2010 January
EXCLUSIVE preview: Incredibe Hercules #140
Incredible Hercules #140
Courtesy of our friends over at Marvel Comics, here’s an exclusive look at five pages from Incredible Hercules #140, which continues the “Assault on New Olympus” storyline and is due in stores Jan. 20. Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente have been tearing it up on this title, and the addition of the “Agents of Atlas” back-up can only make it better.
Here’s some info on the book, followed by the preview:
COVER BY: Alex Garner
WRITER: Greg Pak
Jeff Parker
Fred Van Lente
PENCILS: Rodney Buchemi
Gabriel Hardman
INKS: Array
THE STORY:
“ASSAULT ON NEW OLYMPUS,” Part 3 (of 4) Of all the giants, gods and monsters Hercules and his team of New and Mighty Avengers have faced in their battle through New Olympus, none may be as formidable as HEPHAESTUS, creator of the immortals’ fearsome war engines! With what fearsome device will he try to ensnare and destroy the Hercules/Amadeus Cho team, which has reformed at last — only to meet their doom? Find out as the New York Times Best-Selling creative team lead Herc on his biggest adventure yet! Plus: as the Agents of Atlas push into the stronghold of the Olympus group, Aphrodite decides to take matters into her own hands in Godmarked Part 3! Rated T …$3.99PRICE: 3.99
IN STORES: January 20, 2010
- January 2, 2010 @ 07:00 AM by JK Parkin
Robot 6: The year of living dangerously
A few weeks ago Jonah Weiland, the owner/proprietor/executive producer/big kahuna of Comic Book Resources, sent me an email asking what I thought we should do for Robot 6′s first anniversary.
First anniversary? I thought. And no, I didn’t mean that in a “Wow, it’s already been a year?” kind of way. I mean that in a “Wow, it’s only been a year?”
The sheer amount of news, announcements and change that’s been rolling out over the past 365 days has been exciting and sometimes even a bit overwhelming. Companies were bought, people stepped down, legends died, titles were canceled, projects were announced, cons went to war, comics exploded onto electronic devices, new sites were launched … I mean, damn. I took a week off at the end of summer and came back to find out Marvel had been bought by Disney. I went back to Texas a few weeks ago to visit family and came back to find that DC had announced about 10,000 new projects (OK, I may be exaggerating there). I’m afraid to go anywhere now because I might miss what happens next.
It’s been a pretty good year to be a blogger. There’s been plenty to talk about.
So yeah, it was only a year ago today that we officially kicked off the new blog here at CBR. And it feels like we’ve been running at full speed ever since. If you think we’re slowing down today, well … think again. Y’see, Jonah and I did come to an agreement on what we should do for the blog’s first anniversary — due to a brief and atypical lapse in judgment on his part (I feel like I should add a Mwahahahaha! here), he’s letting us take over the CBR home page for the day. And what a day we have planned. Stick around, and you’ll see some cool, exclusive stuff sent to us by several of our friends around in the industry. Expect a couple of interviews, and maybe a special feature or three. Heck, we have so much stuff, it may be more than just one day can possibly contain, so we may have to spill some of it over into tomorrow (don’t tell Jonah).
It’s been a great year here at Robot 6 in our new digs at CBR, and I have a few miles worth of names I should probably thank. But I’m afraid if I start now it’s the only thing we’ll get to today. So to everyone who ever submitted a tip or link, or sent us your Shelf Porn, or talked with Tim, or sent us a review copy, or bought an ad, or clicked on an ad, or guest blogged, or told me how much you dig Comics A.M., or supported our auctions for Carla and Lance, or emailed me a press release, or gave me a press pass to a con, or let me look through your sketchbook, or linked to something we did, or retweeted one of our posts, or just made comics better, or … well, you get the idea …THANK YOU! None of us are in this alone.
Thanks to the folks who contribute to Robot 6 on a regular basis — I love you all. Thanks to the folks at CBR who keep the place up and running. And thanks to you, our readers, whether you’ve been here since we kicked off a year ago or this is your first time to visit the site.
Happy New Year, everyone! As always, stay tuned for much, much more …
- January 2, 2010 @ 12:03 AM by JK Parkin
Old acquaintances shall not be forgotten
Cameron Stewart covers the Montreal Mirror
Happy New Year, everyone! Typically the first day of the new year is a time for reflection, for looking forward and looking back. And you might think that I would be tempted to do that very thing, especially since we just wrapped up our first full year here at Robot 6.
But I’m not gonna do that. Y’see, Robot 6 officially kicked off on Jan. 2, 2009. And tomorrow we plan to celebrate our first anniversary by bringing you a lot of really, really cool stuff — interviews, exclusive previews, countdowns and much more — as we take over the home page of Comic Book Resources for the day. It should be a lot of fun, so be sure to stop by in between football games and TV marathons.
In the meantime, after the jump you’ll find some links to other bloggers looking at 2009 and 2010. Enjoy, and we’ll be back in full force tomorrow. See you then!
(Artwork above is Cameron Stewart‘s cover to this week’s Montreal Mirror, as seen on his blog.
- January 1, 2010 @ 11:24 AM by JK Parkin