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Published in USA Today, the current go-to-spot for publisher friendly mass media comics coverage, a preview of the first issue of X-Men Schism #1 by Jason

SimWatch: Why does the Batmobile look like Cerebus? PartyWatch: On Friday, Geek Girl on the Street is holding their very first fundraiser at Challengers

Title: Marksmen #1 Creators: David Baxter, Javiar Aranda, Garry Leach and Tomm Coker Publisher: Image Comics Available: Booth #2729 High concept: MARKSMEN

Title: The Infinite #1 Creators: Rob Liefeld and Roberyt Kirkman Publisher: Image Comics Available: Booth #2729 High concept: Format: Hardcover omic -

Title: Severed #1 Creators: Scott Snyder, Scott Tuft and Attila Futaki Publisher: Image Comics Available: Booth #2729 High concept: SEVERED is mostly set

This is the cover to Batman #2, by Greg Capullo, for October. And it's really rather nice. But you know what? It's even nicer in black-and-white...

So we're having the big fifty-two DC Relaunch in September. But what about October? How many issues ones could we expect then? Probably a handful. But

Who would win in a fight between the Hulk and The Thing and Thor and a drunken Iron Man? We told you this was going to be a big fight scene. Looks like

Warner Bros and TV Guide are producing a special issue of the magazine for San Diego Comic Con, being given away at the show at their booth #4545 from

Bleeding Cool already ran the cover to Ultimate Fallout #4, saying that it may have revelatory significance. Looks like we were bang on the money. This

Apologies to those who wish Bleeding Cool wasn't quite so obsessed with San Diego. All we can say is next week when we're actually in San Diego, this will

The most entertaining news this past week has been the phone-hacking scandal in Britain leading to News International shutting down one of the country’s

Smoke was a comic series by Alex De Campi and Igor Kordey that came out from IDW a few years ago... and was rather good. Think of Luther Arkright crossed

Pull back your shield throwing arm. Then take aim against Hydra soldiers. Not Nazis remember, they want to be able to play this game in Germany. Not pigs

Here are the two visual promotional images that Arlen Schumer is using for his Saturday panel on Mort Weisinger, editor of the Superman line for 30 years,

Marvel have had a few interesting uses of typography in covers of late, Daredevil #1 being a standout. Well, this looks like more of the same, and the

1. An Education You won't get this going to the Twilight panel. Nor the Walking Dead panel. Not even at Big Bang. But from 10.30 to noon on Thursday,

We've just looked at modern comic books selling for $100 or more right now, but how is everything else shaping up? Here's a run down of comics that have

BuffySeason9Watch: Well, Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine #2 does promise a new look for Willow...here are the Faith/Angel #3 covers too. DigiWatch:

One's a human lesbian maid living in Victorian London. The other's Silurian lesbian gentry discovered in the Underground. Together they fight crime. And

Milk And Cheese is a very funny comic strip, relentlessly nihilistic, and the closest America has even seemed to the British Viz Comic. Indeed, Milk And

It was first announced in January 2010 and scheduled for June that year. Why it's over a year late, not even Liam Sharp knows, as he wrote back in

George RR Martin, author of Game Of Thrones, writes; An advance peek at the cover for the FEVRE DREAM graphic novel, which will be released at the San

Some people are just never satisfied. Joe Harris and Brett Weldele are debuting the first two issues of their new Oni thriller mini-series, Sponteaneous,

Are you a comic book retailer? Or can you represent one at San Diego Comic Con? Then you too could get free lunch and this rather excluisve swag bag or...

The final day of San Diego programming, for Sunday, has been released. And here comes the comics. And now we can count how many panels, events and signing

Here's a look at comic books published in the last thirty years that, without variants, signatures or slabbing, actually sell copies for over a hundred

Image Comics employee Branwyn Bigglestone has been raising money for her participation in the AIDS Walk SF, to aid the Homeless Youth Alliance. As befits

Frank Cho has announced that he will be announcing a new comic book project at San Diego, one he has been working on for ten years. "The genesis of the

With the eighth and final series of HBO's Entourage airing in a fortnight, here's a half hour look at the origins and development of the show, including