Comics

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Two sold-out issues of THOR by the awesome Roger Langridge are being combined into a portmanteau, dubbed a "Double Rainbow." The cover by Chris...

Season 3/Episode 10:  I Smell a Rat Episode nine ended with some bloody messes to clean up. Franklin’s entrails were all over the Merlotte’s parking...

Add up these BRIGHTEST DAY covers by Ryan Sook, with help from Fernando Pasarin, Joel Gomez and Jim Lee and you get a nice Michelangelo pastiche. (Click for larger version)

Insanely stylish Brendan McCarthy has a new project called FUBAR that he is shopping around. Would YOU like to be the lucky publisher? Email...

In recent years there has been great sadness in the Buffyverse -- and some hurt feelings among two of the biggest comics publishers -- that somehow the licenses for all the various Buffy spin-offs has been sundered from the main book. Angel and Spike have been most recently published by IDW, while the main Buffy saga has been continuing under Joss Whedon at Dark Horse to great acclaim and sales. But in the Riley one-shot released today, editor Scott Allie hinted that Angel would be coming back to the Horse, something every news-site picked up on. But evidently that was not how it was meant to be played out. Dark Horse has released a statement confirming that in 2011, Angel is coming back:

Meanwhile, out in Minneapolis -- prime comics country with 11 comics shops, the MCAD art school and more -- a new indie comics fest...

The nominations for the 14th annual Ignatz Awards have just been announced, with the winners to be presented at the Small Press Expo in Bethesda on Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 9:00 PM. Nominees were chosen by a panel of five judges: Anders Nilsen, David Kelly, Rob G, Joshua Cotter and Trevor Alixopoulos. Winners will be chosen by attendees. As always, it's an eclectic mix, with many lesser known gems very much worthy of your attention:

The late John Callahan -- the paraplegic cartoonist who passed away last month -- is remembered with some excerpts from one of his cartoon collections.

Zach Hazard fights the man.

In just a few short weeks, Mark Millar and his friends reinvent the comics anthology magazine with CLiNT, a 100-page monthly magazine featuring comic strips from Millar, John Romita Jr., Steve McNiven, Tommy Lee Edwards, Jonathan Ross, Frankie Boyle, and comics, including the Millar/Romita Jr. Nemesis, and others by "up and comers." There's now a short trailer online, too. The issue goes on sale on September 2, 2010. You can also get palsy with CLiNT on Twitter or Facebook, so you can even get it to be your neighbor in Farmville.