Image Comics: News and Notes
Image Comics heading to BEA/Bookcon
Image Comics will be returning to Book Expo America (BEA) and BookCon this year. The 2016 edition will take place in Chicago, Illinois at McCormick Place from Wednesday, May 11 to Saturday, May 14.
Image First Compendiums will be available free of charge at the Image Comics Booth, booth 2134, during BEA. In addition, several Image creators will be in attendance signing at the booth.
On Friday, May 13, meet Marjorie Liu from 11-11:45 am, Skottie Young from 12-12:45pm and Ed Brubaker from 1-1:45 pm. On May 14, Brubaker returns from 11-11:45 am. Young once again occupies the 12-12:45 signing slot, Liu takes over from 1-1:45 pm and Michael Moreci rounds out the signings between 3 and 3:45 pm.
In addition, a range of trade paperbacks will be available for sale during BookCon on May 14 at the Image booth.
Invincible #127 heading for second printing
Cory Walker’s return to the title he co-created has been a resounding success. As a result, issue #127 of Invincible, written by co-creator Robert Kirkman, will be receiving a second printing.
The issue was the first for Walker on Invincible since Ryan Ottley took over the full-time art chores in 2004. In Invincible #127, Mark returned from the past…but arrived in a very different future. He now has to pick up the pieces of his life and try to put them back together.
The second printing will hit store shelves May 25, a week after issue #128 is schedule to arrive in comic shops.
Mythic TPB out in June
Mythic, the collaboration between Eisner-nominated writer Phil Hester and Eisner-winning artist John McCrea, will hit store shelves in trade paperback form in late June.
Science is a lie, an opiate for the masses. Magic is the force that drives the world. When magic breaks, it’s up to the Mythic team to fix it. The trio includes Waterson, an Apache shaman, Cassandra, a Greek immortal and Nate Javadarma, a cell phone salesman. It’s up to this diverse triumvirate to keep the world safe without you even knowing they’re doing it.
Mythic Volume 1, which reprints issues 1-8, hits comic shops Wednesday, June 22 and bookstores six days later.
Manifest Destiny goes hunting for Sasquatch
The creative team of Chris Dingess and Matthew Roberts are back with their biggest story yet in their series Manifest Destiny. Sasquatch is a six-part adventure featuring America’s most legendary monster that begins in May from Image/Skybound Entertainment.
Previously, the duo of Lewis and Clark discovered a civilization unlike any other, one unseen by anyone on Earth, and it pushed their men to the brink of mutiny.
Now, the intrepid explorers are on the trail of the legendary Sasquatch, better known as Bigfoot. By the end of the arc, huge pieces of the series’ mythology will be revealed.
Rios’ I.D. gets trade paperback treatment in June
Emma Ríos (MIRROR, ISLAND) will release her dystopian tale I.D. in trade paperback this June.
The conflict between perception and identity is at the crux of this series, which chronicles the struggle of three people considering a body transplant as a solution to their lives.
“I.D. and ISLAND brought me back to the place in comics I love the most,” said Ríos.
I.D. will be in comic shops Wednesday, June 22 and in bookstores on May 28.
Black Road #1 gets second printing
Customer demand for Brian Wood’s latest stab at Vikings has resulted in Black Road getting a second printing.
Black Road, written by Wood with art from Gary Brown and Dave McCaigm stars Magnus the Black. Magnus is neither clean nor sober, neither Christian nor Pagan, but he is a man true to his word. When a ranking official is killed while under his protection is brutally murdered, he’s prepared to hunt the killers to the frozen tip of Norway, giving not a damn whether or not he incites a religious war.
Both the second printing of issue #1 and issue #2 will hit comic shops May 18.
