The Turtles cross over with Kaniugas popular character Creed, as they did with many indy comics characters in their pre-Nickelodeon heyday. Transported to the realm of the imagination by a dream stone, the Turtles must join forces with teen Mark Farley, aka Creed, to battle an alien adversary named Shrapnel and discover what’s really going on.
Masters of the Universe: Rise of the Snake Men is a three-issue miniseries originally published by CrossGen in 2003 and 2004. It was written by Val Staples and illustrated by Andie Tong and Jonboy Meyers. Here, King Hsss is freed from his ancient prison and unleashes his army on Eternia.
After Devil’s Due lost the G.I. Joe comics license in January 2008, the license was given to IDW Publishing, which was officially announced on May 29, 2008. IDW’s G.I. Joe series is a complete reboot of the property, ignoring the continuity from the Marvel and Devil’s Due incarnations of the comic.
Elf Warrior was a four-issue, black-and-white fantasy that ran during 1987. The first adventures of Stormcrest, the Elf Warrior, can be found in the pages of The Adventurers #1.
An evil overlord named Darkos wants to conquer a place called the Brightland, inhabited by humans. Fearful of almost certain destruction, the humans ask their neighbors, the elves, to aid in the defense of the Brightland. Although the leader of the elves refuses, the elves’ greatest warrior, Stormcrest, can see that the destruction of the humans’ territory will bring Darkos to their door. Stormcrest convinces the Woodland Guard, the elves’ elite fighting force, to fight Darkos. To win the battle, they must risk entering the dreaded home of Darkos, facing terrors almost beyond imagining.
The series was based on Sega’s video game franchise as well as DiC Entertainment‘s 1993 Italian-American animated series of the same name. After initially beginning with a four issue miniseries between 1992 and 1993, the first full-length issue of the comic was published in July 1993. The series ran for 290 issues for over 20 years, earning a place in the 2008 Guinness World Records for being the “longest-running comic series based on a video game“,[1] and it became the longest-running franchise-based comic series in 2015, surpassing Marvel Comics‘ Conan the Barbarian (which ran for 275 issues) before it was confirmed cancelled in July 2017 (although the comics ceased release in January of that year), following Sega and Archie Comics’ decision to discontinue their business relationship.[2] The series features a cast of hundreds of characters, consisting of those derived from the Sonic games and those original to the comics, with stories focused on a crime-fighting organization called the Freedom Fighters, led by Sonic, as they face off against series antagonist Doctor Eggman alongside a variety of other villains.
Painkiller Jane was created by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada for Event Comics in 1995. Originally a five-issue mini-series, the character went on to star in numerous crossover titles with the likes of the Punisher, Vampirella, and Hellboy.
After Event comics, the character was exclusively written by Jimmy Palmiotti and drawn by various artists as it jumped from publisher to publisher. The series relaunched at Dynamite Entertainment with the first mini-series selling out. After that Icon- an independent label for creator owned work at Marvel comics, published two mini-series. The character then came back to PaperFilms, a company owned by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner where it is currently published. Painkiller Jane has been published all over the world in at least 8 languages to date. The comics have been the basis for a film and television series and is currently in development with Jessica Chastain.
Dejaj Thoris is a prominent character in Dynamite Entertainment‘s 2010-11 comic miniseries Warlord of Mars, based on A Princess of Mars. She first appears in issue 4. Dejah Thoris is also the main character of the Dynamite spinoff comic Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris, which ran 37 issues. Set 400 years before A Princess of Mars, the first story arc portrays Dejah’s role in the rise to power of the Kingdom of Helium, as well as her first suitor. The second story arc will depict her as the “Pirate Queen of Mars”, other story arcs are: “The Boora Witch”, “The Pirate Men of Saturn”, “The Rise of the Machine Men”, “The Phantoms of Time”, and “Dual to the Death”. Each were collected into a trade paperback. The entire series is being collected into a series of omnibus volume, the first collecting the first 20 issues. There was also 2 other mini-series, the 4-issue Dejah Thoris and the White Apes of Mars (2012) and the 12-issue Dejah Thoris and the Green Men of Mars (2013–14).
In 1994 Topps Comics began running their own continuation of Xenozoic Tales also under the title Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. The series only ran for one year in which they released nine issues. The stories were designed to complement the original series taking place between in the midpoint of the story “Lords of the Earth” in Xenozoic Tales #10 right after Wilhelmina Scharnhorst is elected governor but before Jack has been driven into exile. In the original story that moment lasts for only a few minutes, but Topps Comics sought the permission of Mark Schultz to turn it into a “moment that stretches”. While Mark Schultz did not write or draw any of the comics released by Topps he was consulted on some of the story arcs to make sure they kept as true to his vision as possible.
The series ran three main story arcs over the course of nine issues before “going on hiatus” right before the release of Xenozoic Tales issue 13. A fourth storyline titled Hammer of the Gods was in the works, being drawn by David Roach, however it was never released.
September of 2009, a 4 issue mini-series, G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes, written by Ray Park (the actor who played Snake Eyes in the movie) & Kevin Van Hook gives the movie universe’s version of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow’s history.
From the pages of The Tick, Paul the Samurai, by Ben Edlund, Clay Griffith and Dave Garcia. Witness Paul as he breaks out on his first solo adventure! Brother and arch-nemesis to Ninja master Sagin. Paul keeps his swords inside of loaves of baked French bread to avoid problems with the local police. He fights crime in modern day, The City and is ally to The Tick and Arthur.
