This is the opening blurb from a great new kickstarter game project – looks awesome and yes, I wasted hours, nay days of my life playing Space Trader! Kickstarter here!

I used to play this simple little game on my Palm Treo over a decade ago — Space Trader. It’s been ported to just about every device around, and it continues to be a fun little game because it lets you take the helm of a starship (a small one at first) and navigate a random galaxy, visiting planets, buying and selling, defending yourself from pirates, upgrading your ship, and much more. I always enjoyed saving my funds to upgrade my ship to a bigger one that gave me more cargo, more powerful weapons, and even crew members. I could play as a merchant… but I could also take a turn towards the dark side and try my hand at pirating. It was a fun little game that offered up a lot of variety given its simple rules and the device’s small grayscale screen. I have some good memories of that game.

This summer, the comic book series that launched a company returns. Three years ago Big Dog Ink creator/writer/editor Tom Hutchison printed a few thousand copies of the #1 issue of an unknown comic book…and then promptly printed thousands more when the first edition sold out in comic book stores around the country. Penny for Your Soul: War was a smash hit, and helped launch not only Tom’s career, but a comic book publishing company. This summer, hot on the heels of best-selling Joan of Arc: From the Ashes, Penny for Your Soul returns with the third installment of this smash-hit series, Penny for Your Soul: Death!

Tom Hutchison returns to delve even further into the story of Danica, the granddaughter of the Devil, as she continues to claim her place in the age old battle of good vs. evil, and carve out her roll in the end of days battle between Heaven and Hell! Which side will she choose? Why her own of course, but she won’t be doing it by herself. Longtime friends will return, along with new companions, and the sarcastic, snappy, sexy but always smart, story that fans have come to expect from Big Dog Ink’s guilty pleasure in a comic book!

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Looks like anohter great addition!

THE WESTWOOD WITCHES #4

Story by: El Torres
Art by: Abel Garcia, Roger Bonet
Cover Artist: Abel Garcia

The final episode! This is the final showdown between Jack the writer and the Witches of Westwood! What horrible price paid Jack back in his childhood that even today it haunts him? Nightmarish revelations will be made… past, present and future unveiled in the whole tapestry of this modern witchcraft horror tale!

There’s still time to grab yourself a copy! Search your Previews and pre-order it.

MATURE THEMES

SC, 7×10, 32pgs, FC …………… $3.99
UPC Code: 700153928700-00411

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I have read a few issues of the Misadventures of Adam West – It’s a blast – reviews up soon!

Bluewater Productions has developed a fiction series with the famous actors of the “Batman” 1960’s television show. Including Eartha Kitt, Adam West, Julie Newmar and some can say Vincent Price. The graphic novels will be released for the first time in print.

Misadventures of Adam West: The Man, The Myth, The Amulet? Legendary star of the small and silver screen, ADAM WEST has his career youth-enized in this hip, whimsical, trans-dimensional epic of an adventure. When a mysterious fan delivers an exotic amulet to Mr. West’s doorstep, he is Dorothy-fied on an odyssey that will change his career, his love life, and inadvertently make him the man that saves the universe! The first volume of The Misadventures of Adam West, the mini-series, is collected in one location in this 96-page graphic novel!

Written by Adam West and Reed Lackey with art by V. Kenneth Marion and cover by Joe Phillips.

“I am really impressed with Bluewater’s creative team and vision. They have morphed me and it didn’t even hurt,” said Adam West.

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• Screwed follows a young woman who awakens in a hospital covered in scars as if she had been taken apart and put back together again; her mind as fragmented as her body. As she tries to piece together what’s happened to her, she will find many enemies are after her but she’ll also find a valuable ally in FBI Agent Erin Scott.

Words: Tyler Kirkham, Keith Thomas
Art: David Miller
Covers: Tyler Kirkham, David Miller
Colors: Oracle
Release Date: June 12, 2013
Publisher: Zenescope Entertainment
Price: $2.99

SCREWED is available for pre-order/re-order through Diamond’s April edition of PREVIEWS.

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This June, BOOM! Studios launches a bold new mash-up of Western and Sci-Fi with SIX-GUN GORILLA. Because the only thing better than a gorilla in a comic book is a gorilla with gigantic, matching six-shooters.

Inspired by an obscure public domain character, SIX-GUN GORILLA is created and written by Simon Spurrier (X-MEN: LEGACY, CROSSED: WISH YOU WERE HERE) with interior art by Jeff Stokely (FRAGGLE ROCK, THE REASON FOR DRAGONS) and featuring a cover by Eisner Award-winning artist Ramón Pérez (A TALE OF SAND, WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN), SIX – GUN GORILLA is a pulpy mash-up of Western weirdness and lo-fi science fiction unlike anything else on the stands!

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I’m just gonna call it…that is Luke Cage!

 

Will wonders never cease… Lego Wolverine, Leo Deadpool… Lego Galactus

Family Pets #1 (Zenescope / Silver Dragon Books – Shand / Dill)

Ever since her parents died on her fifth birthday, Thomasina has been daydreaming that someday something amazing will happen in her life to make up for the hurt she’s been through. But after turning sixteen, Thomasina begins to accept that her life will remain unremarkable… But when she wakes up one morning to discover that her foster family has been turned into pet animals, her ordinary life will turn into an extraordinary adventure!

With this series Pat Shand confirms that not only can he write a great kickin’ action series (see Zenescope powerhouse titles Robyn Hood and Godstorm), but that he can also write a very creative and enjoyable all-ages fantasy.

Much like the blurb describes, optimistic protagonist Thomasina has had a rough life but she takes every day at a time and tries to keep her chin up.  Shand’s storytelling ability shines and he writes the main character’s narrative in such a way that it would be hard for anyone to not relate to her or her struggles.  Thomasina is a struggling every-teen and Shand blends a perfect balance for a great teen drama, serious but not too heavy on the angst.  The main character struggling as a purpose to find the silver lining in her circumstance and her purpose when the unthinkable happens and her unspoken wish is granted.  Her best friend (her pet snake) becomes a person and her extended family is all transformed into pet versions of themselves.  She now needs to figure out what happened and how to reverse it.

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