On the 6th Day of Gifting…Fanboys vs. Zombies was FREE!

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One is a decrepit mob of gurgling, ravenous fiends…and the other is a zombie outbreak. When there is no more room in Hell, the undead shall take over Comic-Con! A crew of feuding best friends find themselves trapped inside America’s largest comic convention transformed into a seething cauldron of zombies. Is a horde of starving brain-eaters any match against reflexes battle-hardened by video games, nerves tested by horror flicks, and courage crystallized by comic books? Find out as an unlikely band of nerds use their genre savvy to survive in Fanboys vs. Zombies! Written by indie sensation Sam Humphries (Our Love is Real) with art by hot new talent Jerry Gaylord!

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Oh…and while you’re at it don’t forget to give the gift of hilarious zombie action to a friend…Tis’ the season after all and be sure to check back in 24 hours for another FREE comic download.

It’s Adventure Time! This Weekend on ComiXology and We’ve got the Half-Price Sale to Prove it!

Get ready for Adventure! This weekend we are cutting the price on the first six issues of the Fan favorite series that has taken the comic book world by storm this year! Read Adventure Time #1 - 6 for half-price now!

It’s Adventure Time! Join Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, and Princess Bubblegum for all-new adventures through The Land of Ooo. The top-rated Cartoon Network show now has its own comic book! With the show exploding in the ratings, garnering rave online reviews, major cosplay at the San Diego Comic-Con, and huge displays dominating the New York Comic Con, it’s clear fandom is obsessed and 2012 is the Year of Adventure Time! Don’t miss out on this new phenomenon!

Just in time for the debut of the all-new cartoon show Bravest Warriors from the creators of Adventure Time pick up these half-price issue today!

New Upgrade to BOOM! Studios iOS App Now Available

BOOM! Studios fans have something to celebrate as a new update comes to the BOOM! Comics iOS app today! This new release includes major design improvements, accelerated speeds, and an ever-expanding library of BOOM! digital comics available through new search functionality.

BOOM! Studios fans will be happy to know that while major improvements have been made, the BOOM! Studios by comiXology app for iOS still includes many of the features that have made the BOOM! Studios app a must-have for comic book fans everywhere, like comiXology‘s patent-pending Guided View™ Technology; that includes a wide variety of viewing options and preferences, enabling users to set transition speeds, page orientations and so much more.

28 Days Later, Adventure Time, Irredeemable, Incorruptible and all your favorites from BOOM! Studios are waiting.  Don’t be left in the dust, upgrade to the new BOOM! Studios app today!

The comiXologist Episode #32.1 – An Interview with Michael Alan Nelson

Jake sat down via satellite with Michael Alan Nelson to talk 28 DAYS LATER, favorite moments, living in a dark apocalyptic future, zombie vs infected, and what he’s reading!

Setlist goes something like this:

• 28 DAYS LATER = awesome comic
• How did Michael become the writer?
• Capturing the tone of the movie (3.20)
• Favorite moments (5.17)
• What are the lines you’d cross? (eat or be eaten) (7.30)
• What is Michael working on now? (that he can talk about) (10.15)
• What is Michael Alan Nelson reading? (12.06)

This Week – Brace Yourselves for the 28 DAYS LATER Sale!

Download BOOM! Studios 28 DAYS LATER for half-price on comiXology now!

For the next three days pick up the complete 28 DAYS LATER comic series for only $0.99 cents an issue or in the brand new digital omnibus edition for only $19.99.

28 DAYS LATER comes to comics as an ongoing series, connecting the film 28 DAYS LATER to its sequel 28 WEEKS LATER! Focusing on Selena, one of the three survivors of the first film, as she embarks on an epic journey of her return to Great Britain! Scripted by HEXED and FALL OF CTHULHU’S Michael Alan Nelson and drawn by Declan Shalvey.

There is no escape from the horrific world of 28 DAYS LATER, the graphic novel series that plunges readers back into the fray of a world overrun with the Infected! Selena and her new comrades struggle against the infected, the American presence in the UK… and themselves. Selena is a survivor but even she must give pause when the mission has her breaking into the land she fought so hard to get out of.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you did; if you are infected, Selena will give no mercy. Selena teaches the rest of her team the cold, hard truth of what it takes to survive in the UK after the infection has spread. Will they learn? They must.

Experience all the horror of the comic with half price issues  and the brand new digital omnibus from BOOM! Studios and comiXology today!

This Week – 50% off Mark Waid’s Irredeemable

Download half-price issues of Mark Waid’s Irredeemable this week on Comixology!

Irredeemable dares to ask the question: what if the world’s greatest hero decided to become the world’s greatest villain? A ‘twilight of the superheroes’-style story that examines super-villains from the writer of Kingdom Come.

Now as this ground-breaking series spirals toward it’s epic conclusion get caught up on everything with 50% off the story so far for the next 3 days.

Heroes are being picked off one-by-one in a brutal and viscous assault. They never stood a chance, never saw it coming. A small cadre of heroes race against time and space to stay alive and turn the tables. Does Plutonion’s past hold the key to his current deadly rampage? Or does it even matter?

As the Plutonian struggles with his past, the world is on the brink of nuclear apocalypse. Is there anything on Earth that can save the human race now? Or will that savior come from somewhere else?

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ComiXology New Releases This Wednesday – February 1st, 2012

It’s Here! Take a peak at this week’s Same Day as Print and New & Noteworthy books coming out this Wednesday on the Comics by comiXology platform! Get the insider info on just what digital comics will be out before they go live this week. This is your chance to get the scoop on the comics you want first from comiXology! Just remember, this list might be subject to some last minute changes — but right now this is pretty final. Enjoy!

Same Day As Print:

Archie

Sonic The Hedgehog #233

BOOM! Studios

Incorruptible #26
Irredeemable #34
Hellraiser  #10

DC Comics

Action Comics #6
Animal Man #6
Batwing #6
Detective Comics #6
Green Arrow #6
Hawk & Dove #6
iZOMBIE  #22
Justice League International  #6
Men of War  #6
OMAC #6
Red Lanterns #6
Static Shock #6
Stormwatch #6
Supernatural Vol.4
Swamp Thing #6
Sweet Tooth #30
DC Digital Comics Sneak Peeks 2/1/12
Batman: Arkham Unhinged #16
Justice League Beyond #1
Beyond the Fringe #4

Dynamite

The Boys #63
Kirby: Genesis – Captain Victory #3
Warriors Of Mars #1
Warlord Of Mars Annual #1
Robert Jordan’s Wheel Of Time: Eye Of The World #20

Image

Alpha Girl #1
Art Of Carbon Grey
Avengelyne Hc Vol 01
Fatale #2
Invincible #88
The Lil Depressed Boy Tp Vol 02
Reed Gunther #8
Savage Dragon #178
Strange Talent Of Luther Strode #5
Witchblade Redemption Tp Vol 04
Vescell #6

Marvel

Amazing Spider-Man #679
Avengers: The X-Sanction #3
Defenders #3
Fear Itself: The Fearless #8
Thor: The Deviants Saga #4
Uncanny X-Force #21
Uncanny X-Men #6
Villains For Hire #3
Venom #13
Winter Soldier #1
X-Club #3
X-Factor #231

New & Noteworthy Back Issues:

Alterna

Attack of the Alterna Zombies

Arcana

ShadowMagic
Spy School
Sterling
Stranger Danger
The Fix

Archie

Sabrina The Teenaged Witch Animated #27-32

Antartic

Gold Digger #34-37

Aspen

Soulfire: New World Order Beginnings
Soulfire: New World Order #0-1

Bluewater Productions

Female Force: Michelle Obama  #1
Orbit: Howard Stern  #1
Vincent Price Biography  #1
Misadventures of Adam West #1

BOOM! Studios

Incorruptible #25
Irredeemable  #33
Space Warped  #6
Too Much Coffee Man #1 Facsimile Edition

DC Comics

100 Bullets  #72
Batman: Gotham Knights  #69-72
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight  #44-50
Batman: Shadow of the Bat  #55-58
Countdown to Final Crisis  #10-15
Detective Comics (1937-2011)  #800-816
Fables #96
Hellblazer #138-139
Jack of Fables  #46
Kamandi: The Last Boy On Earth (1971-1978)  #13-18
Nightwing (1996-2009)  #67, #70-71
Teen Titans (2003-2011) #31-33, #42-44

IDW

Amazon: Heroic Tales #1-4
Amazon: Steel of a Soldier’s Heart
Biscuit & Lefty: A Cat’s Tale

Image

Savage Dragon #120-122
The Darkness #46-55

Marvel

Twelve #1-8
X-Men: Legacy #238-241
Astonishing Thor #1-5
Secret Warriors #17-19
Thor: The Deviants Saga #1-3
Deadpool Corps  #1-6

MTV Comics

The Gloom #4
Agent Mom #4

Oni Press

Wasteland #19-20

Red Light

A Series of Tubes #1

SLG

Amity Blamity #3

Top Shelf

American Elf (1998)
Yearbook Stories
Feeble Attempts

Zenescope

Grimm Fairy Tales #60
Grimm Fairy Tales: Dream Eater Saga #6
Theater #4
Tales From Wonderland: Red Rose

The 2011 comiXology Holiday Sale Guide

This year comiXology is pulling out all the stops to deliver the largest sale in the history of digital comics! This sale is so big and spans so many different publishers we thought it might be handy to guide some of you through exactly which publishers are offering what deals! The Holiday Sale is in full effect as of right now and here’s what’s being served up:

The 2011 Holiday Sale (beta HTML store link): With so many great offering from all our publishing partners there has never been a better time to be a digital comics fan! Here you will find some of 2011’s best digital comics at a great price! Check out offerings from BOOM! Studios, Oni Press, Image Comics, Dynamite Entertainment and IDW there is something for everybody this year and it’s all on sale!

DC Comics Batman 201 Sale (beta HTML store link):  It’s 201 digital comics at only $0.99 per issue. It’s everything from classic Silver Aged Caped Crusader To Grant Morison’s Pop Culture Opus making run through Batman & Robin. They’ve even thrown in some of the most popular issues of Dective Comics as well including the original Batwoman limited series as well as Scott Snyder’s recent fan favorite run on the series!

Marvel Major Players Sale (beta HTML store link): It’s 175 comics featuring Marvel’s biggest names. With loads of classic crossovers, ground breaking story lines and all your favorite Marvel Heroes and Villains. It’s Everything! With an epic-sized selection of individual comics priced at only $0.99 a piece. It’s all The Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men and Thor you will ever need at the price you’ve always wanted to pay! Don’t miss out on this awesome opportunity to get caught up on Marvel Comics in time for next year’s big events!

Of course all good things must come to an end but don’t worry this sale will be sticking around until 12/29 that’s plenty of time to fill up on some of these great digital comics, gift a few to your friends, and then come back for a second helping.  Enjoy the comics and Happy Holidays!

Let’s Get Digital: The Digital Comics Report for October 19th 2011

This week Doctor Who joins The IDW collection, Key of Z gets a Same Day as Print release, Marvel brings out The Fearless and DC continues to Rock the New 52! Plus more new comics from Image, Dynamite and all your favorite publishers. What are you waiting for? Let’s Get Digital

Same Day as Print

Batman #2- Batman hunts a new and deadly killer in Gotham City–a killer with a vendetta against Bruce Wayne! But who is this mysterious killer in an owl skull mask? And is he the key to unlocking one of Gotham’s oldest and most terrifying secrets?

Key of Z #1- From the creators of The Amory Wars saga and Kill Audio comes a deadly new vision of New York City! The zombie apocalypse has transformed the city into two separate battle-hardened fiefdoms! And only one man, whose family has been ripped away from him, stands between these two warring factions. Wielding an artifact from the past that imbues him with a surprising power, find out what happens when he discovers the Key of Z. Features a special zombiefied incentive cover by Tony Moore, co-creator of The Walking Dead!

Dungeons & Dragons #12-  The new story arc kicks off here! Fell’s Five has returned home, only to find shattering news for Khal. He’s heading home, and nothing will stand in his way! Join us as John Rogers and Andrea Di Vito bring us the latest chapter in their thrilling adventures of swords and sorcery!

68 (Sixty-Eight) #5- MINISERIES CONCLUSION! Captain Joe ‘Dunk’ Duncan, CIA agent Declan Rule, Doc Russo and a handful of hardened US troopers hold firebase Aries against hordes of Viet Cong, NVA regulars and the rotting risen dead. It’s ‘Custer’s Last Stand’ Vietnam-style in the action/horror filled conclusion to the series’ initial story arc.

Collections and Graphic Novels

Chew Vol. 2-  Collects Chew #6-10! Tony Chu, the cibopathic federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats, is on a bizarre new case. A newly discovered fruit takes Agent Chu to a remote island full of secrets, strangeness-and a shadowy killer with a particularly sinister appetite. Presenting the second storyline of IGN.com’s pick for Best Indie Series of 2009 and MTV Splash Page.com’s pick for Best New Series of 2009. Find out what the fuss is about in this latest a twisted and darkly funny comic about cops, crooks, cooks, cannibals and clairvoyants.

Okie Dokie Donuts: Open For Business!- Good morning! Welcome to Okie Dokie Donuts. Run by pastry pioneer and cunning culinarian, Big Mama! Okie Dokie Donuts is the best little donut shop in town! What’s her secret? Big Mama rolls in a heaping serving of love into each of her hand made creations! Loyal customers can’t get enough of her tantalizing turnovers.

New and Noteworthy

Doctor Who Vol. 2 #1-9- The Eleventh Doctor era starts here! When the TARDIS becomes infected with holographic spam, the Doctor, Amy, and Rory are forced to land on an alien world, but it’s been targeted for invasion by intergalactic mercenaries! Don’t miss the first adventures of the new Doctor and his companions in the latest volume of this critically acclaimed series.

Amazing Spider-Man #648-651 BIG TIME begins! Big changes are happening for Spider-Man: Bigger threats, bigger guest-stars, and a big opportunity that could turn Peter Parker’s life around! Guest starring The Avengers and The Fantastic Four!

Killing Pickman #4- Convicted child killer Richard Pickman now rots in a cell at Heorot maximum security prison. Has the evil been contained? All who have come into contact with Pickman are plagued with nightmares, paranoia, and thoughts of suicide. Pickman himself claims that he can simply ‘walk out’ of his prison whenever he chooses. Fearing for his life and the lives of all those whom he holds dear, Detective William Zhu does the unthinkable – he bribes a guard at the prison to make sure that Pickman’s life comes to an end!

Spaced Warped #2- Far away, in a land long ago…there was an orphaned farm kid with daddy issues trying to rescue an orphaned princess unaware of her daddy issues! In the tradition of Robot Chicken: Star Wars and Spaceballs, Space Warped continues, with a loving, affectionate parody of the greatest science fiction franchise of all time! The second of a two-issue mini-series, this is a fan-pleasing romp that is sure to deliver!

Check out the above titles plus the other 245 new books added to the comiXology collection this week. Tell us what you’re reading on Twitter and Facebook and be sure to keep an eye out for the latest in Digital Comics news right here!

Let’s Get Digital with 42 same-day-as-print digital comics!

This week 42 is the magic number. As in 42 Same Day as Print Digital Comics hitting the app! 42 New Reasons to update and download! 42 of the best comics around from all your favorite publishers! Today not only are we breaking the digital release record we are also introducing a new weekly segment in which we highlight a handful of the awesome comics available on comiXology!

The DC relauch readies for Round 2! while Marvel Mixes it up with Mystic, X-Men Schism, Spider-Island Heros for Hire and a FREE sneak peek at their upcoming Season One line! Plus Image Comics goes full on digital with a full release of all the best creator owned comics around! Its our biggest week yet so let’s get digital!

X-Men: Schism #5- The Final chapter in this years big X-Men Event! On one side, X-Men team leader, Cyclops. On the other, X-Men mainstay, Wolverine. Between them lies the fate of mutant-kind, and surrounding them, the foes who want to end them forever!

Action Comics #2- In his weakest moment, Superman is taken down – but by whom? And if the world wasn’t ready for a man with super powers, they’re utterly unprepared for the rage of a Superman cornered! The cornerstone character of the new DCU continues his debut adventure!

Sweet Tooth #26- Who is Captain James Thacker and what are he and his crew doing in the far northern reaches of Alaska? As Thacker and his crew man a deadly expedition, they will uncover secrets centuries old, but what does any of this have to do with Gus and Jepperd? The answers will shock you and change the course of SWEET TOOTH forever! A bold new storyline begins! Featuring special guest artist Matt Kindt (REVOLVER, Super Spy).

The Strange Talent of Luther Strode- Luther Strode is just your average nerd until he sends away for a bodybuilding course from an old comic book, one that works a whole lot better than he ever imagined. His newfound strength and strange talents make school a lot easier, but they’ve also caused some very, very bad people to take a very, very keen interest in him. Things will never be the same for Luther Strode…if he survives

Also of Note: The Walking Dead #89, Stormwatch #2, Detective Comics #2, Mystic #3, Severed #3, Moriarty #5, Betty #194

Collected Trades and Graphic Novels: The Complete Essex County, Abiding Perdition, Green Wake Vol. 1, Morning Glories Vol. 2, The Engineer: Konstruckt, Chew vol. 4, Tales From the Crypt Vol. 9

New & Noteworthy: I Rule the Night #7, Red Skull #3, Mega Man #4 Stan Lee’s The Traveler #10, In Maps and Legends #9, Wayward Sons #4, Detective Comics #871, Fear itself: The Fearless.

These are of course, just a few of the awesome comics out digitally this week from comiXology. Take a look at the full list on The Web, iOS and Android devices out today!