Comics News: IDW and Tom Beland Unleash Chicacabra

IDW and Tom Beland Unleash Chicacabra

Chupacabras, Vejigantes, Fistfights, and Weed!
 

San Diego, CA (March 26, 2014) – Tom Beland, best known for his multiple Eisner-nominated seriesTrue Story, Swear to God, brings his unique storytelling to IDW this June in an all-new graphic novel series, Chicacabra.
 
Chicacabra is a story infused with the humanity for which Tom’s work is so rightly acclaimed, but this time, Tom has written and illustrated an all-new cast of very human characters in a more supernatural setting.
 
“Tom Beland’s work is the perfect mix of comic-book storytelling with expressive art, interesting characters, and a resonant, emotional core,” said Chris Ryall, IDW’s Chief Creative Officer-Editor-in-Chief, “and I couldn’t be happier to see him apply those skills in this new way on Chicacabra. Tom’s books have always been the kind of thing you want to hand someone, whether they’re new to comics or a veteran reader who thinks they’ve seen it all. There’s something for everyone in his work, and never more so than with Chicacabra, which pushes into the supernatural while still staying a fundamentally grounded, human tale.”
 
In Chicacabra, you would think being a young woman in high school would come with more than enough drama, but for Isabel Sanchez that is a mere drop in the bucket of her life. On the outside, Isabel looks and acts like your average Puerto Rican girl but after a family tragedy and then a mysterious incident she finds herself with a monster capable of great brutality living inside her. But is it her friend or foe?
 
Isabel will have to learn to life with a killing machine inside her and navigate high school in this first in a series of planned Chicacabra graphic novels. And heads will roll, to say the least!
 
"I think people will relate to Isabel. I think we all have a chupacabra in us in some way. There's fear, doubt, many things that you hold deep inside of yourself,” said Tom Beland, “This is about two souls working together in a relationship that could be damaging as well as healing. I love making it. To a degree it was as emotional as making TSSTG."
 
Chicacabra will be available in a regular edition and a special version with an alternate cover only available at the Puerto Rico Comic-Con, May 24-25 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center.
 
Chicacabra, a 200-page, black & white, $17.99 trade paperback, debuts in June 2014. Diamond Order Code APR140447, ISBN 978-1-63140-011-7

Comic News: 52 Covers For Justice League of America #1 Plus 2 New Spin Offs

Your Brand New Justice League of America . . . Thieving Pussy Included.

  Yes, Infi-knights. You read that correctly. 52  Covers for Justice League of America #1 when it debuts this February  The title will spin off of DC's main book, Justice League as well as be written by Geoff Johns. Artist David Finch will be artist. But here's the thing. The 52 covers will not represent the DC New 52 (which by now has grown a bit since the cancellation of over 15 titles only to replace them) but actually the 50 states of the United States with 1 extra cover for the commonwealth of Puerto Rico and 1 extra cover for the US capital itself, Washington ,DC.

   This announcement came from Dan Didio from MTV Geek He told them the following about the covers and why DC is launching that with 2 other spin offs:

"We've done a lot of great things with the 'New 52, and now we're putting the focus back on Justice League, with the launch of 'Justice League of America'. We want to make people realize that this is one of our key franchises, and we plan to build it out not just with the main 'Justice League' titles, but other books that tie into them as well.  . . . Given the title of the comic and the year in which we're announcing -- an election year -- we wanted to celebrate the country, as well as the various states."


 With that, comes the question of what are the 2 new spin off titles? Is it a Justice League of  Europe title? Nope. (Personally, I wish but *sigh*)

   What we are getting are a "Katana" solo title ... and a "Vibe" title. Yep. You are reading that correctly. A VIBE solo title.

    The new Katana title will be written by Ann Nocenti with art by Alex Sanchez. The popular character has been getting more press since her inclusion in the next Batman animated series Beware The Batman and the popular relaunch of the Birds of Prey book. Now, as both a member of the JLA and with her own solo book, 2013 may shape up to be Katana's year.

    The new Vibe book will focus on the once reviled JLA member, with a fresh start in the new 52, thanks to  Johns. The latino hero who can generate vibrations (*cough* Rictor possibly ripped off of him or vice versa*cough*) will get the limelight this time around as his solo book will be written by Andrew Kreisberg with arpt by Pete Woods. All three titles will connect with Justice League. All three titles are slated to debut This February.