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Detective Comics Holds The Line At $7.99 For Issue 900/Issue 19
Detective Comics #19 would have been the 900th issue of the comic if they hadn't have done that New 52 relaunch thing. So, in April, they'll be doing an 80 page comic for $7.99 by John Layman, Jason Fabok, Andy Clarke and a Mad Magazine variant cover. Looking at the size and the price point, do you[...]
Frankly, John Layman Is An Arse
John Layman sent it me, and I was so happy A kind of late fortieth birthday present, I decided. Until I read it While instant messaging him Which went like this. Rich: Page 12! John: Yessir. Rich: Page 17! John: The entire arc has been so light and fluffy Nobody is gonna see this one coming. Rich: You fucker. John: Comes with[...]
NYCC Debut: Skullkickers Vol 3
Jim Zubkavich will have advance copies of Skull Kickers Vol 3: Six Shooter On The Seven Seas, including the Secret Of The Gun issues, as well as a convention-limited sketch edition of Skull Kickers #18, including work by John Layman, Rob Guillory, Blair Butler, Justin Jordan and Tradd Moore. Find them, and Jim, at Table W11[...]
Tommy Lee Edwards' Variant Cover For Spider-Men #5 For Dublin Comic Con
Guests include Tommy Lee Edwards (of course), Kelly Sue DeConnick, John Layman, Matt Fraction, Rafa Albuquerque, Jeff Parker, , Nate Cosby, Tommy Lee Edwards, Ben McCool, Lauren Sankovitch, Mark Doyle, Jeanine Schaefer, Kieron Gillen, Jaimie McKelvie and Doug Braithwaite It's a fine crowd Tickets to the show can be bought here I've been to the[...]
Poyo Variant Cover Sells Out At San Diego Comic Con
John Layman printed hundreds of copies of the Secret Agent Poyo comic, a spinoff of Chew, for San Diego Comic Con, exclusively. They were to have had a pink metallic foil cover, but printer error turned it gold. Nevertheless, he has now almost sold out, and has put a block on selling any more today[...]
Chog Collecting Craze About To Start
Chogs are the strange hybrid between frogs and chicken, created by genetic laboratories in the comic Chew as a way to get around the federal prohibition of chicken. No one really wanta Chog, but they're kinda forced to. Possibly, a little like these actual Chogs from Skelton Crew Studio, creating a series of pop replicas from the[...]
Secret Agent Poyo Gets Jesse Jamesed
But take it away, Jesse… Oh yeah!! You might have seen some pictures of the new Secret Agent Poyo COMIC BY John Layman and Rob Guillory hitting San Diego Comic Con next week However, here is the real view of Secret Agent Poyo right out of the box! Also, my friend and stellar artist Tony Parker will[...]
John Layman And Jason Fabok On Detective Comics
John Layman is the writer of Chew… and now the writer of Detective Comics from #13 in October, with Jason Fabok on art. Layman used to be an editor and occasional writer for Wilstorm Comics, but was fired by Paul Levitz after he came out in support of creators whose work was being bowlderised by DC[...]
Poyo! Poyo! Poyo! At San Diego Comic Con
Secret Agent Poyo is the upcoming Chew oneshot starring the cyborg assassin chicken from the series who has become a breakout hit character without one word of dialogue escaping from his beak. I've had a very minor role in this comic, helping John Layman with a few English specific references, as the chicken in question is[...]
Chew Flash Forwards To Its Final Issue
Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, is due to finish with issue 60 Still around three years away. But in today's issue, as promised by Layman, we flash forward to that scene in a rather amusing and metatextual way. Chew has already run one issue completely out of order, issue 27, which we are still catching[...]
Beware Fradulent Chew Art Prints On Amazon
John Layman tells Bleeding Cool; Some dude, "Mr Retro", is selling "Chew Art Prints" for $29 on Amazon, and we're asking people NOT to buy them Not only are they not authorized, they are not even art prints The are ripped-up pages of CHEW Omnivore edition, and they are signed by Rob and I, but NOT[...]
The Best Laid Plans Of Chicken And Men
This is a world where a guy can take a butcher's knife in the face and come back as a robot.' I thought it was pretty obvious I'm not killing him, I'm setting him up to come back as Super Chicken, but no one seems to have figured that out yet," says Layman, who envisions[...]
Chewing The Fat At Image Expo WIth Layman And Guillory
John Layman and Rob Guillory ended the second day of Image Comics Expo with a panel on their sleeper hit title, Chew Layman began the panel by preemptively answering the three questions he knew would come up He doesn't know where he came up with the idea for Chew There's no special reason why[...]
Chew Meets Mars Attacks
The writer of Chew, John Layman, and the artist in Dicks, John McCrea are working together on a new version of Mars Attacks from IDW, coming out in June. Both are known for creating absolutely outrageous atrocities poured upon their characters for maximum comic effect, and I have to say, it makes for a rather intriguing mix[...]
San Diego Debut: Neil Gaiman In Hero Comics 2011
Title: Hero Comics 2011 Creators: Richard Starkings, Dougie Braithwaite, John Layman and Rob Guillory and Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Kieth Covers by J Scott Campbell or Adam Hughes. Publisher: IDW/Hero initiative Available: Booth #5003 High concept: The new fundraising book features 32 pages of all-new material, including an exclusive "Elephantmen" story by Richard Starkings and Dougie Braithwaite, and[...]
Glow In The Dark Chew – San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
Until now. And while the standard market won't be getting a glow in the dark cover for John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew from Image, they will have a "fifth colour" luminous enhancement instead… Which should be enough to freak anyone out. Picture the scene The sun is setting across San Diego Harbour Bay[...]
Chew To Become Showtime TV Comedy
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[...]
Music: Chew Harder by Adam WarRock
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[...]
Chew #2 Out Next Wednesday And Already Sold Out
Retailers, if you're thinking of increasing your orders of Chew #2 in light of unprecedented demand for such a low profile title, you're out of luck. The series by John Layman and Rob Guillory for Image Comics sold out its first issue weeks ago, with issues going from $30 to $50 ($160 slabbed) and a second[...]
Chew #1 Effect Hits Walking Dead #61
Earlier today, Bleeding Cool was the first to point the finger at the unprecedended success enjoyed by the first issue John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew from Image Comics When was the last time the first issue of a new series was hitting $50 on eBay two weeks later? Not with Bone, not with Ultimate[...]
Chew #1 From Image Comics A $50 Smash On eBay
Chew #1, by John Layman and Rob Guillory, came out a couple of weeks ago About a police detective who experiences psychic visions of everything he ingests (including the corpses of murder victims), it felt like one of those American TV cop shows about a detective with a special skill bordering on a super power[...]