Image Comics Titles Honored With 25 Eisner Award Nominations This Year

Posted on May 16, 2024 by admin

This year, the Eisner Award committee honors Image Comics talent with 25 total Eisner nominations—17 nominations and 8 shared nominations—making Image Comics the publisher with the most nominations for 2024.

Image weighed in with the most nominations in both the “Best New Series” and “Best Writer/Artist” categories out of all the publishers nominated and Kelly Thompson was the creator who snagged the most nominations this year to her name, with five total.

Below is the list of Image Eisner nominees, the full list of nominees can be found here.
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Brad Anderson and Rob Leigh Officially Join Ghost Machine On Exclusive Basis

Posted on May 12, 2024 by admin

Colorist Brad Anderson and letterer Rob Leigh have officially joined the ranks of Ghost Machine’s exclusive creator roster published by Image Comics. Globally recognized as absolute masters of their craft, Anderson and Leigh have already been integral to Ghost Machine’s success since the company’s official launch at New York Comic-Con in October 2023.

Anderson and Leigh have joined fellow Ghost Machine co-owners and co-creators Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Ivan Reis, Peter Snejbjerg, Peter J. Tomasi, and Maytal Zchut, who are all fully exclusive to Ghost Machine for their comic book work once projects already committed to have been completed.

“We are so lucky that the very best colorist and letterer working today have joined Ghost Machine. Brad and Rob bring exceptional talent and a wealth of experience to our team and their passion for the visual absolutely jumps off the page at each turn. Since the inception of the company Brad and Rob’s individual brilliance has been invaluable to everything we do, so we are thrilled to now officially make them 100% Ghosts,” said the creators in a joint statement. “Too often colorists and letters are overlooked in this business and not given the same equity considerations as other creators despite them being vital to the quality, consistency and longevity of the titles and characters they are a part of manifesting. We’re proud to continue to make new ground as creators and owners in this business we love but that needs to evolve.”
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San Diego Comic-Con Has Released Special Guest Lineup

Posted on May 8, 2024 by admin

This year’s SDCC is starting to heat up, and as the event approaches, the release of the special guests for this year has started. Here is the current list:

Charles Ardai: the Edgar Award–winning creator of the bestselling Gun Honey comics and co-creator of Hard Case Crime

Rodney Barnes: an award-winning writer, producer, and comic book creator, most recently an executive producer and writer for HBO’s Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, chronicling the professional and personal lives of the 1980s Showtime Lakers.

Daniel Clowes: an acclaimed American cartoonist, illustrator, and screenwriter who gained fame with his comic book series Eightball, which was notable for its dark humor and commentary on modern culture.

Gerry Conway: is the co-creator of The Punisher, Firestorm, Power Girl, Man-Thing, Werewolf-by-Night, The Jackal, Killer Croc, Tombstone, Tarantula, Count Vertigo, Vibe, Vixen, Commander/Citizen Steel, and many other popular (and not so popular) characters for Marvel and DC Comics.

Naomi Novik: she has written the Scholomance trilogy, the novels Uprooted and Spinning Silver, and the Temeraire series.

Julia WertzL a cartoonist, urban explorer, and amateur historian. Her graphic novels include Museum of Mistakes, Drinking at the Movies, The Infinite Wait, Tenements, Towers, & Trash, and Impossible People

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Official Trailer for “The Boys: Season 4”

Posted on May 5, 2024 by admin

A new trailer has been released for Prime Video’s The Boys Season 4, ahead of the show’s debut next month. The trailer gives fans the best look yet for upcoming return of the superhero satire.

“The Boys” stars Antony Starr, Jack Quaid, Karl Urban, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher and Chace Crawford.

In the upcoming season four, the world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son and his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.

The Boys season 4 is set to kick off the season premiere on June 13.

Hellspawn Spawny Attends Comic Con In Todd McFarlane Productions’ Upcoming “Spawn Kills Every Spawn” This July

Posted on May 2, 2024 by admin

Todd McFarlane Productions and Image Comics will bring fan-favorite “Baby-Spawn” character ‘Spawny’ back to shelves in an action-packed, five-issue miniseries, Spawn Kills Every Spawn launching in July.

Written by John Layman (Chew) and illustrated by Rob “Sketchcraft” Duenas, with colors by Robert Nugent, this bold story brings a hilarious-yet-deadly twist to the world of Spawn.

In Spawn Kills Every Spawn, the character baby of ‘Spawny’ attends Spawn-Con, a convention filled with various Spawns from across the Spawn Universe. Unfortunately for Spawny, he discovers that he’s not even close to being the most popular Hellspawn. Instead, he’s the least liked among that group. To battle his identity crisis, Spawny decides to take drastic action: KILL THEM ALL! What follows is a darkly comedic, action-packed adventure that explores the insanity of a convention full of Hellspawn, and the lengths one very sensitive Spawn will go to in his quest to gain fame and recognition.
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“Strange Girl” Celebrates 20 Year Anniversary With Deluxe Hardcover Reprint Featuring Glorious New Cover Artwork By Eric Nguyen The December

Posted on April 30, 2024 by admin

The complete, boundary-pushing, bestselling comic book series Strange Girl—by New York Times bestselling writer/creator Rick Remender (Napalm Lullaby, Deadly Class, LOW), alongside powerhouse artists Eric Nguyen (X-Men: First Class), Jerome Opeña (The Avengers, The Punisher, Seven to Eternity), and Peter Bergting (Frankenstein: New World)—will be brought back to print in one deluxe hardcover edition this December and join the Giant Generator line at Image Comics. This magnificent reprint will collect all 19 issues of the series, feature breathtaking new cover artwork by Nguyen, and hit shelves just in time to celebrate its 20 year anniversary.

A bare-knuckle, action-driven series, peppered with social commentary and dark humor, Remender’s critically acclaimed indie hit is a must read for fans of Preacher, Tank Girl, The Sandman, and Doctor Strange.

Set ten years after the Rapture, Strange Girl follows a fleeing occultist and her pet demon when they embark on a high-octane road trip toward the fabled remaining gateway into Heaven. Surviving long enough to get there is going to take grit and all the help she can get. Winning over God in order to finally escape Hell on Earth is going to take a miracle.
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Kurt Busiek Teams With Fabian Nicieza and Stephen Mooney For New High-Stakes Sci-Fi Series Free Agents this July

Posted on April 22, 2024 by admin

Bestselling, Eisner Award winning writer Kurt Busiek (Astro City) teams up with self-proclaimed legendary and better-selling writer Fabian Nicieza (Deadpool) and fan-favorite artist Stephen Mooney (Half Past Danger) with colorist Triona Tree Farrell (Harley Quinn, Detective Comics), and letterer Tyler Smith of Comicraft for an all-new ongoing series in, Free Agents. This action-packed, giant-sized, bargain-priced debut will hit shelves from Image Comics in July.

Each issue will also feature a variant-cover character portrait by Kevin Maguire (Justice League), all well as variants by a host of comicdom’s greatest.

“It’s a superhero series with a twist,” said the devastatingly charming, modest and did-we-mention multiple Eisner and Harvey Award winning Busiek. “The Agents were done. They were retired, and had started building new lives, going to college, making themselves a place here on Earth. And then it all starts coming back.”
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Ghost Machine’s Redcoat #2 Sneak Peek Introduces… Albert Einstein?

Posted on April 18, 2024 by admin

The Ghost Machine universe is heating up and Image Comics has presented the first look at Ghost Machine’s next issue of the critically acclaimed, Redcoat, by Geoff Johns, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie, Brad Anderson, and Rob Leigh.

Following the red-hot, sold out success of Redcoat #1, issue #2 picks up with Simon Pure hunted by a bloodthirsty cult. The immortal mercenary discovers his powers may have its limits and the former British soldier must accept help from a 12-year-old genius named Albert Einstein.

Ghost Machine’s groundbreaking creator collective was launched at New York Comic Con in October 2023 and features a global best-of-class lineup of artists and writers whose award-winning and iconic works include a who’s who of comic book legends such as Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Aquaman, Stargirl, JSA, The Flash, The Ultimates, Black Lightning, Green Arrow and countless more: Brad Anderson, Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Rob Leigh, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Ivan Reis, Peter Snejbjerg, Peter J. Tomasi, and Maytal Zchut.
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Watch The “Meet the Cat King” Clip For Netflix’s “Dead Boy Detectives”

Posted on April 14, 2024 by admin

Netflix has released a trailer for “Dead Boy Detectives”, the streamer’s new series based on the fictional detective duo of the same name, and which is created for DC Comics by Neil Gaiman and Matt Wagner.

“Dead Boy Detectives” stars Lukas Gage, Briana Cuoco, Caitlin Reilly, Yuyu Kitamura, Max Jenkins. It is set in the same universe another Neil Gaiman Netflix series “The Sandman” that debuted in August 2022.

Here’s the series short synopsis:
Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine decided not to enter the afterlife to stay on Earth and investigate crimes that involve supernatural stuff.

Dead Boy Detectives premiere on April 25 on Netflix. See the trailer below.

The Fire Still Burns As Cyclops Reignites Mutant Revolution In Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman’s X-MEN

Posted on April 12, 2024 by admin

The fall of Krakoa will go down as one of the darkest chapters in mutant history, but Cyclops refuses to allow the X-Men to be victims. The first X-Man, mutantkind’s ultimate leader, and arguably the most brilliant strategic mind in the entire Marvel Universe, Scott Summers steps up to guide his species towards a better future in Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman’s X-MEN.

Announced last month, X-MEN will be the first of three flagship X-titles set in the upcoming From the Ashes era. No longer living under the protection of Krakoa, it’s a dangerous time for mutants everywhere, and dangerous times call for radical action.

Cyclops gathers a group of his most trusted and reliable mutant soldiers along with the brightest of the next generation to tackle the most prevalent threats to mutantkind, including an existential new enemy that rises out of the remains of ORCHIS. Prepare for a reckoning as this team handles explosive mutant-specific issues without restraint. Humanity can hate them all they want, as long as they fear them.
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