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Witchblade: Top Cow to Relaunch Series Reboot in July 2024
The new series, coming July 2024, will be written by NYT Best-Selling Marguerite Bennett and artist Giuseppe Cafaro. The creative duo is working with original co-creator Marc Silvestri, now CEO of Top Cow Productions Inc and one of the founders of Image Comics. "Witchblade #1" Cover A by Marc Silvestri and Arif Priantom courtesy of Top Cow The new[...]
Top Cow Launches Kickstarter for The Complete Darkness Collection
This Kickstarter will, at last, allow fans to continue their collection while introducing new fans to Jackie Estacado and his world of mayhem with new freebie and add-on collectibles exclusive to backers, including a chance to own The Darkness: Source Book featuring a brand new cover by Top Cow founder and series co-creator Marc Silvestri[...]
Antarctica to Become Ongoing Series at Top Cow
The creators will continue to deliver twists and turns to introduce new characters, both good and bad, and the excitement and mystery will continue to play out against the backdrop of snow and ice. "Antarctica" cover art: Top Cow Top Cow President Matt Hawkins said, "From the beginning, Top Cow has been known to be a boutique[...]
Walter Simonson Marc Silvestri & Adam Kubert Remember Dan Green, RIP
He switched to finishing and inking and began work for Marvel on  Jim Starlin's Captain Marvel. Dan Green began a long collaboration with John Byrne on Iron Fist, and then John Romita Jr on Iron Man, which led to Uncanny X-Men, continuing from Romita to Marc Silvestri to Jim Lee He left to work with Silvestri[...]
DC Comics
Working out of these studios, you were under the aegis of Jim Lee and Brandon Choi. In 1992 penciller and Image co-founder Marc Silvestri joined the studio to work on the first issue of Cyberforce for Image Comics before establishing his brand and his own studio as Top Cow In 1993, Wildstorm Productions was founded as a[...]
Marvel Talks X-Men 60th Anniversary At Midnight, March the 16th
To celebrate 60 years of the X-Men with a Marvel Unlimited Live Virtual Event on Thursday, March 16th at midnight GMT, 7pm ET and 4pm PT which "will spotlight the history and creative legacy of Marvel's mutants, from their beginnings as the Original Five to their present era in the Krakoan Age." Access will be granted[...]
Bad Idea Trying To Get All Image Comics Founders To Follow Rob Liefeld
Jim Valentino, we loved The Last Shadowhawk and need more! Whilce Portacio, you and Brian need to keep doing Bishop, Legends wasn't enough! Marc Silvestri, that new Batman book is insanely gorgeous! Erik Larsen, we're Dragon for life You're all so cool." Okay, so… Jim Lee is exclusive to Warner Bros as President and CCO of[...]
Rewriting The Origin Of Batman's Yellow Oval Logo
As captured in this clip of the classic show. Well, in today's decade-waiting Batman/Joker: Deadly Duo #2 by Marc Silvestri, we get his own version Looks like the Batmobile has had a bit of an upgrade over the past almost sixty years. Marc Silvestri Upgrades Batmobile Engines In Batman/Joker Deadly Duo Plasma batteries to power, now… Marc Silvestri Upgrades[...]
Deadly Duo
Mike Snitzer of Original Art Inc has officially commissioned a retailer-exclusive cover by Kelley Jones for the upcoming Batman/Joker: Deadly Duo #1 coming from Marc Silvestri, Matt Hawkins and DC Comics But how exactly does a store go through getting such an item, especially for the first time? To get an exclusive retailer cover from[...]
Free Unlettered B&W Copies of Marc Silvestri's Batman/Joker #1 at NYCC
At next week's New York Comic Con, DC Comics will be handing out free copies of a promotional Batman & The Joker: The Deadly Duo #1 Ashcan Edition, featuring an unlettered version of the full issue, with Marc Silvestri's pencilled art in black-and-white No lettering, so you can make up your own story, or see[...]
Big Sneak Preview Of Marc Silvestri Batman/Joker: The Deadly Duo
Bleeding Cool first scooped the news back in 2014 that Marc Silvestri was working on a Batman comic But we understood even then that he had already been working on it for a couple of years Then it was to be part of DC Rebirth in 2015 But it wasn't In 2017 we learned it was a Batman/Joker Team-Up[...]
Gerry Duggan to Launch Substack Comics Too, But First a Book of Photos
It's a globe-spanning experience that provides a peek behind the curtain in Hollywood, and behind the scenes in comic books." Photos include those of Patton Oswalt, Meredith Salinger, Matt Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Brian Posehn, Bob Odenkirk, Weird Al Yankovic, Tom Lennon, Jon Hamm, Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Rick Remender, Clint Eastwood, David Lynch, Martin[...]
Cherish Marc Silvestri
In the same month that DC Comics is finally, finally, finally publishing Marc Silvestri's Batman & Joker: Deadly Duo series, Dynamite Entertainment will be launching Cherish, a series based on the character Marc Silvestri designed Apparently, this was not planned But it makes for a fun coincidence The series is written by Katana Collins who[...]
Cover image for CHERISH #1 CVR B BOOTH
It's not just Batman and the Joker that get the Marc Silvestri treatment in November, Dynamite launches Cherish with character designed by Silvestri, as well as new Tarzan comics, Vampirella Vs Red Sonja, a new Peter Cannon Thunderbolt, and Cat-Man & Kitten in its November 2022 solicits and solicitations. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width:[...]
Ten Years Of Marc Silvestri Working On Batman/Joker: The Deadly Duo
Bleeding Cool first scooped the news back in 2014 that Marc Silvestri was working on a Batman comic But we understand he had already been working on it for a couple of years Then it was to be part of DC Rebirth in 2015 But it wasn't Last year we learned it was a Batman/Joker[...]
Metal Society #1: Top Cow/Image Releases Cover, Trailer, Preview Pages
Top Cow/Image released a preview of Zack Kaplan's sci-fi new series, Metal Society, with art by Guilherme Balbi, colors by Marco Lesko, and letters by Troy Peteri, including variant, covers seven pages of interior art of the first issue, and an animated trailer. "Metal Society #1" cover art: Top Cow/Image This cover is not only by legendary artist Marc[...]
Marc Silvestri Returns To The Darkness, On Kickstarter
The Darkness created by Marc Silvestri, Garth Ennis, and David Wohl, is a character, mafioso Jackie Estacado who, after turning 21, inherited the curse of the Darkness  A wielder of the Darkness has been present in every major time period and continental power in history These hosts have usually been of a violent predisposition, such[...]
Marc Silvestri Darkness Kickstarter Promises New Ongoing Series
A Kickstarter campaign just launched for the second hardcover in The Darkness Complete Collection promises new material by Marc Silvestri and a new ongoing Darkness series to launch sometime in the near future The Kickstarter page states: In addition to recollecting the original series, we're bringing Jackie Estacado back! Marc Silvestri is writing the Kickstarter exclusive #1/2[...]
Hardcore #1 Finally A Hot Comic
In 2009, Image Comics and Top Cow solicited Hardcore #1, a new comic book by Robert Kirkman, Marc Silvestri and Brian Stelfreeze However, it wasn't actually published until 2012, over two years later Top Cow's entire Pilot Season from 2009 were written by Robert Kirkman, and none went to series, along with Murderer #1 drawn[...]
Original Art Auction- Arthur Suydam, Jock, John Byrne, Marc Silvestri
Or even a Marc Silvestri Wolverine for a grand? Time to check your piggy bank.   Arthur Suydam The New Adventures of Cholly and Flytrap: Till Death Do Us Part #3 Story Pages 30-32 Original Art Group of 3 (Eclipse, 1991) Cholly is re-united with Flytrap (as if anyone would want to be!), and Flytrap faces the Champ in[...]
Marc Silvestri and Batt's The Darkness #3 Cover Art For Auction
The original artwork by Marc Silvestri and Matt Banning (as Batt) for The Darkness #3 published in 1997 from Image Comics is being auctioned to benefit. The artwork was owned by Bad Idea's Dinesh Shamdasani, who donated it for auction, With an estimated value of over $10,000, it is currently only on $1,200 – which, with just[...]
Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, Adam Hughes Cover Detective Comics #1027
We looked at the first five covers to Detective Comics #1027 on Bleeding Cool the other day, as we pointed out that the next Batman event to follow Joker War and Death Metal will begin in the extra-long issue, and that it also confirms the cancellation of the Generations series with this prebiew as at[...]
Marc Silvestri, Holding Out on a Greg Capullo Deal For Batman/Joker
Bleeding Cool has learned that one of the projects that DC Comics was hoping to come out of shutdown with, was Marc Silvestri's Batman comic book, Batman/The Joker: Deadly Duo. Image Comics co-founder and partner, creator of Witchblade, Cyberforce and The Darkness, Marc Silvestri has been working on a Batman project for many years and Bleeding[...]
DC Officially Rebrands, Dropping Vertigo
You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. DC Comics Distribution and the 10 most-read stories yesterday DC Comics Will Use Other Distribution Methods To Get Comics to Stores The X-Men Archangel Soars with New Iron Studios Statue DC Publish Selection of Digital Comics, Wednesday April 1st Ubisoft Releases The "Just Dance 2020" Song List "The Walking Dead":[...]
Andy Diggle and Alessandro Vitti Continue Kirkman and Silvestri's Hardcore in December
Image Comics has announced a new series for Hardcore, the 2012 comic by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri, originally conceived years earlier as part of Image's Pilot Season Andy Diggle will write the new comic, with art by Alessandro Vitti and covers by Dan Panosian. Said Diggle in the press release: Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri's action-packed[...]
Batman/The Joker: Deadly Duo sdcc 2018
Both Marc and I will be on that panel then at Top Cow Booth #2629 at 1.#comicon #imagecomics #dccomics #topcow — Matt Hawkins (@topcowmatt) July 19, 2018 We first reported that Marc Silvestri was working on a Batman comic back in 2014 But we understand it had already been a while in the telling. Then it was to[...]