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Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Vice President of Toys & Product Development David Scroggy announced several upcoming products, including: the Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations with Dead People Board; a limited edition series of Domo color variant 5.5” vinyl figures; Tara McPherson products; an Umbrella Academy umbrella and PVC set; a Vampire Hunter D PVC set inspired by the first film; and a Yoshitaka Amano print. Additionally, collectors’ items tying into Will Eisner’s The Spirit (and Frank Miller’s forthcoming film adaptation thereof) will receive a big push from Dark Horse in the form of statues, a lunchbox, snow globes and a special light-up notebook.
For comics, Dark Horse Director of Marketing Dirk Wood announced a variety of products, including new Hellboy material from Mike Mignola and a BPRD: 1947 series, featuring artwork by Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon.
Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s Umbrella Academy Series 2: Dallas is launching soon, with the first issue due in late November ’08.
Larry Marder’s Beanworld will be re-collected, with new material planned as well.
The very successful Perry Bible Fellowship: The Trial of Colonel Sweeto collection will be followed up with the Perry Bible Fellowship Almanack HC, which will collect the entirety of Nicholas Gurewitch’s weekly newspaper print run.
Dark Horse will reprint popular material from the manga collective CLAMP, including an omnibus edition of Clover. For the first time ever, new material will be released simultaneously in Japan, Korea and the United States and is expected to debut this Summer 2009.
New Aliens and Predator material will be available in Summer 2009
Image Comics
One major focus for Image is driving interest in serialized and single-issue comics. Image will continue to release strong series and miniseries in order to keep customers returning to comic shops on a weekly basis.
Upcoming projects of note include Darwyn Cooke as a guest writer/artist in Madman Atomics #14, which is scheduled to hit stores in November.
Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer II is expected to launch in 2009. Other upcoming projects for 2009 include brand-new comics from Joe Linsner to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Dawn, plus the debut of Back to Brooklyn, a highly anticipated new series from Garth Ennis and Jimmy Palmiotti.
Upcoming products from Top Cow include a new Cyblade series by 2007 Pilot Season winner Joshua Hale Fialkov and Rick Mays. New issues of Spawn will feature work by artist Whilce Portacio and the return of series creator Todd MacFarlane as writer and inker.
The Walking Dead Vol. 1 will be back in print, just in time for the beginning of a new major story arc, beginning with issue #56.
Summer 2009 will also see the release of Image United, a six-issue mini-series written by Robert Kirkman along with the six remaining Image founders, each of whom will provide story and artwork for their signature characters, including Spawn, Witchblade, ShadowHawk, Badrock, Savage Dragon and new original character Fortress.
Interest in Michael Avon Oeming and Bryan J.L. Glass' Mice Templar and Firebreather by Phil Hester and Andy Kuhn is expected to increase with animated adaptations on tap at Cartoon Network.
Other noteworthy Image titles include: I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura; Guerillas by Brahm Revel; Impaler by William Harms, NicKPostic and Nick Marinkovich; Jack Staff by Paul Grist; Elephantmen by Richard Starkings and Marian Churchland; Dynamo 5 by Jay Faerber, Mahmud A. Asrar and Ron Riley; and the kid-friendly Top Cow Comics Dragon Prince, by Ron Marz and Lee Moder.
Radical Publishing
Dave Elliot from Radical Publishing spoke about the publisher’s focus on iconic characters and branding. Both Hercules and Caliber have done well, and will ultimately be collected as a series of graphic novels, with the first hardcover collection of Hercules available later in 2008. The standard publishing plan for all Radical titles will be an initial limited series, which will then be collected in an oversized hardcover and ultimately a traditional trade paperback.
Upcoming Radical titles include:
• Freedom Formula by Edmund Shern, Kai Lim and Chester Ocampo, whose first issue will be released in a prestige format.
• City of Dust by Steve Niles and Zid mixes Niles’ signature horror with science fiction, starting with a prestige format debut issue with a cover price of $3.99.
• Hotwire by Warren Ellis and Steve Pugh will begin in 2009.
• Shrapnel by Nick Sagan and M. Zachary Sherman will unfold in six issues, all of which are completed.
• Aladdin: Legacy of the Lost by Ian Edgington will provide a new take on the classic story in the summer of 2009
Devil’s Due Publishing (DDP)
DDP’s Stephen Christy announced that the publisher has launched new initiatives and titles to focus on recognizable titles, brands and creators:
• The Corps, by Rick Remender and Mike Penick, will launch with a 99¢ issue #0 special in October.
• Devil’s Due has also acquired the Humanoids line, and will be publishing Fabien Nury and John Cassaday’s I Am Legion starting with issue #1 in January. Other titles include Sebastian X by Michelangelo La Neve and Stuart Immonen, Redhand by Kurt Busiek and Mario Alberti and Olympus by Geoff Johns, Kris Grimminger and Butch Guice. DDP plans to initially release each Humanoids series in two standard-sized issues a month, later collecting them as graphic novels. Other plans for Humanoids titles include the Metabarons Omnibus, which will collect the entire series in one 500-page volume that is expected to retail for $35.
• A new Vampire Hunter D comic by Jimmy Palmiotti and Josh Blaylock will be available this coming winter. Created for American audiences, this new version of the manga will be released as a six-issue limited series.
• A reprint of the Hack/Slash Omnibus is in the works, to coincide with the forthcoming movie, which will be released in 2010. All Hack/Slash trade paperback collections will be back in stock as well.
• A comic based on the Capcom game Bionic Commando is also due soon, and each will cross-promote the other with the game featuring an insert to promote the comic, and the comic incorporating exclusive cheat codes for the game.
• New titles due in October include a new Voltron collection, monthly series Halloween: The First Death of Laurie Strode and Mercy Sparx, which is being heavily promoted on MySpace.
• DDP’s final big announcement centered on the new, five issue mini-series Rest by Mark Powers and Shawn McManus, which will feature covers by top talent and special photo covers with Milo Ventimiglia of Heroes.
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