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The Rocketeer teams up with Amelia Earhart in new comic series this February

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Launches this February from the creative team of writer John Layman and artist Jacob Edgar

Inside the upcoming Heavy Metal Library Kickstarter campaign

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Heavy Metal has announced a Kickstarter for four of its best loved properties, but just what is inside them? HM expert RM Rhodes gives some background.

Phillips and Garbett relaunching DAREDEVIL

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Stephanie Phillips and Lee Garbett's relaunch will be accompanied by blind bag variants when it begins this March.
Predator Bloodshed #1 featured

PREDATOR steps into the ring in Marvel’s BLOODSHED

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The series, by Jordan Morris and Roland Boschi, will see a Predator attack an underground fighting tournament.

Exclusive Preview: See Kindt & Moustafa’s take on John le Carré’s world in THE...

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Get a sneak peek at John le Carré: The Circus—Losing Control #1 (of 3) before it goes on sale on November 19.
Barbaric: The Long Death

Exclusive Preview: Vault shares a sneak peek at BARBARIC: THE LONG DEATH #1

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Vault shares a sneak peek of BARBARIC: THE LONG DEATH #1, the popular series by Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden.
Spider-Man and Wolverine #7 I was always going to be at least a little interested in a book featuring two of my (and the world’s) favorite Marvel characters. Their odd couple rapport is simply too good and I feel strongly a book featuring these two should always be available. Give me Kaare Andrews drawing, with Spidey and Wolverine going on huge, zany adventures with enormous action set pieces? It’s all I need. The first five issue story left me cold from a narrative standpoint with its focus on Peter’s secret agent parents, but after a one off with a full-in artist, this second story from writer Marc Guggenheim and Andrews is pure, over the top fun featuring a villain from an alternate earth that is a twisted amalgamation of our heroes. Kaare Andrews goes wild on the layouts in this issue, with massive double page spreads and contorted figures. The final page reveal is pure cool. The inventiveness of the visuals, and Andrews’ strange mix of McFarlane and Romita suits the contortionist Spidey and animalistic Wolverine. Sometimes you want your superhero books to say something about the human condition. And sometimes you really just want to see an artist pushing himself to the limit with your two favorite guys as the subject. This is easily the best script we’ve gotten from Guggenheim on the series so far, though. Moving away from the tortured motivation of the first arc’s mystery villain and the baggage of Peter and Mary Parker is a big help. Brian Reber’s retro approach to colors, mostly flat with simple shading and highlights, helps Andrews’ bold figure work stand out on the page. The switch in dimension also includes a subtle color shift to a more washed out, grimier palette that helps define the tone of this darker world. VC’s Travis Lanham’s lettering is clean and readable, tracking comfortably even among the wilder layouts and heavy caption use. You could easily skip the first arc of this series and jump in here and have a great time, but it’s worth seeking out past chapters too, if only for the great Kaare Andrews work. - TR

The Marvel Rundown: ULTIMATE BLACK PANTHER #22 sees the long game play out

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Welcome once again to another edition of The Marvel Rundown. This week as the year starts coming to a wind down, we have a...
DC Marvel crossover

DC and Marvel unveil digital exclusive crossover comics

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Flash/Fantastic Four and Thor/Shazam collide!
Geoff Darrow

Interview: GEOF DARROW breaks down the origins of SHAOLIN COWBOY

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Geof Darrow almost needs no introduction. He is the legendary comics creator and illustrator behind Hard Boiled, The Matrix, and Shaolin Cowboy. His body of...

Hires at IDW, Scholastic, Coliseum of Comics and Pokémon

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IDW has hired three, and promoted two, Scholastic has a manga editor and new gigs for two industry veterans

Jimmy Olsen-Led DC CRIME series planned for HBO Max

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Skyler Gisondo, who played the role of Jimmy Olsen in James Gunn's Superman, is set to reprise the role in a new, format-bending series from the creators of American Vandal. Titled DC Crime, Variety reports that HBO Max is developing a (fake) true crime docuseries set in the DC Universe.
V (Hugo Weaving) in V For Vendetta

V FOR VENDETTA getting the WATCHMEN treatment with HBO series

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V for Vendetta, the celebrated comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, is heading back to the screen. HBO has tapped Pete Jackson for a TV adaptation.

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