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Retailers who attended the Dallas meeting of retail group ComicsPRO got a little swag A variant cover for The Walking Dead #81 Isn't that nice? Might give it to a grateful customer, might make it a prize in a store competition… …or might just put it on eBay. $71 at time of posting with 5 days to[...]

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC last night tackled the Obama Nation political cartoon series by James Hudnall and Batton Lash, calling them

Mind you,  there is the glimpse of Spider-Man Future Yet To Come… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics in London Paul Cornell and Paul Rainey will be signing and holding a panel discussion there on Saturday… Did you like Blackest Night? Lots of people fighting with rings against rings? Technicolour everywhere and enough lens flare[...]

From Amazing Spider-Man 654.1, a sneak peek at just what lies in store for our favourite web slinger in the year ahead. Looks like that loss of

And continues Danny The Bungalow and Ambush Bug's relationship as the new best couple in comics. But the artwork is just too traditional for this book, it can't go off in the stranger or darker areas that the script seems to need It's go the clean crisp look that disguises the oddness in its core and[...]

It's bad enough that a number of people will be disappointed that Green Lantern isn't black, but to have a lead character called "Kill A Wog"…. Anyway, here's a good look at the movie version of Kilowog, as seen in Green Lantern comics published today Any chance of a plush version, DC Direct? This character's name[...]

IHaveNoIdeaWhoThisPersonIsWatch: Bluewater gets press for a comic about someone called Danica Patrick. WarWatch: A World War II pamphlet with cartoons portraying the British Home Guard has been discovered, that seems to be a direct inspiration for BBC TV sitcom Dad's Army. ByrneWatch: John Byrne says "No More Interviews!" WishFulfillmentWatch: The Make-A-Wish foundation has, with the cooperation of Marvel[...]

Which will come first, the Marvel publication or the CLiNT publication is anyone's guess. And while Scottish-crime-writer-and creator-of-Rebus Ian Rankin's name is a welcome a high profile one for a new comic book, Jimmy Carr's comic was lined up for this issue and would probably have been cover featured if so. Ian Rankin has already had a[...]

Courtney Simmons has been named as the Senior Vice President of Publicity for DC Entertainment, working out of Burbank while the rest of the DC publicity

During a conference call this afternoon Marvel announced a new Alpha Flight 8-issue maxi-series written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with art by Dale

Did you like that peek at Tiotal Recall covers from Dynamite an hour ago? Did you? Did you really? Well have some more, a smattering of covers by Covers

What do you picture when you think about the movie Total Recall? Arnie's eyes bugging out or triple breasts? Sadly we get neither on the covers of Total

Yesterday, the comics internet woke up to a series of images sent under the headline "Stan Lee Lies" from a junk gmail account called Truth Teller This was spammed to most comic websites, and news organisations worldwide. The articles below allege that the current Guardian NHL project, in which a series of superheroes are created, each[...]

Your regular statistical look at the DC Universe and DC character books for May 2011, not including the Warner Bros,  Vertigo, creator-owned or licensed

FriendWatch: How to get ahead in comics? Be a lifelong friend of the publisher. Premiering May 25, the Top Cow miniseries is the second under the Minotaur Press banner (following Joshua Hale Fiakov and Rahsan Ekedal's popular Echoes), and written by Top Cow publisher Filip Sablik and his friend since the sixth grade, John Mahoney Last[...]