Comics

Alan Moore! Warren Ellis! Garth Ennis! Limited editions! And a DVD?

Up now: Dynamic Entertainment, publisher of comics, graphic novels, and the occasional special edition. They publish a variety of titles, from licensed properties, Golden Age and archival characters, and some amazing original work, like The Boys!

So what's new? And what caught your eye?

I hope this has been worth the wait! Here are the independent publishers Random House distributes, and there are some lesser known (but quite good) titles here!

It's all happening at Jim Hanley's Universe. Retrofit Comics is Box Brown's line of pamphlet/floppies that is bringing the periodical back to the indie comics world. Some releases thus far:

New at Cartoon Movement today, Josh Neufeld's Bahrain: Lines in Ink, Lines in the Sand Josh Neufeld, a true story set during Bahrain's short lived Pearl Revolution about two two young Bahraini editorial cartoonists named Mohammed and Sara who see the events from opposite sides. This is an excellent, accessible piece that really helps make a smaller eddy of the complex, swirling events of the Arab Spring clear.

YouTube has a new promotion for its new streaming service where you can watch recent movies for 99 cents -- among them GREEN LANTERN. If you've been waiting for a budget-conscious way to watch Hal Jordan save the universe from an angry cloud, this is your chance. You can also watch Harry Potter, Conan and that movie where Ton Hanks lives out his biker fantasy by riding a scooter with Julia Roberts on the back.

Here's what you'll be getting gratis next May 5th -- you'll note it's a mostly family friendly line-up of tested characters -- and Marvel is, not surprisingly, sending out am Avengers book and DC is sticking with The New 52.

The last burst of indie comics comes out this weekend, including KRAMERS ERGOT #8 and work by Box Brown, Maurice Vellekoop and more. Check it out!

I don't know about you, but when the holidays come around and the relatives want a cheap-ish gift, I usually send them some links to Marvel Essential volumes on Amazon. They're relatively inexpensive, my relatives don't have to figure out where the comic shop is (in rural areas, this can be an issue) and they like the thickness of the volumes when they wrap them. Imagine my shock Thursday night as I was online and noting the massive amount of Essential volumes that were out of stock. Marvel's inability/unwillingness to keep tpbs in print has been a hot button topic in recent months, but this is a bit beyond anything I would have expected. This doesn't mean Diamond doesn't have some copies in the warehouse for the DM, but my experience with Amazon has been if they think it will take a few weeks to restock, you'll see a 4-6 weeks to ship notation and they'll take your order. Here's a list of major Essential series, how many volumes are out and then the ones where the only purchase option on 12/1 were the "used & new" 3rd party resellers. I'm not listing Dazzler/Ant-Man/Human Torch.

By Todd Allen Back in August, DC released the "TALES OF BATMAN: GENE COLAN VOL. 1" hardcover book. This book reprints Batman #340, 343-345,...

There have been frequent sightings of the fabled "WATCHMEN sequel" over the years, but no photographic evidence, if you will. Now, Bleeding Cool claims to have a solid source that a series of four prequels are under way, and Andy Kubert is slated to draw at least one of them. Also believed to be involved: J. Michael Straczynski, JG Jones, and original WATCHMEN collaborators John Higgins and Dave Gibbons. Darwyn Cooke is said to be masterminding the whole thing. Although unverified, Cooke and Kubert have been hinting at working on Top Secret projects for a while. WATCHMEN II supposedly got the nod after Paul Levitz left DC -- he had personally blocked it for nearly 20 years, kind of like that dude guarding the one true Chalice in INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. But like that dude, Levitz couldn't hold on forever. With him gone, the story goes, Dan DiDio hopped all over it. But a lot of people at DC also thought the idea was blasphemy, and it kind of petered out -- or at least leaks about it to Bleeding Cool did.

Artist Cameron Stewart has been posting a few pages from BATMAN INCORPORATED: LEVIATHAN STRIKES!, the Grant Morrison-written one shot wrapping up the long-delayed BATMAN INCORPORATED's first season. Yesterday he posted a page which features Stephanie Brown -- yes, that Stephanie Brown. Leading to the predictable outpouring of attention. Which led him to tweet:

Here's something I have learned from Tumblr today - PEOPLE LOVE STEPHANIE BROWN