Dark Horse goes digital

After a seven-year absence, Dark Horse Presents is back, this time on MySpace. The Dark Horse folks sprung the announcement at the San Diego Comic-Con, in a panel ostensibly devoted to the history of Dark Horse Presents, and it’s good news for everyone: Readers get free comics by acclaimed creators such as Joss Whedon, Fabio Moon, and Gabriel Ba, and creators get the opportunity to be discovered—but only if they are posting their work on MySpace.

Dark Horse Presents was Dark Horse’s debut title when the company launched in 1986. The editors conceived the black-and-white anthology as a vehicle for new talent, and over the years it served as a launching pad for successful series, including Hellboy and Sin City, and gave early exposure to creators such as Eddie Campbell, Ed Brubaker, and Doug Mahnke. After a few years of slack sales, Dark Horse ended the title in 2000.

The new version will showcase an artist discovered on MySpace, Dark Horse editors told Andy Khouri in this interview for Comic Book Resources. Continue reading

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Changing Zeros 2 Heroes ~OR~ Can Anything New Be Done In Our Intertubes?

Finding a jumping off point from Phil’s recent article about a possible revival of the world of ReBoot, he and I decided the whole Zeros 2 Heroes initiative might be worth another look. So, I decided to create myself an avatar and see what the site has to offer to comic creators and lovers of the form alike. Granted, the experience was limited, as the site is just starting with its live beta, but there’s enough there to pick apart. So grab a leg, hold on tight, and yank with me, won’t you?

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Civilization on the Web? Have they Seen MySpace?

Computer games and Web comics have been intertwine since the get go, we all know this. It’s neither a secret nor an interesting way to start an article. What is interesting is that it looks like the relationship has finally advance to the point where computer games are starting to pay for a date once in a while. ‘Bout freaking time I say.

 

As part of the big kick off for the expansion pack for Civ IV, Beyond the Sword, 2K games and Fraxis have hired a bunch of the top names in video game comics to do a series of strips about the game. The series will be release over the next few days, ending on August 10th. The knew site Civilization Daydreams has been set up as a hub for all the comics the project creates so those interested don’t have to traipse all over the Web.

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DS Con Interviews – Randy Milholland

Hey there hi there ho there, folks. We’ve got brand new video interviews for you from last weekend’s ConnectiCon. I was there on my lonesome with super special cameraman help from my good buddy Ross Nover of The Rockets and the future Erfworld spinoff comic known as “Parson’s Gaming Buddies.”

This year’s ConnectiCon was bigger and busier than ever, so the interviews are a tad shorter due to time constraints, but we did our best to grab more folks to speak with who you didn’t see from last year. That being said, here’s the first of nine video interviews with none other than Randy Milholland of Something Positive. Pleas enjoy.

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More Reasons To Support Tree Farms

Ever wonder how to fit 48 hours into the same day? It’s easy, just remember the joys of the International Date Line. That’s right, for the low cost of a plane ticket across the Pacific you can enjoy what no one else does and arrive before your plane took off. Just remember it can be even more fun if you find that one flight that everyone else is on and make sure to economy because nothing else says patience like having fat guys to either side and precocious 5 year olds behind you discovering folding trays for the first time. If you’re going to submit yourself to such torture you better be sure to bring something worth reading along with you. Below we have the perfect answers to make hell seem like a vacation from the boredom that is life.

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Interest Piquers For The Week Ending July 21st, 2007 -Also Known As- The Day Harry Potter Died

No, that’s not a spoiler of The Deathly Hallows, just a cheap way to grab some eyes and a couple thousand more Google hits.

Why resort to such low, drastic measures? Because there’s nothing better to do. It’s a “make your own news” week and since I’ve been strippin’ on my days off (just the term I use when I’m in the studio, so wash away those cringe-inducing memory burns) I’m just going to wrap up the less discussion-worthy topics here, in another edition of Interest Piquers.

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Scrolling Thunder

Uclick has announced the first comic designed primarily to be read on cell phones: Thunder Road, by Sean Demory and Steven Sanders. This is Demory’s first book, but Sanders’ art credits include Five Fists of Science.

Here’s a description of the story from the Kansas City Star:

Thunder Road is a multi-panel, manga-style comic series, described as a “slow-apocalyptic, dieselpunk action adventure” set in an alternate middle-America. The series follows the trials of Merritt, a soldier/circuit rider working for the Department of Transportation who travels America’s Great Plains, a ravaged and desolate land suffering the consequences of decades of global atomic warfare.

GoComics provides a trailer for Thunder Road, and it’s worth a look. But will people pay for it? According to Uclick’s info page, a subscription is $4.99 per month. For that you can subscribe to six or more titles and get at least one new installment every day, plus access to the archives. The catch is Continue reading

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DS 122: Review of Lucid TV

Digital Strips Show 122
Digital Strips : Show 122
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When Brandon was invited originally it was inhopes that he would pick webcomics better then Phil. This pick proves that even those with good taste falter sometimes. For the 80% of the listeners that disagree with my taste in comics you’ll probably love this sadistic version of Scrubs.

In this episode we talk about:

  • Lucid TV by John Tiberius Keogh, David Rothlein, and Ross Hutchinson Aries Armstrong IIV Jr.
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