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Scanning today's top headlines, it struck me how comics' devotion to its origins has so often taken us into strange territory  But 75+ years is literally a lifetime ago, and our founding creators could not have planned for where their ink and newsprint has taken us If Detective Comics #27 and Action Comics #1 are[...]

Were you mind boggingly blown away by the big bold spoiler ending to  Flashpoint #1? No, me neither, but some people were, it seems. I thought it was a

It was wrong, but it was small time, it was small scale. Josh Hoopes however is the biggest con man in comics, who poses to publishers and writers as an artist using a pseudonym, using pages that aren't his own Then poses to artists as a publisher He gets jobs from the publisher, commissions the artists[...]

RHEE and the-above-mentioned FARSEEKER is to hit both the convention circuit and larger creator-centric signing events such as the mini-con had at PACKRAT COMICS in Hilliard, Ohio on Free Comic Book Day. Was Hilliard, Ohio (which is a suburb of Ohio's state capital Columbus, Ohio) a thriving Mecca of geekdom where thousands upon thousands of fans[...]

Okay, so we ran the story back in March, thanks to Kevin Smith's Twittery. But now it's official. Dynamite have taken Kevin Smith's screenplay for The Six

Marcio Takara, artist for The Incredibles and Incorruptible over at Boom!, is working with writer Scott Massino on a dark comedy comic, Varney The

Ten years after Jay Faerber launched Noble Causes at Image, his first creator owned comic, comes his new one. Near Death, by Faerber and Simone

DC Comics never saw this image Neither Bill Sienkiewicz nor Frank Miller intended it to go public But when it was sold, despite assurances that it wouldn't go online, somewghere alon the line, it got sold to someone who didn't know about that requirement And it was recently spotted  by DC Women Kicking Ass, though[...]

Moose Baumann is one of the better known colourists in comics, generally because of his willingness to be outspoken about all sorts of people and issues Which has got him in trouble before. But now he's asking for your help. Moose's wife had been treated for breast cancer, and after chemotherapy and surgery, she was in remission. However[...]

Ron Perazza, Vice President, Online at DC Comics gave his notice of resignation to DC a couple of weeks ago. He was planning to move to Burbank with the rest of the Westwards-bound New York staffers in August, but has now changed his decision and will be staying at the company in New York[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6x-vPKW7U In a strangely timely/untimely story, Super Action Man is a comic about American's main agent trying to bring

The new director, Philip William McKinley, was hired out of the circus, and now there are a bunch of new writers who actually know more about comic books than Wagner or Greek mythology.  So what can we expect with these differences? Top 100 Comics April The awakening of the Serpent and Odin's removal of the Asgardians from[...]

citizenship in Action Comics #900, Superman reaffirms his love of the American Way in Superman #711  But beyond that, Comics Day was about Flashpoint  It was a pretty damn good day for comics… but not for comics tv  The fate of Wonder Woman and Locke and Key? Read on to find out… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Geoff[...]

In Action Comics #900, a back up strip by David Goyer, showed Superman announcing he was to go to the UN and give up his citizenship of the USA, so to ensure his actions were not mistaken for US government policy. And the news exploded. Well, today, from DC Comics, on the last page of Superman #711,[...]

Yeah, yeah, I know you're all up in the air about the final page spoiler to Flashpoint. But I'm not going there right this second. I'm more concerned