Welcome back to ’Warped Week, a weekly recap of what we’ve been up to at ’Warp Central recently. If you missed anything, now’s the perfect time to catch up!
On Sunday we took advantage of the second-season debut of AMC’s TV series Into the Badlands to remind fans of sword-fighting adventure to check out our latest fantasy title, For a Few Gold Pieces More, a collection of ten short stories by author Richard C. White (Terra Incognito: A Guide to Building the Worlds of Your Imagination) about a Rogue With No Name who travels a world of epic-fantasy adventure, looking for treasure—and revenge against the woman who sent him to prison for a crime he didn’t commit (but she did).
Monday we talked about DC Comics’ upcoming collection of their 1990s Catwoman series, back when it was one of the many provocative “bad-girl comics” that dominated comic-shop shelves. That, in turn, got us to remind bad-girl fans about Lorelei, SWC’s first horror heroine (not to mention a soul-stealing succubus), who stars in the Mature Readers graphic novel Lorelei: Sects and the City, and the anthology comic Lorelei Presents: House Macabre; and Sebastienne Mazarin, Pandora Zwieback’s monster-hunting mentor who starred in the 1990s miniseries Heartstopper: The Legend of La Bella Tenebrosa (now a free digital exclusive from us).
For Tuesday, we addressed the needs of folks who aren’t into bad-girl comics, and pointed them toward our more family-friendly titles: the print comic The Saga of Pandora Zwieback Annual #1; the supernatural-superheroes graphic novel Troubleshooters, Incorporated: Night Stalkings; the pencil-art collection The Bob Larkin Sketchbook; and the digital-exclusive comics The Chronicles of the Sea Dragon Special and Heroines and Heroes.
Thursday was the second installment of Hail to the King (Kong), with a gallery of the appearances that the king made as a cover model for Famous Monsters of Filmland, the classic horror magazine.
Friday was the release date for the superhero-themed movie Saban’s Power Rangers—the Lionsgate big-screen reboot of the 1990s TV franchise that took the world by storm—so we suggested to comic fans that if they’re looking for action-packed super stories they’ll find them in the pages of the supernatural-superheroes graphic novel Troubleshooters, Incorporated: Night Stalkings and the digital-exclusive comic Heroines and Heroes.
And in yesterday’s installment of Simian Saturdays, we examined Giant Classic King Kong, Whitman Comics’ treasury-sized edition of a 1968 Gold Key comic adaptation of the 1933 original. Drawn by the talented Alberto Giolitti (Star Trek, The Twilight Zone), it’s 64 super-sized pages of monster-movie action, and something you might like to track down a copy of for your comic collection.
And that’s the week. What’s coming next? You’ll have to keep checking this blog during the days ahead—or join us on Sunday for the next installment of ’Warped Week. See you then!
