Or – “No, It’s Not Spelled Mar-Vell At This Point, Thank You Very Much.”
Before 1982, Captain Marvel existed mostly as a way for Marvel Comics to thumb their nose at the Distinguished Competition. What, you ask, would be the story to finally change that situation? I’ll warn you, it ain’t like your average episode of ‘Happy Days.’ Your Major Spoilers (retro) review awaits!
Harbor Moon, the graphic novel by Ryan Colucci, Dikran Ornekian, and Pawel Sambor is available now, and if you are looking for a reason to pick it up, take a look at the trailer created to promote the book.
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Arcana Studios, one of the world’s top producers of graphic novels, is pleased to announce that they are partnering with Framelight to co-produce big screen adaptations of El Arsenal and Frozen Wasteland, two of their popular graphic novels.
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The number one comic for six months straight, “Archie: Will You Marry Me?†has continued the legacy it began last August when the announcement of Archie’s proposal wowed major news and media outlets from The New York Times and CBS to BBC and PRI’s The World, and made the front page of major newspapers across the globe. Archie Comics has finally surrendered to monstrous international demands and continuous public outcry by wedding the full marriage storyline and epilogue into one monumental graphic novel, “The Archie Wedding: Archie in Will You Marry Me?†that arrives March 10th.
Comic nerds in love. Sounds like the perfect story for a movie, a web comic, or a graphic novel. Oni Press snagged the graphic novel concept and is releasing Love Buzz this week. The company provided us with a sneak peek of the 168 page graphic novel, that you can read after the jump.
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The third volume of Chris Grine’s Eisner Award-nominated graphic novel series Chickenhare debuts November 27 in an all-new format — free, online, and in full color!
In Chickenhare Vol. 3: Fish & Grymps, Grine’s delightfully odd cast of characters—Chickenhare, Abe, Meg, Banjo, and Scabby—find themselves trapped on a mysterious island where danger lurks around every bend, and where a crazed scientist conducts unnatural, sinister experiments as a way of “making†new friends. The new webcomic will be published twice a week, every Tuesday and Friday, at www.chickenhare.com.
SLG Publishing has announced its upcoming Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer graphic novel will hit store shelves in September.
Drawing inspiration from the original story by Carlo Collodi, in which Pinocchio remains a wooden puppet at the end, Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins imagined a dark continuation to Pinocchio’s story. Vampires overrun the peaceful town of Nasolungo, and the only one who is willing to fight them (and even believe that they exist) is Pinocchio, who has discovered that his growing nose comes in handy for impaling the undead. While avenging the death of his slain father, Pinocchio discovers the vampires have a deeper agenda than the mere sucking of blood.
This is like whipped cream on chocolate ice cream.
Artist Dusty Higgins, who created Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer, sets the tone with heavily shadowed pages matched with delightfully designed characters, such as the heavily mustachioed Cherry, the carpenter who creates a crossbow he dubs “The Monsteriminator” to help Pinocchio fight the vampires. Still, Higgins notes, “We approached the story as if perhaps Pinocchio wasn’t meant to live happily ever after. Maybe because of his ‘abilities’ he was actually meant to slay vampires. With a continual supply of wooden stakes and no flesh or blood to worry about, he’s the really the perfect weapon against the undead bloodsucking menace.”
It’s certainly a different take on fairy tales and vampires, and it may be just enough out there to work.
Hailed across the world for his unparalleled storytelling, comics auteur Stan Sakai sets the bar even higher with Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai—writing, hand-painting, and lettering a thrilling original story.