Image Archives : The Shared Universe https://www.theshareduniverse.com/tag/image/ The Internet's Bay Bridge connecting the Bay Area's comic fandom. Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:46:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Around the Bay: Cape and Cowl hosts Image+ release party https://www.theshareduniverse.com/around-the-bay-cape-and-cowl-hosts-image-release-party/ Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:01:23 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1038 Cape and Cowl, 1601 Clay Street in Oakland, celebrated the release of the first issue of Image+ with a well-attended event on Wednesday. In addition to introducing comic readers to the new Image preview magazine the comic shop featured signings with Nick Dragotta (East of West, HowToons), Jimmie Robinson (Power Lines, Five Weapons, Bomb Queen), Justin Greenwood (The Fuse, […]

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]]> Launch: Cape and Cowl present Image+ https://www.theshareduniverse.com/launch-cape-and-cowl-present-image/ Wed, 13 Apr 2016 15:00:41 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=1000 Image Comics is launching it’s newest promotional publication at the Bay Area’s newest comic shop. Cape and Cowl Comics, 1601 Clay Street in Oakland, is hosting a launch party on April 27 for the new magazine Image+. The monthly magazine will be distributed alongside the Diamond Distributors publication Previews. In addition to promoting up and coming Image titles, […]

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]]> Image to release Sex Criminals on local comic shops https://www.theshareduniverse.com/image-release-sex-criminals-local-comic-shops/ Sun, 16 Mar 2014 16:38:45 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=665 Berkeley-based Image Comics is preparing to release the first trade paperback of Chip Zdarsky and Matt Fraction’s wildly successful time stopping sex romp Sex Criminals next month. The publisher announced last week volume one, Sex Criminals: One Weird Trick, will be available at local comic shops on April 16 with mass market distribution on April 29. […]

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]]> Image Expo 2014: A photo gallery of onstage antics https://www.theshareduniverse.com/image-expo-2014-photo-gallery-onstage-antics/ Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:56:08 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=542 Below is a photo gallery of various creators on stage at Image Expo 2014. Click here to view the images in a larger Flickr slideshow.  

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]]> Advancing Image Expo 2014 https://www.theshareduniverse.com/advancing-image-expo-2014/ Wed, 08 Jan 2014 17:20:54 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=529 Tomorrow Image Expo returns to San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Cultural Center to share with retailers, media, and fans what the company will be churning out over 2014. Twelve guests have already been announced with a number of unannounced special guests expected to appear. The rumor in the Bay is that in all there will be […]

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]]> Dead Universes (prologue): A time traveler finds holes in the multiverse https://www.theshareduniverse.com/dead-universes-time-traveler-finds-holes-multiverse/ Tue, 08 Oct 2013 14:59:20 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=194 Originally published October 8, 2013 | Updated April 2026In 2013, we began exploring the death of shared comic universes from the 1990s boom. Over a decade later, we’re revisiting this series. Jim Shooter passed away in June 2025, and the successful Schism Kickstarter, completing his unfinished Defiant Comics story, reminded us that these dead universes […]

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]]> Launch Party: Isotope to launch “East of West” trade with Nick Dragotta themed cocktails https://www.theshareduniverse.com/isotope-launch-east-west-nick-dragotta-themed-cocktails/ Wed, 04 Sep 2013 21:59:43 +0000 http://www.theshareduniverse.com/?p=158 When 2013 comes to a close there’s little doubt Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s East of West will be on many “best of” lists. There have been many versions of the age old Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse story, but what’s unfolding in East of West is unlike any that have come before. In only […]

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