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Comic Book Preview – Transformers #1

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Skybound Entertainment rolls out its brand new Transformers comic book series next week, and you can check out the official preview of the first issue below… Superstar creator DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON (DO A POWERBOMB, WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH), alongside ENERGON UNIVERSE showrunner ROBERT KIRKMAN (VOID RIVALS, INVINCIBLE), reimagines Hasbro’s robots in disguise for a brand-new […]

Universal Monsters: Dracula comic series launching in October from Skybound

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Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics are teaming with Universal Pictures to bring the classic Universal Monsters characters to comic books, beginning with the four-part limited series Universal Monsters: Dracula from James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds, the creative team behind acclaimed series The Department of Truth. “A few times in my life I’ve had the […]

Skybound relaunching Larry Hama’s G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero alongside shared Transformers / G.I. Joe comic book universe

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Having acquired the comic book licenses to Transformers and G.I. Joe and quietly launching them into a shared ‘Energon Universe’ this week, Skybound Entertainment has also announced that it will relaunch Larry Hama’s beloved G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero as a standalone series, picking up with issue #301. “One of the main goals of […]

Comic Book Preview – Batman/Spawn #1

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Two comic book icons cross paths once more this coming week with the release of writer Todd McFarlane and artist Greg Capullo’s Batman/Spawn #1; check out the official preview below courtesy of DC Comics and Image… Two dark heroes, cursed by tragedy, find their paths again crossing…but not by choice! What sinister foe is at […]

Full list of all 44 Free Comic Book Day 2023 titles revealed

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Free Comic Book Day is back for 2023 this coming May, and today has brought a full reveal of all 44 titles that will be available from local comic book shops worldwide as part of the FCBD 2023 festivities! First up are the thirteen Gold Sponsor, which feature everything from superheroes to movies, video games […]

Batman/Spawn variant covers revealed at New York Comic Con

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Two comic book icons are set to reunite this December with the release of Batman/Spawn from writer Todd McFarlane and artist Greg Capullo, and during this weekend’s ‘Image Comics & Spawn’s 30th Anniversary! Spotlight on Todd McFarlane!’ panel at New York Comic-Con we got a look at eight new variant covers for the one-shot comic; […]

Batman/Spawn crossover coming from Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo

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DC superstar and CCO Jim Lee announced a long-awaited reunion during his San Diego Comic-Con International panel yesterday as Spawn creator Todd McFarlane and his frequent Spawn artist Greg Capullo are teaming up to deliver a new Batman/Spawn crossover. Batman and Spawn first crossed paths in 1994’s Spawn/Batman #1 written by Frank Miller and drawn by McFarlane. A year later there […]

Creepshow comes to comics with anthology series from Skybound

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The circle is now complete; what began as George A. Romero and Stephen King’s homage to the classic EC Comics horror titles of the 1950s is now coming to comic books itself as Skybound Entertainment has announced the upcoming five-issue limited series Creepshow. “Growing up a fan of horror comics and Famous Monsters, I will […]

Writing Image Comics’ Home with Julio Anta | The Writer Experience #160

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Check out the latest episode of The Writer Experience… In this episode of The Writer Experience, Court and Harry are joined by Julio Anta, a writer based in New York City. Raised in Miami, in a Cuban and Colombian family, Julio strives to tell narratively rich stories about diverse and empowered Latinx characters for Adult, […]

John Leguizamo and Todd McFarlane team for superhero comic PhenomX

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Having first met back on the set of 1997’s Spawn movie, actor John Leguizamo and Todd McFarlane are teaming up to launch a the new superhero comic book PhenomX. The series centres on Max Gomez, a man wrongfully imprisoned who – desperate to regain his freedom – agrees to become a subject in an underground […]