Bomb Scares

Bomb Scares is a new horror comic anthology showcasing a truly frightening array of artists and writers. Intended as an annual release over the next three years, this first anthology collection due to be published later this month. That's right - later this month - as every page is already fully completed and ready for printing!

The concept of Bomb Scares is a simple one: Inspired by the notorious EC horror comics of the fifties, I wanted to produce a modern horror anthology that would scare, bemuse and repulse - and throw in a dash of unexpected humour too!

To do this, we aimed high and recruited respected editor Paul H Birch to help put together a truly breathtaking array of comics talent for this first volume - including creators such as Mike (Deathlok, Captain America) Perkins, Luca (Spider-Man, Black Knight) Pizzari, and Gary (Westernoir) Crutchley. We also have 2000AD artists Richard Elson and Dave Kendall who collaborated for the first time to produce the incredible Bomb Scares painted cover.

Bomb Scares features graphic stories of cutting edge horror. The artwork throughout is breathtaking - each of the artists involved producing some incredible pages of comic art to realise the dark and macabre tales of the writers they collaborated with.Unlike previous launches, Bomb Scares will be available as a pre-order option through Kickstarter - which will be offering the complete Bomb Scares book in both print and digital editions much cheaper than cover price. 

You can pre-order your copy of Bomb Scares here: Bomb Scares Pre-Order

Defiantly Joining the Digital Revolution!

For those of you who've been following Time Bomb Comics for a few years, you'll recall that we've dipped our toe into digital publishing already.  Although we'll be the first to admit that it's been a bit half-hearted, and our focus has very much been on the physical, printed side of things.  We'll also admit that a lot of that has been due to the fact than when we first dabbled digitally back in 2010/2011 we found it a bit random. Lots of platforms, vying with one another, and all a bit confusing.

Over the last couple of years, though, we've noticed that things have become a little more settled, and a lot more professional, with a handful of digital distributors making huge inroads to provide a service that seem to generate a lot of positive feedback from the readers who download and the publishers who upload.  One such is DriveThruComics, who we've decided to distribute Defiant through as a digital download.

It's still very much an experiment for us, we still don't really know what to expect, but we do know that if it seems a popular means of reading our comics we'll be looking at providing our full range of titles through DriveThruComics - including those that are now out of print!

Buy Defiant digitally here!

Defiant: The Legend of Brithnoth

Writer: Andy Winter

Artists: Daniel Bell & Aljosa Tomic

92 pages, Graphic Album, Perfect Bound, Full Colour.

Retail price £14.99/$19.99

Sacrifice… Madness… Death… Betrayal

August 10, 991AD, and a fleet of Viking longships containing 3000 men sail up the River Pant in Essex to the fortified town of Maldon.  Led by the king of Denmark the Norsemen aim to ransack the town and kill as many inhabitants as they can.

Brithnoth, an old soldier and one of the most powerful men in England, assembles a small army and prepares to stand defiant against the coming onslaught.

Defiant: The Legend Of Brithnoth is a hard-hitting historical adventure based on true events that continue to cause furious debate more than a thousand years later!

Longship Finally Sets Sail!

Finally!

Three years ago, in August 2011, we received Lawrence Rider's pitch for Longship. This weekend Time Bomb Comics will be launching the completed book at the ICE convention here in Birmingham.  Given that we found Lawrence's eventual co-creator Rebecca Teall at a Birmingham convention shortly after we received his first draft seems to make everything come full circle - and adds to the sense of closure.

Three years. That's a long time for a 50 page comic to be created, but sometimes it's worth waiting that little bit longer for something. During that time we published 4 other titles - and as each one of those reached their launch dates Longship continued to slowly bubble away in the background, steadily coming together to become something that we, and everyone else that has seen it so far, seems to get quite excited about.

It's a book with a lot of firsts. It's the first comics work that Lawrence and Rebecca have produced (which considering the quality of the finished article is really quite something), it's the first title that we have released in a hardcover edition as well as our standard softcover format, and it's the first book that we've received emails requesting copies for before we've solicited it anywhere. Add in to the mix that the advance reviews that Longship's received have been, well, amazing - we even got coverage on the Bleeding Cool website - and you've got something which we think is pretty special.

But then, we knew that three years ago.

(And you can still try and snag one of the limited hardcovers for yourself by forwarding £15 via Paypal to sales@timebombcomics.com)

Pre-Order An Exclusive Longship Hardcover!

Based on the overwhelmingly positive advance reviews of Longship (that you can see over on the official Facebook Longship page here) we're delighted to announce that we'll be releasing a very limited hardcover edition of Longship alongside the standard softcover edition!

This is really exciting for us - it's the first time we've released a hardcover and it's going to be something special because it's going to be strictly limited to just 50 copies!

Naturally, it will be numbered and signed by the full creative team - that's writer Lawrence Rider, artist Rebecca Teall and editor Steve Tanner of course - and the cost of the hardcover will be just £15!

But, and isn't there always a but, due to the cost these limited editions are to produce we really need to be sure we can get at least 30 copies sold, so we're also pleased to let you now that we are taking pre-orders for the hardcovers now that can either be collected direct from us at the launch of Longship at the Birmingham ICE convention on 2nd August or posted to any worldwide address!

Also, as a special thank-you to anyone who pre-orders a Longship hardcover we'll also include another limited edition at no further cost - a copy of "The Orb" print, which is a wonderful, quirky story produced by Lawrence and Rebecca that is ideal for framing!

Here's the pre-order prices and ordering instructions:

Limited Hardcover collected at the launch convention - £15

Limited Hardcover posted to any UK address - £18

Limited Hardcover posted to any other address worldwide - £15 for the book, but please contact us so we can let you know how much the postage would be for you.

Payment must be via Paypal to sales@timebombcomics.com and please ensure you include the full delivery address.

Any pre-ordered hardcovers will be posted out early August. 

Needless to say this is a perfect opportunity to get hold of a very special edition of Longship - and would make a pretty cool gift for someone, too!

Now Available To Pre-order From Previews!

The latest issue of Diamond's Previews catalogue (May 2014) features both Squadron of the Screaming Damned and Longship available to pre-order  - and you can see our listing in the photo above!

Needless to say, if you haven't already done so ask your local comics shop to order some copies in before the pre-order cut-off date in a couple of weeks.  Let us know too - it's always good to know which retailers out there are particularly Time Bomb friendly!

New Charlotte Corday Website Launched!

We're delighted to share the news that Charlotte Corday - that multidimensional super-spy who features in our London Calling and Squadron of the Screaming Damned books - now has her own official web presence at http://www.charlotte-corday.com/ where information about all her upcoming exploits can be found!

Created by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page, as well as her Time Bomb Comics dalliances Charlotte has a variety of other guises including her steampunk astronaut persona (seen above) that featured in the Iron Moon graphic album published by Strip Media a few years ago.

Our most recent adventure featuring Charlotte - the aformentioned Squadron of the Screaming Damned - will also be finally available for all UK comic shops to order through Diamond in their May Previews catalogue that will be published shortly.

Needless to say,  future adventures featuring not just Charlotte but also some of her eclectic supporting cast are in the pipeline - so watch this space!