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Easter Saturday Runaround – The Return Of Tripwire To Decent Distribution
ArtWatch: Tom Fowler is replacing Terry Moore on Venom #3. MagWatch: Tripwire finally claws its way back into Diamond's Previews. Under an exclusive painted cover by illustrator David Michael Beck, we celebrate Michael Moorcock's Elric anniversary by talking to Moorcock himself, looking back at the past of the character in comics and what Boom! has[...]
Friday Trending Topics: The Constantine Question
Andy Diggle tweeted earlier… John Constantine To Return To The DC Universe But I am reliably informed from a certain Brazilian in the know that John Constantine will be appearing as a major character in upcoming DC Universe titles, post Flashpoint. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: A New Green Lantern Trailer Focuses On The Space Stuff, Tomar-Re Talks Here comes the[...]
The Return Of Cerebus… About Three Weeks Ago
This is what happens when I don't keep up to date with the small pile of comics by the side of my bed I miss something like this. In Glamourpuss #18 by Dave Sim, which was published earlier this month, there's the return of a certain special someone. Exactly In his first complete story since Cerebus #300[...]
The Art That Led To Frank Miller's 300 – Aged Fifteen
Frank Miller's earliest work, as scanned in and uploaded by Comics-n-ERB on the Collector's Society boards. At the time Miller had been involved with comics fandom for seven months, his favourite comic was Daredevil and he liked the fact they make Luke Cage black We also learn a lot, in distressing detail about the history of[...]
One More Smoke…
When Joe Quesada became Editor-In-Chief, one of his edicts was to stop characters from smoking. His father had died of lung cancer, he didn't want to
Legion Of Super Heroes Misprint Hits $30 On eBay
Earlier this week we pointed out that the DC Comics Presents: Legion Of Superheroes: Legion Of The Damned 100 Page Spectacular #1 (breathe in) reprinting previously unreprinted Legion comics had been recalled by DC Comics after chapters had been printed in the incorrect order. Or, rather, retailers were asked to destroy them, to be replaced by[...]
Good Friday Runaround – Royals And Royalties
EmploymentWatch: Bobbie Chase talks about joining DC Comics Respectfully, etc etc. KirbyWatch: Mark Buckingham and Steve Leialoha work up a familiar looking splash page for the third superhero chapter of Fables. ExhibitWatch: An exhibition of the French comics adaptation of Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck, is on display at the National Steinbeck Center in California. CollectionWatch:[...]
John Constantine To Return To The DC Universe
I don't know how. But I am reliably informed from a certain Brazilian in the know that John Constantine will be appearing as a major character in upcoming DC Universe titles, post Flashpoint. Created in the then-DC Universe title Swamp Thing, by John Totleben, Steve Bissette and Alan Moore, this street-level occultist span off his own[...]
New Page From Marvel Avengers' Kree Skrull War
Here is a new page from the classic Kree-Skrull War from Avengers, created by Upper Deck Card Entertainment and written by Sean McKeever for a new series of Kree-Skrull trading cards that will tell five seperate Avengers stories around the events of the Kree Skrull War that will, apparently, be treated as official Marvel comics[...]