Comic Connoisseur: Image Offers Sneak Peek inside Tee Franklin & Alitha E. Martinez’s horror series JOOK JOINT

PORTLAND, OR, 09/24/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to reveal a chilling preview excerpt from the forthcoming JOOK JOINT by Tee Franklin (BINGO LOVE) and Alitha E. Martinez (Black Panther: World of Wakanda)—a dark horror series, filled with blood and revenge, hitting stores this October.  JOOK JOINT drops readers in the Deep South and introduces Mahalia, who…

Comic Connoisseur: Image Comics to publish JESUSFREAK— an original graphic novel by Joe Casey & Benjamin Marra

PORTLAND, OR, 09/18/2018 — Next spring, Image Comics presents JESUSFREAK, an all-new, never-before-published and sure-to-be-controversial original graphic novel by writer Joe Casey and artist Benjamin Marra. JESUSFREAK is a bloody, two-fisted tale of heroic historical fiction featuring a certain young Nazarean carpenter who is having some trouble finding his place within a world of ever-increasing violence….

Comic Connoisseur: THE WARNING INJECTS POIGNANCY INTO HIGH-CONCEPT MILITARY SCI-FI ACTION

PORTLAND, OR, 08/16/2018 — Writer/artist Edward Laroche (Almighty, Bad Summer) will launch an all-new military science fiction series, THE WARNING, this November from Image Comics. An enormous machine is slowly materializing in a major metropolitan city on the West Coast. No one knows who sent it, or why—except, perhaps, for the malevolent beings gliding silently through…

Comic Connoisseur: MURDER FALCON: GET READY TO SHRED!

PORTLAND, OR, 07/09/2018 — This October, Eisner-nominated writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson (EXTREMITY, Space-Mullet) will launch an all-new head-banging, face-melting adventure from Image/Skybound Entertainment: MURDER FALCON. The world is under attack. Monsters have invaded our streets and our homes, and there’s only one thing that can stop them: METAL. “Music is something that brings me a lot…

THIEF OF THIEVES LAUNCHES FINAL STORY ARC WITH A HIGH-STAKES PRISON BREAK

PORTLAND, OR, 04/16/2018 — Image/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce one last job for THIEF OF THIEVES, the ongoing heist series created by Robert Kirkman in 2012. Series artists Shawn Martinbrough and Adriano Lucas are joined by new writer Brett Lewis (The Winter Men). “It’s been an absolute pleasure working alongside Robert Kirkman, Nick Spencer, James…

Comic Connoisseur: WONDER WOMAN ARTIST MIRKA ANDOLFO EXPLORES THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF LOVE IN UNNATURAL

PORTLAND, OR, 04/16/2018 — Writer/artist Mirka Andolfo (Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, DC Comics Bombshells) will bring her gorgeous sensual fantasy UNNATURAL—originally published in Italian as Contro Natura—to Image Comics this July.  In UNNATURAL, a totalitarian government patrols the personal lives of its citizens, punishing transgressors who engage in “unnatural” relationships. According to this regime, individuals may only enter…

Comic Connoisseur: #WEBELIEVE IN COLORISTS APPRECIATION VARIANTS DISPLAY RADICAL IMPACT COLORS HAVE ON ARTWORK

PORTLAND, OR, 04/03/2018 — Image Comics is pleased to reveal the black and white SPAWN #286 cover artwork by legendary artist Todd McFarlane and the seven Colorist Appreciation variants that display the high impact of colorists on the artistic medium.  A selection of bestselling colorists—Moreno Dinisio, Frank Martin, Matthew Wilson, Owen Gieni, Annalisa Leoni, Nikos Koutsis,…

Comic Connoisseur: A BITTERSWEET ADVENTURE OBSESSION ARRIVES IN ANGELIC, VOL. 1

Eisner-nominated writer Simon Spurrier (The Spire, CRY HAVOC, X-Men Legacy, Godshaper) and star artist Caspar Wijngaard (LIMBO, Dark Souls, Assassin’s Creed) present readers with an all-new Young Adult fantasy adventure in ANGELIC, VOL. 1: HEIRS & GRACES. It will collect issues #1-6 of the series and hit stores this May. Winged monkeys! Techno-dolphins! Quantum alleycats! In ANGELIC,…

Comic Connoisseur: IMAGE COMICS/TODD MCFARLANE PRODUCTIONS UNVEILS FRANCESCO MATTINA SPAWN COVERS

PORTLAND, OR, 03/16/2018 — Image/Todd McFarlane Productions is pleased to reveal jaw-dropping cover art by Francesco Mattina for SPAWN #284—including black & white and virgin (without trade dress) versions. In SPAWN #284 fans will see Spawn turn himself in to the Federal authorities, but what seems like the end for Spawn is just another ploy to…