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This Week – Before Watchmen, Gay Green Lantern And Bleeding Cool Magazine

It's probably going to be a busy week in comics.

As I just mentioned, Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 hits comic stores, a preview of the kind of thing you might expect when the magazine is launched properly at New York Comic Con in October. The final version will be more for more but this is a taster, a preview, a dipping our toes in the water to see what works, what doesn't, what's needed, what isn't, and it's all down to you. 40 pages for $1.49, consider this a very cheap Kickstarter, a merging of print and digital, a look to the future, using the a medium of the past.

It also very handily has an interview with Len Wein about Before Watchmen, putting it into context with the original comic that Wein edited much of, as well as an alternative view of that time my ex-DC staffer Bob Greenberger.

The timing looks far more planned than it was, hitting on the same day that Wein's Crimson Corsair backup strip appears in Before Watchmen: Minutemen #1.

We want to give certain articles, features and interviews more permanance, no longer yesterday's pixels but to be read and reread over a longer period of time. But each article has a short URL that links to a Bleeding Cool page and message board to continue the print conversation into digital. It's an attempt to blend the positives of both mediums.

Response from those who have received copies already has been overwhelmingly positive – retailer Aaron Haafeld of A Comic Shop has told people that he sees it as an essential retail tool, while most creators have been asking how their work can be featured in it.

The first issue also has features on Valiant and Boom, a look at some of the more pervasive rumours surrounding the New York comic industry, a Walking Dead price guide and a look at ways you can turn your longboxes into cold hard cash.

It's a start. I hope you can help us make it more, much more. The magazine is out on Wednesday in the US and Canada, and Thursday in the UK. I'll be in London, Thursday afternoon, probably popping round Orbital, Gosh and Forbidden Planet with a pen in my pocket just in case.

Then you can tell me what you want to see in October…

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