IDW January Newsletter

Posted by Jesse in Comics, Latest News on January 7th, 2010

Happy New Year and welcome to the IDW newsletter, offering your monthly dose of news and not-to-be-missed books!

Arriving at inboxes the beginning of each month, the IDW newsletter brings highlights of the coming month, including books to look for at your local store, plus top stories from “Ryall Time” and the IDW website. Enjoy!

IDW Digital

IDW is ringing in the New Year with awesome new digital comics on more platforms! In addition to expanded offerings for the iPhone and iPod touch, you can now enjoy IDW comics on your PSP.   Take a break from gaming to read TRANSFORMERS or

Wormwood on your PSP. Plus, Wormwood is the very first digital comic to offer audio commentary, meaning you can enjoy both the art and insights (plus the cool Australian accent) of Ben Templesmith!

Click here to download comics to your PSP.

For your iPhone or iPod touch, check out our four-issue prequel to the upcoming movie, “Legion,” featuring an all out war between Heaven and Earth! Legion: Prophets introduces the “prophets,” ordinary people who have yet to understand the powers they possess and their very special role in the apocalyptic events that are about to sweep across the globe.

Click here to get Legion: Prophets on your iPhone or iPod touch.

January Firsts!
The first month of 2010 features some amazing #1 issues, starting January 13th! Check out the very first issue from EA Comics, Army of Two #1!

Then take a ride on the bizarre side with Weekly World News #1, written by lifeong Bat Boy fan and IDW Publisher/Editor in Chief, Chris Ryall.

Also on January 13th, IDW launches a new Star Trek series, Captain’s Log, starting with Captain Hikaru Sulu. Each installment of the series will feature a different captain from The Original Series.

On January 27th, the acclaimed G.I. JOE: COBRA series continues with COBRA II #1. Get ready for another action-packed series, plus characters never before seen in IDW comics! And if you haven’t done so yet, pick up the COBRA I series, which io9.com called “the latest smart, inventive reboot.”

And don’t miss the final leg of IDW’s TRANSFORMERS trifecta with Last Stand of the Wreckers #1, as this special AUTOBOT crew goes on a mission to investigate the prison planet under the rule of the DECEPTICONS.

New This Month

First issues aren’t the only thing happening in January! We’ve got some great books to offer throughout the month, like Wizard’s Tale hardcover, Bill Willingham’s Angel #29 and the conclusion of the G.I. JOE: Snakes Eyes series! Here’s a quick look at some of our January highlights, and the complete list of January releases is below.

Angel #29

Bill Willingham, Bill Williams (w) • Brian Denham, David Messina (a) • Jenny Frison, David Messina (c)
Where has the “hero of L.A.” gone? While Team Angel Investigations try to figure out how to handle the everyday demons, danger, and evil-doing on their own, Angel’s whereabouts turn out to be part of a seriously sinister conspiracy. Plus: chapter two of the Eddie Hope back-up by Williams and Messina.
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Complete Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy, Vol. 9

Chester Gould (w & a & c)
Chester Gould’s fertile imagination continues at a breakneck pace, as he introduces The Brow, Flattop, Shaky, Breathless Mahoney, Measles, Gravel Gertie, B.O. Plenty, and the Summer Sisters! With an introduction by Max Allan Collins, and a special feature by Jeff Kersten of the Dick Tracy Museum about the famous radio program, “Dick Tracy in B-Flat,” starring Bing Crosby, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jimmy Durante, and Bob Hope! Edited and designed by Eisner Award-winner Dean Mullaney, and containing all daily and Sunday comic strips from March 23, 1944 through September 19, 1945.
HC • PC • $39.99 • 264 Pages • 11” x 8.5” • ISBN: 978-1-60010-532-6

G.I. JOE: Snake Eyes #4

Ray Park, Kevin VanHook (w) • Lee Ferguson (a & c)
Having returned to the village where he trained with the Arashikage Clan, SNAKE EYES uncovers the true identity of the murderer who had stolen his identity! Now Snake Eyes must take the battle to holy ground as he confronts a demon from his past—and watches the world around him go up in flames!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

The Ghoul #2

Steve Niles (w) • Bernie Wrightson (a & c)
The Ghoul arrives in Los Angeles and quickly learns that there’s more to Hollywood than glitz and glamour—there are also demons invading Griffith Park and a cop named Klimpt, who is convinced an aging starlet is a blood-sucking freak of her own creation. It’s the Ghoul versus Demons in this knockdown, drag-out melee of monstrous behemoths!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Little Adventures in Oz Book 1

Eric Shanower (w & a & c)
In the marvelous Land of Oz, magic is always around the next corner. Dorothy, the Scarecrow and their many friends can’t stop plunging into one adventure after another. Wonder and magic abound in this collection of “The Enchanted Apple of Oz” and “The Ice King of Oz” by award-winning cartoonist Eric Shanower.
TPB • FC • $9.99 • 136 Pages • 6” x 9” • ISBN: 978-1-60010-589-0

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Fool’s Gold #2

Scott & David Tipton (w) • Fabio Mantovani (a) • Sharp Brothers, David Messina (c)
Deep Space Nine teeters on the brink of anarchy as swarms of treasure-hunters and mercenaries continue to flood the station. Major Kira and Constable Odo are on the case, and the investigation leads to a not-unexpected destination: Quark’s Bar!
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Wizard’s Tale

Kurt Busiek (w) • David Wenzel (a & c)
A magical story of redemption! The Wizard’s Tale is the story of the aged Bafflerog Rumplewhisker and his young companion, Muddle, the woodcutter’s son, as they embark on a quest to retrieve the magical Book of Worse—a tome that will ensure the land of Ever-Night remains as it is, a dark and gloomy realm of evil. But old Rumplewhisker’s heart slowly warms on their journey, and a chance to restore a semblance of goodness to Ever-Night is possible—if he and his young charge can dare face the challenges ahead.
HC • FC • $24.99 • 144 Pages • ISBN: 978-1-60010-595-1
© 2010 Kurt Busiek and David Wenzel

Monthly Giveaway

Each month, one lucky newsletter subscriber will be our raffle winner and will receive free IDW releases from that month. Our January winner will receive a copy of The Veil TPB.

Congratulations to our December winner: [Name], who won a copy of each of the three new Angel comics: #28, which begins a new story arc by acclaimed writer Bill Willingham, Annual and A Hole in the World #1!

Inner Monologue

Each month the newsletter features thoughts from different members of the IDW team. Our January “inner monologue” brings thoughts from IDW’s Shipping Manager, Alonzo Simon:

I hope everybody’s holiday season went well. As the new year begins, our weekly publication schedule ramps up again. In the three and a half years that I have worked at IDW, our weekly output has at least doubled, which means we are publishing a lot of comics and trades these days. As I personally inventory all of our office copies, believe me when I say it’s a lot of books. For example, in the first week of January, ten separate titles are coming out. By the time a finished product gets into my hands to ship to a reviewer or a customer, a lot of people have helped get it there. From the creator’s writing and drawing, to the editor’s red pen, to our production staff’s lettering and design, and finally to our printer, many people contribute to the process of making these books. As a fan of comics, and books in general, it certainly opened my eyes as to the amount of work it takes to get just one book published. But it is definitely worth it to see something that everyone worked so hard to produce become final and to get it into the hands of the fans. Anyway, I think I hear a delivery truck pulling up so it’s back to the heavy lifting. Happy New Year’s everybody.

Complete List of January Releases
January 6th