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Advance Review: Infinity #1 (“A Marvel Comics Event”)

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Infinity #1 is a Marvel Comics Event.  It says so on the first page.  I'd also say that might be slightly overstating things.  Having read...

Superman/Batman movie news spurs record setting digital comics sales

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And speaking of sales, Variety reports that news of the upcoming Batman/Superman movie has spiked sales of Frank Miller’s ‘Batman: The Dark Knight Returns’,...

Digital Comics Best-Sellers: Injustice: Gods Among Us continues to steamroll the competition

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As it's the time of the month when he sales charts come out, usually someone stands up and says "WHY ARE THERE NO DIGITAL CHARTS?!??!?" and it's true, we don't know the numbers, but it's easy to make a snapshot chart from the top in-app purchases and other automatically generated lists. Brigid Alverson has been doing just that n a weekly basis for Good E-Reader

The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – DC’s 3D Cover Woes

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Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...

Harley Quinn #0 to be drawn by Darwyn Cooke, Sam Kieth, Paul Pope, Walt...

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I've just been looking through the DC solicitations for November, but suddenly stopped in awe as I came across Harley Quinn #0. The first...

Leaked Guardians of the Galaxy footage is online for a minute or two

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Here. This is the footage that was shown at Comic-Con and at D23. It's.... Whoa. That's Peter Serafinowicz who voices the "what a bunch of A-holes" line, equalling...

‘Collider’ Changes Name to ‘Federal Bureau of Physics’ Due to IP Claim

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Unexpectedly, Vertigo have today explained through MTV Geek that Simon Oliver and Robbi Rodriguez's (excellent) new series Collider is due to change its title....

DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: June 2013 – In Defense of Bob Harras

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DC is in a weird place right now. You can practically watch the publisher's retail and talent relations take a nose-dive on the Internet. Just last week, retailers Brian Hibbs and Leo McGovern called DC out on its handling of a line-wide publishing stunt in August; a "head of DC Comics" was quoted as admitting that his target audience are "45-year-olds"; popular artist Kevin Maguire announced on Twitter that he'd been "just fired" from an upcoming DC title, asked for work -- and was hired, lickety-split, by a gleeful Marvel editor in chief a few hours later; and the brave souls who read the actual comics that somehow still get made, published and sold in this environment conclude that everything kinda reads the same at DC.

Artist Laura Braga joins Witchblade team with issue #170

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Oh yeah while we're announcing new comics teams, Laura Braga, the very talented Italian artist, is the new artist on WITCHBLADE as of issue...

Vanesa R. Del Rey: Comics publisher hires female artist; industry stands up and cheers…not

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I got a PR email today from BOOM! Studios announcing a new title called HIT, which is out in September, from the team of...

The State Of Green Lantern

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As we enter into the third month of the post-Geoff Johns world of Green Lantern, it's time to take a look at where the...

Preview: Love and Rockets New Stories #6

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What was that we were saying about Fall shaping up? Love and Rockets: New Stories #6 is coming out in October, and will...

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