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Tuesday – Bar's Open, Summit's Up and a One Night Stand

"Now I don't read comics because I'm, what's that word, an adult" – Graham Norton

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The ultimate crime of a British convention, running a bar badly, has been apologised for by the Birmingham BICS  organisers. They won't be using that venue and its hardcore dance music again… but they do want to make sure that everyone knows the food was lovely.

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There are many reasons why retailers may be well inclined towards IDW – their high price/profit point, their increasing sales figures, their pursuit of licenses that bring in new customers…

But I think it's the open bar at the Baltimore Diamond Retailers Summit that really clinched the deal.

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Looks like Marvel were inspired by DC's success with the Blackest Night Promotional Rings programme and are introducing their own in the New Year- Avengers I.D. card giveaways. Gotta catch them all. Not quite as wearable though. Also, kudos for the person who posted their Black Lantern ring on their penis. No, I'm not running the link.

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It appears that, just in time for Absolute Planetary Vol 2, Absolute Planetary Vol 1 will be going back to press. It's about time, copies have been selling north of $200 for a while now.

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The Iron Man/Thor/Captain America artwork shown at the show for the Bendis/Coipel Siege miniseries differs from the art supplied to news websites, in that the show had the legend 1963-2010 underneath it…. a career achievement? Or a headstone? And on that point if The Siege, and the end of the Dark Reign at Marvel lead into something called The Heroic Age – could this be the long awaited, long promised return to upbeat non-grim-n-gritty comics that the powers-that-be have been promising for so long? Or is it me, and does it sound like something Marvelman-esque?

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If Al Simmons is the Image United big bad… is anyone getting a flashback to the issue of Swamp Thing where he meets the soul of Alec Holland in heaven?

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Looks like I got that Bendis/Olivier Siege thing about right… eventually.

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I don't suppose Dan DiDio could add Ambush Bug #6 to the list of revived from the dead oneshots for January? Or how about Lobo: Hand To Hand Job? Ah, c'mon… c'mon…

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The December 30th ship date for Blackest Night #6 is never going to hold. Bob Wayne talked about shipping the book to reytailers a week early then trusting them to keep it off the shelf so as to have a new comic to sell on the Diamond Christmas  skip week. Naturally, all the kinds of retailers who want to be trusted will comply. But what is clearly going to happen is that some retailers who just don't care, or indeed just don't realise they're meant to hold it, will start selling the book a week early. And some competing retailers will feel they have to sell it just to compete. And then the house of cards collapses. The only way this can work is if there are actual repercussions for the early sellers, rather than punishing the whole class.

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Davidf Hopkins is also pushing a book for Diamond's skip week, a mini-comic called One Night Stand, with 32 pages, each telling a different story with a different artist, including Ryan Dunlavey (Action Philosophers), Christopher Higginson (Ghouly Boys), Sina Grace (Books with Pictures), Mark Murphy (Tiki Joe Mysteries), Daniel Warner (Cocopiazo) and Nat Bramble (Hermit Hill, pictured)

Copies  will be distribued to indie-friendly in time for Christmas skip week. Hmm, I wonder what Haven has planned…

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