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And, along the way, I've decided to retire from a great deal of my comics work. Retirement in the storytelling trade means, still working and writing every day, but being a bit more selective in what projects I take on Pushing 60, I thought it would be a good time to start making concrete plans for[...]

Big week. And the week after? X-Men Gold from Marvel, Manifest Destiny and Umbral from Image (and new Walking Dead) and Clown Fatale from Dark Horse… DARK HORSE COMICS BALTIMORE INFERNAL TRAIN #3 $3.50 CATALYST COMIX #5 (MR) $2.99 CLASSIC MARVEL CHARACTERS X-MEN #2 ANGEL $49.95 DOMO & FRIENDS IN BOBSLED ORNAMENT $14.99 DOMO ASTRONAUT ORNAMENT $14.99 DOMO SNOWBOARDING ORNAMENT $14.99 GRINDHOUSE DOORS OPEN AT MIDNIGHT #2 $3.99 MICHAEL AVON OEMINGS VICTORIES[...]

IDW launched a Rocketeer/Spirit series, Pulp Friction earlier this year, by Mark Waid and Paul Smith.The first issue came out in July. The second... at

But why Day Men and not many of the other successful comics of its type? Well I'm not going into the ins and outs of the people involved, mostly because I'm not sure I've got all the names right But one thing stands out. Day Men is a story about the men hired and trained to do[...]

Marvel must have played very nice with Dynamite's Nicky Barrucci for this to happen. But king of the painted variant cover, Alex Ross, is painting a series of covers for Marvel throughout 2014 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Marvel Comics #1, one per month. The first is for Avengers #25 in January… Marvel must have played[...]

That is, of course, if he wrote the script on his desktop! Well played sir. Of course that gave us the change to update another aspect of his story… on the I Sell Comics podcast, Bleeding Cool readers and Comic Book Men Mike Zapcic and Ming Chen told their audience that James Tynion had told them[...]

Also with the issue Hickman's co-writer for the first six issues Mike Costa will be going it alone on the writing duties. When asked about the project and taking over the series, Costa had this to say: Jonathan Hickman is one of the biggest names in comics right now, and his creator-owned work in particular is probably[...]

I have to admit that Batman bit in this new Lego Movie trailer is amusing.  Some films have genuinely one of a kind aesthetics. The first Tron movie, for

WHAT TO DO IN LONDON TONIGHT COMICA PR: WHAT IS A SUPERHERO? with Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Will Brooker, Richard Reynolds & Alex Fitch Tickets: £6.00 from WeGotTickets Where: Foyles Bookshop, 3rd Floor Gallery, London, WC2H 0EB A SECOND DARKNESS Christopher Mitten draws the cover for the second print of Ash And The Army Of Darkness #1. YOUR COMICS ARE WORTH NOTHING Yahoo[...]

From the upcoming Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men film from Sequart, I thought you might enjoy this little clip for the comics industry in the eighties. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifbCLL-oW4[/youtube] Well, it is Hallowe'en… From the upcoming Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men film from Sequart, I thought you might enjoy this little clip for the comics industry in[...]

Asterix And The Picts was published a week ago, under an extremely severe embargo. But once available, it has sold, and sold very well. One bookstore

Some senior comic book figures are rather happy that the news about DC Comics Editorial moving to Burbank happened when it did I'm told both the announcement and the meeting with staff was brought forward as a result of media interest in the news – which means for people not wanting to move coasts, they[...]

Here's the Daniel Acuna six foot wide poster, coming with special polybagged copies of Avengers #24.NOW... And here it is chopped up a bit so you can see

You know I like Letter 44, the new Oni Press book by Charles Soule and Alberto Alburquerque. I talked about it here quite a lot.

It's coming. Until then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3XyuN7VZAg