Author: Stephen Schleicher

If you are in the Los Angeles area, you might want to head down to Meltdown Comics and Collectibels on Wednesdays in January to see if you get your purchases rung up by Boom! Studios Editor in Chief Mark Waid. Last week Boom! Studios staffers descended on Meltdown Comics to great regulars and to promote the company release of Hexed #1.  The event went well so for the rest of January the Boom! crew will show up at Meltdown to promote the company’s latest releases, and I bet if you ask, sign a few things for you. “Some of the…

On sale this week is the latest issue of Witchblade, featuring Sara Pezzini taking on the Angel of Death.  Top Cow sent Major Spoilers  a sneak peek of the issue that you can see after the jump.

It’s still January, so why not try and cram in as many Top 10 lists as we can?  The latest comes from Diamond Comic Distributors who sent us the top selling comics and graphic novels list for 2008.  Can’t say I’m surprised by the results, as anyone who follows the Top 300 list each month can see those trending titles.

I’m sure if I had left the headline as Prove Your a Freak and Win, we would have received a ton of very interesting entries.  Instead, this contents is put on by Image Comics to support its Proof title by Alex Grecian and Riley Rossmo. “Since issue number one, Riley and I have been blessed with a terrific fan base who often go out of their way with grassroots efforts to promote the series,” Grecian said. “The Prove You’re A PROOF Freak contest takes it one step further, by giving fans the chance to show off their fandom in a…

Marvel has announced its interpretation of Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz # has sold out at the distributor level (although there may be copies available at your comic shop), prompting the company to go back to press with a second printing – complete with a variant cover. The variant cover for this issue, isn’t something from the inside of the book, but rather a new cover by artist Skottie Young.

Oh the joys of YouTube.  Check out the crime fighting duo of Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit.

Don’t read this late at night…or a month after the last issue My biggest problem with Kull is that so much of his mythos has been wrapped into the Conan mythos that telling one from the other is often difficult.  This is especially true when it comes to the serpent cult, which has appeared in Conan comics from the 1970’s  and in the Conan animated series.  Strip off King Kull’s wardrobe, and feature him sneaking around the castle in his skivvies, and the line between the two – at least in this issue – is wiped away.

This week on the Major Spoilers Podcast, the crew will be reviewing the Hybrid trade paperback from Studio 407: When four friends decide to rent a schooner for the day, everything is smooth sailing until they encounter a derelict ship adrift in the ocean – a massive trawler that looks as if it had been dragged from the bottom of the sea.  When they spot a frightened little girl waving at them from the bow, they have no choice but to investigate.  As they get closer to the ship, they discover that the girl is not alone, and that a…

Here is the New Comic Release list for comics scheduled to be in stores January 14, 2009. There may be items on this list that are not shipped at the last minute, or new material may be added. Check with your local retailer for more details. This list was last updated January 11, 2009.

While the human undead genre may be tapped out, Studio 407 plans on taking the zombie genre to a new level with alien zombies in its new series Netherworld. “I’ve been writing genre for as long as I can remember. So, I was kicking around a novel idea and was trying to describe the creature concept in the story to a friend and made the off-hand comment, “well it’s not like they’re alien zombies or anything…” Jones continues “And I stopped. And I thought, hmm…. that would be kind of awesome. Alien zombies. Hell, I gotta write that! And suddenly,…

Bluewater Productions has announced Caroline Kennedy will be the next featured influential woman in the company’s Female Force comic series. Bluewater chose Kennedy as its next comic book subject before the news broke of her interest in New York politics. “She was on the short list before all the hype about the Senate seat. She is an amazing person who has done a lot for education,” said publisher Darren G. Davis. “I hope readers enjoy my rendition of one of the most influential families in political history,” said artist Vinnie Tartamella. The issue is expected to be in stores in…

We usually don’t get too many solicitations for trade paperbacks from Archie Comics, but the company’s Freshman Year story was popular enough to be collected into The High School Chronicles Volume One: Freshman Year. In the “Freshman Year” saga, originally presented in the pages of ARCHIE #587-591, readers finally learned the back-story behind Riverdale’s fabled cast of characters.  This new classic is now set to join the list of other famous comic book “prequels” as all four stories are collected together in the first edition of “The High School Chronicles!”  This handsome trade paperback collection will make an excellent addition…

Marvel has announced its newest series, Fantastic Force will debut in April 2009. In my world, it grew out of fan response.But in the world of [Fantastic Four writer] Mark Millar, he probably knew this was going to spin out all along. Millar is a conniving, wee bastard and he has his ways about these things. He’s leprechaun tricky.  But the reaction to the characters in Fantastic Four was very strong, and the writer, Joe Ahearne, is hitting it out of the park. In his latest MyCup o’ Joe, Marvel Comics Editor in Chief Joe Quesada, explains the series and…

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