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!

Minck Oosterveer 1961-2011

“To watch Minck Oosterveer and Mark Wark collaborate on THE UNKNOWN was to watch two masters at the top of their game. Their confidence, craft, and friendship was something to behold. I’ll always look back on that series, and the collaboration, with fond memories. I know Mark and I both walked away from that experience hoping that we’d work with Minck for a long time to come.” -Matt Gagnon, Editor-in-Cheif, Boom Studios

Across the globe this week comic news sites are reporting the untimely passing of international comic book artist and illustrator Minck Oosterveer. Known mainly for his work on many European comics Oosterveer was only just beginning to find a following amongst American comic book fans from his work on titles like, Zombie Tales, The Unknown, and Marvel’s Ruse.

In honor of the memory of Minck Oosterveer, his life and work, BOOM! Studios is offering all issues of Mark Waid and Oosterveer’s THE UNKNOWN and THE UNKNOWN: DEVIL MADE FLESH for free.

comiXology Goes Live With Over 100 Comics Stores Through Their Retailer Digital Storefronts Program

Comic Stores Can Now Prosper From the Sale of Digital Comics From Top Comic Publishers

New York, NY- August 23^th, 2011 – comiXology in partnership with ICv2, today launched over 100 online storefronts to sell digital comics as a result of its Digital Storefront program for retailers.  Participating comic retailers have gone live with their deployment of a comiXology-powered store and reader, enabling them to prosper from the sale of digital comics from top comic publishers, including DC Comics, Image, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite and many more. Also, in conjunction with DC and their Relaunch, all participating retailers will be able to sell all the same day as print comics.

Announced in January, the Digital Storefront program enables retailers the ability to sell digital comics with a simple integration into their existing site while tapping into comiXology’s vibrant digital marketplace. Any comic book fan will now be able to purchase digital comics online from their local comic store’s digital storefront with a portion of each purchase going directly to the retailer. All digital purchases will be compatible with the Comics by comiXology platform, providing fans the ability to enjoy their comics on their mobile devices (iOS and Android) and on the Web at their retailer’s websites by way of cross-platform synchronization.

“These retailers have put their trust in us from day one and we’re excited to make good on our commitment to bring them into the vibrant digital marketplace leveraging comiXology’s technology as a backbone for their success,” said David Steinberger, CEO of comiXology. “We have been working hard with our retail and publishing partners to make this program a reality for the benefit of the comic industry and take pride in starting to see it come to fruition.  We look forward to continuing on this important initiative and celebrating its success with all our partners.”

comiXology’s participating publishers DC Comics, Image, BOOM! Studios, Dynamite benefit from comiXology’s Digital Storefront Affiliate program through wider distribution on the Web and by strengthening the relationships between publishers, comic stores, and fans that have so successfully made comics a major force in world culture.

Stan Lee and Boom! Studios 3-Day Sale

Stan Lee’s come back to comics in a big way this year! Teaming up Boom! Studios and some of the best talent in the industry to develop brand heroes that have really hit their marks. This week comiXology is letting readers experience all the action, adventure and intrigue of Stan Lee’s Boom! Books for half-off the normal price.

It’s the perfect time to see what all the buzz is about or get caught up on your new favorites from the past year. On sale for the next three days get Stan Lee’s Soldier Zero, The Traveler, and Starborn at 50% off. Pick up all 25 issues at a price that is out of this world, but don’t delay because this sale won’t last long.

• When an alien parasite falls to Earth, wheelchair-bound college student Stewart Travers becomes infected, and goes through super-human changes that no mortal could imagine. Forced into a galactic war that’s chosen Earth as the battlefield, Stewart defends the front line as… Soldier Zero!

• The mysterious hero known only as The Traveler battles the forces of evil in a time-bending thriller that finds all of history – and the future – hanging in the balance! He calls himself the Traveler. He has the power to warp and bend time to his will. But who is he? Where has he come from? And more importantly: what is coming after him?

• Benjamin Warner is a failed fantasy novelist, always dreaming of far off worlds and exciting adventures. But when a familiar face reenters his life, and devastating trouble follows, Benjamin learns his rejected stories weren’t fiction but memories of his home planet! Benjamin’s forgotten past comes crashing down around him as he finds himself at the center of a galactic war and is forced to face the truth that he is not of this world!

Boom! Studios Brings The Peanuts to comiXology

Perhaps the most influential cartoonist of his generation. The Legacy of Charles Schultz lives on in many a comic book artist and writer today. Charlie Brown is one of the single most recognized characters in the World. The Peanuts strips have been enjoyed by generations of eager fans ready to laugh, live and pass on their enjoyment of Schultz work to audience of all ages.

Now Snoopy, Woodstock and all the rest ready to make their digital debut for the first time in an all new Graphic Novel that serves as both a homage to Schultz’s influence as well as a testament to the great characters fans the world over have grown up with. This week Boom! Studios released a brand new Peanuts Book “Happiness is a Warm Blanket Charlie Brown” on comiXology and we couldn’t be happier to have it as part of our colllection.

While, this is a new book untouched by the late Peanuts creator’s hand it bears all the hallmarks fans have come to love. Stephen Pastis of Pearls before swine and Schultz’s own son Craig prove that brilliant storytelling and master craftsmanship are timeless. Ol’ blockhead is at his finest here, as Boom! Studios carries the torch with honor doing justice to the work of Schultz by maintaining the genuine integrity of his characters.

Charles Schulz’s world-renowned comic strip, Peanuts, takes the stage as a graphic novel! Adapted from the animated special, Happiness is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown, this timeless retelling takes us back to the neighborhood and features Linus’ insecurities, Charlie Brown’s kite-flying woes, Lucy’s unrequited love for Schroeder, and everyone’s favorite beagle, Snoopy, in a lively and colorful spin through Charles Schulz’s imagination.

Get Ready for the Rise of The Planet of The Apes.

In preparation for the summer blockbuster comiXology is rolling out another exclusive digital comic tie-in. This time the apes are on the rise and ready to take over your digital reader device just in time for RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES.

A free online digital comic book prequel to Twentieth Century Fox’s epic motion picture RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES. The comic, whose story is set before the events detailed in the film, presents an epic tale of two apes brutally taken from the wild and driven into a life of captivity and experimentation – a journey that will alter the fate of the world forever.

Acclaimed PLANET OF THE APES comic series writer Daryl Gregory and sensational artists Damian Couceiro (HAWKS OF OUTREMER) and Tony Parker (DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?) set the stage for… RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES, the first live-action film in the history of movies to star and be told from the point of view of a sentient animal – a character with human-like qualities, who can strategize, organize and ultimately lead a revolution, and with whom audiences will experience a real emotional bond. The film was impossible to make until the technology, invented for Avatar and now advanced to a new dimension, caught up to the idea behind the movie. A new free five page RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES digital comic book story debuts each Wednesday until the final 10 page epic conclusion on August 3rd, two days before the film’s release!

Keep an eye out over the coming weeks for the additional prequel chapters to find out what happens before the film hits theaters! Plus don’t forget to check back often for more upcoming new releases from Boom! Studios and other great publishers. This summer the apes are on the rise, and it all starts right here on comiXology.

Fall of Cthulhu 3-Day Half-Off Sale

When gods go to war! A epic ongoing exploring Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The 1928 publication of The Call of Cthulhu established one of the most feared characters in the history of horror fiction: a terrible alien god capable of worldwide destruction. But Cthulhu was actually only one of the minor gods in Lovecraft’s pantheon – there are things far bigger, badder, and meaner roaming the cosmos, ready to come to call.

From the writer that Rue Morgue Magazine called “The next Brian K. Vaughn or Robert Kirkman”! Forces are moving in the cosmos. Mankind is on the verge of facing alien beings far beyond its kin. Is another call for Cthulhu just starting to begin? Human innocents are caught in the middle and not prepared for the real truth – which will drive them to the brink of insanity. What happens in a world of Lovecraftian darkness when a god is fated to die? What things are more vast than the Elder Gods?

Find out this week with Half-Price issues of Fall of Cthulhu volumes 1&2 from Boom! Studios. That’s 11 issues of comics for a buck a piece. Get all the spine tingling chills and horror-fueld thrills you can handle for the next three days! So whether you are new to the series or a long-time fan of all things Lovecraft, find out what awaits in the nightmarish world of Fall of Cthulhu…that is of course if you think you’re brave enough!

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Three Day Sale

Looking to save a few penny’s after the long weekend? Why not check out a new comic series at half-price for the next three days. That’s right this week comixology and BOOM! Studios are slashing the price on the award-winning adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

The book that inspired the film Blade Runner comes to BOOM! with backmatter by Warren Ellis! Visionary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? has been called a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today’ and served as the basis for the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner.

San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War killed millions, driving entire species to extinction, and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep – even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids – they’re machines, but look, sound, and think like humans, clever, and most of all, dangerous humans. Rick Deckard, Pris, The Voight-Kampff Test, Nexus 6 androids, the Tyrell Corporation: join BOOM! Studios as the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel…

Don’t miss out on this spectacular deal. Get issues #1-21 for half-price during the next three days. The sale ends on June 2nd at 11pm EST so don’t delay add these incredible issues to your collection today!

Incorruptible 3-Day Half off Sale

Super villain Max Damage had an epiphany the day The Plutonian destroyed Sky City. When The Plutonian turned his back on humanity, Max Damage decided to step up. Now Max Damage has changed his name to Max Daring and turned from his formerly selfish ways to become Incorruptible. The flip side to this year’s break-out smash hit, examining the hard, difficult road to changing your ways and making a difference in the world. Covers by Tim Sale and John Cassaday.

Hot off the heels of our three day Irredeemable half-off sale, we’re hooking you up with the other side of the story. That’s right from now until 4/28 comiXology and Boom! studio’s are teaming up to deliver another awesome sale! Get all fifteen previously released issues of the expolsive counter-point to irredeemable. Incorruptible!

With one of society’s most notorious enemies closing in on Max Damage’s unlikely team of super-powered allies and the world distrustful of the reformed supervillain’s claims of virtue, can Max remain Incorruptible? Or will he turn on those he’s sworn to protect?

Find out for half the cover price of a normal when you download over the next three days. Don’t wait this sale won’t last forever and missing out would be just plain inconceivable!

Irredeemable 3-day Half Off Sale!

It’s been called “Bold,” Fresh,” “Groundbreaking” and  ”Explosively Entertaining” since issue #1 hit the stands back in 2009. Since then it’s gone on to win awards, gain fans, and even launch it’s own spin off series. Now in celebration of all things Irredeemable comiXology is having a three day sale on Mark Waid’s dark super hero saga from now until April 21st!

Check out the series from the beginning or get caught up on the issues missing from your collection. For three days, ending 4/21 at 11pm, issues #1-23 plus the not to be missed 25 page Irredeemable special will be available for only $0.99 making it the perfect time to add this series to your digital library!

Check it out on the  Comics by comiXology app, the exclusive Boom! Studios app, in our web store or even on Android and remember all our books are “buy once, read anywhere” so you can transfer your purchases from device to device as your collection grows!

What happens when the greatest hero the world has ever known decides to one day play the villain instead? Find out in Mark Waid’s Irredeemable and prepare to be shocked!