Starwarp Celebrates FCBD 2012 With Free PANDORA ZWIEBACK Comics

To Celebrate FREE COMIC BOOK DAY, StarWarp Concepts will have a pair of titles that will be available for download from its website.

THE SAGA OF PANDORA ZWIEBACK #0: Introducing 16-year-old Goth adventuress Pandora Zwieback! Pan is a girl with the ability to see the monsters that regular humans can’t, and with the help of a 400-year-old monster hunter named Sebastienne “Annie” Mazarin, she’s going to protect the world from danger—and maybe even have some fun while doing it.

• HEARTSTOPPER: THE LEGEND OF LA BELLA TENEBROSA #1: A nefarious heavy metal band has arrived in New York City, and its lead singer is more than just a sex magnet for his female fans—he’s an incubus! Will Annie put an end to his plans for worldwide chaos, or fall prey to his supernatural charms?

After May 5, the comics will remain accessible on the StarWarp Concepts website’s “Free Comics” page. For more information on the company and its projects, please visit www.StarwarpConcepts.com and www.PandoraZwieback.com.

Free Digital Comic Sampler From Asylum Press For Free Comic Book Day

Frank Forte announces that Asylum Press will release a 32 page sampler comic on Free Comic Book Day 2012. ASYLUM PRESS SAMPLER FREE COMIC BOOK 2012 #1 will be available on Comixology, Comics+ (Iverse), Graphicly, MyDigitalComics.com as well as stand alone apps and epubs on KindleFire, Nook, Kobo, ibookstore, and Googlebooks.

"We're excited about the possibility of reaching new fans on Free Comic Book Day,“ explains publisher Frank Forte, "People will be going to comics stores in droves, but they'll also be on their tablets and ipads. Mobile device and smart phone ownership keeps growing at an amazing rate and we want to provide great comics to these readers. Digital comics are the return of the newsstand. Trenchcoats, Cigarettes and Shotguns will appeal to people who like crime comics splattered with demons. Black Powder is an exciting tale of pioneers and river pirates in the mid 1800's. Farmhouse will appeal to Vertigo fans. And Chopper is a straight up horror/thriller."

ASYLUM PRESS SAMPLER FREE COMIC BOOK 2012 #1 will feature 8 pages from four upcoming titles:

TRENCHCOATS, CIGARETTES and SHOTGUNS, written by Chuck Brown and illustrated by Philipp Nuendorf; When the demonic mob murders the friend of a mysterious hit man named, Trypp; he begins to leave a path of death, destruction and blood to avenge her. But he also begins to embrace the darkness within his soul.

BLACK POWDER #2, a bloody frontier adventure, by Dwayne Harris, can be described as a "Buckskin Apocalypse Now". Robert Young and his crew set out on the Mississippi River in search of Molly Livingston, who has been captured by the ruthless river pirate Samuel Mason. As they make their way north, against the current, they approach hostile indian territory as well as the first in series of terrible earthquakes.

 

FARMHOUSE is a tale of a drifter who falls in love with an artist undergoing an experimental art therapy regimen, by Elizabeth J. Musgrave and Szymon Kudranski.

CHOPPER #2 Preview: (written by Martin Shapiro, Illustrated by Juan Ferreyra) Christina and her rowdy girlfriends go to the Daytona Bike Week motorcycle rally and sneak into a nightclub to see a heavy metal band. After taking a hit of the supernatural drug known as Stairway to Heaven, Christina and Trish encounter the ghostly Reaper, a headless Hell's Angel on a chopper who collects the souls of sinners in the afterlife.

Sneak Peeks: Monsterverse Comics May 2, 2012

The Fellowship has obtained sneak peeks for comics from Monsterverse Comics that will come out May 2...

Bela Lugosi's Tales From The Grave #2
(W/A) Various

Seven-time Academy Award-winning make-up legend Rick Baker creates his first comic book cover and only for Monsterverse's second issue of Bela Lugosi's Tales From The Grave. Baker has been responsible for cinema history with work like that with Dick Smith when he was only 18 for The Exorcist. He won the first Academy Award for Make-up as a category with American Werewolf In London. He created the make-up designs for Michael Jackson's Thriller, the most successful music video in history. He's created apes for Gorillas In The Mist, and turned Jack Nicholson into a werewolf in Wolf. And for Monsterverse's money he won another Oscar for turning Martin Landau into Bela Lugosi (who also won an Oscar for the role!). The list of Oscars goes on and on right up to the recent The Wolfman. Now, he's bringing Hollywood to modern horror comics!

A strange, pop-eyed sailor is released from a sunken ship after over 70 years; all who look into the eye have their souls sucked out! A masked Mexican wrestler battles a chupacabra to rescue a lady in distress. Travelers from Earth land on a planet inhabited by teenage vampires. A film historian sets out to find a lost horror film and discovers the secret of why it has never been seen by the public. Dr. Vornoff  builds a mechanical man to help him conquer the world. And huge bats thought to be destroyed have apparently returned to wreak havoc on a small town once again!

Another Hulk Movie On The Horizon?

The internet has been buzzing today with the possibility of Marvel doing another Hulk movie. The source seems to be coming from a Forbes article in which Marvel’s President of Consumer Products Paul Gitter talks about the response the character (and actor Mark Ruffalo) has been receiving in THE AVENGERS movie.

Glitter goes on to say that if it continues, the character will have a solo movie in 2015. However, Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige said that no Hulk movie is coming. Have things changed? We do know that the green behemoth will be coming back to the TV at some point with Guillermo del Toro as executive-producer.

Stay Tuned...

Sneak Peeks: Dark Horse Comics May 2, 2012

The Fellowship has obtained sneak peeks for comics from Dark Horse Comics that will come out May 2...

SKELETON KEY COLOR SPECIAL (ONE-SHOT)

Writer: Andi Watson

Artist: Andi Watson

One of the greatest all-ages comics of all time, Andi Watson’s Skeleton Key is back—and in color!

Using the magical Skeleton Key, schoolgirl Tamsin and fox spirit Kitsune can turn any door into a portal to an endless multiverse. Lost somewhere in space and time and trying to get home, the two friends encounter a band using the undead in a music video, check into a haunted hotel, and become catalogued in the vast Museum of the Lost! Collecting all three new stories from Dark Horse Presents, this is the perfect introduction.

THE SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN VOLUME 11 TPB

Writer: Larry Yakata, Michael Fleisher, Don Kraar

Artist: Pablo Marcos, Val Mayerik, Ernie Chan, Gary Kwapisz, Dave Simons, Rudy Nebres

Cover Artist: Michael Golden

After many journeys trading his feared sword arm for gold, Conan returns to the land of his birth, Cimmeria, only to find his family murdered and his sister enslaved by a ruthless rival clan. While the mighty slayer cannot bring back the dead, he can still mete out a terrible vengeance, but can even a warrior as skilled and merciless as Conan take on an entire clan whose treacherous hands hold a blade to his sister’s throat?

Wild Children In June

Official Press Release

A DIFFERENT KIND OF EDUCATION

WILD CHILDREN plumbs the depths of rebellion in July

Guns. Acid. Cameras. School. Wild Children.

Written by Ales Kot (Batman) with art by Riley Rossmo (Cowboy Ninja Viking, Dark Wolverine, Debris), WILD CHILDREN, a new graphic novella from Image Comics in July, explores an explosive high school hostage situation that threatens to unfold its own reality like cheap origami.

The subject of school shootings behind the controversial Hellblazer: Shoot by Warren Ellis and Phil Jimenez merges with Grant Morrison's and Philip Bond's themes of teenage revolt in Kill Your Boyfriend, delivering a unique story of magic, passion and disinformation.

"Comics have tremendous transformative potential, and on top of that, they're pure fun when done well," said writer Kot. "This comic is the equivalent of a six-track pop EP — and if we've done our jobs well, Wild Children will be the weird pop EP you'll find yourself coming back to again and again."

Grimm Fairy Tales The Animated Series Reaches Funding Goal

On April 29, Zenescope reached the goal of $175,000 to fund its Grimm Fairy Tales the Animated Series project. The project closes 6pm EST May 1 and any additional funds raised will go to creating new episodes.

“Using Kickstarter for this project allows us as a company to bring our vision to life.” said Zenescope marketing manager Stephen Haberman. “It gives Joe and Ralph the ability to be directly involved in bringing their creation to life. Jon is a brilliant director and now we’re able to make the series our fans want to see. It’s moving to see just how passionate they are and we’re lucky to have them.”

People can still pre-order a digital copy for as little as $15 on the Kickstarter page: http://kck.st/wjSM8D.

First Look: HAVOC BRIGADE

The Fellowship has received a first look at Studio 407's HAVOC BRIGADE which comes out in July. HAVOC BRIGADE is an all-new, fully colored, softcover graphic novel written by Neal Marshall Stevens (13 Ghosts) and illustrated by John Bosco.

After ending the war and bringing a new era of peace to the world the Havoc Brigade is forced into retirement. But when the former commander steals the military's latest Havoc-class prototype and murders the only ones that can stop him, the flames of war begin to rise again.

Sergeant Barnes the only other surviving member of the Havoc Brigade must now go toe-to-toe with his mentor and stop him from leading terrorists in igniting another world war!

“We here are Studio 407 are extremely excited to to bring this suspenseful sci-fi epic to fans of good war stories and great comics!” Says PR & Marketing Manager Ivan Salazar. “It paints a terrifying world where war has dominated for decades and now in a time of fragile peace a new threat arises. With a clear correlations to today's modern conflicts, HAVOC BRIGADE brings outstanding story-telling wrapped in a haunting vision of the future of war.”

“Neal Marshal Stevens and John Bosco are a knock-out team-up that really bring HAVOC BRIGADE to life.” Says Managing Director Alex Leung. “Bosco infuses his panels with so much movement that it propels Stevens' suspenseful story of modern war at a blinding pace. Once you start reading you'll want to read it all.”

The Dark Judges Return...

Official Press Release

Fear. Fire. Mortis. The Dark Judges have returned to 2000 AD!

The countdown which has been running at www.2000adonline.com came to an end earlier today and the site has closed, replaced with a single image bearing the legend ‘THEY ARE HERE’.

Readers have been tantalised over the past month by a series of teaser images published through Comic Book Resources (below), which began as oblique symbols before slowly revealing the impending return of the terrible threesome. They must now wait to see what will be unveiled...

As part of the on-going Day of Chaos mega-epic, Judge Dredd co-creator John Wagner has unleashed Judge Fear, Judge Fire, and Judge Mortis onto a Mega-City One already reeling from the Chaos Bug epidemic, mass civil revolt, and terrorist attacks. In a storyline described by SFX as “both gripping and very compelling. It’s like watching news of a reallife crisis unfolding on TV”, the multi-faceted plotline offers current, lapsed, and new readers a rollercoaster of thrills.

Warped parodies of the Judges of Mega-City One, the Dark Judges are undead superfiends from a dimension where all life has been declared a crime. Originally led by Judge Death, who has since been sucked into Purgatory by the souls of his victims, the Dark Judges were created by John Wagner and Brian Bolland.

With a stunning cover by Henry Flint, this has been the most keenly anticipated 2000 AD event in years.

Prog 1781 goes on sale on Wednesday, priced at £2.35 in the UK.

Sneak Peeks: Marvel Comics May 2, 2012

The Fellowship has obtained sneak peeks for comics from Marvel that will come out May 2...

AVENGERS VS X-MEN #3 (of 12)

ED BRUBAKER (W)

JOHN ROMITA JR (a)

Cover by JIM CHEUNG

Variant covers by J. Scott. Campbell, Sara Pichelli

• The Avengers and the X-Men scour the Earth searching for the host of the Phoenix!

• Hope takes matters into her own hands!

• And Captain America and Wolverine come to bitter blows!

DEFENDERS #6

MATT FRACTION (w)

VICTOR IBANEZ (a)

Cover by TERRY DODSON

• WHO is trying to kill the Immortal Weapons and can Iron Fist stop them?

• WHY did the world forget about the Confederates of the Curious?

• HOW does the Concordance Engine tie all these threads together?

Comics And Trades For The Week of May 2

Diamond has released it's list of comics and trades that will be hitting stores this week:

DARK HORSE COMICS

SKELETON KEY COLOR SPECIAL ONE SHOT  $3.50

           

DC COMICS     

ACTION COMICS #9      $3.99

ACTION COMICS #9 COMBO PACK       $4.99

AMERICAN VAMPIRE TP VOL 02 (MR)  $17.99

ANIMAL MAN #9           $2.99

ANIMAL MAN TP VOL 01 THE HUNT      $14.99

BATMAN AND ROBIN TP VOL 03 BATMAN ROBIN MUST DIE     $17.99

BATWING #9 (NIGHT OF THE OWLS)     $2.99

DETECTIVE COMICS #9 (NIGHT OF THE OWLS)            $3.99

DETECTIVE COMICS #9 COMBO PACK (NIGHT OF THE OWL)   $4.99

DIAL H #1         $2.99

EARTH 2 #1      $3.99

GI COMBAT #1  $3.99

GREEN ARROW #9       $2.99

JUSTICE LEAGUE #6 2ND PTG $3.99

JUSTICE LEAGUE HC VOL 01 ORIGIN   $24.99

JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL #9  $2.99

RED LANTERNS #9       $2.99

SANDMAN TP VOL 09 THE KINDLY ONES NEW ED (MR)          $19.99

SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 #1     $3.99

SPIRIT WORLD HC        $39.99

STORMWATCH #9         $2.99

SUPERMAN #1 3RD PTG          $2.99

SWAMP THING #9         $2.99

SWEET TOOTH #33 (MR)           $2.99

TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #1 (THE CULLING)         $4.99

WORLDS FINEST #1     $2.99

           

IDW PUBLISHING         

30 DAYS OF NIGHT ONGOING #7          $3.99

DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS SERIES IV #3 (OF 6) $3.99

DOROTHY OF OZ PREQUEL #2 (OF 4)  $3.99

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS FORGOTTEN REALMS TP VOL 03    $19.99

GI JOE 2 RETALIATION MOVIE PREQUEL TP    $17.99

GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #178            $3.99

GODZILLA KINGDOM OF MONSTERS TP VOL 03          $17.99

LOCKE & KEY TP VOL 04 KEYS TO THE KINGDOM      $19.99

STAR TREK CLASSICS TP VOL 03 ENCOUNTERS W/ UNKNOWN          $21.99

STAR TREK ONGOING #8         $3.99

           

IMAGE COMICS           

AVENGELYNE #8 CVR A LIEFELD        $2.99

BLUE ESTATE #11 (MR)            $2.99

BULLETPROOF COFFIN DISINTERRED #4 (OF 6) (MR)  $3.99

DANGER CLUB #1 VAR CVR 2ND PTG  $2.99

DOGS OF MARS TP (MR)         $15.99

EPIC KILL #1     $2.99

HACK SLASH #15 CVR A SEELEY & ROSENBERG (MR)           $3.50

HACK SLASH #15 CVR B EID (MR)        $3.50

HELL YEAH #2 VAR CVR 2ND PTG       $2.99

MARKSMEN TP VOL 01            $15.99

MIND THE GAP #1 CVR A         $2.99

MIND THE GAP #1 CVR B         $2.99

MIND THE GAP #1 SHARED EXC CVR  $2.99

PIGS #7 (MR)    $2.99

SPAWN #219    $2.99

SUPREME #63 VAR CVR 2ND PTG       $2.99

SUPREME #64  $2.99

VESCELL #7 (MR)         $2.99

WITCHBLADE #150 TOP COW STORE EX VAR CVR

Join The Fellowship In Celebrating FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

Next Saturday, May 5, is the tenth annual FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. Here is a list of free comics that will be out this year. The Fellowship will be celebrating at Comic Book Craze. Come join us and the guests they will have...

Arthur Bellfield will be there to sign copies of his new graphic novel, WAR'S CHOSEN. Arcana Comics was nice enough to send advance copies of the book (which don't come out until June) for Arthur to sign.

Simon Sanchez, writer of Trauma Comics NAZI WEREWOLVES FROM OUTER SPACE will be there to sign copies of issue #1.

Our good friend Purr Kayla will be there to do face paintings and accepting donations for the KittyCo Cat Rescue charity.  Grab a chair and listen to her stories, including trying out for STAN LEE'S WHO WANTS TO BE A SUPERHERO! You'll be glad you did.

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY CELEBRATION AT COMIC BOOK CRAZE
Saturday May 5, 2012 (11am - 6pm)
at Comic Book Craze
1456 Belt Line Rd #121
Garland, TX 75044
(972)414-8100