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Although Steely Steve Morris couldn't make it to today's Marvel Now call we did get the artwork and it's very nice.

It's time for another Marvel conference call, this time as Brian Michael Bendis and Nick Lowe talk about All-New X-Men #1. And I was...

One year after the big relaunch, DC wanted to give its superhero line another jolt by borrowing a gimmick from the glory days of 1994 and releasing "zero" issues of all of the "New 52" titles. In terms of average sales, this means an increase of more than 1,000 units compared to August. Of course, these are sales to retailers, and increases based on this type of gimmick never stick around for subsequent issues, but the fact that retailers have enough faith in DC to support the initiative to this degree is good news, certainly.

After gaining huge mainstream attention for BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON and BODY WORLD—both formally experimental graphic noels that remained emotionally true—Dash Shaw has kept a...

Brandon Graham is hitting the road behind the first issue of MULTIPLE WARHEADS, his loopy, memorable comic about organ smuggling that's already getting rave reviews.

Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu are the team behind the relaunch for Marvel's Hulk, who will NOW! be known as 'The Indestructible Hulk'....

The AVENGERS VS X-MEN crossover built towards its finale in September (though the actual final issue slipped to the next month). And - well, yes, that's about it in terms of notable releases in September. Schedules don't get much quieter than this, and with many of the titles also on their way to an imminent relaunch, the main points of interest on this month's chart really involve seeing how recent launches are getting on.

Cameron Stewart's excellent webcomic Sin Titulo has finished and will get a hardcover collection from Dark Horse next year. The strip, described as "a dark, neo-noir semi-autobiographical mystery thriller concerned with dreams, family, and memory" launched in 2007 as part of the TX webcomics collective, and has continued on, with a few lengthy breaks, ever since. It won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic in 2010

s this the Nolan-ized Iron Man? The quasi-Bane-like narration, dark tone and "hero must struggle against himself" are certainly a bit different from the light hearted screwball comedy of the first two. In Shane Black we trust.

Almost certainly due to the news that The Daily Planet was long-ago outstripped by The Beat in terms of superhero coverage (suck it, Perry...

Something which totally skipped me at NYCC, presumably due to being a thousand miles away from it, was the reveal of some Cliff Chiang's...

"Marvel Now!" sounded vaguely familiar, right?  Not the "let's relaunch everything with a new #1" part -- you've seen that many times before.  But the name,...