IDW's new releases and 5-page previews for July 8

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Angel: Not Fade Away #3
Around the World in 80 Days HC
From the Ashes #2
Ghost Whisperer: The Muse TPB
G.I. Joe: Best of Storm Shadow TPB
G.I. Joe: Movie Adaptation #2
G.I. Joe: Origins #5
Star Trek: Crew #5
Star Trek TNG: The Last Generation TPB
Transformers: Maximum Dinobots TPB
World War Robot, Vol. 2

Born on the 4th of July

Happy 4th of July from THE DREAMER and IDW!

Fallen interview

Impulse Creations posted a new interview with FALLEN ANGEL creator/writer Peter David. In the interview, David not only gives some backstory on just what the character is all about but also discusses what people will see in FALLEN ANGEL: REBORN (guest-starring Joss Whedon's Illyria), the first issue of which hits stores two weeks from today.

Bete Noire just came out the other side of a major war for control of the City that Shapes the World. The Fallen Angel's side won, but not without a price: Her son, Jude, who was once the Magistrate, is now horribly disfigured and has taken up residence at Furor's, the Angel's former haunt. There he serves as a court of last resort for the truly desperate. The Fallen Angel, meanwhile, is now the Magistrate of Bete Noire. She's now in charge, which for her is almost sort of a living death. It's the one thing she never wanted.

Read the full interview here.

Astro Boy takes flight

Cartoonist Barzak, who produced two very fun SKATE FARM books for us, also provided this cover art for our coming ASTRO BOY movie adaptation comic. This particular image will appear on the cover to issue 3 of the weekly series that begins next month and features some amazing E.J Su art on the interiors (and the covers for issues 1-2, too. Gabriel Rodriguez offers up a variant cover for issue 1 and the cover to the concluding issue 4 as well).

2009 Harvey Award nominees

IDW received a few Harvey Award nominations this morning. The complete list of nominees and information about what the Harvey Awards are can be found here, but in the meantime, here's the list of IDW folk who got nominated:

BEST CARTOONIST

Thom Zahler, LOVE & CAPES, Maerkle Press/IDW

BEST NEW SERIES

THE DREAMER, IDW

BEST BIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL OR JOURNALISTIC PRESENTATION

SCORCHY SMITH AND THE ART OF NOEL SICKLES,
edited by Dean Mullaney, IDW

BEST DOMESTIC REPRINT PROJECT

ASTOUNDING SPACE THRILLS, IDW
COMPLETE TERRY AND THE PIRATES, IDW
SCORCHY SMITH AND THE ART OF NOEL SICKLES, IDW

BEST NEW TALENT

Laura Innes, THE DREAMER, IDW

Dream On

The latest WIZARD magazine had a feature on web-to-print comics, and one of the books featured was Lora Innes' THE DREAMER, as seen here. Our TPB collection of the series is in stores on July 15.

Fallen Star

FALLEN ANGEL relaunches in two weeks -- FALLEN ANGEL: REBORN #1 hits stores on July 15. So this is a couple months out from there, but what you're seeing above is the incentive cover for issue 3. First one to post below what movie inspired the cover quote wins... well, blog-immortality and bragging rights. Cover art by the great and powerful J.K. Woodward.

IDW's new releases for July 1

American McGee's Grimm #3
Angel: After the Fall #23
G.I. Joe Movie Adaptation #1
G.I. Joe Classics, Vol. 4
Doctor Who Classics: Series 2 #8
Locke & Key: Head Games" #6
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan #3
Star Trek: Omnibus, Vol. 2
Transformers Spotlight: Metroplex
Transformers Classics, Vol. 4

For 5-page previews of these comics, click here.

When Liandra Met Illyria

I'm headed out of town for a few days with likely no 'net access, so the blog might not be updated again until Sunday, but until then, I'll leave things with a couple variant cover images from Nick Runge, for issues 2 and 3 of the upcoming FALLEN ANGEL relaunch (guest-starring Illyria, if that wasn't obvious from the images here).

Dru Blood

I cribbed the Title of this entry from the article below, but that's because it's a good one. Tara Bennett, the writer of the piece, always does a good job with these things, and here is no different -- she talks to Juliet Landau about her upcoming two-issue stint on ANGEL.

And Juliet continues her strong push to market this book with another interview at SlayerLit.us, too.