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I'm writing live from my local comic shop Conquest Comics in New Jersey and taking my first peek at these new books. Dead Boy Detectives #2 from Vertigo is out this week The first issue was surprising for me—much more contrasting in its artwork and bright color palette and livelier in its plot movements than I[...]

Or at least, mumble and drool it with flowers. The Dead Boy Detectives gives us the story of a young girl who, thanks to Mark Buckingham and Gary Erskine, looks like she's stepped out of Love And Rockets and into a controversy about art and stealing – and then parallel to that, stealing life Almost as[...]

It's ahead of the returnable-if-you-order enough Dead Boy Detectives #1 and Velvet #3 But aside from that, the chart is relatively free of retailer incentives to increase orders beyond anticipated demand Black Science #1 clearly sold well enough to push the second print high up the chart, and New Avengers and Saga are both fuelled[...]

30, and be published bi-monthly, so says DC Comics to the New York Times. Other new projects include Hinterkind by Ian Edginton, which focuses on a post-apocalyptic world in which the creatures of myth and legend have returned The Discipline by Peter Milligan, an erotic thriller about a woman at the center of an shadow war that spans eons. The[...]

On Front Row, on BBC Radio 4 this week, novelist Toby Litt told the host about writing a comic book for DC Comics based on characters created by Neil