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The passing of Leonard Nimoy last week was, as Lance Parkin notes, “a significant event.” Trekkers Everyone mourned this actor, and this character, by...

Just when you think the news is going to slow down for the weekend, we've got one more item of interest. Warner Bros. has just...

You may be seeing the last of Fish Mooney

This one is pretty special, a joint Society of Illustrators/SPX exhibit focusing on Alt-Weekly Comics. The show is jointly curated by Bill Kartalopoulos and Warren Bernard so its pretty much guaranteed to be museum quality. Bill K has been posting tantalizing sneaks at the events FB page, and this is pretty certain to be a generation-defining reunion of the 90s Max Fish crowd at the very least.

A little while ago I wrote about a bunch of comic-connish events getting postponed or cancelled and now The El Paso Comic Con has bitten the dust.

We get most of our mainstream comics news at The Outhouse, which despite being a little rough with the personal jokes, still has a jaundiced view of comis publishing that's closer to the truth than many would suspect. However in a recent spate of comics news site turnovers, The Ourhouse is losing it's editor in chief, Christian Hoffer, who's moving on. Although he cites the usual—life changes, less time—it's clear that the snarky tone of the Outhouse also took its toll:

Superman has evolved! He has a new power—a powerful solar flare which leaves him -100 energy for a day—and using that power has just...

§ Prolific animator and writer Gordon Kent, who worked on everything from Fangface to Bob's Burgers, has passed after a battle with cancer. Kent...

Fabian Rangel Jr. and Ryan Cody debuted Doc Unknown # 1  two years ago, and the project was financed entirely by Fabian out of pocket. They launched...

There's no question but that in American culture the predominant view is one that is rich, white, male, straight and Christian. And while "The male gaze" is pretty well known, we're getting to learn about the "white gaze" as well. Have you ever wondered what it looks like? Now we know. Except it’s from peace loving New Zealand AND America.

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Hawkeyes are back before the last volume ended and we're fine with that.