Boom! Studios sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Die Hard: Year One #5, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #8, Donald Duck and Friends #350, Irredeemable #10, The Unknown: The Devil Made Flesh #4, Wall-E #2, and the Cars: Radiator Spring and The Incredibles: City of Incredibles hard covers. All the titles arrive next week, but you can see the previews right now.
Boom! Studios sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #7, Irredeemable #9, Monsters, Inc. #4, Wall-E #1, the Farscape Volume 3: Gone & Back hardcover, and the Irredeemable Volume 2 trade paperback, all arriving in stores this week.
Boom Studio’s has been nominated for three Broken Frontier Awards.
While the Broken Frontier staff are the ones who select the nominees, it’s the comic book readers that get to vote. So if you want Mark Waid, and Boom! Studios to win some awards, you need to head over to the Broken Frontier website and cast your vote before December 23, 2009.
Boom! Studios sent a sneak peek of next week’s Incorruptible #1 written by Mark Waid. If you want to see how the other half live during the reign of the Plutonian, then you’ll want to pick up this issue, or at least take the jump and see what awaits!
Or – “Turkey Fact #12: If You Leave A Turkey Out In The Rain, He’ll Drown… Stupid Bird.”
Every year, I tell myself that I’m going to take it easy on Thanksgiving, and every year, I pretty much feel like a python who swallowed a wild boar. Yesterday, I had three slices of pie, an enormous wedge of ham, and half a bag of crackers with cheese spread, and that was the day BEFORE the holiday feasting. In order to help you digest YOUR Thanksgiving dinner, (Disclaimer: May not be valid in all areas!) we’ve got another line-up of things to be thankful for in the comics world… To Infinity – And BEYOND!!!!!
Boom! Studios sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Irredeemable #8 arriving in stores tomorrow. Take the jump to see what happens when the heroes confront their deadliest enemy.
Press Release
This year, three BOOM! Studios titles have been nominated by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) to be included in its annual Great Graphic Novels for Teens List. CTHULHU TALES VOL. 2: WHISPERS OF MADNESS, IRREDEEMABLE VOL. 1 and SCREAM QUEEN were all nominated.
“Librarians are our unsung heroes because they are on the front lines of getting a whole new generation of teens reading comics,†said BOOM! Studios Sales Director Jennifer Christopher. “Everyone at BOOM! and the creators involved in these three works are completely humbled to be nominated this year.â€
The list nominates books that have teen appeal, including fiction and nonfiction titles. For the full list, please visit:
http://www.lita.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/greatgraphicnovelsforteens/nominations.cfm
Last time we visited the world of Irredeemable, we reviewed the trade paperback which collected the first four issues of this series. The trade followed that world’s greatest hero, The Plutonian, after he has decided that he has had enough of what he sees as an ungrateful world. Since then, there have been some developments in the Irredeemable world, and our beleaguered heroes still do not seem to have much hope.
What’s arriving from Boom! Studios next week? I’m glad you asked, Dear Reader, as Boom! Studios sent Major Spoilers a sneak peek of Cars: Radiator Springs #2, The Incredibles #1, Irredeemable #7, Kill Audio #1, Walt Disney Comics and Stories #699, Farscape Vol 2: Strange Detractors, and the Muppet Robin Hood trade paperback. You can get a sneak peek of all of them after the jump.
If you would rather read your comics in electronic form, then you’ll be happy to hear that Boom! Studios has placed Mark Waid’s Irredeemable comic on the iPhone for all to buy. It’s all part of the deal with Comixology – which means you’ll need to buy the $1.99 Comixology app before buying the 99-cent comic.
“In superhero comics, pretty much everyone who’s called upon to put on a cape is, at heart, emotionally equipped for the job. I reject that premise,” said series writer and BOOM! Studios Editor-in-Chief Mark Waid. “IRREDEEMABLE is, in a way, my third and most complex chapter on the cost of superheroics – a pulp adventure tale of horror exploring how the lessons we learn about right and wrong as children can become warped and twisted when challenged by the realities of the adult world.”
The first four issues are available through the Comixology Comics App, now.
I am reading the news that the Boom Studios comic Irredeemable #6 has gone back to press for a second printing. To be honest, I have been away from comics for a while and some things have slipped past me in the last year or so, this being one of them. With a little research and a nice internet connection, I quickly found out that this was a series that I wanted to read.
Reason number one: the writer. I’ve enjoyed the work of Mark Waid since the days of The Comet for DC’s Impact Imprint. I enjoyed his spectacular Flash run with the Born to Run storyline, and I have bought his Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty complete run twice. I don’t believe that I even have to mention Kingdom Come or Empire, both of which put a new spin on the super hero genre as a whole. Also, he is from Alabama. As a native of Mississippi, that says something to me.
Reason number two: the reviews. Not only have I seen this series get mounds of praise from other industry sites, our own Stephen Schleicher gave the second and third issues four stars each, high praise indeed, and enough to warrant a pick-up.
Or – “Most People Don’t Know That His Full Name Is Manuel Labór.”
So, I have completed my daily labors, overseeing the dozen fellers and gals what make up the current workgroup to call themselves Team RamRod (“See, you’re Arkot Ramathorn… Ram. And I’m Rodney Farva… Rod. Team RamRod!”) and I am preparing to have some spaghetti and hang out with friends, but first I wanted to catch up with some of the many titles that I’ve neglected over the busy last days of August…
RAPID-FIRE REVIEW TIME!
