Publishers

The dynamic duo of Jeff Lemire and Matt Kindt seems to have set up shop for some of their non-creator owned work at Valiant Comics, and new they're joined by Paolo Rivera for The Valiant, a new four issue prestige mini-series. An they've got Franceso Francavilla doing variant covers as well—along with Kindt and Lemire—so it's a nice art-a-palooza. It's nice to see Valiant stepping out with new titles, and especially great to see Rivera back on interior art—he's best known for his impressive MArvel covers but since stepping back from that we haven't seen nearly enough of his stylish art around.

Corey Murphy, formerly of Laughing Ogre,  has joined Image as director of retail sales and will be working with comics shops on retail issues. Image...

Huh, well blow me down with a womp rat. Over the 20 years of Dark Horse's Star Wars license they built up a healthy...

Here's a scene you might not see in the upcoming Superman vs. Batman film. Amy Adams and Henry Cavill accepted the ALS Ice Bucket challenge in...

The column is already running late, so I won't belabor too many points here… July 2014 was a record-setting month in many categories for the Diamond NA-served comics market (see John Jackson Miller's analysis for the full skinny). DC shipped a whopping 83 comics this month (up from 68 in June). As expected, the Batman 75th Anniversary covers don't do as well as the Bombshell covers did last month. Whether this is because retailers (as a group) order-ordered on the Bombshell covers and were correcting, or because there was a perceived lesser demand for the Batman covers it is hard to tell; I suspect a combination of factors. It may be several months before things settle down in the new way of ordering variants.

One of the eagerly awaited books of fall is The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino, a graphic novel length account of his health issues...

I said I was going to be happy and puppies today, but I feel I should note that Marvel's executive editor Tom Brevoort responded...

Yesterday the enduring appeal of the human female rump as an object of sexual desire was reaffirmed in two separate incidents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs Rapper Nicki Minaj...

Let's leave this day with some nice are, a preview of a deluxe hardcover collection of BLUE ESTATE by Viktor Kalvachev and Kosta Yanev. The...

The Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Went Underground is in B&W/  and Full color, HardCover  an exclusive Kitchen Sink Press imprint under Dark Horse  ISBN:978-1-61655-258-9 Intro...

Dynamite is launching their own digital comics store today.  The comics will DRM-Free, which makes DRM-free the new (and welcome) trend in digital.  And...

Well it wasn't really enormous, but it is bigger than an ant. Yet it does not show star Paul Rudd as Ant-Man but rather...