The boys (and girls) at comic publisher Boom! are really burning things up – they’ve got some of the hottest, most explody books on the shelves, and just in case you’ve been asleep, they’re willing to share!
The Boom! collective are no slouches, with years in the entertainment trenches — Andy Cosby has a smash hit with his Sci-Fi Channel series Eureka, comic veteran Keith Giffen brings his decades of writing experience, and American Outlaws screenwriter John Rogers takes time away from his busy schedule of future Hollywood blockbusters to contribute some comic tales. And
We’ve got super sample packs of popular Boom! books to hand out to lucky readers, enough to keep you busy for a week (in the “reading room”). Each delicious assortment includes issues of:
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ZOMBIE TALES: OBLIVION
TALENT
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WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?!
JEREMIAH HARM
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To put yourself in the running, use the link below and send your full name and mailing address, and tell us what books originally got you into reading comics, kept you there, or brought you back to the medium.
Find out more about all of Boom!’s books (which you can order directly from them) at their official site!
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Coming Soon from Boom!
PIRATE TALES #1
A Boom anthology! In the spirit of the best-selling Zombie Tales and
Cthulhu Tales, Boom! Studios turns its attention to Davy Jones’ Locker
and the skull & crossbones! Featuring a familiar roster of writers –
Keith (52, Annihilation) Giffen, John (Blue Beetle, Rush Hour III)
Rogers, Johanna (Cthulhu Tales, Eureka) Stokes, and Michael (War of
the Worlds: Second Wave) Alan Nelson – now Joe (Fantastic Four: First
Family) Casey’s jumped aboard and CSI screenwriter Henry Alonso Myers
makes his debut in comics! Art is by Tim (Forgotten Realms: Homeland)
Seeley, War of the Worlds: Second Wave artist Chee, Fabio (DE:Tales,
Zombie Tales) Moon, and a host of the business’ best! Prestige
format, squarebound.
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING: MONSTER MASH-UP
You can’t keep a good remix down! Back for a monster-filled issue just in time for Halloween, this time Keith Giffen leads a group of intrepid comedy writers that includes Joe Casey and Sci-Fi Network series EUREKA writer Johanna Stokes – thrill as 100 Bullets cover artist Dave Johnson writes his first comics story! Retailers knew the last What Were They Thinking featured Giffen & Company writing funny word balloons Mystery Science Theater 3000-style over an old comic, but they ordered it anyway – and ordered and ordered it. Now it’s back to blight comic stores with some cool Steve Ditko art (as well as a buncha classic golden age artists)!