Comic Connoisseur: IMAGE COMICS TEAMS WITH HERO INITIATIVE NON-PROFIT FOR LINE OF VARIANTS TO SUPPORT COMIC BOOK CREATORS IN MEDICAL & FINANCIAL NEED

Image Comics is revealing the first 13 of 16 variant covers to support the Hero Initiative.  Hero Initiative helps fund comic book creators in medical and financial need. One hundred percent of the proceeds raised by these Hero Initiative variant covers will go toward supporting the non-profit. Series featuring Hero Initiative variant covers will highlight the…

Comic Connoisseur: GARY WHITTA AND DARICK ROBERTSON’S OLIVER ARTFULLY DODGES ITS WAY INTO STORES THIS JANUARY

PORTLAND, OR, 10/16/2018 — Award-winning screenwriter Gary Whitta (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, The Book Of Eli) teams with celebrated artist Darick Robertson (HAPPY!, Transmetropolitan, The Boys) for the highly anticipated new dystopian series OLIVER—coming this January from Image Comics. In this totally new take on a literary classic, Charles Dickens’ most famous orphan is reimagined as…

Comic Connoisseur: POWERHOUSE CREATORS ED BRUBAKER AND SEAN PHILLIPS RETURN TO MULTIPLE EISNER AWARD-WINNING SERIES CRIMINAL WITH NEW MONTHLY ISSUES

After wrapping up the hit series Kill or be Killed, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip’s return to their iconic Criminal series with an all new monthly series in January. CRIMINAL #1 will debut as a double-sized issue, featuring the return of Teeg Lawless, whose teenage son is causing him trouble that he may not be…

Hasbro Shows Off Packaging For Deadpool & Professor X Rider Series Sets

Following the Marvel Comics: Next Big Thing panel yesterday evening during NYCC, Hasbro has shared images of the upcoming Deadpool Corps set and Professor X Hoverchair set. These should be out sometime early next Spring. Preorders have not gone up for these yet, but with packaged photos available, it shouldn’t be too long.