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Disney's Robert Chapek To Oversee Marvel
The only real changes seen by the consumer have been Tron, Pixar and Muppets comics from Marvel There is now scope to extend that… Robert Chapek, President of Distribution for The Walt Disney Studios, has been promoted to President of Disney Consumer Products, reporting to Disney President and CEO Robert A Iger. Robert Chapek will replace[...]
Detective Comics Overtakes Batgirl On eBay
With reports of sell outs across the country, and despite print runs of up to five times the usual amount for some comics, people are paying premium prices for some of the first issue relaunches. Detective Comics #1, the ending of which seems to have spurred demand on this one, selling for $20 plus shipping. Batgirl #1,[...]
Friday Runaround – Superheroes? Brian Wood Would.
It's about how mankind rebuilds, and in this case, how they rebuild the entire world, such was the scope of the disaster. "Our main cast are environmentalists, having failed the world in their mission, and now must not only pick up the pieces, but figure out how to adapt their core beliefs…[...]
Whitewashing Luke Cage
From Patrick Willems comes what is clearly an adaptation of the Marvel comic book character Luke Cage. With one or two deviations from the original text.
Collectors Cornered #8 – New Comics… And Kids Love Comics.
Join them every week as they discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, as they literally corner them and and ask questions about comic books and related topics Unscripted, reality CCTV. "This week we keep it simple with Collectors Cornered #8, we[...]
North Carolina Comic Shop To Boycott Action Comics
This week, DC Comics published a new first issue of Action Comics, the series that introduced Superman to the world back in the nineteen thirties. In doing so, writer Grant Morrison, who had already written the insanely successful All Star Superman comic, took the character back to his original roots Reinvented as a social crusader, targeting[...]
Was This The Least Appropriate Comic For 9/11 Week?
You have been warned. This week's Marvel Comics (yes, Marvel published some comics this week as well) feature pages from their Moment Of Silence and Heroes comics, published in the wake of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Superhero action is always going to jar with such events, considering the destructive[...]
Gendercrunching The DC New 52 – Week One by Tim Hanley
Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; I'll be doing the women in comics stats for DC and Marvel like always this month, but since the DC relaunch is sort of a big deal, we're going to have special reports on the New 52 as they're released… hopefully very soon after they're released, if[...]