The Return of Rob Liefeld's NEWMEN

Hey 247 Comics Fam,

Rob Liefeld is one of the all time greats in comics.

This guy made history, he impacted the comic book industry as much as anyone has. He created Deadpool, Cable and X-Force for Marvel, all when he was around twenty years old. Then at age 23, he became one of the co-founders of Image Comics. He was the one who brought Image to Malibu for distribution. He created their flagship title Youngblood, which set records and launched Image into the stratosphere. He’s created thousands of characters for Marvel and for his work. He was such an iconic part of comics during the ‘90s heyday, he was even featured in a Spike Jonze Levi’s commercial.

I call him Pastor Rob. I always tune into his podcast Robservation during my runs in the morning. If you haven’t checked it out, you need to.

Which is why I’m so thrilled for 247 Comics to present a newly remastered version of Rob Liefeld’s NEWMEN.

In NEWMEN, a group of ‘Nu-Gene” positive adolescents, born with alien DNA that gives them superhuman abilities, band together to navigate a world that fears their extraterrestrial powers and the growing threat posed by their existence.

Rob Liefeld created NEWMEN, with scripts by Eric Stephenson (the current publisher of Image Comics) and art by Jeff Matsuda. It’s coming to you from 247 Comics this fall. But before that, we will have a limited number of copies available of NEWMEN Special #1 at San Diego Comic-Con.

NEWMEN Special #1 comes with a stellar new cover penciled by Lucas Lee-Garza, with inks by Bill Sienkiewicz and colors by Gregory Wright:

We also have a limited number of our Black and White Trade Dress Free Foil edition:

All Our SDCC Covers

So that brings the grand total to six SDCC exclusive covers from 247 Comics Powered by TOKYOPOP. As a recap, here are the other four will will have on hand:

The FIRST-LOOK: Summer Special #1 features GODTAIL’s stunning cover and an exclusive excerpt from Sean Chen and Daniel Wu’s EVERMIND Issue #4 and exclusive previews of covers from the fall slate of 247 Comics.

In EVERMIND, Lucas Zhang and his activist daughter fight to keep his neuro-transferrence technology Project Evermind from falling into the hands of paramilitary corporations, while trapped inside the bodies of a theme park mecha-gorilla and a pleasure-bot.

This cover is also available in a Trade Dress Free Foil Edition:

We also have the MANIX “Major League” Homage edition of our ashcan preview of Cyber League:

This will also be available in the MANIX “Major League” Homage Foil edition:

Find them all at Booth 1837 at San Diego Comic-Con, July 22–26!

Latest YouTube Episodes

We have a new Pull List, in which Terry and I talk about traditional versus digital art and how a page used to get made at Marvel.

Plus, a new episode of Collecting with Carl, in which I chat with Rohan Joseph, an avid collector of the original art behind the Marvel Universe series of cards.

Bladesmyth Vol. 1

There’s less than one week left to get in on Bladesmyth Vol. 1!

Here’s Creees talking about how the food in the series creates a personal connection for him:

Back Bladesmyth here. Thank you for your support! We can’t wait to see you at San Diego Comic-Con.

Onward and upward,
Carl Choi