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Preview: Danger Club by Landry Walker and Eric Jones from Image
Image Comics announced Danger Club at San Diego Comic Con by Landry Walker and Eric Jones, creators of Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures In The Eighth Grade As we pointed out, Danger Club is not that comic Not anything like that comic. This is the black and white ashcan, handed out by Image at the show Should give[...]
IDW To Continue UK Transformers Continuity By Simon Furman And Andrew Wildman
I've already written how I was the only comics reporter to cover new of the Uglies manga, because I was in the panel before the DCU panel, setting up. So I missed the IDW Transformers panel Where Simon Furman announced that, after fan pressure, IDW were to publish a continuance of the Marvel Transformers continuity that[...]
Wednesday Comics Review: Ultimate Fallout #4 And Batman Knight Of Vengeance #3
This is all Bendis. And we are confronted with a few solid facts in modern superhero comics There are not enough up front famous superhero types who are not white And new books featuring any new character have a tendency to sell poorly, whatever their ethnicity And pretty much the only way to do what Bendis[...]
Wednesday Comics Review: Punisher 1 and Severed 1
Creepy, this comic promises much more. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. There's a rule people often bring up in any kind of visual narrative Show, don't tell Why spend long scenes full of exposition when you can actually show the events happening instead Torchwood: Miracle Day, I'm looking at you. Punisher #1 by Greg Rucka, Marco[...]
DC Comics On The New DCU 52 Protestors
I saw this image briefly at the Retailer Presentation at San Diego Comic Con by DC Comics, but wasn't quite quick enough to capture it Thankfully DC Comics have included it in this week's comics As part of DC Nation, this reworked version of Justice League Of America #28 seems to both reference and mock[...]
Unboxing Ultimate Fallout #4
From a small London city park this morning… the unboxing of Ultimate Fallout #4, featuring the Black/Latino character Miles Morales… and a few other people. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHdu7rUFXFg[/youtube] So this issue looks fairly normal… anyone know what the big chase variant thing is? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. [...]
Fear Of A Black Spider-Man
we will soon find out that we're all brothers regardless of race, gender, religious conviction, etc……………..because we'll all be sharing love while standing in line for a loaf of bread ! ! ! ! ! baraks psycho-ops for re-election is just starting, if a conservative wrote this he {or she } would be[...]
Educating Larry
It's in all the papers. It was this possibility that caused Larry Doherty, owner/manager of Larry's Comics, prominent New England retailer and founder of the popular #comicmarket hashtag, to not only criticise the change, but to express a few into racial sterotypes and epithets. He then apologised saying "Sorry, that I offended the entire Internet with my[...]