Preview: IMAGE UNITED - Exclusive Silvestri/Liefeld Pages

Image has offered two new images from IMAGE UNITED, including Marc Silvrstri drawing Cyberforce and Rob Liefeld drawing Youngblood

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CBR Unveils Exclusive Preview of Image United #1

THE CROSSOVER EVENT OF THE CENTURY IS HERE!

The heroes of the Image Universe are united in order to fight the greatest threat the world as ever faced! You can’t miss this historic event as the original Image Founders draw all the characters they made history with. Each page is an amazing jam piece – it’s a story told in a way never before attempted in comics!


Click on the link below for the first ever appearance of Marc Silvestri's all-new character, Barricade and a 5-page preview of "Image United" #1, featuring the talents of Image founders Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio , Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino all working together to illustrate a Image Universe spanning story written by current Image publisher, Robert Kirkman!

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Albany Comic Con Witchblade Variant Cover

Here's the Matthew Dow Smith variant cover for Witchblade #131, the start of a new storyline by writer Ron Marz, and available exclusively at the Albany Comic Con on Sunday, November 1st at the Holiday Inn on Wolf Road in Colonie.

Witchblade #131
“A New Beginning”
(W) Ron Marz (A) Stjepan Sejic
(Cov) Sejic, Chris Bachalo, John Tyler Christopher

A new status quo begins here! Emerging from the ashes of “War of the Witchblades”, the new Witchblade bearer must struggle to adjust to her new responsibility with the reunified gauntlet. But will the gauntlet allow her a moment of respite in the wake of war and loss?

Full Color, 32 pages, $2.99, ongoing series.

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Image United reveals sneak peak of WITCHBLADE #131

This October IMAGE UNITED begins with a four-part prelude backup feature revealing the secret history of the highly anticipated Image Comics founder crossover in SAVAGE DRAGON #153, WITCHBLADE #131, INVINCIBLE #67 and SPAWN #195!

The IMAGE UNITED prelude will be a four-part adventure featuring participants of IMAGE UNITED illustrating in the unique jam comics style the crossover is already known for. All four chapters come in addition the full-length features of each issue, starting with SAVAGE DRAGON #153's set up for the upcoming 'Dragon War', WITCHBLADE #131's all-new status quo, INVINCIBLE #67's conclusion to the Cory Walker illustrated two-parter and finally SPAWN #195's series farewell to artist Whilce Portacio.

WITCHBLADE #131 (AUG090388), a 32-page full color comic book for $2.99, will also be in-stores October 7th, 2009.

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Be a Hero! Renew/Apply for 2010 Hero Initiative Memberships!

It’s that time of year— to renew your Hero Initiative membership!

Proceeds benefit the Hero Initiative, the only charitable organization dedicated to helping comic creators in medical or financial need. In addition to these great items, many EXTRA excellent events and special discounts will be made available ONLY to Hero Initiative members throughout the year.

As they say over at Hero, DO IT !

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7 Things to Do at Albany Comic Con

Get the convention-exclusive Witchblade written by Ron Marz and with a variant cover by Matthew Dow Smith.

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Best Shots Reviews Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #2 & Darkness #80

The Darkness #80 finds our wandering hero, Jackie Estacado, crossing paths with a Swamp Thing-like creature in Part One of, "Bog." Among Top Cow's badass dudes and babes with supernatural powers, Jackie Estacado is the bearer of The Darkness. In order to bring back the order of things, he's hired a bunch of thugs to join him in finding and destroying host bodies of the evil Sovereign.

Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #2 brings together two generations of Top Cow readers: fans of Cyberforce, going back to the 90s, and the relatively new Hunter-Killer. It also teams up writer and Hunter-Killer co-creator Mark Waid (Amazing Spider-Man, Irredeemable) with artist Kenneth Rocafort (Astonishing Tales, Madame Mirage).

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Read The Darkness/Pitt #1 Online at CBR for Free

Top Cow has provided CBR with the complete sold-out first issue of the epic "The Darkness/Pitt" crossover, featuring a story by Paul Jenkins and artwork by the Pitt's creator, Dale Keown.

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Top Cow has a Bible

The longer a comic – or comic company -- has been around, the harder it is to get the big picture and understand every facet. Who are all the characters, how do they fit with each other, and where did they first appear? Both Marvel and DC have mitigated this problem with various Who's Who's, Secret Files, Handbooks and Encyclopedias and now Top Cow laying out their history and library in an all new book entitled Top Cow Bible.

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Broken Frontier previews Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #2

First blood has been drawn and the action heats up in Part 2 of Top Cow’s biggest summer event to date!After a surprise strike by a team of Hunter-Killers on Cyberforce’s headquarters, members of both teams have been bloodied. When Ellis arrives with a surprising revelation, the two teams must decide if they can trust each other enough to take out a common foe?

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Broken Frontier previews The Darkness #80

Jackie Estacado, bearer of The Darkness, and his crew of criminals head to the swamp on their quest to destroy every representation of The Sovereign in the world. But this swamp has a monstrous protector…

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comiXology previews Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #2

First blood has been drawn and the action heats up in Part 2 of Top Cow's biggest summer event to date! After a surprise strike by a team of Hunter-Killers on Cyberforce's headquarters, members of both teams have been bloodied. When Ellis arrives with a surprising revelation, the two teams must decide if they can trust each other enough to take out a common foe? The team of writer and Hunter-Killer co-creator Mark Waid (Amazing Spider-Man, Irredeemable) and artist Kenneth Rocafort (Astonishing Tales, Madame Mirage) bring you a crossover with consequences.

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comiXology previews The Darkness #80

Phil Hester takes over The Darkness for a special 2 part story! Jackie Estacado, bearer of The Darkness, and his crew of criminals head to the swamp on their quest to destroy every representation of The Sovereign in the world. But this swamp has a monstrous protector...

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Image Comics has provided CBR with a first look at cover artwork and solicitation information for new comics shipping in December, 2009. The full December solicitations will be released on Friday, right here on CBR.

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CBR Unveils Exclusive Pilot Season: Demonic #1 Cover

The demon is in his head. The demon makes him strong. The demon gets angry when he doesn't kill. Scott Graves is possessed and he will do anything the demon asks as long as it promises not to make him kill his wife and daughter. Scott stalks in the night as Demonic, a vigilante known for savagely slaughtering the wicked. He asks himself, how long can he continue living this way and what if the demon isn't real?

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Review: The Darkness/Pitt #2

Where The Pitt worked best was in the contrast between it’s two protagonists, the cheeky psychic Timmy and his half brother the hulking humourless Pitt. Where the The Darkness/Pitt works is by turning Timmy into the peanut gallery and let the contrast increase between the dour Pitt and the cocky Ennis-created-and-still enthused Jackie Estrada who just can’t take this chain-laden beast seriously, even when eviscerated bodies are raining down.

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Top Cow's "Pilot Season: Declassified" For Just One Dollar

Five brand new comic book properties born out of the collaboration between Image partners Robert Kirkman (The Walking Dead, Invincible) and Marc Silvestri (Dark Avengers/X-Men: Utopia, The Darkness) will compete against each other to win the votes of the fans who will determine the winning property that will be rewarded with its own full series. This highly anticipated year of Pilot Season begins in November, but fans will get a first look at all five of the new properties this October in the $1 Pilot Season: Declassified. The secrets behind the inception of each property will be revealed in trailer pages, secret documents, and design sketches ripped from the pages of Marc Silvestri’s sketchbook.

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Image United Prelude to Appear in Witchblade #131

This October IMAGE UNITED begins with a four-part prelude backup feature revealing the secret history of the highly anticipated Image Comics founder crossover in SAVAGE DRAGON #153, WITCHBLADE #131, INVINCIBLE #67 and SPAWN #195!

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CBR Previews Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #2

First blood has been drawn and the action heats up in Part 2 of Top Cow’s biggest summer event to date! After a surprise strike by a team of Hunter-Killers on Cyberforce’s headquarters, members of both teams have been bloodied. When Ellis arrives with a surprising revelation, the two teams must decide if they can trust each other enough to take out a common foe?

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Newsarama Previews The Darkness #80

Phil Hester takes over The Darkness for a special 2 part story!

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Long Beach Comic Con releases preliminary Programming Schedule

Hey Gang! If your in California October 2-4, 2009, and your a hardcore geek, then you have to make your way over to the first annual Long Beach Comic Con! Being it’s first year it probably wont be that crazy, it’s definitely not as big as San Diego Comic Con, which is cool, because it will be a smaller more intimate atmosphere.

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Sneak Peek of Witchblade #131 Albany Comic Con cover

Here is a sneak peek of the Witchblade variant cover that will be available at the Albany Comic-con. After the con (which I believe is the first of November) I should be able to post the full image.

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ComicMonsters.com Goes Behind the Scenes with Francis Tsai

"Hello – this is Francis Tsai, the artist on the new Top Cow book Tracker. I'm relatively new to comics, having come from a conceptual design and architecture background. I have however had a lifelong love of comics and horror, so I was pretty thrilled to be asked to provide the artwork for Jonathan's story."

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Pilot Season: Declassified Only $1

Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that the 2009 year of Pilot Season will kick off with Pilot Season: Declassified. The 32-page full color preview book is expected to be available in stores on October 14th, 2009 and will retail for one dollar.

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Witchblade "War of the Witchblades" reviewed (spoilers)

What you see above is the cover of the crown jewel of my admittedly weak comic collection. Witchblade #1. A book that, while I had to stop collecting for a while (I was only 14, income was a factor), I knew would take off into a fantastic series. As arguably the biggest event in the Witchblade series comes to a close, I have been given the honor of writing a massive War of the Witchblades review. I only hope I can do the series and all three people that read my reviews justice over the following paragraphs.

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Omnicomic reviews The Darkness/Pitt #2

The Darkness/Pitt #2 is the second of three in the series and definitely does more in the way of setting up an epic finale than anything. If you haven't read the first issue then really this review won't do you any good (and the first issue is free to read on comiXology). If you have read it and want to know if Tim, Pitt and Jackie spend the evening together drinking tea and regaling each others with tales of heroics then read on for the review.

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Top Cow Reveals Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #2 Long Beach Comic Con Variant

First blood has been drawn and the action heats up in Part 2 of Top Cow’s biggest summer event to date!

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Top Cow mentioned in iPhone App Article

I thought that I might be writing about reading comics on Apple’s revolutionary new tablet, a much-rumored expanded version of the iPod, by now, but their September meeting came and went with no news on that front. So I’m still reading on my iPod Touch, which has the virtues of clarity and portability and the vice of tininess.



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comiXology Previews The Darkness/Pitt #2

Jackie Estacado, the bearer of The Darkness, and Pitt are planning their next move against The Infected, when the problem comes to their doorstep!

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CBR previews The Darkness Accursed Vol 2 TPB

Weakened and battered after a conflict with The Darkness itself, Jackie Estacado flees Sierra Muñoz and heads back to the States. But the road home is no easy journey as he runs afoul of Mexican witches, wannabe gangsters and even Aphrodite IV!

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IGN reveals Sejic as Angelus artist

Witchblade fans, listen up. As Top Cow heads out of the epic "War of the Witchblades" storyline that wrapped earlier this year, the publisher is gearing up to launch an Angelus limited series in December.

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Matt Hawkins Talks About Witchblade Movie

It's been a while since we checked in with the Top Cow crew about "The Witchblade," the planned feature film based on the publisher's long-running, fan-favorite comic book series about a female police detective who fights evil with the aid of a supernatural artifact.

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Top Cow Unveils Whilce Portacio Cover for Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #3

Top Cow Productions, Inc. revealed the final colored cover for Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #3 by Whilce Portacio, Joe Weems & Sunny Gho of IFS. As Cyberforce and Hunter-Killer team members rush to destroy key secret facilities around the world, Morningstar waits for them with a deadly welcoming party.

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Top Cow Previews The Darkness Accursed Volume 2 TP

Weakened and battered after a conflict with The Darkness itself, Jackie Estacado flees Sierra Muñoz and heads back to the States. But the road home is no easy journey as he runs afoul of Mexican witches, wannabe gangsters and even Aphrodite IV!

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Tracker interview with writer Jonathan Lincoln

Alex O’Roark, the FBI’s top tracker, has his perfect life ripped to shreds when a case to capture the world’s most dangerous serial killer leads him straight into the maw of a werewolf. Now, keeping his secret from his gorgeous fiancé and the FBI, he must hunt down the wolf that infected him before the disease turns him into a monster.

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Paul Jenkins Goes IN DEPTH on his Career

Paul Jenkins may have accidentally found himself working as a comic book creator, but he certainly knows how to make an accident become a successful career. The writer of lengthy runs on Vertigo’s “Hellblazer” and Marvel’s “Peter Parker: Spider-Man,” Jenkins is perhaps best known as the writer who brought Wolverine’s “Origin” to superhero fans and lit up the Marvel Knights line with Jae Lee on “Inhumans.”

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First Look: Darkness/Darkchylde cover by Randy Queen

Top Cow has provided us this exclusive look at the final cover for their upcoming one-shot. It's Darkchylde, it's The Darkness in new armor, it's to your right. Solicitation text follows:

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Jeff Katz named one of Variety's 10 Producers to Watch

Jeff Katz's career in entertainment began in earnest at the age of 9. At a dinner party in his hometown of Franklin, Mich., the young horror and comicbook buff found himself seated next to Max Shaye, the father of New Line topper Bob Shaye, the man responsible for unleashing Katz's all-time favorite villain, Freddy Krueger, into the nightmares of millions of terrified viewers. The pint-sized operator-to-be turned on the charm with his hero's dad, and within weeks, he and Bob had become pen pals. "As I soon as I got my first letter from (Shaye), I thought, 'OK, I've got my in,'" Katz recalls.

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Quarter Bin reviews Witchblade #130

“War of the Witchblades” concluded last week with Witchblade #130. You didn’t think being on vacation was going to stop me from seeing who emerged victorious, did you?

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Newsarama unveils Final Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer #3 Portacio Cover

The reason for Morningstar’s alliance with Cyberdata becomes clear and the teams of Cyberforce and Hunter-Killer team members rush to destroy key facilities around the world. Only Morningstar is one step ahead and has a deadly welcoming party ready

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Talk to Ron Marz Live on Broken Frontier

On Wednesday September 16, Ron Marz stops by Broken Frontier for a new edition of ‘Quality Time’, BF’s feature where you can get in touch with your favorite creators for a live, one-hour Q&A session.

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Ron Marz offers advice to aspiring writers through Twitter

@ronmarz So, fellow writers, how often do you get this one: "Do you have to be able to spell to be a writer?" I always say yes, it goes with the job."

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New Age Comics reviews Witchblade #130 (spoilers)

I love this twist for the character as it means she’s in for more exciting and interesting things all the while retaining her well developed character. Marz made a brilliant move here and it paid off big with all this development making Dani’s character retain her greatness as well as give her a new status that I’m excited to see fleshed out.

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Scoop reports on FREE The Darkness/Pitt #1

Top Cow Productions has announced that the first issue of their crossover mini-series The Darkness/Pitt, which sold out at the distributor level, is now available free of charge on comiXology’s Comic store-library-reader application for the iPhone beginning Wednesday, September 9, 2009. The issue will also be available in its entirety on comiXology.com.

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Comic Attacks.net reviews Witchblade #129

“War of the Witchblades” Part five of six: For anyone who doesn’t know, Sara and Dani each posses a half of the Witchblade and now it’s been revealed that Sara has the “dark” half and Dani is in possession of the “light” half. So now outside forces are conspiring to take control of that coveted artifact by pitting the two against each other as Sara’s half is corrupting her and Dani feels it’s her duty to help her friend no matter the cost. Get the picture so far? Good…

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CBR highlights free The Darkness/Pitt #1 on iPhone

Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that the first issue of The Darkness/Pitt, which has sold out at the distributor level, would be made available for free on comiXology’s Comic store/library/reader application for the iPhone beginning this Wednesday, September 9th. The issue will also be available in its entirety on comiXology.com.

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Milo Ventimiglia Promotes Berserker on Jimmy Kimmel Live

Last week on September 4th, Milo Ventimiglia appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live and talked about Berserker a couple of times. Right now they only have the full episode online (rather than a nice convenient clip) and you'll want to jump to fourth segment (24:28).

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Girls Entertainment Network Talks to Randy Queen about Kingdom of Pain

Ariel Chylde, the nightmare-cursed main character from Randy Queen’s fan-favorite series Darkchylde, returns alongside none other than Jackie Estacado in an upcoming The Darkness/Darkchylde crossover this December. Bundled with the double dose of monsters from dark realms and nightly imaginations comes an eight-page preview of Randy and colorist Sarah Queen’s upcoming sci-fi comic, Starfall, and the premiere of Jackie’s corrupted Darkness armor.

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The Darkness/Pitt #1 Free on Comics by comiXology

Top Cow Productions, Inc. proudly announced today that the first issue of The Darkness/Pitt, which has sold out at the distributor level, would be made available for free on comiXology's Comic store/library/reader application for the iPhone beginning this Wednesday, September 9th. The issue will also be available in its entirety on comiXology.com.

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Robot 6 Blog Talks to Joshua Hale Fialkov

This interview with Joshua Hale Fialkov (creator of the acclaimed Elk’s Run from a few years ago and current noir work at Archaia, Tumor [which reunites Fialkov with his Elk's Run artist Noel Tuazon]) took an interesting route before finally getting here.

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Megan Fox sites Midnight Nation in recent MTV interview

MTV's movie special "Behind The Screen" airs tonight (Friday, September 4) at 7 PM EST, and along with showcasing bunches of exclusive, never-before-seen footage and interviews from projects like "Ninja Assassin" and "Clash of the Titans," we'll also have a comprehensive interview with "Jonah Hex" and "Jennifer's Body" star Megan Fox.

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