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If you have a large marketing budget, you can buy certain search keywords on Twitter So that the first result is a "Promoted Tweet". If you search for the word "Marvel" then you get this. The cheeky buggers. Trademark owners can challenge when their trademarks are bought as keyword searches, let's do a count down until Marvel's lawyers[...]

So Marvel have run a teaser for their San Diego Comic Con-announced a new comics project Shattered Heroes set in the aftermath of Fear Itself with a quote from Tom Brevoort and a signal to the #ShatteredHeroes hashtag on Twitter. So how is that hashtag going anyway? 04nbod: Its not really a teaser if its said about[...]

Except when referring to Dan DiDio, rather than link to his Twitter account, they linked to spoof account @BizzaroDanDidio. So instead of the curious getting the usual mix of Dan DiDio hype, they got this instead. Hasn't been updated since 2008 Wouldn't now be the perfect time? Okay, it's 40 minutes past the hour, how long until[...]

In a short interview with the Washington Post's Comic Riffs, Neil Gaiman talked about his sequel to American Gods, descibed as the "'bubbly new glittery gods' of a technology and media culture trying to supplant the aging Powers That Be Threatened." "There definitely going to be some Twitter in American Gods 2…Not Twitter per se, but[...]

Jim Lee, in a fit of inspiration, offered to create new Green Lantern characters to fit people's Twitter handles So, @Breezy2345, @mikemolotov, @falloutghost and @bitteroldjoe, wear your new Jim Lee created Twitter avatars with pride! Jim Lee, in a fit of inspiration, offered to create new Green Lantern characters to fit people's[...]

This was an intriguing exchange of tweets. Bleeding Cool had previously reported that Brian Clevinger had been dropped from the new Firestorm relaunch

A series of tweets: Amanda Palmer: hey guess what we did last night (and this time it's legal) Neil Gaiman: I am the happiest and luckiest man in the

Comics writer James Robinson has sworn off Twitter, and deleted his account But a few hours before, he seemed so happy Here's a timeline of last night. @marcosmarz Hey, welcome to Twitter Great working with you albeit briefly on Blackest Night JSA. Are you just bad @sterlinggates or truly evil? All I know is I'm completely basing[...]

BUT we have to talk about digital comics because there's three major outlets with different release schedules and no Previews. did you even read YOUR own twitter feed You fawn over your shiny new toy incessantly. People come to us for information We give it to them because there's no standardized alternative venue to disseminate it[...]

It would have had to be yesterday that Mark Waid sent a call across Twitter to block my account wouldn't it? The day I also used Twitter to warn comic fans, publishers and professionals about a current scam artist operating, who has already taken people for many thousands. My relationship with Mark Waid has always been[...]