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The solicitations in Diamond's Previews for issue nine of Image's Skullkickers were playful, offering "In this issue: More of the same! What? The same!" as the fantasy comedy continues its path of sword'n'sorcery'n'saucery. But I'be just come across an advance look at the solicitation for August And it has reached new levels of oddness. "This issue has[...]

And there are two new Image issue one titles coming out. Of late there has been massive speculator interest over new Image comics, as a result of Walking Dead, Chew, Morning Glories,Skullkickers, 27, Butcher Baker, Green Wake and Nonplayer flying off the shelves, up the walls and eBay bids So as a reult, there's going to[...]

Image has had a spate of issue number ones that have kick started the speculator market over the last couple of years, from Walking Dead to Chew to Morning Glories to Skullkickers to 27 to Butcher Baker to Green Wake to Nonplayer. But the all-ages books have never had quite the same love from those wanting[...]

From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I wonder if we'll get a Bluewater biographical comic. From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I wonder if we'll get a Bluewater biographical comic. From Savage Dragon #145 by Erik Larsen, from Image Comics. Speculator Watch, anyone? Say, I[...]

Here are a few scenes from Super Dinosaur, published on Wednesday. And here is Strontium Dog from 2000AD created… a wee while before that. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust[...]

Oh and it's a new issue one from Image. You know what happens to those don't you? There's a little part of my brian that looks at this and thinks "I bet Robert Kirkman saw Axe Cop and said "Yeah, that's all very well and good, but imagine what an actual adult could come up with"[...]

He's been in and out of jail for years posing as a variety of people from a marine, a laison to the White House, a TV producer, an events co-ordinator for Disney Comics, a theatre operator, and much more. He's currently claiming to have founded Reed Expo's C2E2 comic convention in Chicago, to be involved with[...]

A new comic, Repulse, coming from Image Comics in July from Szymon Kudranski… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwKfFWFL5pg[/youtube] A new comic, Repulse, coming from Image Comics in July from Szymon Kudranski… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwKfFWFL5pg[/youtube] A new comic, Repulse, coming from Image Comics in July from Szymon Kudranski… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwKfFWFL5pg[/youtube] [...]

From December last year on Mitch Edmondson's blog. This is a pinup I did that you can currently find in Nathan Edmondson and Brett Weldele's THE LIGHT Tpb from Image Comics. It's a pretty rad story, you should check it out. Why am I in it, you might ask? Well Nathan [Edmondson] and I are cooking up something[...]

At Wondercon, the comic store Isotope, the website iFanboy and publisher Image put on a Walking Dead Zombie Bar Crawl with Robert Kirkman. The rest of the Survival Guide that James Sime of Isotope put together for the event can be found here… but first here's a little video of the event with Robert Kirkman[...]

In 2006, Image published the oneshot, '68, a zombie tale set during the Vietnam War in the same year that Night Of The Living Dead was released. Five years later it's coming back as a mini-series, by original team Mark Kidwell, Nat Jones and Jay Fotos, with Tim Vigil and more spinoffs to follow. What with The[...]

Well, it seems like everything anyway. We know that Butcher Baker #1 is getting a second print, with the second issue racing around the corner. Now we

Wordless panels take a relative age to read, the eye drawn across each blade of grass, each leaf of each perfectly composed image, making up a the full reality of each page The timing, the panel size, perfectly pulls the reader along, even as they want to stay and linger This creates a richer experience[...]

I've got a lot of story territory to cover, what with the island and the polar bear and the smoke mon– my God, I've said too much. Would you pick up a comic book if you heard it was set in a videogame and was a bit like the Matrix sequels? Well, it worked on Image[...]

On Saturday, a copy of Butcher Baker The Righteous Maker #1 by Joe Casey and Mike Huddleston from Image Comics sold for $26 on eBay, three days after it was published at $2.99 Quite a remarkable market jump, though by yesterday copies were selling for closer to $20. And Nonplayer #1 from Nate Simpson also from[...]

@NateSonOfSimp is gonna be huge… philipsytan know what's d best thing I came across in Wondercon so far? NateSimpson's #NONPLAYER from image comics. Dang I'm jealous o how pretty it is theblairbutler side note: Just read #wondercon purchases Nonplayer 1 and Walking Dead 83 Mind = Blown BridgeCityComx Coming in on Wednesday: NONPLAYER #1, one of the BEST[...]

This is the new look for Invincible by Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley, coming next year. With a new character, seemingly, in the blue and gold.

There seems to be a spate of upcoming new Image launches with colours in a similarly-structured title Green Wake, Blue Estate and now The Red Wing. The art from Nick Pitarra's blog is pretty gorgeous But the thing that should get the orders rising is that it's written by Human Torch slaughterer Jonathan Hickman Which may[...]

From the writer of Image's Meltdown and Aspen's Fathom: Blue Descent, David Schwartz and the artist of Aspen's Shrugged and Dellec, Micah Gunnell, comes a new thing A creator-owned comic, Idolized from Aspen. How do I know? I came across this little teaser labelled Wondercon. The Aspen panel is on Saturday at  Noon. Aspen' [...]

Halycon is one of those strange books from Image Comics that didn't sell out straight away and become a massive hit in the aftermarket, principally because retailers knew Marc Guggenheim's impressive track record and ordered with a little more confidence Then of course Diamond dropped the UK's allocation of the second issue in the ocean,[...]

A week and a half away, we already know that Nonplayer by Nate Simpson from Image Comics will be the big breakout hit of 2011 It's a given Joining Chew, Morning Glories, Skullkickers and 27 as Image breakout hits But what else is coming out shortly that may challenge it? Kurtis Wiebe and[...]

A week and a half away, we already know that Nonplayer by Nate Simpson from Image Comics will be the big breakout hit of 2011 It's a given Joining Chew, Morning Glories, Skullkickers and 27 as Image breakout hits But what else is coming out shortly that may challenge it? Undying Love by[...]

Nonplayer, the new upcoming comic by Nate Simpson from Image, received a spate of publicity before the Final Order Cutoff date for retailers to place orders, when the print run was fixed From Bleeding Cool, from Comics Alliance, from CBR, from all over If the print run is set to meet the demand, the likelihood[...]

We knew that John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew from Image Comics was heading for the TV sereen in some form or other Well now Deadline's TV Editor Nellie Andreeva confirms that it's to be a half hour comedy series on Showtime. Set in a world where chicken is prohibited after avian flu outbursts, it follows[...]

Greg Capullo, artist on Haunt and long time Spawn comics collaborator, looks like he'll be jumping off his current Image title to the Big Two. Both DC and Marvel appear to be headhunting him, for either Batman or Superman on one side or Wolverine with Brian Bendis on the other. And he has to choose. As to why[...]

There certainly are similarities, the clean thin lines, the open space for colour, the expressionistic faces and the elegant panel design. And today we get both Morning Glories #8 from Image and Generation Hope #5 from Marvel, the latter reteaming the holy Phonogram pairing of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie I could hear the squees in[...]

Do you enjoy the rapping musical stylings of Adam WarRock?  Wish he would work one up  based on the comic Chew from Image, by John Layman and Rob Guillory? Your wish is my command Enjoy Chew Harder… Do you enjoy the rapping musical stylings of Adam WarRock?  Wish he would work one up  based[...]

This is a preview of the upcoming Image comic book, Nonplayer by Nate Simpson Pages posted to his DeviantArt page and embedded in this handy dandy flash viewing file below. Gorgeous yes? Where Jamie McKelvie meets James Jean meets Jeff Smith meets Geoff Darrow meets Art Adams in a massive orgy with Moebius in the middle[...]

They are all new comics from Image They have all sold out They are all going to second print But which is the new Chew? And which is the Dead Walking? Image Comics has a set history now of publishing a new comic by an unfamiliar creative team that is conservatively ordered by retailers until actual[...]

It must have sold because the next issue in September had an estimated order of 5,856. After then however, estimated ordered hovered around 4,000, with an Evil Ernie crossover pushing that into the mid 6,000s. In 2007 though an ongoing series saw that 6,000 figure become standard for the book from pretty much its entire 32 issue[...]