Fearful Symmetry Welcome back to another edition of ATR.    These are, of course, pages from Marvel’s new ongoing Ghost Rider series by Daniel Way, Javier Salteres and Mark Texeira, which is coming out in July. This Has A “Noble Kale” Factor of Nine Out of Ten
By Your Command Among the good news to come out this week, one of my favorite creators, Rick Remender is slated to write the Classic Battlestar Galactica series for Dynamite. I’m trying to find out who the artist attached is, but nobody is talking just yet. But I did hear that Dave Dorman is onboard for the covers… This Has A “Many Yarons Ago” Factor of Eight Out of Ten
People Are Strange There’s been some interesting crossover between music and comics as of late. A few weeks back, there was a rumor about Neil Young working on a project for Vertigo. Now there’s a rumor that Marilyn Manson is going to make a guest appearance in Emily The Strange #3. Not a parody or a thinly veiled caricature, but the actual man himself will be teaming up with Emily in one of the stories, similar to the feature with The Damned from the first issue. An in-character interview is also expected… In other Dark Horse news heard this week, Hiroaki Samura (Blade of the Immortal) is working on two new stories for an Ohikkoshi collection, which is coming out in October. This Has A “Posse Cat” Factor of Seven Out of Ten
Blade of Destiny Some pages from the recently released Witchblade manga have shown up online over at Heisei Democracy.  The manga is entitled: Witchblade: Takeru, with the creative team of Kobayashi Yasuko and Sumita Kazasa. According to the reviewer, it has little or nothing to do with the Witchblade anime currently airing in Japan.
 Where exactly is she pulling that sword from?          This Has A “No Pez” Factor of Eight Out of Ten
Eight Days A Week Regular readers of Heidi MacDonald’s The Beat should recognize this “mystery Adam Hughes image” that was posted earlier this week.  I’ve been told that this will be the cover to an Image anthology book called 24/Seven that will be coming out in July. It’s going to be in full color with contributions from several well-known comic creators, including Alex Maleev, Mike Oeming, Esad Ribic, Eduardo Risso and Ben Templesmith. And I hear that’s just the tip of the iceberg… This Has A “My Life As A Robot” Factor of Nine Out of Ten
The Gods Are Dead In less pleasant Image related news, I hear that the second issue of the Small Gods miniseries has been canceled due to low sales. And the Small Gods forum on the Image boards (http://www.imagecomics.com/messageboard/) appears to have been removed… This Has A “Dead Man’s Hand” Factor of Six Out of Ten
However there is some good news for another company that was seemingly imperiled by Diamond’s new order policies. Claypool editor and Deadbeats writer/artist, Richard Howell checked in this week with a brief update:
We intend to expand the makeup and content of our website (http://www.claypoolcomics.com/) substantially in the near future, and that definitely includes the option that Deadbeats (and perhaps Soulsearchers, too) could begin to feature web-only content in the near future, but that decision's up in the air also. (Basically, we've had a sword hanging over our heads for about four months now, and it makes long-term planning a bit dicey.)
Bendin’ Like Benes Hey… why didn’t someone tell me Ed Benes had a blog? I love this guy’s art…    This Has A “Powerhouse” Factor of Ten Out of Ten
A New Curse One of our overseas ATR Agents has sent word of a new British company called Praxis Comics, which will be launching at San Diego this year. He also passed along art from one of their first titles: Scarlett's Curse by Trevor Lee Landolt and Jeanine Henning.  More information might be forthcoming at this year’s Bristol Comic Expo. Speaking of Bristol, I’m not going to be able to make it this year, but I understand that SBC will be well represented there. Stay tuned for further details… This Has A “Rising Savior” Factor of Seven Out of Ten
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright And finally, we have David Mack’s cover for the second issue of the new White Tiger series. Enjoy.  And that’s it for this week. See you in seven. Later, Blair PS If anyone has any rumors, stories or news to share, please email me at blairm@silverbulletcomicbooks.com. Thanks to everyone who has been sending stuff in. It’s greatly appreciated. |
