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Taylor Maimbourg writes for Bleeding Cool; When I first walked into the Schomburg Center for the Black Comic Book Festival, I wasn't sure what to expect.

  Adventure Time #11 from Boom was pulped and reprinted, ostensibly down to a Bravest Warriors ad that was a little too much for the licensors. From

Robert Curley writes; July 1993 is when I first began my professional life in comics, humble beginnings in a flea market armed with my own collection from the past fifteen or so years My only competition was Forbidden Planet as the other two shops in Dublin had recently closed their doors, but still in my early[...]

Cameron Hatheway writes; After the unexpected events of the last issue, with death and plot-twists aplenty, Layman and Guillory had good reason to hideout

Walter Simonson has been tweeting panels and pages in pencil and ink from his upcoming run on Indestructable Hulk with Mark Waid.... have a peek.

Cameron Hatheway writes; Captain Marvel #9 by Jaime McKelvie & Jordie Bellaire Usually I’d still be bitching and moaning when a prominent character

But at least there's Ultron: More Age Of Ultron stuff, Thanos Uprising, Avengers go to the New Universe, so many comics getting a "Too Many Armors" variant covers, and a rather wonderful Cable And X-Force cover that's just… weird Here are the comics Marvel will be selling you come April 2013. Most-Read Comic Stories Today – Marvel[...]

As editor of the book. Ex-editor of Wizard Magazine who was there until almost its dying days, he is also the publisher of Champion! as a comics magazine app, though that has seemed to fade away of late. Mike seems quite keen too, tweeting; Exclusive: First Look at EARTH 2 #8 comicvine.com/news/exclusive… via @comicvine — Mike Cotton (@MichaelCotton) January[...]

Ron Richards, founder of iFanboy, is the new Director of Business Development at Image Comics. So he's no longer at iFanboy Or indeed their purchaser, Graphicly He talks about it at length at the site, here are a few clips; with Graphicly's new business focus the need for iFanboy to be a gateway to the comic book[...]

C-Day is coming. I already mentioned it a few times. A retailer promotion for the Crossed franchise from Avatar, set for March 13th. Garth Ennis comes

  Here are variant covers for the first five issues of Age Of Ultron. And a Red Hulk teaser. Will he submit or perish? Here's the animated gif. By

Here you go folks, the April solicitations in full for both Boom! and Dynamite for April 2013.  From Dynamite's Miss Fury to Boom!'s Regular Show and Polarity, there's lot's of comics new and old… but mostly new. Let's start with Dynamite… MISS FURY #1 Rob WIlliams (w) Jack Herbert (a) J Scott Campbell (50%), Alex Ross[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YawPegJpMu4 The last time I checked in on this, Hyrule Historia had received 150,000 preorders. I understand it has now

Image may have sold almost 400,000 of Walking Dead #100. BUt what about the lower selling titles? How do they stack up? We're going to cheat a little by only including the Top 300 comics reported by Diamond that sold in comic shops in 2013 Which means that some of the smaller companies may get a boost[...]

Take it away Edcity... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhOmppxn9eU  

DC Comics and stuff Here's what I've been hearing. Conflict between creative and editorial is on a bit of a high right now This does vary from editor to editor it seems, but the common thread is that plots and scripts are accepted from writers to an editorial brief… only for that editorial brief to change,[...]

Yes, Judge Dredd, whatis through the portal? Another Judge Dredd cover for IDW from Dave Sim there, from Judge Dredd Year One #2. As well as one cover to

Here's a first and probably exclusive look at the solicitations to all of Image's comics for April 2013. With a bunch of new comics like Jupiter's Legacy, Chin Music, Invincible Universe and Miniature Jesus, new volumes of '68 and Mice Templar comics, another new number one for the renamed again Mighty Skullkickers… and a gravestone on[...]

More Age Of Ultron stuff, Thanos Uprising, Avengers go to the New Universe, so many comics getting a "Too Many Armors" variant covers, and a rather wonderful Cable And X-Force cover that's just… weird Here are the comics Marvel will be selling you come April. AGE OF ULTRON #4 (OF 10) Publisher: (W) Brian Michael Bendis (A/CA) Bryan[...]

As well as five regular covers at $3.99, there's a chase cover for every retailer who orders all 5 other covers, a 1 in 300 cover for retailers who decide to go nuts deep on this thing, and a hardcover version, featuring the comic and an extra story, for people who, well, like kids comics[...]

Two multidimensional comics are meeting their end in April, as part of the X-Termination crossover, David Lapham and Roberto De La Torre's Age Of Apocalypse with issue 14 and Greg Pak and Andre Aeujo's X-Treme X-Men with issue 13. Here are their final covers (and the cover to Astonishing X-Men that make up the trptych). Sorry folks[...]

Robert Kirkman's Invincible reaches issue 100 shortly. With that rather ominous "Death Of Everyone" tag. Well. not quite. There's still a whole universe

As part of the Age Of Ultron crossover this year, Marvel is launching an Ultron comic, featuring Victor Mancha, the son of Ultron who apeared in Runaways,

Grant Morrison's extended Action Comics run provides us with another DC Comics April surprise, kind of  But one wonders if that screws up the impetus behind that month's Action Comics #19 gatefold cover for that particular issue of Action That looks like a relatively specific bit of action in Action Well, I'm sure they'll work[...]

It's Thursday night, or rather, Friday morning. I've just come back from the pub. And what do I find waiting for me, and me alone? The covers to the new

Next week in comics… the beginning of Answer,  Star Trek's Countdown To Darkness, the last issue of Minutemen, a bit more Chew, the beginning of Uncanny X-Force , Young Avengers and Deadpool Killistrated And in two weeks… Emily And The Strangers, Dollar Bill and… Invincible #100! And while we're waigting, here's a preview of Answer #1… Open[...]

I understand that the upcoming Nova series from Marvel is the first comic that will lead up to Marvel's major event later this year, after Age Of Ultron.

The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is an attempt to bring the comic book festival more common in European cities such as Angouleme or BICS. On the

Although Andy Diggle and Tony S Daniel are lined up to start their Action Comics run with issue 18, I understand that Grant Morrison and Rags Morales will need one more issue to finish their story Which means Diggle and Daniel's debut will be delayed to April and issue 19. So expect some kind of retro[...]

Emerald City Comic Con is on March 1st to the 3rd this year, in Seattle. And Wizard World have announced that they have a show a week earlier, down the