Your First Look at INFERNAL MAN-THING #1!

Marvel and Fanboy Buzz are pleased to present your first look at Infernal Man-Thing #1, coming this July! From legendary creators Kevin Nowlan and the late, great Steve Gerber comes the highly-anticipated supernatural epic that’s 20 years in the making! When the Man-Thing resurfaces, it must solve the mystery of the “Screenplay of the Living Dead Man” – and it’s the only thing that can! It’s the story fans have been clamoring for and this July, Infernal Man-Thing #1 hits comic shops everywhere, the Marvel Comics app http://www.marvel.com/marvelcomicsapp and the Marvel Digital Comics Shop!

INFERNAL MAN-THING #1 (APR120649)

Written by STEVE GERBER

Penciled by KEVIN NOWLAN

Cover by ART ADAMS

Variant Covers by GIL KANE & KEVIN NOWLAN

FOC – 6/11/12, On-Sale – 7/4/12

It Girl On Her Own

Mike Allred’s MADMAN ATOMIC COMICS wrapped up in 2009 with issue #17, with Madman and Adam Balm on a universe-wide tour with their band, leaving the rest of the Atomics back on Earth. This is when writer Jamie S. Rich (Spell Checkers, You Have Killed Me) started dreaming up a plan for It Girl, Luna Romy, who can take on the properties of anything she touches.

That dream becomes reality in August, when the first issue of IT GIRL AND THE ATOMICS will be published by Image Comics. Written by Rich, drawn by Mike Norton (REVIVAL, Battlepug), with covers by MADMAN’s creator Mike Allred and colors by Laura Allred, IT GIRL AND THE ATOMICS follows It Girl as she tries her hand as a solo crimefighter and adventurer.

But while It Girl is taking her new job seriously, learning the ropes — and pitfalls — of fighting crime on the street, her creative team gets to have all the fun.

“I got a small taste of what it was like to channel the Allred spirit when I wrote a couple of short pieces featuring Madman and Mr. Gum, and it was quite delicious,” said Rich. “That’s how I came to propose doing a spin-off as a way to keep the Snap City crew in the public eye.”

A meeting of the principles at K!ckstarter in 2011 solidified the plan. IT GIRL gained an artist in Norton, and a collaboration was born.

The first issue of IT GIRL AND THE ATOMICS catches up readers on just enough of back story to throw them straight into a new adventure. Readers who have never read MADMAN and long-time fans will be equally able to enjoy the story of It Girl confronting the man who murdered her sister (don’t worry — she’s fine now) and becoming the test subject in one of Dr. Flem’s space-time experiments.

“The Atomics really captured a vintage spirit that we don’t see in superhero books often enough anymore,” said Rich. “I want readers to have such a good time, they’ll finish every issue wanting more of the same.”

Allred describes himself as “a proud papa” of Rich’s and Norton’s effort. “I’m just excited and flattered that anyone would want to take my characters and devote this kind of attention to them,” he said. “Mike Norton is rocking it on this book. He’s a dynamo. Seeing him and Jamie take It Girl and the gang on their own adventures is like I’ve raised these kids, put them through college, and now I am watching them establish their own place in the world.”

IT GIRL AND THE ATOMICS is a full-color series, debuting on August 8 in comic book stores and digital platforms. It is available for pre-order now from the June issue of Previews. (JUN120428)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #10 Review

Rating: 4/5
Publisher Name: IDW
Publisher Website: http://www.idwpublishing.com/

Writer: Tom Waltz & Kevin Eastman
Pencils: Dan Duncan & Kevin Eastman
Number of Pages: 32
Price: 3.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP – Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.

Publisher’s Blurb:
This May, enter… THE SHREDDER!

(What else need be said?!)

Reviewer’s Comments:
The new tale of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continues. In this new issue our heroes in a half shell along with their friends Casey Jones and April O’Neil continue to search for Master Splinter. Last issue they arrived at Stockman’s lab to rescue their father only to find him gone again, this time taken by the Foot clan.

Telling by this issue’s cover, the Shredder was indeed revealed this issue as Karai introduce him to Splinter. Splinter is faced with a challenge and in his awesome ninja style he defeats his opponent only to be told by Karai that he must kill them. Of course Splinter refuses citing that he would dishonor himself and then we get what we’ve all been waiting for: Shredder removes his helmet and reveals himself to be Oroku Saki, Hamato Yoshi’s longtime enemy! Somehow he has overcome death and remembers his past life. But the reunion is cut short as the Shredder orders his minions to destroy Splinter, leaving readers with a cliffhanger at the end of the book.

Meanwhile, the boys in green are bickering like brothers sometimes do and it’s Mikey who is the voice of common sense. April drops the turtles off at her father’s antique shop where they are to stay for awhile. As April and Casey drive off in her van, we see a mysterious woman whose watched all of the comings and goings of the group. The question is, who is the woman? In order to find out of course you gotta pick up next month’s issue.

I’m enjoying this new series and I’m loving the mixture of old and new in the story. As always, Eastman, Waltz, Duncan, and the rest of the crew are doing an amazing job. Go Green Machine!