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I'm writing a very specific character." Out compares him to a Project Runway contestant and calls him "DC Comics' first major gay teen superhero" along with writer Scott Lobdell's oft-repeated line "If the comic book industry doesn't create another white, straight male superhero, that will be OK" The aryticle also recalls Scott Lobdell's contribution to the[...]

Marvel are introducing discounts to those who order large numbers of the central comics It is likely, but not definite, that DC will run some programme to encourage retailers to order sizeable amounts too, though likely more around returnability But faced with the new of eight Before Watchmen titles to order, what are they thinking? I'm[...]

Spider-Man: Ends Of The Earth is the storyline that writer Dan Slott says he's been building up to, with Doctor Octopus and the Sinister Six launching

You pick up the Action Comics #6 Combo edition You open the bag, you wait the appropriate amount of time, you flip to the DC Download Code page and… …damn. Hey, is this an ultra rare variant? You pick up the Action Comics #6 Combo edition You open the bag, you wait the appropriate amount of time,[...]

  Chris Weston's work has often been compared to that of Brian Bolland. The detail, the hard blacks, the feathering, the desire to portray as much as

Yesterday, from Dark Horse Comics, came the eighth issue of Dark Horse Presents Now over the years, that series has seen the birth of the likes of Concrete, The Mask, Hellboy, Sin City, Next Men and so much more It has an unquestionable pedigree But what makes today's issue quite so special? Well, first it has a BPRD[...]

The cover to issue 8 of Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine caused considerable stir. And we still don't exactly know how that's going to play out,

Brennan Neil's Stick City, ScotWatch: BBC Scotland finds the local women of comics. [Tanya] Roberts said: "Many of my fellow comic artist/writers are switching to online publicity now, that is to say generating interest through webcomics without even printing hard copies anymore. "It's very difficult to get a creator project published in these hard times. "No-one really feels confident[...]

 Overall, it was also an interesting day in comics history, with major birthdays for two of our most important modern comics institutions: 30th anniversary of Diamond Comics Distributors, 20th anniversary of Image Comics  On with the show… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: BEFORE WATCHMEN Announced Today With Azzarello/Bermejo's Rorschach, JMS/Adam Hughes' Dr Manhattan And Len Wein/Jae Lee's Ozymandias[...]

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As Sharp Electronics celebrates its hundredth year, what better way for the Japanese company to document its rise from a manufacturer of mechanical

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth Making is a difficult book to review here at the start of 2012– and not just because it weighs fifteen pounds and takes up almost as much space as a Torah scroll when open* The past year has seen DC Comics change[...]

Making Moloch a double patsy — first for Metropolis and then again for Ozymandias — could lend another layer of poignancy to the Moloch-Comedian scene in the comic." This was of course, a different time, during the creation of the comic itself, and well before Alan Moore realised that the contract he'd signed with DC Comics[...]

It's Diamond Comics' 30th Anniversary… but it's also Image Comics' 20th Anniversary Here's a photo from February 1st 1992. Erik Larsen, Hank Kanalz, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. Okay, exactly what portraits of themselves are Rob, Todd and Jim hiding in the attic?   It's Diamond Comics' 30th Anniversary… but it's also[...]

It is Diamond Comic Distributors' 30th Anniversary. This is Steve Geppi's message to retailers, publishgers and manufacturers. Yes, that is what Steve