Valiant has sent over an advanced preview of their Quantum And Woody #7 by writer James Asmus and artist Ming Doyle. The book hits the shelves on January
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Do you think the comics industry is doing enough to reach younger readers?
RL: I think it could always do more, but it's been gratifying to see so many great comics for kids appear over the last few years The more the better! If nothing else, it's just smart long-term thinking The existing audience won't live forever[...]
Timothy Carson writes: Holy Age of Ultron, Batman! According to ComiXology sales last week taken from iOS in-app purchase charts, Age of Ultron dominated
Marvel have two weeks of almost no comics to make up for, remember Which is we they are publishing twenty-five new titles, in one week, including launches for Miracleman, Black Widow, Avengers World, All New X-Factor, Point One, Revolutionary War and All New Invaders…
DC gives us Detective Comics #27 and launches Vampire Diaries #1, Image[...]
Marvel Sales VP David Gabriel, he of "a death every quarter" fame, has given an interview to Diamond Comic Distributors' retailer site (thanks to the
Marvel Comics is upping its variant cover stock quite a bit for the ALl New Marvel NOW! relaunches…
Here, in reverse order, are a bunch of additional upcoming variant covers from Marvel Avengers Undercover #1 Mark Brooks and John Tyler Christopher Variants, Elektra #1 Paolo Rivera Variant, Guardians Of The Galaxy #13 Dale Keown Variant, New[...]
But don't you fret! There are comic book things! Cameron Stewart, Will Simpson, JMS and Tintin!
Saturday 4th January
Cameron Stewart is signing at Gosh! Comics tomorrow
Creator of the award-winning comic Sin Titulo, and artist on such mind blindingly good titles as Batman and Robin and Sea Guy will be at Gosh! on January the 4th from[...]
Christina Blanch, the organizer of the massively successful free open-access online comics course "Super MOOC": "Gender Through Comic Books", will be running a second course from March 10th to August 19th 2014 and registration is currently open This course will be entitled "Social Issues Through Comic Books" The first MOOC Blanch ran engaged over 7000[...]
Because the Marvel site has two listings, one for Ultimate Comics The Ultimates #35 and Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #32.
The numbering would fit the issue numbers, if the Cataclysm mini-series had been included in the regular numbering It could be a placeholder It be just a glitch in the system Could Marvel really be preparing some[...]
Each of these are, of course, teasers about upcoming plot elements for various comics that will be part of the Project Black Sky tie-in Though Project Black Sky will eventually have a specific crossover event (see their Free Comic Book Day offering), there's a more subtle weaving going on too, it seems These books, from[...]
By Alasdair Stuart
Edison Rex was one of the first Monkeybrain Comics titles and remains one of the jewels in their crown The story of an extremely reluctant villain-turned-hero, it's mix of Silver Age superheroics, darkness and moments of pure deadpan comedy have won it a loyal audience I talked to writer Chris Roberson and artist[...]
Why these robots have apparent genders, and what it means, and how to deal with it in a Comics-Code-friendly manner… such questions drive writers mad.
Old guard Simon Furman, author of a metric ton of TF comics from the eighties to today, spun a new origin for token female Autobot Arcee in 2008's Spotlight: Arcee, in[...]
He was hyping the Image Comics series Fused and once done he told me about the message board on his website.
The amazing thing was the number of regular members from that board that went on to do work in the industry I made friends with Ben Templesmith, Nat Jones, Jay Fotos, Nick Stakal, Ben Roman,[...]
We mentioned this upcoming series last year. Crash Landing, described as Flash Gordon meets Dracula by way of Stargate, is written by Tony Lee. Here are
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!
We've seen[...]