Army of Darkness/Evil Dead Comics Discussion Thread!

[MaidOfKandar]

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Dynamite has announced that they will be released a crossover between AOD and the classic horror comic Vampirella :

The events of Vampirella / Army of Darkness take place during Ash Williams’ time trapped in the England of 1300 A.D. When the terrified, primitive screwheads approach the Chosen One with tales of a horrific flying Deadite — one similar to the one he blasted out of the air when first arrived, but much deadlier — Ash sets out with his boomstick and chainsaw to protect his adopted people. At the same time, a raven-haired temptress wants to give him some sugar… as his last meal!

Covers:

By Tim Seeley

by Jae Lee

by Tony Fleecs

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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Dynamite's once again releasing virgin art covers for Vampirella vs AOD, both by Jae Lee.

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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Plot details have dropped for Evil Dead 2: Beyond Dead By Dawn and I'm frankly super excited now; details via this this interview with head writer Frank Hannah:

Spoiler

* Takes place in an alternate continuity where Annie doesn't die.
* While Ash does get sucked back in time to fight the evil, he leaves his hand behind - which Annie uses to clone a full-sized Ash.
* Because she needs to use her own blood to finish the cloning ritual, they're bound together in some way.
*Because Ash's flesh is still demonified, he occasionally turns into a deadite without warning, and it's something neither can control.
* They use the book to travel through time and to other places to quell the evil Knowby unleashed on the world.

I'm excited, I admit it.

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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New Interview with AOD vs Vampirella writer Mark Rahner, who also wrote the second Re-Animator crossover.

And we also have cover art for issue #2:

By Tim Seeley

Also first cover for Dead By Dawn!!

By Netho Diaz

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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Variant cover for AOD vs Vampirella #2!

By Tony Fleecs

Dynamite has also released some preview pages for issue #1.

Also for those who want to torture themselves, the Ash in Space Arc will be collected and hit store shelves in August.

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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Vampirella vs AOD Issue #3 covers (This one is spoilery)

By Tim Seeley (Again)

By Tony Fleecs

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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Elise found these earlier!  Here's an array of covers for the second, and third parts of Beyond Dead By Dawn and the Second issue of Tales of The Ex Mortis: 

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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I'm going to have fuller thoughts later, but for right now all I'll say is BUY EVIL DEAD 2 BEYOND DEAD BY DAWN IT'S SO GREAT!

 

[teacherpeter]

NEW "Official" Sequel comic to Evil Dead 2??

Has anyone else heard about this series? It clearly was given the license for Evil Dead 2 by Sam Raimi and co, and it claims to be canon in its title.
http://merchgoat.com/product/evil-dead-2-beyond-dead-by-dawn-1/

Is this is a sign of AoD being retconned ahead of the new show?

What do you think about all of the various incarnations of Ash in the comics?
There's the Evil Dead (1) comic by Dark Horse, the Army of Darkness series by Dynamite, and now this Evil Dead 2 comic by Space Goat... Until now, they've all been in their own canon and not related to the movies, but can anyone indeed find confirmation from Bruce or Raimi that this new comic will fit into the "Official" timeline as it says on the cover?

There's even a "companion series" to this new "sequel" to Evil Dead 2, called "Tales of the Ex Mortis". http://merchgoat.com/product/evil-dead-2-tales-of-the-ex-mortis-2-comic-book-pre-order/

I look forward to learning more about this series from you guys!

 

[ashevildead123]

RE: NEW "Official" Sequel comic to Evil Dead 2??

It's about annie knowby in hell looking for her parents souls 
yes its the real deal.

 

[MaidOfKandar]

RE: NEW "Official" Sequel comic to Evil Dead 2??

We have indeed talked about it about it a bit!  There's lots of info in that thread, you might want to check it out.

While AOD is less being retconned than not used for legal issues, Beyond Dead By Dawn definitely doesn't fit into the upcoming series canon....

SPOILERS

...since Annie's being dead figures into Ruby's arc big time.

/SPOILERS

It's "official: in that it's licensed by whoever holds the ED2 license at this point. Before Dead By Dawn is filled with speculative horror tales about the Necronomicon's previous owners, so I'm less interested in it that Beyond Dead by Dawn.

Dynamite Comics has had the AOD license for years and the quality of their comics vary wildly; my favorite is definitely the Ash and the Army of Darkness/Ash gets Hitched arc, with Ashes 2 Ashes a distant second.   Of the licensed-through ED2/TED stuff, the undeniable best is the Freddy/Jason/Ash arc, With Dead by Dawn a very close second (Sincerely, it's well worth everyone's time to read that series).

 

[teacherpeter]

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I'm hoping a TPB comes out eventually because I live abroad and can't justify international shipping costs on single issues of comics... though I'm sure it'll be a long time before those series get a TPB release.

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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You can buy them legally through digital means if you like for sure; I know Comixology has a great deal of the Dynamite library for sale.  I think Goat's Head has digital downloads too, and if this is successful enough they might do GNs.

 

[teacherpeter]

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Yeah, I have MOST of the Army of Darkness ones in TPB except for the newest. I just don't have the Beyond Dead by Dawn.

 

[ashevildead123]

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Is this evil dead 2 comic a what if kinda thing?

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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If//when there's a preorder for it I'll post it out for sure!  I'm sitting on a pile of info that I need to disperse soon.

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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And now we have an Actual Update!

Vampirella vs AOD is out (And it's...eh).  There's an Extended preview on Bleeding Cool for those still on the fence. The second cover printing looks like this:

....and is by Dennis Crisostomo

There's also this Connecticut Comic Con exclusive cover by Nei Ruffino

Here's the covers for the final issue, out in October:

By Tim Seeley

By Tony Fleecs

Here's some more of Jethro Morales' Process Art for the first issue!

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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First Preview for Evil Dead 2: Beyond Dead By Dawn Issue #2 is here!:

And two for the next two issues of Tales of the Ex Mortis:

Space Goat's also announced that Dave Land has come on board to helm their Evil Dead stuff.

Also the Archie vs Sharknado crossover has some Evil Dead references!

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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Interview with the head writer of Vampirella/AOD, Mark Rahner.

 

[MaidOfKandar]

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Extended preview for Vampirella/AOD #2, which came out Wednesday!

Also, SpaceGoat has announced that Beyond Dead by Dawn will be released as a TPB in December, and it is up for pre-order!  There's also a Certified Groovy "Extended" version of the first issue coming out in September, but it sounds like it has all of the exclusives that are attached to it will also be availible on the TPB.

Here are the covers for the "Certified Groovy" version of Tales of the Ex Mortis #1 and Issue #3 of same: