Month: November 2010

  • Kill Shakespeare Vol. 1 TPB Review

    Kill Shakespeare Vol. 1 TPB Review

    2010, IDW Story: Conor McCreery, Anthony Del Col Art: Andy Belanger Colours: Ian Herring Could any other scribe warrant such a passionate yet divisive response upon the mere utterance of his surname? For every uncultured individual who sees Shakespeare’s plays as the crux of a painful childhood, there seems to be an academically inclined counterpart…

  • Nightmares and Fairy Tales Returns with Original Artist

    Nightmares and Fairy Tales Returns with Original Artist

    Serena Valentino and FSc team up on new miniseries Press Release: In Nightmares and Fairy Tales, a comic series by Serena Valentino and FSc launched in 2001, an antique doll named Annabelle, passed from owner to owner, holds frightening secrets and stories of love, betrayal, violence, and madness. Annabelle doesn’t know why doomed women are…

  • KiZoic Dreamworks Books Sell Out

    KiZoic Dreamworks Books Sell Out

    Shrek #1 out of print and Penguins of Madagascar not far behind Press Release: Ape Entertainment is proud to announce that Shrek #1 has sold out of its first printing and that Penguins of Madagascar #1 is following the same pattern of success.  Both titles were released through Ape’s all-ages imprint, KiZoic, and are based…

  • Hokusai: Demons Available Now

    Hokusai: Demons Available Now

    Press Release: The new collection of dream stories by critically acclaimed comics creator Al Davison has a distinctly Japanese flavor. All the stories have the common thread of featuring  ‘Kitsune’ or  ‘Fox Mothers’ somewhere.  These shape-shifting, mischievous creatures of Japanese folk-lore appear to be, sometimes overtly, sometimes secretly, influencing the characters actions, and by extension,…

  • Little Gloomy Animated Series Coming Soon from 1492 Pictures

    Little Gloomy Animated Series Coming Soon from 1492 Pictures

    Series to be renamed Scary Larry Press Release: Little Gloomy, the all-ages spooky comic book series by Landry Walker and Eric Jones, is being produced as an animated television series by Timoon Animation and director Chris Columbus’ 1492 Pictures. The animated series, which has been retitled Scary Larry, is about a teen werewolf who forms…

  • Zombie Terrors Gets New Release Date, 32-Page Preview

    Zombie Terrors Gets New Release Date, 32-Page Preview

    Zombie Terrors gets new release date, bumps pages to 184 – Keeps price $14.95 Press Release: Frank Forte, publisher of Asylum Press, announces the release of a new 32-page preview of their newest anthology, Zombie Terrors.  “We had some production delays, but the book looks great.,” says Publisher/Creator Frank Forte, “We should have the books…

  • Shaun of the Dead Graphic Novel Review

    Shaun of the Dead Graphic Novel Review

    2010, Titan Books Adapted by: Chris Ryall Art: Zach Howard, Sean Murphy Colours: Thompson Knox It’s time to hit the Winchester once more with the Shaun of the Dead comic adaptation, originally published by IDW in 2005 and brought to British shores a half-decade later by Titan Books. Not that I’m complaining. I haven’t seen…

  • Action Comics #894 Review

    Action Comics #894 Review

    $3.99, DC Story: Paul Cornell Art: Pete Woods Colours: Brad Anderson Yup, it’s part 5 of ‘The Black Ring’, which shall forever more be referred to as ‘that issue of Superman with Death in it’. I’m not quite sure why it’s so jarring to see Neil Gaiman’s Goth-girl incarnation of Death chatting with Lex Luthor.…