Artist Derek Hunter has graciously offered Big Shiny Robot! an exclusive preview of his upcoming Pirate Club story, “The Legend of Bluedick’s Ghost”, scripted by Pirate Club newcomer, Jason Young (younger brother of Pirate Club regular, Bryan Young).

These are the first four pages, Derek tells us he’s still working on it and he and the rest of the Pirate Club crew are frequent visitors to the site, so be sure to let them know what you think of this piece.

Bluedick’s Ghost will see print soon. Check back and we’ll have an interview with Derek Hunter.  Pirate Club is published by Slave Labor Graphics and you can find the trades of the first 10 issues of the original series here.

Marvel Comics was kind enough to let us have a preview of this really cool looking Humberto Ramos pencilled relaunch of Runaways.

Enjoy.

Marvel has been kind enough to provide us with an action packed 6 page preview that you can check out below and check back to Big Shiny Robot again on Sunday for a full review! Let’s be honest, Venom isn’t one of Spider-Man’s best written villains. Nor one of Marvels. Bendis is doing a great job of changing that. Do NOT miss this one.

Ed Brubaker and Greg Rucka continue their amazing run on Daredevil with Daredevil #110! Marvel has been kind enough to provide us with an action packed 6 page preview that you can check out below and check back to Big Shiny Robot again on Sunday for a full review! If you haven’t been keeping up with this award winning run, catch up with the free Marvel Digital Comic recapping everything that’s happened so far! I wrote about it earlier this week here!

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Arse-Bot here with some exciting news for all you DD fans out there! Marvel.com is offering DareDevil by Ed Brubaker Saga to read for FREE on Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited! This saga will catch you up on what’s been going on in The Man Without Fear’s world since Mr. Brubaker has been writing, and let me tell you, it’s been fucking amazing. DareDevil is back to being a bad ass, from kicking some ass in prison, to kicking fake DareDevil’s ass, and just pretty much a lot of ass kicking in general. It really has been a great run and the stakes are raised every issue as Matt Murdock becomes a man closer to going over the edge every day.

Included is also a preview of DareDevil’s next great villain, Lady Bullseye, whether she is friend or foe is the big question, but we will start to find out in Daredevil #111, until then, catch up on the Eisner and Harvey-award winning run here!

Marvel has provided us with a preview of X-Men: Magneto Testament #1 thats due out on September 10th, so of course we are throwing it up here for your viewing pleasure. It will be interesting to see if that Magneto origins movie that is supposedly in the works will borrow anything from this…

“Before he was the Master of Magnetism and the most radical mutant rights activist mankind has ever seen – Magneto was just a boy growing up in Nazi Germany. In the Marvel Knights tradition of Spider-Man: Reign and Silver Surfer: Requiem comes X-Men: Magneto Testament #1 (of 5)! Witness the evolution of one of the most popular and controversial X-Men villains of all time! Superstar writer Greg Pak (World War Hulk, Incredible Hercules) is taking fans back to the year 1935 to show the difficulties and horrors Erik Lensherr faced growing up Jewish in Nazi occupied Germany. From award-winning artist Carmine Di Giandomenico (Daredevil: Batllin’ Jack Murdock), comes the definitive origin story of the Master of Magnetism! It all begins with a silver chain, a first crush, and a dictator’s rise to power…”

Arse-Bot here with a preview for True Believers #2 for all of you from Marvel! I can only give you a taste of 5 pages right now, but be sure to check back tomorrow for my full review!

In honor of Michael Turner’s passing, Marvel announced today that they will be running the next two issues of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness’ run of Hulk with Michael Turner variant covers.

For those of you not reading this run of Hulk anyway, it’s really, really cool.  The latest issue had the mysterious Red Hulk pounding Thor into oblivion and exiling both he and Mjolnir to the surface of the moon.  And the ending…  well….  wow…  The ending teams up pretty much all the heaviest hitters in the Marvel U in order to take down this Red Hulk.

It’s going to be cool.

Marvels statement about the covers (previewed below):

“Living in a world without Mike is something I could never imagine,” said Hulk scribe Jeph Loeb. “He was the greatest guy. The. Greatest.  I wanted some way to share my love of his artwork and at the same time give something to the fans — who were more important to Mike than anyone can imagine — and spoke to Marvel about doing these covers.  They are pieces Mike did of the Green Hulk (one as a gift to Frank Mastromauro)and Peter Steigerwald of Aspen Comics did the recoloring and remastering.  It was terribly important to me that Peter and Aspen got to be part of this as well.  They are a celebration of Mike’s enormous talent and in turn, his life.  Enjoy.”

“Michael represented the best of us both professionally and personally. He was a true superstar,” said Dan Buckley, Marvel President & Publisher.

Hulk #6 goes on sale 9/24/2008 and ships with 50/50 covers by Ed McGuinness and Michael Turner.

Hulk #7 goes on sale 10/22/2008 and ships 50/50 covers by Art Adams & Frank Cho (who take over the book for at least this issue) and Michael Turner.

Arse-bot here with a ‘sorta-preview’ of Virgin Comics‘ Blade of the Warrior: Kshatriya #1. It is actually on shelves as of today (August 13th) so be sure to check it out if this looks like your cup of joe!

“An exiled prince, whose kingdom was stolen by his demonic brother, returns for revenge in this epic sword-and-sorcery tale of bravery, retribution and family war set in a mysterious eastern kingdom.  Torn between vengeance and honor, and forced to survive only with his wits and the mystic black blade he wields more fiercely than any man, Kshatriya’s (shut-ree-yuh) path is paved with blood on his journey to becoming the greatest warrior the world has ever known.”

“Deadpool’s characterization is really fascinating. Daniel Way explores our favorite Merc-with-a-Mouth’s delusions of grandeur and self-image… This is wonderful character exploration.” – Steven M. Bari of ComicBulletin.com

That’s right robots, the Merc With A Mouth is back in his own, new ongoing series! Marvel has been kind enough to provide us with a preview of the upcoming series which spins straight out of Secret Invasion! This new series is written by Daniel Way (Wolverine Origins, Ghost Rider, Bullseye: Greatest Hits) with art by Paco Medina (New Warriors, New X-Men)! This bot has always been a big fan of Deadpool when he’s written correctly and Way is doing a great job! Be sure to check this out when it hits shelves on September 3rd, but in the mean time, check out some preview pages below!