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The Daily LITG, 20th November 2019 – Happy Birthday Jill Thompson

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. Yesterday we ran a piece about missing Incredible Hulk issues that had plagued some Marvel Unlimited readers for the last couple of weeks.

An hour after posting on Bleeding Cool, it was no longer an issue… that's an Incredible Rich Twitch.

The 10 most-read stories yesterday

1. Comic Store In Your Future, All-Hail New Overlord of Marvel Comics Kevin Feige
2. "Batman": Christian Bale Turned Down Fourth Film Because of Nolan
3. "Dead By Daylight" Shows Off New Killer With The Oni
4. Gossip: Is Chip Zdarsky Writing a New Namor The Sub Mariner X-Men Comic?
5. Alan Moore On His "Grouchiness" and "Cantankerousness"
6. Have a Load of Hulk Issues Disappeared From Marvel Unlimited For You?
7. Freddie Mercury Figures Gets Preorder and You Can't Stop Him Now
8. Rob Liefeld's Struggle With Clothing Policies in Saudi Arabia
9. Marvel Comics February 2020 Solicitations – Force Works to Dark Agnes, Darth Vader to Wolverine, Frankensteined
10. Batman and Alfred Have Dinner Together in Batman #83 [Preview]

One year ago…

1. Three Nukes Crashed the Fallout 76 Server in Spectacular Fashion
2. Image Comics Issues Mandatory Recall Of Dead Rabbit #1 and #2… Over Trademark?
3. 'Dune': Timothée Chalamet Doesn't Know What Fear Is
4. Ezra Miller Had "Serious Meltdown" About THAT 'Fantastic Beasts' Spoiler
5. DC Comics Cancels Dan DiDio and Kenneth Rocafort's Sideways

Happening today…

• Book launch and signing with Mark Stafford and David Hine for Bad, Bad Place, The Cartoon Museum, 63 Wells Street, London, 6-8pm.
• Captain America #16 signing with Robert Quinn, Collector's Paradise – NoHo, North Hollywood, California, 5-7pm.
• Denys Cowan & Bill Sienkiewicz signing at Neal Adams Crusty Bunkers, Los Angeles, California, 5-8pm.
• Brandon Thomas signing Excellence, Yesteryear Comics, San Diego, California, 9am-Noon.
• Ryan Kincaid signing exclusive Joker cover, Comics Elite, Indianapolis, Indiana, noon-9pm.
• Canto signing with David Booher, The Comic Bug, Manhattan Beach, LA, 5-8pm.
• Lynda Barry + Chris Ware in Conversation, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly,  Montréal, QC, 7-10pm.

And a happy birthday to…

• Jill Thompson, creator of Scary Godmother and Sandman artist.
• Birds Of Prey artist Ed Benes
• Rian Hughes, comics creator and designer, of Dare, I Am A Number and Logo A Gogo.
• Sandman Mystery Theatre writer, Guy Davis.
• Dave Schreiner, creator of Snarf.
• Creator of Hopster's Tracks and artist on Powerpuff Girls, Simpsons,  Flintstones, Ren & Stimpy, Wolf & Red and Peanuts comics, Stephanie Gladden.
• Mahmud Asrar, Dynamo 5, Superman, Supergirl and upcoming Conan artist.
• Captain America, Ruse and Carnage artist, Mike Perkins

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