With the release of the new Dredd Movie, Rebellion have released a free Dredd Comic to read as a prequel to the movie – charting the rise of Ma-Ma!
OK, you’ll have to bear with me with this as I don’t know Spanish, but I can use Google translate, so if it’s got the wrong end of the stick *not my fault*
This is a new Spanish comic available soon in print and digital – I will give you the original Spanish and the English translation!
Noctis Irae tells the story of an ancient curse zombie believed buried over the centuries and reemerged in the early hours of Easter 2012, sparking the “Nocturnal Rage.”Nazarenes, bearers, women with blanket, devout and curious foreigners visiting the city for the first time, authorities … They all live in the morning terrifying undead. Only a handful of people, delivered to the zombies infections research, understand that outward appearance has broken the curse that spent years chasing: Noctis Irae.
This is the starting point of the first episode of Noctis Irae, “The Bulla”, presenting the characters and plots to be developed in subsequent deliveries. In October 2012 published the second episode, “cough and equally brave.”
Noctis Irae narra la historia de una ancestral maldición zombi que se creía enterrada por el paso de los siglos y que resurge en la madrugada de la semana santa de 2012, desatando la “Ira Nocturna”. Nazarenos, costaleros, mujeres con mantilla, devotos, curiosos, extranjeros que visitan la ciudad por primera vez, autoridades… Todos ellos vivirán la madrugada terrorífica de los muertos vivientes. Apenas un puñado de personas, entregadas a la investigación sobre infecciones zombies, comprenden que delante de sus ojos se ha desatado la maldición que llevan años persiguiendo: Noctis Irae.
Éste es el punto de arranque del primer episodio de Noctis Irae, “La Bulla”, que presenta los personajes y tramas que se irán desarrollando en siguientes entregas. En octubre de 2012 se publicará el segundo episodio, “Tos por igual y los valientes”
The comic is distributed via SD Distributions, from April 4, in bookstores and specialty stores throughout the state. In Seville and can be found at the following libraries: FNAC, Nostromo, The Cat Bike, Rapporteurs, Cards & Comics, Books Nuño, El Gusanito Reader. Also available in the web and www.noctisirae.quilomba.com www.quilomba.com.
El cómic se distribuye a través de SD Distribuciones, a partir del 4 de abril, en librerías y tiendas especializadas de todo el Estado. En Sevilla ya puede encontrarse en las siguientes librerías: FNAC, Nostromo, Un Gato en Bicicleta, Relatoras, Cards Cómic, Librería Nuño, El Gusanito Lector. También se puede adquirir en las web www.quilomba.com y www.noctisirae.quilomba.com.
Last week we gave you a peek at Sacrifice #1, the new creator owned, self published indie mini series from Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose. Today marks the release of Sacrifice #1, and before comic stores even opened today, Sacrifice #1 was already a sell out at the distribution level. Self distributed, the limited print run of Sacrifice #1, which included several variant covers and retail specific editions, can be purchased at over 60 comic shops and online at TFAW.
Sacrifice has been billed as a time traveling story that involves ties to the classic British band Joy Division. Â Written by Sam Humphries, who had success earlier this year with the Our Love Is Real one shot, and art by comics newcomer Dalton Rose, has gotten some early critical acclaim, showing that perhaps Humphries may have another indie hit on his hands.
But fans who want to read Sacrifice #1 and can’t get one of the hard to find issues, fear not. Humphries and Rose have also released the title, same day as print, through digital providers Comixology and Graphicly (iFanboy’s parent copy).  In fact, if you’d like to see what all the buzz is about, you can read Sacrifice on Graphicly, right now below:
via SACRIFICE Sells Out – Available Digitally.
Some good news for fans of The Goon from Dark Horse:
…Goon #1 has graced the Digital store with its presence. Starting from this point forward, each Wednesday will deliver the consecutive Goon issue for your reading pleasure. We will release—digitally—each issue of Goon until we have caught up with the print run of the series.
Now you can satisfy that Goon addiction digitally starting today!
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Ultimate Comics Captain America is a passable mini series. The problem being is that I don’t feel that it is evenly distributed across the comics. It is good in some, but not so in others.
The build up is good – introducing the Vietnam era Cap, an Ultimate version of Nuke, then I feel that issues #2 and #3 are a let down.
There is still that aspect of suspense that keeps you reading through though.
Issue #4 improves on the others and does help save this flagging series – it was good, but could have been so much more!
I must admit though, I did enjoy the covers – #4 was my favourite though!
One of my favourite covers recently too!
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Below is the list for DC’s 1 day sale for St Patrick’s Day:
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Meet Gretchen & Chester. Gretchen is a shy 4 year old and Chester is a potbellied pig. They live with Gretchen’s Grandma and listless Uncle Downey in rural America. Mistaking their afternoon activity of playing “office” for entrepreneurial gusto, Downey recruits the duo to assist in his deluded aspirations of running “moonshine” (echoing his boyhood heroes Bo & Luke Duke). Unbeknownst to the outlandish family and their activities, strange forest critters begin to lurk in the woods nearby, disrupting their quirky daily life and sending them on an adventure to save their degenerate Uncle from a strange genetic mutation!
This is fun! If you like Garfield or Orsons Farm then this is for you! #1 is available for free on Comixology from Mike White who handles the writing and art and publisher SLG.
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Mobile and desktop app comics reader Graphic.Ly have released their web app early!
Try it here
Really quick note (hence the lack of pretty) to let you know that we released our app in the Google Chrome Web Store here. Check it out! More than 100 free books, and all your books are automatically transferred over (except for Marvel, who are available on the desktop and mobile only).
More to follow when I’ve checked it out!
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First, I have to say, I love the front page – it’s something different which draws the eye!
That’s what this episode is – something different, a third person point of view and an episode with a change of pace.
The art is a change and adds a new dimension to the story, which is visually excellent on the screen, and will be beautiful on the page.
The story leaves us with more questions, but in the way that has us gagging for more, not groaning – What ever happened to…?
To quote the film ‘Willow’ – “Forget all you know – or think you know!”
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A Box 13 video I made:
Box 13 is available for free on Comixology and available in print from Red 5
Writing by David Gallaher and Art by Steve Ellis
Comixology’s free comic series continues at a fast pace in this fourth issue of the second volume.
This issue was all about the art. There is some lovely pacing here, David Gallaher has this in spades in this series (and his other works)
Steve Ellis’s art pulls us into the conspiracy in this story – with Olivia in trouble, Dan finds his way to the museum, only to meet April – that’s when things get trippy and the art comes to the forefront! An awesome front cover too!
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My downloads are done and here is my list of what I have downloaded over my iPhone comic apps:
Image
- Viking Cowboy Ninja #1
- Fell #6
- Invincible #62-#64
Boom Studios
- CGBG #1 (Preview)
- Incorruptible #6
DC
- Black Cherry Bombshells #1
- Bruce Wayne: The Road Home Sampler
- The Origin of Power Girl
Marvel
- Ultimate Comics: Thor #1
Comixology App
- Atomic Robo: Other Strangeness #3 & #4
- The Secret of Kells Preview
- War of the Wood #1
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Transformers: Nefarious #1
The sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen starts here! What is The Initiative? More to the point, why doesn’t the all-seeing SOUNDWAVE know anything about it? How did they come to reanimate-control RAVAGE? SOUNDWAVE must find the answers, and he’ll destroy anything in his path to get them!
This 6 issue mini series picks up from the end of Revenge of the Fallen, but you don’t need to have seen it to get into it! (Like me!)
The story is fast passed and well thought out, but a bit of a Deus Ex Machina at the end. The art is passable, but suffers the same way as the movie – it’s hard to tell one transformers face from another.
All 6 issues are available from the IDW app – coming out a month after the print version. In my opinion, Transformers is one of IDW’s better licenced properties!
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British Comics blog DownTheTubes have announced that UK based publisher Tabella Publishing have released their first iPad comic – Thomas Wogan is Dead.
Thomas Wogan is not really the sort of character you’d expect anything odd to happen to, but this strange waiting room proves to be like something out of The Twilight Zone, with the various talking creatures revealing their life stories before demanding to know Wogan’s, which isn’t exactly anything that exciting, even when he describes the best day of his life, when he skived off work and went to Morecambe. Wogan’s humdrum existence working at Perriman Plastics, cooking processed snacks, television and admiring Delia Smith with a near pathological, e-stalker intensity (he spends some of his spare time ‘updating’ her Wikipedia with all manner of strange additions, for example) hardly seems to be the stuff of legend.
This is where digital publishing can come into the front for the smaller publisher, wanting to get their name out there and not being drowned out by the larger publishers and bigger names in the local comic shops around the world. The start ups are minimal, with hardly any distribution costs.
• Buy Thomas Wogan is Dead for the iPad
• Thomas Wogan is Dead is still available in print from Tabella Publishing for £5.99: more details here.
Following Mark Waid’s comments about digital comics and Gail Simone’s twitter conversation with him about it – Newsarama have a very thought provoking post about comic digital piracy:
So why do people download? Gail pointed to the elephant in the room and asked the simple question, “Is illegal filesharing morally wrong?” The silence was deafening. People who would never dream of just walking into a comic shop and grabbing books off the shelves (and not just because they could get caught) see no problem with downloading the same books at home. Why is that?
Read the whole thing here
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