San Diego comic con is up and running and loads of news has been coming out hard and fast these past few hours, which is nice, because loads of people are waiting for this one moment to make a breakout and make some noise.
I’ve decided I’m only going to talk about the news that I actually think is interesting to me and that I think I’ll buy the work from those creators when it finally arrives on the shelves.
IDW Publishing - I really want to support these guys, but to be honest appart from 30 Days of Night, nothing is really grabbing me as that great from them. Fair enough I’d like to give Popbot a go, but it seems a bit too steep in price, and the other license comics seem a bit eh for me, nothing really grabs me like classic comics I’d like to read from them. I guess the only thing I’d try as well is Desperadoes from Marriott, however I haven’t tried the first two series, so when/if I get round to those comics I might check anything new coming out from them.
Get the news about the new ongoing series. Doesn’t really say if it’s going to be monthly or not, but I’ll pick it up after I pick up the trade for Return to Barrow. IDW - 30 Days of Night ongoing series announced
Oni press - There was a time I was such an oni press junkie. Now nothing they do actually means anything to me. I had a few books from them, where honestly it was just pretty poor, and their golden star really fell for me. Queen and Country became a bit too propaganda as Rucka decided to try and get all his political feelings out on paper and it showed. It wasn’t even done in a particularly decent way, my opinion, so I dropped buying the hardcovers, yes I have three hardcovers from this series, the third of which I never got through. This other romantic thing called Cheat, really felt like it was trying to have impact, which to me felt a bit hollow and as though the writer couldn’t be bothered to get on and finish the story, opting to try and be dramatic. Really didn’t work for me to be honest. It was well drawn and had good craft to it, but the story was abismal. So that was probably the last oni press book I’ve bought in a good long while.
So is there something that might get me back, only one guy really and he’s called J.Torres. He’s brilliant, everything he writes I really enjoy. Haven’t read anything by the man in a while, even though I should check out Jason and the Argobots, but I just haven’t seen it in front of me to go and plop down the cash for it. Titans Go! seems a bit not my thing to be honest, but Sidekicks is still one of my fav reads, absolutely love that book to death. So I’ll be checking this little series out for sure I think: Love is a foreign language
Dark Horse Comics - Well I really like most of what Dark Horse does. They’ve been pretty solid, publishing one of my favorite books in the entire world, Blade of the Immortal in case you were wondering; and a slew of other amazing series. So I’m always on the lookout for something new from the guys and gals from Oregeon. A few things have jumped out at me really:
Samurai: Heaven and Hell, by Ron Marz and Luke Ross, in December. A samurai’s true love has been kidnapped and he searches the world to find her. Well I loved The Path by Marz, so I’m pretty happy that we’re getting something that is in that vein without the restrictions that you would expect. So I’ll be waiting for a nice little trade on this little book here.
Hipira: The Little Vampire, by Katsuhiro Otomo and Shinji Kimura, in April. A vampire tries to find his way to Hell, which is like heaven for vampiresTwo words: Katushiro Otomo.
Here’s where you can find the original posts: Comics Continuum Coverage Part 1
Let’s hope some crazy stuff happens like last year.
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