Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2014 12:57:03 GMT -5
There's a new company called "Black Mask" which has some really cool titles coming out in 2015.
blackmaskstudios.com/2014/10/08/welcome-to-black-mask-2-0/
Pretty much every title looks interesting to me so I'm gonna check them out.
MAYDAY, Our Work Fills the Pews, Transference and Sinatoro all look bad ass.
Our Work Fills the Pews
MAYDAY cover (the artist and writer are really solid)
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Also, a cool article about Valiant (which has had some great titles this year). Quatum and Woody, Archer and Armstrong and a few others have been some of the best superhero books for me.
www.vulture.com/2014/12/valiant-comics-dinesh-shamdasani.html
“I was sick of superheroes,” comics writer Matt Kindt told me as he sipped his coffee at a midtown Manhattan café. In 2012, he was doing contract work for superhero giant DC Comics and chafing under its tight creative controls. But in the midst of his caped-crusader fatigue, his brother called him with some bizarre news: “He’s like, ‘Hey, do you know Valiant is back?’”
As a kid, Kindt had been a fan of Valiant Comics. Founded in 1989, it became the first credible threat to Marvel and DC — the so-called Big Two — in decades. Series with delightfully '90s-style titles like Bloodshot, Harbinger, and Ninjak boasted massive sales and critical acclaim. For a short while, Valiant was the third-biggest company in the industry. Then it collapsed. In 2004, after years of irrelevance, it formally dissolved. Its superheroes became historical footnotes.
So you can forgive Kindt for being baffled to hear Valiant was, in any form, “back.” He quickly learned that his old favorite characters had their own books again, with completely rebooted stories made by all-new creative teams. “I was reading Bloodshot and Harbinger again, and I was like, Wow, this is good!” Kindt said. “I guess I don’t hate superheroes. I just hate the kind of superhero books that are usually out.”
Today Kindt isn’t just a fan — he’s one of the company’s star writers. He’s participating in one of the strangest experiments in comics history: the resurrection of Valiant, a brand that had long been a failure and a punch line. It’s an experiment that involves message boards, mysterious auctions, time-traveling Visigoths, filthy cubicles, and Moneyball. The goal is to create a superhero universe that can challenge Marvel and DC’s supremacy. It’s an experiment that could very well fail. But right now, against all odds, it’s working.
(more in the link)
Kindt is one of the best writers today (Mind MGMT is a f***ing amazing book), so this is definitely a big coup for Valiant to have him on board so heavily.
blackmaskstudios.com/2014/10/08/welcome-to-black-mask-2-0/
Pretty much every title looks interesting to me so I'm gonna check them out.
MAYDAY, Our Work Fills the Pews, Transference and Sinatoro all look bad ass.
Our Work Fills the Pews
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MAYDAY cover (the artist and writer are really solid)
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Also, a cool article about Valiant (which has had some great titles this year). Quatum and Woody, Archer and Armstrong and a few others have been some of the best superhero books for me.
www.vulture.com/2014/12/valiant-comics-dinesh-shamdasani.html
“I was sick of superheroes,” comics writer Matt Kindt told me as he sipped his coffee at a midtown Manhattan café. In 2012, he was doing contract work for superhero giant DC Comics and chafing under its tight creative controls. But in the midst of his caped-crusader fatigue, his brother called him with some bizarre news: “He’s like, ‘Hey, do you know Valiant is back?’”
As a kid, Kindt had been a fan of Valiant Comics. Founded in 1989, it became the first credible threat to Marvel and DC — the so-called Big Two — in decades. Series with delightfully '90s-style titles like Bloodshot, Harbinger, and Ninjak boasted massive sales and critical acclaim. For a short while, Valiant was the third-biggest company in the industry. Then it collapsed. In 2004, after years of irrelevance, it formally dissolved. Its superheroes became historical footnotes.
So you can forgive Kindt for being baffled to hear Valiant was, in any form, “back.” He quickly learned that his old favorite characters had their own books again, with completely rebooted stories made by all-new creative teams. “I was reading Bloodshot and Harbinger again, and I was like, Wow, this is good!” Kindt said. “I guess I don’t hate superheroes. I just hate the kind of superhero books that are usually out.”
Today Kindt isn’t just a fan — he’s one of the company’s star writers. He’s participating in one of the strangest experiments in comics history: the resurrection of Valiant, a brand that had long been a failure and a punch line. It’s an experiment that involves message boards, mysterious auctions, time-traveling Visigoths, filthy cubicles, and Moneyball. The goal is to create a superhero universe that can challenge Marvel and DC’s supremacy. It’s an experiment that could very well fail. But right now, against all odds, it’s working.
(more in the link)
Kindt is one of the best writers today (Mind MGMT is a f***ing amazing book), so this is definitely a big coup for Valiant to have him on board so heavily.