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Kelley Jones posted the above art to Facebook with the line, Here he is, for Richard Pachter, there will be a little news soon for the big guy. Hammer was a comics series that Dark Horse published in the late nineties and he hasn't been since Looks like that won't remain the case for long. Lovecraftian superhero book,[...]

So, yesterday at the ComicsPRO retailer event in Atlanta, Georgia, DC Comics announced their third weekly title, but wouldn't say what it was. Well we have the Batman Eternal weekly, we have the Five Years Later/Future's End Weekly… A month ago, we ran the rumour that DC were prepping an Earth 2 Weekly. We have also previously run[...]

PLUNGING THE DEPTHS Survey: What do you all think? Chloe Bennet as FATHOM's Aspen Matthews #aspencomics @chloebennet4… http://t.co/43Oy7VqP5a — Aspen Comics (@AspenComics) February 28, 2014 SUPERHEROES ON THE SLOPES   Francesco Francavilla designs the Winter Olympic look for superheroes… THE WHITE HOUSE OF IDEAS [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77pnVFLkUjM[/youtube] "Basically I'm here to announce that we're building Iron Man." Man, Obama[...]

Could these be "pilot comics" to test the viability and popularity of other Cartoon Network characters getting their own series? You may very well think that, I couldn't possibly comment.   Expect IDW to announce this during their presentation at the ComcisPRO event in Atlanta, Georgia today. But they are releasing a Cartoon Network crossover event this summer,[...]

It's possible that tomorrow Image Comics will announce that Revenge #1 by Jonathan Ross and Ian Churchill has sold out from Diamond Comic Distributors and is going to a second print. And if they do, this is the cover they will us, by Ian Churchill. It portrays the exploitation Revenger movie character as seen in the comic[...]

There were comic launches like Stupid Guy Goes BACK to India by  Yukichi Yamamatsu, Zombie Rising #2 from Chariot Comics and Pulp Quarterly #2 from The Pulpocracy There were also all kinds of things from quizzes to contests to special screenings of fan-favorite shows like Sherlock and the wickedly fun House of Cards as well[...]

Over on his blog, artist extraordinaire Dave Dorman has announced a second mini-art book featuring the work he did for Hasbro on the G.I. Joe toy line.

In the latest DC All-Access they talk with Ames Kirshen from the Batman: Arkham Origins team and show the trailer for the new DLC Cold, Cold Heart staring

"I'd been drawing comics professionally for over ten years back then, but almost all for UK publishers and mostly sci-fi New York was as much sci-fi as Mega City One to me then though, as I'd never been there Still, I'm glad they did and I got to illustrate their great story and learn to[...]

Those two in particular, it's sort of a quirky superhero tale that has all these fun flavors you can mix around.  You don't want a one-note superhero because you tend to get the same thing every issue.  I also want to get back to doing Doctor Who.  They just announced Titan took it over so[...]

Did you enjoy the DC Steampunk variants? Where a number of titles get themed variant cover reinventing the characters involved into steampunk versions of themselves. According to retailers at the ComicsPRO event at Atlanta, Georgia, currently taking a small respite from DC Day, upcoming themes planned for the year include: Covers from the Robot Chicken crew, toys[...]

As Shack News talks about the announcement from DC Comics that the Infinite Crisis MMORPG game will go to open beta from March 14th, they have an aside for all us comic folk as well. Because, with the undoubted success of the Injustice: Gods Among Us, it appears that Infinite Crisis will also be getting a[...]

Along with the news of 3D Covers for a Five Years Later event in September 2014  also announced at ComicsPRO was the cancellation of All Star Western. The Jonah Hex series by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray was unique in the English speaking comics industry as an ongoing western comic book, although it also managed to[...]

Massive Open Online Comics Courses: the wave of the future? When pioneered by Christina Blanch, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology at Ball State University, the first course was so astonishingly successful that it surprised even Blanch The first course's topic in 2013, "Gender Through Comics", brought in a number of comics pros to speak about[...]

And now Midtown Comics and Limited Edition Comix are doing the same. Overrun by Andi Ewington, Matt Woodley and Paul Green will launch in an exclusive edition at the London Super Comic Con and will then be sold by Midtown in New York and Limited Edition in the UK. The city is at breaking point[...]

And hideously underprinted as China ran out of enough plastic to make them (apparently) leaving retailers heavily allocated and everyone scrabbling to get a 3D cover for Joker's Daughter. Some people got burned. But now… they're back! Announced at DC Day at ComicsPRO Retailer Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, DC Comics will be bringing them back for the[...]

This week Bleeding Cool announced that David Finch was the new artist on Wonder Woman, taking over from Cliff Chiang. But would Finch write it himself in place of Brian Azzarello? Was there another writer involved? If so, who was he? Or she? It turns out that the person in question is a writer relatively new to comics[...]

This is the bus ad, seen briefly on Arrow last night... And this is the poster. Blue Devil in 3D, coming this summer, as tweeted by Marc Guggenheim. So at

Well, the Free Comic Book Day comic in May was a big hint. But from July, Rocket Raccoon gets his own series from Marvel Comics written and drawn by Skottie Young. No 1 book of July? It's very possible. Marvel PR gave MTV the news to run today, which they have done The character has been booming in[...]

Del Rey… He's a busy boy, with Night of the Living Deadpool and Magneto for Marvel, The Remains for MonkeyBrain and Sinestro for DC Comics. Expect to find out more at the ComicsPRO retailer event tomorrow All sorts of things.   Last year, Boom! brought in the likes of Brian Stelfreeze, Si Spurrier, George Pérez, Paul Jenkins and[...]

The ComicsPRO retailer meeting is well underway at Atlanta, Georgia One of the many incentives for retailers to attend is the goodie bag of exclusive items given to each attendee With which, due to their exclusive nature, they can flip on eBay, sell in store or reward a valued customer with. And this year we have[...]

Yesterday saw the publication of the final issue of the Ultimate Cataclysm mini-series from Marvel Comics and the end of the Ultimate Universe. Until the relaunch in April, obviously. But what changes are we to expect? Well, spoilers ahead, obviously You have been warned. Ultimate Captain America remains deceased at the end of the mini-series[...]

The Comics PRO Retailer event began last night in Atlanta… and it started well with Rai shot glasses courtesy from Valiant Entertainment. The rest of the evening seems to have been a blur We look forward to finding out what attendees have learned later today. The Comics PRO Retailer event began last night in Atlanta… and[...]

From a Wizards Of The Coast buyer who seemed to have a problem with a mail order from Blu Planet Comics of New York. I don't like to put small businesses on blast but I feel I need to here On 1/28 I set up a deal with Blu Planet Comics to buy 1 booster case[...]

The above image was done by Stjepan Sejic in 30 minutes. Sejic is known for his work on Top Cow books like Witchblade, Artifacts and Aphrodite IX. He also

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show explores New Comic Book Releases for the week of February 26, 2014 from Astro-Zombies Comics in Albuquerque, New Mexico! Host Maxx MacLennan takes on this week's substantial pile of new books. Plus, they have a new facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SuperAwesome… Books reviewed in this episode include: Image Comics: One-Hit Wonder #1 Image Comics: Revenge[...]

There may not be anything as ostentatiously brilliant as the fractured-timeline sequence from Heart of Ice or the mixed-media experimentation of Black Dossier, but Moore clearly remains unafraid to occasionally challenge his readers – or at the very least, encourage them to work a little harder than most comics would require (including serving up whole[...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ZI7Diqwfk   On It's a Draw with Natalie Kim this week, Natalie draws with illustrator and comic artist, Tim

In fact, metal and comics cross paths only rarely but with legendary results, and on this week's heavy metal history lesson host Ian Christe ("Sound of the Beast"/Bazillion Points Books) clobbers a handful of classic songs about Iron Man, Thor, Judge Dredd, Spiderman, Ghost Rider, Conan, and others by heavy metal heroes Manowar, Bloodstar, Voivod,[...]

Want to see the Avengers take on the Justice League but not in a fist fight? How about a little five-on-five action. The folks from NBA 2k have done up a