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Chris Pratt hosted Saturday's Saturday Night Live season premiere and along with the inevitable Starlord jokes, there was a pretty spot on parody of...

This is being written on the day that initial orders are due for my store, and with the three week vacation I took, I’m...

A joint statement has just been released by Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby indicating that a settlement of somekind hs been made: “Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably resolved their legal disputes, and are looking forward to advancing their shared goal of honoring Mr. Kirby’s significant role in Marvel’s history.”

Ripples from Spider-Woman Butt-Gate continues to rock the world of comics! Every day lots of changes in shipping products are announced on Diamond's website. And today two little sentences were sent out:

This was a tough month for Marvel. Original Sin is ending and none of their other events have really started yet. They also don’t have any real high profile series launches. So there are no books that really pop. There is a lot of attrition this month. Of the 72 books that also had an issue last month, only 12 saw growth in their numbers. That leaves 60 books that dropped in sales. 39 books dropped more than 5% or what might be considered a standard attrition. Luckily there are several major events coming soon which will drive sales up and a lot of books will be relaunching after these events which always bumps up the numbers at least temporarily. It is worrying however, that there are several series that just relaunched a year or for some 6 months ago and are already in trouble again. Let’s look at a breakdown of what came out this month:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoXGsv9nsNs Rob Liefeld was right! The co-creator of Deadpool has been hinting about a movie for the "merc with a mouth" for years, and he's...

Can't get enough of Rocket Raccoon and Groot, the dynamic duo that busted 2014 wide open? Marvel thinks you can't and in November will present no less than 20 comics with Rocket and Groot variant covers, by artists including Chip Zdarsky, Ulises Farinas and Tom Fowler.

...and it will be a unique global adventure!

Who would win, Spider-Man or Ms Marvel? We may find out when they meet for the first time in October's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #7. Will...

In August, I went on vacation with my girlfriend (who is now my fiancée) and took some well deserved time away from the store...

This sells itself doesn't it: hawkeye takes on the most popular Marvel character of the moment in a Halloween adventure. by Gerry DUggan and Matteo Lolli with a cover by James Harren (!) and a Jason Pearson variant.

With Wolverine's days dwindling as he dies for the 9th or 10th time in the comics, he and Kitty go to Japan to talk...