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This week sees the return of Strange, the Punisher, Doc Savage and Casper
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This week brings a whole slew of first issues and new graphic novels to comic shops on Wednesday. Marvel alone has six new series kicking off this week: PunisherMAX , Dark X-Men , S.W.O.R.D. , Strange , Sky Doll: Doll Factory and Realm of Kings: Imperial Guard . DC, meanwhile, launches a whole new world with ...4 hours ago -
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
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Google Legal | Google and a group of authors and publishers have until Friday to revise a proposed settlement over the Internet giants plans to make millions of out-of-print books available online. They originally were given a deadline of Nov. 9. DC Comics is among the parties that objected to the terms of the ...11 hours ago -
Make-a-Fan Monday: Niki Smith
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Ok, so I probably should have mentioned that I was going to be in Florida and wouldn’t be posting Wednesday or Friday. (oops!) No matter. This week I’m making you a fan of…Niki Smith! So Niki is actually one of my good writing buddies whom I have just loved getting to know. She is represented by ...23 hours ago -
Library workers battle with Black Dossier began a year ago
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Black Dossier -- The Absolute Edition More than a month after two Kentucky public-library employees were fired after refusing to allow a child to check out The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier , details surrounding their dismissal finally are emerging. In a lengthy article in the Lexington ...1 day ago -
Fourcast! 24: Nightcrawler vs Batgirl
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Reader ACK let me know that Cassandra Cain turns ten this year, and I realized that she’s a character I enjoy, and she’s a Batgirl, so I know Esther likes her, too. Luckily, we have a podcast where we can talk about her for hours . Luckily for you I edited that down to about 48 minutes. -Pedro Tejeda, a true ...1 day ago -
The Eternal Smile by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim
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The Eternal Smile is a collection of three short stories by the authors of American Born Chinese and of Same Difference and Other Stories . "Duncans Kingdom" is, at first glance, a traditional high fantasy tale about a young man who has to kill the Frog King and bring back his head to win the princess hand. But ...1 day ago -
Mouse Guard Volume 2: Winter 1152 (Mouse Guard Graphic Novels)
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Mouse Guard Volume 2: Winter 1152 (Mouse Guard Graphic Novels) by David Petersen continues the story of the Mouse Guard and the mouse civilization they are sworn to protect. We follow Kenzie, Saxon, Lieam, Sadie and Celanawe as they follow paths to help the Mouse Guard stronghold survive the winter. The stories of ...1 day ago -
Update: It Came From Beneath the Sea … Again
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Kaiju artist Todd Tennant reports on his four-issue contribution to the Bluewater Productions series It Came From Beneath the Sea … Again , which is an extension of Ray Harryhausen’s classic five-tentacled giant octopus movie of nearly the same name: Well, the good news and there’s bad news… The BAD ...1 day ago -
Roman Dirge’s Lenore: Noogies
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L enore: Noogies (2009) is written, drawn and colored by Roman Dirge. It is a hardcover graphic novel (also available in paperback), published by Titan, retails for $17.95 list price and has 128 pgs. According to the author’s greeting page, the hardcover collects the first four “original” issues of ...1 day ago -
What Are You Reading?
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Cat Burglar Black Welcome to another edition of What Are You Reading. Our guest this week is scholar and critic par excellance Craig Fischer, whose musings on comics can be regularly read on Thought Balloonists , the blog he shares with Charles Hatfield. To see what Craig and everyone else is currently reading, ...2 days ago -
WB Rolls Out a Strong Kids’ DVD Slate in Time for Holidays
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Warner Brothers’ WB Kids imprint is doing what Disney doesn’t: this holiday season, they’re adding to their extensive animation/home video catalog and taking some great old material out of the vault instead of putting it in. For example, Tom and Jerry Greatest Chases Volume 3 hit the shelves on October 13. ...2 days ago -
Dark Horse’s Casper the Friendly Ghost 60th Anniversary Special a Must-Buy for Golden Age Fans
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One of the charms of a collection of old comics (like Dark Horse’s upcoming Casper the Friendly Ghost 60 th Anniversary Special hardcover, available on November 18 ) is the establishing stories. These days, it’s just kind of assumed that you know who most mainstream characters are. Even characters like ...3 days ago -
Are Formulas Important For Some Reason?
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You may have noticed that Im on a little graphic novel kick this fall. Thats why I picked up Amulet Book One: The Stonekeeper by Kazu Kibuishi . What really struck me about this book is how incredibly formulaic it is. The word "rigidly" might apply. In a prelude, a child sees her parent killed. At the real story ...3 days ago -
Dark Entries: Roman Dirge’s ‘Lenore’
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The Cute Little Dead Girl, otherwise known as Lenore , is the pet project of artist (and Skinny Puppy fan, droool!) Roman Dirge . Though Lenore started as a comic for Xenophobe Magazine, she was also animated for 25 spooky filled episodes on Sony’s ScreenBlast. You can catch up with the episodes here ...3 days ago -
The Beats
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A Graphic History A wonderful black-and-white history that exposes failings, yet still manages to communicate the energy and excitement of the movement. Biographies of Kerouac, Ginzburg, and Burroughs take up the first half, drawn by Ed Piskor and written by Harvey Pekar (of American Splendor fame). Piskors ...3 days ago -
The Great Fables Crossover
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Okay, I saw this and couldn’t wait until Monday to get in to the office and blog about it. The Great Fables Crossover has been collected in one volume and we’re now taking pre-orders for Fables TPB Vol. 13 ! If you’ve been reading Fables , you know what’s up, but for those of you who are uninitiated, ...3 days ago -
Mezzo and Pirus’ King of the Flies
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Set in a suburb that is both nowhere and everywhere, King of the Flies is a glorious bastard, combining the intricacy and subtlety of the best European graphic novels with a hyperdetailed, controlled noir style derived from the finest American cartoonists. Mezzo and Pirus, previously best known in Europe for a ...4 days ago -
Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
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Green Lantern Corps #41 Publishing | Buoyed by its Blackest Night miniseries and tie-in books, DC Comics claimed the first six slots on Diamond Comic Distributors Top 300 list of books sold to the direct market in October. Its a rare occurrence, to be sure, but just how rare? Charts-watcher John Jackson ...4 days ago -
Forgotten Books: The Lone Ranger: Now and Forever
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(This is my latest entry for Patti Abbotts Forgotten Books Project.) Reboots can be a tricky thing. When you get it right (Batman Begins, Casino Royale, Star Trek), it’s fantastic. When you get it wrong (Terminator 3; Terminator: Salvation, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull [not a true reboot but ...4 days ago -
Check out More Preview Pages from Igor Noronha’s Light Apprentice Nate (LAN), a New Comic for the iPhone & Android
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Robot Comics have supplied Hypergeek with more preview pages from Igor Noronha’s new iPhone comic LAN #0 . These preview pages are in addition to the previous preview which Robot Comic supplied Hypergeek with, which you can find here . The preview has supplied with the following press release: ...5 days ago
