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  Archie Comics are the latest to step up to the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, showing off the Afterlife With Archie collection, an exclusive edition provided to retailers attending the show They said how they looked forward to seeing it on eBay soon.     Archie Comics are the latest to step up to the Diamond[...]

  From the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, our first look at a live 3D cover for this September, namely Batwing. Retailers were reminded that

And they were keen to show off their new business partners to make movies and develop new comics. Boom! Studios have been showing off their wares at the Diamond Retailer Summit. We got a name for the new George Perez comic from the publisher – Sirens! A female cast comic, the characters will be based on the[...]

  From the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, our first look at the covers to Dark Horse's Aliens, Alien Vs Predator and Prometheus comic book

Today's Sunday Times has a review by Waldemar Januszczak of the Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy In The UK exhibition, currently on display at the British Library And he's not happy. On Friday, I went to a talk by the curators Paul Gravett and John Harris Dunning, looking through the exhibition for the audience, talking about their decisions and obsessions. I[...]

Though I may sound arrogant for saying so, I know that a number of people found my previous 2 years working as an English Professor, comics scholar, and journalist something that gave them a sense of satisfaction, an object lesson that the divide between academic and pop culture can be bridged and writers can wear[...]

We said there would be more to come on Lumberjanes this weekend and we were right. Hot on the heels on yesterday's news of the sellout of the massive overprint of issue #1 and the release of issue #2, Boom! Studios is going to announce today at the Diamond Retailer Summit today that Lumberjanes, the sophomore[...]

pic.twitter.com/n1q7hQ3jGo — John Kovalic (@muskrat_john) May 17, 2014 This looks TOTALLY appropriate for the back of a kids' comicbook, Dynamite Comics Look: it even features a baby! pic.twitter.com/lEuydPaZg3 — John Kovalic (@muskrat_john) May 17, 2014   Yes , I've become *that* parent. — John Kovalic (@muskrat_john) May 17, 2014 So what to do? Complain? Write a sternly worded letter? Call[...]

Dynamite's final friday announcement at the Diamond Retailer Seminar was something that we heard about back during Comicon last summer. Fox's Bob's

We've got previews here for the big X-O Manowar #25 issue that preludes the Armor Hunters event and Unity #7 that concludes the Trapped By Webnet

The annual Diamond Retailer Seminar is this weekend and Dynamite is rolling out a half-dozen announcements and the next one here involves the King. We

Action Lab are following up on their very active Free Comic Book Day this year, complete with a "tour" of signings by creators, with a big line-up for

Being handed out by Valiant to retailers at the Valiant party tomorrow night in Las Vegas, part of the Diamond Retailer Summit, Armor Hunters shot

The Fukushima nuclear disaster has been portrayed in manga form in a way that has angered Japanese government. And peculiarly, it's from a cooking manga

Rolf Harris, 84, is one of the world's best known cartoonists, thanks to his work on British and Australian television, over five decades, fronting all

This is a photo of actress and martial artist Gina Carano taken by sports photographer Tom Casino that appeared in the US edition of Maxim. And below that is the cover of Rob Liefeld's Gina Carano Avengelyne Variant , exclusive to Jimmy Jay's Jay Comics. And here's the comic on sale! Exclusive Gina Carano Avengelyne #1 Comic-Con edition! Available only[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Moonray Brewery: Terrapin Beer Co. Once in a while, you come across a beverage just a little more peculiar than the others and you have to try it.  A new addition to my store, I decided to try Terrapin Beer Co.'s Moonray, a part of their Side Project series, a beer brewed with chocolate[...]

The original art for the final page of Incredible Hulk #180, which features the first published appearance of Wolverine, has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $657,250. This 1974 Marvel comics page was drawn by Herb Trimpe, inked by Jack Abel, and scripted by Len Wein  Of historical interest, Wolverine's pose in that final introductory panel[...]

Hybrid" and it just flowed from there? Were you fascinated with Monster Trucks as a kid? Where did the seed of this idea come from? BL: When I was working on the SPIKE and ANGEL comics for IDW, they asked if I had any ideas for TRANSFORMERS stories.  My head was so filled with vampires, I[...]

The first of a six part story by Tim Seeley and Mirka Andolfo brings back the characters from Chaos Comics that were immensely popular through the 90s. Also selling out have been the first three issues of Magnus: Robot Fighter Magnus, from Fred Van Lente and Cory Smith, along with Solar: Man Of the Atom, Turok: Dinosaur[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode89.mp3] Following on from last week's episode with Joshua Williamson & Brian Churilla recorded live at ECCC (which you can still listen to here), this time around I return to my regular programming to welcome back Jeremy Holt, who last appeared on the show way back in Episode 31. Jeremy & I discuss what he's[...]

Following on from the Three Hundred, Two Hundred Dollar Club,  One Hundred And Fifty Club and One Hundred Dollar Club runarounds on eBay, here’s a look at

Sundown Syndrome: "The appearance of confusion, agitation, and other severely disruptive behavior coupled with inability to remain asleep, occurring

The annual Diamond Retailer Seminar is this weekend and Dynamite is rolling out a half-dozen announcements and we've got the first one here. The next

But why not be more explicit? And why change the line? In 2003, The Sci-Fi Channel announced they were to make a TV series out of the comic. Then in June Waterman Entertainment optioned the series for a movie, with the initial plan being to start production in December 2011. At which point, Marvel Comics registered a number of trademarks for Strikeforce[...]

DC Comics has Royals: Masters Of War, as royal family superheroics go But this looks a very different kettle of fish… Imperial. Steven T Seagle teams up with artist for a bromantic comedy with hero chops in IMPERIAL, coming this August from Man of Action and Image Comics Seagle teases, "It's a buddy book with serious commitment[...]

I can imagine that kids wouldn't hesitate to ask for it, as it sits on the shelf at a comic store like a bright gleaming gem. There are only 8 issues in this delightful series, so jump on board this epic scale adventure from Boom! Studios! Julz Hendricks is a co-host of podcasts Panel 2 Panel,  as[...]

And if it's anything like last year, they are going to go fast. We start with the Shattered edition of Caliban #1 limited to only 750 copies. Then its two Crossed: Badlands #50 covers, one is Up In Smoke and the other is the Phoenix VIP exclusive. And finally we have the Pure Rage version of the[...]

And is that Stephanie Brown as Batgirl? And more besides???? Harley Quinn in the White House, a Bat army, a returning from the grave Green Arrow… A lot can happen in five years. We also have Frank Barbiere writing Superboy, and a bunch of creators I mentioned earlier today… Stephen Mooney on Grayson, Igor Lima on Green Lantern[...]

So you may have noticed that there's a Godzilla movie coming out. Well, in August, after everyone will have moved on from it and are obsessing about