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The Batman Of Toronto
"Where are they? Where's there a drug store? Beef jerky! Can you open this? My parents are dead!" This is Alex Brovedani, local Toronto comic fan, dressed
Sunday Runaround – When Robert Crumb Went To India
CBLDFWatch: Ultimate Comics sells Star Wars toys, Marvel statues and variant covers for the CBLDF. NovelWatch: Trina Robbins has a new graphic novel on the way And it sounds spectacular. "Lily Renée, Escape Artist," illustrated by Anne Timmons and Mo Oh, follows its subject from her upper-middle-class childhood in Vienna, to her Kindertransport journey to England, to[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: 52 Con Pickup
Mostly. Courtesy of Midtown Comics' listings and skipping the trades, here's a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. Geoff Johns And Jim Lee Explore Pandora For Free Comic Book Day With Kenneth Rocafort And Gene Ha Well, it appears that the free comic will focus on Pandora, the strange hooded woman from the end of Flashpoint[...]
Swipe File: Wonder Run Princess
Welcome to seventies Korean anime series called Wonder Run Princess. If might look a little familiar. I hope Warner lawyers don't see it and then jump
The Only Comic Store In Costa Rica Has Just Opened
Troy talked to Bleeding Cool about opening the only comic store in Costa Rica, BoomShop. There are a couple of other shops here that sell toys, games and whatnot and have a couple comics along with them, but we're the only real "comic shop" I'm amazed at the amount of people that keep asking me if[...]
Top 25 Reordered Comics For Early February
It gives a ground level look at exactly what is selling out or increasing buzz on the store floor. First the Advance Reorder list, comics that retailers have been upping their orders on before the comics comic out It often reflects their customers telling them what they want to buy closer to sale date Avengers, Assemble[...]
Saturday Runaround – Stealing Wonder Woman's Car
And they haven't resorted to Stan Lee is a dress. BuyWatch: Today Midtown Comics Downtown will be buying comics from 1pm to 4pm, filmed for a TV show And they really want Hot Stuff The Little Devil #1 from 1957… ConanWatch: Becky Cloonan will be signing at Paradise Comics in Toronto today, from 1.30pm-5.30pm CrossedWatch: The Sabotage Times[...]
Friday Trending Topics: Marvel May Day
 This has nothing in particular to do with Aunt May, but it probably should have. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Marvel's Solicitations For May 2012 – Just The Titles And A Few Pics  Marvel publish more than one title of 26 comics in May, a new record And the long anticipated Hulk Smash is now Hulk Smash Avengers, getting[...]
Full Monthly Marvel Solicitations For May 2012. Mostly.
Courtesy of Midtown Comics' listings and skipping the trades, here's a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE OF APOCALYPSE[...]
Boom Changes Free Comic Book Day Offering From Dune To Hypernaturals
All the more exciting to Dune fans was the fact that the writers of the novels, Herbert and Anderson, were actually writing the comic themselves. But for undisclosed reasons the launch of the comics series is delayed And Boom can't tell me why So no Dune FCBD. In its slot comes a replacement Dan Abnett and Andy[...]