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Judge Dredd's Creator, John Wagner, Plans To Kill Him Off Forever
I remember first the Eagle Comic reprints then the poorer, ironically titled Quality Comics' reprints that, in the later issues especially, were a bit shoddily repackaged. JW: I think Dez Skinn was involved with that He felt it was a good idea to repackage them as American size comics, but I didn't agree But, there you[...]
Controversy Over Marvel's Prostate Cancer Variant Covers
Can we make this three articles about Marvel Comics covers in a row? I rather think we can. Every now and then, Marvel comics allies with a certain charitable organisation to create awareness raising variant covers Marvel pays the charity a certain sum, and then uses the covers for promotional purposes, often making them tithed variant[...]
Swipe File: Regan From All-Star Superman And Batman #4
Then Greg Pak committed the heinous crime of killing her off. In next week's comics, Tom King and David Finch have a different take… with Batman investigating crimes that look as if they may be related to the new superheroes Gotham and Gotham Girl, in this preview given by DC PR to Comicosity. And then we get[...]
43 Panels From San Diego Comic-Con 2016 On Video
And let's start… with Star Wars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4PZZZEapkoVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Star Wars Publishing Full Panel | San Diego Comic-Con 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4PZZZEapko) Star Wars Publishing Get the latest info on all the new books and comics set in a galaxy far, far away! Authors, artists, and editors from Del Rey, Disney-Lucasfilm Press, Marvel, and others[...]
Discussing Predator Vs Judge Dredd Vs Aliens with John Layman
There's actually some callbacks, but comics being what they are, you aim for maximum accessibility, so I didn't want readers to have to go back to read something else to understand this It's a pretty basic concept: this versus this versus that It respects the thing that came before it, while not being dependent on[...]
How Marvel Goes From No Black Female Writers Ever, To Three, With Just One Comic
That Marvel Comics had never employed a black female writer on any of its monthly comics seems like the kind of thing that couldn't be true But is. Compared to DC Comics who employed Felicia Henderson to write Teen Titans and Angela Robinson on The Web, both back in September 2009, and Felicia again for Static Shock in 2011[...]
DC Rebirth Tops Advance Reorders But Briggs Land Makes A Strong Landing
Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! The Suicide[...]
Talking Torchwood Comics With John and Carole Barrowman
This first part really does seed a whole bunch of mysteries and questions. OK: Any chance we'll see more Torchwood in the future, be it on television, comics, or otherwise? JB: I've always thought Torchwood was cut off too soon and who knows the big story behind that I think that it really should be back on[...]
Half A Million Comics Sold In One Groupon Sale…
Take a look at this Groupon listing…  Comic Book Bundle with 25 DC Comics Titles, 25 Marvel Titles, or 50 Marvel and DC Comics Titles – that's $25 or $40. With over 10,000 sold that's over half a million back issues of Marvel and DC sold this way The kind of thing you might see in[...]