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Penny Dreadful #1 COMIC REVIEW
The new comic, written by scripters who work on the show, is a prequel to the TV series >>>
Penny Dreadful Comic Preview Art
Titan has released two more pages of preview art from its eagerly awaited adaptation of smash hit TV show Penny Dreadful (you can the previously-released page of art here). This interior artwork is courtesy of Louie De Martinis (Tron, Grimm). Penny Dreadful #1, which hits stores on 4 May, is written by Penny Dreadful TV show scriptwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns.
The comic is a prequel to the TV series which reveals the terrifying events that led Vanessa to try and find her missing childhood friend, Mina Harker, and exposes the true nature of the vampiric monsters infesting Victorian London.
Issue #1 comes with six covers to collect: three art covers by artists Guillem March, Ben Templesmith and Louie De Martinis, two photo covers and a blank sketch variant. (Click on the image to the left to get a much better look at them.)
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Titan’s Penny Dreadful Comic Art Preview
Titan has unveiled the spooky art work for the first page of its upcoming Penny Dreadful comic, based the monster mash cult hit TV show. Penny Dreadful #1 will hit stores on 4 May. This prequel reveals the terrifying events that led Vanessa to try and find her missing childhood friend, Mina Harker, and exposes the true nature of the vampiric monsters infesting Victorian London.
The new ongoing comic series is drawn by Louie De Martinis and written by Penny Dreadful scriptwriter Krysty Wilson-Cairns so it should feel very authentic.
Click on the image for a larger version… if you dare.
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Titan To Publish Warhammer 40,000 Comics
Titan Comics is set to publish a new comic book series based on Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 with the first issues due to hit the newsstands in September.
First brought to life as an epoch-definingly popular tabletop miniature wargame in 1987, Warhammer 40,000’s dark-gothic dystopian science-fiction universe pits an outnumbered human Imperium and its sometimes-allies against the eternal forces of Chaos, in a battle for control of the 41st millennium.
Now in its seventh edition of the tabletop game, Warhammer 40,000 continues to grow from strength to strength, gathering fans across the world through its games, novels and videogames. Numerous top-selling apps featuring the Warhammer 40,000 IP are also available for iOS and Android.
Aimed at fans and newcomers alike, Titan’s new series taps into Warhammer 40,000’s wealth of compelling characters, species, and searingly-memorable imagery to deliver accessible science-fiction action on an unmatched galactic canvas.
Whether it’s the iconic, power-armour-encased Space Marines holding the line against unspeakable forces of xenos; the frothing, Daemonic intensity of Chaos, corrupting all they touch; the squabbling, bodged-together Orks, riding roughshod over far-flung colonies; the exotic, long-lived Eldar wielding rare weaponry and rarer insight; the idealistic, mech-piloting forces of the Tau; the undying, endoskeletal hordes of the Necrons, or the starving forces of unnature, like the Tyranids, spitting death and destruction with every spurt of their chitinous cannons, the Warhammer 40,000 setting offers horrifying surprises and stunning sights at every turn – and the comics will explore them all!
The Titan/Games Workshop partnership will see the publication of brand-new, original comic stories produced by Titan Comics, who add Warhammer 40,000 to their expanding catalogue of wildly-successful licensed comics based on gaming properties including Assassin’s Creed, Deus Ex and Dark Souls.
More announcements soon.
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Titan has released some preview art from Rivers of London: Night Witch #1, an all-new story set in the universe created by former Doctor Who scripter Ben Aaronovich for his acclaimed urban fantasy novel series Rivers Of London. The comic serves as a special prologue for the next novel in the series, The Hanging Tree. Night Witch is written by Aaronovich and Andrew Cartmell (a former Doctor Who script editor) with art by Lee Sullivan (Doctor Who, Judge Dredd) and Luis Guerrero (Doctor Who, The Troop). It’s released on 16 March.
A police vehicle on a routine prison transfer in north London is stormed by Russian hoodlums seeking to free a very particular prisoner. Their target is a witch. A very powerful witch who doesn’t want to be free. Things rapidly turn very ugly for the hoods and it’s soon a job for full-time police constable and part-time wizard, Peter Grant.
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Titan Announces Vikings Comic – Based On The TV Show
Titan Comics will continue in its mission to publish official comic book versions of every cult television success by launching a Vikings comic in the spring. Epic!
The comic book series will take place within the continuity of the third season of the show and will follow Ragnar Lothbrok as he leads his Northmen on a new saga of glory and plunder. This tale of politics, intrigue, betrayal and sword-swinging combat is penned by best-selling Big Finish and Titan Comics Doctor Who writer Cavan Scott and illustrated by Staz Johnson (Wolverine, Spider-Man).
“I have been a complete Viking geek ever since I visited the Yorvik Viking Centre in York as a kid,” says Scott. “After years of reading the sagas of the marauding Northmen I couldn’t wait for the Vikings series. I’ve loved every minute of the first three seasons and am absolutely thrilled to be bringing Ragnar, Lagertha, Rollo, Floki and the rest to the world of comics. I can promise you the same mix of melees, mysticism, blood and treachery as King Ragnar faces his toughest challenges yet. Who will desert him first, his gods or his men?”
Vikings is the critically acclaimed series from creator and sole writer Michael Hirst (Elizabeth, The Tudors) and is a family saga about the lives and epic adventures of the raiders and explorers of the Dark Ages through the eyes of the Viking society. It airs on the HISTORY in the States and on Amazon’s streaming service in the UK. It was the seventh most pirated TV show in 2015.
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Man Plus #1
Writer: André Lima Araújo
Artists: André Lima Araújo, Arsia Rozegar (colorist)
Publisher: Titan Comics
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Titan has – justifiably – been promoting this SF thriller as something that’ll appeal to Ghost In The Shell and Akira fans. But if you truly want to get an idea of the style and tone of the first issue you need to think of live action remakes of both those films directed by Luc Besson, because there’s a definite flavour of The Fifth Element in here too. It’s quite brutal SF in some respects but it’s also bright and cheery and colourful in others.
The first issue is effective curtain raiser, quickly establishing the main characters (a bunch of bantering investigators in something called the Special Operations Force), the world (a futuristic city in Portugal) and the mystery (rogue cyborgs chasing an android) in broad, bold strokes. The subtlety comes in the detail; Araújo’s visuals are full of storytelling detail that builds the world and the characters without explicitly drawing attention to themselves. Read placards. Look around the background in panels.
It may be set in the future but it actually feels oddly old fashioned. The story is not –yet – particularly deep though you suspect there are surprises and twists to come. For the moment it feels comfortably like all those films so far mentioned, plus Blade Runner and even Judge Dredd. We’ve seen the future and it’s… nostalgic. But why not? The future urban thriller is an underused genre these days.
The art is very appealing, not the gloomy sci fi noir you’d expect at all but clean, crisp, flowing and evocative of Moebius as times. The colours are bold too; even when certain scenes stick to a limited palette the panels remain vibrant.
A confident, intriguing start with three more issue to come.
Titan Announces New Dark Souls Comic Based On The Videogame Series
Titan Comics is to publish the Official Dark Souls comic – set in the world of the best-selling videogame series.
The critically acclaimed action role-playing video game was originally released in Japan in 2011 and has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide since. Dark Souls II: Scholar Of The Sin followed in April 2015 and the highly anticipated third game in the series is released worldwide April 2016.
“I’m ‘dead’ excited to be working on this new series (see what I did, there),” says the series’ writer George Mann (Doctor Who: The Eighth Doctor, Newbury And Hobbes Investigations). “Dark Souls has a rich, original universe that’s just begging to be explored in comics, and I’m honoured to have the opportunity to delve in and tell some new stories within it. I’ve been a fan of the games for some time, so it’s a real thrill to be able to contribute to the mythology of the Hollows and their world.”
Art in the series will be courtesy of by Alan Quah (Orphan Black, Godzilla: Awakening).
Dark Souls #1 hits comic stores on 6 April 2016 and comes with five variant covers to collect including a game cover, concept cover, two art covers by Joshua Cassara and Marco Turini and a blank sketch variant.
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Saturday 7 May 7 2016 marks the 15th anniversary of Free Comic Book Day and Titan Comics has a couple of special Doctor Who and Assassin’s Creed comics prepared for the occasion.
DOCTOR WHO: FOUR DOCTORS SPECIAL FCBD 2016 EDITION: GOLD BOOK
Jump on board the TARDIS with four all-new short tales of the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors! Whether you’re a whiz with a sonic screwdriver or completely new to Who, this is the perfect Free Comic Book Day adventure for SF fans of all ages! Written and illustrated by the creative teams of the regular comics, this is the ideal place to start reading!
Ninth Doctor: “HACKED”
Writer: Cavan Scott • Artist: Mariano Laclaustra
Tenth Doctor: “LADY OF THE BLUE BOX”
Writer: Nick Abadzis • Artist: Eleonora Carlini
Eleventh Doctor: “THE DAAK INSIDE”
Writers: Si Spurrier, Rob Williams • Artist: Leonardo Romero
Twelfth Doctor: “ROBO-RAMPAGE”
Writer: Robbie Morrison • Artist: Simon Fraser
ASSASSIN’S CREED FCBD 2016 EDITION: SILVER BOOK
Writers: Anthony Del Col, Connor McCreery, Fred Van Lente • Artists: Neil Edwards, Dennis Calero
Enter the shadowy world of the Assassins and Templars, two feuding factions who have battled over the centuries to decide the course of humanity! Two all-new short stories, written and illustrated by the creative teams of the regular comics, highlight a shocking event in the life of new Assassin Charlotte de la Cruz, and reveal the true extent of the mysterious Templar Black Cross’s terrifying skills!