Typos speak volumes

Diamond's Web site, diamondcomics.com, features a comprehensive list of the new comic releases every single week. Which is nice... when the information is correct. But at times, some details slip by. Case in point: this week's second hardcover collection of the Eisner-nom'd LOCKE & KEY, HEAD GAMES, is listed at the Diamond site as "LOCKE & KEY HEAD GAMES HC VOL 01."

I suppose, in the technicality-of-all-technicalities world, someone could argue that this is the "first" collection of HEAD GAMES (first and only, since each L&K story has its own subtitle)... but the truth is, they got it wrong. It's VOLUME 2 of LOCKE & KEY this week -- as evidenced by the full covers shown above. I know the "Vol. 01" that they have listed has thrown off some people, so I just wanted to clarify that tomorrow's release is all-new -- it's LOCKE & KEY, VOL. 2: HEAD GAMES, if you want the official designation.

When reached for comment about their egregious error, a spokesperson at Diamond (okay, actually, me speaking for them but I'm pretty sure they'd say this, too) said "Oops. Our bad. Make sure you pick up the book, VOLUME 2, so you can get the full second chapter of LOCKE & KEY and all its cool new bonus features before the third series, CROWN OF SHADOWS, kicks off in November. And Good God, but wait til you see what Joe and Gabriel have done in the first issue of that series. Minds will be blown."

LOCKE & KEY VOLUME 2, in stores tomorrow.

Born in the USA Today

At the USA Today Web site, the launch of the ongoing TRANSFORMERS series is covered and also features an interview with TF editor Andy Schmidt. Full piece is here.

Wrecked 'em? Damn near killed 'em

How about just a tease for the January-due LAST STAND OF THE WRECKERS by Nick Roche. Two single, cropped panels taken from larger pages from the first issue, as well as Trevor Hutchison's variant cover for issue 1.

5-page previews of this week's debuts

STAR TREK: ROMULANS: SCHISM #1 by John Byrne:

Open publication - Free publishing - More star trek

GHOSTBUSTERS: DISPLACED AGGRESSION #1 by Scott Lobdell and Ilias Kyriazis:

Open publication - Free publishing - More scott lobdell

ANGEL #25 by Juliet Landau, Brian Lynch, and Franco Urru:

Open publication - Free publishing - More juliet landau

Also, Newsarama.com has a preview of this week's THE VEIL #3.

Locke & Colors

Following up on the B&W version of Gabriel Rodriguez's LOCKE & KEY: CROWN OF SHADOWS #1 variant cover art, here's the final colored version (colors also by GR):

IDW's new releases for September 16

30 Days of Night Slipcase
Digger #2
Doctor Who Classics Series II #10
Ghostbusters: Displaced Aggression #1
Locke & Key: Head Games Vol. 1 HC
G.I. Joe: Origins #7
Angel #25
Star Trek: Romulans: Schism #1
Transformers: All Hail Megatron #15
Transformers: All Hail Megatron Vol. 2 TPB
The Veil #3

Shadows and fog

With the third LOCKE & KEY series, CROWN OF SHADOWS, starting in November, we're going to be doing a "shadow-variant" cover for each issue. Here're the stunning inks for the cover (also from the inimitable Gabriel Rodriguez, of course) as well as his original pencils below, too. Color version to come.

Arcee has Fallen and she can't get up

As requested, the final TALES OF THE FALLEN cover (art courtesy of Alex Milne, of course):

Daily World News

ComicBookResources.com put up a new interview with me all about the coming WEEKLY WORLD NEWS comic book. And in addition to me talking it up, they showed a virtual ton of art, about half of issue 1, the initial character designs and more. Including the image shown here, the cover to issue 2.

The full interview can be found here. The comic's coming in January.

Locke, Stock & Barrel

(The Title was cribbed from Joe Hills blog, since I'm basically "re-tweeting" his blog entry here.)

The LOCKE & KEY: HEAD GAMES hardcover is in stores soon, and Joe's offering a nice little perk like he did when the WELCOME TO LOVECRAFT hardcover hit.

The offer starts like this:

First, when Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft was released in hardcover, I did a thing where folks could call and preorder a copy from a certain local bookstore, and I’d sign it for them. That seemed to work pretty well, so I thought I’d do it again with Locke & Key: Head Games, which is out later this month.

If you’d like to get your paws on a signed copy of Locke & Key: Head Games, put a call in to the River Run Bookstore in Portsmouth, NH, sometime between now and the 23rd of September. Their number is (603) 431-2100.

The entire blog entry, with some specifics about this offer and a bit about Seth Fisher and the LOCKE & KEY SPECIAL EDITION out today with Seth's final story in it, can be found here.