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Artist Matt Smith remembers him. BurnWatch: Outsiders, from Dan DiDio and Keith Giffen, gets burned… Olympian: "Insolent pig! You want to know who and what I am? I am Achilles, The Olympian!…and I am your doom!" Geo-Force: "Now…get OFF me! I am tired of hearing you speak!" Olympian: "Your words have put me off balance, so let me return[...]

Earlier this month, Bleeding Cool reported that ex-Dupuis editor Jean Van Hamme would be at Angoulême this year, the first time for twenty years since he

Image Comics gained a reputation last year for publishing a number of series that caught the comic book market by surprise Morning Glories, Skullkickers, 27, the question has always been, what's next? Well, Infinite Vacation #1 Already tipped by Bleeding Cool, it looks like retailers did not learn the lessons from Nick's last comic, Morning Glories[...]

We linked to this in this morning's Runaround... but looking around, not too many people seems to have mentioned it. So, let's give it a bit of

Comics Alliance recently ran/possibly-even-created (still not sure on that) a car insurance infographic feature that purported to show the original Transformers from the eighties cartoon alongside the vehicles they transformed into. But even a rudimentary knowledge of Transformers (and that's what I have) would have clued you in from the very beginning that the Optimus Prime[...]

Joe Prado designed many Black Lantern versions of DC Universe characters for the Blackest Night mega-crossover. And now he's selling them on his website,

Now I know what Hollywood actors must feel like when they see a foreign dubbed film using a very strange voice to portray their role. In this case, it's a

Apparently Marvel staff are in the process of sending a book to press, and flipping through Diamond Comics Distributor's Previews Catalog while they wait for the material to upload About DC's War of the Green Lanterns listing in Previews, Brevoort says: Official snark-warning! I'm about to say something ridiculous and relatively mean-sounding about the[...]

The Western hemisphere's largest comics convention had always seemed to be the Anti-San Diego, where instead of berber carpeting, overpriced pretzels and hoards of fanboys, you had a charming French village full of wine and hot chicks who liked Joan Sfar. I never would have taken my Angoulême fantasy outside of headspace if it hadn't[...]

The Fear news event from Midtown Comics at the end of last year saw Marvel make an attempt at live streaming coverage the likes of which Apple has been using so succesfully in recent times. And then there's the Fantastic Four #587 leak to the AP, which hit in the early hours this past Tuesday[...]

A second print is being rushed through Marvel as we speak, with Marvel getting the printer to print the book over the weekend to be in stores  next week. And these two follow up X-Men comics, also coming out next week, suddenly look very underordered indeed. Will you get a copy? Did you preorder? Of course, speculators beware[...]

Bleeding Cool reported on news that the French staff for the comics publisher L'Association were going on strike earlier this year Well, now it's stepped up publically, with the striking workers still attending the world biggest comic convention Angoulême for L'Association but, instead of selling their books, they are handing out protesting leaflets, and replacing[...]

On February the 5th, there will be a protest "read in" at the St James Library in Northampton with Alan Moore, that follows a protest held there tomorrow

What more do you need to know? This is Pizza Homem De Ferro, apparently. Excellent onion placement there.

Sadly the bit where he talked about a Green Lantern panel at Kapow has been removed since it first went up, as have the bits about his current Ultimate work with Bendis being his last Marvel/company owned work for a while… FamilyTreeWatch: Joe Stone labels his X-Men Family Tree to help with identifying some of the [...]