Author: Phil

Phil is the Owner/Editor-In-Chief/Chief Reviewer of ASM. He is a long time Transformers fan, having been involved in the online fandom since the early 90's. He resides with his wife in Wisconsin, but no, he doesn't like to eat much cheese.

Dark Horse Launches on Instagram

Just in time for San Diego Comic-Con, Dark Horse Comics has launched their new Instagram account.  Follow @DarkHorseComics on Instagram and Twitter during SDCC for the chance to win prizes!  See the full press release for more information. #SDCC: DARK HORSE LAUNCHES ON INSTAGRAM FOLLOW @DARKHORSECOMICS FOR CHANCES TO WIN EXCLUSIVES! JULY 11, Milwaukie, OR—Dark Horse Comics is hitting San Diego Comic-Con in style this year, with a jam-packed schedule featuring some of the industry’s best and most notable talent. #NotAtComicCon this year? Now you can follow @DarkHorseComics on Instagram as we take you backstage with creators like Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf

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ComiXology Sponsors TR!CKST3R

For Immediate Release: Fans… MEET YOUR MAKERS ComiXology Sponsors nightly “The Pen and Drink” at TR!CKST3R during Comic-Con International 2013 All artists are welcome to enjoy a drink while picking up the pen to draw an array of live models while listening to great tunes! ComiXology co-founder to also give talk on “Digital Comics: Tips and Tricks” July 10th, 2013 – New York, NY – ComiXology’s Meet Your Makers summer extravaganza continues with the announcement of comiXology’s sponsorship of the “The Pen and Drink” – where artists are welcome to enjoy a drink while picking up the pen to draw an array of live

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SDCC 2013: Dark Horse Announces Guest of Honor – KAZUO KOIKE

San Diego, JULY 9—Dark Horse is proudly celebrating twenty-five years of manga publishing in 2013 by bringing legendary Japanese creator and Eisner Hall of Fame inductee Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf and Cub) to San Diego Comic-Con! Last week, Dark Horse announced New Lone Wolf and Cub during Anime Expo in Los Angeles, in which series creator Kazuo Koike continues the greatest samurai manga epic ever! New Lone Wolf and Cub is an eleven-volume series that picks up right at the end of Lone Wolf and Cub—which left Itto Ogami’s son Daigoro on a blood-strewn battlefield. What will happen now to the young child with the

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Dark Horse Announces All-New KITCHEN SINK BOOKS Imprint

DARK HORSE ANNOUNCES ALL-NEW KITCHEN SINK BOOKS IMPRINT Publishing maverick and alternative-publishing pioneer join forces on a line of books, launching in late 2013 NEW YORK, NY, JULY 2nd – Dark Horse Comics announced today that they have entered into a joint venture to add the newly formed Kitchen Sink Books as an exclusive and independent publishing imprint. Kitchen Sink Books will begin a publishing program in late 2013, focusing on large-format, heavily illustrated art books, archival reprint collections, and original graphic novels. The new imprint will be headed by alternative publishing pioneer Denis Kitchen and book designer/editor John Lind, who

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Aclin & Selma Deliver Atheists and Action in S.H.O.O.T. FIRST!

S.H.O.O.T. FIRST, READ OTHER COMICS LATER! ACLIN & SELMA DELIVER ATHEISTS AND ACTION IN ORIGINAL NEW ADVENTURE! Milwaukie, OR, JULY 3 – Justin Aclin (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Twisted ToyFare Theatre) and Nicolas Daniel Selma (Tomb Raider: The Beginning) take aim at the supernatural inS.H.O.O.T. First, an all-new big-action, big-ideas creator-owned mini-series from Dark Horse Comics! The Secular Humanist Occult Obliteration Taskforce uses the power of their own disbelief (as filtered through sci-fi weaponry) to protect humanity from supernatural creatures that seek to do us harm…but for S.H.O.O.T., that means demons, angels and everything in between. Original, irreverent and sure-to-be controversial – S.H.O.O.T. First promises sci-fi action

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Transformers Hall of Fame 2013 Winners Revealed at BotCon

Just moments ago, Hasbro revealed the 2013 entrees to the Transformers Hall of Fame. This year’s TRANSFORMERS Hall of Fame class, as entirely voted on by TRANSFORMERS fans online, consists of the following two characters: BEAST WARS MEGATRON An insane, hyper-intelligent criminal mastermind who led a group of renegade PREDACONS to Earth in search of the Energon they would need to conquer CYBERTRON, MEGATRON became so much more than a petty felon. When the search led to the discovery of alien artifacts, MEGATRON launched an assault on Time itself, seeking to change history to his benefit. He nearly destroyed CYBERTRON

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