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Monday Morning Runaround – More Mignola, More Max, Less 99
"I have tons of my own stories that I've worked on over the years, and I hope to get some of those up and running this year," he says. THE BANNING OF THE 99 The much-publicised Islamic-themed superhero comic book, The 99, written by Kuwaiti psychologist Naif al-Mutawa and praised by Barack Obama, has now been banned in[...]
Tiny Elves Get Big Comic
At ECCC today, Dark Horse Comics announced that Elfquest would be getting a Gallery Edition, the latest format to copy Scott Dunbier's Artists Edition format over at IDW. Effectively this reproduces the look and feel of the original art boards, the comics were originally created on. ElfQuest: The Original Quest Gallery Edition, collects the first five issues of The Original[...]
How To Read DC's First Contact
The DC Comics crossover storyline First Contact ran from Batman/Superman #8-9 and Worlds' Finest #20-21. But Bleeding Cool has been asked to help understand how too read the comic. Well it's easy First you read Batman/Superman #8, then you read World's Finest #20. Then you find a time machine to two/three weeks in the future to April 16th so you can[...]
Afterlife Inc. – The Book Of Life
First in Dying to Tell, which was recently featured in Comixology Submit's top 100 indie comics bundle; next in Near Life; and finally in Lifeblood, which I successfully Kickstarted back in November 2012 thanks to the incredible generosity of my backers. Now, for the first time, I'm collecting volumes 1-3 of Afterlife Inc in one luxury[...]
Saying Goodbye To Spider-Man, With Advance Reorders
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! The end[...]
Unboxing The Valiant Chromium Covers – Unity, X-O Manowar And Armor Hunters
So I got a package from Valiant Comics the other day. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zqoZo-KWPU[/youtube] Opening up, revealed the three chromium covers from the comic books X-O Manowar, Unity and the launch of Armor Hunters in June, two of which signed by the comics' author Robert Venditti… It was famously the chromium cover of Turok, Dinosaur Hunter #1 in the nineties that[...]
Essential 8 Things About Emerald City Comicon – Day 2
Dark Horse and Image also have big displays but this year at ECCC, it is undoubtedly the year where Boom! stood out. Everybody knows that Michael Avon Oeming and Taki Soma are two of the most down to earth and sincerely friendly people in comics right? Yeah, now I'm just bragging because this signed Powers print[...]
Would You Like To Write Or Draw 'Ultimate Cerebus' For IDW? Get In Touch
Creator of the long-running, legendary Cerebus, Dave Sim writes about revisiting those early issues, with an all-star cast. I asked Ted Adams during our phone chat a couple of weeks back if IDW would be interested in publishing ULTIMATE CEREBUS: basically the "re-telling" of the first 25 issues by other writers and artists and he was VERY enthusiastic. My[...]