ComiXology Originals & Delcourt Group Celebrate the Impending Release of Promethee 13:13 by Andy Diggle, Shawn Martinbrough, David Stewart & Jock with an Exclusive Poster During the Festival International De La Bande Dessinée
Promethee 13:13 is an upcoming prequel to the critically acclaimed, post-apocalyptic sci-fi bandes dessinées by Christophe Bec
Bec, Diggle, Martinbrough, & Jock to sign the exclusive Promethee 13:13 poster and speak during a panel at the Festival International De La Bande Dessinée
Volumes 1 & 2 to be simultaneously released in English and French same-day worldwide
January 23 2019 – Angouleme, France – ComiXology, Amazon’s premier digital comics service, and Delcourt Group, the leading independent comic book publisher in France, join forces to bring readers everywhere the upcoming comiXology Originals title Promethee 13:13, a prequel to Christophe Bec’s best-selling, mind-bending, science-fiction bande dessinée, Promethee. The Promethee 13:13 team along with original Promethee creator Christophe Bec will be in attendance at the 46th annual Festival International De La Bande Dessinée – happening January 24-27, 2019 in Angouleme, France – to promote and discuss new details about this upcoming title.
Coming this year as part of the comiXology Originals line of exclusive digital content, Promethee 13:13 will be exclusively available as two 48-page volumes on Kindle and comiXology and available to members of Prime Reading, Kindle Unlimited, and comiXology Unlimited at no additional cost. Each volume will be simultaneously released in English and French worldwide at debut.
To celebrate this announcement, the all-star Promethee 13:13 creative team of Andy Diggle, Shawn Martinbrough and Jock, along with Promethee original creator,Christophe Bec, will appear at the Delcourt Group booth in Le Monde des Bulles Marquee to sign an exclusive, limited edition poster illustrated by Shawn Martinbrough, with colors by Jock, Friday, January 25th from 5-6pm, and Saturday January 26th from 7-8pm. Additionally, the Promethee team along with comiXology Originals Head of Content, Chip Mosher and Directeur Editorial at Delcourt Group, Jean Wacquet, and Editor Will Dennis, will discuss this upcoming comic series during the Past, Present and Future: Promethee 13:13 panel, Thursday, January 24th at 4:30pm at the Conservatory Gabriel Fauré in Angoulême, France.
BLACK HAMMER #8
BRAND-NEW STORY ARC!
There’s something unusual about the sleepy farming community of Rockwood: it’s now the home of Spiral City’s mysteriously vanished superheroes. But not by choice: they were banished to the town after a battle with the Anti-God, and now they’re stuck within its boundaries. Lately, a new arrival in town has started asking questions, and she’s discovering that its superpowered residents aren’t the only strange thing about Rockwood …
* Voted one of the best comics of 2016 by IGN!
LOBSTER JOHNSON: GARDEN OF BONES, by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Stephen Green, and Dave Stewart
When an undead hit man goes after the NYPD, the Lobster steps in to figure out if it’s a zombie—or something worse.
Don’t miss the final issue of RISE OF THE BLACK FLAME, by Mike Mignola, Chris Roberson, Christopher Mitten, and Dave Stewart
The heroes’ search finally ends at the temple of the Black Flame cult, but they don’t arrive in time to stop what they find there.
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Harris Smith recommends Rumble #1
Genre is a valuable thing. Genres give artists a framework on which to graft their ideas, and readers the framework through which to receive them. Genre can be used to make difficult ideas palatable, as seen in the post-WW2 existential malaise expressed through the crime stories of the 1940s and 50s that have come to known as film noir, or the anxieties about feminism and the sexual revolution bubbling under the surface of the horror films of the late 1970s and early 80s. Genre provides familiarity and comfortable conventions which make audiences more receptive to the more challenging aspirations of artists and, on a far more basic level, genre provides a shorthand for audiences to be able to identify the things they like.
The power of genre is such that we, as audiences (in this case, readers), are forced to take pause when we encounter something that isn’t immediately classifiable in a familiar genre, or that draws on elements from multiple genres in a way that we don’t necessarily recognize right away. This is valuable, too. If layering difficult ideas within the familiar conventions of a genre is a way to make hard concepts more palatable, defying the conventions of genre has the opposite effect, jarring the reader into consciousness and acute awareness, forcing them to engage the material on its own terms.
John Arcudi, James Harren (the-bog) and Dave Stewart’s new comic Rumble, from Image, is a work that combines and defies genres. In the first issue, we’re witness to elements of horror, comedy, action, supernatural fantasy and the basic drama of everyday life, all in collision with one another. Comedy and horror are two genres that don’t always mesh together. Though the primal roots don’t come from entirely different places, their end results are typically in conflict. Arcudi and Harren have found an appropriate blending point, playing their humor very low-key and relatable, in contrast with horror elements that are larger-than-life and shocking. The result is both funny and scary and winningly unpredictable. Set in world that’s like our but just a bit off center, and replete with murderous demons, loveable losers, corpse-toting crocodiles and potentially possessed pet cats, Rumble is a comic that demands, and deserves, your attention.
[Read Rumble #1 on comiXology]
HARRIS SMITH is a Brooklyn-based comics and media professional. In addition to his role as a Senior Production Coordinator at comiXology, he edits several comics anthologies, including Jeans and Felony Comics, under the banner of Negative Pleasure Publications. He’s also the host of the weekly radio show Negative Pleasure on Newtown Radio.