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The Daily LITG, 18th October 2019, Happy Birthday Steve Epting

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here.

The bigger news, slightly knocked back yesterday, involves the future of Image Comics – and its aim to sell more than DC Comics with a new strategy. It's not impossible…

The 12 most-read stories yesterday

1. Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean Grey – Marvel Comics' First Throuple?
2. Frank Miller Tells Us Whether Superman or Clark Kent is the Disguise in Superman Year One: Book Three (Spoilers)
3. Unicorn No More, Deadpool, Everyone's Combining Symbiotes in Today's Absolute Carnage Comics
4. Check Out Scott, Jean and Logan's Living Arrangements in X-Men #1 (Spoilers)
5. Flash Forward #2 Rewrites Heroes In Crisis – the Heroes Wally West Killed and His Timelost Kids… (Spoilers)
6. Blood Splatter Protectors Are Killer For Your Funko Collection [Review]
7. Undiscovered Country #1 is Image Comics' Biggest Genuine Launch in Five Years With 83,000 Pre-Orders
8. Solicits and Covers for January's Batman #86 and #87, the Start of the Post-King Era
9. Did Justice League #34 Just Spoil the Next Month-and-a-Half of DC Comics (Spoilers)
10. Speculator Corner: Is Director Devo From X-Men #1 From Uncanny X-Men #467 or Not?
11. Pepe Larraz's Cover for the House Of X/Powers Of X Hardcover
12. Atlantis Attacks… Again at Marvel in January from Greg Pak and Ario Anindito

One Year Ago

1. Gun Media Discusses the Future of Friday The 13th: The Game
2. The Futures of Turtles, Ponies, Ghostbusters, and Kyle Baker's Black Panther Debuts in IDW January 2019 Solicitations –
3. Comic Shops Get an Exclusive John Constantine Funko POP for Free Comic Book Day 2019 (UPDATE)
4. So Who Wrote These Words in Justice League and Aquaman: Drowned Earth? (Spoilers)
5. Damian Wayne Gets A Crush – But Not on Crush (Teen Titans #23 Spoilers)

Happening today…

• Baltimore Comic-Con, Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore until Sunday.
• Santa Fe Comic Con, Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, Santa Fe, NM, until Sunday.
• Fandemic Tour Houston, NRG Center, Houston, Texas , until Sunday.
• Markisan Naso and Jason Muhr celebrate the finale of Voracious: Appetite for Destruction, Bucket O' Blood Books and Records, Chicago, 5pm.
• Gene Yang signing Superman Smashes The Klan, Austin Books & Comics, Austin, Texas 6-9pm.
• Chris Ware and Lynda Barry at the Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 6pm.

And a happy birthday to…

• Steve Epting, artist, co-creator of Winter Soldier and Velvet
• Tye Bourdony, owner of SciFiPulse
• Comic book reviewer Kat Hill
• Andrew Peterson, Over Night Empire Owner/Artist/Writer

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