Happy 2012, comic shop patrons! This Wednesday, there's a bunch of promising new reading material on the stands awaiting your eager eyeballs. And no, the "gangster horror" in the headline has nothing to do with Ice-T smoking a joint with Warwick Davis.

During Marvel Comics' recent Fear Itself story arc, one of the big left-field shockers was the death of Captain America, a.k.a. Steve Rogers' former sidekick James "Bucky" Barnes. However — as readers of Fear Itself #7.1 learned yesterday — Bucky's story isn't quite over. Spoilers on.

This summer, Marvel's been putting its superheroes through the wringer in Fear Itself, a miniseries in which a nefarious Asgardian god called The Serpent has a bone to pick with Odin.

The media may be in a tizzy about Clark Kent's swank new duds in Superman: Earth One, but there are many reasons to get excited this Wednesday. Death debuts in Action Comics and Ed Brubaker's Incognito is back!

The 2010 Eisner Award Winners were announced last night at the at the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego. The list of winners includes Captain America writer Ed Brubaker, The Walking Dead, Scott Pilgrim, and Image Comics' food detective series Chew.

What's got us most excited about Marvel's new Heroic Age status quo? Ed Brubaker's Secret Avengers. With an oddball cast of espionage experts and military masterminds, this title looks to give Marvel's flagship superteam a pulpy twist.

Incognito, the noir-flavored Marvel comic from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, is heading to Fox. Will this real-worldish, superpowered flick fare better than the latest round of comic book movies?

io9 recently chatted with the incomparable Ed Brubaker about his upcoming run on Secret Avengers, the status of the Sleeper movie, and yes, the yahoos who got way too riled up about a Captain America comic.

First he pretends to kill Captain America, and now Marvel Comics writer Ed Brubaker has found himself being attacked by Fox News. How many signs do we need to know that this man clearly hates the United States?

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the creative team behind Criminal and Sleeper, have done it again. The newly collected miniseries Incognito, released this week by Marvel's Icon imprint, is a brutal exploration of the thin line between villainy and anti-villainy.