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The Fear news event from Midtown Comics at the end of last year saw Marvel make an attempt at live streaming coverage the likes of which Apple has been using so succesfully in recent times. And then there's the Fantastic Four #587 leak to the AP, which hit in the early hours this past Tuesday[...]

A second print is being rushed through Marvel as we speak, with Marvel getting the printer to print the book over the weekend to be in stores  next week. And these two follow up X-Men comics, also coming out next week, suddenly look very underordered indeed. Will you get a copy? Did you preorder? Of course, speculators beware[...]

Bleeding Cool reported on news that the French staff for the comics publisher L'Association were going on strike earlier this year Well, now it's stepped up publically, with the striking workers still attending the world biggest comic convention Angoulême for L'Association but, instead of selling their books, they are handing out protesting leaflets, and replacing[...]

On February the 5th, there will be a protest "read in" at the St James Library in Northampton with Alan Moore, that follows a protest held there tomorrow

What more do you need to know? This is Pizza Homem De Ferro, apparently. Excellent onion placement there.

Sadly the bit where he talked about a Green Lantern panel at Kapow has been removed since it first went up, as have the bits about his current Ultimate work with Bendis being his last Marvel/company owned work for a while… FamilyTreeWatch: Joe Stone labels his X-Men Family Tree to help with identifying some of the [...]

There's a film, called True Grit, apparently. Made by the Coen brothers, the second time the novel has been adapted to film. But this is also the first

That Marvel is to follow DC's move to a twenty page/$2.99 price point on a number of its books. Right now, Marvel publish pretty much equal copies of $2.99 and $3.99 twenty-two page comics, with some like the Avengers books, adding extra text pages And Marvel's licensed and MAX titles are all $3.99 for twenty-two pages[...]

Abby Denson, creator of Dolltopia, writes for Bleeding Cool, reporting from the world's largest comic convention, Angoulême, happening now! Hi folks, this is a report from Abby – I do a dessert comics blog, so you may notice a bit of food details in here along with the comics details! Angoulême Day 0 Tim Fish and[...]

The recent statements by DC Comics and Archie that they are about to cease using the Comics Code Authority seal on their comics, and subsequent revelations that there are no publishers left actively using the Code, have in a very real way crystallized the comicsphere zeitgeist that major change is coming to our industry in[...]

There were three mysterious TBA items on Marvel's retailer order form for February 2011. Yesterday, Marvel filled in two of these. Herc #1 and #2,

On the 23rd of February, he will be leading a graphic novel writing workshop (£7.50, £6 concessions) followed by a comics art workshop with Frank Quitely and on the 25th Dave Gibbons will be having a Conversation (though it doesn't say who with) SternWatch: Bluewater Comics are now launching a new ongoing biographical comic book alongside[...]

Josh Adams writes for Bleeding Cool. If there is one thing about comics that is mistreated more than anything it's death.  I know, there is a lot that we can criticize in the comic industry and I will be glad to, not because I hate it but because I love it and want[...]

with And Wonder Woman continues her transformation into the Wolverine of DC Comics We continue the stories with mythological creatures appearing larger than life and clashing with mundanity And the art really sells this, lots of forced perspectives and low angle shots to emphasise the strangeness here. We left last issue with a major impalement and[...]

This Tank Girl image from Philip Bond was intended to be an alternate cover for the comic - but it will now be a pull out poster. Here's a bit of it. In

CreatorWatch: Steven Niles talks about supporting creator comics And with news on his Wake The Dead comic getting optioned, we can see why that might be important… MilkWatch: A Chinese cartoon has been censored, though the creator denies it was intended to be satirical and is instead "a fairytale" Say, wasn't that the descriptive title given[...]

It has a black logo instead of a blue one. And the signature of Jonathan Hickman in silver ink on the cover. And no external sign on the bag. This is the

A copy of Batman: Vengeance Of Bane, the first appearance of the character now confirmed to be appearing in the new Batman movie, the Dark Knight Rises.

I met this friendly pair in Orbital Comics picking up my Fantastic Four #537 earlier today. They'd been to the Batman Live! auditions earlier, auditioning for the touring Batman show kicking off later this year And they'd been there with several hundred other people Here are a few in costume… Oh and a video too! [...]

Diamond Comics Distribution are on a mission to catch comics retailers selling comics too early With a crack squad of elderly women posying as comic book collectors. The place: The comic book shop Pastimes in Asheville, North Carolina. The time: Less than two minutes before closing today. The suspect: A white women in her seventies, asking for Avengers #9, Detective Comics[...]

Welcome to Aaron and Tri-Force Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida, battling I tell you, battling with the hordes of Fantastic Four fans and Glenn Beck and me losing my bet. Love for X-Force, Deadpool, how DC still won't do Marvel crossovers and how Daniel Way did one anyway, 22 pages of New Avengers talking[...]

(Not the most-most-mocked issues though.) He also wrote a parody of Watchmen that went head to head with my own. His name is Scott Lobdell. It's only been a few months since Bob Harras became editor-in-chief of DC Comics And I understand that Scott will be taking over a major title at DC Comics. Of course, I found[...]

Okay, here be spoilers. Well tech blogs do this kind of thing with phones, and computers and things don't they? I thought it might be fun to do the same

I understand that in the Flashpoint universe being set up in the upcoming crossover, the Green Lantern title will be renamed and renumbered as Abin Sur

Karl at Orbital Comics in London, holding the death issue, while supressing a tear. The one thing I wasn't expecting about the death issue of the Fantastic Four is that we wouldn't see a death in it Just the reaction to one. This is a story about last stands of so many people Reed Richards against Galactus[...]

And Comics Alliance decides that it could only be the figure in question by looking at all the obvious hints Obvious after the spoiler has been published, that is. VampireWatch: Throne Of Blood: Birth Of A Vampire puts the X-Men Vampire story right into the middle of Fear Itself, it seems. GameWatch: Playing the DCU Online game…[...]

I also had a day job at the time, working for Verizon, which gave me extremely generous benefits, so having that there made working for Wizard far easier. This was my first freelance writing position in comics, after writing for years in sports, both on my own and, at various times, for Sporting News and FOX[...]

Brendon and I are just out of seeing PAUL at the Odeon on Leicester Square. He's busily tapping out a very considered review of the intracacies of the

Now this is an end of an era. I am receiving multiple confirmations from across the industry, through none yet from Wizard's higher ups and PR people yet, that Wizard: The Guide To Comics, the magazine that covered the mainstream comics industry for twenty years and created all manner of careers in the process has closed,[...]

What do we think? The three favourite theories are a) the Death of Ben Grimm (my own gut bet based on Marvel's usual policy of distraction, seeing The Thing solicited as appearing in other future comics, along with a lot of Thing reprint projects), b) the Death of the Human Torch, based on his friend Spider-Man[...]