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The Black Bat was one of the early character pulps from the 1930s, along with The Shadow and The Spider.  Like those last 2 pulps, The...

There's been controvery over the past few days following DC's decision to hire Orson Scott Card, a pioneer in contemporary homophobia, as one of...

The January sales estimates are up at The Comics Chronicles.  It's a big January and is looking like a win for Marvel, more so with their...

Continuing the tradition of Phantom Variant covers from the semi-secret Phantom Variant retailer group—as opposed to the totally secret and nonexistent Ghost Variant retailer group—Joe Harris's GREAT PACIFIC #4 will have a Phantom Variant cover by regular artist Martin Morazzo, which is also an homage to the classic Y

The big news, as promoted by DC, was that Geoff Johns was capping off his 9 year run on Green Lantern.  That's not the entirety of the...

Introducing the best crime-fighting comic on the shelves right now: The Spider. No, not that Spider, but this one from Dynamite Entertainment that you quite possibly...

After ten years working on the character, and reigniting one of DC's struggling titles into one of their most popular franchises, Geoff Johns has...

Indie and Disney master Don Rosa has posted online the final chapter of a bio intended for a collected edition of his works. after it was rejected by Disney. Rosa explains his decision to retire from drawing comics last year as the result of both the psychological effects years of working, his failing eyesight, and some ongoing difficulties with how Disney deals with it's comics licenses. It's an entertaining read -- especially for ow his early years intersected with those of his hero, Disney artist supreme Carl Barks, but it's also not hard to see why Disney may not have been thrilled to publish it.

A couple of changes at Dark Horse as Jim Gibbons has been promoted to assistant editor. Gibbons, one of about 12 trillion former Wizard...

The “titles” of Batman Begins showed the symbol of a bat formed in a swarm of bats, the titles of The Dark Knightshowed it in fire, now The Dark Knight Rises shows it in ice. The bats in Begins were a symbol of fear, the titles a metaphor for an identity forming out of shadows. The fire of The Dark Knight was like a wall of fire for that bat, that symbol, pushing through the chaos inflicted by the Joker. Now, the bat is, literally, the cracks in the ice formed by the isolation of Gotham City at the hands of Bane.

For those savvy enough to have read Paul Pope’s (BATMAN: YEAR 100, HEAVY LIQUID, BATTLING BOY in 2013) ONE TRICK RIP-OFF when it first...

The second month of Marvel Now titles arguably makes for more interesting sales data than the first. We're starting to get a sense of where some of the books that had huge launch numbers in November are actually going to settle down. And we're also seeing how the second-tier Marvel Now books are going to fare, with this month seeing the launches of CABLE & X-FORCE, THUNDERBOLTS and AVENGERS ARENA, as well as the relaunch of AVENGERS itself.