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Published on September 21, 2023 12:30

ANNOUNCEMENT: 'MASTERPIECE' WITH ALEX MALEEV, COMING THIS DECEMBER!

As just announced by way of The Hollywood Reporter, BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS and ALEX MALEEV, the creative team behind SCARLET and several Marvel masterpieces (Daredevil, Moon Kinight), are teaming up with DARK HORSE COMICS once again to bring readers an all-new crime saga starting THIS DECEMBER…

MASTERPIECE

MASTERPIECE #1 (0F 6) - COVER A by: ALEX MALEEV

Check out the official press release from our friends at DARK HORSE and variant covers from TULA LOTAY and PEACH MOMOKO:

MILWAUKIE, Ore., (09/20)— Dark Horse Comics and Jinxworld present MASTERPIECE , a new action/adventure comic series from Eisner Award-winning creators BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS ( The Ones , Scarlet ) and ALEX MALEEV ( Scarlet , Daredevil ). Bendis will write the new series with Maleev illustrating. IAN HERRING joins the team as colorist with JOSH REED as letterer. Joining the team for the first issue are variant cover artists TULA LOTAY (Barnstormers) and PEACH MOMOKO (Demon Wars, The Immortal Thor, Marvel Zombies), with Momoko’s cover as a 1:10 incentive variant for comics retailers.

Emma, aka “Masterpiece,” is a brilliant and driven 16-year-old. She has paid for school with her next level inventions and is well-known for her funny and honest webcomics. Then, one day, Zero Preston, one of the most famous billionaires on the planet, confronts her with the truth about her world. Emma discovers she is the only daughter of two of the greatest, most charismatic master criminals of all time. Her parents were the authors of the greatest casino robbery of all time, the greatest museum heist of all time,AND they took Preston for a cool billion... before they disappeared never to be seen or heard from again.

Zero Preston has been looking for payback for years since then and now he finds Emma... who clearly does not have his money. Instead, Zero threatens Masterpiece into pulling a grand, impossible job against his corporate enemy and, in order to pull off one of the greatest heists of all time, Masterpiece fashions a crew of her peers and her parents’ old associates.

Masterpiece is perfect for fans of Miles Morales, Legion of Superheroes , and Akira .

Masterpiece #1 (of 6), breaks into comic shops on December 13, 2023. It is now available to pre-order for $3.99 at your local comic shop.

Be sure to follow Dark Horse Comics on social media and check our website, www.darkhorse.com, for more news, announcements, and updates!

MASTERPIECE #1 (OF 6) - COVER B by: TULA LOTAY

MASTERPIECE #1 (of 6) - COVER C by: PEACH MOMOKO (1:10 Incentive)

We are so excited about this new book and can’t wait to share more— which is why we won’t be waiting to share more! Take a look at this two page teaser from MASTERPIECE #1:

Masterpiece #1 (of 6) hits stands on DECEMBER 13th, 2023! You can PRE-ORDER the book NOW from your LOCAL COMIC SHOP, and from your favorite digital retailers very soon.

Stay tuned to this space for more details and sneak peeks at the series as we get closer to the release. If you aren’t SUBSCRIBED to this newsletter, now seems like the perfect time to join us!

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Until then—

Endless thanks,

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, ALEX MALEEV, IAN HERRING, JOSH REED, and THE JINXWORLD TEAM

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Published on September 20, 2023 13:12

BENDIS IN BALTIMORE!

Hello, friends!

As we head into the weekend here, we wanted to remind you all that Bendis will be in attendance at BALTIMORE COMIC-CON this weekend!

Take a look at this special message from Brian:

You can find Bendis at BOOTH 2515 (where he will be signing any and all books you’d like signed) this weekend! Plus, check out his full listing for BCC on their official website, and the slew of panels and programming he will be a part of this weekend below!

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS PANELS AND PROGRAMMING:

CRAFTING FICTIONAL WORLDS
Friday September 8, 2023 | 3:00 pm to 3:45 pm | Room: 339-342
Environment is an important element of storytelling. Comics, TV, and games use it all the time – but it’s easy to let the details of your world distract from your story. Whether it’s a science fiction/fantasy setting or a real-life location, learn how to make your world come to life without losing the reader. Join Trevor Mueller (Albert the Alien, Aw Yeah Comics ), Phillip Kennedy Johnson (The Last God, Superman, 007), Katie Cook (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Adventure Time), and Brian Michael Bendis (Jinxworld, Miles Morales, Avengers, Powers).

GETTING INTO CHARACTER(S)
Friday September 8, 2023 | 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm | Room: 339-342
Comic creators will talk about the craft of working on existing characters. How do they approach the task while maintaining the appeal of the character and keeping it fresh? Guests: Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Ron Marz, Tom King, David Pepose, Torunn Gronbekk, and Brian Michael Bendis. Hosted by Bob Harrison.

ACME COMICS VS. BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Saturday September 9, 2023 | 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm | Room: 337
Join Jermaine “Lord Retail” Exum (Manager of the Award-winning comic shop Acme Comics in Greensboro, NC) and Brian Michael Bendis (Jinxworld, Miles Morales, Avengers, Powers) for big time discussions on all things comic books while co-hosting an AcmeCast podcast and Jinxworld podcast live! Be part of the fun and a surprise giveaway!

MERRY MARCHIN’ MUTANT MAKERS
Saturday September 9, 2023 | 2:00 pm to 2:45 pm | Room: 343-344
Marvel’s merry mutants have risen and fallen, been hunted and celebrated, and captivated audiences for over 60 years. Join Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Waid, Walter Simonson, Louise Simonson, Bob McLeod, Philip Tan, and Bob Wiacek in discussion with moderator Robert Greenberger.

WRITING TIPS FOR COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS
Sunday September 10, 2023 | 12:00 pm to 12:45 pm | Room: 339-342
Comics are written very differently from other media. Learn the ins and outs of this unique storytelling medium and how to make your stories come to life!

Trevor Mueller hosts a Q&A session with comic writers – including Brian Michael Bendis, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, and Amy Chu among others – to talk about their process for writing comics, finding creator partners/collaborators, pacing, writing for long vs. short form stories, etc.

See everyone in Baltimore!

-BENDIS and The JINXWORLD Team

PURCHASE A PHYSICAL COPY FROM TFAW

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Published on September 07, 2023 12:00

CELEBRATING THE ONES! + GIVEAWAY!

OUR CELEBRATION OF THE ONES VOL. 1 CONTINUES!

We’re going to compile all the fun stuff we’ve been sharing about this book that we love so much in one convenient post for you all. PLUS, read on to find out how YOU could win a free copy of THE ONES VOL. 1, courtesy of our friends at DARK HORSE COMICS!

JACOB EDGAR JOINS THE MASTERCLASS!

It all started with SESSION #18 of our JINXWORLD MASTERCLASS, which covered the broad topic of IDEAS, featuring a special guest lecturer: co-creator and artist of THE ONES, JACOB EDGAR!

ALL subscribers can enjoy this free preview of the class:

Meanwhile, POWERS and PHENOMENA level subscribers can check out the full, nearly 2-hour conversation between Jacob and Brian in the MASTERCLASS ARCHIVE:

DOWNLOAD THE ONES #1… FOR FREE!

Then, a couple weeks ago, we celebrated a very Bendis Birthday with a special surprise for ALL Jinxworld subscribers: A FREE DIGITAL EDITON OF THE ONES #1. Again, we love this book so much, we want nothing more than to share it with the thousands of you subscribed to this newsletter.

If you missed that post, you can find download links to both .CBZ and .PDF copies of THE ONES #1 below.

The Ones #153.7MB ∙ PDF fileDownload DownloadThe Ones #122MB ∙ CBZ fileRead now Read nowTALKING THE ONES ON WORD BALLON!

An ALL-NEW installment of Word Ballon’s THE BENDIS TAPES was streamed live last week! In the episode, Bendis and host JOHN SIUNTRES spend over two hours chatting about THE ONES, PHENOMENA, and more. Check out the full stream and links to listen on podcast apps below:

[PART 1 ON APPLE PODCASTS] [PART 2 ON APPLE PODCASTS]

[PART 1 ON SPOTIFY] [PART 2 ON SPOTIFY]

WIN A FREE COPY OF THE ONES VOL. 1!

Okay, now for some really cool new stuff. Our friends at DARK HORSE COMICS have come up with a great contest that YOU could enter for a chance to win a THE ONES PRIZE PACK, which will include a FREE, physical copy of the BRAND-NEW THE ONES VOL. 1 TPB and other extra prizes! All you have to do is show us how YOU are one of “The Ones.”

Check out all the details from Dark Horse’s official blog post below:

Celebrate the release of the superhero graphic novel The Ones Volume 1 by Brian Michael Bendis and Jacob Edgar by sharing your own “hero” with a unique, nonsensical power!

In The Ones: Every single person in every mythology who was told they were THE ONE must come together for the first time to defeat... THE ONE. The actual one. The real, actual one.

Join forces with the team by sharing your own version of how you are “the one” by adding a superpower to your ordinary, day-to-day life. Whether it be the ability to endlessly nap, navigate rush hour traffic without road rage, or calculate the exact cost of the six coffees your co-workers asked you to pick up.

We want to see what you come up with! Share your own art or photo in response to our Instagram, The Ones prize pack including The Ones paperback collection, several new graphic novels from Jinxworld and Dark Horse, and more Dark Horse goodies. Two additional winners will each receive a copy of The Ones TPB.

How to Enter:
On Instagram, share a photo or artwork of yourself, or your character, with a description of your superpower. Tag @DarkHorseComics, and include the hashtag #iamtheone. Entries must be publicly visible and must be posted by 10:00 pm Pacific time on September 8, 2023. Limit one entry per person/account.

One grand prize winner and two runners-up will be randomly drawn from eligible entries. The winners will be notified by September 11, 2023.

Again, this contest starts TODAY (9/1) and will close in ONE WEEK (9/8 at 10pm PST).

We can’t wait to see what you guys come up with and we certainly plan on sharing some of our favorites here in the newsletter. *And be sure to check Dark Horses official post, linked [HERE], for all the contest rules and disclaimers.*

BUY THE ONES VOL. 1!

But hey, if contests aren’t really your thing or you just need to read this book RIGHT NOW, we understand. The good news is that THE ONES VOL. 1 is available for purchase!

If you’d like to pick up a copy, we highly suggest stopping by and supporting your LOCAL COMIC SHOP. Otherwise, feel free to use the links below for your preferred means of purchase, including digital:

PURCHASE A DIGITAL COPY

PURCHASE FROM BARNES & NOBLE

PURCHASE ON AMAZON/KINDLE

And that’s everything! As we have teased over the past couple weeks, Bendis and Edgar are hard at work on VOLUME 2 of THE ONES We promise you will want to be all caught up when that drops, and we think the TPB collection of VOLUME 1 is just the way to do that.

Tune back in to this space NEXT WEEK for more from JINXWORLD!

Endless thanks,

Brian Michael Bendis and The JINXWORLD Team

[PRE-ORDER PHENOMENA: BOOK 2 ON ABRAMS’ OFFICIAL WEBSITE]

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Published on September 02, 2023 12:00

FORTUNE AND GLORY: THE MUSICAL! CHAPTER 9!

Hello! Welcome! We’re pleased to present you with another ALL-NEW chapter of…

AN INTRO TO FORTUNE AND GLORY: THE MUSICAL FROM BENDIS…

Fortune and Glory was a graphic novel I did years ago, pre-Marvel, about my first adventures in Hollywood as a young independent comic book creator. It was one of the books that got me where I am. I always wanted to do a sequel. Many of you have asked for one over the years. I loved doing an autobiographical comic book. I always thought I would do another one, or a bunch of them, but Spider-Man kept getting in the way. :-)

But really, I never thought I would have stories crazier than the ones I told in the original Fortune and Glory. Everything happening to me in comics was fun and fun to talk about, but was it autobiography-worthy? Then I got called to be the writer of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a now notorious, infamous Broadway musical that you can Google about right now. The story I'm about to tell you happened years before the show’s debut. Only my closest pals knew any of this happened at the time. I’ve only hinted at parts of this in past interviews. Now, it gives me a GREAT excuse to go down memory lane and share my favorite moments of coming up in comics with you.

A lot of the stories in this GN mean everything to me. They are the most defining moments in my life. A lot of them happened before the Internet, so there's not a lot of archive about this time in our lives and in comics. I know a lot of people reading these newsletters are creators and writers themselves. I hope my journey, and my pain, brings you some personal solace. If anyone reading this had anything to do with Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, I hope reading this brings you some peace knowing that someone somewhere was trying to stop it from happening years prior.

This part of our newsletter will come out weekly for the first couple of weeks, and then we're going to shift to biweekly to make room for Creation. and the Masterclass which we have been doing all year. If you've just hopped on to check out Fortune and Glory, I am very excited to tell you that by subscribing, you are also getting access to all our Jinxworld material, including our Masterclass, which is now eight classes deep— 16+ hours of some of the best conversation I've ever put on record. You also have access to multiple chapters of Creation, our ongoing multimedia look at the messy art of creating things from scratch. Feel free to look around Jinxworld on Substack. We are very, very happy with this space and we love sharing it with you.

If you haven’t read the previous chapters, you can find them in our ARCHIVE, or the most recent one below:

Installments of the all-new graphic novel Fortune and Glory: The Musical are released in multiple formats! Find the next chapter in both .cbz and .pdf formats further down!

For those that prefer to read their Substack exclusive books right here in the newsletter, we’re happy to provide the pages below! However, we highly encourage downloading the files for the best reading experience.

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Published on August 31, 2023 17:00

CREATION. CHAPTER 4 - SECRET INVASION! PART 2: ON CROSSOVERS (+UPDATES!)

FIRST, THIS…

As we discussed over on the Jinxworld Discord server, there is no MASTERCLASS tonight. In fact, we’re going to be switching it up over the next few weeks for class. The next few classes won't be live. Brian will be recording some material with people as he hits the road. Folks can look forward to hearing a recording of his panel at Baltimore Con and some crossover content with a Mr. Matthew Rosenberg. Be sure to check him out over at ASHCAN PRESS to stay in the loop on all that!

What else? Oh! Just a couple weeks ago, we here at JINXWORLD celebrated Brian’s birthday with a special surprise for ALL OF YOU: We dropped a digital edition of THE ONES #1 in it’s entirety! Haven’t checked it out yet? Jump over to the post linked below to claim your copy:

Also, we wanted to bring something very exciting to your attention…

PHENOMENA: BOOK 2- MATILDE’S QUEST is officially available to PRE-ORDER!

This beautiful hardcover is currently set to release from our friends at Abrams Books on APRIL 23rd, 2024. We are so thrilled with how this has turned out and we cannot wait for you to read it. Stay tuned to this space and Andre’s Substack for more details.

Okay! Now onto…

Welcome back to another ALL-NEW chapter of our ongoing multimedia book CREATION. This is an in-depth look at the mysterious, messy art of creation through exclusive behind-the-scenes looks into how many of your favorite characters and storylines from Marvel, DC, and our creator-owned JINXWORLD endeavors came to be!

If you are on your own creative journey and, like me, need the inspiration of others’ trials, tribulations and anecdotes for inspiration... Or you’re just someone who loves colorful looks behind the scenes, this new book experience, created specifically for Substack, is for you.

If you missed our previous episodes you can find them in the ARCHIVE or our most recent one right here:

Hey look! It’s this week’s installment!

CHAPTER 4 - SECRET INVASION! PART 2: ON CROSSOVERS

BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS dives into the nature of crossovers and how the popularity of these events led to a big shift for Secret Invasion.

All are welcome to check out this free preview, while our friends at the POWERS and PHENOMENA levels can find the full episode, in various formats, further down!

*NOTE for our AUDIO and TRANSCRIPT fans*: Some episodes contain BTS photos and video. If you’d like to see those, give the VIDEO version a try this week!

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Published on August 29, 2023 18:00

MASTERCLASS - SESSION #18: IDEAS ft. SPECIAL GUEST JACOB EDGAR! [ARCHIVE]

Hello once again, everyone!

This week, we were thrilled to welcome another special guest to the Masterclass: JACOB EDGAR, artist and co-creator of THE ONES! In this installment, we take you behind-the-scenes on how we found our new collaboration and are continuing to develop new ideas in the book. It’s a class about developing and designing something that is freshly published!

Classes take place LIVE on a bi-monthly basis, every other TUESDAY, at 6:00pm PST via Zoom. Video and audio versions of the class are then made available in the following couple days for those who were unable to join us live.

Remember that all classes and CREATION. chapters are available now in the archive. Take a look!

Plus, the original graphic novel FORTUNE AND GLORY: THE MUSICAL has BEGUN! Here, only on Substack!

Here’s a preview of this week’s class for our friends at the JINX (free) LEVEL:

The rest of this and every class is nearly two hours long! And for those who missed our previous class, you can find the archived version in this post:

POWERS and PHENOMENON LEVEL subscribers can find both the archival video and audio recording of yesterday’s class below!

[*NOTE*: Some classes do have visual aids. When you reach one of those moments in the audio version, we suggest just making a note of the timestamp and hopping over to the same point in the video version for the best experience.]

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Published on August 21, 2023 15:00

MY BIRTHDAY! YOUR PRESENT!

Hi everyone.

So today is my birthday. But I'm at that age where not every birthday is of equal value so don't worry about it, but I did want to take this opportunity to show my gratitude for another wonderful year of making comics for you.

My amazing partners at DARK HORSE thought what better way than to just give you a free comic.

Here is a free copy of the now critically-acclaimed, new series THE ONES. The whole first issue, for FREE! Just to say thank you. Just to let you know we really think you would like this. We really love it and we really think you will too. It’s a present from us.

No strings attached.

Well, other than the fact that the entire first collection of THE ONES will be in stores NEXT WEDNESDAY, 8/23!

THE ONES VOLUME 1 TPB

From the writer who brought you Marvel's Illuminati , New Avengers , Uncanny X-Men , comes the next, best awesome super team to end all super teams& THE ONES!

Every single person in every mythology that was told they were THE ONE are brought together for the first time to defeat.... THE ONE. The actual one. The real actual one.

This amazing new vision is brought to life by wunderkind artist and co-creator Jacob Edgar (Batman, Army of Darkness). Watch as he brings explosive comics splendor to this big new world! Think Good Omens meets Ghostbusters meets The Adam Project meets The Goonies meets Everything Everywhere All at Once meets, um, anything else you've ever liked!

And it has been medically proven if you read this issue, you will be overwhelmed with the desire to PRE-ORDER THE TRADE PAPERBACK and/or call your LOCAL COMIC SHOP and demand that they carry thousands of copies.

PRE-ORDER A PHYSICAL COPY

PRE-ORDER A DIGITAL COPY

PRE-ORDER ON BARNES & NOBLE

PRE-ORDER ON AMAZON

Enjoy the comic. You can pick from either .CBZ or .PDF below!

The Ones #153.7MB ∙ PDF fileDownload DownloadThe Ones #122MB ∙ CBZ fileRead now Read now

PLUS, here’s a little peek at how we made THE ONES! Check out the preview for MASTERCLASS: SESSION #18, where we were joined by my wonderful collaborator, co-creator and artist on THE ONES, JACOB EDGAR!

(POWERS and PHENOMENA LEVEL subscribers can look forward to the full session dropping in the MASTERCLASS ARCHIVE very soon.)

For those who have already read the first series— thank you. Enjoy this free look behind what went into it, and know we are hard at work on the second series!

Again, to all, THANK YOU.

-BENDIS!