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Quite a constellation of trending topics for a Saturday, and lots of interesting debate in the forums today as well.  On the home front, a big site

Fridays are typically not the busiest days of the week on the comics internet, because comics publishers generally break major news on Monday or Tuesday.

December got off to a fast start here on BC. You know any day that kicks off with (trending-worldwide) Watchmen 2 and Diesel DC Boxer Shorts is going to

Lots of mixed to negative commentary out there about the potential look of the Lizard in the upcoming Amazing Spider-Man film -- if the pic is indeed

It has become the most famous individual copy of any comic book in the world.  And now, the Nicolas Cage copy of Action Comics #1, graded CGC 9.0 and the

When even your grandma knows the words facebook and comicon, you realize our once-cozy little corner of the world has gone mainstream.  Cons are bigger

We have a new world record for the highest price ever paid for a single comic book.  Now, the question becomes just how high it will go.  With 24 hours

You never know what the Monday after a long holiday layoff is gonna be like until you get there that morning. Sometimes, it's a burst of pent up news.

We keep seeing glimpses of the potential of this concept. First there was Coelasquid vs Finch on that Justice League #1 cover, then there was BC's photo

Why weren't they putting comics in cereal boxes when I was a kid?  Fawcett and DC did it in the golden age, DC's doing it again now. I'm sure it was done

Well, it's official... we're in the Holiday Zone.  That dimension where time has no meaning,  weekends stretch on forever (and somehow, you tire of them)

As Rich notes in today's top post, spoilers have been a major topic of conversation this week.  And if what happened in this particular instance is an

Plenty of spoilers out in the world this week, and again it's a topic of comics internet conversation, as it always is when Marvel has a major

Have to admit I bought a DC graphic novel on the Kindle Fire last night as soon as I saw they were available, just to see what it was like (the Fire's

To the surprise of no one following this year's October surprise, the marketshare race heats up in earnest next year, as Marvel has a pretty huge slate of

Emerging tidbits about comic book movies dominated the day today, with the eagerly anticipated duo of The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers leading the

Of all the things I was pondering during this week of mixed news for Marvel, I kept coming back to this... what an unfortunate week for Tom Brevoort to

We seem to be in the middle of one of the most unusual times in recent memory for Marvel.  Layoffs followed by series endings and cancellations, with

"Sport of Tycoons", indeed. The classic 1974 Carl Barks painting of that name closed yesterday at Heritage Auctions for $262,900.00, a new record for a

Green Lantern's first appearance was in All-American Comics #16.  Or you could plausibly say it was  Showcase #22, or even Green Lantern #59, or Green

Original comic art from key 1980s-era comics has been hot for several years.  It's considered an important, peak era for comics (think Watchmen, Dark

Reactions to Frank Miller's blog post on the Occupy movement continue to echo around the comics internet, an industry-centric slice of the larger

It was a fairly manic Monday here on BC, with all the corners of the comic and film world heard represented -- from the DCU to Doctor Who and

I find myself wondering what Frank Miller thinks of the firestorm his blog post has created over the past few days.  I don't know, but perhaps sooner or

There was one thing on the comics internet's mind today, and that's Frank Miller's blog post about the Occupy Movement. We've noted here recently that the

An unusual alignment of the calendar and post-52 shipping schedules will apparently leave us with a light new Comic Day on November 30.  It'll be the week

Comics historian Les Daniels (1943-2011) died in Providence, R.I. on November 5 of an apparent heart attack.  Daniels was the author of numerous books on

I saw some cautious optimism in the air in response to today's release of the Snow White and the Huntsman trailer.   Have to admit, this was something

Double the number of copies with no extra charge to retailers, BC heard about plenty of shop promotions for this future lynchpin of the Marvel Universe.

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