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Comic stores will be getting this mini-poster, advertising the upcoming line of Star Wars titles from Marvel Comics Front and back… shops will get a batch on the 3rd of December if you fancy grabbing one. Comic stores will be getting this mini-poster, advertising the upcoming line of Star Wars titles from Marvel Comics[...]

This week saw the launch of Dynamite's new western series The Lone Ranger: Vindicated by half of the Jonah Hex writing team, Justin Gray and artist Rey

First and foremost, I think the digital publishers–and we've been in discussions about just this–need to ally a little more closely to drive awareness of digital comics The great thing about the internet is its accessibility The bad thing about the internet is that easy accessibility means the signal-to-noise ratio becomes a loud din, and[...]

Today saw Django Unchained come to Netflix. It also saw the release of the official sequel to Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino. It is the

By Christine Marie Vinciquarra What's better than being at Conquest Comics in Bayville, NJ reviewing new releases? Being at Conquest Comics in Bayville, NJ reviewing new releases, with two really awesome statues Anna and Elsa from Frozen watching me as I do it! On to the comics! Since childhood, I've been a fan of stories that have[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! This week,[...]

By Alex Mansfield A common refrain heard in regards to first issues is the lack of information provided within the inaugural twenty or so pages. While one

I find myself in Leeds ahead of the Thought Bubble comic festival, where Snyder and Jock will also be in attendance, and even a glimpse of Wytches #2 from Image Comics left me staring out my train window at an autumn landscape where suddenly every quaint farmstead and copse of withering trees and brush suddenly[...]

In Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick's latest newsletter can learn much about tomorrow's Captain Marvel, the Avengers half marathon and much more. Oh

When I booked my place at this years convention, I was taking baby steps into the world of comics – working on Zero with Ales Kot, and drawing that Deep State cover artwork you can see on the advertising banners on this page I had a few other seeds of projects that I thought might develop by[...]

He'll keep lurking around. DC & M: Damnation has an interesting chapter structure unlike most comics What inspired that? CB: It's modified from a web comic so we needed something to help break it up I'm not sure if we are continuing that in the rest of the comics, but we'll see Every month it's an experiment[...]

And that hiding place happens to be troubled football star Kyle Dixon… Both Wagner and Grant wrote for football-based comic books before teaming up at 2000AD, now is a chance to combine the two, with art from Dan Cornwell. Launching next summer from Black Hearted Press, it's basically Thanos meets Roy Of The Rovers, Wagner describing it as "Rom[...]

It was swiped from the Comic Journal who originally ran this column, as well as the now defunct Swipe Of The Week website. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, proud to announce their first in a line of new programming events, a "director's commentary" on the first Southern Bastards collection by Jason Aaron and Jason Latour[...]

From the New 52, DC Comics famously banned Batwoman from getting married to her girlfriend Maggie Sawyer – indeed, they banned all marriages, gay or straight, from their leading men and women (with the exception of Grant Morrison-related Animal Man) To the extent that Aquaman was written as married – just without saying the words. Well,[...]