IDW's new releases for October 15

DOCTOR WHO: THE FORGOTTEN #2
EPILOGUE #2
GHOSTBUSTERS: THE OTHER SIDE #1
GRANT MORRISON’S DOCTOR WHO #1
WELCOME TO HOXFORD #3
SPEED RACER, VOL. 6
STAR TREK ROMULANS: THE HOLLOW CROWN #2
TIME MANAGEMENT FOR ANARCHISTS #1

CREWsing and Boozing

Yes, that is a reference to a Sammy Hagar tune from the '80s, thank you.

John Byrne has already shown this off at his message board, but I wanted to further spread it around. It's his so-far-unfinished spread for an upcoming new STAR TREK project he's launching in the Spring, subtitled CREW.

DEAD Contest, He Said

Hey, Bernie Wrightson fans -- which should be anyone who likes amazing comic book art -- Steve Niles is having a Halloween contest at his site where he's giving away a page of original art from the recent DEAD, SHE SAID book that he and Bernie completed for us (a hardcover collection of which is forthcoming). It's simple to enter, too, so I encourage anyone who wants a shot at winning the page pictured here to click here and try your luck.

Doing Bill Gaines proud

Our tribute to a classic cover (look it up to see how classic--if you don't know the history of this particular EC Comic, it's definitely worth reading up on. You can Google it now or wait until this comes out next Spring and read more then), courtesy of Gabriel Rodriguez. Cover idea and inspiration came from Joe Hill, the series' creator. I normally wouldn't show anything this far in advance, since the second LOCKE & KEY series (HEAD GAMES) doesn't launch until January, and this cover is for issue 3, but I can't keep something this good under wraps.
(note: the logo and issue number/UPC are just for placement only and will change a bit)

GALAXY QUEST #3 five-page preview

Let's keep the previews of this week's comics going with a look at GALAXY QUEST #3 by Scott Lobdell and Ilias Kyriazis:

MIRROR IMAGES #4 five-page preview

I neglected to picture the cover to this week's STAR TREK: MIRROR IMAGES #4 when I showed all of the new releases for October 8, so let me rectify that with a 5-page preview, courtesy of Scott & David Tipton and David Messina (and cover artist Joe Corroney):

IDW's new releases for October 8

CHIAROSCURO TPB
FALLEN ANGEL #30
GALAXY QUEST #3
RICHARD MATHESON’S HELL HOUSE TPB
SPEED RACER: THE NEXT GENERATION, VOL. 1 DIGEST
SPEED RACER: RACER X, VOL. 2
STAR TREK: MIRROR IMAGES #4
ART OF TRANSFORMERS TPB
TRANSFORMERS BEST OF THE UK: SPACE PIRATES TPB
TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED: THE ARRIVAL #3
TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT: SIDESWIPE


Also this week: bring on the Phillies! Let's do 1977-78 all over again (although maybe with a different result in the Fall Classic itself...):



First clinching game I've ever been at last night (not the Dodgers have had many--any--of those in the past 20 years).

Who made WHO?

The last thing I'd want to do on a book that's been well-received both critically and by fans is shake things up... but in the case of DOCTOR WHO: THE FORGOTTEN, life intruded and necessitated exactly that. Filling in for an Eisner-winning artist is never the ideal goal, but with issues 3 and 4, Pia Guerra had to step aside for some help. She'll be back with issues 5 and 6 (indeed, she actually did pages 21-22 of issue 4, too, one page of which is shown here) but needed to bow out of these two issues. For issue 3, Stefano Martino once again pitched in, and anyone who saw his work on issues 3 and 6 of our last WHO miniseries knows how good he can be. And then for issue 4, we have someone new to IDW and WHO, Kelly Yates, pitching in. As you can see by his pages shown here (first two are his, the last one is Pia's and should come with a slight spoiler alert), he fits in alongside her very nicely.

Meanwhile, the whole thing is presided over by writer Tony Lee, who never takes a day off... from drinking.

Cybertron Coll-ing

It's been a while since I've shown any new TRANSFORMERS art here, so how about two for today? Artist Casey Coller and colorist Joana LaFuente's variant covers for ALL HAIL MEGATRON #5 and 6. Just who is that on the cover of issue 6, anyway...? That issue could well become our "HULK 180," if that reference makes sense to anyone.

SHOCK to the System

This month, we're doing an interesting project with screenwriter Stephen Romano (his previous IDW connection is he wrote the teleplay for the MASTERS OF HORROR story, "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" that I adapted into comics a couple years back). He's put together a behemoth of a book called SHOCK FESTIVAL. It's a 350+ page collection of hundreds of horror movies you've never heard of. No, really. The official solicits are this:

Shock Festival –SPOTLIGHT
Stephen Romano (w) • Stephen Romano, Tim Bradstreet, Michael Broom, David Hartman (a)
An illustrated history of the strangest, most outrageous movies you’ve never seen! An elaborate work of illustrated fiction, Shock Festival is a raunchy, hilarious tall tale of imaginary sleazebag exploitation films, lavishly brought to life with hundreds of never-before-seen original movie posters and memorabilia items. It’s the retro-dazzle of Grindhouse meets the authentic “mockumentary” appeal of Spinal Tap!
Recommended for mature readers only.
HC • FC • 352 pages • 9” x 12” • $39.99 • ISBN: 978-1-60010-322-3

We got advance copies in this week, and the book is a pretty awesome and stunning hardcover book, with perfect content just in time for Halloween. The book features contributions from artist Tim Bradstreet, actor/comic writer Tom Jane, and artist David Hartman, too. Here're some initial pics of the thing as it sits on my desk: