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is a new creator-owned series from long time IDW licensed comics artist Stephen Mooney, Half Past Danger. This looks like quite an incredible comic strip with flashes from Terry And The Pirates, Dan Dare and so much more An Irish marine, Tommy "Irish" Flynn, fighting for the USA in WW2, with a British agent Elizabeth Huntindon-Moss,[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool managed to wheedle out all sorts of information about the launch of IDW's new company IDW Limited, a direct-to-consumer service that presents comic book work in premium, limited and personalised forms, including the Deluxe Limited Edition and the Artist Portfolio Edition formats. The first of those, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Change Is[...]

That's part of the deal. But I'm going to make an exception today, for an interview with Kevin Eastman concerning an IDW Turtles project, because this one has suddenly got rather newsworthy It involves the launch of IDW Limited. A new company from comic publisher, IDW which will publish new high end collections of the publisher's comics[...]

Looks like we may be getting even more My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #1 covers than we expected. Here's one by Amy Mebberson for Third Eye Comics

Time to have a look at a few publishers that have a certain demographic in common, Avatar, Boom, Dynamite and IDW, and what they have new for us in December 2012. Avatar hasa new Caligula series and the second issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine, Boom has Deathmatch – and a whole load of retailer exclusive Adventure[...]

At Baltimore Comic Con, IDW, Jamal Igle and Ron Marz announced their new project, The Historians. Now? Not so much Igle posted; As some of you know, I recently announced a project that I was preparing to do for IDW publishing Unfortunately, circumstances have recently changed and Ron Marz and myself have exited the project[...]

In one week, we get the new Ghost, a bunch more DC zeroes, the new Walking Dead, the new Womanthology book, the new Star Trek Next Generation comics and the Avengefuls collection, And in two week's time, Darick Robertson and Grant Morrison's Happy and a new Hit-Girl… DARK HORSE COMICS ANGELIC LAYER TP BOOK 01 $19.99 BERSERK TP VOL[...]

Some intriguing art & tidbits from a comic that could have been: It was a pitch by Chris Ryall of IDW and Phil Jimenez to DC Comics Sadly it happened just before the New 52 relaunch and was sidelined Phil credits Chris with the idea of making Optimus Prime a Green Lantern Sadly, you know[...]

It was a pitch by Chris Ryall of IDW and Phil Jimenez to DC Comics Sadly it happened just before the New 52 relaunch and was sidelined Phil credits Chris with the idea of making Optimus Prime a Green Lantern. Sadly, you know it's dead, as Phil has started posting pictures from it on Facebook... It[...]

This is the Hastings variant cover for the new Doctor Who series from IDW… The scarf from Fourth The trousers from Fifth The jumper from Seventh The cuffs of Eight Three The coat of Tenth The ring and stick of One While Amy wears the coat of Six, the cravat of Eight and the hat[...]

In November, IDW launches its comic bases on the hit TV long commercial, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic The comic will be distributed with six equally split covers by artist Andy Price, each featuring one of the "Mane Six" ponies. But there is also a Jill Thompson variant intended to be reserved for customers who[...]

From Avatar's Freakangels Slipcase collection to the new Supurbia series from Boom (with a BC quote in the solicits) to the end of The Boys from Dynamite to the beginning of Judge Dredd and My Little Pony at IDW – and a new Locke & Key series as well… Avatar and Boundless STITCHED VOL 1[...]

Or sometimes just Jamie McKelvie. Written by Brandon Seifert, Bond will be drawing issues 3 and 4 of the ongoing series by IDW Here's the solicit. First issue in a special two-part story featuring the art of Philip Bond! The stress from their past few adventures have the Doctor and Rory at each other's throats, and Amy[...]

Note all the Diamond Digital releases as well, given the [DIG] label. And the week after that Walking Dead #101! PREMIER PUBLISHERS DESCRIPTION PRICE DARK HORSE COMICS BTVS SEASON 9 FREEFALL #12 JEANTY VAR CVR $2.99 BTVS SEASON 9 FREEFALL #12 NOTO CVR $2.99 CONAN HC VOL 12 THRONE OF AQUILONIA $24.99 CONAN THE BARBARIAN #7 $3.50 CREEP #0 $2.99 GRENDEL OMNIBUS TP VOL 01 HUNTER ROSE $24.99 MASSIVE #3 GRAMPA VAR CVR $3.50 MASSIVE[...]

It was seen by some as a hoax. A cover unrepresentative of its interior. A variant cover even, showing a kind of "what if"?  But in this week's Star

For example I missed their annoucement of Zaucer Of Zilk (though I did get the unfinished PR headlined "IDW Win Blank Eisner Awards"). It's the only non-Dredd publication from IDW's deal with Rebellion and 2000AD, collecting Al Ewing and Brendon McCarthy's recent 2000AD comic, Zaucer Of Zilk, along with ten pages of extras from the creative[...]

Bleeding Cool has talked about how BOOM! Studios, Dark Horse Comics, DC Entertainment, Diamond Select Toys, Dynamite Entertainment, IDW Publishing, Image Comics and Marvel Comics are all funding a new push to subsidise the installation of POS systems into comic book stores, to encourage a matter management of stock and instant responses to increased demand. But[...]

Joe Salas updates us from the Dredd panel, where things took a couple of interesting turns: Judge Dredd 35th Anniversary panel brings Hollywood surprises. IDW announces that Duane Swierczynski to write ongoing Judge Dredd series. Karl Urban and Olivia Thirlby surprise guests to talks about Dredd as well… more on that soon… on the right side of Bleeding[...]

BC reporter-in-the-field Chris Thompson just gave us the scoop about the Mad Artist's Edition from the IDW panel, now here's more Artist Edition News: Other announcements at IDW Artist's Edition panel were Gil Kane's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and Mark Schultz's XENOZOIC TALES  Also, the release date for Will Eisner's THE SPIRIT is constantly getting revised. Kane collaborated on[...]

Chris Thompson tells us: IDW's first ever Artist's Edition with DC Comics will be MAD comics (the pre-cursor to the magazine) featuring art by Basil Wolverton, Harvey Kurtzman, Will Elder, Wally Wood, etc Scott Dunbier says this is the most exciting one for him after the Wally Wood book (which had the same dimensions as this[...]

Peter S Svensson reports for Bleeding Cool from San Diego Comic Con. And he's telling us that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a new comic book from IDW and Hasbro written by Katie Cook, and drawn by Andy Price. I can hear the squeeing from Room 8.   Peter S Svensson reports for Bleeding Cool from[...]

That's right, in 2012, this is a story. Once an all-male domain, the store is seeing the refreshing surge of female clientele and they are all heading to the manga comic section! The store has been forced to line its shelves with titles like "Boys Over Flowers," "Gravitation" and "Fruits Basket", just for the babes who[...]

The new KISS comic published by IDW has sold out of its 24,000 print run No doubt it will be going to a KISS-tastic second print in the KISS-able near future. Here's a look at the retailer incentive cover for issue 2, since we're here. The new KISS comic published by IDW has sold out of[...]

Say, I wonder if IDW will eventually publish it? Well, it is a hardcover 11×17" 180 page monster Or… tome. This year's TOME will focus on the theme of VAMPIRISM Modern popular culture has shown us all kinds of depictions of vampires, from the silly to the subdued The artists in TOME will each take 3-5[...]

Here's how it originally looked back in 1962... Photo taken in Orbital Comics, London.

Firstly I'm told by one retailer than the box sets of all the Mars Attacks covers look totally awesome. Then I'm told by another about the image on the

And here's what IDW will be publishing in Septmember 2012… STAR TREK #13 Mike Johnson (w) • Stephen Molnar (a) • Tim Bradstreet (c) The Redshirt's Tale Everyone knows the joke about the dire fate of crewmembers who wear red on the Enterprise Even the redshirts themselves! The countdown to next year's blockbuster STAR TREK sequel[...]

As a co-writer it indicated that something was up. Today at the 11th Hour Doctor Who convention, Lee announced that he had left the book to work on a special IDW Doctor Who project for next year, which so happens to be the fiftieth anniversary of Doctor Who. But I understand it's a little more than that[...]

Andy Diggle and Mark Buckingham's Doctor Who, scheduled with a new issue 1 for September from IDW And one of the covers appears to be a make-your-own-TARDIS model But who would cut up their comic to do such a thing?     Naturally there's the Star Trek Next Gen/Doctor Who crossover going on STAR TREK TNG DOCTOR WHO ASSIMILATION[...]

There's a new Retailer Incentive Cover for Ghostbusters from IDW But unlike previous covers where a small change was made on each cover to reflect the shop that had commissioned for those that ordered thousands of them, here the cover will be distributed 1:50 copies So for a shop to get one cover, they have[...]