Courtesy of Top Cow Productions
March will mark the highly anticipated release of Powerstorm: Top Cow Edition in stores. Powerstorm is a non-collectible, customizable card game that focuses on replicating comic book battling action. The game’s core mechanic is a blow-by-blow boxing match-style approach where every blow against your opponent’s characters counts. Powerstorm is two games in one: starter decks can be played using the casual, Euro-style Training Wheels rules, or used with the advanced, tournament-oriented Comprehensive Rules.
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Courtesy of Image Comics
Image Comics is pleased to announce that the first issue of DYNAMO 5 has sold out at Diamond. Featuring an action-packed superhero story with an astonishing cliffhanger ending, fans are certain to be back for more. Writer Jay Faerber and and artist Mahmud A. Asrar officially have a hit! A new printing of DYNAMO 5 #1 with an all new cover will soon be available through Diamond Comics Distributors.
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Courtesy of Platinum Studios
Platinum Studios is proud to announce that the winning entry in the 2006 Comic Book Challenge, Hero By Night, will be hitting store shelves on March 21, 2007. This will be the first issue of a four-issue monthly miniseries.
The story revolves around Jack King, who finds the lair of a vanished superhero in his apartment building and decides to auction off some of the memorabilia. But, Jack’s efforts to cash in attract the attention of the hero’s arch-enemy — a villain even the Hero By Night couldn’t destroy.
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Reviewed by Matt Butcher / Writer for Independent Propaganda
Featuring the talents of: Radames Malave Jr., Justin Riley, Joel J. Cotejar, Alan Evans, Jason DeGroot, Giuseppe Pica, Dan Head, John Ruiz
Some great new talent surfaces at Workshed Studio. Stylish new artists have an outlet and are showcasing some great stuff.
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Courtesy of IDW Publishing
He has the most famous tongue in the world. He created the two-fingered “horns” salute everyone uses at sports events (and, of course, they all stick their tongues out while doing the salute). Did we mention he also spits fire, throws up blood and has probably bedded down your sister?
Mostly, he has grown up with, deeply loves and knows more about comic books than you would imagine. He will reel off who lettered (!!!) the first six issues of almost any Marvel comic, and tell you with certainty about the history of the medium (whether you ask him to or not). So great is his love for the art form, that his college paper was (rightfully) called ‘THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PANEL GRAPHIC ART FORM.’ Grade? A+. And, when this soon-to-be Demon was teaching sixth grade in Spanish Harlem (!!!), he brought in a Spider-Man comic to use as a teaching device.
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Courtesy of Image Comics
Norma Balitzer has her own brand of justice. An average foster mother by outward appearance, Balitzer takes in her young wards and trains them to be deadly contract killers in her private war on pedophiles, rapists, and murderers. When Dravis Trucker comes under Norma’s unique brand of foster care, his hopes for a normal life become a struggle for survival. This May, Shadowline presents the controversial three-issue thriller WARD OF THE STATE!
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Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics
Following the book’s release yesterday, Dark Horse will be going back to print on the much anticipated first issue of Buffy: Season 8. Since the book was announced last summer, Dark Horse has garnered a great deal of attention both in and outside of the comic market. With high profile press coverage, buzz among fans, and excitement from direct market retailers, orders exceeded the initial printing of over 100,000 copies!
“Admittedly, our expectations were already gigantic, but this has surpassed even those” says Dirk Wood, Director of Marketing. “We couldn’t be happier about how this has launched, and have high hopes for upcoming issues.”
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Courtesy of IDW Publishing
The art of satire always seems most absent at times when it’s most needed. But IDW Publishing is here to fill a void by taking a left turn in more ways than one. The comic book publisher is pleased to announce that they are bringing back the noble tradition of politically minded trading cards with a new set that celebrates the world in which we live even as it points out the foibles of those in charge.
Coming in May is George W, Bush and the Weapons of Mass Distraction, a 36-card boxed set of illustrated trading cards that looks at all the political figures you’ve come to know and “love,” complete with notable facts and their career “highlights,” their quotable quotes and jibes.
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Written by Todd Yunker / Writer for Independent Propaganda
May your Rolodex runneth over…
If you want to get anywhere in the business you will need to started networking, the sooner the better. I know, I know, you are exploring writing as a career. It doesn’t hurt to get involved with other writers on some level.
Writers groups are very good at helping you get in contact with other writers and some of the people you meet can potentially help you. You should look at joining one. A membership will help you find others who have the same interests and maybe swap scripts and critique each others work. Read more
Courtesy of Overdue Media
Overdue Media, publisher of the popular daily comic strip Unshelved, has hired Jim Demonakos as its Senior Business Strategist.
Jim Demonakos brings a variety of experiences to this newly created position. Most recently he was Public Relations and Marketing Coordinator for Image Comics, a major publisher of comics and graphic novels. Demonakos is also organizer of Seattle’s immensely successful Emerald City ComiCon, and owner of the Comic Stop chain of comic book stores in the Seattle area.
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