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‘Tom Sparks, Atomic Detective’ is a pulpy, noir digital graphic novel collection of stories from the webcomic that ran for several years of the same name.

It stars a former doomsday robot and his gang of B-movie denizens and their misadventures as they battle monsters, criminals, and all the weirdness that lurks in the corners of their strange universe.

This collection includes:

“The Mystery of the Cemetery Drum”

“Hare Today, Dead Tomorrow!”

“Who Slew Matt Mayhem? Part 1″

Wait, and for just $.99 you say?!That’s right, available right here, now:

via | Tom Sparks, Atomic Detective – Comic Collection Vol 1.

First off, I wanted to thank our fans for coming out.  It was so amazing to see what a following we have.

Wondercon saw the release of 2 new books from us.  The Plagued #2 from Daniel Whitfield.  You can now purchase this on our store in booth CBR and PDF format.  It also saw the release of our first anthology book, Forbidden Tales.  We also have this available in our store in both CBR and PDF.  If you enter B1EQ4TOVGMZX into the coupon section you will get $2 off.

Wondercon was also our chance to show off the 2nd IE Zombie Beauty Queen and her court.  They had a fantastic time wandering the halls and scaring everyone.

We had a fantastic showing from the ZKS Cosplayers as well.

The show ended with a raffle that we held.  We were giving away a canvas that had zombies drawn on it from all of our artists.  Congratulations to Valentina Zamora-Arreola for winning!

Wondercon was a fantastic time had by all and we can’t wait to come back next year!

Now, enjoy all the pictures from this years event.

Come take a sip of this fresh brew, won’t you, Zach?

For more information on Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut, please visit the official site at www.deadlypremonitionthegame.com.

They’ll be adding new items regularly so be sure to check the store and BethBlog.com for updates and new offerings.

Also, the new Skyrim-inspired Dragonborn statues are now available for purchase at GamingHeads.com. The Standard Edition ($299.99, limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide) is perfect for any two-handed combat expert. Mages that want to show off their destruction skills will want to check out the Exclusive Edition ($329.99, limited to 500 pieces worldwide), as it adds an alternate arm that holds a fireball spell that illuminates and pulses like real fire. He measures approximately 16 inches tall, including the base – creating an extremely awe-inspiring presence for your collection.

Running a company like FP is more than a fulltime job.  It’s an obsession.

7 years ago I realized that while I loved comics, they were getting old.  I was constantly disappointed by regurgitating stories and characters.  I still loved being able to read my favorite titles but thought, how much could these people take and what is it that makes 50 years of a character fighting the same fight over and over again so interesting.  Then I realized, nothing.  It was stale.

It wasn’t until I picked up the book Powers that my mind was reawakened.  Powers was such a breath of fresh air that it made me see that there were other stories out there.  I began to grab more and more indy books and found my love for comics beginning to take hold again.  I thought to myself, why can’t I do this.  I am a decent writer with fairly new ideas, why not just start my own company.  So I did.

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I have no words to describe the emotion I am feeling right now.  As a father that has lost a child I can tell you that this is something that the parents will never recover from.  This is something that the community will never recover from.  All these kids wanted to do is something that I myself do every Thursday, and that’s see the first showing of a movie.

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From Wiki

DMZ is an American comic book series written by Brian Wood, with artwork by Wood and Riccardo Burchielli (the Italian artist’s first comic book in the United States). The series is set in the near future, where a second civil war has turned the island of Manhattan into a demilitarized zone, caught between forces of the United States of America and secessionist “Free States”. DMZ is published by DC Comics under their Vertigo imprint.[1] The first trade paperback, entitled On the Ground,[2] reprints the first five issues of the series; so far ten trade paperbacks have been released.

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First, the event.  The guys from FanBoy HQ and I arrived at the theater at 8.  The lines were already wrapped around the main hall.  We ended up waiting til about 10:15 before we were sat in the Imax theater to see the footage.

The prologue opens with Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) at what appears to be a eulogy for Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart).  The scene fades away and to Scotland where we are greeted by a vehicle pulling up to an airfield to be met by a team of people trying to retrieve Dr. Leonid Pavel.  They are shown 3 captives that are bound and hooded and at the mention of the name Bane are then escorted aboard the plane.

I won’t go to deep in the spoilers of the prologue but I will say this, once the plane takes off you are subject to one of the most amazing stunts I have seen in a long time.

The trailer to me gives me a light of hope.  The pacing, action, and even music used is pretty much the same as it was in Dark Knight.  My only complaint, and it’s not really mine but one that I can see flooding the internet with lightning speed, would be that it is hard to understand Bane due to the constrictions of his mask.  What I could hear was some intelligent vernacular and a sharp accent which adds to the intelligence and influence that the character will exude in the film.   The trailer ends with a flood of images showing the different characters from the film and comic as well as a quick glimpse of the Batwing.  It ends with what has to be a shot of Bane in the Batcave tossing aside the broken mask of Batman.

To say I am excited would be an understatement.  Many people walked out of the theater upset at the lack of comprehension coming from behind the mask of Bane.  Not me.  I have faith in the fact that Nolan will undoubtedly dub the voice so that it could be heard clearer before the final product comes out.

I am pretty sure there will be cam versions of the trailer all over the internet by the time I post this or you read it.  Do yourself a favor. Remember how you felt when you first heard that Heath Ledger would be portraying the Joker and remind yourself how you felt when you saw the final product.  Have faith in Nolan.  He won’t disappoint.