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The LA Times Book Prizes are among the most distinguished to have their own comics category, and the nominees are always worth a close...

Boy oh boy. These con wars are getting more and more complicated. Denver Comic Con is in its fourth year and last year experienced exponential...

A new mini series by Jason Aaron and Mike Deodato will be the "ultimate NSA leak" of Marvel, says Tom Brevoort. The body of the Watcher is found on the moon with his eye missing. I'm pretty much sold right there, but more information is being given out RIGHT NOW at a Marvel press conference.

David Brothers is one of the most accomplished writers-about-comics around, a blogger who recently moved into the industry himself as a member of the...

“Culture seeks narrators and fiction is a narrative prerogative.” This quote is supplemented above a two image spread, each featuring brushstrokes of a blackened sea...

It may not be Con Wars, but it is con crunch. With the exploding popularity of comics/pop culture shows around the world, more and more events, some of them highly localized, are springing up. And as cons get more popular, suitable dates are becoming harder and harder to find. New York is currently home to three major events—the indie focused MoCCA Festival in April, the sprawling New York Comic Con in October, and the art comics focused Comic Arts Brooklyn in November. And now a summer show is coming: ReedPOP, the organization behind NYCC, is launching Special Edition NYC June 14-15 at the Javits Center. The show will be purely comics focused, without the video game/movie distractions of NYCC, and held in the popular shed-like “North Hall” where artists alley was held the last two years of NYCC. Ironically, this weekend – Father’s Day — is already hosting two other shows in the New York metro area.

I admit I watched this trailer twice in a row, even though the best parts were in the footage floating around. Finally, a character...

Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: December 2013http://ift.tt/1gBlXhi Tweet By Paul O’Brien And so the end of an era is upon us. No, I do not speak...

Alex Segura Rejoins Archie Comics – as Publicist and as Editorhttp://ift.tt/1hspoKc Tweet Archie have announced that Alex Segura has rejoined their company as Senior Vice-President...

Or at least that's what a a wraparound ad on this week's Publishers Weekly states. (The ad in itself is a bold, pricey buy.) The...

By Paul O'Brien

[Editor's Note: As noted this is Paul's last column for now. He's been an incredible collaborator and commentator, and I think we all owe him a big round of applause! And yes I know these are late -- we'll have the new guys in place VERY shortly! Thanks again, Paul.] And so the end of an era is upon us. No, I do not speak of the latest cancellation of DEFENDERS, nor even of the final OZ miniseries. As Heidi explained a little while back, this will be my final sales column, after over a decade of writing these things. Good luck to whoever takes over for this; I'll be reading with interest, and with a sense of relief that I didn't have to do the number crunching. So. One last time! December sees a barrage of Inhumanity tie-ins, all building to the launch of the new series that's since been delayed. We also have the start of ORIGIN II, and the first of the Marvel Now Wave 2 titles. As per usual, Marvel had the largest share of the North American direct market, leading DC by 37% to 31% in unit terms, and 35% to 28% in dollars. Thanks as always to ICV2.com for permission to use these figures.

1.  ORIGIN II
12/13  Origin II #1 of 5 - 131,724

Books set in the past and with no direct impact on present day continuity generally seem to be a tough sell. But ORIGIN II is the top seller of the month, presumably because Marvel have successfully portrayed it as an event - in the sense of a book fans will be talking about.

Toy Fair 2014 Part 1: Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, My Little Pony in a mustache and Play-Doh heat up Hasbrohttp://ift.tt/1bIcYM4 Tweet Yep, Toy Fair...