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Bone One Volume In Colour
I have the Bone One Volume, bought in San Diego years ago, that put me over my weight allowance on the way home. I never thought I'd need another copy of
Lying In The Gutters – 27th December 2010
Marvel Announces Fear Itself At Midtown Comics Itself. 9 What If The Avengers Were Dinosaurs? It's still a good question. 10 FF Vs $3.99 11 Preview: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows' Neonomicon #3 12 The Fear Itself Teaser Artwork 13 A Very Batman Christmas – a lot of hits on Christmas Day this one. 14 Archie's Miss Grundy Loses Battle With[...]
Mike Carlin To Move Coasts (UPDATE)
Mike Carlin, DC editor, who seemed untouched by all the announcements of late at DC Comics, neither promotion nor redundancy, is moving to California Is this to Los Angeles as part of DC Entertainment in Burbank, or something else? As he updated on Facebook; Well… THAT was the end of an ear-ache!… an error?…[...]
Monday Runaround – Larfleeze Cookies All Round!
Horrible." – Rob Liefeld "To all sending me pictures of your Larfleeze Orange Lantern Cookies – thank you!!!! I am going to amass them for a GL issue!!! :)" – Geoff Johns FourWatch: Rupert Murdoch's Sun suddenly notices that the Fantastic Four are reducing their numbers. 'NamWatch: Vietnam parents are getting worried about comic books. "Violent and[...]
BC ComicChron
Two floors dedicated to this odd subculture/craze, with explanations of manga history and thousands of comics to read. JobWatch: Memphis Tennessee welcomes new jobs at Diamond as the Los Angeles warehouse closes. "We're moving everything to Olive Branch," said Diamond Comics spokeswoman Leslie Jackson "We'll also be hiring There will be more [...]
Christmas Day Runaround
DemiWatch: Who will Demi Lovato play in The Avengers? LocalWatch: Iowan artist Gary Kelly gets local press for drawing a graphic novel written by J.Patrick Lewis "And The Soldiers Sang" about the Christmas truce during World War I when the German and British armies left their trenches and played football in No Man's Land. IndiaWatch: The Indian[...]
Not A Creature Was Stirring, Except A $750,000 Comic Art Thief?
Among the items stolen were two pieces derived from comic book art: A limited print of Andy Warhol's Superman and Lichtenstein's Thinking Nude. The Warhol is based on a Murphy Anderson image, while the Lichtenstein print seems to be a swipe of a comic panel by artist Jim Pike, who was a romance artist of[...]
The Role Of Sin In Fear Itself
Matt Fraction talked to John Siuntres on Word Balloon a couple of days ago about Fear Itself. So what do we know? Well, the series will centre on Thor and
What Do The Comic Industry's Christmas Cards Tell Us?
Santa runs a comics store that only ordered three copies of Skullkickers #1 Here's a few of the many industry Christmas cards send by publishers, retailers and creators alike, that may need further exploration or interpretation. Don't turn your back on Santa, or he'll empty his sack That'll wipe the smile off your face. White kids get[...]
BC ComicChron
ArchieWatch: So goody-two-shoes is an Obama fan while greedy narcassist Jughead is a Palin upporter? What are Archie Comics tryong to say?? HorrorWatch: Steve Niles is planning a horror universe of characters… Right now, between Dark Horse and IDW we have created a small universe of characters Our hope is to one day get all these characters[...]
Thanks, Wildstorm
But with this week's release of the final issue of WildCATs and the closure of the DC Comics offices for the holidays, there's a sense of finality in the air Everybody knows nothing stays dead in comics, and there will be collections, and down the road… who knows what could happen But for now,[...]
Michael Moorcock And Gary Spencer Millidge On Alan Moore
Storyteller follows his work from the Northampton Art Labs through comics and into Dodgem Logic An audio CD will also feature excerpts from some of Moore's multimedia performances and songs. Preoders are available now on Amazon US, Amazon Canada and Amazon UK. April next year will see the publication of Alan Moore: Storyteller, a[...]
FF Vs $3.99
Marvel solicitations for March's FF #1 by Jonathan Hickman, Steve Epting and Paul Mounts at Newsarama and CBR were missing one little aspect - the price
Did John Byrne Create New Marvel?
And there it is. But it doesn't mean that that Byrne has no more influence on the direction of Marvel comics Indeed, it seems quite the opposite Let's take a few important Marvel plotlines. In House Of M, Wanda Maximoff creates an entirely new alternate reality, in which Magneto rules a mutant dominated world that has ground[...]
Which Comic Creator Earned $24,000,000 This Year?
Or Geoff Johns. It was One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda, with an annual income from the comic and merchandising, netting him a cool 2 billion Yen, or $24 million dollars. That's according to magazine Weekly Bunshun as handily translated by the Anime New Network Of course this pales in comparison to the money Isaac Perlmutter made from the[...]
Thursday Runaround – The Fantastic Ronnie
And the Financial Times blames the comics; TV licensing deals for Dennis the Menace, one of the publisher's most famous characters, still left the children's comics division dealing with "difficult market conditions," according to its annual accounts, which were signed off at the end of November and issued this week. Sales of The Beano, the weekly title[...]
Marvel Comics Give One Year's Free Digital Comics To Veterans
The Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America have announced a new reward, a year's subscription to the Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited service It's free to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who sign up here Requests are valid until the 6th of January. The Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Of America have announced a new reward, a year's[...]