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Diamond's Previews has censored the appearance of a swastika on the solicitation for The Boys #34 from Dynamite. Previews is distributed to a number of

Okay this is a late book. Some may expect that from the meticulous designs of Brian Bolland, but this all reprints. And it was meant to come out in

Do you think Michael Bay's Transformers 2 has a strong pro-gays-in-the-military subtext? What you haven't seen it let alone considered it? Well go, come

This is my first real encounter with William Shatner's Tek War. The TV movies and series didn't play here, the books weren't exactly high profile and the

I was recently talking about how the superpower theme in comics is mostly used to represent adolescent rage, that half world between being a child and an

I really get annoyed by bad Scottish accents in American comics. I'm not Scottish myself, but some of my best friends are. And I feel entitled to be

Today, Marvel ship 39 regular comic book titles to comic stores in the US and Canada, the UK getting their copies tomorrow. Plus another 14 variant covers

Okay, this is my preconception about Tales Of Wonderland: Red Queen and Escape From Wonderland #0, based on not reading the comic, but seeing covers from

This is a Conan comic through and through. Seriously, if you don't know any of the names, any of the figures in American politics, you can read it

I once went round to Roger Langridge's apartment in Chelsea, London. Lovely fellow, Roger. You can tell how long ago this is, because Roger had a large

There's been lots of coverage about HeroesCon and WizardWorld Philadelphia this weekend. But here are a few observations about the former that seem not to

This seems to be the new way to make a little money. Buy a four day pass to SanDiego for under $100. Sit on it for a month. Then, after it's been sold

Okay, so this book came out last week from Dynamite. But I couldn't get my hands on an advance of Zorro, so this will make do. And boy, does it make do.

Viking #1 was a comic that took a number of people by surprise, an untested team on a new creator-owned book about vikings, in a market where even the

Neill Cameron is a rather talented cartoonist of my acquaintance. Once we were going to work on a graphic novel called Political Creatures, the proofs of

Currently on BBC Radio 4, the League Of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss and Doctor Who novelist, writer and actor, is talking about the Target range of Doctor Who

004 Jack Kirby didn't get to be an intellectual. That's a label others stick on you. When Jack told Will Eisner, as recorded in Eisner's book SHOP TALK,

"Building the destiny of a new world from Great Disaster to some kind of utopia, and then you can cut forward to Earth 51 Legion of SuperGods or something

Mid-size publishers like Avatar, Dynamite and Aspen REALLY benefitted from a lack of Marvel and DC on the convention floor at Wizard World Philadelphia,

The Eagle Tribune reports the ground breaking news that the Hampstead Public Library in New Hampshire is readying itself to stack comics intended for

It’s become customary for movies to have video game tie-ins these days as an additional merchandising cash-in. SUPERMAN RETURNS, IRON MAN, INCREDIBLE

Is that a slightly misleading title for a BleedingCool.com post? Well, yes but it was irresistable.And it's not actually false, it's just defined by

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool was the first to point the finger at the unprecedended success enjoyed by the first issue John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew

Valerie D'Orazio has written a lot about comics and sex as part of Occasional Superheroine. But not really the kind of material one can, um, use on a

Steven Hoveke used to be the Operations Manager of Wizard Entertainment in 2007. He currently runs small publisher Square 1 Press who have published a

I've just suggested to the good lady wife that was go for a weekend away in France for her birthday. She loved the idea. At some point I'm going to

The image used to promote the Dark Reign: The List - X-Men at conventions this weekend has drawn some comments... while Namor's left thigh disappears

Over at the Marvel.com message boards, Marvel.com writer Kevin Mahadeo has posted the first official confirmation by Marvel of the Dark Reign: The List

The Secret Society Of Super-Villains Showcase volume solicited a year or so ago never happened, because Bob Rozaskis chose not to sign away his

This is your cut-out-and-keep guide to my attempts to alert the comics industry of a major scam going on in its midst. Right from the beginning, we knew