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Gender Through Comic Books – And Free Access To Comic Creators

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Rich Johnston

University tutor and doctroral candidate Christy Blanch is launching a new course, Gender Through Comic Books, available free to everyone online. A bit like the Open University, but for comics. And with speakers such as Brian K. Vaughan, Mark Waid, …

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Is That The Birth Of Thanos In April?

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rich Johnston

From Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi in April from Marvel. Something involving a birth. And something involving someone purple. My best guess is a Thanos Origin series, the like of which was cancelled last year before publication. Could this be …

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Sunday Trending Topics: Mikhail Prokhorov’s Custom Marvel Comic

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Mark Seifert

As a basketball fan, I’ve read more than a little about Russian billionare Mikhail Prokhorov since he bought the Nets a couple years back, and he’s not a man who is afraid to spend money to get what he wants.  As …

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Maybe Jason Aaron Isn’t Quite As Much A Bastard As We Thought He Was

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

There will be spoilers for the new Wolverine And The X-Men implied in this article. But here is pencil cover art for Wolverine And The X-Men #25. And here is a close up. Okay Jason, As long as this isn’t …

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Gosh Comics Through November…

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Gosh Comics is one of my favourite comic shops in the worls. Now located in the heart of bustling Soho, London, surrounded by a great street market, record stores, strip joints, brothels, burleque performances and delicatessans, it’s also part of …

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Two Utterly Insane Comics From Jason Aaron Today

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Jason Aaron, one of the Marvel Acrhitects, has two comics out today. And both are completely off the wall. One you might expect that of, a little bit. If not quite this insane. But the other goes further than it …

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Review: Wolverine And The X-Men #15

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Louis Falcetti writes for Bleeding Cool; This month’s Wolverine and the X-men (#15 for those keeping score at home) is way better than it has any business being. Why is that you may wonder. It’s not that the book SHOULD …

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Scalped For The Very Last Time

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Cameron Hatheway writes; January 3rd, 2007 is a day I remember very well. It was the day I entered my local comic book shop, browsed the new release shelf, and stopped dead in my tracks upon seeing the cover art …

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R. M. Guéra To Choose Between Two New Jason Aaron Projects

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Recently La Coruña in Spain hosted its fifteenth annual comics convention, Viñetas desde o Atlántico 2012. J. Antonio Fraga attended for Bleeding Cool. Including the panel with R. M. Guéra, he learned that after Scalped, R.M is finishing the last …

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Before Thor Got Mjlonir, Did He Have An Axe To Grind?

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here’s the cover to Thor: God Of Thunder #2 by Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic. And that’s a young God iof Thunder, it looks like. Without Mjlonir, and wielding an axe instead. Could this be… a pre-hammer Thor? Why, yes, …

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If All Goes To Plan IGN Will Confirm Posehn, Duggan And Moore On Deadpool In Five Hours

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This is how it works. Every day at 9am ET last week, a series was teased by a website. Then this week, at 9am ET on the same day, the same website confirmed that series, with an interview with the …

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Jason Aaron And Esad Ribic Now Officially On Thor As Well

Posted on August 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Basically, the only one we’re still really wondering about is what Legacy actually is, since Si Spurrier says it’s not the obvious one. So there we have it. Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic now confirmed on Thor: God Of Thunder …

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Saturday Trending Topics: Some Post-Present, Pre-Now Marvel

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Mark Seifert

Some weekend tea leaf reading: As shown in the CBR weekly thing with Axel Alonso. Advance pages from an unspecified future issue of Wolverine & The X-Men, drawn by Nick Bradshaw. And I see no reason that it wouldn’t be written …

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A New Comic From Jason Aaron and Ron Garney?

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Jason Aaron and Ron Garney last worked together (I think) on Ultimate Captain America. I’m now told that this Marvel Architect and superhero mainstay artist and movie designer are working on a new project. Something creator-owned as well. That’s all. …

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Jason Aaron And Esad Ribic Relaunch Thor For Marvel Now

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Rich Johnston

There we go. We tagged Esad Ribic for the Marvel Now relaunch of Thor, but not the writer. That has now been announced as Jason Aaron. Well, announced as much of these things ever are. “Whosoever is worthy etc etc…”

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MorrisonCon Almost Here… But Still A SausageFest

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Earlier this year, the London comic convention Kapow got heated commentary for its fifty-strong guest list not having any women on it. But, as it was the previous year, by the time the actual show rolled out, there were many …

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Avengers Vs X-Men – The Work Of Architects Or Cowboy Builders?

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

For those of you still working out exactly how the plot of Secret Avengers ties in with Avengers and Avengers Versus X-Men, where motivations, chronology and who did what, why and why seem tied up in an impossibly to unravel moebius loop …

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Brian Bendis To Write X-Men And Uncanny X-Men?

Posted on June 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Okay, this filling took a little more loosening. I had to use pliers, a baseball bat and a large camel. As a result, it’s a bit crumbly. It’s certainly not all there. See, I’d heard a while ago that Bendis …

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