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Posted on 23 March by Pauline Martyn – Publishing Manager, Digital Comics

Digital Comics Store Update (23rd March 2011)

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Well hello there – here is your weekly comics update!

Neil Gaiman‘s renowned comic Sandman continues with issue #27. In this penultimate issue of the “Season of Mists” storyline, the decision concerning Hell’s new ownership falls to an unlikely heir while Morpheus attends to an unruly guest in his realm…

Before he claimed the throne, before he battled the dragon Fafnir, before he became worthy of mighty Mjolnir, our hero was simply one of many young sons of Asgard… Meet young Thor in Thor: Son of Asgard (2004), an epic coming of age story written by celebrated manga writer Akira Yoshida and beautifully illustrated by newcomer Greg Tocchini.

In the must-try, one of a kind series Kill Shakespeare, the celebrated author’s world is transported to comics with unexpected twists and surprises. As word of the Prodigals’ victory spreads a rebel army masses in Shrewsbury. Against this backdrop, Othello and Iago cross swords, Richard and Lady Macbeth lock horns and Hamlet and Juliet’s love blossoms…

Also available are new issues of inFAMOUS, Batman: Black & White, IDW’s Infestation and more:

Baby Boomers #4 Markosia
Batman Beyond Vol.2 #6 DC Comics
Batman Black & White #2 DC Comics
The Dreaming #20 TOKYOPOP
Dual #5 DC Comics
Ex Machina #35 DC Comics
Fables #51 DC Comics
Hero Squared #11-13 BOOM! Studios
inFAMOUS #2 DC Comics
Infestation: Star Trek #2 IDW Publishing
JLA #43 DC Comics
Justice League: Generation Lost #22 DC Comics
Kill Shakespeare #8-9 IDW Publishing
Legends of the DC Universe #9 DC Comics
Powers (2004) #23-27 Icon
Pray for Death #1 DC Comics
The Puppet Makers #3 DC Comics
Return to Labyrinth #9 TOKYOPOP
Sandman #27 DC Comics
Slaughterman’s Creed #4 Markosia
Star Trek #1-2 Devil’s Due Digital
Star Trek: The Manga #19 TOKYOPOP
Superman/Batman #54 DC Comics
Supernatural: Beginning’s End #6 DC Comics
Thor: Son of Asgard (2004) #1-6 Marvel
Tomorrow Stories #5 DC Comics
Top 10 #5 DC Comics
Undertown #12 TOKYOPOP
Van Von Hunter #10 TOKYOPOP
Wonder Woman Vol. 3 #26 DC Comics
X-Factor (2005) #2 Marvel
Y: The Last Man #33 DC Comics

Please visit www.playstationcomics.com for prices and to see the whole catalogue.

See ya next week!

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Posted on 2 March by Pauline Martyn – Publishing Manager, Digital Comics

Digital Comics Store Update (2nd March 2011)

Hello everyone! Here is your weekly comic store update with 55 new comics this time.

World of Warcraft: Curse of the Worgen continues with issue #4. Gilneas City erupts into violence as the Worgen attack! During the madness, Halford seeks understanding behind who is friend and who is foe, while also dealing with his own animalistic Worgen urge to kill… If you haven’t done so already, make sure you check out our Q&A with the comic creators at http://uk.playstationcomics.com/main/blog/World-of-Warcraft-Curse-of-the-Worgen.html.

Devil’s Due Digital bring us an excellent third series with the adventures of super cool heroine Mercy Sparx, a Devil Girl hired by the big shots in Heaven to secretly take down rogue angels. It’s either succeed and get a free pass through the pearly gates, or fail and risk going somewhere much worse…

Slaughterman’s Creed is a story of the fall and rise of monsters, where an ethical knife-edge is all that separates hero from villain. A human trafficker orders the death of a killer who refuses to breach his professional code. Twelve years later, the trafficker’s world erupts in blood and chaos. Barely surviving and crippled for life, the Slaughterman has returned to put the whole organisation to the blade. With audio commentary from Cy Dethan, one of the creators behind Cancertown and The Indifference Engine!

Missing Archie? He’s back this week with Life with Archie #1-4. The writer of the mega-hit Archie wedding story, Michael Uslan, returns with two new ongoing series, ‘The Married Life: Archie Loves Veronica’ and ‘The Married Life: Archie Loves Betty.’ .

Invincible Iron Man (2008)’s World Most Haunted story arc also continues this week, with parts 6, 7 and 8. Tony risks it all to say goodbye to a friend. Maria Hill arrives in Texas only to find she’s been beaten to the punch and now is outnumbered, outgunned, and out of luck. And time. And hope. Can War Machine change things round?

Here is the full list:

1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad #0-1 Zenescope
2000AD Prog #1715 – Christmas Mega Special 2011 2000AD
Azure #5 DC Comics
Batman Beyond Vol.2 #3 DC Comics
Batman Beyond Vol.4 #3 DC Comics
The Boy Who Made Silence #4 Markosia
Celadore #2 DC Comics
DC Universe Online Legends #3 DC Comics
The Dreaming #17 DC Comics
Ex Machina #32 DC Comics
Fables #48 DC Comics
Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1 #11 DC Comics
Grimm Fairy Tales #4-5 Zenescope
I Luv Halloween #16 TOKYOPOP
Infestation: Transformers #1 IDW Publishing
Invincible Iron Man (2008) #11-13 Marvel
JLA #40 DC Comics
Legends of the Dark Crystal #10 TOKYOPOP
Legends of the DC Universe #6 DC Comics
Life with Archie #1-4 Archie Comics
Lily of the Valley #1 DC Comics
Mercy Sparx #0-2 Devil’s Due Digital
Promethea #4 DC Comics
Return to Labyrinth #6 TOKYOPOP
Return to Wonderland #0-1 Zenescope
Sandman #24 DC Comics
Slaughterman’s Creed #1 Markosia
Star Trek: The Manga #16 TOKYOPOP
Superman/Batman #51 DC Comics
Supernatural: Beginning’s End #3 DC Comics
Tom Strong #4 DC Comics
Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #8-12 Marvel
Undertown #8-9 TOKYOPOP
Van Von Hunter #7 TOKYOPOP
Wonder Woman Vol. 3 #23 DC Comics
World of Warcraft: Curse of the Worgen #4 DC Comics
Y: The Last Man #30 DC Comics
Young Avengers (2005) #9-10 Marvel

Please visit www.playstationcomics.com for prices and to see the whole catalogue.

See you in the comments!

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Posted on 23 February by Pauline Martyn – Publishing Manager, Digital Comics

Digital Comics Store Update (23rd February 2011)

Countries: AE, AU, GB, IE, NZ

Allo! New publisher alert and many more highlights in this week’s comic update.

New publisher alert part 2! This week we are delighted to welcome another great publisher on board: Zenescope. Zenescope has created one of the fastest growing libraries of original content and has brought an exciting new feel to the world of graphic novels – and of fairy tales… with a twist! Adapted from the famous TV Series, Charmed #1 brings Phoebe, Paige and Piper back to embrace a new life… and new enemies. Grimm Fairy Tales is a gripping series retelling the most well-known and beloved childhood tales with very modern heroines – through reality and fairy tale, and good and evil. Another great tale is revisited in Neverland – a land that has changed dramatically and where good and evil are not what they seem… Last but not least is the gritty horror comic The Waking, a race against time to investigate murdered victims seemingly rising from the dead to avenge their own deaths… Brr.

If you missed it last week, I would like to highlight once again two other new publishers, Zallag and Devil’s Due Digital. Devil’s Due Digital is a collaboration of the team at Checker Book Publishing Group & Devil’s Due Publishing, and together they are offering an immense library of talent including Clive Barker, Johnny Hart, Tim Seeley and Alan Moore. They brought us the much loved Hack/Slash last week, and this week it’s the no-less impressive Clive Barker’s Hellraiser! Experience horror as only Clive Barker knows it, with the adaptation of one of the most popular horror movie series of all time. Featuring short stories from some of the best in the comics industry, this series both shocked and entertained readers – try it if you dare.

Do you like dimension-spanning storylines, especially if they involve some of the most famous characters in the comics world? Check out Infestation, the IDW event ten years in the making, featuring Transformers, G.I. Joe, Ghostbusters, Star Trek, and even some cool zombies! Something goes horribly awry in the Zombies vs Robots universe, threatening to tear many of IDW’s biggest realities asunder… Who will be affected, and how?

More Batman! Batman Beyond Vol.2, based on the hit animated TV series, begins this week! In the distant future, Bruce Wayne has retired from crime-fighting, and a new breed of criminals has overrun Gotham City. Now Bruce must train Terry McGinnis to use a futuristic Bat-suit and become tomorrow’s Dark Knight!

In Supernatural: Beginning’s End, written by Peter Johnson, one of the TV series co-executive producer, The Winchesters’ hunt nears its end…in New York! You knew Sam left his family to attend Stanford…learn why he made that choice! This gripping, horrifying story—courtesy of TV series writers Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin—will explore the raw nerves of what makes the Winchesters unique and volatile.

Here is the full list:

Baby Boomers #1 Markosia
Batman Beyond Vol.2 #1-2 DC Comics
Charmed #1 Zenescope
Clive Barker’s Hellraiser #1-4 Devil’s Due Digital
Devil’s Wake #3 DC Comics
The Dreaming #16 TOKYOPOP
Dual #4 DC Comics
Dungeons & Dragons #3 IDW Publishing
Ex Machina #31 DC Comics
Fables #47 DC Comics
Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1 #10 DC Comics
Grimm Fairy Tales #1-3 Zenescope
I Luv Halloween #15 TOKYOPOP
Infestation #1 IDW Publishing
Invincible Iron Man (2008) #8-10 Marvel
JLA #39 DC Comics
Justice League: Generation Lost #20 DC Comics
Legends of the Dark Crystal #9 TOKYOPOP
Legends of the DC Universe #5 DC Comics
Neverland #0-1 Zenescope
Powers (2004) #13-17 Marvel
The Puppet Makers #2 DC Comics
Return to Labyrinth #5 TOKYOPOP
Sandman #23 DC Comics
Star Trek: The Manga #15 TOKYOPOP
Superman/Batman #50 DC Comics
Supernatural: Beginning’s End #1-2 DC Comics
Tomorrow Stories #3 DC Comics
Top 10 #3 DC Comics
Tranformers: Prime #4 IDW Publishing
True Blood #7 IDW Publishing
Van Von Hunter #6 TOKYOPOP
The Waking #1 Zenescope
Wonder Woman Vol. 3 #22 DC Comics
Y: The Last Man #29 DC Comics
Young Avengers (2005) #7-8 Marvel

As always, please visit www.playstationcomics.com for prices and to see the whole catalogue.

Thanks for reading, and see ya in the comments below.

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Posted on 9 February by Pauline Martyn – Publishing Manager, Digital Comics

Digital Comics Store Update (9th February 2011)

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Hello and happy Comics day! Here are some highlights for this week.

Another great addition to our Video-Games comics range: Deus Ex, brought to us by DC Comics. Called by PC Gamer “The Best PC Game of All Time” and acclaimed by critics all round, the franchise comes to comics in advance of its highly anticipated new instalment. Adam Jensen is a cybernetically enhanced security operative for the powerful Sarif Industries, in a future where biological enhancements have become commonplace. When he unstitches a mystery that goes all the way back to his fully human SWAT origins in Detroit, a globe-spanning adventure of violence and betrayal awaits!

What to do if the Avengers team ever disbanded? Vision has the answer in the form of four teenage “super-powered fanboys”, who will go under the name of the New Avengers! The 2005 Marvel series starts with the Sidekick story arc, where the team makes its debut by defeating an evil being with a history, and by defying some well established heroes’ authority.

The post-apocalyptic Dungeons & Dragons setting gets its first ever comic! In the Dark Sun land of Athas, long stripped of its fertility by corrupting magic, there are no gods, water, or hope. Slavery and poverty are rife, and in the wastelands of majestic desolation and cities of cruel splendour, life hangs by a thread. In Part 1 of “Ianto’s Tomb,” a runaway gladiator and part-time slave hunter cross swords, forever entwining their fates on this savage desert planet…

Other highlights include more Archie comics, more Batman, Spider-Man, Transformers: Prime, Ratchet & Clank, new DC series Devil’s Wake, Tomorrow Stories, and more.

Here is the full list:

2000AD Prog #1714 2000AD
Archie #581-584 Archie Comics
Batman Beyond Vol.1 #5 DC Comics
Bayou #12 DC Comics
Deus Ex DC Comics
Devil’s Wake #1 DC Comics
Domo #5 TOKYOPOP
The Dreaming #14 TOKYOPOP
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Sun #1 IDW Publishing
Ex Machina #29 DC Comics
Fables #44 DC Comics
Fringe: Tales from the Fringe #6 DC Comics
Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1 #8 DC Comics
I Luv Halloween #13 TOKYOPOP
JLA #37 DC Comics
Justice League: Generation Lost #19 DC Comics
Legends of the Dark Crystal #7 TOKYOPOP
Legends of the DC Universe #3 DC Comics
Ratchet & Clank #4-5 DC Comics
Return to Labyrinth #3 TOKYOPOP
Road #3 DC Comics
Sandman #21 DC Comics
Star Trek: Khan: Ruling in Hell IDW Publishing
Star Trek: The Manga #13 TOKYOPOP
Superman/Batman #48 DC Comics
Supernatural: Rising Son #5 DC Comics
Tomorrow Stories #1-2 DC Comics
Tranformers: Prime #2 IDW Publishing
Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #4-5 Marvel
Undertown #6 TOKYOPOP
Van Von Hunter #4 TOKYOPOP
Wonder Woman Vol. 3 #20 DC Comics
Y: The Last Man #27 DC Comics
Young Avengers (2005) #1-3 Marvel

Please visit www.playstationcomics.com for prices and to see the whole catalogue.

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Posted on 21 December by Pete Stott – Designer, Digital Comics Team, SCEE

Digital Comics Store Update (22nd December 2010)

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Welcome to the last comics store update of the year, and boy is it a big one! We have 82 new comics to keep you busy over the festive period. Plus we have some rather exciting news, we finally have a Manga publisher on board. You’ve probably heard of TOKYOPOP, they were apparently responsible for introducing the term manga to the English language. They have a catalogue of over 3,000 books and have worked on creating manga versions of major brands like Star Trek all the way through to SpongeBob SquarePants.

So without further ado, let’s look at this week’s highlights.

From TOKYOPOP, who ya gonna call? GHOSTBUSTERS, of course! Find out what’s been happening since the Ghostbusters last saved New York City as Peter, Ray, Egon, Winston and the rest of the gang make their first manga appearance!

Based on one of the most popular fantasy films of all time, Legends of The Dark Crystal is a manga prequel set hundreds of years before the events of the film, when the gentle Gelflings and wise Mystics are still thriving. And so, unfortunately, are the evil Skeksis…

Halloween has always been and always will be about one thing…getting the best CANDY. Some fiendish friends excel at tricks if they don’t get the right treats. Follow what happens in I Luv Halloween; when these gremlins receive a frickin’ apple at their first house of the night, they plan deadly revenge on the offending fruit-favouring old-timer.

Going where no manga has gone before, check out Star Trek: The Manga which is set in the original series.

The highlight from Marvel this week must be Tron: Original Movie Adaptation. A stunning new visualization of the original TRON film. Learn the secrets of the Tron Universe. Discover its cast of dynamic characters. Witness the events of the legendary film in an all-new comic event.

Finally, from BOOM! comes an adaption of one of my favourite books, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? I believe someone made a film about it too…

Anyway, have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year! Here’s the complete list: