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Lying In The Gutters – 26th January 2010

Last week was the biggest week in terms of traffic in Bleeding Cool's history. And thanks to links all round, it looks like this week has started off in a similar fashion. The new servers seem to be coping nicely now.

Exclusive stories included breaking the news about the Wizard Atlanta and New Jersey conventions, (with a few wise words from Wes), piecing together information about Samuel L Jackson's new comic from Boom! Studios, talking about Marvel's potential moves, getting the jump on DC's upcoming promotion for Brian Wood, talking about Platinum's five million dollar injection and revealing the title for Marvel's HOH had slipped out.

I also spent time complaining about Cully Hamner's PR abscence from the film Red, complained about Spartacus' spurious use of the word 'graphic novel', asked if the world record price for a comic book was going to be beaten, worried about the closure of the ICA and wondered who looked like Steve Ditko designs.

I did enjoy The Beano outselling Watchmen, and Neil Gaiman teasing people with The Graveyard Book news then showing off his punkness.

I found Jewish paper cutting with comic books fascinating, but a rabbi blaming the Haitian disaster on a comic strip less so.

I ran a Jim Shelley's series on the Apple Tablet and its potential effect on comics from a developer point of view in four parts, one, two, three and four, to be told its already being referred to in university classes.

I exposed infighting in the Zuda world, helped a man sell his Deadpool comics for $500, confirmed that Kevin Smith has finished writing Green Hornet in advance, enjoyed DC's blog talking about First Wave comics, JSA in Smallville, Outsiders, found an alternative to Marvel's variant for DC Comics offer and pushed Mark Millar's Nemesis charity auction.

I Celebrated comics' coupledoms, looked at Anna Mercury and Gravel, the cover to Deadpool And Cable #25, the online comic Gods Head, the comics Dark Avengers, Green Lantern Corps and Joe The Barbarian and Brian Pulido's The Graves,

I ran a not-quite-complete guide to Manhattan comic book dives and laughed at how all the Blackest Night ring logos are causing trouble for DC's production artists.

I ran a quick guide to making easy money with Amazon's discounts, got a first look at Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic #2, saw how Odin's wig gave Sir Anthony Hopkins an identity crisis, and reported on the passing of Jacques Martin.

Si Spurrier and Adi Tantimedh provided entertaining columns too.

You can see how this has been a popular week…

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