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Straight for the art | Tom Scioli's Incredibles cover

Incredibles #3 HeroesCon variant

Godland artist Tom Scioli provided the above variant cover for BOOM!'s Incredibles #3, available only at this weekend's HeroesCon. It's a really nice piece, and, if this makes sense, has sort of an "indie" feel to it ... which seems like the way to go for a variant cover for the show, considering HeroesCon plays host to Indie Island.

See BOOM!'s other variant covers and other plans for HeroesCon here.

BOOM! Studios' Chip Mosher on Hexed, Farscape and more

Chip Mosher at Disneyland

Yesterday Mark Waid, editor-in-chief of BOOM! Studios, announced via a YouTube video that BOOM! would post full issues of their Hexed mini-series on MySpace the same day the book was released in stores, just like they did with the North Wind mini-series a year ago. As I was already talking to Chip Mosher, their sales and marketing guy, about several other things going on with BOOM! when the video was released, I was able to sneak in a few questions about the promotion as well.

My thanks to Chip for his time.

JK: Last year BOOM! put the complete North Wind mini-series up on MySpace Comic Books, with each issue going up on the day it hit retailers' shelves. And now you're doing it again with HEXED. Why did you choose HEXED, versus any of your other titles?

Chip: Right time. Right place. Right book.

Personally, I see Hexed as one of the books that is kicking off BOOM! 3.0. I consider Mark coming on board as E-i-C as BOOM! 2.0 -- where he spearheaded the stabilizing of the line-up and built up editorial. I look at this next year as BOOM! 3.0 -- where the promise of Mark Waid as E-i-C is realized in full. The team here at BOOM! is running on all cylinders. You'll see a whole host of books coming out of BOOM! in the next year, shepherded by Mark and the editorial team, that will just rock your socks off.

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