Okay, sometimes a concept just makes you laugh out loud – then scares the pants off you. That was my reaction to the press release for BOOM! Studios’ 6-Gun Gorilla. It definitely sounds like my kind of weirdness.
The first issue of the six-issue mini-series will be released on June 12th. Check out the press release (following the jump) for series description and ordering info.
It’s only Saturday and already Dark Horse Comics is burning up the internet with big news!
Firs up, a new Hellboy graphic novel, The Midnight Circus from Mike Mignola, Duncan Fegredo and Dave Stewart. Next, Dark Horse Deluxe has licensed rights to creating a line of products based on Powers, the procedural in a world of superpowered characters created and owned by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming – with a limited edition stature of Retro girl leading the way. And finally, Wendy and Richard Pini’s Elfquest comes to Dark Horse in a series entitled Elfquest: The Final Quest.
Follow the jump for details from the official press releases.
August 14th marks the next step in comics based on the popular Halo video games. On that day, Dark Horse Comics will release the first issue in the Halo: Initiation miniseries, filling in the backstory of supersoldier Sarah Palmer. The mini will be written by Brian Reed, with art by Marco Castiello.
Zenescope Entertainment, best known for its mature variations on Grimms’ Fairy Tales and unique take on super-powered characters (Fly), has announced plans to release five new comics titles in digital form first. The titles – Family Pets (all ages), Monster Hunters’ Survival Guide (Action/Horror), SciFi & Fantasy Illustrated (mature fantasy/horror), Guardians (comedy) and Suckers (comedy) – feature a range of genres. Zenescope will also offer continuation of previously published titles that will return in a digital first format.
The five titles are planned for a digital premiere in April, with each issue free for the first week of release and between $.99 and 1.99 after that. The official press release follows the jump.
A few months back, we posted a piece about a Kickstarter project by Zenescope Entertainment, seeking funding to produce a pilot for an animated series based on their comics series Grimm Fairy Tales. It might not be Veronica Mars, but Zenescope and Kickstarter did raise the funds for their pilot and have produced it.
The official press release and the first three minutes of the Grimm Fairy Tales pilot follow the jump. The pilot features by voice work by Lena Headey (Game of Thrones, Dredd), Robert Forster (Jackie Brown, Alcatraz), Laraine Newman (WALL*E, Fairly Oddparents, SNL), and Chris Hardwicke (Talking Dead, The Nerdist). It is definitely not a kiddies’ show. Just sayin’…
Here’s something you don’t see every day – a comics series adapted for radio!
Oni Comics’ Crogan Adventures series is being turned into a radio series by Canadian audio drama producer Decoder Ring Theatre for free download from their website and iTunes. Crogan Adventures will be written by the comic’s creator Chris Schweizer and directed by Decoder Ring Theatre’s Gregg Taylor. Schweitzer saw the jump to radio as a way to expand the series to another medium without losing complete artistic control.
There will be six half-hour episodes, with one available for download on the 15th of each month, March through August. The fiull press release follows the jump.
Spider-Man must lead his team of teen heroes against the greatest assembly of super villains the world has ever seen—The Sinister Six! Season Two of the hit series, ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN, continues as Spidey helps White Tiger come to terms with her powers as she’s being tracked by a villain from her past – KRAVEN THE HUNTER!
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