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[The One and Only]

Speaking of those heroes of yesteryear(Writing that make me feel a little old. Next thing you know I'll be yelling at the local kids to get off my lawn.) Rob Liefield's undead military killing machine,Cabbot Stone, a.k.a. BLOODSTRIKE is getting revived. And picking up where the book left off, thanks to writer Tim Seeley(HACK/slash, WITCHBLADE), and artist Francesco Gaston, Bloodstrike returns in this preview of issue twenty-six.
http://hackslashinc.com/1/2012/03/bloodstrike-26-five-page-preview/

Also, on the subject of Tim Seeley, this summer from Image Comics, comes the new series REVIVAL. Along with artist Mike Norton, Revival tells the tale of of when the dead rise, and resume their lives.
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=37910

[mecha-gino]

^Wow, the 100th post of this topic. Lol

Well I finished one image comic a week or so ago and I'm currently working on another, both of which are Robert Kirkman books but neither is invincible or the walking dead.

First I would like to say I forgot how good of a writer, he really is creative and one of image's best.

Now what did I finished recently? Super-Dinosaur!!! Oh man talk about a fun book for all ages, man was it awesome. It sort of reminds me of 80's cartoons but in a good way. I still don't see Kirkman doing a Godzilla story as hellspawn clamors and demands for but this was a fun story. It was volume one of the graphic novel and it's just SOO awesome you need to read it. Also I demand an animated series or movie for this title!

Next up is a title I was really interested in reading, science dog. When I was still on my huge invincible kick in 08/09 the character science dog interested me. A comic book character within a comic book that had some appearances here and there and a brief story in an issue of invincible but never really a full comic. When the graphic novel I'm reading consists of two and from what I've read of so far it's good. I think I might continue reading the astonishin wolf-man after this cause of kirkman being awesome and stuff. Plus I might buy the next ultimate invincible collection off of amazon.

And now onto a series that got to revived that I want to read, Supreme! Erik Larsen, I love you and I do like your art most of the time but I wish you weren't doing the interior art unless I'm mistaken. I just don't like his style potraying Supreme but I do hope with this revival we get to see new PROPER reprintings of Alan Moore's run as I didn't like the quality of reprints we got and keep in mind I compared them with the original comics.

And finally I might give Dynamo 5 ago. I want to also read the perhapsanauts too as I read an issue that was free from image's comic app and I loved it. ... I should probably give haunt another go too and God Damn it Kirkman!

[Hellspawn28]

I haven't been up to date with Image in nearly two years. I guess I should get back to reading their comics soon.

[SoleMan]

Has anyone ever read 1963 (I think that's what it's called...) by Alan Moore? It was supposed to be a tribute to the early Marvel comics of that year, complete with old-style art and cheesy dialouge. At it's conclusion was supposed to be a massive cross-over with all the major characters at Image, but it never came to pass. Still, the series was good, (Part of my hero-worship of the man) and had a character named "The Hypernaut" in it, who was one of the most intresting creations to come out of Moore's mind. If there was one character I could dig out of obscurity and make a real comic with (I'm talking a hundred-issue run or so) It would be him.

[mecha-gino]

Has anyone ever read 1963 (I think that's what it's called...) by Alan Moore? It was supposed to be a tribute to the early Marvel comics of that year, complete with old-style art and cheesy dialouge. At it's conclusion was supposed to be a massive cross-over with all the major characters at Image, but it never came to pass. Still, the series was good, (Part of my hero-worship of the man) and had a character named "The Hypernaut" in it, who was one of the most intresting creations to come out of Moore's mind. If there was one character I could dig out of obscurity and make a real comic with (I'm talking a hundred-issue run or so) It would be him.

I believe I made a post about 1963 a couple of times here. But yeah, I own five of the six issues but I haven't read them just yet as I'm waiting to find issue six and then I'll read them all and I can't wait because I love Moore, the Silver Age, and Homage comics. The series WAS suppose to be collected in trade by Dynamite Entertainment which would of had an Alex Ross cover but Moore put an end to that even though two of the three creators wanted it to be in trade. ):< Luckly you can see Ross' cover in his art book that came out recently. It's a real shame of Moore being a sour puss because I think a lot of people would of liked seeing it but oh well. Two fun facts:

Due to some agreement thing, the three of them split ownership of certain characters to do with they wish and I believe hypernaut is one of them as there's a big push by one of the original creators to have the character in his own series or something. I don't remember what but check it out, you might be pleased or it cold be another 1963 character, wiki it.

And the other cool fact is the 1963 characters appeared in an issue of big bang comics fighting those characters, so it was Homage DC vs Homage Marvel. Haven't read it but that idea alone is pure awesomeness.

[The One and Only]

^Also before 1963 ended up dropped by Image in a big purge by the company's founders in 1993, the storyline set up was to be resolved in an Annual, with Jim Lee on the art detail. Basically it was to be a compar/contrast on how the look and feel of characters in comics differeed in the (then) modern age of books to the Silver Age characters. The 1963 characters also put in an appearance in the ShadowHawk mini ,The Monster Within, in which the character was searching for a cure for the AIDS virus that he was infected with. The search took him to 1963 where he met the Fury, Johhny Beyond, and the Tomorrow Syndicate. He teamed up with the heroes to stop the villain Comrade Cockroach's villainous plan to destroy the U.S with what would end up being the AIDS virus. I remeber the reviewers coming down hard on this story, because it being a communist plot was stupid. But surprising enoughthere are a lot on the left who belkieve the HIV/AIDS virus was created by the United States origiginally depopulate Africa, but ended up making its way to these shores as well.

[SoleMan]

Hey guys, I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but I've been reading Alan Moore's run on Supreme, and in his first issue there's a character that shrugs off an absurdity with the phrase "Banna Oil." So, I guess Moore really is a big Godzilla fan...the implication alone is mind-boggling.

[mecha-gino]

^ Really? Well that's interesting.

And bump a dee bump.

Gonna read the third volume of the hack/slash omnibus soon WHICH btw if none of you have read is a MAJOR must read for fans of slasher films.

But onto something that'll interest hellspawn which hey! Involves a spawn from hell.

So I hear Spawn is FINALLY getting the omnibus treatment, sort of. It's apart of image's compendium collection I think? Basically a whole ton of issues but no hardcover and it's close to 50 to 75 bucks. Yeah

I know witchblade, the darkness, the walking dead, and invincible all have this and the fact that Spawn is getting one was awesome.... Until I read about it.

You get all those issues, forty to fifty in a huge omnibus thing BUT there's a catch and I hate that they did this: all of the issues are in black and white. To this I say that's a big ripoff as NONE of that happened with those other series, to my knowledge and this seems more of a greedy way to get more money.

What should of been done was what they did with savage dragon and make it like a showcase or essential book.

[The One and Only]

It was just unveiled last week, the official announcement for....ARMY OF DARKNESS Vs. HACK/slash, in which the heroine of HACK/slash series, Cassandra "Cassie" Hack, has tried to settle down for a normal life with Georgia Peaches in the wake of the end of the tragic victory in HACK/slash#25 She finds her plans for normalcy derailed when her new home is disrupted by the Deadites. So to stop this onslaught of Evil Dead, she joins forces with Chosen One himself, Ashley "Ash" Williams. Hopefully, Cassie won't kill Ash when he tries to get some sugar from the Slasher Slayer, before the two can retrieve the lost pages from the Necromicon, and set things right. The six issue mini will be hitting comic store shelves this July from Image Comics and Dynamite Entertainment. Written by HACK/slash co-creator Tim Seeley, with covers by his collaborator in the creation of Ms. Hack, Stefano Casselli.

The mini's writer and fellow Inhumanoids fan Tim Seeley.

And co-creator of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, Ben Templesmith.

For more of the straight skinny on the crossover event, click on over here. >http://hackslashinc.com/1/2013/04/press-release-army-of-darkness-vs-hackslash-in-july-2013-from-dynamite-entertainment/