Top Comics for July 30, 2014

Fatale #24 courtesy Image Comics
Fatale #24 courtesy Image Comics

Our top 5 picks of the week demands to be different so in part one we highlight four comic books with a finality theme.

Final issues, final chapters, final arcs by some of the biggest creators in comics!

Let’s start with….

 

Fatale #24 The sexy, violent, twisted epic of an immortal woman and men who love and die for her comes to a massive finale. Continue reading Top Comics for July 30, 2014

IMAGE EXPO SDCC Announcements

Tokyo Ghost #1 courtesy Image Comics
Tokyo Ghost #1 courtesy Image Comics

Wave after wave of big announcements from Image Comics at the Image Expo—a showcase for new number one issues from all-star creators joining the ever growing roster of writers and artists kicked off San Diego Comic Con International.

Here’s a list of new books, teams with a description:

TOKYO GHOST by Rick Remender (Deadly Class, Black Science, Low) and Sean Gordon Murphy: Continue reading IMAGE EXPO SDCC Announcements

IMAGE COMICS at EMERALD CITY COMICON

 

Wytches courtesy Image Comics
Wytches courtesy Image Comics

Image Comics revealed plans for Emerald City Comicon including a roster full of creator signings and exclusives for the Seattle event on March 28, 29 and 3o.

 

Image creators including Kelly Sue DeConnick, Chip Zdarsky, Matt Fraction, Scott Snyder, Jason Aaron, and Greg Rucka will be signing at the Image booth (#212.)

Here’s the official IMAGE COMICS, BOOTH #212 SIGNING SCHEDULE: Continue reading IMAGE COMICS at EMERALD CITY COMICON

Top 5 Comic Book Picks for February 19, 2014

 

Alex + Ada #4 courtesy Image Comics
Alex + Ada #4 courtesy Image Comics

Alex + Ada #4 The story of boy and his android girl takes a twist in Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn’s gorgeous and haunting sci-fi love story. Alex makes a decision affecting Ada forever.

 

Amazing X-Men #4 Mutants going through Heaven and Hell to rescue Nightcrawler’s soul from beyond! Wolverine and Northstar are trapped in a frozen purgatory, Kurt just reunited with Storm aboard a demon pirate ship when a possessed Beast was about to feast on him! Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness continue their strange, fun supernatural odyssey to bring a beloved mutant back home. Continue reading Top 5 Comic Book Picks for February 19, 2014

Superhero Labor Union? New From Kyle Higgins and Image Comics

C.O.W.L. courtesy Image Comics
C.O.W.L. courtesy Image Comics

A superhero labor union?

 

A unique premise in a brand new retro themed series announced at Image Comics Expo. It’s jumped to the near top of my most anticipated new comics to watch list – in part because of the writer and this concept.

 

Kyle Higgins (Batman, Nightwing), Alec Siegel (Captain America, Avengers), and Rod Reis (Justice League) are the creative team on C.O.W.L.  Continue reading Superhero Labor Union? New From Kyle Higgins and Image Comics

IMAGE EXPO Announcements

 

The Fade Out courtesy Image Comics
The Fade Out courtesy Image Comics

Image Comics revealed a huge rundown of new creator-owned projects coming in 2014. At the Image Comics Expo – the publisher celebrated a year of creator-owned successes and huge sales while fans can celebrate the next wave of new projects from some of the biggest creators in comics.

 

The biggest announcement: Ed Brubaker (Fatale, Criminal, Velvet) and Sean Phillips (Incognito, Sleeper) and Image Comics signed an unprecedented deal in comics publishing, a five year deal to do anything they want with total freedom, total control, and total ownership over their projects. Continue reading IMAGE EXPO Announcements

Gillen & McKelvie Create THE WICKED & THE DIVINE for Image

The Wicked & The Divine courtesy Image Comics
The Wicked & The Divine courtesy Image Comics

One day after their finale of Young Avengers, artist Jamie McKelvie shares this preview image of his next collaboration with writer Kieron Gillen via Twitter.

 

Announced at the Image Comics Expo: The Wicked & The Divine from Image Comics coming in 2014.

 

The team behind Phonogram and Young Avengers asks:

 

“What if every 90 years the gods were reincarnated?” Continue reading Gillen & McKelvie Create THE WICKED & THE DIVINE for Image