COMICS
Image keeps on reaching milestones. This week, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn hits #250, bucking trends to renumber everything! This celebration of all things Spawn includes the return of Al Simmons! …Creature Cops: Special Varmint Unit #1 comes from Rob Anderson featuring cute but dangerous panda-dogs! If we’re lucky, Mud Man #8 & 9 ship this week from Paul Grist. Kick off your boots before you come in here! … Picks this week from LeaguePodcast.com!
Twenty years ago, the comic book industry’s top guns took their pen nibs, pouches, flowy capes and big eyes away from the Big Two and started Image Comics. Creator ownership and the comic book industry fundamentally changed that day when McFarlane, Larsen, Liefeld, Silvestri, Lee, Valentino, and Portacio took control of the business of comic books and the rights to their own characters.
Written and directed by Patrick Meany and produced by Seqart in association with Respect! Films, The Image Revolution interviews the guys, plus Sean Howe (Marvel Comics: The Untold Story), Image publisher Eric Stephenson, Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead), Nick Spencer (Morning Glories) and many more to tell the tale of the early ‘rock star’ days of Image Comics and takes us through today. With the success of The Walking Deadand Image Comics dominating the creator owned market and business model, the impossible dream became real.
We get another great inside the bullpen look from Respect! Films here, highly recommended for fans of these superstar creators but mostly for people of my comic book reading generation. The early ‘90s were an amazing time to be reading the books coming out from Marvel.
The split happened right before our eyes, and like many things no one was sure if it would work.
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COMICS
Todd McFarlane returns to his flagship book as the writer and cover artist for the Image Comics 20th Anniversary in Spawn 220. Jim Downing uses his hell-born powers to unlock secrets twenty years in the making! … Way back in January we told you about the Infinite breakup of Kirkman and Liefeld. The trade of issues 1-5 has been printed and we we’ve been waiting for The Infinite issue 6 to find out just how the evil time-traveling Imperius is! … The summer of Valiant Comics continues with the debut of Harbinger #1 from NYT best-selling author Joshua Dysart (Unknown Soldier) and Harvey Award nominee Khari Evans!. Peter can read minds and alter matter, but what is the true price of such power? … Mind altering picks this week from LeaguePodcast.com.
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COMICS
Terry McGinnis, Batman of 2019, faces an onslaught of 10,000 Jokerz in Batman Beyond Unlimited #1. This future tale is drawn by legendary 90s Batman artist Norm Breyfogle and introduces Justice League Beyond! Preview here. … Samurai’s Blood is finally collected into trade paperback from Image Comics this week. Three teenage samurai must defend their family honor and take revenge on the evil force threatening their clan. Read our interview with writer Owen Wiseman HERE AT DIGBOSTON: EARTH PRIME TIME! … Gamers and comic fans can rejoice over the release of Darkness II and Darkness #100. Written by Phil Hester and variant cover by legendary Todd McFarlane, Jackie must stare in to the face of the Darkness itself! Button mashing comic picks this week from LeaguePodcast.
