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We dive in with Death Sentence creator Monty Nero and talk punk rock, frustrated creativity and taking chances as he prepares for the June release of the second Volume in his wildly successful series.

There are many layers of irony to the mere existence of Fight Club 2.  The original novel, beneath its hyper-masculine exterior, is a critique...

Veteran industry reporter Kim Masters has a MUST READ piece in THR today about the state of superhero movies at WB. It seems that WB/DC's struggle to get parity in the superhero movie arena with the massive runaway TGV success of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not going all that great with a lot of cooks making different dinner plans. No fewer than FIVE scripts have been commissioned for Wonder Woman and three for Aquaman in what sounds like a directionless quest for something that works. An insider says that have a "filmmaker-driven" agenda for making the 10 superhero movies planned for the rest of this decade. But that approach doesn't necessarily lead to the coherent universe that MCU fans seem to like:

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Joe Leisner, the 80 year old former owner of Comic Book Heaven, a comics shop in Sunnyside Queens and the star of the above short film, is a character. An authentic New York character, as they say, and someone who's been running a comics shop for 50 years, long before it became fashionable. So long that having a Shrek poster hanging in his store, or pondering the price of an issue of Moby Duck is the same to him as the latest Convergence title. If you watched the film,, you'll definitely see a comics shop as it once was, and many still are: a little messy and timelost, a kingdom of ragged long boxes, but a friendly place for the regulars.

There are scores of great webcomics to read from indie cartoonists on these internets. There are also tons of great mini comics on sale from cartoonists at CAFs. But what if you can't get to a CAF or want a more curated portal to help you find good stuff? Zco.mx (pronounced zee·com·ics) is a new site that offers a curated list of cartoonists with selected digital offerings, all available to read for free -- but you are also encouraged to make a donation. Comics are downloadable as CBZ files via torrents or DC. I'm not super crazy about that format, but the reader on the site itself works very smoothly, and I don't have any room on my iPad anyway.

Oh man... I've got stuff to report on C2E2, Free Comic Book Day is fast approaching, and, of course, Age of Ultron is hitting...

A common comment often heard around the con floor is "Why doesn't Marvel Studios do more to promote the COMICS with all those movies?"...

New documentary takes audiences into the world of indie development, Batman wants $40 more bucks from you, Star Wars is liquidating their games digitally, and you'll believe a man can skydive on to a plane and then backflip off of it with a shotgun.

According to a report from Variety, San Diego-based Luth Research has been analyzing Netflix's original content and concluded that Marvel's Daredevil was the most popular of the streaming service's original series in recent months, with 10.7% of domestic Netflix subscribers tuning in for at least one episode in the show's first 11 days of airtime.

With the new Avengers movie looming, Comics Beat comes up with new ways for Marvel and Disney to merge at the Happiest Place on Earth.

The end of DC Entertainment's east coast presence also signaled the end of svp of sales Bob Wayne's fabled career at the publisher, as one of the stewards of the entire direct sales market. You couldn't name a person in the history of the industry who's had more influence over what comics are sold and how they are sold. Prodigal circ man James Sokolowski was hired at DC (away from Archie) to run the DM end of things, but I'm sure "Ski" would be the first to admit he can only be the "first Ski" and not the "next Bob." As I've noted many times before, Wayne was particularly beloved of the comics retailing community, and his absence at the recent C2E2 Diamond retailer breakfast would have been a painful reminder of his departure.