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When Steve Wacker Punched Himself In The Face

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Rich Johnston

A nice collection of tweets by Steve Wacker, now preserved in their entirety to inspire (or dissuade) future comic book editors… Okay…here we go…”How To Be an Editor” by Stephen Byron Whaquer — Stephen Wacker (@StephenWacker) February 24, 2013   1-Ask …

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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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That Superior Spider-Man #1 Letters Page

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Shot on my iPad before this happened…. the letters page of Superior Spider-Man #1. Spoilers obviously.

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Amazing Spider-Man 700 Day – Wednesday Trending Topics

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The world found out about the end of Amazing Spider-Man with Amazing Spider-Man 700 today, an event that seemed undiminished by the leaked spoilers of the past few weeks.  The comic book industry gets better and better at making mainstream news, …

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AVX: Versus #1 Cover Contains No Homo-Erotic Subtext Whatsoever

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We’ve taken Steven Wacker‘s criticism to heart. Bleeding Cool had previously presented a series of Avengers Vs X-Men in a fashion that might suggest the principal male protagonists/antagonists were engaged in a courtship ritual in some cases, in actual on-cover …

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Swipe File: The Omega Effect And South Park

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Steve Wacker recently tweetd a number of covers for The Omega Effect crossover with Spider-Man, Punisher and Daredevil. Let’s have a closer look at that logo. Isn’t that Kenny?   Oh my god, they killed Frank Castle’s family! You bastards! …

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Saturday Trending Topics: The Amazing Sales Of JMS

Posted on December 11, 2011 by Mark Seifert

This is one of those things that is just begging for more data and better visualization.  Go back a bunch more years, make it more complete, add in graphs that track how month-to-month total industry volume changes as well.  There’s …

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Fanboy Rampage: JMS Vs Steve Wacker (UPDATE – Now With Added Waid And Slott)

Posted on December 10, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Joe Michael Straczynski posted on an open Facebook page, a link to the image above with the words Sales on The Amazing Spider-Man since my departure. Just sayin’ Steve Wacker, current editor of the Spider-Man comics replied; An excellent post, …

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Thinking Only Of Thought Bubble

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Gary Erskine has his kilt packed. Steve Wacker, despite the efforts of a driver who got lost, managed to get to the airport before his flight took off.  Kieron Gillen has his DJ set all worked out. And Gail Simone …

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