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It's true! As Instagrammed by Portland resident and Boilerplate co-author Anina Bennett, Dark Horse's founder and owner Mike Richardson is part of an ad campaign for New Relic, a software development company that counts Dark Horse as a client. Smart choice, as it allow great use of the Hellboy imagery as well.

Strange small towns commanded by dogmatic despots have long been a staple of post-apocalyptic fare like The Walking Dead. So when Postal # 1 opens on a church sermon delivered by a preacher waving a gun at a man who is bound at the foot of the altar, it seems a familiar scenario. Perhaps this is what the comic wants us to think, lulling us into a false sense of narrative security to contrast with it's intriguing final pages.

How does the new Matthew Vaughn-directed Mark Millar adaptation fare?

This is a major bummer. Thank You Comics, the spinoff of Silverlake's very successful Secret Headquarters, is closing at the end of the month according to their home page.

If the Marvel Universe, as we know it, ends in this Summer's Secret Wars then it's not pulling any punches on the way out....

A studio chair steps down, two properties to be revived for the big screen, and more

Well, this is interesting. Although Dark Horse sells its periodical comics exclusively through its own app, and has never been available on Comixology, they've just signed a deal with Sequential, the stand alone graphic novel app—making it the first the first third-party digital comics app to distribute Dark Horse. UPDATE: Todd Allen has reminded me that Dark Horse GNs were available for a while on Comixology a few years ago but aren't any more.

[David Carter is the author of our monthly DC sales charts but he also hosts his own site, Yet Another Comics Blog, where he catalogs Amazon's graphic novel sales each week. Although these are a rolling average, They do provide some clues to what were the best selling books of the year. Take it away, David!]

Comicbook.com has become the go to place for Marvel print runs, with reports that Princess Leia #1 has 200,000 pre-orders and so does Spider-Gwen,...

Have I ever told you I love http://afuchan.tumblr.com/? Maybe I have but let's say it again: I love Afu Chan! His art has the popular post-Moebius line mixed with action packed layouts and weirdly angled figures that are just irresistible and his character designs are gorgeous. It's surprising he hasn't gotten a lot more attention, but his output has been rather limited. I loved his work on Spera and his illustrations, and now he's back with HaloGen, written by Spera's Josh Tierney ; Giannis Milonogiannis (Prophet, Old City Blues) is a co-creator of the series and contributes covers.

People are nuts. Really. But some are pretty awesome, too, and you will read about both kinds in this episode we like to call...KIBBLES 'n' BITS...

Given the rash of criminal activity celebrities get away with dominating headlines today, Cluster feels like a timely commentary on current events. Ed Brisson’s story follows the semi-celebrity daughter of a politician, Samara Simmons.