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Just found this over at Kat's Blog:
Since the book's strong debut back in July 2008, this is the question we've heard almost daily from fans, friends, industry and press.
The short answer is, Titanium Rain is back.
After a prolonged delay due to our publisher coming under new management, Titanium Rain will return to store shelve come June with a complete re-launch of the series. As well, with the series moving to a monthly schedule, issue #2 will be out just in time for Comic Con. With Archaia Studio Press (now simply called, Archaia) shifting to a more streamlined and networked operation, expect to see Titanium Rain and other titles receive better support, industry representation, and most importantly, better availability in stores.
So yeah, it's been a long winter, but the winter has passed.
Kat and I both thank everyone for sticking by us as Archaia needed the time to get its house in order. Believe me when I say, the wait was worth it.
-Josh
P.S. If you're going to be at WonderCon in
San Francisco this weekend, stop by the Archaia booth, #427. We'll be
there all weekend.
I've been meaning to be posting more but each time I have tried to find some time something else fills it up so I thought I'd do a little summation of what's been going on.
Another Year has fone by and my son and wife are a year older... Along with that I have my son watching the G1 Transformers along with Star Wars The Clone Wars which is a way for me to relive my childhood as well as having him find the love for the things I had when I was a kid.
Also I haven't been reading much of late but I did dig into Star Wars Legacy volume 4 which just keeps getting better and better and for a run that didn't have any of the main characters so far shown in there. Also I'm waiting on the 5th trade to arrive so I can start on that as well.
For Supanova this year I'm planning on doing one of 2 things sketchwise... Either starting my Midnight Sons jam piece or getting a full card deck of random characters...
Ok that's it for now so I'll try to get something read to review.
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Damian Smith
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Host of the Welcome to Heavenside Podcast
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* Language Warning: This was too funny not to post but take heed to the disclaimer. Don't watch it unless you're ok with a bit of bad language (it's no worse than Virgin Mobile Canada's Seasons Greetings from Mrs. Clause video). *
Here's what happens when cell phones get together for a reunion and nobody is there to protect Mr. Ah Frak phone. And the winner is... Mr. CrackBerry!! The ending is just too funny though... what timing.
View it here!
Don’t forget to pre-order American McGee’s Grimm #1 today! It’s in the new Previews, Page 275, Diamond Order Code FEB09 4315!
Click here for an art preview.
Mutant Chronicles will premiere on VOD on Friday, March 27th, 2009, followed by a theatrical release in select cities on Friday, April 24th.
Mutant Chronicles is set in the year 2707, on an unrecognizable Earth where a war is raging between four giant corporations who control the planet as they battle over the planet's dwindling resources. This war is soon rendered irrelevant when an errant bomb shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific mutant army from its prison deep within the earth. As the mutant scourge threatens human extinction, a squad of ragged soldiers, led by Mitch Hunter (Thomas Jane), descends into the earth in a last ditch effort to destroy the mutants and save mankind.
From WarrenEllis.com
Let’s face it. You’re in a blog rut.
Most of the time, you write about more of the same kinda stuff that you usually write about.
Maybe it’s your day-to-day life, the stuff you did. Maybe it’s topical news response. Maybe it’s short fiction. Maybe it’s re-linking random stuff you see on the internet. Maybe it’s LOLCAT porn. (I hope it’s not LOLCAT porn.) Maybe it’s here on LiveJournal, or it’s over on Vox, or Blogspot or Blogger or Blogblog or Postablogablowablog, or WordPress or Facebook or FacePress or FacePlant or maybe it’s just your Twitter account. It’s what you’re comfortable with, I know, I know…
…but why not try doing something different, just for a day?
Two weeks from today, Tuesday January 27th, is Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday. Carroll, you’ll recall, wrote about a girl who fell down a rabbit hole and found herself in a place where all the rules had changed. In two weeks, on Lewis Carroll’s 177th birthday, you should do the same.
That’s right: the 5th Annual Rabbit Hole Day is coming.
When you wake up on the 27th, instead of writing about your usual work and school and politics and friends and news and stuff, experience life down the Rabbit Hole and write about the work, the school, the politics, the friends, the news, the stuff that you find there instead. Travel through time. Turn into an animal. Flee from assassins. Talk to your goldfish. Conquer Greenland. Sprout some extra limbs. Learn how to walk on water. Marry an insect.
Take a break from the Every Day and write about your Rabbit Hole Day. Your normal life will be waiting for you when you get back.
We here all the Con reports from the US with every creator who's ever put pen to paper turning up where people are so overwhelmed with who's there that you don't spend that long to get to meet the idol you've always wanted to see.
Then you go over to the UK where the Con scene has been taking off of late and there have been many big names making their ways across the ocean to go to them. Bristol and Birmingham are 2 that I know of that are 'Must See' events... Hell even Marvel and DC have panels there and make a large appearance!
So why don't we have something similar here in Australia?
Ok I know we have Con's here... Supanova is the major one that we have here with Armageddon is starting to pick up steam here as well but even tho we have those 2 in Sydney at the moment we only have Supanova and Armageddon had to cancel their first appearances up here leaving only New Zealand and Melbourne for it.
So we have 1 Con a year in Sydney... So you should think that it would be our version of Mecca right?
Well we only have about half of the population of New York if I remember correctly in Australia so getting people through the doors in Sydney would work out around 13 000 for the weekend roughly so there's plenty of people to go through the doors and it's not overcrowded so you can sit back and have a chat with someone while their signing... I had that opportunity last year when I got to sit down with Ben Templesmith and chat about nothing for a while.
Now that to me would be a plus because you wouldn't be mobbed all the time and you can go and have a coffee or something like that without being pressured to be somewhere or doing something.
So if that's the case the only other thing that I could think would stop people would be the distance...
Now tell me people if you had the chance to go to a Con with plenty of people but had time to chat with whoever you wanted to with out lining up for half a day would you?
And this is where I stop because I'm ranting and have lost all focus of my point!
Just if you’re a creator and am interested in going to a cool con in a far away land check out our ones!
Yes again I haven't had time to do any blogging and I hope I'll get more time soon.
But we have finished all the moving, my computer/comic/library room set up (apart from a couple of pictures that need hanging) so once that's finished I'll get some pictures up for you all to see.
And with everything finally set up that means Kryptographik and Welcome to Heavenside will be back very soon.
Also I've joined the blackberry ranks so I've been twittering up and trying as many applications I can for it and if your a blackberry user and haven't experanced crackberry.com yet then youy need to go to my new bible!
Ok that's enough from me for now but I'm going to be back more often from now on!
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Hey! Here’s some information on the next Archibald one-shot. I’ll post an order code here asap!
PRESS RELEASE - CELEBRATE THE CHINESE NEW YEAR WITH ARCHIBALD!
Archibald Aardvark returns in an all-new noir mystery !
X October 2008 (Berkeley, CA) - Image Comics’ Shadowline presents an all-new mature readers adventure with the greatest unknown cartoon star of yesteryear, Archibald Aardvark, as ARCHIBALD CHASES THE DRAGON!
“As always, this one’s definitely not for the kids,” said Archibald Aardvark creator and artist Grant Bond. “Having Dara Naraghi take over the writing is perfect, as ARCHIBALD CHASES THE DRAGON puts a whole new spin on the murder behind the murder of Archibald’s brother.”
ARCHIBALD CHASES THE DRAGON is the third Archibald one-shot illustrated by Bond, following ARCHIBALD SAVES CHRISTMAS & ARCHIBALD SAVES EASTER, and the first written by Naraghi. This time around a tip-off about a long thought solved murder brings Archibald to Little China, in search of the mysterious “Compassionate Wind of Death”. However, it doesn’t take long before this noir tale of greed, secrets and a deal with the devil threatens to have Archibald fall victim to the red dragon haunting his dreams.
ARCHIBALD CHASES THE DRAGON, a 32-page two-color one-shot for $3.50, will be in stores January 7th, 2008.
From GrantBond.com
If you have ever watched and liked the movie Equilibrium then you will love this book. Steve Niles and Zid have created a world where they have found that the advent of religion and imagination so there is a ban on all religion and on books and anything else that can 'inspire' people.
The story follows Philip Khrome who as we find out had turned in his own father as his father used to tell him stories when he was young like the Hare and the Tortoise and when he was over heard talking about that at school the teacher had reported his father for 'poisoning a child's mind'.
Just from that you get to see what kind of world that they are dealing with and as the story goes on we find Philip has been brought up by the government and had it drilled into him what is right and what is wrong. This brings him to becoming a Policeman in what feels like the city you get to see in the 5th element where there are different levels and we can see that the higher you go in the city depends on what your wealth is.
The artwork in this book is phenomenal where we have the painted quality that we have been seeing for the covers of Tow Cow's The Darkness and Witchblade and also with the opening arch of X-Force from marvel which is becoming a style that I am liking more and more these days. As well as that there is a feel of a Ben Templesmith influence there as well which I wasn't expecting.
Radical Comics are doing a great presentation of this as well with it coming in a Squarebound style as Stardust originally came out back in the 90's which leaves me unsure if I should be putting this on the shelf or in the comic box.
When this gets traded tho I will be getting this so I can have it out for everyone to see.
Overall I can't wait for the next issue of this to come out and I can see this series being one of my favourite for the year so if you haven't picked it up go and find it!
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