Author: Glenn Hauman

ARE YOU READY FOR MORE PERILS ON PLANET X?

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Art: Gene Gonzales

In addition to announcing the relaunch of Gravedigger as a webcomic, Christoper Mills and Gene Gonzales announced that their series, Perils on Planet X will return as a webcomic beginning February 1st.

About Perils on Planet X:
For almost a decade, I’ve been working on a space fantasy called Perils On Planet X. Initially appearing as a weekly webcomic at the long defunct AdventureStrips.com, and drawn by Jon Plante, the project eventually evolved into comic book form, totally redrawn and expanded on by my talented partner-in-comics, Gene Gonzales. Now, it’s a webcomic again… but a print graphic novel edition lies in the near future.

Art: Burchett & Gonzales

Perils On Planet X is a swashbuckling adventure on a lost planet… join Colonel Donovan Hawke of Terra as he travels through time and space to the ancient emerald world of Xylos – home of vicious reptilian predators, ruthless strato-pirates, beautiful princesses, and innumerable fantastic dangers!

Perils On Planet X is high adventure on alien worlds – classic space opera in the Edgar Rice Burroughs and Alex Raymond traditions, revived for a new millennium!

The adventure begins on February 1st, 2013!

Learn more about Perils on Planet X at www.perilsonplanetx.com.

“Go Get A Roomie!” gets a Kickstarter

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We are incredibly fond of Go Get A Roomie! here at ComicMix. The comic won our May Mayhem NSFW Webcomics Tournament back in May, and their fans voted with their pocketbooks as well, raising hundreds of dollars for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund to put them way over the top.

And now, they’re putting it all down on paper.

Since its first page, the comic has been there to corrupt the world with fond smiles and happy sighs. If it can continue to do so through a new printed form, it would make a dream come true. Not only will the first book of Go Get a Roomie include all of chapters 1-12, but countless other extras as well! Bonus chapter, illustrations and sketches, redrawn comic strips, drinking game, kitties, a sneak peek at a secret project, and much more!

via Go Get A Roomie! Book One by Hiveworks Comics — Kickstarter.

They’ve already blown past their initial goal of $20,000 in the first day, so it’s going to be funded, but they have lots and lots of stretch goals… at $30,000 they’ll throw in some extra charms and stickers free for everyone ordering at least a book. At $50,000 they’ll throw in a bonus book only chapter on top of the mini chapter already being put into the book, and at $75,000 they’ll get Little one plushies made and add them to anyone getting at least a book. Lord only knows what they’ll do if they hit $100,000– but I think they better start planning for it.

Watch the video– then go get your own Roomie!

Superhero Movies and their Sad Perfect Badass Messiahs

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Entertainment Weekly, of all places, presents one of the most thoughtful essays on superhero films and how– similar they’re all becoming, and even worse, how many other movies are aping them to great financial success and overall boredom.

Superhero Movies have evolved to the point where three of the genre’s standard-bearers can embody radically different filmmaking styles – this is a good thing, right? Well, maybe. But the problem is, when you dig underneath the three films’ respective stylistic excesses – and they are excesses; few genres in film history are more fundamentally decadent than the Superhero Film, with the ever-expanding budgets and the swooping digital-effects-crane-shots and the ruined cityscapes and the supervillains planning to conquer/pillage/destroy every city/world/galaxy in sight – there is a depressing sameness to lurking within each movie’s basic DNA.

via The Superhero Delusion: How Superhero Movies created the Sad Perfect Badass Messiah, and what that says about America | PopWatch | EW.com.

Haters Gonna Hate

peterdavid-150x200-8492928While we fully believe that you should help Peter David recover from his stroke by buying his e-books here at ComicMix, we also believe we should give equal time to opposing views.

In that spirit, we point you to The OutHousers and Ten Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Help Peter David.

ZONE 4 PODCAST HITS 200 EPISODES!

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On Friday, January 11, 2013, the Zone 4 podcast celebrates its 200th episode with a LIVE video recording! Several guests will be dropping by, and all of you can watch and chat with us LIVE or catch it later on our YouTube channel later. Please join us in celebrating this monumental milestone! There will be giveaways!

The show will appear on the Zone 4 YouTube channel as it airs, and you can leave comments there. If you ask us questions, we’ll answer what we can on air!

JONATHAN MABERRY WANTS YOU TO NAME HIS ASSASSIN

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New Pulp Author Jonathan Maberry has announced the first of three contests for the upcoming Joe Ledger novel, Code Zero.

From Jonathan Maberry:
Joe Ledger/ CODE ZERO contest #1

I’m launching the first of (three) CODE ZERO contests.

THE RULES: come up with a name for an assassin. Male or female. No comical names. Something cool and compelling. Something memorable.

You may post as many suggestions as possible.

All suggestions must be posted on the contest thread on either of my Facebook pages [here and here]. (Twitter followers need to cruise over to Facebook to post your entry). Email and IM postings are not accepted. For duplicate names, the first posted entry will count.

THE PRIZE:

Three runners up will win signed 1st editions of the rare hardcover of ASSASSIN’S CODE and they will each be thanked in the acknowledgements page of CODE ZERO (scheduled for release March 2014).

The grand prize winner will have their character name used in the book; plus you will also appear in CODE ZERO (though it’s likely to be a short and painful walk-on). You’ll also get an ECHO TEAM coffee mug. And you’ll be thanked in the book’s acknowledgements page.

BURCHETT AND MILLS RESURRECT GRAVEDIGGER

Art: Rick Burchett

The Gravedigger: Hot Women and Cold Cash Facebook Page announced the return of the title character in 2013.

It’s official: GRAVEDIGGER, by Rick Burchett and Christopher Mills, is returning as a webcomic, probably in early February. We’ll be posting a page a week every Monday, starting with the original story, “The Scavengers” (which hasn’t been seen in years) and then serializing the new one… “The Predators.”

The launch date and url has not yet been released.
As soon as it goes live, all pulp will post the links.

HONEY WEST AND KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER TEAM UP

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Moonstone Books‘ Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Honey West One Shot will ship to comic shops on January 11, 2013. Written by Janet L. Hetherington, the Kolchak/Honey West One Shot features art by Ronn Sutton with cover art by Malcolm Mclinton & Various.

About Kolchak/Honey West:
Two top-tier investigators in one titanic team up! High heels and Hedonism! Young cub reporter Carl Kolchak falls into an ongoing investigation with Honey West, who is undercover at a gentlemen’s club! Disappearing women are the main course, and as the violence escalates and the case gets out of control, both our heroes must fight to stay alive!

Learn more about Kolchak: The Night Stalker here.
Learn more about Honey West here.

Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Science Of Spider-Man

spider-man_webslinger-7589154Spider-Man definitely has some unique tricks and abilities— super strength, wall-crawling, and a mysterious Spider-Sense— but do any of them stand up to scientific realities? The guys at ASAPScience take a look at how some of Spider-Man’s main attributes could legitimately happen, while others… not so much.

And we’re not even going to discuss how his brain can be taken over by an octopus.

Help Peter David by buying his e-books now!

cover-1-289x450-4587801As you probably already know, Peter David suffered a stroke last week. Even though the Davids have health insurance, they also have co-pays and things that the insurance company just won’t cover. And many people have been asking how they can help.

Right now, the most direct way is to buy his e-books. Crazy 8 Press, a writing cooperative that Peter belongs to (disclosure: so do I) has agreed to make their books available for sale through ComicMix. You can get The Camelot Papers , Pulling Up Stakes parts 1 & 2, and his Hidden Earth Chronicles novels Darkness of the Light and Heights of the Depths right now. All proceeds go directly to Peter.

Peter’s e-books are also available for sale via Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Royalties from those sales will take longer to get to Peter, and be slightly smaller. But one thing that you can do there that you can’t do here is give his books as gifts. Just go on the webpage for the book and click the “Buy As Gift” button and go through the process using the gift-ees e-mail address.

We’ll be keeping you posted on additional efforts to help Peter as hear of them.