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I’m Martin Conaghan, I work as a journalist for the BBC, and I try to write comics. By try, I mean do. I produced a fact-based graphic novel about the

With Tony Harris announcing a new creator owned series at Wildstorm The Further Adventures Of The Whistling Skull with B Clay Moore (is this the first

Okay, it's not like the X-Men and the fetish community are a Venn Diagram that never cross. What with the Hellfire Club, Wolverine's claws, Rachels'

Main feature: Mark Schultz and Moritat. Supporting feature: Denny O'Neill and Bill Sienkiewicz. In memory of you-know-who... The Spirit #1 from DC Comics,

At C2E2, Amanda Connor told fans that she isn't leaving Power Girl after issue 12 by choice, but because she can't quite keep to a monthly schedule and so

With Jonathan Hickman been seen as a real rising star at Marvel Comics, on books such as Secret Warriors, Iron Man, Fantastic Four and Shield, he's not

Teen Titans, shove up a bit will you? The X-Men made the move to San Francisco a couple of years ago, to enjoy a spirit of tolerance they're previously

Couldn't make it to C2E2? Really want to hear what was said? Can't quite trust the reporting outlets to issue every nuance? Thank goodness for Jamie

So the Brits aren't getting any American comics this week? Thankfully Marvel UK has stepped up, rushing this book out a week early to make up for it. In

Greg Baldino attended the Floating Market benefit for Bleeding Cool. He writes; Last Monday, well-dressed theater patrons entered the Tiffany-domed

Gravel #18, written by Warren Ellis and Mike Wolfer, art and cover by Wolfer continuing Volume Three “The Last King Of England”. No-one’s comfortable with

Yes it's a queer one and no mistake. Kieron Gillen and Billy Tan were finishing their short stint on Thor with Matt Fraction and Pascual Ferry taking over

Warren Ellis' Do Anything ships tomorrow in the US and sometime in the next five years in the UK. It compiles the column that Warren has written for

To coincidentally coincide with the DVD release of Avatar - and Earth Day, natch - a replica of the Tree Of Souls from the movie is being created at Hyde

Daily Mail, we could expect. Fox News, it was going to happen. But what about the New Yorker? Surely they will take a little more laissez-faire attitude

What will you be wearing on your chest come convention season? The seriously fashionable amongst us will be popping on a white T-shirt, with an

He revitalised the Green Lantern characters in the DC Universe and brought them to the forefront with Blackest Night. Now, with Geoff Johns writing Flash,

Oh yeah, you think Blackest Night was it? That it was all put nicely in it's box with that foldout issue eight quadruple page splash? As if. Green Lantern

It’s the dawn of summer in Tucson and I’m dressed in a cheap three piece suit. I’m so nervous that it doesn’t register I’m sweating like a schoolgirl at a

Steve McNiven has been in the wars of late. First, he painfully passed a kidney stone and then possibly as a result, threw out his back. This resulted in

It's been a familar site in certain stores to see packs of random comic books bagged together and sold for a reduced price. Often compiled from comic

eBayWatch: There's a Gene Colan appeal auction to help pay the man's heathcare costs. Pop by see what you can afford. RoboWatch: Carl Macek, the man

The US manga publishers and licensors have an interesting relationship with the pirates. In the last Japanese issue of mega-anthology Shonen Jump, the

In a Facebook post that has spread elsewhere, Mike Mignola described his C2E2 experience. Back from Chicago--A very nice show marred only by the big shot

It's going to be an American comic-free week in the UK, thanks to a certain cloud of volcanic ash doing its business all along the western front. Still,

This should have been Kick-Ass' weekend. The superhero dark comedy based on the Marvel comic book had expected to clear over $30 million this weekend but

It appears that Iron Man's onboard propulsion system is a bit rubbish for dealing with tiny particles of volcanic ash. And that's why the world premiere

Diamond UK have confirmed to retailers that this week's comics didn't make it to the UK before volcanic ash in the atmosphere grounded all flights. They

The man who brought back Doctor Who to television five years ago and who recently handed over the keys to the TARDIS to Steven Moffat, is to return to the

Tomorrow, in my role as Avatar Foreign Rights Manager (I know, I laugh just to type it) I'm attending the London Book Fair at Earl's Court (sans children