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How January 2013 Had Twice The Comics Order Value Of January 2003 – John Jackson Miller’s Comichron

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Rich Johnston

John Jackson Miller writes; As reported here Friday, January comics sales performed the rare feat of beating December’s sales; now, with the release of new data from Diamond Comic Distributors, we can see the numbers behind the headline. Click to …

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The Joss Whedon/Bryan Hitch Spider-Man Comic That Never Was

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bryan Hitch‘s interview with CBR was revelatory in all sorts of ways. If only for the comics that weren’t as well as the comics that are. Such as; my one regret at Marvel is that I didn’t get to do …

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A History Of Dynamite.Com

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Dynamite.com was first registered back in 1996, for an internet service company. They picked up a few clients, but them on the home page, but they didn’t exactly grow much. Then they semed to close but still had the domain …

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CGC Addresses Concerns Over Purchase Of Classics Incorporated

Posted on November 24, 2012 by Rich Johnston

A week or so ago, CGC announced they had bought Classics Incorporated and were moving them in house. Some collectors expressed concerns, without response. Then on Thanksgiving, Bleeding Cool ran an article on the purchase echoing a few of those …

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My Favourite Joke In Grandville: Bete Noire by Bryan Talbot

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Rich Johnston

There are lots of good jokes in the new Grandville volume from Bryan Talbot. And lots of action adventure, swashbuckling, derring do and that unique brand of anthropomorphic steampunky Anglo/French struggle that rips through every page of Grandville at a cracking …

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Rick Remender Meets The Free Market

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We ran a piece on Marvel’s promise to keep trade paperbacks and hardcovers in stock for longer. Rick Remender has come face to face with one of the problems… Can anyone tell me why Uncanny X-Force: Deathlok Nation [Hardcover] is …

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Blu-Ray Review: Laputa: Castle In The Sky

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Brendon Connelly

The Studio Ghibli we know and love was born pretty much fully formed with Hayao Miyazaki’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky. We don’t only get a checklist of the studio’s most prevalent tropes, from feisty young protagonists to breathtaking flying …

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Review: Anna Mercury Volume 2 #1

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Rich Johnston

Anna Mercury is a series published by BleedingCool’s parent company Avatar Press. Which is how I was able to get into the company’s server and grab a look at the issue shipping next week. Anna Mercury has got one of …

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