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  From the Diamond Retailer Summit at Las Vegas, some unseen peeks at upcoming Original Sin and Amazing Spider-Man... And an actual weapon damaged

Viz Media have offered retailers attending the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas an extra 8% discount on their top ten titles, including their best

The folks behind Anomaly, the immensive colour graphic novel that was heavy on the Augmented Reality are back. And were showing off what's to come at the

    Remember, what happens in Vegas, etc etc... At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, Valiant promised theyld stick to nine books a month

Another announcement from Dynamite at the Diamond Retailer Seminar is a new Jennifer Blood series by The Punisher and 2 Guns writer Steven Grant. Jennifer

Titan Comics has been talking to retailers at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas. And yes, they have promised that, along with Tenth and Eleventh Doctor Who comics, they will have Twelfth Doctor comics "soon". Right now retailers can order Doctor Who Preview bundles (of 50) and Dr Who exclusive covers can be commissioned and ordered[...]

Coming out of the Diamond Retailer Summit, news from Red Giant Entertainment, who made quite a splash with their four pack of free comic books for Free Comic Book Day. Well it looks as if there are more to come, Red Giant will launching their new range of comics in the autumn… absolutely free again.   Described as[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, Diamond Comic Distributors announced a new plug-in option from the Diamond retailer website, enabling retailers to automatically show New Releases, Comics and Non-Comics items of the month (adult items excluded) on their own website directly from Diamond. Retailers can customize how to show the info and select the date[...]

  Archie Comics are the latest to step up to the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, showing off the Afterlife With Archie collection, an exclusive edition provided to retailers attending the show They said how they looked forward to seeing it on eBay soon.     Archie Comics are the latest to step up to the Diamond[...]

  From the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, our first look at a live 3D cover for this September, namely Batwing. Retailers were reminded that

And they were keen to show off their new business partners to make movies and develop new comics. Boom! Studios have been showing off their wares at the Diamond Retailer Summit. We got a name for the new George Perez comic from the publisher – Sirens! A female cast comic, the characters will be based on the[...]

  From the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, our first look at the covers to Dark Horse's Aliens, Alien Vs Predator and Prometheus comic book

Though I may sound arrogant for saying so, I know that a number of people found my previous 2 years working as an English Professor, comics scholar, and journalist something that gave them a sense of satisfaction, an object lesson that the divide between academic and pop culture can be bridged and writers can wear[...]

We said there would be more to come on Lumberjanes this weekend and we were right. Hot on the heels on yesterday's news of the sellout of the massive overprint of issue #1 and the release of issue #2, Boom! Studios is going to announce today at the Diamond Retailer Summit today that Lumberjanes, the sophomore[...]

pic.twitter.com/n1q7hQ3jGo — John Kovalic (@muskrat_john) May 17, 2014 This looks TOTALLY appropriate for the back of a kids' comicbook, Dynamite Comics Look: it even features a baby! pic.twitter.com/lEuydPaZg3 — John Kovalic (@muskrat_john) May 17, 2014   Yes , I've become *that* parent. — John Kovalic (@muskrat_john) May 17, 2014 So what to do? Complain? Write a sternly worded letter? Call[...]

Today's Sunday Times has a review by Waldemar Januszczak of the Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy In The UK exhibition, currently on display at the British Library And he's not happy On Friday I went to a talk by the curators Paul Gravett and John Harris Dunning looking through the exhibition for the audience talking about their[...]

Dynamite's final friday announcement at the Diamond Retailer Seminar was something that we heard about back during Comicon last summer. Fox's Bob's

We've got previews here for the big X-O Manowar #25 issue that preludes the Armor Hunters event and Unity #7 that concludes the Trapped By Webnet

The annual Diamond Retailer Seminar is this weekend and Dynamite is rolling out a half-dozen announcements and the next one here involves the King. We

Action Lab are following up on their very active Free Comic Book Day this year, complete with a "tour" of signings by creators, with a big line-up for

Being handed out by Valiant to retailers at the Valiant party tomorrow night in Las Vegas, part of the Diamond Retailer Summit, Armor Hunters shot

The Fukushima nuclear disaster has been portrayed in manga form in a way that has angered Japanese government. And peculiarly, it's from a cooking manga

Rolf Harris, 84, is one of the world's best known cartoonists, thanks to his work on British and Australian television, over five decades, fronting all

This is a photo of actress and martial artist Gina Carano taken by sports photographer Tom Casino that appeared in the US edition of Maxim. And below that is the cover of Rob Liefeld's Gina Carano Avengelyne Variant , exclusive to Jimmy Jay's Jay Comics. And here's the comic on sale! Exclusive Gina Carano Avengelyne #1 Comic-Con edition! Available only[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Moonray Brewery: Terrapin Beer Co. Once in a while, you come across a beverage just a little more peculiar than the others and you have to try it.  A new addition to my store, I decided to try Terrapin Beer Co.'s Moonray, a part of their Side Project series, a beer brewed with chocolate[...]

Hybrid" and it just flowed from there? Were you fascinated with Monster Trucks as a kid? Where did the seed of this idea come from? BL: When I was working on the SPIKE and ANGEL comics for IDW, they asked if I had any ideas for TRANSFORMERS stories.  My head was so filled with vampires, I[...]

The first of a six part story by Tim Seeley and Mirka Andolfo brings back the characters from Chaos Comics that were immensely popular through the 90s. Also selling out have been the first three issues of Magnus: Robot Fighter Magnus, from Fred Van Lente and Cory Smith, along with Solar: Man Of the Atom, Turok: Dinosaur[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode89.mp3] Following on from last week's episode with Joshua Williamson & Brian Churilla recorded live at ECCC (which you can still listen to here), this time around I return to my regular programming to welcome back Jeremy Holt, who last appeared on the show way back in Episode 31. Jeremy & I discuss what he's[...]

Following on from the Three Hundred, Two Hundred Dollar Club,  One Hundred And Fifty Club and One Hundred Dollar Club runarounds on eBay, here’s a look at

The original art for the final page of Incredible Hulk #180, which features the first published appearance of Wolverine, has just sold at Heritage Auctions for $657,250. This 1974 Marvel comics page was drawn by Herb Trimpe, inked by Jack Abel, and scripted by Len Wein  Of historical interest, Wolverine's pose in that final introductory panel[...]