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If this cover to FOUR COLOR No. 423, September 1952 were published today it would totally be hipsteriffic.

Last week ‘s Walking Dead left off with everyman hero, Rick Grimes, down one seriously gored horse and trapped inside a tank with throngs of the undead crawling all over it.  Will he make it out alive!? Yeah, sure, of course.  But not without trial, error, carnage and a morally compromised ol’ lady.   This week’s episode, Guts, started off driving home Rick’s cruel fate even further by opening up with his former cop buddy, Shane, licking the now wedding ring eschewing Mrs. Grimes all over. 

This video of Stan Lee being confronted with the original art for FANTASTIC FOUR #12 for the first time in 47 years or so (or if he did, he probably forgot) is undeniably touching. But it also contains secret clues to the biggest treasure trove of all, Robert Langdon!!!!

We totally forgot about this photo from 2008 NYCC. It was taken by Vaneta Rogers but the original is gone. So useful!

It wasn't all fun and games at MCM last weekend. The folks at DDR:UK had some supposed journalists steal from their booth Sunday morning....

This weekend, the second New England Webcomics Weekend is happening in Easthampton, MA. Guests are a veritable who's who of the webcomics world, including...

This weekend marks the start of the Comica London International Comics Festival. Over the next month there will be many events including talks by...

Continuing this week's Image teaser campaign.

Colleen Doran explains the secret history of Fallen Angels and other subjects of passing interest.

Several readers were offended by this post, in which I snarked a bit on my old friend Kyle Baker for letting his name domain lapse. Although I know Kyle well enough to know he wouldn't have been bothered, I took down the post and contacted Kyle on Facebook (since his kyle@kylebaker.com email no longer worked) and we had a brief correspondence. And then he posted Whatever Happened To Kylebaker.com? which is a total history of the portfolio website and the internet in one. Basically he felt the website was out of date and supplanted by social media, and newer ventures were more business targeted:

Or, how some of us will be feeling tomorrow morning after the election. Thus ends our Halloween celebration. Until next year, my lovelies.

As you may recall, four=day and single day passes for the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con went on sale today, and while the Comic-Con site was a bit sluggish immediately after the 9 am PDT on sale time, now you can get through and so far...plenty of tickets!