IDW's March Newsletter!
Friday, Feb 26th, 2010
Offering your monthly dose of news and not-to-be-missed books!
Arriving at inboxes the beginning of each month, the IDW newsletter brings highlights of the coming month, including books to look for at your local store, plus top stories from "Ryall Time" and the IDW website. Enjoy!
Happy 50th Birthday, Family Circus!
On February 29, 1960, Family Circus was born. For 50 years, Bil
Keane has been delighting fans worldwide with his witty insights
and observations of family life.
IDW is proud to offer the first complete chronological collection
of this heart-warming comic. In celebration of this impressive
anniversary, Volume One of our collection will be on sale
for only $29.99 for the entire month of March! Volume Two will be
available in stores in May.
IDW Digital
IDW is adding new digital comics for your iPhone and iPod touch, and for your PSP weekly. Some of our featured titles available now are listed below! And continue to check out our website each week for new releases!
Locke & Key
is available on both your PSP and iPhone and iPod touch! Acclaimed suspense novelist and
New York Times best-selling author Joe
Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) and Gabriel
Rodriguez (Clive Barker's The Great and Secret
Show) create an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder.
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an
unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform
all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and
relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the
most terrible door of them all...
We Will Bury You #1 is
available on your PSP, complete with audio commentary
from sibling creators, Brea and Zane
Grant!
Wormwood is
available on your PSP and
iPhone and iPod touch! Story and
art by fan-favorite creator Ben Templesmith!
TRANSFORMERS #1 is
available on your PSP and
iPhone and iPod touch! It's been
three years since the devastating events of All Hail Megatron. The
Earth has been rebuilt, the AUTOBOTS are in hiding, and the next
great era in the TRANSFORMERS saga is about to begin! Critically
acclaimed writer Mike Costa is joined by superstar
artist Don Figueroa for IDW's biggest book of the
year-the launch of the first ongoing TRANSFORMERS title in five
years! This is what fans have been waiting for-you do not want to
miss this!
This March, spring into one of IDW's New Series!
On March 10th, treat yourself to A-Team: Shotgun Wedding #1, before you see their return on the big-screen. Follow Hannibal and the team who are forced to quit their vacation in sunny San Diego and go undercover to foil what might be a terrorist plot.
Then, on March 31st end the month by picking up
Dragon Age #1, in which a new generation
of Mages in training will arise, warriors of sorcery who will defy
the rules of the Templars and change the course of the world
forever.
New This Month
This March, also be sure to check out new series from your favorite brands, including TRANSFORMERS and Tank Girl! Here's a quick look at some of our February highlights, and the complete list of February releases is below.
TRANSFORMERS: Nefarious #1
Simon Furman (w) • Carlos Magno (a) • Magno, Brian
Rood (c)
The sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen starts here! What
is The Initiative? More to the point, why doesn't the all-seeing
SOUNDWAVE know anything about it? How did they come to
reanimate/control RAVAGE? SOUNDWAVE must find the answers, and
he'll destroy anything in his path to get them!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Tank Girl: The Royal Escape #1 
Alan C. Martin (w) • Rufus Dayglo (a) • Dayglo (c)
Dayglo & Martin give us a completely new take on Tank
Girl-grittier, bloodier, and weirder than ever before. "The Royal
Escape" finds Tank Girl and her team stranded on the outskirts of a
city they have just destroyed, as an immense and vengeful army
approaches. Not recommended for children, the elderly, or
wussies.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Tank Girl © 2010 Hewlett and Martin
Angel
Special: Lorne
John Byrne (w & a & c)
The world is in peril (again!), and only the most unlikely member
of Angel's entourage is able to save the day. A special book-length
tribute to the late Andy Hallett and his character, Lorne,
presented by writer-artist John Byrne.
FC • 32-ad-free pages • $5.99
Eternal Descent #1
Llexi Leon (w) • Jason Metcalf (a & c)
Welcome to a city where lost souls lurk in every shadow and
darkness veils sinister designs, where heavy metal could be the key
to salvation...or the gateway to destruction. A fallen hero, a
twisted demon, one gorgeous succubus, and an army of chart-topping
guitar heroes: the pieces are in place. The Descent begins. Written
by Llexi Leon and illustrated by Jason Metcalf. Incentive Cover by
Syzmond Kudranski & Svee Wheeler. Created in conjunction with
ESP Guitars and Marshall Amplification.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Monthly Give Away
Each month,
one lucky newsletter subscriber will be our raffle winner and will
receive free IDW releases from that month. Our March winner will
receive a copy of Doctor Who, Vol. 1:
Fugitive.
Congratulations to our February winner: Daniel W., who won a copy of From the Ashes TP Vol 01, Bob Fingerman's memoir, set in a post-acocalptic and nuclear ravaged New York City.
Inner Monologue
My name is Lorelei Bunjes,
I'm the Director of Digital Services here at IDW, and I have a
secret: the Siege Perilous is in my office. It's in the corner
behind an industrial rack of old computers. Honestly, it's not very
impressive looking and I have to stay on guard to prevent IDW staff
from accidently sitting on it. I'm not certain as to how it got
there, but there it is.
For a long time I didn't know what to do with it either until one
day I absentmindedly dropped a stack of comics on top of it. Upon
contact, they vaporized into a startlingly cloud of brimstone but
at that exact moment psarc files appeared on my desktop and that's
when I knew what I was to do with the ancient device, make digital
comics for the Sony PSP!
Now, please don't think that it's simple or safe, the Siege
Perilous is fatal to anyone not worthy of it and as such I have to
toss comics onto it from across the room. Sometimes I miss, leaving
half burnt comics and incomplete digital files all over the place
and I'm forced to send interns in dangerously close to clean up the
mess. It's especially hazardous when adding audio tracks of the
creators to the digital comics as we must strap fellows like Ben
Templesmith and Joe Hill into a harness and dangle them just above
the Siege Perilous allowing their brimstone induced glossolalia to
be transfigured to an audio commentary. The risk that one of the
interns holding the ropes will lose their grip and the creator
plummets to their death is fairly significant, thus I'm beyond
impressed that these guys are willing to do this to give fans that
extra bit of content.
So next time you're reading a comic on the PSP or listening to a
creator commentary think of the danger the creators place
themselves in and the handful of IDW interns lost to the Siege
Perilous over the past year and know that we wouldn't make digital
comics any other way.
Complete List of March Releases
March 3rd
Angel Omnibus- 2nd printing!
Angel: ATF Vol. 1 HC- 3rd printing!
Belladonna TPB
Doctor Who: Forgotten TPB - 2nd printing
Rocketeer Deluxe HC Edition
Sam
Sketchbook Vol. 1
Star
Trek: Spock Reflections TPB - 2nd printing!
Starstruck #7
March 10th
A-Team: Shotgun Wedding #1
Angel: A Hole in the
World #4
Doctor Who: Classics Vol. 5 TPB
Doctor Who, Volume 1: Fugitive
Ghoul #3
G.I JOE: Origins #13
G.I JOE Origins Vol. 2 TPB
Grim Jack Omnibus
Jennifer Love Hewitt's Music Box #4
Locke & Key: Head Games Vol. 2 HC- 2nd
printing!
Milt Gross HC
Star
Trek: Alien Spotlight Vol. 2 TPB
TRANSFORMERS: Best of UK Prey TPB
TRANSFORMERS: Bumblebee #4
Weekly World News #3
Zombies Vs. Robots Aventure #2
March 17th
A-Team: War Stories: Hannibal
Angel
#31
Army of Two #3
Doctor Who: Ongoing #9
Doctor Who: Classics Series II #1
G.I. JOE: Operation HISS #2
Krazy & Ignatz: Tiger Tea HC
Last Resort TPB
Locke & Key: Crown of Shadows #4
Star
Trek: Movie Adaptation #2
TRANSFORMERS: Movie Collection Vol. 1 HC
TRANSFORMERS: Nefarious #1
Zombies Vs. Robots Complete TPB- 2nd printing!
March 24th
A-Team: Shotgun Wedding #2
Angel: Special Lorne
G.I. JOE #16
G.I. JOE Classic Vol. 6 TPB- 2nd printing!
Song of Saya #2
Sparrow #15 Pushead HC
Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fool's Gold #4
Tank Girl: Royal Escape #1
TRANSFORMERS: Last Stand of the WRECKERS #3
March 31st
A-team: War Stories: B.A.
Bible Eden
Dragon Age #1
Eternal Descent #1
EZ Street TPB
G.I. JOE: Cobra II #3
Star Trek:
The Next Generation: Ghosts #5
TRANSFORMERS #5
IDW Website
The Last
Unicorn Launches at WonderCon
This April,
It's Time to Kill Shakespeare!
IDW Launches
Star Trek Movie Adaptation Comic
King Aroo
Volume One now presiding over a store near you
Ryall Time
The
Joe Hill Horns-book
Making comics with James Patterson
Things to do
Belladonna signings!
Golden
Apple, LA, March 3, 7 pm
Meltdown,
LA, March 10
Hi De Ho,
Santa Monica, March 17
From the Ashes signing!
Meltdown,
LA, March 6
San Diego
Quarterly Convention!
Sunday, March 7
