Image Comics from Diamond Distributors for September 12, 2018

IMAGE COMICS

JUN180059    AGE OF BRONZE TP VOL 01 (NEW EDITION)    $19.99
JUL180176    BEAUTY #23 CVR A HAUN & FILARDI (MR)    $3.99
JUL180177    BEAUTY #23 CVR B MELLON (MR)    $3.99
JUL180178    BIRTHRIGHT #31    $3.99
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JUL180188    CROWDED #2 CVR A STEIN & BRANDT    $3.99
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APR180534    DISSONANCE TP VOL 01 (MR)    $16.99
JUN180061    DRY COUNTY COMPLETE TP (MR)    $16.99
MAY180133    ELEPHANTMEN MAMMOTH TP VOL 03 (MR)    $39.99
JUN180159    ELSEWHERE TP VOL 02    $16.99
JUL180224    FARMHAND #3 (MR)    $3.99
JUL180234    HEAD LOPPER #9 CVR A MACLEAN (MR)    $5.99
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JUL180239    HEY KIDS COMICS #2 (MR)    $3.99
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JUL180249    KICK-ASS NEW GIRL TP VOL 01 (MR)    $16.99
JUL180258    MAGE HERO DENIED #12 (OF 15)    $3.99
JUL180110    MCMLXXV #1    $3.99
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JUL180275    NEW WORLD #3 (OF 5) CVR C MULLER (MR)    $3.99
JUL180276    OBLIVION SONG BY KIRKMAN & DE FELICI #7 (MR)    $3.99
JUL180159    OBLIVION SONG BY KIRKMAN & DE FELICI TP VOL 01 (MR)    $9.99
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MAY180292    WALKING DEAD 15TH ANNV LG T/S    $25.00
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JUL180393    WEATHERMAN #4 CVR A FOX (MR)    $3.99
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JUN180274    WICKED & DIVINE #39 CVR A MCKELVIE & CUNNIFFE (MR)    $3.99
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VIZ Media Obtains Home Media Rights to Netflix's "Castlevania" Season 1

VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF GOTHIC FANTASY ANIME SERIES CASTLEVANIA

VIZ Media Acquires Home Media Rights To Season 1 Of The Hit Netflix Animated Series CASTLEVANIA

San Francisco, CA – VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), a premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing, expands its catalog with the acquisition of Season 1 of CASTLEVANIA.

VIZ Media announced the acquisition of CASTLEVANIA during its official panel held this past weekend at Comic-Con International, one of the nation’s biggest annual pop culture conventions. VIZ Media has acquired home media distribution rights to the American anime-influenced series, which is produced by Frederator Studios. CASTLEVANIA Season 1 has streamed to wide acclaim on Netflix.

Inspired by the classic video game series, CASTLEVANIA is a dark medieval fantasy following the last surviving member of the disgraced Belmont clan, trying to save Eastern Europe from extinction at the hand of Vlad Dracula Tepes himself. In Season 1, Trevor Belmont, embittered and excommunicated, finds himself drawn into a battle for the survival of Europe – a region that has brought doom upon itself by taking away the one thing its greatest monster loved.

“We are very excited to announce VIZ Media’s acquisition of the CASTLEVANIA animated series,” says Brian Ige, VIZ Media’s Vice President of Animation. “The series has drawn a wide following and we look forward to giving new and existing fans the opportunity to add this adventure to their personal collections.”

“CASTLEVANIA is one of those unique series that had instant global recognition and popularity. Frederator is proud to have VIZ as one of our special global partners, singularly equipped to reach our fans across the world,” says Fred Seibert, President & CEO of Frederator Networks.

VIZ Media has worked with Frederator Studios and Frederator Networks to license publishing titles based on popular properties from the company’s catalogs including BRAVEST WARRIORS, the acclaimed animated series from Pendleton Ward, the visionary creator of the Emmy Award-winning Cartoon Network show, Adventure Time. VIZ Media also published EASY EATS: A BEE AND PUPPYCAT COOKBOOK, inspired by the hit animated web series, Bee and PuppyCat, which was produced by Frederator Studios and seen widely on Frederator Network's Cartoon Hangover web channel.

For additional information on CASTLEVANIA and other anime and manga titles distributed and published by VIZ Media, please visit viz.com.


About VIZ Media, LLC
Established in 1986, VIZ Media is the premier company in the fields of publishing, animation distribution, and global entertainment licensing. Along with its popular digital magazine WEEKLY SHONEN JUMP and blockbuster properties like NARUTO, DRAGON BALL, SAILOR MOON, and POKÉMON, VIZ Media offers an extensive library of titles and original content in a wide variety of book and video formats, as well as through official licensed merchandise. Owned by three of Japan's largest publishing and entertainment companies, Shueisha Inc., Shogakukan Inc., and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions, Co., Ltd., VIZ Media is dedicated to bringing the best titles for English-speaking audiences worldwide.

Learn more about VIZ Media and its properties at viz.com.

About Frederator Networks
Frederator Networks, A WOW! Unlimited Media company, consists of Frederator Studios and Frederator Digital.

Frederator Studios makes cartoons for television, movies, and the Internet. It was founded by serial media entrepreneur and former Hanna-Barbera president Fred Seibert in 1998 as a unique incubator for big animation ideas by producing original cartoons. More than 250 short films have resulted in 17 hit series for television and the Internet, including Bee and PuppyCat, Butch Hartman's The Fairly OddParents on Nickelodeon, and Pendleton Ward's Adventure Time on Cartoon Network.

Frederator Digital programs many online channels including Channel Frederator, Cartoon Hangover, and The Leaderboard, as well as manages the Channel Frederator Network (YouTube-based entertainment multi-channel network).  Launched in late 2012, Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover channel includes Bee and PuppyCat, Bravest Warriors, as well as many new shorts from the world's future animation superstars. Frederator’s Cartoon Hangover Select, a subscription video-on-demand channel, is exclusive to Ellation's VRV platform.

Frederator Networks has offices in Burbank, CA and New York, NY.

About WOW Unlimited Media Inc.
WOW Unlimited Media Inc. is creating a leading next-generation kids and youth animation business by focusing on digital platforms and content. The company's key assets include: the world’s #1 digital animation network (Frederator Networks), one of Canada's largest, multi-faceted animation production studios (Rainmaker Entertainment), one of the most successful U.S.-based independent animation production companies of the past 20 years (Frederator Studios) and multiple owned and operated VOD channels on digital platforms, including its latest launch of Cartoon Hangover Select on Ellation Media's VRV platform. Bell Media is the company’s strategic partner. The company operates out of offices in Toronto, New York, Vancouver and Los Angeles, and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V: WOW.A and WOW.B).

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DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for May 16, 2018

DC COMICS

MAR180246    AQUAMAN #36    $3.99
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DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for March 21, 2018

DC COMICS

JAN180251    AQUAMAN #34    $3.99
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DEC170382    AQUAMAN THE LEGEND OF AQUAMAN TP    $19.99
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DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for December 20, 2017

DC COMICS

OCT170220    AQUAMAN #31    $3.99
OCT170221    AQUAMAN #31 VAR ED    $3.99
JUL170469    BATGIRL THE BRONZE AGE OMNIBUS HC VOL 01    $99.99
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DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for November 15, 2017

DC COMICS

AUG170353    AMERICAN WAY THOSE ABOVE AND BELOW #4 (OF 6) (MR)    $3.99
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DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for September 20, 2017

DC COMICS

JUL170329    AQUAMAN #28    $3.99
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DC Comics Announces New WildStorm Title, "Michael Cray"

EXCLUSIVE: WildStorm Expands with Michael Cray
by Tim Beedle

DC’s newest pop-up imprint is readying its Deathblow.

Since his return to comics earlier this year in Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt’s masterful THE WILD STORM, Michael Cray has been a man without a mission. After failing in his attempt to assassinate HALO mastermind Jacob Marlowe and igniting an international incident in the process, things for the hired gun took a turn for the worse when he discovered that he also had a brain tumor that would most likely take his life.

Or so he thought.

When last we saw Cray, he had been forced out of International Operations, the secret organization that runs the world, when he was approached by Christine Trelane with an offer to join her rival organization. To learn what happens next, fans will have to look to future issues of The Wild Storm along with Cray’s new solo spinoff, which will be landing in stores this fall.

WILDSTORM: MICHAEL CRAY will serve as the second comic series to be released in the WildStorm imprint overseen by Ellis. Written by Bryan Hill with contributions by Ellis and drawn by N. Steven Harris and Dexter Vines, it promises to distill the lofty conspiracies of The Wild Storm through a far more personal lens. And the description of the first issue is both intriguing AND surprising…

Warren Ellis’ critically acclaimed relaunch of WildStorm gets its first solo spinoff series! Michael Cray, professional assassin, has been betrayed by International Operations and has an alien life-form in his head that’s either killing him, transforming him, or both. The only thing that can bring sense to his life is for him to do what he does best: kill the wrong people for the right reasons. But Michael needs support and resources to hit back against I.O., and he gets them in exchange for working with Trelane, taking out her targets, his way. First up? A sociopathic silicon-valley billionaire by the name of Oliver Queen!

Oliver Queen?!? Is the WildStorm imprint about to cross over into the DCU? And it sounds like there’s a lot more to that brain tumor of Cray’s than we realized. Look for the first issue of Wildstorm: Michael Cray on October 11, 2017.

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DC Comics from Diamond Distributors for May 17, 2017

DC COMICS

MAR170266    AQUAMAN #23    $2.99
MAR170267    AQUAMAN #23 VAR ED    $2.99
FEB170328    ASTRO CITY #44    $3.99
MAR170274    BATMAN #23    $2.99
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Negromancer News Bits and Bites from January 22nd to 31st, 2017 - Update #30

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MOVIES - From YahooMovies:  Ben Affleck steps down as director of the untitled "Batman" movies, in which he will play Batman/Bruce Wayne, because of the box office failure of his recent film, "Live By Night," which he directed and starred.

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CULTURE - From YahooBeauty:   "White Privilege" essay contest creates controversy in wealthy coastal town.

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HISTORY - From NYTimes:  White House statement on "Holocaust Remembrance Day" fails to mentions Jews...

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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo:   The winner of 1/27 to 1/29/2017 weekend box office is "Split," with an estimated take of $26.26 million.

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AWARDS - From YahooMovies:  Actor Mahershala Ali ("Moonlight") speaks out against President Trump's "Muslim travel ban."

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ECO - From RSN:  Rock music legend, Neil Young, wants people to keep paying attention to Standing Rock.

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OSCARS - From Variety:  His film, "A Salesman," has been nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, but its director, Asghar Farhadi, is from Iran.  Iran is part of the travel ban via an executive order by President Trump.  Farhadi said that he will not travel to the U.S. for the Oscars ceremony even if an exception is made for him.

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AWARDS - From TheWrap:  A complete list of winners at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

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BLM - From YahooNews:  According to a historian, a key witness in the murder of Emmett Till lied.

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OBIT - From TheWrap:  The actress, Barbara Hale, has died at the age of 94, Thursday, January 26, 2017.  Hale was best known for playing "Della Street," on the long-running legal drama, "Perry Mason," and for playing the character again in a series of TV movies during the 1980 and 1990s.

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OBIT - From IndieWire:  The actor John Hurt has died at the age of 77, Wednesday, January 25, 2017.  Hurt's best known work may have been his Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning lead role in David Lynch's "The Elephant Man" (1980).  However, many will remember him for being the victim in the most infamous scene in Ridley Scott's "Alien" (1979).

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OBIT - From TheGuardian:  The French actress, Emmanuelle Riva, has died at the age of 89, Friday, January 27, 2017.  Her 60-year career seemed to culminate in director Michael Haneke's "Amour," for which she earned an Oscar nomination and won a BAFTA.

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MOVIES - From Deadline:  Millie Bobby Brown, one of the stars of Netflix's "Stranger Things," wills star in Warner Bros. and Legendary's "Godzilla: King of Monsters," which is due March 2019.

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OBIT - From NYTimes:  The actress Mary Tyler Moore has died at the age of 80, Wednesday, January 25, 2017.  Through her CBS TV series of the 1970s, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (1970-77), she defined the modern woman in the character, Mary Richards.

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MOVIES - From Deadline:  Netflix has picked up the Keanu Reeves and Lily Collins' "To the Bone" for $8 million.

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COMICS-FILM - From Variety:  Fox has ordered an untitled X-Men action-adventure TV pilot from 20th TV and Marvel Television.

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COMICS - From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics' next event series, "Secret Empire" begins Wednesday, Jan. 25th, 2016.

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OSCARS 2017 - From Variety:  A complete list of 89th Oscar nominations.

From YahooMovies:  "La La Land" leads the 89th Oscar nominations with a record-tying 14 nominations.  The winners will be announced February 26th, 2017.

From YahooMovies:  A record 6 Black actors were nominated for the 89th Academy Awards.  Viola Davis is the first Black woman to be nominated three times as an actor.  There are also several other Black nominees, including Ava DuVernay as the first Black woman nominated in the "Best Documentary Features" category.

From Variety:  Amazon Studios becomes the first streaming service to land a "Best Picture" Oscar nomination - for "Manchester by the Sea."

From Deadline:  A look at Oscar snubs.

From BBC:  The BBC's website has full 89th Oscars coverage.

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MOVIES - From YahooMovies:  Dee Rees' "Mudbound" is getting much attention at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

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STAR WARS - From Variety:  "Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi," at least that would be the full title under George Lucas.  So Episode VIII is now "Star Wars: The Last Jedi."

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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo:  The winner of the 1/20 to 1/22/2017 weekend box office is "Splits" with a estimated take of $40.18 million.

From Variety:  The winner of the international box office is "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage" with an estimated take of $50.5 million dollars in 53 territories.

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POLITICS - From GuardianUK: #WomensMarch signals a return of resistance.

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AWARDS - From Variety:  "La La Land" wins the "Film of the Year" award from the London Film Critics Circle, the only award it won.

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COMICS - From DenofGeek:  Here is a first look at some of the art from "The Wild Storm," Warren Ellis' reboot of the Image/DC Comics' "Wildstorm" line of comics.

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MOVIES - From IndieWire:  James Cameron will return to the "Terminator" franchise after he regains rights to the property in 2019.

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OBIT - From BleedingCool:  The comic book artist John Watkiss has died at the age of 55, Saturday, January 21, 2017.  He worked on Conan and Batman titles and also drew an issue of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" in the 1980s.  He was an accomplished illustrator and painter and also worked in the film industry, including on the Disney's 1999 animated feature, "Tarzan."

I Reads You Review: KARNAK #1

KARNAK No. 1
MARVEL COMICS – @Marvel

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

WRITER: Warren Ellis
ART: Gerardo Zaffino
COLORS: Dan Brown
LETTERS: VC's Clayton Cowles
COVER: David Aja
VARIANT COVERS:  Gerardo Zaffino; Jim Cheung with Justin Ponsor; Skottie Young; Eric Powell (Monster variant) Kaare Andrews (Hop Hop variant)
28pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (December 2015)

Rated T+

Karnak created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

“The Flaw in All Things” Part 1

Karnak is a Marvel Comics character that is part of the super-human race known as the Inhumans.  Karnak was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and debuted in Fantastic Four #45 (cover dated: December 1965), the same issue in which the Inhumans first appeared.

Unlike most Inhumans, Karnak was not exposed to the Terrigen Mists.  Because he did not undergo Terrigenesis, he did not develop additional powers like other Inhumans.  A martial artist, Karnak can find the weakness or the flaw in anything (people, ideas, objects, philosophies, structures, and systems).  Using his training and strength, Karnak exploits his talents and can turn a weakness into a weapon.

Marvel Comics is apparently expanding the profile of the Inhumans even more, and that includes launching Inhuman solo titles.  The first one is Karnak, which is written by Warren Ellis; drawn by Gerardo Zaffino; colored by Dan Brown; and lettered by Clayton Cowles.  [Of note:  due to unforeseen circumstances, the art team will change in future issues.]

Karnak #1 (“The Flaw in All Things” Part 1) finds Magister Karnak doing his thing at the Tower of Wisdom.  His thing is interrupted when S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Coulson come calling for his help and whisk him off to a S.H.I.E.L.D. base in the Arctic.

It seems that William and Sarah Roderick have lost their son, Adam.  He recently underwent Terrigenesis and afterwards, was abducted.  The culprit seems to be I.D.I.C. (International Data Integration and Control), an old splinter group of A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics), thought to be defunct. Now, Karnak, the baddest philosopher since I-don't-know-who, will find Adam and I.D.I.C.

Karnak is another intriguing series from the mind of Warren Ellis, one of most the imaginative and inventive writers of North American and British comic books.  When I first heard that there was going to be a Karnak comic book, I was all like “Puh-lease!”  However, once I learned that Ellis would be the writer, I was intrigued.

I read Ellis' Karnak as an amalgamation of a fixer, special operative, troubleshooter, and martial artist.  He is the Inhuman blunt instrument, called in when no one can get the job done.  I wonder if Karnak will be a pop comic, full of kick-ass and action swag, while offering up something new in terms of ideas, plots, and settings.

Surprisingly, I am as impressed with the art of Gerardo Zaffino and Dan Brown as I am with Ellis' story-script-concept.  Zaffino's compositions are representational in a moody and impressionistic way, but the art makes for kinetic storytelling – as if the narrative is always urging forward.  The colors are alluring; they are like candy, and I think Brown's hues were the elements that kept drawing me deeper into this first issue.

I heartily recommend Karnak.  Readers looking for the really different in the All-New, All-Different Marvel will want to buy this first issue, even if it means mail order or digital.

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Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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