Today, Dynamite Entertainment released several announcements about some future comic book offerings and other product.
The most exciting of today’s announcement is no doubt that Cullen Bunn and Alex Sanchez will be devloping a new Battlestar Galactica series for Dynamite.
Writer Cullen Bunn speaks of having the “opportunity to build on the cosmic mythology that was left behind when the television series ended,…I’m using some of the most mind-blowing aspects of the TV show to fuel a new story….” Artist Alex Sanchez also spoke with passion about his “chance to draw the characters, ships, and concepts that Ralph McQuarrie created for the original series. He’s one of my art heroes…” Cullen Bunn and Alex Sanchez’s Battlestar Galactica arrives in comic shops on August 3rd.
Dynamite also announced the Army of Darkness: Ash for President special for the same release week, in which it sounds like writer Elliott Serrano and artist Diego Galindo are going to take the opportunity to lampoon the political process of the U.S. Serrrano had this to say about the upcoming special: ”
With Ash Saves Obama, I was poking fun at all the ridiculous merchandising that surrounded Obama’s first term as President. With the new election special, I get to have fun in the political realm and with the wacky things that politicians will often say. No matter what side of the aisle you’re on, both sides have said their fair share of things that are just begging to get poked at.
Justin Jordan, the fan-favorite writer of The Strange Case of Luther Strode as well as Green Lantern: New Guardians, is going to make his Dynamite debut with Evil Ernie: Godeater, which will also arrive on August 3rd.
“The original Evil Ernie series was one of the very first comics I saw that wasn’t about superheroes and wasn’t intended for an all-ages audience, and it changed how I look at comics. So being able to actually write a character who changed my life twenty-odd years ago is actually cooler than I can easily sum up,” says Jordan. “I am doing my level best to make sure that fans of Ernie are getting something they have never seen before, while still being the character they’ve loved for the past couple of decades. I hope that they think it’s awesome and horrifying, and that I got the character right.”
The Dynamite Art of the Shadow, Dynamite’s 320 page illustrated hardback, showcasing their best artwork on the pulp and radio show icon, arrives on August 31st with an introduction by Michael Uslan.
Dynamite previews Uslan’s introduction with the following excerpt:
If you go with the radio version, he was invisible and had the power to cloud men’s minds. If you prefer the pulp version, he mastered the art of stealth in the shadows. Either way, what a challenge to artists to attempt to bring this character to life in a visual medium like comic books! But without a Shadow of a doubt, the deed was done and the coup was pulled off by generation after generation of artists from the 1930’s to today, building a legend of contemporary mythology in the process and making The Shadow one of the most widely-known characters in pop culture history…With a line-up of interior Shadow stories by top, cutting-edge graphic storytellers, Dynamite was able to hit home run after home run with its choice of cover artists, ranging from the top painters to top traditional comic book artists to top cartoonists. The Shadow is mysterious. His artists are brilliant. And the Shadow art is… Dynamite!
Last but not least, Dynamite will be bringing out two new Women of Dynamite collectors’ statues this summer: Red Sonja in August, and Dejah Thoris in September, each to retail for a MSRP of 189.99 USD. Both are sculpted by Jason Smith.
“Dynamite Entertainment has published so many great characters over the years, and Red Sonja and Dejah Thoris are easily two of our most well known,” says Dynamite CEO/Publisher, Nick Barrucci. “The previous Red Sonja statues have sold out so quickly, and we’ve never had a Dejah Thoris statue, so as we continue to grow our line of collectibles, these two are an obvious choice for new 3D renditions.”
