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CHANNEL ZERO, Brian Wood's mash-up of cyber imagery, sloganeering and popular dissent, is getting a new edition from Dark Horse. This marks its third edition: it debuted as a miniseries from Image in 1997, with a collection following. Then it moved to AIT/PlanetLar, where it has been OOP for a while. The new book will reprint the original GN and its sequel, JENNIE ONE (with art by Becky Cloonan), two volumes of related design, and various and sundry other rarities.

Evidently, due to some misunderstandings, Dark Horse CEO Mike Richardson has released a statement regarding the publisher's imminent switch to simultaneous print and digital release: digital comics will be priced at $2.99 for the first month, dropping to the standard price of $1.99 after that. You can read the statement below. While it's obvious that keeping DH's retail partners from mutiny is part of these decisions -- DH also has a jacked-up digital price for a one month window -- it presupposes that the print and digital audiences are the same. There isn't really any evidence that this is the case right now. However, in the short term, digital sales will continue to be seen as a direct competitor to print. Like we said, we understand the concerns on both sides.

Eltingville! Fisher-Price Theater! Devil Puppet! ARE WE DREAMING? NO -- it is happening.

A nice preview of the Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan version of the Cimmerian brawler.

New series from Dark Horse, a new Brandon Graham project and a Martian team-up have been announced for early next year.

Aliens! Star Wars! Axe Cop! Milk & Cheese! Avatar! Mignola! Pratt! Minara! Powell! Clamp! Vess!

Fresh off the announcement of his reboot of The Prophet for the Extreme Studios, Brandon Graham has a teaser for "The Speaker" a new story in December's Dark Horse Presents #7.

Dark Horse has just released its January solicitations -- a new reprint of a classic European comics by Hermann tops the list for us, along with a series of Mike Mignola variant covers in his monster year, and the Compleat Terminal City.

It's all design all the time in this miniseries by Dean Motter, Michael Lark and Mark Chiarello, who team for an extended homage to art deco architecture. Originally published by Vertigo, it's one of several distinctive limited series from that era getting new editions.

For some reason, we've seen very very few pictures of the Dark Horse offices on the internet. Maybe because we never looked? But now that void has been filled by Henry Chamberlain who visited with his daughter and snaps some nice pics. Somehow, we always knew what Dark Horse would look like, right down to marketing director Jeremy Atkins wandering across the street.

Friday at San Diego Comic-Con has brought a boatload of indie comics news. Here's a quick run down of the highlights: At the Image panel, it was revealed that Ted McKeever will be doing a new comic called Mondo for Image Comics. Landry Walker and Eric Jones, creators of Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the Eighth Grade, will create Danger Club, a new non-family friendly comic, for Image.

It's Preview Night and the ICv2 Conference at San Diego Comic-Con, and while the big announcements are still being held back for the convention proper, news has begun to come out of San Diego in a trickle that will soon become a torrent.