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The Uncanny Weekly Bleed

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Rich Johnston

The Weekly Bleeders report: Toni was out at a fitting for this weeks show so we had our production manage, Brian Wise, fill in on the show along with Yvette. This week we talk about Skullkicker sales, female comic characters, …

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The Power Of Uncanny

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Jim Zub reports on the sales bump given to Skullkickers by renaming it Uncanny Skullkickers for one issue, in light of Uncanny Avengers and Uncanny X-Force joining Uncanny X-Men at Marvel. Something I’m sure Nicky Barrucci hopes will be repeated …

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Uncanny Skullkickers Changes To Savage Skullkickers In March

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In February, Skullkickers changed its name to Uncanny Skullkickers, modelled itself after Marvel’s current three titles with Uncanny in the name and relaunched with a new issue one. Although really it was just issue eighteen with a grab for some …

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Skullkickers Reveals The Secret Of The Gun

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

There is only one gun in the world of Skullkickers, by Jim Zubkavich and Edwin Huang from Image Comics. But how did it get there, into this fantasy world? Next week’s issue tells all… here are a few teasers to …

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Avengelyne And Skullkickers Give It Away For Free

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Last year, there was a kind of proto-Extreme relaunch with Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni recreating the Rob Liefeld character Avengelyne for Image Comics. Well, inspired by Jim Zubavich‘s free online serialised experiment with Makeshift Miracle, Owen Gieni worked out …

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Russian Scanlations Of American Comics Show Real Design Sense

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Recently, Bleeding Cool featured a letter from a Russian comic book pirate, requesting unlettered art files from Skullkickers creator Jim Zubavich, so that he could create Russian language translation illegal copies of the Skullkickers comic. So how widespread is this …

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The Cheekiest – And Politest – Comic Book Pirate In The World

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Jim Zubavich, co-creator of the Image comic Skullkickers, received the following email… Hello, Mr. Zub. My name is the Roman, and I the big fan of Skullkickers. I from Russia, and at us don’t sell the American comics, therefore it …

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The Fantasy Teaming Of Munchkin And Skullkickers

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Skullkickers was a major fantasy comic book launch by Jim Zubkavich and Edwin Huangfrom Image last year that Bleeding Cool played a small part in popularising. Munchkin is a major fantasy card game with a game Munchkin Skullkickers will launch …

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Skullkickers Solicitations Go Rather Odd In August

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Rich Johnston

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 …

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Preview: Rat Bastards By Kurtis J Weibe And Scott Kowalchuk From Image In March

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Rich Johnston

You know those smaller, weirder titles from Image Comics that retailers don’t order enough of and before you know it are suddenly on the retailer’s back wall marked up to $25? Well, here’s your new shiny shiny bright new hole …

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