeforce:
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“Hey therrre…” The sardonic YouTube personality known as That Umbrella Guy has teamed up with artist Keung Lee (Battle Maiden Knuckle Bomb) to crowdfund The Case of the Littlest Umbrella, an all-new graphic novel intended as a Lovecraftian horror tale suitable for readers of all ages. Here’s a breakdown of The Case of the Littlest Umbrella taken from the book’s
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On Monday, the crowdfunding campaign for the sci-fi/comedy graphic novel The Abductables ended successfully, raising 130% of its goal for a total over $6 thousand. Written by Michael Derrick and illustrated by Ibai Canales, The Abductables is a 52-page one-shot graphic novel about an alien abduction gone horribly wrong… for the abductors. We recently got the chance to interview Derrick
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The 2007 graphic novel Flink could become a motion picture, according to Flink creator Doug TenNapel. During a recent livestream on his YouTube channel, TenNapel mentioned that talks were ongoing with Andy Serkis’ production company The Imaginarium Studios and “the Paddington Bear people” to translate Flink into film, though it’s unclear to whom “the Paddington Bear people” refers (it could
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Writer Gat Hanzo is ready to throw his hat into the indie comic book scene with Vestige, an all-new fantasy/action project featuring illustrations by Donal DeLay (Brutas the Badass) and colors by Kyle Ritter (Cyberfrog: Blood Honey). There’s yet to be a full reveal of Vestige, but here’s a plot synopsis of what we know so far. “Mixing historical accuracy
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Last week, SNK revealed a new trailer for Samurai Shodown which finally unveiled the full roster of the game. Rounding out at 16 playable characters, the roster includes thirteen returning fighters as well as three all-new challengers: Darli Dagger, Wu-Ruixiang, and Yashamaru Kurama. You can watch the full character trailer below. Samurai Shodown is scheduled to release for Xbox
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for chapter 4 of The Elemental Balance was fully funded on Indiegogo. Written by Zain Shenwari and featuring artwork by Luke Horsman, this latest issue is the fourth 4 of six chapters in the full The Elemental Balance saga. Here’s a summary of The Elemental Balance taken from the Indiegogo campaign page. “The
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Yee-haw! Howdy, bitches! That’s it. I’m not going to run with bad cowboy-speak for the entire article. I really just wanted to write “Howdy, bitches.” Earlier this week, Brendan Kamp launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Ballad of Dusty Tortillas, the first issue of an ongoing comic book series described as a lighthearted western. Cowritten by Brendan Kemp’s brother, Stephen
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The crowdfunding campaign for Gabriel Picolo’s Icarus and the Sun has come to an end and it finished quite strong, raising 2,982% of its original goal for a total of nearly $600 thousand. That’s the most money ever raised by a comic book in a single campaign. (Cyberfrog: Blood Honey has raised roughly $800k across three separate campaigns) Icarus and
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Earlier in March, writer Michael Derrick launched an Indiegogo campaign for The Abductables, an all-new 52-page one-shot sci-fi/comedy graphic novel about an alien abduction gone wrong written by Derrick and featuring illustrations by Ibai Canales. We got a chance to ask Derrick several questions about the The Abductables campaign, and he was gracious enough to respond. As always, the answers
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Earlier this week, GameStop revealed their 2018 financials which showed a loss of $673 million in the past year. The immediate result was a 13% drop in GameStop’s stock price, yet again calling into question the company’s long-term viability. This is third full-year loss in GameStop history, though it also comes despite the $700 million sale of its Spring Mobile
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Last year, master delicatessen professional comic book writer/artist Per Berg (aka Narwhal) successfully crowdfunded his girthy 148-page graphic novel Earthbound: Between Two Breaths on Earth.* Some who missed the first Earthbound Indiegogo campaign have been kicking themselves in the head for months. Enter Berg of Judea (maybe), who sayeth unto them, “Lo! Earthbound shall rise again, when it assumes its
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Overnight, the crowdfunding campaign to expand Alterna Comics ended successfully, raising 343% of its original goal for a total of over $8 thousand. With those numbers, Alterna founder Peter Simeti will be able to expand his company’s operations by moving to a much larger storage space (10′ x 20′). Not only will this allow for Alterna to order larger print
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Earlier this week, Sporkman creator Charles Bonetti re-launched the crowdfunding campaign for Sporkman: Goes to Japan on Indiegogo. Written by Bonetti and co-written by Eric Berry and featuring illustrations by Gifney Richata and colors by Ginger Foxy, Sporkman: Goes to Japan is a 91-page action/comedy superhero story appropriate for readers of all ages. We had the good fortune to interview
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On Tuesday, author and YouTube host Clint Stoker (aka Sweetcast) launched a crowdfunding campaign for Downcast via Indiegogo. Downcast is a 48-page 52-page graphic novel written by Stoker, featuring artwork by Ignacio Lazaro and letters by Eric Weathers. The project was fully funded in the first 12 hours. Here’s a plot summary taken from the Downcast Indiegogo page. “Joanne
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SEGA unloaded quite a few details regarding the Genesis/Mega Drive Mini at SEGA Fes last week. The SEGA Genesis Mini is scheduled to release on 19 September 2019, and it comes with two classic wired 3-button control pads, USB power adapter, power cable, and an HDMI cable. SEGA has confirmed that the Genesis Mini will ship with a total of
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for Samurai and Dinosaurs ended successfully, raising 120% of its goal for a total of over $7 thousand. You can witness the moment the campaign met its goal in the livestream video below taken from the Comic Artist Pro Secrets YouTube channel. Samurai and Dinosaurs is a 110-page action/fantasy graphic novel written by
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The Splintering 