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Prepare For Sonic Frontiers With These Prelude Stories

Prepare For Sonic Frontiers With These Prelude Stories

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Sonic Frontiers, the first real new Sonic game in years, is about to hit all consoles. The story of your average Sonic title is rarely that deep, and with the open-world gameplay this new title promises, the narrative will likely be lighter than ever…but it never hurts to get ahead. Two prologue stories to the game have been released by Sega that are free to enjoy. Sonic Frontiers Prologue: Divergence is a six-minute short written by Ian Flynn and directed by Tyson Hesse, two Sonic fans who became real-life gatekeepers of Sonic stories, much like Knuckles guards the Master Emerald. They’ve dome a great job of it too, as this short alone proves. By the way, Sega is currently searching for a “Lore Associate Manager” who would be in charge of the series’ storylines and what is canon. Why do they need to look for this person? I mean….come on. It should be obvious. They’re right there! For as long as he can remember, Knuckles has preferred to operate on

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin Hits Bestseller List

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin Hits Bestseller List

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In 1987, Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird cooked up an interesting idea for a Ninja Turtles comic, The Last Ronin. For unknown reasons, however, they never got around to turning the script into a book. Decades later, IDW decided to resurrect the lost story and print it in the form of five trade-format volumes. The Last Ronin was concluded with #5 last April and more recently, IDW published the complete story in one hardcover volume. And people want it! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin is one of the hottest selling titles IDW has had in quite a while. It’s on the New York Times bestseller list. They’re now predicting a complete sell-out of the initial 60,000 print run and have now ordered an additional 100,000 copies for the marketplace. TMNT: The Last Ronin takes place in a dark alternate future where one solitary Turtle — the last of his kind — goes on a quest for vengeance against those who have taken his family and friends. The comic

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors—All Hail The King! Announced By IDW

Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors—All Hail The King! Announced By IDW

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Godzilla has had a comic book presence for decades, but under IDW’s licensor-ship, he’s mostly been socking around other IPs in crossover specials. But he DOES get his own solo adventures from time to time, and another one is coming up. IDW’s newest Godzilla book is a sequel to Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors, a series released in 2021. There, Godzilla gained a new friend: a web influencer named Cedric. Cedric was only too happy to hang around with the big lizard because he happened to boost Cedric’s views up quite a bit, but it eventually became a true friendship. So now as this new series opens, Cedric is dismayed when Godzilla disappears and can’t be found. There aren’t a lot of places a creature that large can hide! The sequel series, called Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors—All Hail The King!, will boast the same creative team: writer Erik Burnham, illustrator Dan Schoening, and colorist Luis Antonio Delgado. “I’m so excited to get back into the Monsters & Protectors corner of the

IDW’s Star Trek #1 Goes Where No One’s Gone Before

IDW’s Star Trek #1 Goes Where No One’s Gone Before

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IDW has had the Star Trek license for a while, but for the most part they have based their stories on pre-existing variants of Trek, sticking to Kirk, Picard, and whoever else has served as captain of the bridge. But since there’s no shortage of official Trek shows these days, they’re gonna have to do something special to stand out. Introducing the all-new Star Trek #1, the first in an ongoing series with a brand-new, never-before-seen* crew. Note the asterisk. Though this crew is original, it’s actually made up of Trek characters from across all eras of the franchise. How’d that happen, exactly? IDW isn’t spilling that secret just yet. just know the galaxy is facing an apocalyptic scenario that necessitates this sort of thing. “Star Trek #1 weaves an epic and unprecedented adventure story that spans the far reaches of the Star Trek multiverse, bringing together characters from across the galaxy—and all eras and variations of the beloved franchise—who must band together to prevent the mysterious murder of the

IDW Announces Tails 30th Anniversary Special

IDW Announces Tails 30th Anniversary Special

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Sonic got a gigantic celebratory party when he turned 30 last year, as everyone expected he would. His faithful sidekick, however, was introduced a year later and rarely ever gets any recognition. Would Tails get his own party, after everything he’s done for Sonic? IDW finally decided to answer “YES” to that question and put together the ultimate tribute to everyone’s favorite Player 2. Tails’ 30th Anniversary Special, coming this fall, will feature a hefty 30-page story by longtime Sonic scribe Ian Flynn. Aaron Hammerstrom will provide the art and Reggie Graham will color things in. “I had a blast with last year’s Sonic 30th Anniversary story, which was a celebration of the Classic Sonic cast,” says Flynn. “This time around I wanted to do something a little more restrained and focused so we could properly celebrate Tails, his courage, and his intellect. That said, you know I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to mine the Sonic series history for the villains!” What the story is about has yet to

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures Brings Back The Cowabunga

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures Brings Back The Cowabunga

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You have no doubt heard about Shredder’s Revenge, the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat ’em up that’s just been released. This is one of those rare times that an anticipated game comes out and NO ONE has anything nasty to say about it. Everyone loves Shredder’s Revenge! And poor me, as a physical game collector, must wait until August to play it (unless I want to buy it twice). Thanks to the game, there is renewed passion out there for the “rad” version of the Turtles, and IDW has excellent timing….they’re about to release a new TMNT comic that resurrects the original 1987 cartoon versions of them. Gnarly, dudes! Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures will be a four issue miniseries (that’s all? Boo) with suitable-for-syndication plots like the following: “The Heroes in a Half Shell getting trapped in a VR simulator, one of General Krang’s stalwart stone soldiers abandoning their post in pursuit of hair-metal superstardom, or concepts even more awesomely absurd.” We can’t wait. “I’m no

IDW’s Earthdivers Explores A Wild Alternate History

IDW’s Earthdivers Explores A Wild Alternate History

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If you could go back in time, would you risk changing anything, even if it could potentially make the world a better place? For most time-travel stories, the answer to that is a loud NO, as altering one event in one miniscule manner usually results in trouble for the protagonist. But then you have the group of post-apocalyptic survivors at the center of Earthdivers, an upcoming sci-fi comic from IDW. The Earth is destroyed at the time in which they live, so they have nothing to lose and they’re changing as much as possible! What are they gonna do first? Prevent the invention of nukes? Further. Shoot baby Hitler? Further. They’re going all the way back to 1492 to stab Christopher Columbus! (They have Indigenous blood; they bear a personal grudge.) As radical as this is, killing Columbus probably wouldn’t change much about the future. Colonization Fever was rampant in the 15th and 16th centuries, and if it wasn’t him it would’ve been someone else. You’d have to convince MILLIONS

Transformers: Shattered Glass II Coming This August

Transformers: Shattered Glass II Coming This August

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In the world of Transformers, things are pretty simple: Autobots good, Decepticons bad. What would you expect out of a gang with “deceive” built into their name anyway? But in Shattered Glass, the miniseries released last year by IDW, everything is turned upside-down. The book took place in an alternate mirror universe where Optimus Prime was pure evil and Megatron was the one fighting for justice. And since it sold pretty well, we’re getting a sequel this year. IDW has announced Transformers: Shattered Glass II for a late summer release. The second story picks up where the first story left off, with both sides at war over control of a Titan that could decide the fate of Cybertron. The same creative team behind the first one has returned for the sequel: writer Danny Lore, artists Daniel Khanna and Guido Guidi, and colorist John-Paul Bove. “When we ended the first series, I was overjoyed at the fan reaction to our version of Shattered Glass,” says Lore. “It was a world full

IDW Announces Heavy Metal Horror Comedy TRVE KVLT

IDW Announces Heavy Metal Horror Comedy TRVE KVLT

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TRVE KVLT, which is pronounced as the words it resembles (true cult), is a new horror comedy miniseries coming to comic book shops soon from IDW. The series is the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign funded by creators Scott Bryan Wilson (Batman: Gotham Nights) with art by Liana Kangas (Star Wars Adventures). Here’s the situation: Marty, a metalhead who goes by the moniker “Tarantula,” has been working the grind at his local fast food joint for over a decade. He could use a change in his life, but he shouldn’t have made that wish aloud. Now he and co-worker Allison are facing a robbery, and soon afterward, they’re being targeted by a violent satanic death cult. Hijinks will ensue! “I had an idea for a project set in the world of fast food that had supernatural/satanic elements,” Wilson says. “Liana and I bonded over our time in the trenches working fast food and got more and more excited about building the world of Burger Lord. We saw that our

IDW Announces Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man Artist’s Edition

IDW Announces Todd McFarlane’s Spider-Man Artist’s Edition

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In general, when a book starring a Marvel character comes out, you expect Marvel themselves to have made it — not one of their “rival” companies. But these are interesting times, and IDW has been granted permission by Big M to produce an artbook of scanned original pages from Todd McFarlane’s run on Spider-Man. This was a run that changed both the character and the industry at large forever. McFarlane gained a large fanbase through his stylistic, twisted-body take on Spidey and his bold, aggressive poses in action shots. (The less said about how he drew regular humans, the better.) His biggest contribution was being the first artist to draw Venom, who he infused with his own artistic sensibility. The overall fluid nature of the symbiote was something McFarlane gleefully played up, and remains a part of him (or them) today. A few years later, McFarlane and his collaborators would quit Marvel en masse to start their own comics company, Image. Because Todd had made such an impression at Marvel,

The Bloom County Library To Be Reprinted In Paperback Form

The Bloom County Library To Be Reprinted In Paperback Form

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In 2009, IDW did humanity a great service: it began printing the entire run of the Bloom County comic strip. Despite its pedigree as one of the 20th century’s finest strips, it had never been collected in its entirety: the original book collections were only selected strips from the previous year. To make matters stranger, even Berkeley Breathed himself didn’t have access to every strip — he didn’t hold on to all of the originals. It took a while, and a raiding of the microfilm archives from several newspapers, but IDW was able to put together a complete library. Five volumes were published over just as many years, and sold well enough to continue the line with Outland and Opus collections, plus a book full of Berke’s rare early works like his college strip The Academia Waltz. If you missed the original run, we have good news: it’s coming back (and THIS time, get them — no excuses). They’ll be in paperback form for the first time, which likely means

TMNT: The Last Ronin Concludes This April

TMNT: The Last Ronin Concludes This April

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In 1987, just as the Ninja Turtles were on the verge of breaking through to the mainstream, Eastman and Laird were cooking up their most epic comic book storyline ever, The Last Ronin. For some reason, though, the script was abandoned and never turned into a book. Decades later, the idea was picked back up and dusted off by IDW, who has been releasing The Last Ronin in trade format since October of 2020. Four volumes have been released, and with this upcoming fifth, the narrative comes to a close. “Thirty-five years in the making, The Last Ronin is everything I dreamed it could be and more,” says Eastman. “For the creative team, I feel the epic task of bringing this story to life has truly been our Mount Everest, and with the summit in sight, we sincerely wish to thank all the friends and fans who brought the love and support needed so we could bring this adventure all the way home. From my original partner on this journey,

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