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August 18, 2018
Exclusive Preview: SUICIDE SQUAD ANNUAL #1
Monkeys Fighting Robots has an Exclusive Preview of SUICIDE SQUAD ANNUAL #1
If you want to see a preview of my scary-as-Hell, bloody-as-Hell, lives-up-to-the-name SUICIDE SQUAD annual check out this link!
August 16, 2018
WITCH HAMMER from Aftershock Comics!
Today’s big announcement! From the official press release–
AfterShock Comics has announced Witch Hammer, a new original graphic novel from writer Cullen Bunn and artist Dalibor Talajic, the first in a new line of OGNs from the publisher.
Witch Hammer tells the story of two agents drawn into a murder mystery when someone starts killing witches. It will consist of 64 pages.
“Witch Hammer is a different kind of horror story,” said Bunn. “In this original graphic album, we are thrown headlong into a dark and bloody mystery. Someone is hunting people down, murdering them in cold blood. The connection between the victims–they are all practitioners of witchcraft. The killer is a terrifying figure–armed to the teeth and wearing a ghastly goat mask–and he is made all the more frightening and more dangerous by one simple fact. He believes in what he is doing. Emboldened by the awful power of conviction, he is on a one-man crusade. He is pursued by a group of federal investigators hellbent on stopping his killing spree. These investigators, though, are faced with a dreadful conundrum of their own. What if the victims actually are in league with demonic forces?”
“This is a bloody, violent, frightening thriller, and I can’t wait to hear what readers think about it,” he continued. “On the surface, the story is fairly straightforward–a murderer is at work and must be stopped–but I think this book will challenge readers. Who are the heroes? The villains? The victims? The answers will change as the story progresses.”
Here’s the full solicitation for the OGN, available November 28:
WITCH HAMMER
$19.99 / 64 pages / Color / on sale 11.28.18
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Dalibor Talajic
Colorist: Seb Camagajevac
Letterer: Marshall Dillon
Cover: Dalibor Talajic
Witch. The word conjures images of hags in black robes and crooked hats, standing over cauldrons of bubbling brew. But witches are among us, and we do not realize it. They are our friends and neighbors. They are our family members. They are our idols.
And someone is murdering them.
Agents Frontenac and Guinness are on the killer’s trail. But as they delve deeper into the hidden, magical world around them, they are haunted by a terrifying question. Is the killer doing the right thing?
Presenting the first in a unique collection of compelling stories crafted by master storytellers and told in the way they were meant to be told.
August 10, 2018
Variant covers for REGRESSION and COLD SPOTS support CBLDF!
This September, Image Comics fights censorship with a powerful line of variant covers to benefit Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), the industry’s voice for free speech advocacy and education. All proceeds from this dynamic campaign will support CBLDF’s important legal work on behalf of comics creators, retailers, educators and readers. All proceeds from this campaign will benefit CBLDF, with each title featuring two versions of the CBLDF Charity variant—one censored and one uncensored.
You can learn more at this link.
August 9, 2018
Final order cutoff for ASGARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1
FINAL ORDER CUTOFFS
Monday is the Final order cutoff for ASGARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #1.
Spinning out of the events of INFINITY WARS comes an epic space opera from DEADPOOL veterans Cullen Bunn and Matteo Lolli!
Angela, the not-so-beloved half-sister of Thor. The hotheaded Valkyrie – and the human who shares her form, Annabelle Riggs. Skurge the Executioner, freshly returned from Hel. Throg, the mightiest frog of thunder. Kevin Masterson, the boy who took his father’s mace to become the hero Thunderstrike. And the Destroyer, the Asgardian armor built to take down Celestials – its wielder unknown. The events of INFINITY WARS set NEBULA off on a quest to rule the galaxy – wielding an Asgardian weapon even Thor would fear – and it’s up to this team of gods, assassins, frogs and heroes to stop her. Rated T+ In Shops: Sep 05, 2018
This is an exciting adventure comic, the story of Asgardian heroes traveling the cosmos. It’s a crazy cast of misfits! Many of your favorite cosmic characters will also be appearing in the series, and the name of the game will be fun and excitement. I know how tough it is to launch a new comic book these days, and I’d love to be able to tell a good, long story with this book. Pre-orders for books like this are vital! Comic book retailers will use pre-orders to gauge interest in the book and make estimates of what to stock in the shelves. So, please call your local comic book shop and ask them to pre-order the book and add the series to your pull-and-hold list!
The order code is JUL180980
August 3, 2018
COLD SPOTS : MFR interview with Cullen Bunn And Mark Torres
Check out this sit down with the Monkeys Fighting Robots and learn all sorts of behind the scenes information, influences, and secrets on the new comic project COLD SPOTS!
Check it out at the link!
July 31, 2018
SYFYWIRE : HARROW COUNTY interview with Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook
Tyler Crook and I sit down with SYFYWIRE to talk about bringing HARROW COUNTY to a close. Check out the video at this link.
July 26, 2018
“Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Micronauts, Dark Ark) and Jo...
“Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, Micronauts, Dark Ark) and Jonas Scharf’s(War for the Planet of the Apes) necromantic horror series, Bone Parish, from Boom! Studios has garnered stellar reviews and comments from its first unsettling issue which invades comic shops today, July 25.
This supernatural cautionary tale set in steamy New Orleans was just picked up for a full 12-issue series, furthering the disturbing tale of the Winters family and their radical best-selling drug called The Ash, an addictive hallucinatory powder concocted from the powdered remains of dead people.
The second issue arrives August 29, injected with more nightmarish trips and deadly secrets that will have you hooked with its immersive gothic terror and disturbing examinations of human nature. This is by far one of the most engaging comic titles of the summer and comes highly recommended!”
Read more of this EXTREMELY SPOILERY Article over at SYFYWIRE
Excerpt from article by Jeff Spry
July 20, 2018
Dennis Hopeless and I are embarking on a video channel pr...
Dennis Hopeless and I are embarking on a video channel project where we talk about comic books and the freelancer life! Check it out, like the video, and subscribe! Also, please feel free to spread the word!
We’re new to this, and we’re gonna be getting better (I hope) as we go along. At some point, though, we just had to pull the trigger!
Here it is–MISSOURI SWAGGER!
July 9, 2018
MY FAVORITE CULLEN BUNN DEADPOOL STORIES
“Everyone!!!!”
–Norma Stansfield, LEON: THE PROFESSIONAL
You know… I see lists of ranked comics all the time… “The 10 Best Avengers Stories”… “The 25 Most Important X-Men Stories”… “The Most Terrible Magnus: Robot Fighter Stories, Ranked Bad to Worst”! And I tend to hate those lists. Just never cared for them at all because they are all so subjective and typically there’s little thought put into them.
Also… there are no bad Robot Fighter stories.
He fights ROBOTS, people! With karate chops!
But now that DEADPOOL: ASSASSIN is coming out, I thought I’d rank all my Deadpool stories. Keep in mind, I like them all! But I have favorites among all my beautiful little children. Most of the time, it all boils down to how much fun I was having while working on the title.
Please note that I’m not counting stories that were not primarily Deadpool-related, such as VENOMVERSE, or short stories like “Armed and Dangerous” which appeared in issues of Deadpool, but were not Deadpool stories.
So here we go!
14) DEADPOOL AND THE MERCS FOR MONEY – I’m lumping the original mini and the ongoing in here together. This might have ranked much higher if I had been able to stick with the book and finish the bigger story I wanted to tell. Ah, well! It had Gorilla Man and Hit-Monkey! So, that was awesome!
13) DEADPOOL VS. CARNAGE – This was a fun free-for-all. I enjoyed connecting Deadpool and Carnage’s craziness. I would have loved to do more with the composite symbiote that Deadpool used in this story.
12) “SHOW AND RAISE HELL” – The second Deadpool tale I wrote, this one featuring Kid Deadpool and Dogpool riding around in a giant robot. The robot, Jet Falcion, was intended to be Red Ronin, but apparently there was some legal mumbo jumbo that prevented that.
11) “MOUTH OF THE BORDER” – My first Deadpool short story! A tale of chupacabras and Twilight references. Short, but I liked it!
10) DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL – The end of the “Killogy” of Deadpool stories presented in DEADPOOL KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE and DEADPOOL KILLUSTRATED. I wanted to take those stories (so obviously alternate universe tales) and make them “important” by throwing the Deadpool from OUR continuity into the mix. I killed the Deadpool Corps here, too, although I had designs to bring them back at some point down the road.
9) RETURN OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL – Where NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL was tied to horror movies, this one is influenced heavily by PLANET OF THE APES. What’s not to love?
8) DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #888 – A single issue, featuring Deadpool and Ben Grimm at a wrestling match. I wanted to write Ben Grimm because of all the old MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE stories I loved. And wrestling… well… I just wanted to showcase my love of professional wrestling. A lot of people said I stole this story from an episode of DEXTER’S LAB. Wrong. I stole it from a MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE Annual… which was the inspiration for that DEXTER’S LAB episode.
7) DEADPOOL KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE… AGAIN – A shameless cash grab? Let me explain something to you. ALL comics are cash grabs! They are published to sell. They are sold when your cash is grabbed. Anyhow. I loved this book. It’s not quite as dark as the original, but it was fun trying to place this in the continuity of a different comic book story. Go read it to figure out what I’m talking about!
6) DEADPOOL: BACK IN BLACK – A sequel to DEADPOOL’S SECRET SECRET WARS, showing us that, once again, Deadpool is tied up with the origin of the Venom symbiote. I loved being able to play around in the 80s. Obnoxio the Clown! Power Pack! Kraven (who might have been influenced by Deadpool for Kraven’s Last Hunt). So much fun!
5) DEADPOOL’S SECRET SECRET WARS – After the success of DEADPOOL KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE, this was the story I pitched as a sequel. Deadpool was always part of the 1984 SECRET WARS series. We just don’t remember him. It ended up being published later, and I loved revisiting the original series and making it work. I also love the debate around it. Was this in-continuity? The answer is—YES—and that means the origin of Venom is changed forever!
4) DEADPOOL KILLUSTRATED – The weirdest book in my Deadpool library! In this series, Deadpool kills the icons of literature! This is a story that could ONLY be told with Deadpool as the lead. It also introduced the Literature Avengers, a team of characters I had plans for in the future… but it just didn’t play out.
3) DEADPOOL: ASSASSIN – My latest… possibly my last… Deadpool work. I am very proud of this series. I love the way this story plays out. It’s Deadpool for those who love Deadpool… and for those who hate Deadpool. It’s a grounded story. The Marvel Universe is the background. And it has ramifications on the world at large. There’s a weird backstory to this book. I’ll probably never share it. But I’m glad folks get to read this book. If it is my last, I’m proud of the way I went out.
2) DEADPOOL KILLS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE – My first full-length Deadpool series. And—by far—the best seller. Also… the most violent and dark. I wonder if there is a correlation?
1) NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEADPOOL – Hands down my favorite! I love the use of color in the series. I love that I was able to bring in all these great horror tropes in a Deadpool story. The book was just so much fun to write.
There you have it. Something like 58 issues, plus a couple of short stories. That’s not a bad run. How does my list of favorites compare to yours? DEADPOOL: ASSASIN #3 comes out this week, and all the other stories have been collected in trades! You can order them from your favorite comic book shop! And IF you’d like to see me do some more Deadpool stuff, all you have to do is let the powers that be at Marvel know!
July 3, 2018
METRO – Final Days of the Kickstarter
We’re are closing in on the end of the campaign. Your support has been overwhelming and we are so deeply grateful for it. If you pledged at a lower level, you might want to consider upping your pledge amount now if you want access to the podcast!
Now that we’ve passed the $100k mark, we are adding a few more stretch goals to the project for the final week!
$125,000 – Graphic Novel Foreword
When we reach this stretch goal, Cullen will write a foreword that will be added to the graphic novel.
$140,000 – Graphic Novel Afterword
When we reach this stretch goal, Brian will write a afterword that will be added to the graphic novel.
$155,000 – Additional Prints
When we reach this stretch goal, we will add three more prints to the Metro print set!
And if we reach those goals… who knows what we’ll add to the project next!
