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On so many different levels, this premiere simply could not have turned out any better." StoreWatch: Dragon Port Games And Comics of Duluth gets profiled. This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking I come for your women But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online One day I will rule Until that day,[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool; Anthologies are the foundation stone of comics So many characters and creators got their starts in 8 page tales of wonder, fear, and imagination; that to imagine a comics history without Action Comics, Zap Comix, 2000AD, Taboo, or PEP -not to mention the mammoth manga collections- is impossible The horror[...]

It could have ended there. Swipe File: Action Comics #1 Vs Israel Embassy Protest In Egypt Above, Superman as seen in Action Comics #1 this week in a Superman T-short, blue jeans and with something red around his shoulders acting as a cape A reinvention of the character based on the original version as created by Jewish[...]

At the midnight launch of the DCU at Orbital Comics, one thing was notable They didn't have a whole lot of Animal Man #1 left for the shelf And everyone seemed to be picking it up. Jeff Lemire and Travel Foreman's Animal Man revival has been one of the critical hits of the relaunch And it[...]

Don't call it a Truther comic. He wouldn't like it if you called it a Truther comic. But Rick Veitch's The Big Lie, out last week, does give an account of

Above, Superman as seen in Action Comics #1 this week in a Superman T-short, blue jeans and with something red around his shoulders acting as a cape A reinvention of the character based on the original version as created by Jewish creators Joe Siegel and Jerry Schuster. Below, Egyptian activists celebrate as they demolish a concrete[...]

I even saw some [meta] on twitter about reviewing biases and reliability in comics  It's sometimes easy to nod your head and move on in reaction to a review, but something about that rarefied point of view on display in this piece makes it a bit more likely you'll put your own two cents on[...]

"When in doubt," my mama always said, "go alphabetically." Well, she never really said that but let's pretend for the sake of the article, shall we? Action Comics Writer: Grant Morrison Pencils: Rags Morales In Metropolis, the City of the Future, the mysterious and violent Superman takes down mobsters without mercy, exchanges witty barbs with best friend Jimmy[...]

From ScienceFiction.com, a preview of 'Legion Lost' #1.  From Blastr a preview of Superboy #1. From Comic Book Resources, a preview of Batman And Robin

The fools. Comics legend Jim Steranko shows us his early concept art for Indiana Jones Jim Steranko gave an intimate question and answer session this past Sunday in the waning hours of Dragon*Con The veteran comic book artist is known for his psychedelic, groundbreaking work on Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D[...]

Bleeding Cool reported last week about McDonalds worker, one Mike Meyer of  Granite City, Missouri, who found he had been tricked out of his Superman

Though judging by some responses on twitter, I think more than one comics writer has gotten some ideas for more creative "surprised utterances"  It occurs to me that a couple generations of digital down the road, we'll be able to google search dialog and see how many times "arrgh!" has been used in DC history,[...]

Thanks to Mark Waid, a very different take on GD-Gate from 1964...

So… we have confirmation that Justice League (two prints worth), Action Comics, Justice League International, Hawk And Dove, Batman And Robin and Batgirl have sold out, and getting second prints. But which are next? Well frankly, it could pretty much be any of them There are reports of all the titles "going to backorder" apart from Static[...]

Both mysterious figures, the identity On the left the recent Doctor Who Annual with different tales of the Doctor drawn by different artists, each of whom