Category: Comic Books

Dark Horse announces their first ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ title

The Fallbacks jump from prose to comics this fall.

After announcing last year they partnered up with Wizards of the Coast to make comics based on the very popular Dungeons & Dragons tabletop role-playing game, Dark Horse has announced their first D&D title — Dungeons & Dragons: The Fallbacks.

The four-issue miniseries features characters from Jaleigh Johnson’s prose novels — including Tessalynde the rogue, Cazrin the wizard, Baldric the cleric and Lark the bard. It’s by the team of Greg Pak the writer, Wilton Santos the artist, Edvan Alves the inker, Raul Angulo the colorist and Nate Piekos the letterer.

“When I read the Jaleigh Johnson prose novel where the Fallbacks first appeared, my primary takeaway, which is also my highest praise, was that it felt like an actual D&D campaign I might play with my funniest, most subversive, and biggest-hearted friends,” Pak said. “We’re bringing that vibe to full-color glory on the comics page with incredible interior art by Wilton Santos, Edvan Alves, and Raul Angulo, sharp letters by Nate Piekos, and glorious covers by a slew of artists including Marguerite Sauvage. Can’t wait for y’all to join the campaign!”

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The Laphams return with ‘Good as Dead’ this fall

David and Maria Lapham reveal ‘how far a small town will go to keep its secrets’ in a new crime comic coming from Skybound this September.

Legendary Stray Bullets creator David Lapham has a new series, Good as Dead, launching at Skybound this fall with co-writer Maria Lapham and colorist Dee Cunniffe. The story was co-created by Chris Black, creator and showrunner of the Apple+ show Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Skybound CEO David Alpert.

“I can’t tell you how excited Maria and I are about this book coming out,” said David Lapham. “Chris Black and David Alpert provided us with their initial concept and outline and generously gave us the room and edict to ‘do our thing.’ And we went for it. It’s both completely what you’d expect from us based on our Stray Bullets work and at the same time, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever done before, combining elements of the surreal, science fiction, conspiracy, horror and, of course, classic noir.”   

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Exclusive | Check out Lane Lloyd’s variant cover for ‘Toxic Crusaders’ #2

The five-issue miniseries will feature the Toxic Avenger and other characters from the 1990s animated series.

Courtesy of the fine folks at Ahoy Comics, we are pleased to debut Lane Lloyd’s variant cover for The Toxic Crusaders #2, which will arrive in stores in October.

The five-issue miniseries will debut in September and is written by Matt Bors, former editor of The Nib and current writer of The Toxic Avenger Comics. He’s joined by artist Tristan Wright on the series, which will feature the Toxic Avenger teaming up with several other mutants who appeared in the Toxic Crusaders animated series back in the 1990s, including No-Zone, Junkyard, Major Disaster and the all-new character Fungirl.

Lloyd has drawn many comics and covers for Oni Press, Ahoy, Image Comics, Legendary and more, and I’ll point you to Someone’s Died at Adventure Mountain, his current project that’s up on Kickstarter.

“In the aftermath of the chemical spill that created Toxie, other mutants arose — and they have united to wage war against an alien conspiracy,” Bors said. “We are taking everything from the original Toxic Crusaders cartoon —gross mutations, evil aliens, and over-the-top ecological action — to bring readers a must-read mutant monthly.”

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Tom Taylor + Daniele Di Nicuolo explore Arthurian legends in a new series at DC

‘C.O.R.T.: Children of the Round Table’ will kick off in September.

Now this is interesting — DC has announced a new series by Tom Taylor and Daniele Di Nicuolo, and it doesn’t involve Batman, Superman or any of their existing characters. C.O.R.T.: Children of the Round Table draws from the legend of King Arthur, and Taylor called it “the first original IP in periodical form at DC Comics.”

I’m guessing he meant that it was his first original IP at DC, because DC has published things like Cinder and Ashe, Watchmen and Camelot 3000 in the past, which were also original stories set outside the regular DC Universe. But it’s not something we see on the regular these days.

The new series will introduce “an elite force known as the Camelot Corps,” which has “protected ancient secrets, waiting for the day when these myths are needed by the world. That day is today.” Colorist Rain Beredo and letterer Wes Abbott round out the creative team.

“Like King Arthur asleep in a mountain, waiting for the day he will wake, CORT has been in my mind, and in my drafts folder, for a long time,” said Taylor. “These brave young heroes will finally rise, and I couldn’t imagine anything more perfect than to partner with Daniele Di Nicuolo and DC Comics to bring them to the world. DC has some of the greatest heroic teams on the planet, like the Justice League and the Titans. Now a new team of champions is coming to take on a tyrant: the Children of the Round Table.”

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‘Blue Falcon and Dynomutt’ will make waves at Dynamite this fall

The animated duo from the 1970s will find new life in a series by Jimmy Palmiotti and Pasquale Qualano.

I was just lamenting over the fact that Dynamite seemed to be stuck in distribution hell as the largest comic company that hadn’t announced their post-Diamond plans. But today brought news that they have indeed signed up with Lunar Distribution, which is good to hear — that means their upcoming Blue Falcon & Dynomutt comic will make it to comic shops.

This dynamic duo first appeared on television screens in the 1970s alongside another Hanna-Barbera canine, Scooby Doo. The two animated programs often crossed over as part of the The Scooby-Doo/Dynomutt Hour, as the Batman-esque superhero and his robot dog fought criminals like Mr. Hyde, The Gimmick and the talking worm known as The Worm. Only 20 episodes of their show wwere produced, but they did make many cameos and appearances in Scooby Doo, on Laff-A-Lympics and many other cartoons, as well as the more recent film Scoob!

The creative team for the comic series include writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Pasquale Qualano, while Lucio Parrillo provides the cover for the first issue:

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DC will launch an ongoing ‘Red Hood’ title in September

Gretchen Felker-Martin, Jeff Spokes and Becca Carey give Jason Todd a new mission and a new city to protect.

Every Robin is somebody’s favorite Robin, and that includes Jason Todd. The former dead Robin will return to the spotlight in a new series written by Gretchen Felker-Martin, with art by Jeff Spokes and lettering by Becca Carey. Red Hood, billed as a “17+” series, will be set in New Angelique, which is described as a “New Orleans flavored backdrop.”

“Sweat, blood, and powder burns. Broken bones and mind control. A city rotted from the inside out,” said Felker-Martin. “Jason’s going through hell on the hunt for an enigmatic telepath, and he’s taking us with him. I’m thrilled to be helming this new run of Red Hood with Jeff Spokes.”

Although it’s aimed at a more mature audience than most of DC’s regular All In series, it is set in regular DC continuity.

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Nova + the X-Men enlist in ‘Imperial War’

Professor X’s X-Manhunt story continues in a tie-in one-shot for ‘Imperial,’ while Nova tries to preserve the Xandarian Worldmind.

Marvel has announced two additional one-shots to spotlight some of the players in Jonathan Hickman’s Imperial miniseries. Imperial War: Exiles and Imperial War: Nova Centurian will both arrive this fall.

In case you missed it, Imperial is the latest project from Hickman, the architect of Marvel’s Ultimate Comics relaunch, the Krakoa era of the X-Men line and more. He’s working with Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini to redefine Marvel’s cosmic characters in Imperial, which kicked off earlier this month (I thought the first issue was pretty awesome myself). Marvel will publish five one-shots that tie into the event, starting with Black Panther and She-Hulk, and followed by two more in September.

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Frank Castle returns as the Punisher in a Red Band title this fall

Benjamin Percy and Julius Otha bring the original Punisher back to the streets this September.

After being whisked away to Weirdworld at the end of the 2022-2023 Punisher miniseries by Jason Aaron, Jesús Saiz, Paul Azaceta and Dave Stewart, Frank Castle will return to comics in Punisher: Red Band this September.

Billed as the “most violent” comic “in Punisher history,” the limited series is by the Hellverine team of writer Benjamin Percy and artist Julius Otha. Whether or not it will address the events of the previous Punisher miniseries featuring Frank Castle — or the reboot miniseries featuring Joe Garrison — remains to be seen.

“Frank Castle—that dark-hearted, vengeance machine, that monster who fights monsters—is one of my all-time favorite characters, and Punisher is a series I’ve been gunning to write for a long, long time,” Percy said. “Not only is Frank back in black, but this is a Red Band book. You know what that means. I’m going to lean in fully and push the very limits of my favorite genre: hairy psychopaths. This is going to be as gritty and bloody as it gets. Street-level mayhem awaits you. And Julius Ohta—who I collaborated with previously on Hellverine—is bringing all the blood and fire and rage to the page with his beautiful, terrifying art.”

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Marvel returns to ‘Battleworld’ in September

Christos Gage and Marcus To bring together Hank Pym, the Maestro, Starbrand and more for a ‘Secret Wars’ style battle royale.

The mighty Marvel tradition of pulling a bunch of characters to a strange planet and making them fight it out will return in September, as Christos Gage and Marcus To bring back Battleworld in September.

Battleworld is the term used to describe the hodge-podge worlds seen in the 1980s Secret Wars series and its successor, the Jonathan Hickman-led Secret Wars event that occurred in 2015. In both cases, pieces of different worlds were called together to form a new world, a “battleworld” where, as the name suggests, battles took place.

This five-issue miniseries will feature characters from around the Marvel multiverse, including Hank Pym, the New Universe’s Starbrand, Days of Future Past Storm, the Future Imperfect Hulk dubbed the Maestro and many more.

“I was a rabid consumer of the original Secret Wars when it came out in 1984, so a chance to revisit the Battleworld ‘destroy your enemies’ concept was irresistible. Then they offer me Hank Pym, one of my favorite Marvel characters to write, and the amazing Marcus To on art?!” Gage said. He wrote the character when he was part of the cast of Avengers Academy as well as in Avengers: The Initiative, with co-writer Dan Slott.

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Danny Rand will rise again in ‘The Undead Iron Fist’

Following his death last year, the character will star in a new miniseries by Jason Loo and Fran Galán.

Last year’s Iron Fist 50th Anniversary Special ended on a bit of a downer, as it showed Danny Rand’s death … but then offered a glimmer of hope with a “bonus scene” you could access online that revealed he might not be so dead yet.

Well, he’s not quite so dead yet. Marvel has announced The Undead iron Fist, a four-issue miniseries by Jason Loo and Fran Galán that reveals what’s next for the character.

“I was so relieved to not encounter any fan backlash or outrage when I killed off Danny Rand. Because there was always a plan to bring him back, but we wanted to make the fans wait,” Loo said. “Not only was I busy plotting his next explosive chapter, Danny has been going through his own journey to find his way back into the 616 land of the living. And from the very first issue, he’s back swinging with ruthless vengeance. Artist Fran Galán is bringing so much wicked kineticism on every page, readers are going to be floored by this book.”

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It’s Godzilla’s world, and we’re all just living in it

Your favorite kaiju has numerous projects at several different publishers arriving this summer.

Over the years we’ve seen certain comic characters rise to a level where they just seem to be everywhere. Batman, of course, plus Wolverine (especially in the 1980s and 1990s), more recently Deadpool … But this summer we can crown a new king of that phenomenon, and given he’s the king of all monsters, I think he’s due.

Godzilla isn’t just appearing in a bunch of comics this summer — IDW has been publishing Godzilla books since 2010, I believe, so he’s never been absent from comic shelves — but this summer he’s expanded his appearances to multiple publishers.

Let’s have a look:

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DC + Marvel announce their first new crossover in two decades

Deadpool and Batman will collide in two issues coming later this year.

I wasn’t sure if we’d ever see this again in my lifetime, but here we are — Marvel and DC have announced their first crossover event in about 20 years, as Batman and Deadpool will met in two different issues this fall.

Marvel will kick things off in September with Deadpool/Batman by Zeb Wells and Greg Capullo. DC will follow in November with Batman/Deadpool by Grant Morrison and Dan Mora.

Each issue will also feature back-up stories starring different Marvel and DC characters by as-yet-unannounced creators.

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