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Gail Simone Talks About Her Secret New Comic Book From DC Comics
At the London Film And Comic Con tonight, Gail Simone talked about her new DC Comics title. She said, "Guys, I can't tell what my new book is, because it's secret It's a secret project full of secrets, and it's secret. So secret!" Which did rather fit with what I was told by DC sources…. This is where we left[...]
Top Fifty Comics And Graphic Novels Of June 2014
Here are your top fifty selling comics and graphic novels for June 2014 Though just as Outcast should be in 8th place rather than 11th… it's also quite possible Batman Eternal should also be higher… Also note The Wicked + The Divine debuts at number 41 under similar circumstances… DC gets 24 of the top fifty comics, Marvel[...]
Vanesa R. Del Rey's Art Spotlighted In Hit: Pen & Ink From Boom!
Boom's Pen And Ink publishing program is the latest to take on IDW's Artist Edition by reproducing comics from the original art, as closely as possible And Hit! Is the latest to gain that accolade, showing off the original art of Vanesa R Del Rey by publishing the first two issues collected in this oversized[...]
Metal: A Black Dawn
Metal: A Black Dawn by Jacob Thomas and Rob Dumo. Kickstarter Close Date:  08/22/2014. Publication Date....Unknown Pharmaceutical drugs dominate the near
Kymera Press Invades The Boys Club
The ladies of Kymera Press are going to change that. Kymera Press founders Debbie Lynn Smith and Maggie Field are kicking down the doors to the boys club and making a place for women in comics "Our mission is to give women creators and artists of comic books an outlet where they can create women-friendly comics[...]
Why Valerie D'Orazio And Bobby Timony Are Horror Lovers
Diamond have announced the Halloween Comic Fest free comics, DC have launched their Monster variant covers and the October solicitations are about to go live. And Valerie D'Orazio and Bobby Timony have kicked off their crowdfunding venture for The Horror Lovers, a new horror-based comic book to be published in October We're big fans of Valerie's[...]
Booze Geek – Judgement Day And Uncanny X-Force
By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Judgement Day Brewery: The Lost Abbey Ashes cloud the sky.  The cloven hooves of horses fill the air.  Screams of the fallen ring out.  Judgement Day has befallen us.  Luckily, none of that happened when I tried out The Lost Abbey's beer, a Belgian triple brewed with raisins. Judgement Day was a very dark brown,[...]
Betrayal Works Both Ways In Edison Rex
In this issue, M'ALLIZ's character card was used to further the plot. Robertson and Culver do a wonderful job of capturing the nostalgia of old comics and it shows in the writing as well as the art Culver's art has been strong thought the entire series It's clean, precise and extremely detailed There are a few[...]
Shot Pilgrim – Bryan O'Malley Begins His Worldwide Tour To Promote 'Seconds'
Bryan Lee O'Malley begins his upcoming world tour next week for his first-thing-after-Scott Pilgrim book, Seconds. The first comic store of the tour will be San Francisco's Isotope Comics. And to kick it off in fine format, they are releasing a 200-run only cocktail glass to mark the occasion.  Here's his full schedule so far:   JULY 15 SECONDS RELEASE DAY IN[...]
Swipe File: Brainstorm And Pacific Rim
Here is a scene from the upcoming comic Brainstorm, drawn by Dennis Calero. And this is Idris Elba in Pacific Rim, with a quick Google Imges search... In
'You Have To Go And Talk About It' – Grayson #1 Lives Up To Its Hype
Rather than another idealized mythic hero he is just a guy to whom much was given and much is asked of and that sort of grounded reality is valuable because it is hard to come by in the emotionally sub-normal realm of mainstream superhero-driven comics. In Grayson, the former boy wonder is taking off the mask[...]
Swipe File: Rat Queens And Dungeons And Dragons
Here is preview art from the new D&D Player's Handbook. And the character Violet from the ongoing Image Comics series Rat Queens. Considering how… liberally Rat Queens has borrowed its imagery, it's entertaining when someone tries to borrow it back! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]
The Perils Of Keeping A Comic Priced At $2.99
And when I have a chance to talk about the industry of comics, I jump at it. Now I write for Zenescope along with quite a few other publishers and one of the questions I get has to do with variant covers Those readers who have been around a while all become a bit twitchy when[...]