Posts in the "Comics" Category

• A review of Tank Girl’s Bad Wind Rising

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  Bad Wind Rising is a Tank Girl from Alan Martin and Rufus Dayglo. Dayglo knows the Tank Girl style well now and the hardbound comic book certainly feels right. It may, however, be Dayglo’s last TG. It took a while for Bad Wind Rising to draw me in. We like Tank Girl for the childish [...]

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• The Hero Initiative – cheap comics for charity

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  DriveThru Comics and publishers have stepped in with the Hero Initiative to do good. The Hero Initiative is all about creating a financial rescue plan - every thing from support to medical aid – for comic creators and their families who have fallen on hard times. The legal twists of the comic publishing world means that even [...]

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• Kick start Robot 13 and loot stuff worth collecting

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  I’m happy to recommend the Robot 13 comic series. I read it on my Android. Now Black List Studios are trying to take their mysterious hero to the next level. The goal is to go beyond the digital editions and do a 100 page, English language, paperback (with corrections). Needless to say the team are [...]

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• NEO dives into the Oricon charts

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  The next issue of UK anime and manga magazine NEO is due out on the 23rd of Februry and it will feature an in-depth look at the Oricon charts. The Oricon charts are the J-pop equivalent of Mnet (K-Pop) and KKBox (C-Pop) and were founded in 1999. The charts look at what’s popular in CDs [...]

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• MyM’s Tarik Alozdi appearing at Midlands Comic Con

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  Midlands Comic Con have announced that MyM’s publisher Tarik Alozdi will be making an appearance. It’ll actually be the MyM magazine’s first appearance in public, before MyM #1 is published on the 3rd of May at WHSmiths and other newsagents, In the press release, Tarik said; “MyM is the magazine that UK anime fans and [...]

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• The Magic: The Gathering comic hits the shelves today

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  The 1st of February is the publication date for the comic book with the UPC of 82771400302400111. That’s Magic The Gathering #1 By Matt Forbeck, Aleksi Briclot and Martin Coccolo, the series follows the adventures of Dack Fayden, the greatest thief in the Multiverse, has he tracks down people who destroyed his town. Yes. I [...]

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• Before Watchmen: Pictures

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  Many geeks will not be happy with DC’s decision to return to the Watchmen with a prequel. This includes Watchmen creator Alan Moore. However, DC is a business, if they don’t make money then we have no DC at all. Can DC ever hope to follow on from the Watchmen? They’ll try. Here’s a gathering [...]

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• Graphicly to challenge One Book Shelf? Empower publishers?

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  Geek Native was lucky enough to interview Graphicly’s CEO Micah Baldwin back in the day In fact, back then Graphicly was known as Graphic.ly and was part of the whole .ly domain doom. Since then Graphicly has faced some fierce competition in the digital comic market from the likes of comiXology, made some acquisitions, introduced [...]

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• Who fights who? The Avengers Vs X-Men match ups

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  Marvel announced a series of Avengers Vs X-Men titles. There’s a webpage up over at Marvel.com/AvX that’s worth checking out if you’re a fan. I want to know who will fight whom. After all – are they realling going to put Iron Man up against Magneto? It looks like Marvel have been scattering exclusives of [...]

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• Pathfinder RPG becomes a comic book

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  Paizo Publishing have granted Dynamite Entertainment a license to create and publish a Pathfinder comic book. As Paizo is quick to point out; Pathfinder is now tied with Dungeons & Dragons as the best-selling hobby RPG. It was first published in 2009. Dynamite is a little older, founded in 2004, it now has a range of [...]

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