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Do you remember the time when Virgin Comics used to spend every week announcing a new project somehow linked to a famous creative name? Terry Gilliam,

Rob Liefeld recently posted on his message board,  over the delay on the Image crossover series Image United, Rob Liefeld seemed to confirm that things

So, we've covered getting your comic an endorsement, the importance of getting the right logo and I've also looked at the fundamentals of writing and

Look at this desk. It's a nice desk. A lovely desk. Only $499 too, which is fairly okayish I suppose. But what makes this desk slightly more special is

The X-Men may have recently arrived in San Francisco. But for one tarot card reader, they've always been there. Reading the cards most Friday evenings, by

Jim Shooter is famous for writing Legion Of Superheroes stories for DC Comics when he was fourteen. Well, Freddie Neno is going one better. The British

There, that's better. MovieWatch: Rumours swirl around that The Skrulls will be the big bad in The Avengers movie are emerging - and that they may be the

Why not squint and have a look... anyone you recognise? Anyone fancy tallying goatees, chubby faces, sunglasses and the like?

Lee Bermejo reinterprets the cover from the concluding chapter to The Great Darkness War, Legion Of Superheroes #294, as a 75th Aniversary variant for

Yesterday in Boston, two eighteen month old pitbulls, names Venom and Bullseye turned on their owner, in a Siege-like plot twist that saw the owner and

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that DC were upping the prices of the second issues of a couple of standard-sized DCU titles to $3.99, Mighty Crusaders

See, everyone's just been thinking iPhone and iPad. But IDW have realised that there's a whole business community and more who would love to read

Dynamite! Entertainment, not content with licensing Red Sonja, Green Hornet, Lone Ranger and The Phantom, creating a new Kirbyverse, buying Vampirella,

NBC seem happy to let the world see the trailer for The Cape. But ABC are terribly protective of their trailer for No Ordinary Family. So basically I

My wife likes Paul Cornell's TV work, the ones she's seen anyway. Which means Doctor Who and Primeval. And she's liked what she's seen, So we both

That's right! DC Comics may have cancelled the CMX manga imprint (and considering all the production, licensing and translation costs gone into three

At University, I was a Politics student. Thoroughly enjoyed it, did quite well, and it was only a fortuitous meeting that ripped me from going into

MembershipWatch: So who else got one of these? And who else is going to run run run run to their comic shop to see their little face appear in Avengers

Numbercrunching is a review format that values statistics, over less quantative measure when looking at comic books. It generally fails and gets dragged

We’re doing something a little different this time, Post-Mod Squad. Since my last five posts have been super self-indulgent ramblings about my personal

The bestselling comics list still seems to be full of titles like Naruto, Fruits Basket, Maximum Ride, Pokemon, Vampire Night, Death Note and Bleach. But

The Cape, NBC's new superhero drama. I reviewed the script last year, reproduced below. But what I'm getting from the visuals is a real eighties/early

It was looking to be a clustershag of epic proportions. The New England Wizard World show the week before Reed's massive New York Comic Con in

HamillWatch: Looks like Mark Hamill is going to direct a movie based on the Black Pearl comic book series - that he wrote. He'll probably write the

"That was always the plan. We only went to a $3.99 price point if we had 30 pages or more of content. We're going to hold to that line as long as we can."

Well itls one of my favourite books. But just now, author G Willow Wilson has made a rather sad announcement about her Vertigo series Air, drawn by M.K.

Okay, this is a thing. The British Film Institute, at London's South Bank Centre is having a bit of a Doctor Who thing on, come Wednesday the 2nd of June.

Quite possibly the most enjoyable thing I've read this week. Chris Sims' superheroic periodic table for Comics Alliance. I am drop dead jealous of its

A lack of publisher at DC Comics for a few months seems to have stymied what might have otherwise been grander 75th Anniversary plans. But variant covers

Saw something interesting when I’m out and about these days: a lot of women in their 20s and 30s are reading the first two Stig Larsson’s MILLENIUM