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Jason Little's second Bee book is coming soon from Dark Horse. Want!

Continuing this week's Image teaser campaign.

Marvel held a press conference today with Senior Vice-President of Sales & Circulation David Gabriel, and VP-Executive Editors Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort to talk about their newly announced "Point 1" initiative. Starting in February, 11 titles will have special ".1" issues that will serve as jumping on points for new readers. (See the end of the story for the complete list.) These issues will all feature standalone stories that will still lay the groundwork for the next year's plotlines. The initiative is definitely aimed at getting new readers on board, with a $2.99 cover price -– but subsequent issues, which will all ship the same month, will go back to the $3.99 price point.

Via The Source a study of the Great Rian Hughes's various logos for Batman and Robin. All so similar in the strong shape (derived from the 60 year old original) and yet differing in tiny details in the readability of the lettering and even Batman's eyes.

Continuing this week's Image teaser campaign.

This is an experiment that will either get some good comics some good exposure...or melt our bandwidth! Every day it seems we get a...

A couple of developments in the ongoing pamphletpocalypse/sales adjustment. § At long last John Jackson Miller has appeared with comforting words to explain why September's sales figures weren't cause to jump out the window. This may be just our interpretation, but it appears that the plunge isn't so much that all periodical sales are shrinking as top periodical sales are slipping. Miller explains that the tail-end of the long tail is actually HEALTHIER than ever.

Image is rolling out a series of teaser images for...something. And for now we're going to play along. Call it an eye-opening session. This time out we have a Kandinsky-colored she-male. Nice.

By Torsten Adair The following is a selection of new comics titles due to be published in November 2010. This list is not comprehensive, as...

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      CHARLES BURNS: X’ED OUT Slide Talk, Print Exhibition and Book Signing Saturday, October 30, 6:00 to 9:00 PM   Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery 1201 S. Vale Street, Seattle, WA...

Via DC's the Source, a preview of the new SUPERBOY #1, which goes on sale next Wednesday. The story is by Jeff Lemire and art by Pier Gallo, with cover by Rafael Albuquerque. Avoiding any issues with the still pending Superboy lawsuit, this is NOT young Clark Kent but a new clone named Connor Kent.