The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: Charlie Hebdo and Satire
Brought to you by Publishers Weekly, it's More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons...
Farrago teams with IDW for free comics
In the post Amazology world. many digital comics apps and companies have sprung up trying to stake their claim in this growing world. Farrago Comics is an app for iPad and android that offers a range of free comics. As suggested by their motto "Comic Book Freedom!" the idea is to provide a manageable app for sampling and reading—which isn't a bad one given today's crazy quilt of digital platforms. Revenue is provided by ads, as it is with many apps. Up until now they were offering mostly Golden Age and indie comics, but they've just sign up with IDW to offer some fan fave #1 from the likes of Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith, Jonathan Maberry, Chris Roberson, Ashley Wood, etc.
Sales Charts: Marvel and DC split top shares in December 2014 sales
Yawn. Batman and Saga led the comics and graphic nvoels charts for Decembers 2014, as they so often do, according to just released stats...
Advance Review – Project Superpowers: Blackcross #1, Wherein Warren Ellis Takes the Franchise in...
Project Superpowers: Blackcross #1
Writer: Warren Ellis
Artist: Colton Worley
Colorist: Morgan Hickman
Project Superpowers had a few different titles published by Dynamite around 2008-10. The line is...
Loot Crate Star Wars #1 confirmed with Gabriele Dell’Otto cover
With sales of more than a million copies and the number of confirmed variant covers at 89, Marvel's first Star Wars #1 in nearly 40...
Review: X “I’m Coming Over… Mostly To Kill”
There’s X-Men, Xzibit, the band X (if you get the reference I'll buy you a soft pretzel if you're onsite at SDCC), and there’s Dark Horse Comics vigilante simply known as X. Since the characters reboot under writer Duane Swierczynski and artist Eric Nguyen the series continues to be a rollercoaster of highs and lows.
Image Does Humble Bundle Once Again
By Bruce Lidl
Lost somewhat in the initial burst of news from last week’s ImageExpo was the announcement of a new Image Humble Bundle offering,...
Review: Fables: The Wolf Among Us stars a well-realized wolf in Sheriff’s clothing
It seems fitting that Fables: The Wolf Among Us is Vertigo's "first ever digital-first series" according to the publisher's website. If you can parse that distinction, meaning Vertigo has never before released a comic series in digital format prior to it's print debut, it makes a strange sort of sense that they chose this particular series to hold the title of first-ever first digital. Fables: The Wolf Among Us #1 is a comic series based on the popular Telltale video game series of the same name, which was itself based on the 14-time Eisner award winning series from creator Bill Willingham.
Tom Hardy drops out of Suicide Squad, Jake Gyllenhaal a possible replacement
David Ayer's Suicide Squad is now a man down (I wonder how many puns like this are being formulated across the blogosphere). Tom Hardy,...
And now you can subscribe to Image Comics
Remember people talking about how Image Comics will once again be the #1 comics publisher? Well, they just announced that you can now subscribe...
St. Louis’s Star Clipper Comics to close
This is really sad. In a letter to customers, Ben and A.J. Trujillo, the owners of Star Clipepr COMis in Stalous, have announced the store is closing, with a liquidation sale beginning on Saturday. Opened in 1988, and going through three ownership changes, Star Clipper was always in front of retailing trends, and the Trujillos had definitely built up a great relationship with their community—as evidenced by the outpouring of support on their FB page—carrying a wide selection of comics for adults and kids, with a strong emphasis on female customers. Recent signings include Neal Adams, Cullen Bunn, Chris Samnee, Michael DeForge, Kate Leth, Tim Lane, Jeff Weigel, so you can see how eclectic their domain was.
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Once again, it’s time for the “nerd categories” of the Oscar nominations
There's quite a bit of discussion today regarding today's Oscar nominations (I remain very sad for Ava DuVernay's snub in the Best Director category),...

















