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We Only Find Them When They’re Dead Sells 90K - Will It Crack 100K?
As we previously reported, Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo's We Only Find Them When They're Dead is already Boom Studios' best-selling creator-owned launch at over 75,000 copies That's a truly robust amount of support from retailers, even when taking into account its Ewing's first creator-owned series Ewing, who skipped the more conventional route of[...]
Ultraman: The Rise of Ultraman #1 Review:
The full creative team of writer Al Ewing, artist Valerio Schiti, colorist Marte Gracia, and letter VC's Ariana Maher return for this epilogue issue It wraps up the whole event with a second, more planned wedding for Hulkling and Wiccan while also alluding to a dark future coming for the Marvel heroes. Avengers: Empyre Aftermath #1 cover[...]
Immortal Hulk Lines Up Brian Benner and The Leader
Classic Hulk villain has been given quite the lease of life in the second half of Al Ewing and Joe Bennett's Immortal Hulk And as last week's Immortal Hulk #0, Immortal Hulk #35 and Immortal She-Hulk #0 are all published in the UK today, there is a triple serving. Art from Immortal Hulk #25. Previously, we've seen[...]
Al Ewing and Valerio Schiti’s New X-Men Comic, S,W.O.R.D.
Well, now we know what else Al Ewing is up to Last week, Bleeding Cool scooped the news that there was an X-Men Classified comic book being set up for December, that had yet to be announced We also noted that Al Ewing was meant to be doing a new X-Men comic book And that[...]
Immortal She-Hulk Preview – Is Krakoa A Well For Mutants?
This week sees the publication of Immortal She-Hulk, a one-shot by Al Ewing and Jon Davis-Hunt that follows the Empyre event, and the resurrection and change that She-Hulk underwent, in the context of Al Ewing and Joe Bennett's storylines in Immortal Hulk Which has seen many gamma-radiated beings return from the dead in a way[...]
We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1 Review:
It looks like Al Ewing has been cooking up something on the creator-owned side while also running Marvel's major summer event, Empyre, which saw the Cotati wage war on Earth with pretty much every major Marvel character tasked with defending it. We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1, Ewing's first-ever creator-owned series, boasts a concept that's almost[...]
Funny Creek #5 Review:
Will that carry over to the finale, or is this destined to be Marvel's worst event? Empyre #6 is the finale of this event but was it worthwhile? Credit: Marvel Al Ewing pulled out all the stops with these last two issues, which went a long way to redeem Empyre in its final hour Now, with Empyre #6,[...]
We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1 Review: Worth Your Time
They live a life under extreme scrutiny and extreme danger, and they know this community of scavengers intimately. Al Ewing's sparse script is very effective in establishing the clipped and taciturn tone of the people here The artwork from Simone Di Meo is dreamy but crisp, while the colors of Mariasara Miotti are used to distinguish[...]
We Only Find Them When They're Eight Bells Dead
The title signifies midnight… It's also something that seems to have stirred something in Al Ewing He picked up on the phrase used in Marvel Mystery Comics #1 back in 1938 with The Human Torch And used it that panel as an intro image and to title the first chapter in Marvel Comics #1000, eighty years[...]
How Empyre #6 Sets Up Immortal She-Hulk (Spoilers)
The ending of Empyre, published today, is one that is meant to shock the Marvel Universe, apparently, as we also see at the end of Guardians Of The Galaxy #6, also written by Empyre co-writer Al Ewing With Rocket Raccoon seemingly catching up by reading the Bleeding Cool spoilers. How it ended? I've read Empyre #6,[...]
75,000 Copies Not Enough for We Only Find Them When They're Dead
It was only a few weeks ago that Al Ewing and Simone di Meo's We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1 became the best-selling creator-owned launch in the company's history climbing even higher than Tom Taylor and Daniele di Nicoulo's Seven Secrets' impressive 41,000 copy sales. Now, I'm hearing that despite a healthy overprint it[...]
Empyre #5 Review:
In the fifth issue of this event co-plotted by Al Ewing and Dan Slott, which comes on the heels of three major reveals in the last installment, how will the Marvel heroes make their last stand? Empyre #5 sets the stage for the end. Empyre #5 continues Marvel's summer event, but is it any good? Credit: Marvel Comics My previous reviews[...]
Al Ewing Will Probably Write Something X-Men Related Soon
Your brains are going to melt. Al Ewing Will Probably Write Something X-Men Related Soon It was noted that a certain Immortal Hulk and Empyre writer Al Ewing was among the number Currently, Al Ewing has no X-Men-related comic books announced During the Mainframe Comic Con held over the weekend, Al Ewing was interviewed on the Hall[...]
Empyre #4 Review: Big Character Reveals For Hulking and More
Hulkling gets a reveal, She-Hulk gets a reveal, Wiccan gets to hit Hulkling with another reveal! Writer Al Ewing is the Oprah of character reveals with this issue, but does it work to make this grass-fed event any better? Empyre #4 contains a big Hulkling reveal Credit: Marvel Comics Actually, kind of yeah. Al Ewing writes from a plot by[...]
We Only Find Them When They're Dead, Boom's Biggest Launch - Again
And that Seven Secrets order number seemed like the new ceiling for the company. But that was in the distant past of July 2020, as I'm now hearing that Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo's We Only Find Them When They're Dead #1 is already approaching 42,000 copies before FOC – making it the new king[...]
Al Ewing Talks About How Empyre: X-Men Ties In (or Not) with Emppyre
As Al Ewing writes the main Empyre title, the fallout of the event is extending through Marvel's publishing catalog, creating a laundry list of tie-ins including Emperor Hulk, Empyre: Captain America, and Empyre: X-Men Under writer Jonathan Hickman's reign, all of the X-Men titles got a completely fresh slate and very much have their own tone, drive, and subject[...]
Empyre #3 Review: Can The Best Issue Yet Save
Credit: Marvel. Al Ewing writes from a plot by himself and Dan Slott, and all of the problems with Ewing's writing that make the first two issues almost unbearable are here in force The characters sound nothing like themselves, as every line of dialogue is either plot-driven or an over-dramatic clunker, with Tony saying "blasted!" like a[...]
Empyre #2 Review: A Beautifully Drawn Event With a Lifeless Story
Credit: Marvel Comics. Al Ewing writes from a plot by himself and Dan Slott, and the wit that made his Loki run such a must-read is worlds away in this comic Instead of buckling down and focusing on character now that the inciting incident has flipped the Marvel universe upside down, this issue falls back on lowest-common-denominator[...]
Empyre #1 Review:
Credit: Marvel Comics. Al Ewing scripts the big event from a plot by himself and Dan Slott The plot itself is engaging, with years of conflict brewing underneath the surface and, even though Marvel has done it a lot before, brilliant and powerful superheroes finding themselves at odds feels like a natural source of interesting chaos[...]
Empyre #0 Avengers Main Cover
Marvel has become over the years the House of Events, more than the House of Ideas that it once claimed to be.  There are usually at least four to five Event Crossovers (series that are significant "event storylines" that are separate from regular ongoings and serve as the "backbone" of the story, which then has[...]
Twenty Years Of Rebellion Publishing 2000AD
This 100-page special features brand new work from the likes of Jock, Al Ewing, Dan Abnett and more, with a combination of new work and old, exploring Rebellion's tenure as the publisher of 2000 AD. Originally launched by publishing giant IPC in 1977, 2000 AD moved to IPC's Fleetway comics subsidiary, then sold to Robert Maxwell in[...]
Immortal Hulk to End With Fiftieth Issue
Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Ruy José and Paul Mounts is the best comic book Marvel Comics is publishing by far Sorry, Donny Cates, Jonathan Hickman, but it is Reminiscent in parts of Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing, it has taken the Hulk back to its horror roots, and created[...]
Auto Draft
The rise of the sentence-led death-obsesses comic book title continues following up Something Is Killing The Children with new Boom title for September, We Only Find Them When They're Dead by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo about one man's unrelenting quest throughout space to discover the truth—no matter where it takes him. And yes that means everyone'[...]
SupermanMullet
Should Superman return to rocking a mullet? That's the question posed by Superman's official Twitter account, which teased that the Man of Steel is thinking of growing out his hair to the classic 1990s look. Thinking of growing the hair out again 👊 pic.twitter.com/hRD95hlC6C — Superman (@DCSuperman) March 24, 2020 But writer Tom Taylor quickly jumped in to[...]
Marvel Plans to Make Readers Vomit with Immortal Hulk #33
Bleeding Cool Ace Reporter and shoe-in for next year's journalism Eisner David Pierce was on hand at the panel to send us breaking news, and he provided us this juice quote from Al Ewing: "Hulk #33 will be the issue where they succeed with the long-standing goal of making a reader vomit while reading the issue." IMMORTAL[...]