Army of Darkness/Evil Dead Comics Discussion Thread!

MCT28 said:
Like I've said before, we've gotten two crossovers back to back. It's been two years since a normal non-crossover AOD series, so we're overdue for one of those. September solicitations come out this Friday, but if there is anything new in the pipeline, we'll hear about it between now and then.

As for unlikely speculation... based on the pattern of the last 13 years of crossovers, I'd be more than willing to bet that it's going to be another Dynamite-owned property and not one with another publisher... so... I don't know... maybe CHAOS (since they're doing four CHAOS Library hardcover Kickstarters over the next year and a half and probably want to put out something new with those characters to ride the hype). Yeah, put me down for CHAOS vs Army of Darkness being the next one.
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I've still got some promo broadsheets back when Comic Scene News were advertising the first crossover (?). The Re-Animator Evil Dead crossover. They might be worth some cash to someone?.

I'd quite like to mail one to MaidOfKandar seeing as she was responsible for making this thread happen years ago after a chat with us. Salute.
 
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Swofty said:
I've still got some promo broadsheets back when Comic Scene News were advertising the first crossover (?). The Re-Animator Evil Dead crossover. They might be worth some cash to someone?.

I'd quite like to mail one to MaidOfKandar seeing as she was responsible for making this thread happen years ago after a chat with us. Salute.
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Aww, I'd love to have one!
 
MaidOfKandar said:
Aww, I'd love to have one!
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No worries. Please pm me an address to mail it to and I will as soon as I'm able to. I picked up three I think from Nostalgia & Comics because they were free advertising stuff.

edit: I've found them. It's a trade paper for Re Animator vs Army Of Darkness, that series came out in 2005 so I'm guessing I picked up these trade papers in 2004 (?).

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Was the above the first ever Evil Dead comic book crossover?

 
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Will do soon!
 
Dynamite's September 2026 solicitations are out, and the only Army of Darkness thing in there is the Archie x Army of Darkness trade paperback, which is currently slated for a September 9th release date.
 
MCT28 said:
New #5 blind bag date is July 1st. Seems like Dynamite is wanting to hold off on a few AOD things to release them around the time Burn comes out. We get the blind bags the week before the movie and then the retail release of the AOD board game the week after. I'm shocked they didn't have any reprints for the omnis or a few trades lined up for July like they did to capitalize on AvED and Rise.
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Aaaannnnnddd it's delayed again. July 8th. Provided this date sticks, it's gonna be a hell of a week for Evil Dead... the ED1 Sony 4k SteelBook on the 7th, the Archie x AOD #5 blind bags on the 8th, and Burn releasing on the 10th.
 
MCT28 said:
Aaaannnnnddd it's delayed again. July 8th. Provided this date sticks, it's gonna be a hell of a week for Evil Dead... the ED1 Sony 4k SteelBook on the 7th, the Archie x AOD #5 blind bags on the 8th, and Burn releasing on the 10th.
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Pushed back to July 15th. I would be genuinely shocked if they come out before August. Hell, I'd be shocked if they come out before the trade does in September...
 
No AOD stuff in Dynamite's October solicitations, and there's been zero information on any announcements that may have happened at Dynamite's SDCC panel last night. Keeping my eyes peeled for anything, put perhaps AOD is going on hiatus for a bit (at least for the rest of this year)?
 
MCT28 said:
No AOD stuff in Dynamite's October solicitations, and there's been zero information on any announcements that may have happened at Dynamite's SDCC panel last night. Keeping my eyes peeled for anything, put perhaps AOD is going on hiatus for a bit (at least for the rest of this year)?
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Well, that sucks. Usually they make some kind of effort to pump the license for money in October.
 
MaidOfKandar said:
Well, that sucks. Usually they make some kind of effort to pump the license for money in October.
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You'd think they'd want to ride the Burn hype, but I guess we're still way too close to the end of the Archie crossover and the beginning of production on the RPG for them to launch something new.
 
Just a heads up, Dynamite has migrated over to a new website, which unfortunately means all of the pages of listings for their older AOD books (including the cover galleries and some textless art page samples) are gone. While I am holding out hope that they get around to adding the old stuff (having a little glimmer of hope since their new site does have listings for comics they no longer have the license to), we'll just have to wait and see.
 
MCT28 said:
Just a heads up, Dynamite has migrated over to a new website, which unfortunately means all of the pages of listings for their older AOD books (including the cover galleries and some textless art page samples) are gone. While I am holding out hope that they get around to adding the old stuff (having a little glimmer of hope since their new site does have listings for comics they no longer have the license to), we'll just have to wait and see.
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We still got our cover galleries! :cool:
 
Remember Red Sonja vs The Army of Darkness? Yeah, seems like a lifetime ago now, but the trade paperback collection is finally coming out Tuesday, September 15th, 2026! Here's an extended preview of the contents (from issue one):
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Preview: Red Sonja vs. The Army of Darkness TPB - Graphic Policy

Get ready to sharpen your sword and load up your boomstick, because it’s time to face off against the undead hordes once more!
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EDIT: It's out TODAY!
 
Speaking of Red Sonja and Army of Darkness, I recently found this interesting little selection from a 2005 Comic Shop News interview with James Kuhoric while he was promoting the first AOD vs Re-Animator comic. Seems like there was a serious desire for Ash and Sonja to crossover even back then!
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Oh that could be fun!
 
No AOD stuff in Dynamite's January 2027 previews :sad:

BUT... while we are in this slump of comic content, I have been a busy little bee working on a secret project.

You see, (no offense to Rob the webmaster) I've always been bummed that bookofthedead.ws proudly advertises itself as "The Definitive Evil Dead Website", but glosses over archiving content related to the video games and comic books... and I'm sure there's reasons as to why that is, but I've always thought someone should do something in the vein of the BOTD site for that expanded material that keeps the franchise alive in the years between the theatrical installments. And instead of sitting around and lamenting the fact that no one has done that... I decided to do it.

So I've been digging in the deep dark corners of the Internet and finding old interviews with the AOD comic creators, with many of them on long-deactivated fourms or exclusive to never-before digitized printed material. One of the bigger undertakings of this is the long and tedious process of going through scans of Comic Shop News, finding the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness related stories (of which there was a lot more than I initially thought there were), and transcribing them, as CSN never put their printed articles on an official website.

And so I've been doing this whenever I've had free time the past couple months, and have published my aforementioned finds on The Evil Dead Collection on Blogspot (mainly because I didn't want to pay to run a traditional website). As of now, I've only got a few posts on there, covering the comics, those behind the scenes pics and comments from the AOD Palisades figures, and the evolution of official Evil Dead Fright Rags art, but there are several more things on the docket that are works in progress. So yeah. I don't have super-lofty expectations for it, but that's not really the point of it, it's mainly just going to be a central easy to seach archive for all this stuff that maybe someone will come along and use for some grander project some day!
 
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