Skullkickers

Wow!

Thank you so much for the messages and goodwill that came our way yesterday after the Skullkickers announcement went out. A slew of outlets carried the press release and there have been other promising enquiries in terms of media requesting more information and interviews. We are pumped!

Here are just a few of the sites who helped announce the comic:
Angry Zen Master
Digital Spy
Comic Book Resources
Image Addiction
ComicList
Hypergeek
Comic Box
Bloody Disgusting
Pop Culture Zoo
The Joe Schuster Awards blog
in addition to the many Tweets, Facebook Shares and other pushes on forums and online communities.

Thank you!

Comic industry mega-news site Newsarama just updated with a feature interview introducing Skullkickers. The article includes exclusive preview pages and a look at the cover art for issue #1.

KICK TO THE SKULL
Image Comics revives fantasy-fueled action comedy with SKULLKICKERS

Berkeley, CA – 15 June 2010 – In September, Image Comics brings you fantasy as you like it — hilarious and action packed — with SKULLKICKERS, an all-new ongoing series. Written by Jim Zubkavich with art by Edwin Huang, Chris Stevens and Misty Coats, SKULLKICKERS promises to turn any fantasy motif on its head.

“I love sword and sorcery novels and role-playing games,” says Zubkavich, “so I wanted to use those as a jumping off point and marry them with a slightly sarcastic self awareness of fantasy clichés. At its core, the book is about fun characters and wild adventure, with witty banter thrown in to keep it all clipping along at a healthy pace.”

SKULLKICKERS is fantasy action-comedy. Two mercenaries are entangled in a high-class assassination plot and nothing — not werewolves, skeletons or black magic — will stop them from getting paid. If you love tabletop fantasy RPGs, buddy stories involving a big guy and a dwarf, or movies like ARMY OF DARKNESS, SKULLKICKERS is the book for you!

SKULLKICKERS #1, a 32-page full color comic book for $2.99, will be in stores September 22, 2010. Readers can get a taste of Skullkickers in POPGUN, VOL. 2 (MAY082176) and POPGUN, VOL. 3 (JAN092368). Follow the Skullkickers blog at www.skullkickers.com.

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Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of four major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

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Welcome to the blog!

This the site for info on Skullkickers, a brand new fantasy-comedy comic series being published by Image Comics starting in September 2010.

My name is Jim Zubkavich (almost everyone just calls me ‘Zub’) and I’m the writer on Skullkickers. Rocking out the fantastic art on this series are newcomer Edwin Huang, colorist Misty Coats and cover artist Chris Stevens.

I’m hoping you’ll use this blog, site and RSS feed as an easy way to keep track of our progress on the series and enjoy some behind-the-scenes looks at the comic, our influences and other related fun stuff.

I also hope you’ll add us to your favourite feed reader or come by to visit often as things ramp up. We’re incredibly excited about this summer as we bust out the first few issues and September when everything will kick in to high gear as the first issue hits the stands.

Thank you for your support and encouragement.