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It's nearly a year later, and retailer Brian Hibbs is first out of the gate with an analysis of the New 52, a year later and he says it was good. An attached chart shows all the books up significantly for the year, and more importantly, as Bob Wayne promised at Comic-Con last year, the New 52 actually enlarged the pie with some new readers:

Noah Van Sciver just wrapped up a week of diaries at TCJ . it's a pretty quotidian thing, one panel to an activity from drunkenness to reading a comic. Good stuff. In case we haven't hammered you over the head with it enough, Van Sciver's upcoming book THE HYPO, an extremely well researched look at Abraham Lincoln's early days as a depressed young lawyer, will be one of the buzz books of the fall.

A few details of Ike Perlmutter's moves within the Disney hierarchy leak out in thisprofile in the LA Times, by brave writer Dawn C. Chmielewski who gets, naturally, zero cooperation from Disney, Marvel, or Perlmutter. Ike is of course Marvel's legendarily cheap—and successful—CEO, who has begun to make his influence felt inside the Magic Kingdom, as shown by the rumors of some epic battles that Chmielewski's uncovered:

Blood, rubble, fear, fire foe...you know the drill.

As previously reported, for its 100th issue, Robert Kirkman's superhero saga INVINCIBLE is following in the "issue 100 = a heartbreaking death" comics tradition, by teasing said heartbreaking death. And here are the teasers that have run since Monday, each featuring a different set of blood-spattered remains strewn around the rubble.

By Todd Allen OK, I admit it.  That cover graphic of all the super heroes going straight down the toilet cracks me up.  It's also...

By Steve Morris The Marvel solicitations for November have been released today, showing a number of interesting points. Faint spoilers below! The biggest news from the...

By Todd Allen As you may recall, The Boys is winding down soon.  You might be wondering what Garth Ennis is going to be filling...

___________________________________________________________________________ The following are new titles from DC, scheduled for the first four months of 2013. It's dominated by New 52 titles, as DC releases the...

Journey Into Mystery is going to continue! Kathryn Immonen steps in as writer, and the focus shifts to...

By Todd Allen While the print version won't be showing up until October, DC continues to have a fairly imaginative creative line-up on it's Legends...

In the annals of "very safe predictions" the idea that the first collection of SAGAis going to sell very well is right up there. The book—collecting the first six issues of the science fiction drama by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples—isn't out until October 23rd, but it's certain to get a whole new audience for the book. Not that it's been lacking an audience: the first issue already has already sold over 70,000 copies in various printings. And a low $9.99 price tag makes the barrier to entry pretty low.