STAFF PICKS :: OUTCAST VOLUME 1 :: JANUARY 28, 2015
RICO’S PICK :: OUTCAST VOLUME 1: A DARKNESS SURROUNDS HIM: If you’re someone who waits for collected editions of great comics you should check out today’s first volume of Outcast. Writer of The Walking Dead, Robert Kirkman, has teamed with the brilliant art duo of Paul Azaceta and Elizabeth Breitweiser to tell a dark tale of demonic possession and exorcism. Shooting has already begun for a television show based on this one.
Paul is a featured guest at Saturday’s Charlotte MiniCon so now is the time to catch up on this comic and when you meet him you can tell him how much you love it! More info here.
HEROESCON 2013 GUEST LIST UPDATE :: ADAMS! NILES! WRIGHTSON! & MORE!
Free Comic Book Day at Heroes was a GREAT time! Thanks to all the fans who joined us and thank you to all the talented creators who tirelessly drew sketches for those fans too! That said, we are full steam ahead on HeroesCon from now until June 7th! Here’s another fantastic guest list update for you guys!
Heroes Convention is in Charlotte, North Carolina, June 7-9 2013. Get your 3 day passes today! Our full guest list (so far) is here.
We still need volunteers too!
JOSH ADAMS – Artist: Doctor Who, House Of Mystery, Adam and Eve and Steve
NEAL ADAMS – Artist/Writer: Batman: Odyssey, Green Lantern, Superman, X-Men
PAUL AZACETA – Artist: Graveyard of Empires, X-Men, Spider-Man, Grounded
SCOTT CHANTLER – Writer/Artist: Two Generals, The Captive Prince
STEVE CONLEY – Writer/Artist: Bloop, Team Cul de Sac , Star Trek: Year Four, Astounding Space Thrills
STEVE ELLIS – Artist: The Extinguished, The Only Living Boy, High Moon
JOHN FLOYD – Artist: Archer, Unsupervised, Cartoon Network
KERON GRANT – Artist: Transformers, Son of Vulcan, Gazillion
TOM HEINTJES: Hogan’s Alley Magazine
GREG HORN – Artist: Red She Hulk, Ms Marvel, Emma Frost
ERIK JONES – Artist: , Hi-Fructose Magazine, Juxtapoz, Unknown, Elric, Witchblade
STEVE LIEBER – Artist: Underground, Alabaster: Wolves, Superior Foes of Spider-Man
LAURA MARTIN – Color Artist: Avengers, Wolverine and the X-Men, Planetary, The Rocketeer
CONOR MCCREERY – Writer: Kill Shakespeare
ERIKA MOEN – Artist/Writer: DAR!, Bucko, Adventure Time, Stripsearch
STEVE NILES – Writer: 30 Days of Night, Mystery Society, Frankenstein Alive, Criminal Macabre
MARK SABLE – Writer: Graveyard of Empires, Unthinkable and Two-Face: Year One
IRENE STRYCHALSKI – Artist: Deadpool, Archer
BERNIE WRIGHTSON – Artist: Dead She Said, Swamp Thing, Frankenstein, Batman: The Cult
STAFF PICKS :: X-MEN #38 & STUMPTOWN #3 :: NOVEMBER 07, 2012
Maybe I shouldn’t use the Heroes blog to push books I’ve worked on but darn it, I’m proud of these two books I colored that are coming out this week!
RICO’S PICK(S) :: X-MEN #38: The solicitations say this one is written by Brian Wood and David Lopez but I’m here to let you know that is incorrect my friends. X-Men #38 is written by Seth Peck and it features almost no X-Men! This issue a old-fashioned team up featuring Daredevil and Domino. The art is provided by Paul Azaceta and myself, check out page 1 below.
STUMPTOWN #3: Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth’s Stumptown really heats up this issue. The twists and turns are picking up and the action is coming to a head. Grab the first two issues of this while we have them and pick #3 up when it comes out this Wednesday. I think you’ll agree, Dex Parios is one of the most well developed and likable characters in comics.
WHERE DO I START? :: B.P.R.D.
It’s no secret to readers of this blog that my husband/Heroes blogger Seth loves all things Hellboy, but he has been completely unable to get me to read anything outside of Hellboy Jr. and the Beasts of Burden crossover one-shot. There’s no real reason for my stance on this. I liked the Hellboy movies, but that’s more about my love for Ron Perlman in beastly make-up than any particular attachment to the Hellboy storyline. (While we’re on Mr. Perlman, can we all have the warm fuzzies again about the Make-A-Wish kid and Hellboy story from this summer?) Anyhoo, back to comics…Seth has full shelves in our house dedicated to Hellboy and B.P.R.D., but they had been gathering dust where I was concerned until recently.
At this year’s HeroesCon, I stumbled into a conversation between B.P.R.D. artists Jason Latour and James Harren in which I mentioned that I had not read B.P.R.D. and I wasn’t sure it was for me. Not daunted at all by my hesitation, Jason immediately suggested that I start with Plague of Frogs and assured me that I would like it. August rolled around without me picking up any of the trades on our shelves until I had a week without many new comics in my reserve bag and decided to pull volume 3 and it give it a go. Cut to about a week and half later and I am about to start volume 13. (more…)
