By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune Content Agency
It’s coming for you. There is no escape. You cannot avoid The Strain.
Mainly because The Strain – an infectious disease that spreads vampirism – has already appeared in novels and comics, and will launch as a
Read more…THIS WEEK'S COMICS
Editor's Note: Due to a schedule change at his "main" job, the Captain's Comics Guide commentary is necessarily limited this week. But the list is as comprehensive as ever, and the Captain has bumped up the cover size to see if you
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
Tribune News Service
Comics writer/artist Jack Kirby is often, and justly, referred to as “The King .” And even though he died in 1994, he’s still making news.
For the uninitiated, Kirby’s claims to fame are many, and stretch acro
Read more…IMAGE EXPO ANNOUNCEMENTS
Image Comics made 12 earth-shattering announcements today
For the first time ever, the eagerly-anticipated Image Expo—a showcase for exciting new projects and creators as they join the Image Comics team—went on-location to
Read more…WARPO PARTNERS WITH DIAMOND COMIC DISTRIBUTORS TO BRING LEGENDS OF CTHULHU RETRO ACTION FIGURE LINE TO SAN DIEGO COMIC CON 2014
Artisan Retro Toys Based on the Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft Make First Public Appearance since Successful Kickstarter
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COMIC-CON THRONGS GET EYE-OPENER AT AIRPORT: 20-FOOT GRAPHIC CARTOON SKEWERING SEAWORLD
Comic Book Company Teams Up With PETA to Make Waves in SeaWorld's Hometown
San Diego — As thousands of Comic-Con International fans de-plane, the first thing th
Read more…Q2: THE RETURN OF QUANTUM AND WOODY #1 (of 5)
Written by CHRISTOPHER PRIEST
Art & Cover by M.D. BRIGHT
Wraparound Variant by OSCAR JIMENEZ
Throwback Variant by M.D. BRIGHT
Variant Cover by NEAL ADAMS
Blank Cover Variant also available
The most demand
Read more…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters #1 (of 4)
Erik Burnham, Tom Waltz (w) • Dan Schoening (a & c)
When a new invention goes haywire, the Turtles are sent to a whole new type of New York City. One with a whole lot more ghosts... and Ghostbuster
Read more…WYTCHES #1
story: SCOTT SNYDER
art / cover: JOC
OCTOBER 8 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $2.99
Across the globe, century after century, men and women were burned, drowned, hanged, tortured, imprisoned, persecuted, and murdered for witchcraft. None of them wer
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DIARY OF A GIRL NEXT DOOR: BETTY (HC, Archie Comics, $13.99): This hardcover, done in the style of the popular "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, follows the thoughts of everyone's favorite overachieving blonde as she begins her sophomore year
Read more…#1 for $1: Action Philosophers
Fred Van Lente (W), Ryan Dunlavey (A/Cover), and Maurizio Rosenzweig (A)
On sale Oct 8
FC/b&w, 32 pages
$1.00
One-shot
Get a taste of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey’s award-winning, best-selling Action Philosophers! R
Read more…This looked interesting:
DIGITAL COMICS HAVE GROWN 10X IN THE LAST 3 YEARS
(Madison, WI- July 18, 2014) This week, pop culture experts, ICV2.com released an eye opening analysis of growth in the digital comics market. In their report, digital comic
Read more…Oni Press Announces Plans and Exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con 2014! Portland, OR (July 11, 2014) – Another San Diego Comic-Con is upon us and as such, so is another avalanche of awesome Oni Press wares! We're proud to present a list of the exclu
Read more…UNCANNY AVENGERS #25
RICK REMENDER (W ) • DANIEL ACUNA (A)
Cover by PAUL RENAUD
DEADPOOL 75TH VARIANT COVER BY TBA
AXIS tie-in!
• The dark path to AXIS starts here. An event two years in the making!
• The Red Skull and his S-Men have already begun th
Read more…For a while after Ol' Greenskin's star turn in The Avengers, Marvel Films asserted that Hulk seemed to work best in group settings, so they had no plans for another solo movie.
But times have changed, and now they are talking about exactly that. But,
Read more…EARTH 2: WORLD’S END #1
Written by DANIEL H. WILSON, MARGUERITE BENNETT and MIKE JOHNSON
Art by ARDIAN SYAF, JORGE JIMENEZ, EDDY BARROWS and PAULO SIQUIERA
Cover by ARDIAN SYAF and JAIME MENDOZA
1:50 Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
On sale OCTOBER 8
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100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- X-MEN #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Another in a series of books depicting various Marvel heroes as they might exist in 2061. With a cover depicting Cyclops marrying Emma Frost, one has to wonder if both of them have a se
Read more…GRAYSON #1 (Sep 14)
"Grayson"
Writer: TIM SEELEY
Plot: TIM SEELEY, TOM KING
Art: MIKEL JANIN
Colors: JEROMY COX
Letters: CARLOS M. MANGUAL
Cover: ANDREW ROBINSON
Well, this is fun.
I've never been what you'd call a Dick Grayson fan. For reasons that
Read more…I wish I'd known about this before I wrote my Archie column!
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