Comics

This is a pretty interesting take on a very familiar comic. Basically the creator of the comic is taking Jim Davis' original strips and removing Garfield and Odie from them, which gives the comic a very different take on the life of John Arbuckle. Some of them are pretty funny and make his life look even more pathetic than the comic normally does.

Garfield Minus Garfield

Following the success of The Dark Tower comics, Stephen King is teaming up with Marvel once again to release The Stand in comic form. The Stand follows survivors of an epidemic that wipes out 99.4% of the people on earth. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will write the books with Mike Perkins illustrating. The comics will hit stores in September.

Head on over to ComicNewsi.com for more details.

Don't forget to hurry over to your local comic book store tomorrow for Free Comic Book Day!!

Free Comic Book Day Site

Free comic book day is almost upon us once again and there a bunch of great new comics in store for us this year. As always there a ton of great comics planned from all of the big comic companies.

So head on over the Free Comic Book Day site and get your list ready and get in line early to grab all of your favorite books.

Tori Amos is teaming up with Image comics to create a 480 page comic adapting her themes of her music into the visual art form. Tori is working with editor Rantz Hoseley and a vast talent of comic talent to create this truly unique book, which will include an introduction by Neil Gaiman.

Head on over to Comic News International for more info and a glimpse at the art, which looks pretty awesome.

Look for this 12" x 12" 480 page anthology in store July 23.

Serenity is returning to comics once again, this time with the three issue story Better Days. Joss Whedon and Brett Mathews team up for the story and it seems to fit in perfectly with the series. The characters all seem right on target and there it captures that great mix of action and humor from the show. It is set before the movie so all your favorite characters are back. The story begins with the crew stealing art, or are they after something else?? We get a pretty cool chase scene and of course at the end something unexpected happens. Definitely has me wanting the next issue.

Roland and his ka-tet are on the run, Susan is dead and The Dark Tower comic continues. The second Dark Tower limited series has hit comic stores and it continues right where the last series ended. While the first story resolved around events in Wizard and Glass, this story is generally new material. This time we see Roland, Alain and Bert as they begin their journey back to Gilead with Maerlyn's Grapefruit. But with Clay Reynolds, the last of the Big Coffin Hunters, after them they won't have an easy road. And Sheemie returns only to wander into somewhere he shouldn't.

Winner of the 2006 Comic Book Challenge, Hero by Night returns with its first issue in its ongoing series. Jack has returned to his normal life of being a landlord and his life with Roz after his heroics in the four part comic earlier this summer.

Following in Buffy's footsteps, Angel is back, this time in comic book form. Angel: After the Fall picks up after the amazing ending of season 5. Instead of starting out right after the end of the show time has passed and L.A. has gone to hell. Infested with demons, dragons and vampires, our Hero is dealing with the aftermath of his decision to take on Wolfram & Heart. While we don't yet get to see what befell Illyria and Spike, there are some big surprises for some of our other characters as well as a few other familiar faces.