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DIARY OF A GIRL NEXT DOOR: BETTY (HC, Archie Comics, $13.99): This hardcover, done in the style of the popular "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, follows the thoughts of everyone's favorite overachieving blonde as she begins her sophomore year
Read more…#1 for $1: Action Philosophers
Fred Van Lente (W), Ryan Dunlavey (A/Cover), and Maurizio Rosenzweig (A)
On sale Oct 8
FC/b&w, 32 pages
$1.00
One-shot
Get a taste of Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey’s award-winning, best-selling Action Philosophers! R
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DIGITAL COMICS HAVE GROWN 10X IN THE LAST 3 YEARS
(Madison, WI- July 18, 2014) This week, pop culture experts, ICV2.com released an eye opening analysis of growth in the digital comics market. In their report, digital comic
Read more…Oni Press Announces Plans and Exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con 2014! Portland, OR (July 11, 2014) – Another San Diego Comic-Con is upon us and as such, so is another avalanche of awesome Oni Press wares! We're proud to present a list of the exclu
Read more…UNCANNY AVENGERS #25
RICK REMENDER (W ) • DANIEL ACUNA (A)
Cover by PAUL RENAUD
DEADPOOL 75TH VARIANT COVER BY TBA
AXIS tie-in!
• The dark path to AXIS starts here. An event two years in the making!
• The Red Skull and his S-Men have already begun th
Read more…For a while after Ol' Greenskin's star turn in The Avengers, Marvel Films asserted that Hulk seemed to work best in group settings, so they had no plans for another solo movie.
But times have changed, and now they are talking about exactly that. But,
Read more…EARTH 2: WORLD’S END #1
Written by DANIEL H. WILSON, MARGUERITE BENNETT and MIKE JOHNSON
Art by ARDIAN SYAF, JORGE JIMENEZ, EDDY BARROWS and PAULO SIQUIERA
Cover by ARDIAN SYAF and JAIME MENDOZA
1:50 Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
On sale OCTOBER 8
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100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- X-MEN #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Another in a series of books depicting various Marvel heroes as they might exist in 2061. With a cover depicting Cyclops marrying Emma Frost, one has to wonder if both of them have a se
Read more…GRAYSON #1 (Sep 14)
"Grayson"
Writer: TIM SEELEY
Plot: TIM SEELEY, TOM KING
Art: MIKEL JANIN
Colors: JEROMY COX
Letters: CARLOS M. MANGUAL
Cover: ANDREW ROBINSON
Well, this is fun.
I've never been what you'd call a Dick Grayson fan. For reasons that
Read more…I wish I'd known about this before I wrote my Archie column!
WELCOME TO DARK CIRCLE COMICS
By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Jun 17, 2014 -- Who would guess that happy, frivolous Archie Andrews and violent, bloodthirsty zombies would make a good mix?
According to the afterword in the recently released Afterlife with Archie
Given the "Captain Re-Reads Avengers" thread, I thought it advisable to resurrect this old file. It stops somewhere around "Avengers Disassemble," so it's a little out of date. But it includes the expansion of the Avengers line-up in the early years,
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The treasures of the Louvre museum have inspired an untold number of painters, sculptors, poets, musicians and other artists. Now, comics artists are prominently on that list.
That’s because French
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100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL -- SPIDER-MAN #1 (Marvel, $3.99): Another in a series of 75th-anniversary books -- Marvel Comics #1 debuted in 1939 -- that shows what Marvel heroes might look like in 2061, 100 years after Fantastic Four #1. If do
Read more…By Andrew A. Smith
McClatchy-Tribune
If you’re looking forward to How to Train Your Dragon 2, which premiered June 13, you’ll be pleased to know there’s already a sequel out – in print.
English publisher Titan Comics has launched a new series chroni
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100th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL – FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (Marvel Comics, $3.99): This is the first in a series of comics that will publish one per week in July, looking at the Marvel Universe of 2061 -- 100 years after Fantastic Four #1 launched that
Read more…Do we not have a thread on this? The movie's been out for weeks!
My wife and I finally got a chance to see it (we work different schedules, so movie-going is sometimes difficult to arrange), and we really, honestly enjoyed it.
The moviemakers ma
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EMILY AND THE STRANGERS: BREAKING THE RECORD #1 (of 3, Dark Horse, $3.99): I understand from various Legionnaires that this is one of those rare books that appeals to tween-age girls (and boys). Here's the first issue of another Emily tale,
Read more…ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #24
Written by KARL BOLLERS
Art & Cover by CLAYTON HENRY
Variant Cover by PIA GUERRA
Sister. Sweetheart. ASSASSIN!
Archer and Armstrong…and Mary-Maria?! Archer’s beloved foster sister and world-class hitwoman-for-hire, Mary-Maria,
Read more…’68: HOMEFRONT #1 (OF 4)
Story: MARK KIDWELL
Art: KYLE CHARLES & JAY FOTOS
Cover A: NAT JONES & JAY FOTOS
cover B: MARK KIDWELL, NAT JONES, & JAY FOTOS
cover C: SKETCH COVER
SEPTEMBER 10 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99
In 1968, the horrors of the Vietnam
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