Marvel news and notes
Yesterday, we mentioned Marvel's alll-new webcomics. Now, Todd Allen suggests that Marvel's current hiring pattern reveals this initiative is going to get a...
Diamond Retailer Summit news roundup
by Torsten Adair
• Diamond's new warehouse:
At Monday's breakfast, Cindy Fournier, Diamond Vice President of Operations, presented the new distribution warehouse moving from Memphis,...
Land o’ the links
§ An Entrepreneur.com story on webcomics includes the fact that Chris Onstad makes $250K a year from ACHEWOOD-related activities:
Webcomics cultivate an underground rapport with...
ALL-STAR BATMAN #10 recall
Well, it looks like the slow news day may be ending, as DC is requesting that this week's shipment of ALL STAR BATMAN AND...
Internet users remix CHROME
4chan hackers have been busily remixing Scott McCloud's comic about Google's new Chrome browser, with amusing results.
Related: Chrome has had a bumpy rollout...
BUY: PictureBox sale
Starting today!
Beginning Monday, September 1 at noon PictureBox is having a one-week only massive Back-to-the-old-new-School Sale!Everything on the site is discounted from 30% to...
Requiem for a Virgin
Looking at my calendar for today, there was a single item, planned about a month ago:
12:00 -- Lunch with Virgin Comics
The meeting had already...
Virgin: That’s all she wrote
Somewhere, Nicolas Cage is crying. Calvin Reid at PW gets the tale of the tape:
Although calls to Virgin Comics CEO and cofounder Sharad Devarajan...
Virgin Comics: changes ahead
Rumors about Virgin Comics are flying fast and furious this weekend. Sources are telling me that the comics publishing is getting drastically reduced or...
DCU more important than ever to the studio
Given THE DARK KNIGHT's history-making box office performance, it's unthinkable for DC's superheroes to remain the wallflowers of the Warner universe. Not one but...
8/18: People are talking about…
§ Brian Hibbs talks about ordering in the era of POS, FOC and TPs. It isn't all anagrams.
It also isn't as true for...
Kirkman: do your own thing
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Robert Kirkman took to the bytewaves at CBR yesterday to deliver a video editorial explaining that he left Marvel Comics to save comics. The...












