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A number of publishers have moved to day-and-date digital comic books, releasing comics digitally on the same day that they are available in the major

Some people refer to the Kapow convention in London as MillarCon. Funded by Titan who publish Mark Millar's CLiNT, it was run by his partner, and featured

LapinWatch: Yosagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai will be appearing at the world's laregst comic convention, Angouleme, at the end of the month. ShadeWatch:

  There has almost always been an element of the politics of the times in our comics. Even if you ignore policital cartoons and cartoonists -- many

It's the Oscar of comics. The Tony of comics. The Presidential pardon of comics. It's the award everyone wants. Well, now the Eisner Awards are now

Last Resort is the next planned TV series from The Shield creator Shawn Ryan. It's a thriller "set in the near future when the country is very fractured

Punches With Wolves might have been a better title for forthcoming action drama The Grey, which has been creating quite a stir recently due to clips of

You may remember that we published full reviews of the first four episodes of The Walking Dead Season Two, and the overall impression was that the season

PlugWatch: Scott Rosenberg picks his five favourite comic-to-film adaptations. He chooses Men In Black but not Cowboys And Aliens. SandWatch: USA Today

Thank goodness it's basketball season. Nothing like the squeak of the shoes on the court on tv in the background to get you into the winter work groove.

Comic book artist and illustrator David Aja may be best known for work on comics such as Immortal Iron Fist. But he's also a dab hand at the odd

Before it had shipped to comic stores, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips's Fatale had sold out to retailers, burning through the overprint and ensuring a

12. The Infidel #1 got its moment in the sun, courtesy of Nightrunner appearance in Batman (see below) as The Daily Show made mock of this comic book

Dynamite Entertainment are to publish a new comic book series based on the Pathfinder roleplaying game. I say "a" new comic book series, it will probably

On April the 4th, Marvel launches Avengers Vs X-Men #1. On April the 3rd at 8pm, the Avengers Vs X-Men Launch Parties start... if your local comic shop is

Comics are delayed to the UK by two days again this week, they'll be available tomorrow, as soon as shops have sorted through the deliveries. So I turned

I heard French and Saunders on BBC Radio 2 the other day asking whatever had happened to The Darkness, Britain's glam metal band. The answer is they split

The ongoing LADY DEATH series continues its forward momentum with today’s release of issue #13, co-written by original creator Brian Pulido and Mike

StrangeWatch: The character Bleeding Cool has been referring to as The Strange Woman of DC's New 52. Because we were under the impression that her name

Marvel took back the top spot in the industry's favorite horse race for the first time in the New 52 era, though as many have pointed out, they did so by

Here's the cover to The Goon #39 by Eric Powell, from Dark Horse Comics. Something tells me it was designed with Bleeding Cool in mind. And also why it

Who would have thought posting the Diamond Comic Distrubutor shipping information before anyone else would be quite so popular? Here's the definitive list

I bet most of you could recognise a movie's opening credits by the actors or the music, but how many of you can name a film just by looking at its

In September, DC Comics took back marketshare from Marvel Comics. This gave DC the lead in both dollars spent and the number of comics bought in the North

David Fincher's adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo may not have performed as well as hoped, but Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal insists

StageWatch: The Ballad Of Halo Jones? It's a smash hit! LetterWatch: Nate Piekos breaks down lettering choices. PearlWatch: A psychoanalysis of Catwoman

  A cold trend to start the new year. How appropriate.  But it looks like one of the earliest villians of the Silver Age (it doesn't get too much

Amazon has a Price Check App, allowing customers to scan the bar codes of items in stores and then buy them from Amazon there and then, rather than the

A special Lying In The Gutters this week, not only the top twenty posts of the week, but also the top twenty posts of the year... and a very obvious

Idle Hands, as part of their roundup of current DC comic books (and, really, they give Catwoman short shrift),run a couple of scans from what appears to