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Post by brutalis on Nov 22, 2019 7:24:54 GMT -5
Coming in February. Finally a Marvel comic I will actually want to buy.
DARK AGNES #1 (OF 5)
Written by BECKY CLOONAN
Penciled by LUCA PIZZARI
Cover by STEPHANIE HANS
ROBERT E. HOWARD’S SWORDWOMAN IN HER FIRST SOLO COMIC SERIES!
Forced into an arranged marriage, Agnes de Chastillon took matters into her own violent hands to free herself from the yoke of a life she never wanted. Now, the woman known as DARK AGNES, along with her mercenary partner ETIENNE VILLIERS, make their way through 16th century France as sellswords on their way to join the wars in Italy, where the real money is! But when Etienne is captured by the DUKE OF ALENCON’s forces and set for execution, it’s up to Dark Agnes to save the day! But what evil designs are being enacted on Agnes, and will she doom herself by saving Etienne?
An all-new story following up Robert E. Howard’s tales, the swashbuckling saga of DARK AGNES in Marvel Comics starts here!
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Post by berkley on Nov 22, 2019 18:16:03 GMT -5
As with most of the REH comics from the recent years, the artwork doesn't do it for me, from the Pizzari samples I could find online.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2019 14:41:12 GMT -5
Marvel has entered into a partnership with Tsuburaya Productions to produce new Ultraman Comics beginning in 2020. It was announced at the Tokyo Comic Con and this ALex Ross promo piece accompanied the announcement...  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 23, 2019 16:50:04 GMT -5
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 23, 2019 17:42:37 GMT -5
A new writer will soon handle Thor, and it is my fervent hope that they will give the thunder god his arm back, and consign the “future Thor” stories to the realm of What Might Be But Then Again Might Not.
I dislike the sword of Damocles that future stories set over the head of superheroes. I prefer the future to be open, or when it is used as part of a good story, to be seen as one of several possible futures.
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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 23, 2019 18:00:41 GMT -5
Ultraman at Marvel? interesting. I wonder how that will connect to the recent Netflix series (if at all)... they did a very credible re-boot/modernization that I was hoping would continue. (Maybe marvel will continue it.)
I totally agree about RR's sentiment about future stories.. they're fun when they're a POSSIBLE future, especially where there are small bits of hint of it coming, but nothing solid (like Liz Allen starting Alchemax, or Senator Kelly's X-Men stuff.
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Post by brutalis on Nov 25, 2019 9:59:53 GMT -5
Marvel has entered into a partnership with Tsuburaya Productions to produce new Ultraman Comics beginning in 2020. It was announced at the Tokyo Comic Con and this ALex Ross promo piece accompanied the announcement... -M Zoinks! Another solicitation that I will look forward to from Marvel. There really is a Santa Claus  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2019 11:25:32 GMT -5
An interesting data piece about the direct market was accidentally leaked by Diamond when someone mistakenly attached an internal memo to an e-mail going to about 200 retailers about an FOC issue with Marvel...
In the memo it was revealed that...
So there is an actual number to use in calculating average sales per shop for titles now. For example, a book that sells 100K has an average of 46-47 copies per shop, while a book at 20K (general big 2 cancellation level) averages about 9 copies per shop. Of course large accounts mentioned above (like DCBS and Midtown) will skew the average and a lot of shops will be carrying far fewer copies than the average number.
That's also total accounts, so it includes accounts outside the US, not just US shops, and if I am reading it right, buying clubs are not shops but groups of customers who pooled their resources to get a Diamond account (whether they are end customers or vendors who do con circuits w/o owning a shop is unsure).
So it is not an earth shattering piece of data, but it is a hard number to work with in an industry where vagueness of such numbers is the norm as Diamond tries to firm;ly keep anyone form seeing behind the curtain.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2019 21:24:06 GMT -5
Brubaker and Phillips are doing another OGN (along the lines of My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies) called Pulp, out in May. BC has a write up on it. Amazon has it up for preorder. Phillips has been posting art without identifying which project it is tied to, but this piece is believed to be related to Pulp...  -M |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Dec 11, 2019 8:40:09 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone else saw this but I'm totally on board!  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 11, 2019 13:52:17 GMT -5
I don't know if anyone else saw this but I'm totally on board! I don't know if anyone else has been watching the Netflix documentary series The Toys That Made Us, but the TMNT episode featured the reunion of Eastman and Laird near the end of the episode and it was an incredibly moving and emotional moment. It's nice to see that moment may have led to this upcoming collaboration after a long, long time apart for the two. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 17:24:27 GMT -5
Barry Windsor Smith put this out there today...  and Bleeding Cool picked up on the story. No word on an exact release date, publisher, or price, though, but BWS has indicated he has finished the long gestating project. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 12, 2019 17:42:44 GMT -5
Chris Samnee will join Robert Kirkman for Image/Skybound's Kung-Fu action comic Fire Power.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2019 21:08:27 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Dec 16, 2019 21:28:34 GMT -5
Neat! Though this feels like a book I'd be more likely to buy in a big-ass hardcover. |
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