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SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing [...]

This is the kind of thing I know I will enjoy. And there just isn't enough of. From Stuart Immonen. A prototype for a isocahedral comic story. Let's see

NameWatch1: Marvel's Shadowland: Street Fighters collection collecting a bunch of different Shadowland comics has been retitled Shadowland: Street Heroes I just bet it has. ContentWatch: DC has cancelled Azrael: Killer Of Saints that reprints all the anti-Catholic stuff from David Hine I just bet they have. StripWatch: The Spokesman gets 4000 responses to its changing newspaper strip[...]

Image's upcoming-in-March series Rat Bastards has had a name change, as it appears there is a competing comic trade mark with the classic Crucial Comics title Rat Bastard A similar event happened recently with Utopian becoming Halcyon between solicitation and publication This has caused some retailers and consumers to misread one book as being another[...]

Shops who receive their comics this Tuesday for sale on Wednesday have been informed they are able to sell their bagged copies of Fantastic Four #587, the FF mystery death issue, as soon as they receive them, so as to mimimise spoilage for their customers They won't be able to sell the other Fantastic Four[...]

It's January. Which means, in the UK, the holiday ads start, the gym membership ads start, the slimming aids start and the partwork publications start.

Comics page content: 69 Previously unpublished comics page content: 7 Blimey, that's not much: Okay, enough with the numbercrunching. A lack of Frankie Boyle's Rex Royd is blamed on his busy work schedule – though why his co-writer Jim Muir (Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolf III) can't pick up the slack is not mentioned And it is a shame, because[...]

No matter what the quality, it's going to do well. SimsWatch: Chris Sims creates alternative comics ratings systems that are refreshingly not based on either existing movie or game ratings systems SimWatch: Dave Sim is a doctor with an exciting new theory That appendicitis is caused by poor diet in 95% of cases and anyone who doesn't[...]

Newsarama has reported that Archie has dropped the Comics Code with February books DC dropped it with April books Bongo dropped it early last year, though no one noticed at the time. Archie Comics were one of the founders of the Comics Magazine Association of Americaand were significantly involved in administrating the Code throughout. If[...]

I understand there are two more Flashpoint comics soon to be announced, and both have rather a British edge to them I can feel my patriotic pride. Namely, Britannia and The Canterbury Cricket Renamed from… I don't know… Squire and Knight? Say, I don't suppose Cricket could be a cross colonial reference to… Batman?[...]

If a publisher drops the Comics Code and doesn't send a press realease out, does it still make a sound? Yesterday, it was announced that DC Comics had pulled out of the Comics Code (something previous President and Publisher, Paul Levitz, had held very dear to his heart) in favour of a new rating system. But was[...]

The Indieverse is a new comics line from the controversial toy company Shocker Toys The company describes it as "a new comic universe like Marvel and DC which will feature ongoing story arcs with a diverse number of Indy Comic characters who will fight to destroy evil or become evil themselves." Sounds very indie[...]

Including going to court for scaling buildings in San Francisco in a Spidey suit. "We have a fundamental right to protest, but with those rights come responsibility" GIJoeWatch: Everything changes at GI Joe in the comics Because some one is dead For now. Seriously, folks. TweetWatch2: Mark Millar discovers Follow Friday. It's Follow Friday so check out: @kapowcomiccon @thehitchfactory @davegibbons[...]

It's written by the original creator, yes? Death's Head, the origial, returns to Marvel UK newstand kids-aimed comic, Marvel Heroes #33. Hulk Vs Death's

SCARCE is a French magazine, running quarterly since 1983 focusing on American comics, available through subcriptions (7€ per issue, 25€ for 4 issues, shipped worldwide). Xavier Lancel is the current editor-in-chief and he will be providing Bleeding Cool with[...]