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Say what you will about Dan DiDio: in his time as DC's first executive editor then co-publisher, he's remade a lot of what made the company tick, starting with Identity Crisis, the controversial but best selling mini series that kicked off what we at Stately beat Manor call The Crisis Era. (Infinite Crisis and the misleadingly named Final Crisis would follow). As DC's spring move to the west coast closes the cover on more than 75 years of comics history, DiDio is revisiting his own 13 years at DC on his FB page, as so many do as the new year starts and the cold wind howls outside...so step inside with us for some cocoa and Dan DiDio's fireside chat:

Valiant has their own plans to build on their popular Valiant Next initiative

In an announcement on the Emerald City Comicon site, it's been announced that the show is joining the ReedPOP family of conventions. As announced, this is not s straight out acquisition, as the ECCC team will continue running the Seattle-based show, and also work on existing Reed shows, presumably including C2E2, New York Comic-Con, PAX and so on.

IDW Entertainment, the production arm of the company, has signed with the WME talent agency for representation. WME will represent all film and television projects for IDW, which was formerly repped by Circle of Confusion. THR has a bit more on the deal:

The long awaited second collection of Kate Beaton's madly popular Hark! A Vagrant comic is finally on its way, and it's called Step Aside, Pops, a phrase we'll all be saying a lot come September. Tom Devlin acquired the book for Drawn & Quarterly. “Kate’s wit is sharper than ever in Step Aside, Pops,” said Devlin in a statement. “She’s found the perfect way to explore her love of history, while effortlessly deflating the pompous, self-righteous figures of authority we were taught to respect in school. Her restlessness has made her drawings even funnier."

This preview of the new Richard Corben book from Dark Horse came in my email yesterday to promote the FOC of the book—the last day that retailers can adjust orders. So I missed posting it when it would do any good (I was in meetings and on deadline yesterday). But perhaps consumers will be interested as well! Corben is a powerhouse of the first wave of self-publishing and "ground level" publishing in the 80s, and he's still rocking out with the art.

Boom!'s creator-driven Boom ox line is expanding next month with Help Us! Great Warrior from Madeline Flores. It's based on her webcomic and follows a Great...

§ After watching the new Avengers trailers several dozen times, going frame by frame, I think I can reveal a shocking twist:

"I'm going to tear you apart from the inside." Is it possible that Ultron is the first truly worthwhile "dyed in the wool" bad guy...

  Today at the Television Critics Association meeting, a nice surprise greeted those in attendance during Showtime's presentation. Kyle MacLachlan, the star of Twin Peaks...

Yep it's another high concept zombie crossover as RETURN OF THE LIVING DEADPOOl takes dead Deadpool and brings him back! Prepare for pools full of...

By: Alexander Jones Modern mythmakers Valiant Comics are implementing something new with a prologue for their upcoming Imperium comic with Imperium: Prelude. February 4th see’s select...