JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV KICKS OFF A NEW CHAPTER AT DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT!‏

From the press release:

Dynamite is proud to present the first book in a series of creator driven comics, featuring all new characters from the industry's best and brightest! The Devilers is written by the acclaimed author Joshua Hale Fialkov, working with us for the first time, and accompanied by the incredible art of Matt Triano! Single issues in this line will be priced at $2.99, allowing fans the opportunity to affordably try all of the new series! And to help retailers stock up with confidence, each launch issue will be completely returnable! To sweeten the deal for fans and retailers alike, The Devilers #1 will feature covers by Eisner Award Nominee Jock and a beautiful retailer incentive by the masterful Marc Silvestri! Be sure to look for The Devilers, coming this July to retailers and digital platforms!

The following creator driven books are a small sampling of titles that will come after The Devilers, beginning August 2014 through 2015, to keep the momentum going, from the best comics has to offer!

Peter Milligan - Terminal Hero
Duane Swierczynski - Ex-Con
Andy Diggle, Angela Cruickshank, and Ben Oliver - Control
James Robinson - Grand Passion

More creators and titles to be announced!

When the world is under siege from the pits of hell, it's up to The Devilers to set things right. The world's greatest exorcists pit themselves against Satan's army, while all of creation hangs in the balance.  From the writer of The Bunker, The Ultimates, and I, VAMPIRE comes a horror-fueled adventure through hell itself.

"Fans of the work I did on I, VAMPIRE will find a continuation of a lot of the themes and ideas I started over there, but  in a completely new package," says best-selling comic book writer Joshua Hale Fialkov,  "It's been a blast to tell a big ol' supernatural horror adventure story again."

"There's a great tradition of team books in comics and we've worked hard to continue that tradition here." - Joseph Rybandt, Dynamite Senior Editor

"This series is the ‘Magnificent Seven' of different religious figures banding together to fight off an evil that will take all of their powers. Joshua is an incredibly gifted writer who has proven that he can tackle any genre.  He has an impressive track record from Elk's Run and Tumor to his I, Vampire, Ultimates, Bunker comic series and more, and I will be biased in stating that The Devilers is his best work to date.  His writing is crisp and smart.  Add to that the incredible artwork that Matt Triano is delivering, and the unbelievably captivating covers by Jock, and you have an incredible series.  This is the first in an incredible line of creator driven books and we're launching off our creator-driven the line up with an incredible group of creators bring incredible passion for the launch series to help celebrate and usher in for the next chapter at Dynamite."

Joshua Hale Fialkov is the Eisner, Harvey, and Emmy award nominated creator of The Bunker, Tumor, Punks, and Echoes. He was the writer of the critically acclaimed I, VAMPIRE for DC's New 52, and is an architect of the ULTIMATE UNIVERSE at Marvel Comics. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, daughter, two dogs, and a disgruntled cat.

The Devilers #1 will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors' May Previews catalog, the premiere source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market, and slated for release on July 16, 2014.  Comic book fans are encouraged to reserve copies of The Devilers #1 with their local comic book retailers.  The Devilers #1 will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, iVerse, and Dark Horse Digital.

Review: Last of the Greats #4

If you complained about Millar’s shock factor, then get ready for some disorienting and disturbing couple panels here. The villain goes all out, or should I say all in, in a tumultuous confrontation with the protagonist of the story. There’s a nice Deus ex Machina tossed in and as obvious as it was, it ends the issue on a high and portrays something of a game changer we all knew was coming.

There are some obtuse revelations made here but with the plot remaining murky and oblique at times
, it’s a bit surly of Fialkov to not offer more insight and character development into the Great and his true plans. It’s about time we got this as we approach issue 5.  This was the weakest of the issues and contrived to wrestle in its own hype at times.  No real progress is made here and it lacks something long after you cross the middle page.

Something was amiss here and if you can get over the gravity of a couple panels, and its violent American History X ouch debauchery, then you’d notice that Fialkov tried to duck and weave, and bob one over our heads here. It’s not filler but there’s no solid core to what this issue represents. I didn’t expect a letdown and despite incessantly smooth art, I needed something more from the story. It never came. It just got unnecessarily grotesque for a bit. (5/10)

Review: Last of the Greats #3

Image is putting out some outstanding comics at the moment. Joshua Hale Fialkov’s Last of the Greats is one of them. Set in a future where a race of all powerful aliens have been killed after becoming dictators of Earth, the story revolves around the last of these ‘greats’, who has been charged by humanity to fix all the problems they’ve created.
The issue opens with The Last chatting up a storm with Oprah, and being generally charming. I’m not going to give away anything else from the story, but let me just say that that’s the last ‘charming’ thing we see in this issue. It introduces a new character that will change the dynamic of the book and makes for a very compelling read.