Drain #1 (Comics) CB Cebulski: A Marvel Exclusive, TV Work And More

Plot

Chinatsu, an immortal vampire from Japan, looks for her family’s killer, and also her vampire sire. She mercilessly searches throughout many time periods and centuries in order to achieve her revenge.

The first story-arc of six issues has been published with the latest issue released in 2008 and a tradepaperback due in 2008.

There are more story-arcs planned, but that still has to be determined pending a new artist.

CB Cebulski

While C.B. Cebulski was once better known as a Marvel editor than a comics writer, that’s not the case anymore. Cebulski’s recent writing experience has not only earned him some loyal fans, but Newsarama has confirmed the writer’s just gotten an exclusive contract from Marvel and some writing work in television (this interview was conducted just prior to the WGA announcing that it was going on strike).

After leaving his editorial job at Marvel in early 2006 to concentrate more on his writing, he returned to Marvel later that same year as an “editor-who-also-writes.” Between the writing projects he’s done for Marvel like his Fairy Tales series and The Loners miniseries, he’s also written a couple video games and released a few creator-owned titles like Drain, Compass, and Wonderlost.

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And recently, as Cebulski announced in San Diego, he’s also been traversing the world, searching for new comic book talent through his cleverly titled ChesterQuest (the “C” in C.B. stands for Chester). Publicized both here on Newsarama and through Cebulski’s ChesterQuest blog, the search promises to land 12 brand new artists a pencilling job at Marvel after it finishes up in January. Read more …

Savage Dragon: Free Comic On Line

Savage Dragon is an ongoing American comic book series created by Erik Larsen and published by Image Comics. The comic features the adventures of a superheroic police officer named the Dragon. The character first appeared in Megaton #3 (July 1986).

Creation and publication history

Like many of Erik Larsen’s characters, the Savage Dragon was created by Larsen while he was a child in elementary school. It is loosely based on The Creature from the Black Lagoon, a movie series by Universal Studios. In his youth, Larsen drew the Dragon in homemade comic books. The original Dragon, inspired by elements from Captain Marvel, Batman, Speed Racer and later The Incredible Hulk, differs greatly from the modern incarnation. After launching Savage Dragon in a professionally published comic book, Larsen returned to the original and reworked his designs into the characters William Jonson, a police officer ally of the Dragon, and Flash Mercury, the “Spectacular Dragon”.

Much later, a greatly redesigned Savage Dragon was featured in two issues of Graphic Fantasy, a self-published title with a small print run, published by Larsen and two friends. In this incarnation, the Dragon was a widower and a retired member of a government-sponsored superhero team.

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Subsequently, the Dragon made another appearance in the third issue of Gary Carlson’s Megaton anthology in its Vanguard strip, which Larsen had been drawing. In these appearances, the character of the Dragon remained basically the same as it had been in Graphic Fantasy, with a few details modified (such as the inclusion of his wife, who was dead in his previous incarnation). Both the Graphic Fantasy and Megaton issues containing the Dragon have since been reprinted in high-quality editions. Read more …

The Walking Dead #1 (Online Comics ), Poster #2

The Walking Dead is an American monthly black and white comic published by Image Comics beginning in 2003. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore (replaced by Charlie Adlard from issue #7 onward) and chronicles the travels of a group of people trying to survive in a world stricken by a zombie apocalypse.
Synopsis

The Walking Dead is centered around a small-town police officer from Cynthiana, Kentucky, his family, and a number of other survivors who have banded together in order to survive after the world is overrun with zombies. As the series progresses, the characters become more developed, and their personalities shift under the stress of a zombie apocalypse. Fighting growing despair — and occasionally each other — the group searches for a secure location which they can finally call home.

Days Gone Bye (issues #1-6)

The story opens with Rick Grimes and his partner Shane in a gunfight with an escaped convict. While trying to disarm the criminal, Rick gets shot and blacks out. When he awakes an unspecified time later, he finds himself in a hospital bed, completely alone.

Finding the hospital abandoned, Grimes sets off to find out where everyone went. He finds the hospital’s cafeteria crowded with the living dead, and barely escapes with his life. He returns to his home, only to find it abandoned as well — and he catches a shovel in the back of the head. When he awakens, again, he discover that a young boy named Duane Jones had hit him, believing him to be a zombie. After a brief introduction, Duane’s father Morgan explains what has happened while Rick was comatose: a plague of the dead has swept all civilization. Duane and Morgan have taken up in Rick’s neighbor’s house, hoping to ride it out. Read more …

The Sword (comics)

The Sword is a monthly comic book limited series created by the Luna Brothers and published by Image Comics. It is a modern day based fantasy story about a group of people seeking to take control of a unique sword from the grasp of a young woman named Dara Brighton. The first issue was published in October 2007 and the series is expected to run for two years.

Plot

Dara Brighton is a young paraplegic college student with a happy life, until three strangers knocked on her door, asking for a unique sword, before killing her father, mother and sister and burning their house. Dara crashes into the basement, where she finds a sword, setting her off on an incredible journey.

Propaganda pulls the Sword from the stone - then puts it back

A long time ago, I was handed the first two series by the Luna Brothers; Ultra and Girls. Ultra was a fun, if clichéd book that can easily and conveniently summed up as a “Superhero Sex in the City”. For me, Girls can just as easily be summed up as “bloody awful”. I got to the bit with the giant sperm and giant egg and realised I was reading one of the most unintentionally funny comics for a long time. This opinion wasn’t shared by the co-workers at Nostalgia & Comics, who went on to vote Girls as one of their books of the year. But the annual shop vote was a democratic thing. This review isn’t. Hence Girls was awful. Read more …

Witchblade #80 (Comic on Line)

Witchblade is an American comic book series published by Top Cow Productions, an imprint of Image Comics, from 1995 until present. The series was created by Top Cow editors Marc Silvestri and David Wohl, writers Brian Haberlin and Christina Z, and artist Michael Turner

The series previously starred Sara Pezzini, a tough-as-nails NYPD homicide detective who comes into possession of the Witchblade, a supernatural, sentient artifact with immense destructive and protective powers. The weapon has bonded with various women throughout history, the most recent being Danielle Baptiste. Others who have come into contact with the Witchblade include Cleopatra and Joan of Arc. Sara struggles to hone the awesome powers of the Witchblade and fend off those with a nefarious interest in it, especially entrepreneur Kenneth Irons. She also struggles to maintain a personal life.

The title was written largely by Christina Z and edited by David Wohl. There have been talks of a reunion[citation needed], though it is unclear if that will occur.

There have been many spin-off titles, which place the Witchblade in other times and settings. The character of Sara Pezzini was also featured in crossovers with characters from other franchises, including Lara Croft, JLA, the X-Men’s Wolverine, and the cast of Battle of the Planets.

Witchblade was adapted into a moderately successful television series in 2001-2002, starring Yancy Butler as Sara Pezzini. Read more …

The Darkness (The First One’s Free!)

The Darkness

The comic’s central theme is the power known as The Darkness and its wielders. The Darkness is an ageless power dating back beyond human history. It is linked with the Angelus and the Witchblade. The Darkness is passed down a family line from father to son, leaving the previous user (and taking his life) as his first child is conceived. The power then manifests in the child on his 21st birthday.

Darkness users can create anything they desire with The Darkness, even sentient beings, but anything they make will crumble to dust in the light. The Darkness is quite deadly, allowing the user to call forth darkling minions to aid them, and even survive gunshots. The power can also be used to maul and feed on people.

The Darkness does not function unless it is dark, but some users can also manipulate this by creating their own shadows/darkness (e.g. smoke grenades), being underground, turning off lights in a room, etc.

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