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The rolling program of Marvel Now! relaunches continued in January, with SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN, NEW AVENGERS, SAVAGE WOLVERINE, UNCANNY X-FORCE, YOUNG AVENGERS and MORBIUS. Plus, there's the miniseries DEADPOOL: KILLUSTRATED - and, just as interesting as the January launches, the continuing question of how the earlier Marvel Now titles are settling down. Once again, Marvel had the largest share of the North American direct market, leading DC by 40% to 35% in units, and 35% to 32% in dollars.

Marvel made the media rounds at SXSW yesterday and most of the announcements were for things off in the future.  SXSW is fast becoming...

Time Warner has found its magazine division all too quittable: after an unsuccessful attempt to sell off the print division which puts out Time, People, Sports Illustrated, it has decided to just split it off into its own business, and hope stock investors come along who like to look at glossy magazine. It's a similar to the move Mr. Burns Rupert Murdoch pulled recently, splitting Fox into two divisions: The Fox Group, which includes movies and TV, and News Corp., which includes the newspaper division.

This is all just breaking! Marvel are at South By Southwest right now, announcing some new digital projects. The first is 'Marvel Infinite' comics, Marvel's...

The end of the ROT WORLD crossover arc raises the question that Umberto Eco posed in his famous essay on Superman in 1972: can...

On January 23rd, Columbia University Library acquired a double-bill of Golden Age related comics materials, including the research materials Larry Tye compiled to write...

Sharing your favorite superheroes with your kids is one of the most reward parts of the fan experience, and DC has just launched a Fan Family mini site to promote their family friendly offerings.

While promoting the new Marvel Unlimited App over at Gizmodo, Marvel's Peter Phillips indicated that Marvel was updating most of his major titles when...

Marvel's library subscription program used to be called Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited A.K.A. Marvel DCU - an in-joke at DC's expense that likely flew...

Sometimes a book comes out that I'm so ridiculously excited about I get paranoid that I'm going to be disappointed in some way. And...

DC have announced that Kurt Busiek and Brent Anderson's Astro City will be returning in June! Oh, and look who's doing the covers: This will...

This one is like one of those baseball games that goes into the 17th inning, long and murky with no real payoff.