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There's a ton of superhero movies coming out this year (and next year, and the year after that). And hey, that's awesome, I love superheroes, I love superhero movies! But did you guys KNOW, that sometimes there are comic books about stuff OTHER than superheroes?! Shocking I know.
Specifically, there's a company called IMAGE who despite having a braying jerk as a figurehead who publish a shit ton of really interesting comics in this vein! And they just had a big convention in which they announced a bunch of new series.
Perhaps none more striking than BITCH PLANET, Kelly Sue Deconnick and Valentine DeLandro's love letter to exploitation films, more specifically the "women in prison" subsection of the genre, as what else is Bitch Planet but a female penal colony IIIIIIINNNN SPPPPAAAAAAAACCEEEE.
But that's hardly the only cool thing that got announced!
Joe Keatinge teams up with artist Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining urban fantasy and globe-spanning adventure, SHUTTER.
Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer on Earth—an Earth that’s far more fantastical than the one we know, filled with demons, gorgons, phantom ninjas, and various other monsters of lore—is forced to return to the adventurous life she left behind when a family secret threatens to destroy everything she spent her life protecting.
Kate’s character can be described as a contemporary Indiana Jones. “We’re looking at the 21st Century, where it’s at and where it’s going, and considering what the Adventurer for its time might be like—what would Indiana Jones be like if created in 2014? What’s after Lara Croft?” said Keatinge. “We’re at a much different time than the pulps and serial Indiana Jones and, to an extent, Lara Croft, were rooted in—information from all remote corners of the world comes from great ease, where we’re more knowledgeable about other cultures, where technology enables us to access we could only dream about. Where do you go from there?”
“The Fade Out is my ultimate noir story. It’s a brutal crime story set in late ’40s Hollywood, and all spinning around the mysterious death of an up-and-coming starlet,” said Brubaker. “For people who’ve been waiting for us to return to Criminal, this will be exactly what they’re looking for, but on a much more epic scale—going from studio backlots to the debauchery of the rich and famous, and even stretching back to the horrors of World War Two.”
Frequent collaborators Rick Remender (BLACK SCIENCE) and artist Greg Tocchini (Uncanny X-Force, Last Days of American Crime) will bring readers on another high-octane science fiction adventure, this time to the lowest depths of Earth after it has been ravaged by the sun’s radiation.
LOW is set in the distant future, after humanity has relocated to radiation-shielded cities below the sea and the surface of the planet has become a scorched uninhabitable wasteland. A probe has returned with information on a possible alternative planet for humans, but it has landed on the Earth’s surface. A few brave representatives from the warring human clans venture out to retrieve it and the hopeful news it bears.
More than just a science fiction story, LOW touches on the human condition, but in an unconventional way. “Low explores what happens to groups of humans who are holding out hope for a solution when one is quite unlikely. It’s an examination of how quickly our ideals shift when we’re forced to make pragmatic choices for survival,” explained Remender. “But at its core is an examination of how one person’s optimism in the face of all of this hopelessness can potentially change everything for the better.”
In 2014, Nick Spencer (MORNING GLORIES, BEDLAM) will team up with three different artists and launch three new thriller series sure to capture readers’ imaginations.
A contemporary fantasy epic with a spy thriller aesthetic, PARADIGMS will showcase art by Butch Guice (Captain America, Superman) and explore a world that exists beyond, or more specifically behind, ours. In the shadows where magic is real, warring clans of sorcerers battle for power and the favor of their gods.
A sci-fi thriller of dead worlds, lost secrets, and hidden dangers, CERULEAN, with art by Frazer Irving (MORNING GLORIES, BEDLAM, Batman), follows the last survivors of the destruction of Earth as they struggle to rebuild civilization on a distant planet full of its own mysteries.
In the GREAT BEYOND, featuring art by Morgan Jeske (ZERO, SEX) a “post-life community” values the size of your bank account over morals and values—and your place in the hereafter is determined by it. But then polite society is rocked by the apparent suicide of one of its own.
What if every 90 years the gods were reincarnated? Coming this 2014, Kieron Gillen (THREE, PHONOGRAM, Young Avengers) and Jamie McKelvie (PHONOGRAM, SUBURBAN GLAMOUR, Young Avengers) team up to infuse new life into the old mythological characters in THE WICKED AND THE DIVINE. The new ongoing series will feature guest creators and surprise arcs with alternate endings that will bring the gods of mythology to life.
Twelve gods will be briefly reincarnated in order to perform miracles like superheroes and bask in celebrity fame. But for the first time, there may be a thirteenth god reincarnated, and lucky number thirteen is tipping the delicate balance.
“The idea of playing superheroes as celebrity isn’t exactly new,” explained Gillen. “However, it’s always played cynical. The celebrity characters are always the debased bad guys, or at least the cautionary tale and wandering from the road of truth. It’s always implicitly arguing that these people are worse than the heroes who came before them because they’re on the cover of a magazine and they do a bit of coke. We’re not interested in that. We’re anti-that. We’ve all had pop-stars save our life.”
As if superhero-like gods reincarnated isn’t enough to draw readers in, Gillen promises a hefty dose of drama and mystery as well. “There’ll be a lot of fights, drama, emotions, secrets, and kissing,” hinted Gillen. “Worth noting is the question of whether the lead ends up being a God is the story to begin with. As far as the world knows, there’s only twelve gods who appear. There may be a mystery going on.”
And that dosen't even include all the Image books you should probably already be reading like: East of West, Black Science, Chew, Lazarus, The Manhattan Projects, Pretty Deadly, Rat Queens, Saga, Sex Criminals, Three, Nowhere Men, and Velvet.
Oh, and Scott Snyder and Jock are also making this terrifying thing:
Specifically, there's a company called IMAGE who despite having a braying jerk as a figurehead who publish a shit ton of really interesting comics in this vein! And they just had a big convention in which they announced a bunch of new series.
Perhaps none more striking than BITCH PLANET, Kelly Sue Deconnick and Valentine DeLandro's love letter to exploitation films, more specifically the "women in prison" subsection of the genre, as what else is Bitch Planet but a female penal colony IIIIIIINNNN SPPPPAAAAAAAACCEEEE.
But that's hardly the only cool thing that got announced!
Joe Keatinge teams up with artist Leila del Duca for her Image Comics debut in an all-new ongoing series combining urban fantasy and globe-spanning adventure, SHUTTER.
Kate Kristopher, once the most famous explorer on Earth—an Earth that’s far more fantastical than the one we know, filled with demons, gorgons, phantom ninjas, and various other monsters of lore—is forced to return to the adventurous life she left behind when a family secret threatens to destroy everything she spent her life protecting.
Kate’s character can be described as a contemporary Indiana Jones. “We’re looking at the 21st Century, where it’s at and where it’s going, and considering what the Adventurer for its time might be like—what would Indiana Jones be like if created in 2014? What’s after Lara Croft?” said Keatinge. “We’re at a much different time than the pulps and serial Indiana Jones and, to an extent, Lara Croft, were rooted in—information from all remote corners of the world comes from great ease, where we’re more knowledgeable about other cultures, where technology enables us to access we could only dream about. Where do you go from there?”
“The Fade Out is my ultimate noir story. It’s a brutal crime story set in late ’40s Hollywood, and all spinning around the mysterious death of an up-and-coming starlet,” said Brubaker. “For people who’ve been waiting for us to return to Criminal, this will be exactly what they’re looking for, but on a much more epic scale—going from studio backlots to the debauchery of the rich and famous, and even stretching back to the horrors of World War Two.”
Frequent collaborators Rick Remender (BLACK SCIENCE) and artist Greg Tocchini (Uncanny X-Force, Last Days of American Crime) will bring readers on another high-octane science fiction adventure, this time to the lowest depths of Earth after it has been ravaged by the sun’s radiation.
LOW is set in the distant future, after humanity has relocated to radiation-shielded cities below the sea and the surface of the planet has become a scorched uninhabitable wasteland. A probe has returned with information on a possible alternative planet for humans, but it has landed on the Earth’s surface. A few brave representatives from the warring human clans venture out to retrieve it and the hopeful news it bears.
More than just a science fiction story, LOW touches on the human condition, but in an unconventional way. “Low explores what happens to groups of humans who are holding out hope for a solution when one is quite unlikely. It’s an examination of how quickly our ideals shift when we’re forced to make pragmatic choices for survival,” explained Remender. “But at its core is an examination of how one person’s optimism in the face of all of this hopelessness can potentially change everything for the better.”
In 2014, Nick Spencer (MORNING GLORIES, BEDLAM) will team up with three different artists and launch three new thriller series sure to capture readers’ imaginations.
A contemporary fantasy epic with a spy thriller aesthetic, PARADIGMS will showcase art by Butch Guice (Captain America, Superman) and explore a world that exists beyond, or more specifically behind, ours. In the shadows where magic is real, warring clans of sorcerers battle for power and the favor of their gods.
A sci-fi thriller of dead worlds, lost secrets, and hidden dangers, CERULEAN, with art by Frazer Irving (MORNING GLORIES, BEDLAM, Batman), follows the last survivors of the destruction of Earth as they struggle to rebuild civilization on a distant planet full of its own mysteries.
In the GREAT BEYOND, featuring art by Morgan Jeske (ZERO, SEX) a “post-life community” values the size of your bank account over morals and values—and your place in the hereafter is determined by it. But then polite society is rocked by the apparent suicide of one of its own.
What if every 90 years the gods were reincarnated? Coming this 2014, Kieron Gillen (THREE, PHONOGRAM, Young Avengers) and Jamie McKelvie (PHONOGRAM, SUBURBAN GLAMOUR, Young Avengers) team up to infuse new life into the old mythological characters in THE WICKED AND THE DIVINE. The new ongoing series will feature guest creators and surprise arcs with alternate endings that will bring the gods of mythology to life.
Twelve gods will be briefly reincarnated in order to perform miracles like superheroes and bask in celebrity fame. But for the first time, there may be a thirteenth god reincarnated, and lucky number thirteen is tipping the delicate balance.
“The idea of playing superheroes as celebrity isn’t exactly new,” explained Gillen. “However, it’s always played cynical. The celebrity characters are always the debased bad guys, or at least the cautionary tale and wandering from the road of truth. It’s always implicitly arguing that these people are worse than the heroes who came before them because they’re on the cover of a magazine and they do a bit of coke. We’re not interested in that. We’re anti-that. We’ve all had pop-stars save our life.”
As if superhero-like gods reincarnated isn’t enough to draw readers in, Gillen promises a hefty dose of drama and mystery as well. “There’ll be a lot of fights, drama, emotions, secrets, and kissing,” hinted Gillen. “Worth noting is the question of whether the lead ends up being a God is the story to begin with. As far as the world knows, there’s only twelve gods who appear. There may be a mystery going on.”
And that dosen't even include all the Image books you should probably already be reading like: East of West, Black Science, Chew, Lazarus, The Manhattan Projects, Pretty Deadly, Rat Queens, Saga, Sex Criminals, Three, Nowhere Men, and Velvet.
Oh, and Scott Snyder and Jock are also making this terrifying thing:
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That looked really cool in terms of art and concept
but it's been years and years, is it dead?
a grievous oversight by me, I love Nowhere Men
I will cut you
But man so many of these look good
I just have such a huge backlog of Brubaker rad crime shit I could be reading as well, it makes it slightly harder to get hype
There are some great sci-fi comics coming out right now, gotta say
Prophet, Saga, and now this stuff as well
Ody-c reminds me of a weird awesome cartoon I used to watch as a kid, Ulysses 31
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@Butler For Life #1
Super-Villain Team-Up: M.O.D.O.K.'s 11 was a really fun miniseries about A.I.M.
Fantastic Four vol. 1 #610 and FF vol. 1 #22 make up a two part story where A.I.M. buys itself a Pacific island and creates their own sovereign nation.
Avengers vol. 5 #14-17 shows A.I.M. doing a lot of stuff.
Avengers Assemble #21 started an arc dealing with A.I.M. that's currently ongoing, it's pretty fun.
A.I.M. Nation?
That sounds amazing
I do hope though they keep a similar aesthetic when they show up on TV or movies. I kinda like the design they have in Ultimate Spider-Man (I know its not the best cartoon but I love the AIM design).
They still have the yellow suits but the head gear is a combination of the AIM hat and the Dead Space Rig Helm. Looks like it could fold back revealing their head. Like some sort of science ballistic mask.
That shit was great.
Every line on that page just says "I AM GROOT."
publication date is the proper reading order yes. That graph someone posted was a flowchart for the Infinity event, but even then all that stuff came out in the right order, except for maybe some cases where more than one book came out in a particular week.
There comes a point (after FF #11 I believe) where Fantastic Four comes back and runs concurrently alongside FF
This movie is special
Black Widow was so good.
SO GOOD
And there's at least three of those no-budget rip-offs of it on netflix too
I don't have enough money.
Noir is a thing I can always use more of.
That book seems tailor-made for me
It's official, Peter Parker is back in April with a relaunched Amazing Spider-Man from Slott and Ramos.
Also, that was actually a pretty long time
So now I'm super fucking mad!
Thanks Bale!