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The Walking Dead And AVX Heat Up The Market

The Walking Dead And AVX Heat Up The Market

Maybe also sell the likes of Crossed, 28 Days Later, True Blood and the like, but the main focus, and title of the store should be The Walking Dead. You will make money. It's not so much a domination of the reorder list with Walking Dead trades and hardcovers, with 21 out of the 25 spots, as[...]
DC Brings Back Kid Eternity For The New 52 – So What Will Get Canned?

DC Brings Back Kid Eternity For The New 52 – So What Will Get Canned?

Wired reports that in July, DC Comics are launching a new 52 series, National Comics, a book that will switch the spotlight character every issue. The first four will be Eternity, Madame X, Rose And Thorn, and Looker. Jeff Lemire and Cully Hamner will create Eternity, which appears to be similar to Kid Eternity They describe it; This[...]
When Jim Lee Rode A Camel And Alan Moore Wrote Gen 13

When Jim Lee Rode A Camel And Alan Moore Wrote Gen 13

JimLee is wearing a white Tuxedo, a bit tipsy, riding atop a camel… Jim Lee is now Co-Publisher of DC Comics What else has Scott found? This is something you don't see every day, an unfinished Gen13 script by Alan, first 12 pages Forgot about this Think I'll read it tonight   Scott Dunbier of IDW, and ex[...]
The Dark Mantis Returns?

The Dark Mantis Returns?

From Fringe this week; Fauxlivia: You thought this might have something to do with the vigilante case the PD has been working? Agent Lee 1: Maybe Batman's
David Hine On Biting The Hand That Fed Him

David Hine On Biting The Hand That Fed Him

No amount of courtroom verdicts can alter the fact that the creators were treated badly from an ethical perspective and that taints everything that is produced by Marvel and DC until the day they make reparation, not because a court rules that they have to, but because it's the right thing to do. Goodness I mean[...]
The Curious Recolouring Of Flex Mentallo

The Curious Recolouring Of Flex Mentallo

I pored over each panel, I swiped from a few, and Flex Mentallo seemed to be the perfect encapsulation of his work. It was matched by these colours that seemed to pop out, in the comic about comics, this fiction about fictions, everything seemed to be hyper-exaggerated, it just worked. I still have my back issues –[...]
Marvel Smashes Three Titles Into The Top Five For March 2012 – But Did They?

Marvel Smashes Three Titles Into The Top Five For March 2012 – But Did They?

As well as grabbing the fifth spot with Avengers Assemble. Of late, DC has increasingly improved its grip on the top sales in comics, with even Aquaman outselling every Marvel title It's worth noting that while Marvel now have three books in the top five, Aquaman – and now Batman And Robin too, are still outselling[...]
How The New 52 Toys Have Changed In Two-And-A-Bit Months

How The New 52 Toys Have Changed In Two-And-A-Bit Months

These were the images of the DC New 52 toys, when released in a flyer by DC Comics in January. This, however, is how they look in adverts in some of the New DCU titles today (yes, even the likes of Animal Man and Swamp Thing, which just looks weird) Batman it seems, hasn't changed a pip[...]
Last Week's Comics In Seventeen Panels

Last Week's Comics In Seventeen Panels

the Mimic) more depth and personality than he's enjoyed in 50 years of continuity, Christos Gage proves he has that special knack for finding that tiny unnoticed spark that instantly turns even the most flat character into someone incredibly human and real. In AQUAMAN #7, we get our first glimpse of the 6 Golden Relics of[...]