Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box Starts With Mix of Fiery Action, Glacial Development
Top Cow is releasing an ambitious project over the next few months, one that will certainly be a staple of their summer lineup, and it all started with the recently released Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box #1, a project that continues the Broken Trinity work from before with the promise of globetrotting adventure and the feel of an Indiana Jones story, as a search for precious artifacts, beginning with the eponymous Pandora’s Box, begins here. For fans and readers of the Broken Trinity series, this first issue will quickly pick up and reintroduce you to the world of the bearers of the Ember Stone and the Glacier Stone. New readers may find the suddenness of the issue a bit unclear, but overall the story has potential to make an impact, even though a sense of immediacy and characters doesn’t always feel developed. Read more
Filip Sablik Talks Top Cow’s History and Future
If you’re the kind of reader who is looking for something outside the traditional, super hero comic book that’s packed with rich art and intriguing characters, then you might be an excellent fit for the content that Top Cow Productions has been producing for well over fifteen years now. Don’t take my word for it, however! Listen to Filip Sablik, Publisher of Top Cow, a man who has a clear vision and plan for a company that has a unique and vital position in the comic book world. During our interview, Sablik revealed a few upcoming plans for Top Cow, while giving some perspective on where the company has been in its history. Read more
Comic Book Highs, Lows, Misses and More for 2009!
Get out the champagne, party horns and confetti! The new year is soon upon us, and like most other people who are out there reflecting on the year that was, we’re taking stock of the triumphs, the tragedies, the highs and the lows. Of course there are those “did that just happen” moments as well, just to keep things interesting. Let’s take a trip back over the past twelve months, shall we, to see the highs, lows and wth’s over this year in comics, using our own unique system of categories, labels and examples! Read more
Top Cow to Release new Broken Trinity Limited Series!
Last year, Top Cow took great strides in establishing Witchblade, The Darkness and Angelus as the main forces of power in their universe, and look for 2010 to continue that while also introducing other powerful beings with the February release of the first issue of Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box, a limited series focusing on the events revealed in the first Broken Trinity series. Michael Finnegan and Glorianna Silver, the bearers of the Artifacts known as the Glacier Stone and Ember Stone, respectively, are the focus of this series, whose quest to bring the 13 Artifacts revealed in the first series is accelerated by a fanatical cult seeking to get Pandora’s Box! Read more
Top Cow’s Pilot Season Continues With Kirkman and Silvestri
Top Cow Productions will continue with its popular ongoing project Pilot Season with an exciting team-up between noted comic book talents Robert Kirkman, Marc Silvestri and Sheldon Mitchell, one of Top Cow’s noted artists! Coming out in February, 2010, Kirkman and Silvestri will premiere Pilot Season: Stealth #1. The focus will be on Todd Carey, a man whose life is in a bit of a disarray. With a divorce fresh in his mind, a daughter flunking out of school and a father with Alzheimer’s, Todd has a lot going on, and that’s just the beginning! Read more
Comic Book Previews for November 18th, 2009
It’s a pretty big week this pre-Thanksgiving week, as many comic book events and series hit the shelves! The action kicks off this week at Marvel, with some pretty big focus on the most famous wall-crawler in store. In the pages of Amazing Spider-Man #612, creative team Mark Waid and Paul Azaceta bring Peter Parker one of his toughest challenges to date, as the storyline “The Gauntlet” begins here! Witness the return of one of Spider-Man’s most classic foes as Electro storms into the forefront to lead the charge against Spidey! Also this week, Dark Reign-The List: Amazing Spider-Man one-shot hits shelves. Norman’s must personal vendetta comes to a head in this issue! Read more
New Darkness/Darkchylde/Witchblade One-Shot on the Way!
Top Cow Productions has just announced a new and exciting forty-eight page one-shot featuring some of their hottest and most popular characters! Coming in December of 2009, Darkness/Darkchylde/Witchblade: Kingdom of Pain will feature several important and exciting features, not the least of which is the appearance of all three of these characters in one amazing book! Written by writer and artist Randy Queen with coloring by Sarah Queen, the book will feature the bearer of the Darkness, Jackie Estacado, with new armor and Ariel Chydle, the girl with the power to become creatures from her nightmares, at the crossroads of an important new beginning! Another big event for this issue is the fact that Queen becomes the first artist to draw Darkness since Marc Silvestri designed the character over ten years ago! Read more
Angelus #1 Ushers Witchblade’s Dani Into her own Series!
Spinning out of the pages of Top Cow’s Witchblade comes an exciting new title, fresh off of the events surrounding the “War of the Witchblades” storyline. Dani Baptiste will assume her new role as the Angelus, the human bearer of the primal force of light, in Angelus, a series geared towards giving Dani her own voice while also giving Sara Pazzini the main, solo focus in the regular Witchblade title. The book will be the first of a six-issue series, and will kick off in December of 2009. Writer Ron Marz was particularly enthusiastic about the opportunity this new series provided. Read more
Comic Book Releases for September 10th, 2009
Now that you’ve taken the Labor Day holiday to rest up and catch up on all those comics you keep meaning to get to during the regular work week, it’s time to get a fresh stack! There’s plenty to pick up in stores this Thursday, and the adventure and spandex-covered heroes are happy to oblige!
From Marvel this week, more pieces of Norman Osborn’s master plan for the world come into focus, as Dark Reign: The List begins with an Avengers one-shot. Norman’s not happy with the way things are, and this new arc proves it! Be sure to read Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1 before reading The List! Read more
