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Sunday Runaround – Comics Like Susan Boyle
No doubt it will turn up again on DC's site later… FootballWatch: Some school American football team decided to find a new power fantasy to help them play… Before the season, each member of the Shawnee High School football team's senior class assigned themselves a member of the Justice League, DC Comics' group of [...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Earth 2
The devil will be in the details on this one in particular — adding a dimension to a universe is never an easy task, as comics has learned once or twice before I'm curious to see what Robinson and Scott have in store. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Confirms James Robinson And Nicola Scott On JSA… And[...]
Tony Lee And Dan Boultwood's Danger Academy
The cover to the first Danger Academy, out in December 2011 from Kickstart Entertainment, as seen at the Birmingham Comics Con today. The Gloom, also by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood will be published by Arcana in early 2012… Also, Mark Millar didn't make it to Birmingham Comic Con because he had the flu, which also[...]
Fanboy Rampage: A Liefeld, Brevoort, Kirkman Sandwich
Liefeld continued tweeting; Rob: This is common practice in the comics business I completed pencils on 5 Killraven issues over 2 years ago Fact Issues 1 & 2 colored 2008 By not soliciting Killraven for 4 years, sales automatically dropped by virtue of the market falling Would have launched at 50k, now 30?? Anyone remember Ultimate[...]
JMS On Marko Djurdjevic, Toilet Paper And Earth One
I think it's about time somebody in the comics business gave Charlie Sheen a run for his money, and I have absolute faith that Mr Djurdjevic is just the man to do it I stand beside him in solidarity, with confidence and with a roll of toilet paper poised and ready for his next missive[...]
Fear Itself – Bullet Points From Fan Expo Canada
They repeatedly mentioned that it's not a coincidence that Schism and Fear Itself are happening around the same time. We also got a motion comics trailer for the Hulk Essentially saying the Hulk is finally at peace and Banner's gone nuts More details tomorrow at the Hulk/Ultimate Panel, but when asked to compare it to[...]
Saturday Runaround – Diamond Coffee Distribution
NY Daily News now. His adoptive parents, Ma and Pa Kent, are both dead and his long-running romance and marriage to Lois Lane has been dissolved as part of DC Comics' unprecedented reboot of its entire line of comics. "By having [Superman] not being married and both his parents being deceased, what you have is a[...]
Friday Trending Topics: X-Men Uncovered
 Which is an excellent train of thought… because occasionally, comics should just be about bad guys getting stomped. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: That Uncanny X-Men #1 Cover Without The Silhouettes (SPOILERS) Pretty familiar to us now, what with the quandriptych image that we pieced together last week But, here is what that image looks like without those pesky silhouettes. Marko Djurdjevic[...]
And Finally… When Warners Wanted Marvel To Publish DC
Jim Shooter is telling his history of his life in comics on his blog He's just got to 1984, when Warners, apparently, asked if Marvel would be interested in publishing DC. Bill Sarnoff was the Big Cheese, I forget his exact title, of the publishing arm of Warner Communications Among the operations under his purview was[...]
Lemire, Robinson And Azzarello – DC Bullet Points From Fan Expo Canada
At which we learned; Sweet Tooth will probably end at around issue 50 His Atom back ups in Adventure Comics will tie in to his new Frankenstein series as Ray Palmer becomes a member of the S.H.A.D.E science team. Lemire sees S.H.A.D.E as the big spy agency for DC new Universe and has talked with Paul Cornell[...]