Comic character discussions, comic artist and writer Q&As, comic roundtable discussions — they're all here.
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It just happens to be a comic and has comic book characters, and is a comic.
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Also reviewed this week: a new fantasy comic and a comic book history of comic books.
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Shows like Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle, Keystone Comic Con in Philadelphia and Comic Con Paris.
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The comic-book movies that we know are the Marvel comic-book movies and the DC comic-book movies.
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Another comic tears apart the common perception of "High Art" and "Low Art" by suggesting scenarios in which a painting is in a comic strip, a comic strip is in a painting, and a comic strip is in a painting in a comic strip.
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I really like Nathan Pyle's comic, and Alex Norris' comic.
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The real irony is that comic books and comic book stories have never been more important to Comic-Con and contemporary pop culture.
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We're a comic book store, not a comic book publisher—so anyone who creates great comic books can be sold at Comics Empower.
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The comic book DMZ is my favorite, favorite, favorite comic series.
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I loved reading comic books and I loved making comic books.
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"Comic books [are] very, very immediate — someone writes a comic and draws a comic, and it's out a few months later," he told me.
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The state of VR at Comic-Con is a lot like the state of Comic-Con itself In the end, the state of VR at Comic-Con is a lot like the state of Comic-Con itself.
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I bet even comic books rallied (full disclosure: I'm long comic books).
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Millar has had a number of his comic books adapted into or optioned as films, and he explained a key challenge that comic book movies face: "Comic books [are] very, very immediate — someone writes a comic and draws a comic, and it's out a few months later," he told me.
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The simple reason comic book characters die and are brought back to life is that comic book companies are in the business of selling comic books.
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Related: Keep Your Readers Terrified with these Tips on the Horror Comic This Comic Masterclass Takes on the Art of Character Introduction Making a Bloody Comic?
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Stop dating the standup comic because you want to be a standup comic.
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Comic villains can play a crucial role in bringing about a comic resolution.
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" Comic books "I usually go to the comic book store before I travel.
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The comic book will officially launch in India at Mumbai Comic Con on Oct.
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What happens next is sheer comic genius ... well, not comic genius, but pretty epic.
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Comic-Con International is the largest annual gathering of comic fans in the world.
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The AR comic is a first for both the comic and hip-hop cultures.
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In offer of it being Comic Con, Penelope and I drew a comic together.
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For all things Comic-Con 2017, visit our all-encompassing EW Comic-Con page.
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But Hickman and Larraz's new comic represents is more than just a comic storyline.
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Today New York Comic Con is the most well-attended comic convention in North America, surpassing San Diego Comic Con in 2003 and luring 2200,2000 people in 211.
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Super comic Head up to the attic and raid that old comic books stash, because a rare Superman comic from 1938 sold for almost $1 million last week.
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Related: Help Your Comic Break Free from Panel Prison How Daredevil Got Trapped Inside His own Comic The 'Ghost Rider' Comic Offering a How-To on Illustrating Action
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Related: What An Indie Comic Can Teach Us About the Subtleties of Character Scale Gerard Way's Comic Book Romance This College Senior Is Already a Professional Comic Book Artist
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Related: Remembering the Breathtaking Dark Beauty of Comic Book Legend Bernie Wrightson Why Fewer Panels Make a Better Comic This College Senior Is Already a Professional Comic Book Artist
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Yes, it's all comic relief, but no show needs that much overly-generalized comic relief.
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The Unknown Comic (Canadian comic Murray Langston) was a recurring fixture on The Gong Show.
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Right now, all comic-book-movie-watching eyes are on this month's Comic-Con International.
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Related: This Comic Masterclass Takes on the Art of Character Introduction Making a Bloody Comic?
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As the title suggests, this is a violent comic, but it's a heartbreaking comic, too.
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This is the kind of comic that screams out at readers from the comic shelf.
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But some comic creators, like the team behind Marvel's Mockingbird comic, thinks there's another way.
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Is this film adaptation of Charles Schulz's iconic comic strip the adaptation the comic deserves?
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Also featured this week: a comic about the hardships of growing up LGBT, a comic about music thieves, and a comic about a WWII soldier trapped in an idyllic farmhouse.
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Lionsgate and Comic Con International launched their SVOD service at San Diego Comic Con this year.
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Greetings Fellow Comic Lovers, My name is Nick Gazin, and this is my comic review column.
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San Diego Comic-Con is approaching, like a tidal wave of comic books and movie trailers.
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Comic books like "The Uncanny X-Men" #266 comic book could be worth up to $475.
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Comic-Con started in 1970 in a hotel basement, attracting about 300 comic book die-hards.
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Related: On Panel Density: Comic Book Class Is Back in Session The World's First Computer Programmer Becomes a Comic Book Superheroine Balloon-Like Comic and Animation Museum To Land In China
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Related: This Comic Pro Talks Shaking Off a Stronghold Aesthetic What An Indie Comic Can Teach Us About the Subtleties of Character Scale Help Your Comic Break Free from Panel Prison
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To help answer that, financial comparison website GoCompare worked with comic book expert Duncan McAlpine of The Comic Book Price Guide to create "Comic Gains," an interactive infographic that highlights the price gain of some of the comic book world's most groundbreaking comics and notable superheroes.
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Related: Everything in Its Right Place: Comic Book Panel Blocking 101 Keep Your Readers Terrified with these Tips on the Horror Comic This Comic Masterclass Takes on the Art of Character Introduction
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The comic book was difficult to make, because it's a comic book without text bubbles, so the comic book needs to introduce the story, the characters, the album basically, without any words.
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Related: A Comic Book Color Artist Explains the Psychology of Pigments Learn About the Comic Artist's Secret Sidekick, The Inker These Comic Pros Opened Their Book with a Lizard on a Stick
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This week's mini-comic masterclass, Strip Panel Naked, focuses on the comic Doom Patrol by Gerard Way.
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One of my favorite things at NY Comic Con is Anthony Snyder's booth of original comic art.
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" The essays recognize that fiction, the work of Amis's right hand, "is comic because life is comic . . .
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Comic-Con started as the Golden State Comic Book Convention, in 21999, attracting some three hundred people.
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The artists are comic book and comic strip creators including Alex Hallatt, Erica Henderson and Tom Neely.
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The Fire Power comic book will be given away on May 2, on Free Comic Book Day.
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Netflix is delving deeper into the comic book world with its first acquisition, comic book publisher Millarworld.
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Gift Custom Comic Book at Etsy, from $386.71If you have the means, few comic book nerds would turn down owning a detailed, beautifully designed comic book featuring them as the lead character or superhero, or a comic book version of the story of how they met their partner.
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At a time when comic book characters are bringing blockbuster hits but the comic book industry itself is on the decline, Free Comic Book Day is a way to keep the medium alive.
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Related: An Indie Comic Master Uses Brilliant Understated Details to Tell His Story On Panel Density: Comic Book Class Is Back in Session The World's First Computer Programmer Becomes a Comic Book Superheroine
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Related: What An Indie Comic Can Teach Us About the Subtleties of Character Scale Help Your Comic Break Free from Panel Prison The 'Ghost Rider' Comic Offering a How-To on Illustrating Action
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It's not so much a virtual reality comic, but a VR 3D animated film framed as a comic.
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Not all comic book purists are racists, but these racist attacks are usually couched in comic book purism.
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Lucasfilm announced the four-issue comic series at the Lucasfilm publishing panel yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con.
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Someone is binding together old issues of comic books that are intended to be like comic-book mixtapes.
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There's a kid reading the comic book and he's like, 'Hey, you're just like in my comic book.
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DC announced the details on Thursday at Comic-Con International, the annual comic book convention in San Diego.
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The point I was getting to was some of your characters in comic books do wear tights, but generally, it's a different kind of comic book and a different kind of comic book hero.
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Related: Get a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Comic Illustration From the Industry Everything in Its Right Place: Comic Book Panel Blocking 101 Keep Your Readers Terrified with these Tips on the Horror Comic
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Related: Disrupting the Narrative in Your Comic, Challenges the Reader A Marvel Creator Takes a Hyper-Focused Look at One Comic Page Get a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Comic Illustration From the Industry
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" On Comic Con: With "Silicon Valley Comic Con, we're trying to be very different than all the other Comic Cons around the country ... We bring in a lot of science-based, technology-based futuristic thinking.
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Related: A Marvel Creator Takes a Hyper-Focused Look at One Comic Page Get a Behind-the-Scenes Look at Comic Illustration From the Industry Everything in Its Right Place: Comic Book Panel Blocking 101
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The comic industry has operated since the early 1970s on a "direct market" model, in which a distributor (the main one being Diamond Comic Distributors) sells comics to comic shops on a non-returnable basis.
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Is there an overall tone or message you want to convey, or does it vary from comic to comic?
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I recently signed up for Comic Con HQ, a streaming service from the people behind San Diego Comic-Con.
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There's no HDR or expanded color gamut that makes comic book shows like Daredevil look like actual comic books.
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Hass Otsmane-Elhaou is a comic writer and the creator of the fantastic YouTube comic masterclass Strip Panel Naked.
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This would be a popular topic of debate at the comic book bar—if a comic book bar existed.
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Overtime these details became not just the comic book the girls found last week, but a second comic book.
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The celebrity fusillade against one of their own began last year when comic after comic went hard on Trump.
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Debates over which comic characters would win in various match-ups have been around as long as comic books.
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Of course, Archangel (Angel eventually becomes Archangel in the comic books) is a huge piece of the comic books.
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According to the lawsuit, Huffman promoted the character and comic book by appearing in costume at comic book events.
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This week's comic class is all about controlling the pace of a comic by carefully considering the panel layout.
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Paola Lázaro ("Lethal Weapon") was confirmed to join the show at comic character Princess at New York Comic Con.
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Most of the international comic community hasn't yet recognized the cultural and political importance of the Zimbabwean comic scene.
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Here is a comic book movie that actually looks like a comic book come to life, and even has a super comic book-y premise: a confluence of alternate realities, each with its own Spider-Man.
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Here's the problem with adapting great comic books and comic book characters of the '60s for modern audiences: The characters of color in '60s comic books weren't written very well and were frequently based on stereotypes.
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Fair warning: this is a very bloody comic, a nasty comic, a gory comic (it even has a parental advisory on the cover that clearly states "Not For Kids")... but structurally, it's also a bit subversive.
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Related: Create Powerful Dialogue in Your Comic Through Repetition These Comic Pros Opened Their Book with a Lizard on a Stick Here Is a Look at the Push and Pull Game that Goes Into Comic Creation
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It will make many comic lovers happy This year's patch will make many comic lovers happy and very, very jealous.
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Is that a reference to "Tales of the Black Freighter" [a comic within the "Watchmen" comic, whose two narratives intertwine]?
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SAN DIEGO — Comic books and San Diego are nearly synonymous because of the annual Comic-Con International held each July.
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BMB: Sara is an amazing comic artist, I truly believe one of the great comic book artists of this generation.
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The cartooning in comic strips and comic books in the 1970s wasn't the American art form it is considered today.
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Nick Bertozzi: I'd used spot color in my comic series, Rubber Necker, and in a map comic that I'd made.
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Ahead of this year's comic gathering, Foursquare broke down its "Dungeons and Data" statistics which looks at movie goers that frequent Marvel Comics versus DC Comics, and New York Comic Con versus San Diego Comic Con attendees.
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The comic publisher has enlisted Roxane Gay as the first black woman to write a Marvel comic book, Ta-Nehisi Coates has taken over the Black Panther comic, and Ryan Coogler is directing the Black Panther movie.
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Cable has a complicated comic backstory, and he's appeared alongside Deadpool in a separate buddy team-up comic series, Cable & Deadpool.
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Thousands of comic and cosplay fans attended Libya's first-ever Comic Convention, which was held in Tripoli from September 23-25.
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As well as international comic book heroes, Comic Con Africa will also showcase local characters like Kwezi and Captain South Africa.
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Comic Con started in 1970, when a group of science fiction fans in San Diego got together to swap comic books.
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The comic is full of heavy metal imagery, and uses its intense action to break the traditions of normal comic movement.
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Whenever comic book blockbusters like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice hit theaters, they leave comic fans in a strange position.
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In today's 360 video, visit the Manhattan offices of a top comic book artist in honor of New York Comic Con.
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The Cyber Institute hopes the comic will inspire young Army officers to find ways of preventing the scenario the comic depicts.
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He said he would appear at New York Comic Con in October to release his first comic book and sign copies.
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Spoilers for the comic incoming, but come on, why are you watching the show if you haven't read the comic yet?
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One issue into Marvel's new X-Men comic House of X I knew I had found my favorite new comic book.
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The blunt reason why Marvel canceled Coates's and Gay's comic books, or any other comic book, is that they weren't selling.
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"Stan Lee always said, every Marvel comic could be someone's first comic ever," explains Rosemann, now executive creative director at Marvel Games.
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The book is an examination of the comic book industry as the protagonists travel across the country on the comic con circuit.
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Roman comic playwright Plautus coined the term "tragicomoedia," or tragicomedy—a literary genre which blends aspects of both tragic and comic forms.
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Last week at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Comics announced that the character would be the focus of a new comic miniseries.
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Every year, fanatics of all stripes descend on key cities across the U.S. for comic book conventions, otherwise known as Comic Con.
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But Comic-Con or not, quality comic books hit shelves this week, and these are some of the best of the best.
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Mort Walker drew his daily award-winning comic strip for 68 years, longer than any other comic strip artist, his son said.
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I did it in a comic about being biracial, and then I did it in a comic about joining a littering cult.
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Tick — a spoof of comic book superheroes — is a newsletter mascot for the New England Comics chain of Boston area comic stores.
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Masuku is currently working on the fifth comic in the Razor-Man series as well as a superhero comic called Arcadia Knights.
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Other potential partners were more interested in leveraging comic book characters for other media, but not so much the comic books themselves.
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"Russ may have been the best realist ever in comic books," the comic book writer and historian Mark Evanier said by email.
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Unlike Comic-Con, the multimillion-dollar entertainment and comic convention that charges attendees around $50 a day, this superhero festival is free.
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When anyone disagrees with something a comic says, or there are repercussions for their behavior, the comic too often seems genuinely shocked.
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And even if you're not a comic book fan, the short delivers laughs that transcend the realm of comic book insider geekery.
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Comic-Con attendees freaked out after a tweet warned that United Airlines was forcing fliers to remove comic books from checked bags.
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And get this ... 11 days after Weeknd and Marvel Comics announced a "Starboy" comic book -- Eymun filed another trademark for comic books.
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This is not an easy comic to jump into, but not every comic has to be easy for newcomers every single issue.
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And during Comic-Con San Diego in July, she will be officially added to the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame.
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This week's comic roundup takes a look at (appropriately) a Batman comic and a Superman comic, then dives into indie territory with some hip-hop history and a story about a schoolteacher getting shipped off to a man-made moon.
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AR: It is absolutely a comic book movie — and moreover, an adaptation of the kinds of comic books that got me into comics!
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Black Comic-Book Festival (Saturday) The comic series "Watson and Holmes" is like an alternate reality of Arthur Conan Doyle's Victorian detective duo.
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ROM: In your recent comic strip, Beggar Comics, there is a portion of it that involves a comic artist working for a gallerist.
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Perhaps the ultimate comic to use to unplug from reality this week, this issue of the Adventure Time comic is escapism upon escapism.
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The superhero series is based on a comic by Kohei Horikoshi that started in 2014 in the comic anthology magazine Weekly Shonen Jump.
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The neighborhood comic guy where I live in Los Angeles, he pulled every single issue of comic that my character ever appeared in.
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The 1938 comic book marks the first appearance of Superman, and is considered a gem among comic book fans, according to Heritage Auctions.
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That's why it's so exciting to see a new comic-sized run from Fantagraphics on comic book shelves: Love and Rockets is back.
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The comic book people shouldn't make comic book movies because they're too geeky and they're not gonna know what the broad audience wants.
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It'll be called Comic-Con HQ, and it'll enter a soft launch period starting May 7th (which is also Free Comic Book Day).
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Eymun Talasazan, the comic book writer, says he created a comic book universe in 2014 that revolved around R&B and rap stars.
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Comic-Con, the annual comic book convention, is expected to draw more than 130,000 people when it opens on Thursday in San Diego.
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The character would eventually find life as Invincible's comic-within-a-comic — Mark Grayson's favorite — but Image wasn't on board with the idea.
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Mr. Dillon, who lived in England, had been in New York to attend Comic Con, the annual industry convention for comic book fans.
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THE COMEDIAN Robert De Niro stars in this Taylor Hackford comic drama as an aging insult comic whose career has gone way downhill.
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This is likely a reference to "Tales of the Black Freighter," a fictional comic within the "Watchmen" comic about a ghost pirate ship.
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The audio comic — a comic experienced only with sound — starts off on the militarized southern border in a chaotic and totalitarian United States.
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She managed to touch on a lot of major topics in her first work and she even incorporated a comic within her comic.
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Writer Tim Seeley first made a splash in the comic world by co-creating Hack/Slash, a comic that revolutionized the horror genre.
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My boss, a comic book nerd, is particularly fond of the counterprotests in response to the Westboro Baptist Church demonstration at Comic-Con.
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Spider-Man and Charlie Brown, the rarely happy leading men of comic books and comic strips, exclaim with delight in the final panel.
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The San Diego Union-Tribune is covering Comic-Con and Comic-Con-adjacent festivities, including with a list of 50 things to see.
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Comic Con started in 1970 when a group of about 100 science fiction fans in San Diego got together to swap comic books.
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But there's a weird thing, because as comic books have gotten so popular, and comic book movies, everybody knows this is a problem.
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My grandmother bought me a Spiderman comic in a train station in Brooklyn, and I read the hell out of that comic book.
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Whenever a comic book superhero's race or gender is changed and that character is put in a movie or on television, there's often uproar from comic book purists who believe the movie or show isn't being respectful to the comic book source material.
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AAS: Fandom sometimes has a way of consuming and critiquing comic books that doesn't always flow with the way comic book issues are produced.
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Any year in which Marvel Studios comes to Comic-Con is a year in which Marvel Studios is a major highlight of Comic-Con.
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The comic, Hellblade: Senua's Song #1, is made in collaboration between Ninja Theory and comic book publisher Valiant Entertainment with art by Ben Templesmith.
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Mile High had retained a dominant presence on the convention floor, even as the overall influence of comic books at Comic-Con had diminished.
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I just don't think it'll take because these are comic book movies, and resurrections and reboots are part and parcel of comic book movies.
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As a hub to bring comic fanatics together with the creators and sponsors of their favorite franchises, Comic-Con only reflects the existing landscape.
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The New York Comic Con will be open for attendees through Sunday, while the next San Diego Comic Con will kick off July 20,2017.
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Related: Cartoons Become Faceless Comic Abstractions in 'Toonology' When Comic Book Artists Makes GIFs Accidental Fashion Illustrator Captures the Elegant Woman in her Element
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The self-proclaimed comic geek has even done her own hijab-ed version of comic book characters, like Batman, Wonder Woman, and Harley Quinn.
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Given the number of comic book adaptations planned for the next decade, the comic book industry will likely continue to receive a residual benefit.
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I read every comic Marvel and DC put out each week, so 30 to 40 comics a week; I have around 50,000 comic books.
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Related: Why Fewer Panels Make a Better Comic Help Your Comic Break Free from Panel Prison Dissecting the Classic 9-Panel Grid in Comics
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Comic shops have, for decades, been the main outlet for putting a comic book into the hands of readers, but they are being surpassed.
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I didn't get access to real comic books until around the time Milestone, a comic publishing imprint that showcased African-American superheroes, came out.
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Aydin, a self-professed comic geek, says Lewis quickly got into the spirit of Comic-Con -- even if he didn't know all the characters.
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Every year in May, Chicago has a "free comic book day," where local comic book stores offer free events, like Alleycat Comics doing giveaways.
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The truth is that Batman v Superman is a comic book movie made by someone who didn't like what he read in comic books.
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For starters, Logan is based on an acclaimed comic called Old Man Logan, which is reflective and sad, far from your typical superhero comic.
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Everyone who knows anything about comic book history knows that the most valuable comic you can possibly find is Action Comics Issue No. 1.
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Sammy Harkham is perhaps the most masterful comic storyteller I can think of who is still making comic-book pamphlets, besides the Hernandez Brothers.
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A few years ago, Desert Island Comics owner Gabe Fowler started promoting his own alternative comics fest, currently called Comic Arts Brooklyn, which has raised the question: Which is the better alternative comic con, and how long can New York support two alternative comic cons?
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Notable among those comic books is X-Men #134, a comic notable for dark forces unintentionally unleashed by tapping into the consciousness of a psychic.
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Cosplayers gathered for New York Comic Con, which began Thurday and continues through Sunday, to celebrate every nerdy fandom from comic books to Star Wars.
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The comic, which retailed for $8, sold more than half a million copies, said John Jackson Miller, creator of Comichron, an online comic book database.
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Fortunately, First Second just published the entire comic as a thick graphic novel, and I happened to snag a copy at New York Comic Con.
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At New York Comic Con, we met the pop culture fans breaking down the gender norms of their favorite TV show, comic book, or film.
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As a successor to the Vertigo comic, Shade, The Changing Man, this new release follows a young alien woman who idolized the former comic star.
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Even comic-book writer Grant Morrison threw around the analogy when teasing his upcoming Wonder Woman: Earth Two graphic novel at Comic-Con this year.
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This week's mini-comic masterclass, Strip Panel Naked, is the first in a two-part interview series with comic creators Caspar Wijngaard and Dan Watters.
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Related: With Subtle Background Design, This Comic Grounds Itself Break Your Comic's Rigid Structure and Save Its FluidityCreate Powerful Dialogue in Your Comic Through Repetition
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The Tokyo Comic-Con is not associated with the San Diego Comic-Con, which does not have the same restrictions, according to the official website.
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The 150-pound model — inspired by the upcoming DC Entertainment film based off the classic DC comic — debuted at San Diego Comic Con on Wednesday.
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Einhorn said he wanted to open a comic store that would get young people off screens, something he said traditional comic shops struggle to do.
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To say adaptations of classic comic book characters (and, more recently, comic book villains) have dominated the entertainment industry for decades is a massive understatement.
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Comic collector and Jon Romita expert, Mike Burkey, loans the Society of Illustrators his materials for the exhibit, while comic art expert Rob Pistella curates.
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Then I drew the hell out of that comic book, until the pages fell off, and I don't know what happened to the comic book.
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Travelers leaving San Diego Comic-Con on United Airlines got an unwelcome surprise this weekend, when United said that comic books were banned in checked luggage.
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When the characters in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's comic commit acts of ultra-violence, the comic doesn't really present those actions as anything worth celebrating.
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Every summer, this sunny spot in southern California plays host to Comic-Con International, a four-day celebration of all things comic books and pop culture.
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This weekend is New York Comic Con, which means there are a ton of trailers coming out for upcoming series, particularly those starring comic book characters.
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The comic, about five families of magicians who secretly protect the world from evil forces, is slated to arrive in comic book shops on June 13th.
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New Yorker Candace Kendall has donned cosplay for Renaissance fairs and New York Comic-Con, but she went with Catwoman for the Black Comic Book Festival.
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Whether talking the color palette of a comic or proper panel blocking, the art of a good comic goes way beyond illustrating a normal-looking hand.
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Comic-Con doesn't exist for Hollywood's sake Comic-Con 2016 was a smaller show this year, though it remains the biggest fan convention on the planet.
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Screencap via This week's session of Strip Panel Naked, the weekly comic masterclass through video, focuses on the incredible, economic storytelling of comic artist Steve Dillon.
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HBO's first comic-book TV series, "Watchmen," debuts October 20 and it's already receiving praise after its pilot premiered at New York Comic Con on Friday.
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Now, to tap deeper into the zeitgeist, Green's updated the classic comic-turned-meme and created This is Not Fine for comic strip website The Nib.
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Here are a few more of my favorite comic strips from this book: That last one was the final comic about Lucy pulling away the football.
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The US comic ran for eighty issues and some seven years, while the UK comic ran for three hundred thirty-two issues and nearly eight years.
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This is small potatoes compared to, say, Comic-Con International in San Diego and New York Comic Con, which draw about 130,000 and 250,000 people yearly.
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The new comic was written by Canadian comics writer and artist Chip Zdarsky, who said he instantly knew he wanted to include Trudea in the comic.
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Comic book fans will likely be familiar with the movie's premise, which is essentially The Dirty Dozen translated and styled into a dark, cynical comic book.
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" In May, Mr. Combs decided that the "Ban Comic Sans" project had "gotten out of hand" and changed his Facebook group's name to "Use Comic Sans.
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Though the film is being hailed as the most nominated comic-book movie ever, in many ways Joker is not a comic book movie at all.
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That included getting him tickets, now a yearly tradition, to New York Comic Con — he loves comic books and has a storage unit to house them.
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"I really felt that what was critical was recreating that idea that you're picking up a comic book and you're reading a comic book," Nicotero said.
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The comic book industry isn't going to magically change its distribution system overnight, and in order to flourish within the system, comic books must be preordered.
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The Comic-Con deal will see IBM handle a number of services for Comic-Con HQ (a partnership between Comic-Con Intl and Lionsgate), include powering its subscription-based VOD platform, content management, billing and streaming video to multiple devices as well as live-streamed video.
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Marvel's decision upholds 20143-something years of comic book canon, but it's also a disappointing shock to some comic book fans — particularly Asian-American comic book fans who hoped that Marvel might take the opportunity to cast an Asian or Asian-American actor as Iron Fist.
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" This first Comey comic doesn't delve into the ex-FBI boss's run-in with Trump, so if you're looking for a comic-book adaptation of the juiciest morsels from A Higher Loyalty, you'll have to wait until TidalWave's planned sequel comic, reportedly set in the "Trump era.
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Ever since 2002, thousands of comic book shops throughout the world have teamed up to give away millions of free comic books to fans of the art.
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What makes the show so good is its dedication to chronicling every detail of the rise of a young comic, Pete, who's played by comic Pete Holmes.
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" English TV and radio host and comic books super-fan Jonathan Martin tweeted that Ditko was "the single greatest comic book artist and creator who ever lived.
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A longtime comic fan, Panosian noted that his father introduced him to comic books when he was a kid, and he was particularly drawn to X-Men.
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And he's apparently trying to signal contempt for a clown in a movie that's using a comic book character to signal its contempt for comic book movies?
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Steven was a weekly comic strip about an angry young boy named Steven who's aware he's in a comic strip and was created to be totally unmarketable.
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I might not be the typical comic book reader, but I continually explore this vast world of comic books that may be more relevant to their experiences.
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At the annual San Diego Comic Convention, movie trailers for the next generation of super hero movies debuted, sending the Internet into paroxysms of comic fan ecstasy.
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Former G4 stars are making a series of shows for Comic-Con HQ Comic-Con International announced the first substantial details of its streaming service this morning.
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I started it thinking I didn't want to expressly do a young-adult comic, but I thought in my head, This could be my funny YA comic.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's crusade to take on the Washington establishment is now a comic book specially crafted for the cross section of comic fans and political junkies.
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The comic most likely to bridge the gap between adults and children is Jim Gaffigan, who along with Brian Regan is the greatest clean comic working today.
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San Diego Comic Con doesn't just mean news about the biggest comic book movies and shows coming out, but also some great sales and deals to celebrate.
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This is Gina Wynbrandt holding up a comic she made about how she's going to hire a male prostitute with the profits made from selling this comic.
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The company behind many cities' Comic Cons, Reedpop, said last week that it would reschedule Seattle's Emerald City Comic Con event to later this year as well.
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The new Black Panther comic book series, written by Ta-Nehisi Coates and drawn by Brian Stelfreeze, is the most anticipated comic debut of the past decade.
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But on Saturday, Mr. Furie depicted Pepe's funeral in a one-page comic published in an anthology by Fantagraphics Books to coincide with Free Comic Book Day.
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But comic book fans were treated to action-movie-like spectacle in The Ultimates, a 2002 comic book series that reintroduced the Avengers to a modern audience.
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This month's guest comedians include the stand-up comic and SiriusXM host Dan Soder, the comic and sitcom writer Naomi Ekperigin, and the memoirist Amy Rose Spiegel.
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For fans of all things geek, the centerpiece of the yearly celebration at San Diego Comic-Con International has become the Marvel Studios presentation held late on Saturday in the cavernous Hall H. In the 210 years since the then-nascent film studio presented its first film — the 22015 release Iron Man — at Comic-Con 10, its Comic-Con presentation has become a must-attend event for Comic-Con attendees.
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The Big Bang Theory wasn't for Comic-Con die-hards, but it was for people who thought going to Comic-Con once or twice might be fun — and the standing-room-only audiences it drew at Comic-Con at the height of its popularity more than proved as much.
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Related: Learn How Comic Book Artists Use Color as Subtext On Panel Density: Comic Class Is Back in Session New Cinema: How Do You Make An Interactive Narrative?
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His show got hyped at Comic-Con International, but canceled an appearance at New York Comic Con earlier this month in light of the Las Vegas mass shooting.
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The movie even contains a joke about the X-Men's original comic book costumes: Singer made Marvel's mutants somber, in contrast to their more vibrant comic book predecessors.
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Moreover, the episode will reportedly offer a glimpse of the Turtles in a comic book world resembling the one created by Kevin Eastman's Mirage Studios comic book series.
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The series is actually pretty different from the comic: Mallozzi noted that the comic wouldn't dictate the casting or appearance of the show, but there are some similarities.
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But his contribution to what he called the "blood-curdling masculinity" of superheroes made comic books, and now comic book movies, more accessible to generations of female audiences.
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This is a comic book movie, and Marvel's films operate by comic book logic that dictates no death lasts forever, except formative ones like Spider-Man's Uncle Ben.
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Founded in 1970, Comic-Comic International has grown into one of the world's largest such festivals—a must-attend event for lovers of superheroes, science fiction, and fantasy.
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After all, the example of flicking through a comic book might look and feel good, but it's not much use when it comes to actually reading the comic.
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Though the three-panel format of "Sunday Funnies," including comic strips like Garfield and Dilbert, is famously associated with comedy, nailing funny bits in comic books is trickier.
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Related: Improve Your Comics by "Distancing the Narrative" The Daring Life of a Comic Book Editor-in-Chief On Panel Density: Comic Book Class Is Back in Session
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This comic, beautifully illustrated by Mike del Mundo, is probably the slowest-paced Marvel comic on shelves now, which also makes it one of the most interesting, too.
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This week's mini-comic masterclass, Strip Panel Naked, features an up-close look at a few pages from the Image comic Material, by Ales Kot and Will Tempest.
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Speaking of hell: The 2006 Romanian movie The Death of Mr. Lazarescu puts a human face on medical hades, in a darkly comic (okay, very darkly comic) setting.
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Related: Gerard Way Resurrects Cult Classic Comic 'Doom Patrol' 'Watchmen' Creator Alan Moore Talks Movies, Magic, and Comics This Nightmarish Comic Book Is Illustrated Entirely with Oil Paintings
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Black characters in mainstream comic-book movies often provide comic relief or some type of singular characteristic that forms a blanket representation of the entire race or culture.
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If so, it's one that I predict a female comic will break to the same success that Louis C. K. did with his comic insults about his children.
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ComIC STRIP TO THE EDITOR A New York Times opinion video about fascism in America inspired Stan Mack to send in our first comic strip to the editor.
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The first film was structured to convey the page-turning immediacy of a comic book, divided into five short, discrete tales taken from a fictional comic called Creepshow.
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For a delirious while, fueled by Mr. Waltz and Ms. Chau's zigzagging comic energies, we are transported to a land beyond genre, a zone of pure comic sublimity.
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There's Brett Kazan and Fred Marin, two indie comic artists looking to strike it big with their comic; Gail, an artist unhappily stuck on the lower rungs of the comic creation ladder and a troupe of superhero models hired by the conventions they stop along their trip across the country.
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The "book channel" — which includes chain and independent bookstores, online retailers like Amazon, and the Scholastic Book Fair — is projected to pass comic shops as the largest channel for comic sales in North America this year, industry website ICv2 revealed at a post-New York Comic Con conference last week.
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The San Diego Comic Convention (SDCC), otherwise known as Comic-Con, is widely considered to be the premier event of its kind, where tickets often sell out in minutes.
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A group of Egyptian comic book nerds has begun building a comic universe of their own, representative of the experiences, challenges, and paradoxes that they and other Egyptians face.
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Since 1990, his efforts have grown to include comic books and graphic novels, a non–comic book imprint, and a children's book imprint (home of the popular Moomin works).
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The comic has made no lasting impact in the two decades since, although it does make the occasional appearance on listicles celebrating the worst comic books of all time.
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Could it be a matter that the predominantly male demo that makes up comic book movie fans didn't want to turn out for a female-led comic book movie?
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During that time, Kevin was working on Zodiac Starforce — but every now and then I'd draw some 'bakery comic' doodles to lure him into writing a comic for me.
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To illustrate my point, here's a comic I drew in 2010: And here's the same comic redrawn now: Eight years later, my process has stayed pretty much the same.
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But comic book stories being comic book stories, it's not long before Matt's back on the streets — albeit in an even darker place than we're used to seeing him.
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It is, unexpectedly, the newspaper comic strip of the year, in an era when the idea of "newspaper comic strip of the year" has essentially ceased to hold meaning.
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The announcement comes just a couple of days after DC announced that it was rebranding its comic lines along age groups, effectively shuttering well-known comic brands like Vertigo.
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Mononymous French comic artist Emma explained it succinctly in a viral comic for The Guardian, which begins with an overworked mom, preparing dinner for guests and for her children.
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This volume of comics ranges in style and tone from Kathryn Briggs' lighthearted (but beautifully illustrated) comic about cats in outer space, to a sparse mini-comic about velociraptors.
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Rare or older comic books can be valuable, but newer comic books won't sell for much more than their original price — and that's only if they're in mint condition.
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While not many comic books from the 1990s hold as much value as earlier editions, this "The Uncanny X-Men" #266 comic book could be worth up to $475.
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Nelson D. Schwartz MEDIA Comic book fans are getting their capes and cowls primed for their annual pilgrimage to Comic-Con International, which opens on Thursday in San Diego.
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But IDW Publishing, a hometown company that exhibits at the convention, has given comic-book fans a reason to visit anytime by opening its San Diego Comic Art Gallery.
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From a new addition to the opening credits to a comic nod between Michonne and Ezekiel, Insider rounds up some smaller moments and comic references you may have missed.
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" He continued, "It was almost like picking up a Shang-Chi comic would have been highlighting what made me different from the other nerds at the comic book store.
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The response to Marvel's casting exhibited an ugly, unyielding side of comic book fandom, and the comic book community displayed, once again, why people refuse to take it seriously.
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In "How Comic Books Turned a Fan into a Professional, and Educated Him Along the Way," George Gene Gustines writes: Comic books have been very, very good to me.
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Tarzan has also appeared in numerous comic books since its debut, making the film the latest in a long line of recent comic book adaptations for the big screen.
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Fueled by countless movies revolving around superheros, villains, and anti-heros, and the increasing popularity of events like Comic Con, the comic book market continues to rise in value.
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When Neil Gaiman and Sam Kieth first revived and overhauled "cool-goth-manifesto" The Sandman for DC comics back in 1989, the comic immediately set about dismantling comic conventions.
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But the reality is that there are thousands of comic conventions around the world, and they aren't anything like the human zoo that is Comic-Con International: San Diego.
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Although sales figures for the period are warped by comic books sold at both newsstands and stores versus comic book stores alone (Watchmen was the latter), and some distributors at the time did not record their sales figures, Watchmen's first issue was among the top five bestselling comic books upon its initial release, according to ComicChron; the following 22015 issues also placed within the top 22009 of the comic book sales charts.
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New York Comic Con begins today in midtown New York City, and like San Diego Comic-Con earlier this year, it's one of the biggest fan gatherings in the country.
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It's absolutely right because it's supposed to be for Comic Relief but there isn't much comic relief in the loss of our dear friend, really, just over a year ago.
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The overlap of traditional Asian techniques and comic art, which both feature heavy line work, creates a sweet spot for this expanded vision of where comic illustration could be taken.
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The trolls descended upon Marvel comic editor Heather Antos for the following photographic evidence of her SJW values taking over and subsequently ruining comic books: It's the Marvel milkshake crew!
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Related: A Comic Artist Talks Narrative Framing Around a Single Page Learn How to Craft a Feeling of Isolation in Comics Disrupting the Narrative in Your Comic, Challenges the Reader
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The comic, Utsav Chakraborty, was accused last Thursday by Mahima Kukreja, a fellow comic, of soliciting nude pictures from under-age girls online and sending her pictures of his genitals.
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The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in New York City and a store with a bookcase dedicated to samizdat comics had him longing for such comic-book institutions in Russia.
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Related: How Daredevil Got Trapped Inside His own Comic The 'Ghost Rider' Comic Offering a How-To on Illustrating Action Why 'Superman' Had One of the Best Introductions in Comics
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SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - There were bodysuits, boots and masks galore in San Diego as thousands of comic, superhero and anime fans flocked to the opening of Comic-Con on Thursday.
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American comic book writer Greg Rucka, who produced a new Wonder Woman series for publisher DC Comics last year, told comic books fan website Comicosity the superhero was "obviously" bisexual.
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Eventually, the comic made its way into the hands of Kroll himself, initiating a conversation about the comic book, the interrogation techniques Kroll used on Otis, and policing in America.
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Related: Break Your Comic's Rigid Structure and Save Its Fluidity Create Powerful Dialogue in Your Comic Through Repetition These Comic Pros Opened Their Book with a Lizard on a Stick
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Comic-Con International and Lionsgate have unveiled "Comic-Con HQ", a subscription video-on-demand service that will be available to consumers before San Diego's event kicks off this summer.
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This comic is pure creator-passion, it's the type of comic where it's clear that the author has put his blood, sweat, tears, and rent money into this side-project.
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Related: The 'Ghost Rider' Comic Offering a How-To on Illustrating Action Why 'Superman' Had One of the Best Introductions in Comics With Subtle Background Design, This Comic Grounds Itself
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When this stirring, almost scary cover hit comic book shops in May of 1992, it defied all expectations, selling 1.7 million copies, making it the best selling independent comic ever.
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Children's comics are dominating the comic industryChildren's comics surpassed superhero comics as the biggest genre in the comic industry this year, industry website ICv2 revealed at a conference last month.
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The popularity of children's comics has helped make book stores and online retailers the biggest channel for comic-book sales in North America, passing traditional comic shops, according to ICv2.
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J. J. I remember working in a comic store in high school and there was the Amazing Fantasy comic that Spider-Man first appeared in that they had under glass.
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The comic pokes fun at the idea of how women are presented by men — a meta-commentary on the decades of female comic book superheroes written and drawn by men.
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Organized by journalists, it is one of the premier social events in Canberra, the capital, featuring comic (or would-be comic) speeches by the prime minister and the opposition leader.
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"Artist Alley has always been one of the most popular features of New York Comic Con," said Mike Negin, global comic talent manager at ReedPop, the company behind the convention.
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"Bit of a comic" is not meant to describe a specific part of a comic, like the gallbladder, but the bit he or she performs, also known as a GAG.
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United Airlines falsely announced earlier this week that passengers coming home from Comic-Con in San Diego would not be allowed to put comic books in their carry-on bags.
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You know, look, if you want to have your blowjob comic, you have your blowjob comic, and you go enjoy it — I'm not going to take that away from you.
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But there's a whole world of people in different positions working to make a comic look great, feel right, and tell the perfect story—from inkers who define the depth of the comic, to editors who manage an entire comic slate, to the color artist who brings the world into bright, saturated life.
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The final issue of Marvel's comic book adaptation of The Last Jedi, which arrives on comic book store shelves Wednesday, reportedly gives us a glimpse inside the mind of Luke as he uses the Force to project himself onto the planet Crait, CBR reported based on an early look at the comic Monday.
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When comic book writer Mark Millar penned the Civil War crossover comic arc that Captain America: Civil War is loosely based on, he wanted to tell a divisive story about politics.
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I have read graphic novels, and my family loves superhero comic books, so I grew up between their sci-fi world and their Star Trek world and their comic book world.
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Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, the creators of Steve Rogers and myriad other comic book superheroes, were of Jewish descent, as were many of their colleagues and fellow comic book creators.
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She's a rising comic to watch, not a comic who is trying to stage a comeback after touching himself in front of women without their consent—and I think that's refreshing.
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As reported by Comic Book Resources, Furie published a one-page installment of his "Boy's Club" series (where Pepe was first introduced in 2005) in celebration of Free Comic Book Day.
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The League of Regrettable Superheroes: Half-Baked Heroes from Comic Book History is an awesome book about lesser known superheroes and why they didn't capture the imagination of comic book readers.
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In June, Marvel maintained its dominance as the top comic publisher with a market share of just over 44 percent, according to figures released on Friday by Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.
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Then writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, creator of the "alternate reality" horror comic Afterlife with Archie, spun off a new Sabrina character from that series into the comic Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.
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The entire comic is well worth reading, but I also spoke to McAndrew about how he researched it and what went into planning and assembling these interviews, and the resulting comic.
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Foursquare's data ranges from 2015-2016 where they looked at people that viewed comic book themed movies or comic book events after they checked in to see where they over-index.
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The comic series ran in six big arcs from 2008 to 2013, and earned Hill an Eisner for his writing, and the British Fantasy Award for best comic or graphic novel.
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In a special strip for Free Comic Book Day, artist Matt Furie drew a one-page special edition of his famous comic, "Pepe the Frog," in a casket at his funeral.
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I've read, researched, interviewed, and written about black characters in comics over the years; I'm deeply invested in comic book fandom, but the comic book industry rarely seemed invested in me.
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In this week's Strip Panel Naked, the YouTube mini-comic masterclass hosted by Hass Otsmane-Elhaou, the focus is on Matt Wilson's color work in the incredible Image comic Paper Girls .
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Diana Prince has always been present at Comic-Con to a degree — the three-day long convention celebrates comic books, and the Amazonian superhero herself has been in them since 1941.
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But it took a quick comic turn this year when Obama paid tribute to Brooks by quoting the comic director's instructions to his writers on the boundary-pushing film, Blazing Saddles.
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But the comic screed is a noble tradition, and with so many hedging neurotics in stand-up, a confident voice, even a self-satisfied one, can be a powerful comic tool.
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This comic book is riffing off Rac Shade from Shade, the Changing Man, a character and comic created by Steve Ditko — a legend who was known for mind-bending, trippy work.
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Related: A Comic Pro Speaks About Injecting Action Into Artwork Change the Entire Nature of Your Comics with Color An Indie Comic Master Uses Brilliant Understated Details to Tell His Story
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Along with the new Star Wars comic, this week's features include a story about a woman obsessively building a house, an indie comic about storytelling, and a grim Nordic action tale.
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It's a movie ostensibly interested in how comic book stories work, but it has the same problems as a lot of the comic book movies hitting the big screen these days.
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His view strongly differed from what was happening on the comic book side, where Marvel soon began what would be a concerted push for representation and diversity in its comic books.
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Mar-Vell's comic was eventually canceled in 1979 (Captain Marvel No. 62), and his comic book death (The Death of Captain Marvel) happened the same year as Monica's emergence in 1982.
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For a comic that just got a big boost in interested parties thanks to the Benedict Cumberbatch-starring film, this sure is a plot-thick and bizarre issue of a comic.
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Why Glen could be Negan's victim: The Walking Dead is based on a comic book, and in that comic book, it's Glenn who has the face-to-bat meeting with Lucille.
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Lee at the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo in 2014.
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" And comic book writer Daniel Kibblesmith added, "Me too.
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He was the comic relief — "Just kidding, we're vegetarian"!
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And then, in the language of comic books -- Pow!
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The comic actor took his own life in 2014 .
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Er, and maybe — I'm just saying — a "Hellraiser" comic.
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