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[Advanced Comic Book Review] Garbage Pail Kids Puke-tacular! Relive the 80s In This Gross-Out Meta Comic

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Because Santa is real and gives me everything I want for Christmas, IDW is bringing us “Garbage Pail Kids: Puke-tacular!” We are closing in on the 30th Anniversary of these gross little creations and to celebrate, we’re being treated with the very first comic book ever to feature the dirty (literally dirty) scoundrels. Various creators have come together to craft highly stylized and disgustingly innovative but extremely true-to-form Garbage Pail Kids in this totally vomit-worthy (I say that with all the love of a child from the 80s) story. On Christmas Eve day, you can buy this deluxe edition one shot that is “Suggested for Immature Readers 13+” …add it to your Christmas list.

WRITTEN BY: Various

ART BY: Various

PUBLISHER: IDW

PRICE: $3.99

RELEASE: December 17, 2014

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This deluxe edition features four covers, the retail cover with extra pimples, the retailer incentive cover featuring Comic Connor and what looks like a foam Zelda sword(!), the subscription blank sketch cover for your very own commissioned cover art, and the deluxe cover featuring Comic-Con Ron who is my absolute favorite Garbage Pail Kid ever. He’s what comic book dreams are made of. (Psst…he has the very same glasses as our very own comics editor Zac Thompson. Angels do exist.)

To start the comic off, Nat Nerd and Comic-Con Ron head to the Lower Sandusky Comic-Con. Ron is there on serious business. Comic-Con is not just a fun event for this smelly little fellow. Unfortunately, Nat Nerd is only there to eat, load up on free swag and check out the “Intergalactic Lass(es).” (It’s nice to see the Garbage Pail Kids’ puns and play-on-words remain intact after all these years.)

That’s just the first story of many though. The issue bounces from place to place, plot to plot, kid to kid (or grown up 80s kid to grown up 80s kid) with the finesse of an elephant stampede. But it fits the mood. A regularly plotted story about gross, bizarre adult-babies wouldn’t work. It’d just be too damn weird. And um, you guys, I don’t know how to tell you this without giving you a happy heart attack but Potty Scotty and Jason Basinburster make a comeback and they have a literal shit-off. And at some point there’s an octopus in there… I know. You’re welcome. Look I’m about as lady-like as they come but no one, I repeat, no child from the 80s can resist this stuff. It’s just too bold to ignore.

“Garbage Pail Kids: Puke-tacular” is a lot of fun, I’m guessing just as much for us older kids as it is for the younger tweeners. There are a ton of throwbacks to the 80s but enough new comic genre tropes and stereotypes to keep children of the 21st century involved. It’s gross, just as we all remember it being, perhaps not as evil or violent (I remember some really malicious Garbage Pail Kids), but the ick factor remains intact. There are some really clever meta-moments not only for us old-timers, but also for comic con frequenters and really, just fanboys/girls in general. Buy it for your tween and then keep it for yourself. You know you want to.

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‘Witchblade’ is Getting Resurrected This Summer in New Comic Series from Top Cow and Image Comics

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April 18, 2024

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Witchblade, the popular comic series that initially ran from 1995 to 2015 and launched a TV series, is getting resurrected in a new comic series from Top Cow and Image Comics. It’s set to unleash heavy metal, black magic and blood this summer.

Look for the new Witchblade series to launch on July 17, 2024.

In Witchblade #1, “New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life was forever fractured by her father’s murder. Cold, cunning, and hellbent on revenge, Sara now stalks a vicious criminal cabal beneath the city, where an ancient power collides and transforms her into something wild, magnificent, and beyond her darkest imaginings. How will Sara use this ancient power, or will she be consumed by it?”

The series is penned by NYT Best-Selling writer Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, Batwoman, DC Bombshells) and visualized by artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide Squad, Power Rangers, Red Sonja). The creative duo is working with original co-creator Marc Silvestri, who is the CEO of Top Cow Productions Inc. and one of the founders of Image Comics. They are set to reintroduce the series to Witchblade’s enduring fans with “a reimagined origin with contemporary takes on familiar characters and new story arcs that will hook new readers and rekindle the energy and excitement that fueled the 90’s Image Revolution that shaped generations of top creators.”

Bennett said in a statement, “The ability to tell a ferocious story full of monsters, sexuality, vision, and history was irresistible.” She adds, “Our saga is sleek, vicious, ferocious, and has a lot to say about power in the 21st century and will be the first time that we are stopping the roller coaster to let more people on. I’ve loved Witchblade since I was a child, and there is truly no other heroine like Sara with such an iconic legacy and such a rich, brutal relationship to her own body.”

“The Witchblade universe is being modernized to reflect how Marguerite beautifully explores the extreme sides of Sara through memories, her personal thoughts, like desire and hunger, in her solitude and when she is possessed by the Witchblade. So, I had to visually intersect a noir True Detective-like world with a supernatural, horror world that is a fantastic mix between Berserk and Zodiac,” Cafaro stated.

Marc Silvestri notes, “This is brand new mythology around Sara, and I can’t wait for you to fall in love with her and all the twists and turns. Discover Witchblade reimagined this summer, and join us as we bring all the fun of the 90s to the modern age and see how exciting comics can be. I can’t wait for you to read this new series.”

Witchblade#1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 17th, for $4.99 for 48 pages. And it’ll come with multiple cover variants.

  • Cover A: Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto (Full Color)

  • Cover B: Giuseppe Cafaro and Arif Prianto (Full Color)

  • Cover C: Blank Sketch Cover

  • Cover D (1/10): Dani and Brad Simpson (Full Color)

  • Cover E (1/25): Marc Silvestri and Arif Prianto, Virgin Cover (Full Color)

  • Cover F (1/50): J.Scott Campbell (Full Color)

  • Cover G (1/100): Bill Sienkiewicz. (Full Color)

  • Cover H (1/250): Line art by Marc. Virgin Cover, Inks (B/W)

Witchblade #1 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

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