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From Zac Thompson, Hayden Sherman, and Jim Campbell, we have the first details on the eco-horror of Into the Unbeing: Part One, along with an exclusive reveal of the cover art! The series, set in the anomalous Australian Outback, is being published by Dark Horse Comics, with the first issue available in June:

"New from critically acclaimed writer Zac Thompson, visionary artist Hayden Sherman, and letterer Jim Campbell, comes Into the Unbeing: Part One, a four-issue eco-horror comic about a group of scientists who can’t resist investigating an unusual discovery in the Australian outback. Suddenly finding themselves trapped in the mouth of a giant, with no direction to go but further in. The issue #1 main cover is by Sherman, with variant covers provided by Matt Lesniewski and Tyler Boss."

Synopsis: "Into the Unbeing follows a group of climate scientists working in a remote base camp on the Australian outback...

Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel Anansi Boys is heading to the sequential art world of comics.

The 2005 novel, a New York Times best-seller that won the Locus and British Fantasy Awards, is being adapted by Dark Horse Comics, which has set screenwriter and comics author Marc Bernardin to pen what will be an eight-issue miniseries.

Shawn Martinbrough, perhaps best known as the longtime artist of the Robert Kirkman title Thief of Thieves as well as Marvel’s Luke Cage Noir, is drawing the book, which will have colors by Chris Sotomayor and letters by Jim Campbell. The first issue is due to hit stores June 26.

The novel told the travails of “Fat” Charlie Nancy, who leads a boring life as a boring Londoner until he discovers two things: that his recently deceased father was, in fact, Anansi, the trickster god of African folklore, and that he has a twin brother he’s never met.

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Death of the Venomverse #1

The Marvel Multiverse's infinite possibilities can dilute the originality and importance of beloved characters like Venom, making them feel expendable. The Spider-Verse and Venomverse franchises have been successful, but there is a risk of diluting the core of fan-favorite characters in the pursuit of popularity. While Venom's rise in prominence is well-received by fans, it also poses a risk of brand dilution as Marvel capitalizes on the character's popularity with infinite iterations.

When it comes to Spider-Verse characters in the Marvel Comics multiverse, there are few more beloved than Venom himself. Especially since his ascension to the role of King in Black, Eddie Brock and his son Dylan have become pivotal figures in the Marvel Universe. But one Venom isn’t too happy with what the existence of the Multiverse really means – and they’re calling out one of Marvel’s biggest problems in the process.

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Death of the Venomverse #1 The extent of Carnage’s deadliness has been well established within Marvel lore, but his new powers are giving credit to one villain who recently made an appearance in the film Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, and has more or less been a complete joke up until his film debut: the Spot. Now, with Carnage’s help, fans can see how deadly the Spot can really be in the comics as well as on the big screen.

In the movie Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Dr. Johnathon Ohnn aka the Spot was a scientist who was mutated by the interdimensional energy channeled through Kingpin’s Collider from the first film. Dr. Ohnn’s mutation resulted in countless black spots littering his body, that could be used as portals to travel through space and dimensions. While he was a joke at first, the...

Warning: contains spoilers for Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - The Rebellion #1!The defeat of Emperor Palpatine is one of Star Wars' most important moments, and a new comic shows that Admiral Ackbar knew how it would happen. Ackbar’s point helps to illuminate one of the key failings of not just the Emperor but of the Dark Side of the Force overall, showing exactly why the Sith will always lose when confronted by one specific kind of enemy.

In Star Wars: Return of the Jedi - The Rebellion #1, Admiral Ackbar comments that the Empire can't predict selflessness, thus explaining the exact hubris that leads to Palpatine’s defeat. Ackbar is commenting on Mon Mothma's willingness to walk into a known trap to potentially get information that could help take down the Empire, saying, "she's being brave and selfless in a way the Empire never could predict." Ackbar points...

We're in the middle of San Diego Comic-Con and Vault Comics is here with their biggest slate of programming to date, including an exclusive pre-release of one of the year’s most anticipated series! Today, they just announced Something Crawled Out, "a terrifying new horror series that will have you questioning the core concepts of good and evil." Written by Son M., drawn by Cas ‘MadCursed’ Peirano, colored by Vittorio Astone, lettered by Jim Campbell, and designed by Tim Daniel, Something Crawled Out will hit store shelves this October! We have exclusive details, plus a look at cover and promo art:

The Midwest is the backdrop for Something Crawled Out, where Edith “Eddie” Miller has no grand plans or great prospects. She spends her days sleeping in and her nights working shifts at a gas station. But when her younger sister fails to come home, Eddie unearths a web of missing girls and rotting bodies.

A cursed production? A screening of a long-lost movie goes wrong?! The Midnite Show cover and description immediately has me thinking that this story would fit in well with Popcorn and The Monster Squad, so I'm super excited to dig into the first of four issues this October from Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, Bill Crabtree, and Jim Campbell:

From the Press Release: Supernatural horror fans can scream with glee as Dark Horse Comics presents an entirely new taste of terror in The Midnite Show. The four-issue series reunites the creators of The Sixth Gun, Cullen Bunn, Brian Hurtt, and Bill Crabtree. Joined by letterer Jim Campbell (The Great British Bump-Off), they tell the tale of a cursed movie production and the horror fans caught in the creepy creature crossover dead set on bringing their nightmares to life.

Basil Saxon is a legend among horror fans. Over fifty years ago,...

In creating such a rich world, Blade Runner considered everything from food to fashion, with Rick Deckard wearing an iconic trench coat that later inspired the costume of Ryan Gosling's K. Indeed, the very first blade runner in the franchise's lore also wore a long, bulky coat, but his was a weapon - suggesting this is the real reason future Los Angeles' blade runners really have such similar fashion sense.

The Blade Runner franchise has always had one foot in the comics world, going back to the original film being adapted by Marvel at the time. Following the release of Blade Runner 2049, Titan Comics began releasing a slew of Blade Runner comics taking place before and after the original film. Filling in the details of the world, these new comics have kept the Blade Runner franchise alive and kicking with new stories about rogue replicants and the blade runners who hunt them.

One of the most iconic symbols used in the cult-classic series, Gravity Falls, is the question mark which acts as the logo for the Mystery Shack–and now fans know exactly why that is (spoiler: it’s not what fans think).

Gravity Falls features the paranormal adventures of Dipper and Mabel as they stay with their great uncle Stan for the summer in Gravity Falls, Oregon. While on the surface, Gravity Falls may seem like a quiet little town, that couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality, Gravity Falls is home to some of the strangest creatures and occurrences in the world, and Dipper and Mabel had to face off against nearly all of them. Luckily, in the very first episode, Dipper found a journal that contained handwritten information about all the weird things in Gravity Falls, which helped the pre-teen twins survive every one of their adventures.

In the opening title sequence of every episode of Gravity Falls, Grunkle Stan is shown wearing an eyepatch even though it is well established that he isn’t blind in one eye. While it was always assumed he wore the patch to add to his mysterious persona for the sake of his ‘tourist trap’ business, one Gravity Falls continuation comic reveals that Stan wearing an eyepatch is actually a secret hint to his backstory.

Gravity Falls is a cult-classic animated series that follows the adventures of twelve-year-old twin siblings Dipper and Mabel as they stay with their great uncle Stan in Gravity Falls, Oregon. During their summer at Grunkle Stan’s house, Dipper and Mabel are forced to work in his ‘tourist trap’ known as the Mystery Shack, which is an attraction filled with made-up oddities and overpriced merchandise. Though the Mystery Shack is fake, however, there are some legitimate...

Fans of Gravity Falls are well aware of the many adventures Dipper and Mabel have been on together throughout the course of the series, but the very first one within the continuity of Gravity Falls’ universe redefines all of them–because it had nothing to do with Dipper and Mabel at all.

Gravity Falls is a Disney Xd original series that ran for two seasons, and every episode featured an increasingly strange mystery that Dipper and Mabel had to solve. In the first episode, twelve-year-old twin siblings Dipper and Mabel are sent to live with their great uncle Stan for the summer in Gravity Falls, Oregon. When they get there, Dipper finds a mysterious journal containing handwritten information about the strange occurrences and odd creatures of Gravity Falls–information that helped Dipper and Mabel survive every episode (while also being the cause of most of their problems). As Dipper would quickly learn,...

Fans of Gravity Falls are well aware of the tragic circumstances that led up to the start of the series regarding Grunkle Stan and his twin brother, Ford–but one thing they may not know is that their backstory goes far beyond what was revealed in the show.

Gravity Falls follows the adventures of twelve-year-old twin siblings Dipper and Mabel as they stay with their great uncle Stan for the summer in Gravity Falls, Oregon. While the main series is set around Dipper and Mabel and their experiences with the mythical (and sometimes interdimensional) weirdness of Gravity Falls, the real story began way before Dipper and Mabel were even born. When Grunkle Stan and his twin brother, Ford, were just kids growing up in New Jersey, they had plans to get a boat when they grew up and travel the world together. However, by the time they were both seniors in high school,...

The Pickle Rick episode of Rick and Morty is easily one of the most iconic in the series, and it seems as though the idea for this hilariously absurd transformation may have originated in Gravity Falls.

In Rick and Morty season 3, episode 3 “Pickle Rick”, the Smith family (minus Jerry) are going to therapy together, but when Morty goes into Rick’s garage to get him, Morty finds that Rick turned himself into a sentient pickle to get out of going to therapy. While something this ridiculous seems like it should be a show’s cold-open gag and nothing more, this episode takes the idea of Rick turning himself into a pickle and runs with it to its most extreme conclusion. Soon after the Smith family leaves, Pickle Rick accidentally rolls into the sewer, builds a mech-suit out of cockroach and rat corpses, infiltrates a top-secret Russian base, kills practically everyone in there,...

The Citadel of Ricks in Rick and Morty is essentially a giant city located in a designated universe run and populated exclusively by variants of Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith–and while the Citadel is a monument to the infinite presence of Rick and Morty across the multiverse, Gravity Falls' version of the multiversal waypoint makes the Citadel look pathetic.

The Citadel of Ricks was introduced in Rick and Morty season 1, episode 10 “Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind” when a rogue Rick and Morty are killing Ricks in every universe, stealing their Mortys, and then setting up the prime Rick and Morty to take the fall. In this episode, (apart from the murder-mystery) fans witness the government the variants of Rick set up and the established society of Ricks and Mortys on the Citadel–something that is explored even further in future episodes.

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The main focus of the entire Gravity Falls series are the mysterious journals that contain all the hidden secrets of Gravity Falls–but the most important journal wasn’t even mentioned in the original show at all.

Gravity Falls follows the adventures of twelve-year-old twin siblings Dipper and Mabel Pines as they stay with their great uncle Stan for the summer in Gravity Falls, Oregon. In the first episode, Dipper comes across a journal with the outline of a six-fingered hand on the cover and the number ‘3’ written right in the center of the hand. As previously mentioned, the journal contained page after page of information on the general weirdness of Gravity Falls, including mythical creatures, hidden artifacts, and summoning rituals. Before the journal was even opened, it immediately presented Dipper with a mystery as the number ‘3’ on the cover implies that there are at least two other journals out there.

It is no secret that Gravity Falls and Rick and Morty share a number of hidden connections that are scattered throughout both franchises. So many, in fact, that fans are just left wondering when the creators behind both series will just make it official already and create the crossover everyone’s been waiting for. Well, as it turns out, there’s actually an in-lore explanation for why that hasn’t happened yet–and why it may never happen.

Gravity Falls follows Dipper, Mabel, Grunkle Stan, and Grunkle Ford as they take on the paranormal elements of Gravity Falls, Oregon. While the storyline of the show is pretty contained within that little corner of the world, there is one aspect of the series that stretches across the multiverse: Grunkle Ford. Grunkle Ford is Dipper and Mabel’s great uncle and the twin brother of Grunkle Stan. Thirty years before the events of the show,...

While it may seem absurd to consider that Stan Lee–the beloved creator behind Marvel Comics and most of its iconic characters–has anything to do with Gravity Falls, one comic continuation of the cult-classic series confirms that one of Gravity Falls’ main characters, Grunkle Stan, is not only connected to Stan Lee, but actually shares a dark history with him.

Gravity Falls follows the adventures of twin siblings, Dipper and Mabel, as they stay with their great uncle Stan in Gravity Falls, Oregon. While Dipper and Mabel are the stars of the series, Grunkle Stan is just as important to the show’s lore. When the series began, Grunkle Stan was depicted as the gruff-but-loveable owner of the tourist attraction known as the Mystery Shack who was known to embellish the facts surrounding the ‘mysteries’ within his Mystery Shack to earn an extra buck. After his full backstory is revealed,...

There are few similarities between the vast landscape of the ever-expanding Marvel Universe and the two-season cult-classic series Gravity Falls, but they do share at least one thing: both have their own Captain America–and Gravity Falls’ version perfectly sums up his true purpose with just his name alone.

Steve Rogers aka Captain America became the patriotic super soldier after signing up for an experimental procedure that promised to make him the Allies’ secret weapon in World War II. Captain America was created to fight Nazis, and even after the war was won, he continued to fight Nazis after a faction of them took on the moniker of Hydra and followed the evil leadership of Red Skull. Following Steve Rogers’ tenure as Captain America when Sam Wilson took up the mantle, Sam became the lead ‘Nazi-puncher’ in town, and even said on at least one occasion that fighting Nazis was...

The cult-classic series Gravity Falls is known for its smart humor, tight plot lines, and intricate lore, but in one comic book continuation, Gravity Falls becomes one of the most meta pieces of fiction fans would ever see–and it does this while the beloved main characters battle their version of the Avengers.

Gravity Falls follows twin siblings Dipper and Mabel as they stay with their great uncle Stan at his house in Gravity Falls, Oregon. In the first episode, Dipper discovers a mysterious journal–dubbed Journal 3–that contains information on the overall weirdness of Gravity Falls, including creature bios, observed occurrences, and summoning rituals. Dipper and Mabel would go on to use Journal 3 on their adventures throughout the series as it proved to be a great help when battling against odd entities or scenarios–though sometimes, the journal itself was the cause of those problems to begin with.

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The X-Men is one of the most well-known superhero teams in all comic book fiction, but Gravity Falls seems to disagree with the ‘hero’ aspect of their title as the series hilariously mocks Marvel’s militarized mutant team.

The X-Men are a team of mutants who were brought together by Professor Charles Xavier to use their fantastic powers to protect the innocent from harm, and by doing so, earning the trust of humanity–thereby helping them in their struggle with mutant equality and civil rights. While on the surface it seems like the X-Men are heroes who righteously use their powers to help those who look at them as freaks, or less than human, that’s actually not what fans are witnessing with every one of their adventures–and Gravity Falls points that out brilliantly.

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Gravity Falls: Lost Legends...

As I type this, my post on the first volume of Steeple was written close to a month ago but has not yet gone live. So I am trying to space things out on this blog, but I may not be spacing them quite far enough for my own systems to work well.

In any case, this is a sequel to the first Steeple , which was written and drawn by John Allison with colors from Sarah Stern and letters from Jim Campbell. The first collection also appeared first as a five-issue series of floppy comics.

Steeple, Vol. 2: The Silvery Moon , by comparison, appeared originally on-line at Allison’s site , and is an all-Allison joint. This one collects two somewhat discrete stories, and I can even link you to those stories online, on the cheekily-titled steeple.church site: The Silvery Moon and Secret Sentai . I just noticed they were (still...