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And Aw yeah, it's back to the tree house for more all-ages awesome with Tiny Titans #1! Boom's Big Trouble in Little China #1 is written by John Carpenter and Eric Powell continues from the movie Image's Nailbiter #2 (and the 2nd print of #1) is out, and a perfectly executed serial killer detective mystery![...]

By Julz Hendricks Just when I think I can't love BOOM! Studios enough, they throw something magnificent at me BOOM!tube will feature weekly news, announcements, creator interviews and more from BOOM! Studios as well as its imprints like Archaia, KaBOOM! And BOOM! Box. This unique YouTube channel, hosted by Stephanie Hocutt, will not be short on guest[...]

So anyway, there's this comic called Six Gun Gorilla by Si Spurrier and Jeff Stokely that came out from Boom! Studios And it's being collected And I've just read through it all with glee. "Six-Gun Gorilla is one of the most original and daring reads I've come across in a while Visually stunning in its art and[...]

We've been telling everyone that Boom! Studios' Lumberjanes has the potential to be a huge hit since it was first announced The first issue sold out with a print run three times its initial orders Well, it appears that the heat on Lumberjanes wasn't a one off fluke as the second issue is now sold out at Diamond. Whether the flurry[...]

A Big Trouble in Little China comic was announced by Boom! at this year's ComicsPRO Annual Meeting and made a big splash online There haven't been any new stories told in the world of the cult film since its release in 1986 and apparently fans have been clamoring for more Jack Burton[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas two weekends ago, Boom! Studios told retailers their new series with George Pérez would debut in September I couldn't help but notice that the title of the series was different than the one Pérez had been using when talking about the project for the last year[...]

Last week, we let you know that BOOM! Studios' Lumberjanes #1 had sold out with a print run three times its initial orders The week before that The Woods #1 sold out the day of its release with an overrun 50% above its initial orders So, that's one sell out from BOOM!'s BOOM! Box imprint and another from the[...]

Boom! Studiuos and Archaia's comics out in August (mostly)… Fairy Quest will always top my list But what will you be looking out for? FAIRY QUEST: OUTCASTS #1 (W) Paul Jenkins (A) Humberto Ramos (CA) A: Humberto Ramos; B: Humberto Ramos B&W WHY WE LOVE IT: FAIRY QUEST is the passion project of Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos, the[...]

Boom! Studios have been showing off their wares at the Diamond Retailer Summit. We got a name for the new George Perez comic from the publisher – Sirens! A female cast comic, the characters will be based on the many cosplayers that Perez has met over the year at comic book conventions. They will also be publishing a[...]

And that was it for six years until Boom and Jim Henson Company did a deal for a series of mini-series in 2008 and on ongoing series from 2009 before finishing in 2011. And that was it… until Saturday Tucked in the back of the Mouse Guard Free Comic Book Day volume from Archaia, and without[...]

In the last couple of years, Boom Studios has been increasing the number of original creator-participant comics from the likes of Mike Carey, George Pérez, Sam Humphries, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Clive Barker, Max Bemis, Brian Stelfreeze, Si Spurrier and Paul Jenkins. This year has seen announcements of new series from James Tynion IV, Cullen Bunn,[...]

This week sees the release of Boom! Studios' latest original series, The Woods, from  James Tynion IV and  Michael Dialynas. The Woods is a sci-fi survival series about a high school that disappears and reappears on an alien planet. I understand that the first issue is the biggest standard-priced launch for an original series under the publusher's central imprint since Mark Waid's Irredeemable all[...]

Marvel and Young Avengers are some of the successful titles among the demographic. Image titles like The Walking Dead, Saga, and Pretty Deadly have gotten their attention, but Wayne Wise reports that at Phantom of the Attic there are "a lot of young women who are really invested in Marvel and DC titles, as well as[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 148 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we

In any case, not an amount to take casually). BOOM OR BUST! Boom has a few exclusive variants out for WonderCon…     CHASTITY BELT AND BRACES Marc Andreyko and artist Dave Acosta are revivig the Chaos comic, Chastity, for Dynamite Entertainment. In Chastity #1, in the 1980's, after a career-ending injury shatters her (and, really, her mother's) Olympic dreams, 17-year-old Chastity Marks finds an[...]

Surely we're counting down the days now until Free Comic Book Day? In that case, we have twenty-one days to go… and so many Free Comic Book Day comics to preview. So this is what the Boom/Archaia collective are up to First, for the kiddies… we have the  kaboom Summer Blast 2014 An explosion of All-Ages awesomeness[...]

This Monday is the Final Order Cut-Off deadline for The Woods #1 from James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas. In order to goose orders (some folk can't see The Woods for Warren Ellis' Trees) Boom! Studios is offering an extra incentive for retailers Any retailer who increases their order by 20% over initial orders will have[...]

From the opening issue of the new Batman weekly, Batman Eternal. Say, is it just me or is one of the bad guys here giving quite a good impression of

And from Marvel, All-New Doop, Iron Fist and Ultimates, as well as the new Flash Gordon from Dynamite and Lumberjanes from Boom! – the latter of which could well be a big sleeper hit… And the week after that? Relaunches of Ultimate FF and Hulk, 7th Sword and Star Mage, and the launch of Sinestro…. DARK HORSE[...]

This new series is written by Grace Ellis and Noelle Stevenson, with art by Brooke Allen for Boom Box! This series was created by the talented newcomer Grace Ellis, and Senior Editor, Shannon Watters This cute but spooky series takes the bonds of friendship, summer camp, and magical creatures to create a comic that is unforgettable. At[...]

Two days ago, Bleeding Cool shared the last two pages of Dead Letters #1, the new Boom Studios original series by High Crimes writer Christopher Sebela and Chris Visions The twist ending captured the attention of some high profile advance readers – Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction. Yesterday, it seems that retailers and shops jumped on pushing the book… STAFF PICKS ::[...]

SPOILERS, obviously… Boom! Studios has a new original series coming out tomorrow They saw a nice bit of success and buzz last year with series like Polarity, Day Men, Hit and Six-Gun Gorilla and this year is off to a solid start with some well-reviewed book like Curse, Hacktivist, and Evil Empire But there's some extra[...]

We wrote about this at the weekend. My son and I have a meeting on Sunday with some editors at Boom!, we're going to pitch them an Adventure Time story we've come up with. Well, now it's come to pass. Me & @henryleo got the gig #adventuretime — BUTT STUFF WEREWOLF (@mattfraction) March 31, 2014 And what's the story? Not[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors recently informed retailers of the Free Comic Book Day comics they could still add orders to, and of those that had all their numbers filled. But also that one of the books was going to have to be allocated so that each retailer would only receive a certain percentage of their order. And it's[...]

And a few of them ranting and raving. As Bleeding Cool has pointed out previously, Boom! Studios had a admirable run of original series in 2013, including back-issue barn burners like Polarity and Day Men and critically acclaimed series like Six-Gun Gorilla, Suicide Risk, and Imagine Agents 2014 is off to a strong start already with[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Boom has made a bit of a habit of deconstructed takes of Big Two archetypes we all know and love They made their first big splash in the industry with Irredeemable, which is basically "What if Superman went crazy?". This year they published Loki: Ragnarok & Roll where Loki is kicked out of Asgard and joins[...]

Oh and there's Revival as well, which, you know, may have rather "inspired" Resurrection. It seems like every such concept has to begin with the letter R. Well, Boom are continuing breaking trend with The Returning Which begins with the letter T. New limited series from Jason Starr and Andrea Mutti, out today, it's about people who almost[...]

Comic book author Paul Jenkins, currently writing Deathmatch and Fairy Quest for Boom Studios, just added an update to the Fairy Quest Kickstarter funder, addressing the donors to John Campbell's Sad Pictures For Children Kickstarter that has caused a little controversy of late. He writes, The other day I was drawn to the plight of the creator[...]