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Marvel continue to tempt me with their extraordinary cover designs that are leaving many other publishers in the shade. Coming to Fearless Defenders blind...

You might have heard that Greg Rucka and Michael Lark have a comic coming out from Image.  It's called Lazarus and it's coming out...

I noticed a common feature in the comics I was reading this week, a feature that made them all compelling as stories: the role...

Palookaville #21 is on its way, and while the looong running CLyde Fans serial is on hold, Seth digs into his own life story in the cheerfully titled "Nothing Lasts." Seth may be gloomy but he's also one of our all-time favorite cartoonists, we'll race to pick this up.

Okay he was only the head of Marvel for six months during Ron Perelman's murky march to bankruptcy—in fact he was the guy in charge when Marvel filed—but former Marvel CEO Scott Sassa has been canned from his current gig at Hearst after steamy texts from a Las Vegas stripper showed up somewhere they shouldn't.

The local library consortium got a whole bunch of New 52 Vol. 1's, so I'm going through and catching up on a few things...

Hawkeye by Fraction and Aja continues to be the most stylish and offbeat superhero comic on the stands. In this issue, enter the women: Black Widow, Mockingbird, Spider-Woman and Kate Bishop try to figure out who's trying to kill Clint Barton.

Morning in Britain means more British comics talk! The Beat slowly forces its way into multiculturalism, and isn't it wonderful? Hopefully eventually we'll bring...

After 18 months on JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY, Kieron Gillen has given an extensive interview with Q Magazine's Colin Smith on his UK based blog...

Between "Death of the Family," "Throne of Atlantis" and "Rise of the Third Army," any DC title selling 60,000 units or more in January took part in one of the three current major crossovers, which means all 10 of the company's Top 25 books. In other words: Scott Snyder and Geoff Johns are running the DC Universe right now -- and not much that's not within their reach is working all that well.

Every so often Tharg gets on the blower and gives me a ring, to tell me about new things coming up at 2000AD, the...

J. Michael Straczynski has had a strange ride in comics over the last few years.  The Twelve, which finally wrapped up last year, was highly...