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Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a

FriedrichWatch: As Rick Vietch says; This skull-tastic  T-Shirt is a fundraiser for Mike Friedrich,  the original creator of Ghost Rider.  He’s battling

See, this is what I get up to if no one stops me. I'm not sure if I could do the set... Jerry for the heavy bird, Tom for the tiny one, Tammy for the

From Jon Layman's interview with USA Today in May last year. The writer has found two characters with whom fans have fallen deeply in love: Colby, Tony's

The Metropolis Planet, Illinois, reports on plans to rename a series of connected streets Truth, Justice and The American Way, so as to better reflect the

Jock. Batman. A sketchbook. Some pens. Just make sure you stand back when he lets rip...

Si's Instructions: I want you to imagine you’re stuck in Beverly Hills during the first 48 hours of the Crossed outbreak. I want you to draw me the

Here you go folks. The current asking - and getting - price of a copy of Saga #1 on eBay is $8.99. And one seller has sold five of them at that price -

In June, Marvel have shrunk the number of comics shipping more than one issue in a month, down from 24 to 18. Admittedly, May is a five week month and

See? We've only been able to announce Kelly Sue DeConnick on relaunching Ms Marvel as Captain Marvel, a new Infernal Man Thing, a renamed Thunderbolts and

Aaron Haaland from A Comic Shop may have declared this week to be the best comics week of the year. But the next two weeks look quite spiffy too. Next

Okay, this is the real A Comic Show today from Aaron and Tony of A Comic Shop in Florida, looking at what they are calling the best week in comics this

One of them has just had his comic relaunched. The other doesn't even have a comic. But it seems that the new Blue Beetle and Lagoon Boy, created by Erik

Journey Into Mystery, while being one of Marvel's most entertaining comics full stop, has spectacular recap pages. Rather than present a series of panels

Heavy heart, Namor? We understand. Every couple goes through this sort of thing. Just they're not usually wet and soapy when they do it, covered in mosit,

So many comic books celebrate violence of some degree or other. Some go straight to the bedroom. But few, remarkably few, show kissing. So, inspired by

Today, Avatar have launched C-Day at hundreds of comic stores across Northern America and the UK. Free Crossed comics, a new Crossed series by Garth Ennis

It's just one page in this week's Superboy. But it gave me a massive grin. One of my favourite characters, Danny The Street, a sentient transvestite

The second issue of Ninjettes #1, by Al Ewing and Eman Casallos, is published today. If you fancy a look at this Garth Ennis Jennifer Blood spinoff, and

Today's Fantastic Four from Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting goes back to the beginning. Of Hickman's run that it. To be honest, there are so many pieces

Today is C-Day. The launch date for Avatar's new twice-monthly Crossed series Badlands, but also the second Avatar webcomic, Crossed: Wish You Were Here,

You could have lived your entire life wthout seeing Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida, naked, on the toilet, defecating while reading Saga #1 by

As the week's controversial Doonesbury strips get leaked in full (find it in colour here), a number of newspapers have been reconsidering their reaction

On the left, the Rob LIefeld cover to Hawk And Dove #7. On the right the Frank Miller cover to Rom The Space Knight #17. Frank Miller has often been a

Frank Marraffino's Marvel Zombies Destroy!, a World War II-set zombified Marvel character comic was coming on great guns, with Howard The Duck and Dum Dum

  Tomorrow is C-Day. The launch of Crossed Badlands #1, a new twice-monthly Crossed comic from Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, and the webcomic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUtIow1PXtQ Grace Randolph hits the numbercrunching hard for Think About The Ink and Stacktastic! for Bleeding Cool. She's

Whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch, wrote Steve Gerber. But what lights up Man Thing? Marvel are going one more time to their

Alan Moore has been talking to Kurt Amacker about Before Watchmen, Watchmen, DC Comics and League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Now, Alan has said a lot of

Nixel Pixel have hit the motherload, with a bunch of in game visuals and designs from the abandoned Sin City game, from Simon Lissaman. Legal and