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"Is this a secret shopper at a non-offending store?" This week, Diamond Comics Distributors presented a report to comics retailers on the Day-Early Delivery service that came into place this year, in which shops can get comics a day before they are on sale, with a secret shopping service in the USA and Canada to ensure[...]

Well Lee Bermejo, who drew the best-selling Joker original graphic novel written by Brian Azzarello, has taken advantage of this and seized the writing reins for Batman: Noel, a new original graphic novel with a Christmassy theme. This was announced at ComicsPro, to an audience of comics retailers, who made a wodge of cash from Joker[...]

This is the current DC solicitation for Superman #708, out yesterday, from the DC Comics site. Except the comic sees Superman go to Lincoln, Nebraska instead of Omaha Which is sad news for Omaha retailers, Legend Comics, Kypton Comics and Dragon's Lair that ordered hundreds and garnered plenty of publicity over a year on the back[...]

Michael Murphey, CEO of iVerse Media has been answering questions on what exactly is happening with the new Diamond Digital service that iVerse has formed with Diamond Comics Distribution Here are a few examples. Steve Horton asked Michael a number of questions about how the service would work Murphy replied; The code will[...]

(left) It's really really nice. DigiWatch: Todd Allen throws insult upon insult on Diamond Digital. So, once again, we have a set of publishers off on one proprietary platform (iVerse) and then we have another set of publishers (DC, Marvel, etc) on other platforms (Comixology, Graphic.ly, etc).  So what is being encouraged[...]

Wondercon just fucked @imagecomics by sticking us in the back of the floor because Marvel decided to come back after a 10 year absence. How messed up is that? We've been at Wondercon EVERY year–Marvel hasn't–but they'd just push us to the wall when they bat their eyes. When asked bytropicalsteve "Hasn't Image had the[...]

I have been led to understand by a reputable comics source certain details about the future direction of the X-Men books, post-Fear Itself, possibly towards the end of the year, but definitely into the next. Understand, that is this is as a result of a recent X-summit, but also that these are plans many months away[...]

That's a relief. We were spoiled by pretty much all mass media and comics media before the comic was even published. And then, very quietly, without any fanfare, two other characters died, one in Marvel book Amazing Spider-Man, another in DC book Knight And Squire Neither was announced, neither was expected, neither was bagged, both will be[...]

When Batman meets Star Wars, courtesy of Lucas Lago. What no Bat Sabre?

Aaron and Tri-Force Mike of  A Comic Shop in Oregon, Florida, run through Wednesday's comics for Bleeding Cool And as always we are lucky to have them! And they're loving the Nemesis collection, Wolverine 5.1 (and how the boys knew that The Thing wouldn't die, you cheaters), Ultimate Captain America, Green Lantern, Flash getting Road[...]

Too much this week. This week's comics courtesy of Orbital Comics in London. The Batman and Robin relationship is meant to be reflected in Knight And Squire But the Batman and Robin relationship isn't even in Batman And Robin these days, thanks to having a different Batman and a very different Robin And it's been much[...]

There's five hundred issues between them, and they star the same character but these feel very different comics. For one thing, they cost the same, but you can measure the difference in your hand Ultimate Spider-Man is light, Amazing Spider-Man is not That's the difference a 22 story page count and a 30 page count can[...]

Taking what you expect and finding something new – even if it is in a bikini in the cold wasteland. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics in London Yes, just because it's the first chapter of the Death of Spider-Man arc, don't expect it to actually have Spider-Man in it, in any shape or form. Leinil Yu has[...]

It won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. And now the movie winner Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, based on Apichatpong Weerasethakul's original ghost story

Therefore my main goal while drawing my chapter was to make Bruce Wayne stand and move and act like Batman even while out of his normal costume. New York Comic-Con's servers buckle too | The Beat While lost in the SDCC ticket sell-out hoopla, it's a curious fact that tickets for New York Comic-Con in October went on sale[...]