https://comiccrusaders.com/image-comics-and-top-cow-announces-new-witchblade-series-on-thurs-april-18th-2024/
>It's a reboot being updated for the modern day
>Marguerite Bennett is writing
>Interview with Marguerite says there will be a lot to say about power in the 21st century
>Sara is being redesigned
This shit's going to crash and burn. Who wants to take bets how long it lasts
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>coombait character
>updated for the modern day
Yup, dumpster fire.
Dammit.
It's always the same writers, nobody ever learns to just stop hiring them.
Reminder that this was supposed to come out in 2021
Who else do you think would be even willing to work with Top Cow at this point?
Their comics are the least pulled out of all the Image Imprints according to LOCG
This is because they decided to hire all the worst, nepotistic, cronyist, hires in the business like Cady and Phillips. They used their “talent hunt” to gather tons of ideas they planned to steal and then just awarded the wins to friends of friends they’d already planned on giving a token gig to.
Nobody reads their dogshit because, like dynamite, it’s a line that was formerly geared towards men and still tries to throw some breasts and ass in to a variant or two, but then writes the most stale, safe, women-centric shit.
Jesus fricking Christ.
Witchblade had enough fans to justify a reboot?
It had a live action show and an anime. Witchblade was pretty popular at one time.
That was like 2 decades ago.
>was pretty popular at one time.
Over two decades ago, and guess why she was popular back then? The Witchblade bearer was borderline naked then, nobody back when I was a teenager was seriously talking about the plot and its characters. Every single adaptation made the Witchblade into a full body of armor, and all failed to generate any sort of buzz, except the Japs who are no stranger to scantly clad female characters and ran with the Witchblade just being basic titillation for horny teens, so at this point I would wager the Japs were more faithful to the original Witchblade concept than anything made stateside ever since.
You have not yet learned that many authors want to recover characters that they liked when they were teenagers
>that many authors want to recover characters that they liked when they were teenagers
by completely changing what they were like back then? Don’t be disingenuous, it is not "recovering characters they liked when they were teenagers", it is overhauling a property with modern takes that more often than not is completely alien to how the IP used to be in the nineties.
The Ron Marz run & adjacent series/events is genuinely fricking fantastic.
This I really want the old Top Cow universe with Sara (and the other artifacts) Cyberforce & Hunter Killer all together back again.
>Witchblade had enough fans to justify a reboot?
>It had a live action show and an anime.
Truth be told, I honestly don't think Witchblade had enough fans to justify any of it's media. It's basically the same niche as Warrior Nun.
Although the anime had a fantastic futa artist doing the character designs so I guess that's worth something.
Look at all them red flags
>Witchblade in 2024
Okay, lets see where it goes
Todd's Spawn stuff is doing well apparently and with Image Central and Skybound doing solid, it'd be cool seeing Top Cow make a comebac-
>Marguerite Bennett
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK
Considering Top Cow had to rely on crowdfunders for their collected editions in the past few years and their recent titles seem to go unnoticed (even for comic standards), I'm kind of worried about their future
>reboot being updated for the modern day
>written by a troony
by a troony
Anon, Bennett's a lesbian c**t who can't write for shit but she's not a troony
>starts crying about trans people out of nowhere for no reason without any relation to what is discussed about
ISHYGDDT
The thing I don't get is why make it a reboot?
Witchblade's entire conceit is that it's an inherited power and there were multiple users. Can't you just make a new character and say she's the latest to get it?
>The thing I don't get is why make it a reboot?
Because they know it's going to be shit, and they don't want to acknowledge it when they inevitably go back to the original continuity.
The original universe had already been destroyed, and then the replacement universe had been overwritten by time travel shenanigans. If you want to go back you can't use the word "continuity".
You know, you just might be the only person still reading Witchblade to know that. I cannot name a single comic-reading person I know who reads Witchblade, or kept up with it past the mid-2000s. Of course, you could be making all that up and I wouldn't be any wiser...
I'm not making it up. Sara killed her baby in order to remake the universe. There is at least one other anon who sometimes visits Cinemaphile who has read every Witchblade.
I will concede that we may be the only two individuals in the world that have read every Witchblade-related comic, and that the continuity is a garbled and self-contradictory mess. That's probably why they destroyed the universe in the first place, although it only took a few months before they'd fricked up the continuity in the reborn universe too.
I hadn't considered the pattern before, but here's time-travelling Aphrodite IX murdering a child to delete the rebooted continuity.
serious? that shit is stupid.
They did that last time with the series by Caitlin Kittredge and it was a flop.
I'm not even gonna give it a chance.
Like, what the hell are they thinking?
Damn Silvestri can't draw for shit, he really fell off with age at 66 years old.
It might be a coloring issue
Key word, might
More of an inking issue, he needs to get Joe Weems to save his drawings.
Ooh a new Witchblade series
>written by Marguerite Bennet
Yikes!! well into the trash it goes then. I miss the Marz era that stuff was great
Ron marz was fricking atrocious.
>Sara is being redesigned
If this the redesign it looks fine.
*fully covered
to what purpose? she was a cheescake character
She would sometimes wear the full body armour even when being drawn by a literal porn artist.
Yep, I don't have a problem with full body armor but this new costume kinda needed more time in the oven. Obviously not every artist can be Sejic and the more complex the costume is the harder it is to draw...but if she's gonna be covered it has to be with cool shit
>Pedoslav Serbshitovich
kys
she should get a videogame too.
I wish they'd reprint the compendiums or complete collections or whatever they called them of the old comics.
The collected editions are easy to find, anon. The first volume of the complete witchblade collection (about 25 issues) is only 20 Euros on cheap-comics.com
Oh it looks like there might have been a restock since I last looked, all three HCs are available for special order on CGN
Funny because I just thought about this series last weekend and started re-watching the japanese anime since it's been a while. I don't remember really getting pulled in reading the omnibuses of Witchblade, or the Darkness for that matter. I like the ideas of those comics but not really the execution. I don't know who Marguerite Bennett is but I can't imagine a modern re-imagining of the western comics is going to be handled that well. But rebooting things does give it a chance to tell a more coherent story, maybe it won't be total shit?
Yeah, that's the good stuff.
>feminist writing a sexy character
DOA
>Top Cow Productions will reimagine the iconic, Image classic, Witchblade as a new series set to launch this July. This new Witchblade #1 will be penned by New York Times bestselling writer Marguerite Bennett (Animosity, Batwoman, DC Bombshells), drawn by fan-favorite artist Giuseppe Cafaro (Suicide Squad, Power Rangers, Red Sonja) and will be published by Image Comics.
The creative duo will work closely with Top Cow CEO, Image Comics co-founder, and original Witchblade co-creator, Marc Silvestri. Together, the team will reintroduce the this popular action-packed, crime noir series to longtime die-hard fans and new readers alike. This forthcoming Witchblade #1 will feature a reimagined origin, with contemporary takes on familiar characters, as well as fresh story arcs to hook new fans and rekindle the energy and excitement that fueled the ’90s Image Revolution.
“The ability to tell a story full of monsters, sexuality, vision, and history was irresistible,” said Bennett. “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.”
In Witchblade #1, New York City Police Detective Sara Pezzini’s life is 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?
>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.
When this is part of the pitch, the comic should never be made.
>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.
This is so clearly untrue
>Through last year’s Witchblade Complete Collection Kickstarter, the world received a glimpse of Silvestri’s Witchblade armor redesign. But now a whole new universe has been created by Cafaro to go with it. “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,” said Cafaro. “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!”
>Silvestri added: “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 Witchbladereimagined 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 17, at only $4.99 for 48 pages. The Final Order Cutoff deadline for comic shop retailers is Monday, June 24:
Cover A by Silvestri and Arif Prianto – Lunar Code 0524IM221
Cover B by Giuseppe Cafaro and Arif Prianto – Lunar Code 0524IM222
Cover C Blank Sketch Cover – Lunar Code 0524IM223
Cover D (1:10 copy incentive) by Dani and Brad Simpson – Lunar Code 0524IM224
Cover E (1:25 copy incentive) by Silvestri and Prianto, virgin cover – Lunar Code 0524IM225
Cover F (1:50 copy incentive) by J. Scott Campbell – Lunar Code 0524IM226
Cover G (1:100 copy incentive) by Bill Sienkiewicz – Lunar Code 0524IM227
Cover H (1:250 copy incentive) line art by Marc Silvestri, virgin cover, B&W inks – Lunar Code 0524IM228
>Witchblade #1 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
>Writer did DC Bombshells
>Cover is Sara covered up
Well its official. In the old debate of Lady Death vs Witchblade, Lady Death won by a mile.
Lady Death has superheroes now?
Coffin Comics version of Lady Death is 18 books in at this point. A lot has happen.
This is Lady Death's Daughter BTW.
Yeah totally not Emma Frost bro.
But is she a single mother like the Japanese version?
Do Lady satANUS next.
Emma invented white blonds in underwear?
Her sult brother is hotter
I wonder if they'll ever show how they wound up on Earth. Seance took them from Lady Death while she was put asleep, but what happened in between.
Her daughter is honestly a pretty boring design. The witches were far more interesting in that book.
Also she has a not-japanses clone because someone at coffin is a massive weeb.
>In the old debate of Lady Death vs Witchblade,
That was a thing?
Was it terms of sex appeal or power levels or both?
>sex appeal and cheescake
Pre-internet waifu battling for the most part.
Probably but at the same time, Chaos Comics died via bankruptcy so who knows what other nonsense they'd have to go through in order to reprint everything.
On that note, was the Chaos Dynamite knockoff "Lady Hel" any good?
Related side note: I wonder if Pulido regrets rejecting Dynamite's offer when they wanted to reprint the old Chaos books a few years ago.
He absolutely does, and he seethes about no longer having Evil Ernie. I like Pulido a lot, but it's true. Mentioning Dynamite Chaos is strongly discouraged in his official Facebook group.
At this point, I wish he'd buy them back, if he could. Judging by his new headquarters in Arizona, he and Francesca are certainly doing well. I just don't know the legal crap behind all that.
I don't think Dynamite has ever sold off something they owned before. If they can work out a deal they should go for it. They obviously don't know how to make it work, nothing they've tried has lasted
Yeah. Not to mention for a long stretch, they weren't doing anything with the characters at all. At least now they're trying something, it's just not really working. I've seen complaints that the newest Purgatori books are Purgatori in name only. Her personality is completely changed.
I was in contact with someone at Dynamite for awhile a couple years ago, and the story they relayed to me is that they wanted to start small and "extend an olive branch" by just doing a facsimile reprint of the first Evil Ernie comic, which would have hopefully lead into collected editions of the original CHAOS books, but from what I understand (I didn't press the guy for specifics), either Dynamite didn't offer Pulido enough, or Pulido just out-right refused to agree to it. They wanted to do it for the 30th anniversary of CHAOS a few years ago, and whatever happened at that time has made them a bit hesitant to try again.
Dynamite has been lumping in the CHAOS characters in a lot of crossovers these past few years, starting with the Red Sonja one, then the Die!Namite line, and now they're regular supporting characters in Preist's Vampirella books. Evil Ernie got a stand-alone reboot, but it didn't last very long.
Coffin verse is a lot nicer version
She was even kind of quippy, or at least sarcastic, a couple of times in the first few issues. They ditched that pretty quickly.
> a lot to say about power in the 21st century.
This sounds like a "woman wielding power in man's world story."
Based. I'm glad you neckbeards hate it. More for me.
>Not posting all the images, come on!
This is my favorite cover of the three tbh. They should have gotten this artist to do the interiors because they make this costume actually look good
I actually like this art.
>“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!”
I hate how people sell their books or describe their work like this though, which is nothing new I suppose. "It's like a cross between [thing] and [thing] and [thing]!" I guess you have to shorthand it for the dummies somehow.
Alright, it's got a kind of late nineties feel to it; it does feel a lot more like original Witchblade than the Kittreddge run. But there's something off about that outfit. It's not even that's it's too prudish. It's millimetres away from a nipslip. It just looks... odd. The design on the chest and stomach is bizarre.
Alright, I'm cautiously optimistic that these will be readable. But this is not Kenneth Irons. Irons has loose strands of hair that fall over his forehead. Understand the key defining features that make characters recognisable when you change artist.
Hmm they made Irons old, and Nottingham less of a pretty boy so he's not 1:1 with Jackie the Darkness, the only real cosmetic changes.
Okay loose version of the full armor, the colors are fricked up, the armor should be darker or textured different, it clashes with her skin, you lose the effect of the plunging neckline and it ends up looking like ja full body suit
I prefer the Witchblade tearing away at Sara's clothes, it really nailed home she isn't in control, even tho she always is.
It couldn't be worse than the last one, COULD IT?
>Kenneth Irons
>Both hands clearly visible
GARBAGE
>either Dynamite didn't offer Pulido enough, or Pulido just out-right refused to agree to it.
Honestly, either is possible. It kind of sucks, because I'd love to get that old chaos! stuff reprinted. Luckily, you can find back issues relatively easily and they're not super pricey on average either, unless you want first printings of Evil Ernie Eternity stuff.
I know Pulido can probably be pretty cagey with publishers. From what I've read, he had a horrible experience with Boundless. Supposedly they actually wanted him off Lady Death, somehow. He wound up taking them to court and has been self-publishing through Coffin ever since.
Forgot my quote
sorry.
Anyway, Brian talking about an "evil publisher" and a lawsuit, meaning Boundless. So yeah, I can kind of understand his saltiness in general.
Boundless Comics, imprint of Avatar Press being shitty evil publishers makes sense. They own that scumsite Bleeding Cool as well.
>Avatar Press
All I know about Avatar is that they're where your favorite writers become their absolute worst
Also they published Crossed, which is (unfortunately) among babies' first non-Marvel/DC/licensed comics
The pitch with Avatar Press is complete creative freedom with ZERO EDITORIAL oversight on anything. They just threw money at famous writers (not artists tho) and it failed spectacularly. Turns out, not thinking about making money in hopes that one of your "genius talents" will write the next big thing doesn't work.
Hence why Boundless turned into a porn imprint where there a twenty variant covers which (and I am not exaggerating) depict sex, anal, and pissing. The sex in that shit wasn't even good.
Pulidi had an Avatar titled called Belladonna that fell to that fate. It was a pretty standard Pulido, but not one of his best works. Somehow Boundless got the character, maybe he sold her, and they "revamped" her design and turned it into yet another dime a dozen hardcore porn and violence book.
Did not know that. Took a looksee and well, why does the non-pornographic version wear less clothes than the porn version?
Good question, i just chalk ot up to Pulodo liking his cheesecake. I think that's what tricked me into flipping through it online. Then I got to the hardcore piss porn and stopped caring.
I have a theory that we have another Angela situation i.e. Boundless owns the character but not her original design. Or that was part of the settlement. Either way, just looking at both versions, there's a clear difference in style in addition to subject matter.
I know the phrase "Safe Horny" gets thrown around a lot but I honestly prefer that in my comics versus the murder porn in a Boundless book.
I don't care how "prudish" it makes me, I hate hardcore in comics. It's one of the things the old days did better, they had restraint in that area.
Pulidos most explicit title now is Hellwitch, but even that is nowhere near Boundless shit. It's still enough that it sometimes annoys me though.
It's not prudish. It's being normal. Porn is fine in a porn comic. In anything else, it just seems out of place.
I do love me a topless titty cover tho.
If there one thing comics have thought me is that creators and publisher hate each other.
They probably just agreed to never talk, not that coffin hurting sense apparently Pulido getting a new office soon
>It's a reboot being updated for the modern day
At least her creators not around to see this happen to his baby.
Turner isn't, I'm not sure where Wohl and Christina Z are but they probably don't care
Silvestri is the creator. He hired them.
It amazes me how people who are fans of these cheesecake characters barely know the creators, lol.
All four are credited as creating the character in issue 1