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MorrisonCon revelations: Wenlock and Mandeville are Archons

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Apparently Jon Sung, aka Flickr's Ferocious J, had uncovered that the London Olympics mascots were actually the villains from Grant Morrison's Invisibles several years ago, but it took until MorrisonCon for the world to...

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 has issued some ordering guidelines in the form of minimums...

Comics News: Raven to lead Teen Titan spin-off and some comics fans are gross

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What really goes on at a local comics show without company minders to make sure things run smoothly? Josh Bell's deadpan accounting of the Las Vegas Comic Expo's New 52 panel has a few...

INTERVIEW: Matt Smith On Ten Years With 2000AD

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Since 2002, Matt Smith has been the editor for 2000AD, the mostly-crazed British sci-fi anthology magazine which first appeared on shelves over 35 years ago. Since coming in as editor, he’s watched writers and...

MORRISON CON War Journal: Day 1

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It's day one of Morrison Con and I'm already having a blast. While I was in line to register I started chatting with my fellow con-rads, some of which are traveling from France,...

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, but we realized it after the fact.

Webcomic Alert: The Expositor by Van Sciver and Remnant

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Okay. This is exciting. A new webcomic site called The Expositor presents the new work of Noah Van Sciver and Joseph Remnant. These two young cartoonists who had breakout years, van Sciver with THE...

Beat Man of the Year, Non-Comics Division: R.A. Dickey

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Is there a more feel good story anywhere this year than the R.A. Dickey saga? Once cast on the scrapheap of pitching due to lacking a crucial ligament in his elbow, Dickey went through purgatory and emerged with the determination to claw his way back, and gripping the baseball with his knuckles. The Mets pitcher won his 20th game yesterday, the first Met to do so since 1990, and along the way he's having one of the greatest seasons ever by a pitcher who specializes in throwing knuckleballs.

Mark Millar is Now a Movie Consultant For Fox (On the Marvel Licenses)

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By Todd Allen Mark Millar continues his migration to the world of film.  Millar is now a "creative consultant" to 20th Century Fox.  As you may recall, Fox still has the rights the X-Men, Fantastic...

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 - coming from their camp. The good news is that...

Amethyst’s long heritage of attempted rape

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So Amethyst is finally back! I admit this fantasy saga of a 13-year-old girl who finds she actually a princess of Gemworld was one of my favorite comics of the time, aided by the...

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