Earlier this week, renowned comic book artist J. Scott Campbell teases out four variant covers for Harley Quinn’s Villain of the Year, a spinoff book featuring a number of the DC Universe’s ne’er-do-wells as they gather at the Hall of Doom for “Villainy’s biggest night.” These variants feature Harley styled in several different outfits sure to make the modern-day Puritan
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On Wednesday, Alterna Comics founder Peter Simeti announced that the printer he uses for Alterna’s web press needs would not be able to fill Simeti’s orders, though the reason was not specified. This has caused Simeti to enter crisis mode, looking for a new printer on very short short notice. We reached out to Simeti to get more details on
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As part of their Marvel Future Fight mobile game, Marvel recently announced a new all-Asian superhero team: the Warriors of the Sky. The characters include War Tiger from Thailand, Blue Dragon from Vietnam, Sun Bird from Malaysia. and Shadow Shell from Taiwan, all of whom are identifiable with color-coded designs and animal “totems”. Looks fine, right? Well, as Twitter user
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I recently received my copy of Zombie Sama, the new action/horror graphic novel written by Billy Tucci and featuring Illustrations by John Broglia (God Complex) and colors by Paul Little. I thought I could unbox it and give you all a sense of what was included and the condition in which it arrived. I backed the lowest tier on the
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On Thursday, Coffin Comics made the jump from Kickstarter to Indiegogo to launch a crowdfunding campaign for Lady Death: the Collection, a set of reprints for out-of-print Lady Death books. Created by Brian Pulido in 1991, Lady Death is a supernatural (and super hot) anti-heroine who battles the forces of evil both in Hell and earth. Pulido made the jump
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In a recent backer update, independent comic book creator Antonio Brice announced that the Indiegogo in-demand store for Brand will close on 2 December, so you have just less than a month to save your nickels and dimes if you want to buy into the book.* If you’re still on the fence, Brice sweetened the pitch by finally revealing the
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Independent comic book creator Michael Derrick (The Abductables) has taken to social media to tease his next project Grayskale, set to launch in early 2020 on Indiegogo. Written by Derrick, and featuring artwork by P. Kay and colors by Eugeniu Betivu, Grayskale is described as a 60-page superhero story featuring a man who controls karma. 2020 may seem a long
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Over the weekend, renowned comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver revealed his work-in-progress cover for Cyberfrog: Warts and All, the upcoming hardcover comic compendium featuring all of the Cyberfrog books from the 1990s. Van Sciver fashioned the new Warts and All cover after Cyberfrog’s first Hall of Heroes appearance, which you can check out below. In addition to the cover,
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Over the weekend, father-and-son comic book creative team Mark and Chase Poulton launched a crowdfunding campaign for Sea Dog and Codename: Kill Switch, a 48-page graphic novel inspired by the action-adventure superhero comics of the 1990s. Here’s the pitch taken from the Indiegogo campaign page: Mark Poulton (writer/co-creator of GRAVEYARD SHIFT, GRAVEYARD SHIFT II, and USASSASSIN) teams up with his son,
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For two years running, Alterna Comics has marked the Halloween holiday with AlternaWeen, a crowdfunded event in which backers receive stacks of discounted comic books (among other swag) to give away to trick-or-treaters. Full disclosure! I’ve backed the AlternaWeen Indiegogo campaign both years, and like last year, I decided to dust off The Splintering‘s criminally neglected YouTube channel to post
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On Monday, independent comic book creators Gilbert Deltrez (Pistolera, Lair) and J. L. Giles (Under the Flesh) launched a crowdfunding campaign for The Deep Dark,* a standalone horror comic featuring bikini babes, tentacles, and Lovecraftian influences. (Hey! I’ve seen that movie!) … Here’s the pitch taken from The Deep Dark‘s Indiegogo campaign page: WHAT IS THE DEEP DARK? It’s a
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Over the weekend, veteran comic book creator Aaron Lopresti launched a crowdfunding campaign for Garbage Man, a hardcover edition collecting both Garbage Man mini-series originally published by DC Comics. These stories are “creator-owned”, so now Lopresti is putting all of his hard work together in a girthy, 120-page volume of smelly, trashy goodness. Here’s the full plot summary taken from
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There’s perhaps nothing more synonymous with Halloween than the collection of creatures known as the “Universal Classic Monsters”. Dracula, the Wolfman, Frankenstein, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon – each of these horrors have been recreated and re-imagined across several different mediums over the years. In March 2019, independent comic book publisher Ashcan Comics Pub. gave a handful
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Earlier this week, the crowdfunding campaign for the action/comedy graphic novel SOS Vol. 1 reached its funding goal. Written by “Chimera” (mysterious pen name) and featuring artwork by Ibai Canales (Iron Sights, The Abductables), SOS Vol 1 includes the first four issues (chapters?) of what Chimera promises will be a 16-issue story. Here’s the pitch taken from the SOS Indiegogo
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Overnight, the crowdfunding campaign for Coffin Comics’ latest supernatural fantasy book Hellwitch: The Forsaken #1 went live on Kickstarter, and has already raised more than $100 thousand bucks. Hellwitch: the Forsaken is a 48-page graphic novel written by Brian Pulido and Mike MacLean, and featuring illustrations by Diego Bernard and colors by Cici De La Cruz. Part of Coffin Comics’
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for Headshot Comics’ Galactic Rodents of Mayhem ended successfully, rallying in the final hours to cross the $20 thousand threshold.* It was a dramatic last minute roller coaster ride for those watching (for me, at least), but that last-day uncertainty never shook GROM creator, Gilbert Deltrez. We got the chance to ask Deltrez a
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If you’ve been waiting for the Jawbreakers: GØD-K1NG* cover reveal before deciding to back Richard C. Meyer’s latest graphic novel, the wait is finally over. Renowned comic book artist Ethan Van Sciver (Cyberfrog) has once again partnered with phenom colorist Kyle Ritter (Starblades) to bring Meyer’s superhero team to life, and the beautiful results are below for you to behold!
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On Sunday, independent comic book creator Mark Poulton (Graveyard Shift) teased a superhero-themed new comic book project Sea Dog and Codename: Kill Switch. Before getting to the details, here’s the teaser image that Poulton shared via social media. (Spoilers! There are very few details) The teased image clearly has a retro 90s vibe, featuring superhero proportions, guns, and dynamic artwork.
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Over the weekend, the crowdfunding campaign for Six-Gun Gorilla: Long Days of Vengeance ended successfully, raising nearly $4 thousand from a total of 90 backers. The Six-Gun Gorilla graphic novel collects the first 6-issue arc for a simian-sized total of 144 pages. Written by Brian Christgau and featuring illustrations by Adrián Sibar (Batgirl, Star Wars), Six-Gun Gorilla is described as
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Earlier this week, renowned comic book artist Art Thibert (Black and White) launched a crowdfunding campaign for Chrono Mechanics, a 48-page book (60 if certain stretch goals are met) featuring a fully stand-alone story. Featuring the creative talent of Pamela Thibert (co-writer), Narwhal (colors), Jeff Eckleberry (letterer) and Render Contender (pencils assist) and of course, Art Thibert himself (writer/artist), Chrono Mechanics
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On Thursday, independent comic book creator Jeremy Lott (Movie Men: Crowded Theater) revealed the first teaser image for an all-new project titled Ptero: Soar via social media. Not much is known about the book at this time, though it appears to have a “science fiction meets the Icarus and Daedalus myth” vibe and is a collaborative project with Daniel Caval
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Aspiring comic book writer A. S. Rivera (AKA Literature Devil) has launched a crowdfunding campaign for Dr. Alpha: Miracle Child (Doc Alpha?), an 80-100 page graphic novel featuring artwork by J. Paul Schiek. Described as a story which is absolutely not intended for younger audiences, Mr. Devil also clearly notes that the Miracle Child story is completely self-contained (a detail
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On Thursday, independent comic book creator Rob Shaffer launched a crowdfunding campaign for DOOM FATE, a 48-page (or more) graphic novel featuring contributions from Simon Pothier, Peter Gilmore (The Story of the Goodie Bird), Vinnie Tartamella (City of Venus), Karl O’Rowe (Deathsworn) and several others. DOOM FATE looks to be well-situated in the classic barbarian fantasy tradition, so fans of Red
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On Thursday, the team at ComixCentral.com announced that their website will be shutting down on Halloween, 31 October. The ComixCentral.com website was created as a digital marketplace for independent comic book creators to share and sell their work, but after a long battle hoping to achieve financial sustainability, the CXC team is waving a white flag. That doesn’t mean that
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On Wednesday, Trespasser writer Justin Michael Ryan announces that his next comic book project The Unclean will begin crowdfunding on Indiegogo tomorrow, 10 October. The Unclean will ultimately be published by Alterna Comics and features artwork by Kristian Rossi (Voidwalker, Trespasser) and lettering by DC Hopkins. Ryan & Co. originally planned to launch their crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, but late
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On Monday, the newly-formed entertainment company Allegiance Arts launched a single crowdfunding campaign for three separate comic book projects: The Futurists, Marshall Bass Reeves and Norah’s Saga. Each book is 24-25 pages and will be available in a “Founder’s Edition” for a limited time. Here’s the pitch followed by a breakdown of all three books below: Three teams of creators have
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Before The Long Halloween, the creative team of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale crafted three Halloween-themed Batman stories for DC Comics’ ongoing Legends of the Dark Knight series. Originally released in the autumn of 1993, 1994 and 1995, these three tales simply titled Fears, Madness and Ghosts would later be collected into a single trade paperback titled Haunted Knight, which has
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Late last week, independent comic book creator Mike West launched a crowdfunding campaign for Body Trade, an ultra-violent, 48-page thriller described as a love letter horror movies of the 1980s. Here’s the official breakdown of the project taken from the Body Trade Indiegogo campaign page: Do you love 80’s horror movies and comic books? Then you’ve come to the right
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During New York Comic Con, Alterna Comics announced that Josh Howard’s superhero action miniseries T-Bird & Throttle will be coming to comic book shops as part of the company’s in Fall 2020 lineup. Heavily influenced by the art of Bruce Timm and Batman the Animated Series, T-Bird & Throttle is a sci-fi, superhero miniseries written and illustrated by Howard himself.
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Independent comic book creator Lewis Michael has been dropping quite a few teaser images for his upcoming project, Chromosome 96. Described as an epic, sci-fi comic, Chromosome 96 is intended as a six-issue miniseries with the first three issues coming to Indiegogo this Halloween, 31 October (starting at $20). While we’re all waiting on All Hallow’s Eve to arrive, you
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