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What Are Marvel’s Sales Expectations For Marvel NOW! ?

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By Todd Allen Now naturally, Marvel's real sales expectations for their Marvel NOW! relaunch are "as many copies as we can sell."  That said, Marvel...

Looking at Cute Animals helps you do things!

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An actual scientific study in Japan has shown that kawaii ("Cute") is good for you brain! just looking at cute animals helps you focus,...

A Growing Sense of Concern Over Variant Covers

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By Todd Allen As you're probably aware, one of the marketing tactics Marvel is using to secure initial orders for their Marvel NOW! (Are you...

Friday Afternoon Kitten Blogging

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Oh you knew it was going to happen. Gotta rebuild traffic somehow. Lucy and Charlie contemplate life in the bathtub. Not named after Peanuts,...

Announcement: 31 days of Halloween is beginning next week!

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It's the spooky, chilling time of year, when pumpkin muffins are consumed and woolen scarves are brought from the closet. As in years past...

Studio Coffee Run 9/28/12: Looper, The Walking Dead, Thor: The Dark World, etc.

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Looper is already killing it with the critics, Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore reach an undisclosed settlement concerning Moore's involvement with The Walking Dead,...

As Editor Brian Smith leaves DC, we learn you can’t spell schadenfreude without “Liefeld”

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Former Marvel and now DC editor Brian Smith tweeted the other day that he was moving on to go back to his freelance work. Which is a fairly normal occurrence. Except when not long ago, the one and only Rob Liefeld was tweeting that you were a horrible editor and had small appendages. And so Smith's departure was the occasion for another Liefeld broadside:

Gillen and McKelvie Roundup

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By Steve Morris Artist Jamie McKelvie and writer Kieron Gillen have taken the spotlight today, with several pieces of news - both good and bad...

Introducing The New Beat—and a request

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A few people miss the all-in-one page layout—I think it's possible to create a page that presents it all in this fashion and in the next round of tinkers I'll look into that. ... Of course we'll be presenting as much top notch content, breaking news, thought provoking analysis and pictures of lovable kittens to earn these social media thumbs ups, but all of it will definitely help the site recover from the dark old days.

Legendary Spotlight: Matt Wagner on developing THE TOWER CHRONICLES

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[Multiple Eisner Award winning cartoonist  Matt Wagner has long been known for his sure hand with adventure comics; the breadth of imagination for his signature creations Mage and Grendel and his distinctive re-imaginings of Batman in various titles over the years. Now he's imagining for the first time John Tower, a new character created by Legendary Pictures studio head Thomas Tull and debuting this week as part of the new Legendary Comics line. THE TOWER CHRONICLES: GEISTHAWK #1 is being published in the "prestige" format—a squarebound 64 page comics—well-known to 90s comics readers but not much used today. But it seems appropriate for the story that Wagner is telling, along with artist Simon Bisley inker Rodney Ramos and colorist Ryan Brown. In the following interview Wagner walks us through the process of developing John Tower and talks about his entire approach to making comics. We previously talked to Legendary's COO Tim Connors here. ]

The Beat HAS moved!

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Yay we made it to the other side. And we have KITTENS.

The Beat is moving

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Yes, at long last the great migration is under way. We'll resume posting when the coast is clear. In the meantime DO NOT POST...

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