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Titan Comics To Launch Max Allan Collins' The Quarry Comic Series In April 2017
One of them featured a hitman named Quarry. Collins published three Quarry novels in 1976, one in 1977 and a final one in 1987. Twenty years later the character was revived by Hard Case Crime, who have published seven new Quarry novels and republished the original thre. And now, Titan Comics which has got into bed with Hard[...]
Francesco Francavilla's Serenity For Local Comic Shop Day 2016
We know what Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Valiant have in mind to release for Local Comic Shop Day 2016 on November 19th. And now we have Dark Horse Comics' plans, a Francesco Francavilla cover of the new Serenity #1. Also, Francesco's Black Beetle will return in DHP #29 in December as Dark Horse celebrates Francesco Francavilla's tenth year in[...]
Valiant's Bloodshot And Harbinger Exclusives For Local Comic Shop Day 2016
And now we know what Valiant is up to, with exclusive cover variants for Harbinger Renegades #1 and Bloodshot USA #1. Not that there will be too many of one of them, the Bloodshot USA #1 cover by Antonio Fuso and is limited to 1000 copies. The  Stephen Segovia cover for Harbinger Renegades #1 should be easier[...]
1First Comics/Devil's Due Baltimore Presentation Is A Laugh Riot – Text RESCUEME To 44222 For Yours
The 1First Comics/Devil's Due Comics Presentation At Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit seems to have been a highlight Because they had a video to play the assembled comic book shop owners. Although there were trepidations.  They do have a solution Anyone out there want to try it? They weren't taking any chances. Exactly Okay, here you go… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JrazyHkqMVideo can't be[...]
DC Rebirth Improved Sales Better And Longer Than The New 52 Did – So Far
DC Comics have been boasting that, in the light of their DC Rebirth promotion, they have sold twelve million comics this summer (although no note as to how many of those will be returned) and that eleven comics sold more than 200,000 while sixty sold more than 100,000, with 21 titles going to second print[...]
DC Comics Use Wizard Staff To Launch Quarterly Magazine, Direct Currents
And a final page in homage to twisted Toyfare Theatre. Well, announced at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, is the news that DC Comics will be creating a quarterly magazine sent to comic book shops previewing upcoming comics, and sitting alongside Marvel's Previews and Image Plus. No Price Guide though. Thanks to retailer Dennis Barger, who snapped the shot[...]
The Jetsons By Jimmy Palmiotti And Amanda Conner, From DC Comics
Well, joining that book, with Future Quest, Wacky Racelands, Scooby Apocalypse and Dastardly & Muttley =, from DC's Hanna-Barbera line, comes The Jetsons. By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, and just announced by DC Comics at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. And snapped by retailer Dennis Barger for Bleeding Cool Thanks Dennis! For more spilling out of Baltimore Diamond[...]
DC Comics Announce Rebirth Returnability While Retailers Are Headed To Baltimore.
The best comic book retailers in the business have descended into Baltimore for the Diamond Retailer Summit that occurs before Baltimore Comic Con It really is the place to be seen. It is slightly unfortunate timing that DC Comics announced that today was the day that retailers could rip off the covers of any DC Rebirth[...]
Baltimore Comic Con Amends Its Weapons Policy For Cosplayers And Others
Baltimore Comic-Con cosplay back in 2014… Baltimore Comic-Con,held on September 2-4, 2016 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center, has announced its new, amended weapons policy. It used to read like this: No functional weapons are allowed at the Baltimore Comic-Con DO NOT BRING REAL SWORDS, GUNS OR ANY TYPE OF AUTHENTIC WEAPON TO THE SHOW[...]
Page Six One Six: Baltimore Comic Con Mini-Edition
From the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. If you're a creator, and you're going to tell the next guy in line that the major retailer who just left your table is an arsehole, you should probably make sure that the next guy in line is not the retailer in question's son. That is all. Okay, maybe another little one. One[...]
Dark Horse To Celebrate 30th Anniversary Of Aliens, And More (Eltingville UPDATE)
Next year sees the 30th anniversary of the movie Aliens, and the 28th anniversary of Dark Horse publishing Aliens comic books as well as the 30th anniversary of the publisher itself. So you might be expecting some anniversary Aliens projects? That's what Dark Horse suggested to retailers at the Baltimore Summit yesterday. To follow up their line of[...]
Master Of Kung Fu To Get Four Omnibuses, Beginning In 2016 (Visual UPDATE)
Yesterday, at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, Marvel Comics committed to publishing the entirety of the Master Of Kung Fu in a series of four Omnibuses. The series was created after Marvel failed to get the rights to the Kung Fu TV show, but did get the rights to the character Fu Manchu So Marvel creates[...]
DC Comics Ask You To Colour In Your Own Covers, In January (Dave Johnson UPDATE)
The comic book industry is waking up to the adult colouring-in craze right now. And in January, DC Comics will launch a themed variant line of black and white covers, not the usual "black-and-white" variety, but ones drawn intended to be coloured in by the buyers. I wonder how many people will actually colour them in? More from[...]
Rick Remender's Devolution, Finally Out In January 2016, Honest.
It's been announced repeatedly since 2012, before going on hiatus, and then being rejigged for publication with new artists. But now, honest-to-goodness, Devolution by Rick Remender, Jonathan Wayshak and Jordan Boyd will be out from Dynamite in January, as announced at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. See more Baltimore Summit coverage right here. It's been announced repeatedly[...]
We Drop Into The Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit (Dave Gibbons Dark Knight III UPDATE)
UPDATE: DC Comics just showed off this Dark Knight III variant cover by Dave Gibbons… The original piece runs below: We're not sure, from this photo, if DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio totally wants to be at the Baltimore Retailer Summit… Marvel's David Gabriel was pushing the success of attracting new customers for retailers with Star Wars – but also Squirrel[...]
Valiant's Book Of Death Tops 200,000 In Sales, Announced At Baltimore Summit
Presenting at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, Valiant Entertainment have announced that their orders for their Book Of Death event in recent years. They called the "the most successful independent crossover event of the decade", with the next closest contender probably being Dynamite's Masks from a few years back with Alex Ross… That number has been reached[...]
29 Cover Stories For Fight Club 2, Dark Knight, Spider-Man, NYCC And Baltimore
The cover to Fight Club 2 #9 by David Mack, as seen in this Scott Allie interview by Hannah Means-Shannon. Ken Haeser's Grumpy Cat #2 variant cover for Dynamic Forces.  A Greg Land variant for Amazing Spider-Man #1 for Dynamic Forces. We have more Dark Knight III retailer exclusive variants…  Books-A-Million – Rafael Albuquerque  Borderlands Comics and Games – Klaus[...]
Basically, Frank Cho Wants A Fight… (Robbi Rodriguez UPDATE)
But the more people complain about them, the higher the price tag rises when these eventually sell at Baltimore Comic Con… here is Frank Cho's latest attempt to get folk riled. UPDATE: And it worked! Co-creator of Spider-Gwen, Robbi Rodriguez, who had previously complained of other artists' renditions of the character in a sexualised fashion, inspiring her appearances[...]