SOLICITATIONS: Red Circle Comics announces Haspiel and Waid to team on new series

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Eisner Award winning writer Mark Waid (Daredevil, Thrillbent) and Emmy winning writer/artist Dean Haspiel (Billy Dogma, HBO’s Bored To Death) are teaming up to launch a brand new series – THE FOX. Taking place in the Red Circle universe, this exciting creative team will deliver an innovative, action-packed superhero story starring the fabled pulp hero.

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SOLICITATIONS: Clive Barker’s Next Testament arrives in May

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This May, BOOM! Studios is honored to be the home of the first original comic series created and written by Clive Barker himself – CLIVE BARKER’S NEXT TESTAMENT. With interior art by Haemi Jang (HELLRAISER: THE ROAD BELOW) and covers by illustrator Goni Montes, the twelve issue comic event is a bold new exploration of religious themes as only Barker can deliver.

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SOLICITATIONS: Zenescope Entertainment gets Screwed

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Zenescope Entertainment has announced that it will be publishing acclaimed
artist/creator Tyler Kirkham’s (New Guardians, Teen Titans, and Amazing
Spider-Man) new creator-owned series, entitled SCREWED, coming in June and
will feature covers by series creator Tyler Kirkham and interior artist
David Miller. The series is co-written by Keith Thomas and colours by
Oracle.

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SOLICITATIONS: Dark Horse Comics and Sequential Pulp announce Halloween Legion

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Dark Horse Comics and Sequential Pulp Comics proudly announce THE HALLOWEEN LEGION™, a new graphic novel written by Martin Powell (MARS ATTACKS POPEYE), illustrated by Thomas Boatwright and Diana Leto.

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SOLICITATIONS: Bill Mumy getting Bluewater Productions treatment

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Spinning off the “Misadventures of the Adam West” series comes an all new adventure series called “The Curse of the Mumy”, staring Bill Mumy from “Lost in Space”, “Twilight Zone” and “Babylon 5” fame.

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Archaia and Meteor announce Rubicon graphic novel

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Award-winning comic and game publishers Archaia Entertainment and Meteor Entertainment are proud to announce Rubicon, a hardcover, original graphic novel that reimagines one of the greatest movie epics of all time: The Seven Samurai. Developed as an homage to Akira Kurosawa’s peerless masterpiece, Rubicon is the story of a paramilitary SEAL team who defend a remote mountain farming village in Afghanistan from the torment of marauding Taliban. Rubicon blends timely themes of fate, hope, and courage with relentless action into a triumphant tale of honor won with loyalty and death. This powerfully realized book is written by New York Times best-selling graphic novel author and Meteor Entertainment (HAWKEN) president Mark Long (The Silence of Our Friends), from an idea by Oscar®-winning writer/director Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), and from a story by SEAL Team VI and Red Cell veteran, Dan Capel. It is masterfully composed and illustrated by newcomer Mario Stilla, whose art projects kinetic force and intense emotion. In addition, the book features a Foreword by New York Times best-selling author and the original Commanding Officer of Seal Team VI, Richard Marcinko (Rogue Warrior).

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SOLICITATIONS: Amazon offers exclusive limited edition Art of Zenescope book

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Amazon, the #1 online retailer, is offering an exclusive Zenescope Art book to its customers, which is available for pre-order now. The art book, entitled The Art of Zenescope Limited Edition (Volume 1) will be released in September and will feature a plethora of the most sought after, limited edition, convention exclusives. The hardcover collection will also come with a limited edition print.

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SOLICITATIONS: IDW Limited announces Judge Dredd: The Complete Carlos Ezquerra, Volume 1

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IDW Limited announced plans to return to Mega City-One for Judge Dredd: The Complete Carlos Ezquerra, Volume 1 today (http://idwlimited.com/series/judge-dredd.html).  This new deluxe hardcover collection will feature complete stories from the co-creators of Judge Dredd reprinted in the original black and white.

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SOLICITATIONS: IDW Publishing teams with Will.I.Am for Wizards and Robots

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IDW Publishing has teamed up with Grammy Award Winning musician will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas and noted futurist Brian David Johnson to bring the world an explosive one-shot in this summer’s WIZARDS & ROBOTS!

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SOLICITATIONS: Image Comics collects Great Pacific

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In the hit new Image Comics series GREAT PACIFIC, the privileged heir to an oil fortune declares his independence from family and business obligations in an extreme way — by founding the Republic of New Texas on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, an island of trash in the South Pacific. But Chas Worthington soon discovers that it’s one thing to take land and another thing entirely to hold it.

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