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Tori Amos And Suicide Girls Invade This Week's Comics

What's that, you're saying? You're expecting this week's load at the comic store to be light because everyone's going to be at San Diego talking about comics instead of publishing them? It's an understandable assumption to make, but also one that'd do its best to fulfill that whole "making an ass out've u and me" thing, because this week sees an incredibly impressive haul to keep everyone busy, whether they happen to be in Southern California or not. More »

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9:00 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
By Graeme McMillan
3,874 views, 13 comments

Latest by Klebert L. Hall: @taxbaby: Yeah, but it isn't the uniform, yet. -Kle. more »

new comics we crave

Fifty Cents Is All You Should Have To Pay For This Week's Comics

There's no way of getting around it: this is both an incredibly slow week for new comics releases, and also an incredibly busy week... just not until the weekend. This Saturday is Free Comic Book Day 2008 (when all manner of books are released for the price of zero dollars exactly in the hope of luring new readers into stores to be tempted by much more expensive items) but I'll wait until Friday before I tell you what you should be picking up for that. But everyone's preparing for Saturday, because what's appearing in stores tomorrow? It kind of sucks. More »

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9:00 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Graeme McMillan
2,386 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: So far, Secret Invasion has been the balls... I just picked up a run of Nova so I'm looking forward to reading that. I've heard conflicting things about Fraction's Punisher War Journal though. Is it really worth picking up? more »

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"Arena" Pits Best Against Best, Fights Deja Vu

Today's finest soldiers kidnapped through time and space to a battleground where they have to fight the greatest warriors of all time in a vicious unforgiving battle to the death? The pitch for newly announced movie Arena may be basic, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we haven't seen it before, and fairly recently. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Apr 28 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,951 views, 31 comments

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Axe-Wielding Schoolgirls Battle Spacemen For Your Comics Dollar

Despite what many of you merry perverts may think, it's not all musclemen in tights and axe-wielding schoolgirls in short skirts in comicbookland. Although, to be fair, both of those categories are represented in this Wednesday's comic shops, as the pre-Summer lull gets filled with reprints and all manner of plot maneuvering to get all the players on- and off-stage before the big storylines take over next month. Click on that "More" button to find out about the four color death, more death and Birth awaiting you in your local comic book store tomorrow. More »

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9:00 AM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Graeme McMillan
4,467 views, 5 comments

Latest by tk.: Dead@17 sounds pretty awesome, thanks for the heads up. more »

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Learn the Rules of Crossover Comic Perfection

With Marvel's Secret Invasion in full swing and DC's Final Crisis mere weeks away, it's worth looking at just what it is about superhero comics' crossover summer events that make them the four-color equivalent of your first sexual experience. They're something you get all excited about ahead of time before the actual incident goes by quickly and leaves you ultimately unfulfilled. Or maybe that's just me. Experience has taught us that there are some easy steps to follow when creating a superhero crossover involving many fan-favorite characters that will, inevitably, lead to sales success. Utilizing them can take you from near obscurity to something approaching success or, at least, your own soon-to-be-cancelled spin-off from the Avengers. More »

11:20 AM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Graeme McMillan
4,908 views, 23 comments

Latest by Loserface: @ElijahDProphet: That's the gist of what I read. I remember reading that this was supposed to bring the fun back to the DCU, but it feels like they've only done the opposite making the world much more unpleasant, and for more »

countdown

Trippiest Twilight Zone Episode Becomes A Movie

A classic Twilight Zone episode written by Richard (I Am Legend) Matheson is getting a big-screen update called Countdown. The original episode, "Death Ship," is about three astronauts who arrive on an alien planet, only to find their own dead bodies, in a crashed version of their own ship. The movie version will be written and directed by Michael Brandt, co-writer of 3:10 To Yuma and the upcoming Wanted. Details (and spoilers) below. More »

4:30 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
33,972 views, 23 comments

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The Multiverse Is Strictly Business, Says DC Comics Czar

If you've found DC Comics hard to understand over the past year, chances are it's because of the multiverse. DC used to have tons of alternate universes, but they collapsed into one nice, tidy universe in 1985. Until last year, when suddenly DC had 52 different realities to play with again. I decided to hound DC super-editor Dan Didio for an explanation as to why DC's writers and editors are so obsessed with alternate timelines. Here's what he said the second and third times I asked him, plus some info on multiverses in science fiction. More »

4:00 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
2,847 views, 23 comments

Latest by n/a: @jinchoung: Calm down. You'd think I was talking about you, personally, or something. more »

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Less Lesbians and Teenage Death In Upcoming DC Comics

Hope you weren't getting too excited about that Batwoman series that Dan DiDio said was happening last night; today's DC Universe panel included DiDio admitting that he'd made a mistake, and that it was actually Batgirl who was getting her own series, not DC's favorite lesbian crimefighter. Other than that, the DC panel was again light on actual announcements, with DiDio answering one question with "If you go to the New York Comicon [in April], I'd have answers for all you guys [asking about new series]." That said, there were some interesting hints and answers amongst the bantering about Final Crisis, dead teenagers and why DC as a company is going to start cracking down on creators. More after the jump. More »

3:58 PM on Sat Feb 23 2008
By Graeme McMillan
2,020 views, 8 comments

Latest by cde: @edosan: Hell, Emo-supreme can punch a wall of "reality" and change shit, and the last mutants in the Marvel-Verse can give a zombie head a robotic body that is no way physically connected to it yet still work, so simple more »

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1980 Fighter Jets Vs. 1941 Japanese Bombers

Here's the most one-sided dogfight in history, as U.S. fighter jets that have traveled back in time take out two Japanese "zero" planes on their way to bomb Pearl Harbor, in 1980's The Final Countdown. Kirk Douglas, commanding the U.S.S. Nimitz, tries to avoid killing the Japanese after his ship travels back to 1941. But those plucky low-tech bombers keep harrassing his jets, so he finally gives the order to "splash the zeroes." Which is going to be my new catch-phrase. Click through for a clip of a weighty debate about the dangers of altering history. More »

3:00 PM on Thu Feb 14 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
3,824 views, 18 comments

Latest by n/a: I love that movie also. Excellent. I like the study in time-travel paradox that it was. Because they are zapped back to the present BEFORE engaging the Japanese attack force, it's almost as if fate intervened. Because who knows how more »

countdown to dc comics of 2008

You Won't Need A PhD In DC Comics To Understand New Weekly

DC Comics is still in love with weekly comics, judging from its latest announcements about its plans for 2008. DC will put out two more sequels to its first weekly success story, 52. But also, DC plans a third weekly comic, on the heels of 52 and the current Countdown. DC will also put out a low-priced one-off special giving new readers a chance to catch up on everything before a summer full of death, destruction and rebirths. We've got the details on the new projects under the jump. More »

8:00 AM on Mon Feb 11 2008
By Graeme McMillan
1,965 views, 41 comments

Latest by n/a: @CapnCalamity: Yes, compared to those other "events,' Crisis was a Nancy strip. And I'm a big Morrison fan, too, but you never know what you're gonna get. I'm still trying to make sense of 7 Soldiers, despite all the annotated web more »