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Marvel's at it with a new teaser campaign for something or someone named Mosaic. The teasers involve jigsaw puzzle pieces. The first one reference Alias, the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos that introduced Jessica Jones to the world. The new piece seems to be about Spider-Man, and the name Mosaic would suggest a mash-up of some kind. Something never before seen in comcis, then.

I’m sitting here in my office in Chicago, thinking as to what I’m going to write about comics. I’ve been publishing comic books for over six months now, as the co-publisher at Z2 Comics. In that time I’ve met incredible artists, discussed stories and characters, gone through sleepless nights peppered with nightmares of cash flow, and had these brief, fleeting moments of joy as I held a new issue of a book we just made in my hands. I’m wondering how to describe that feeling, as it would be the core of this piece, and for some reason I’m having a hard time putting it together in my mind. And then Prince died.

Here's an interesting one-- Marvel publishing's Guardians of Infinity #8, a comic book that was supposed to be written by Dan Abnett (Aquaman) and...

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My familiarity with Black Mask is embarrassingly slim, beyond finding myself in love with the covers of books like We Can Never Go Home...

Wargaming, the award-winning online game developer and publisher of the globally successful World of Tanks combat series, today announced a partnership with comic book...