The lead story has to be the October 2011 sales figures, which still show success vis a vis DC’s new 52. It’s safe to say that the new 52, and the new 52 alone, is responsible for America spending 12% more on comic books than they did last October. Comic-book unit orders are also up—by [...]

HULK SMASH AVENGERS.  Coming February 2012.  “Hulk Smash Avengers” will be a 5-issue weekly mini designed to shamelessly build up to the Avengers movie.  It will be “Hulk vs.” battles that take place from 1960 on—one for each decade–all with covers by the great Lee Weeks.  The talent roster for each of these self-contained issues [...]

I had so much to gab about—I’m such a cape-yenta—that I split the news column this week into one about movies/TV and one about print.  This is the print one.  The other one came yesterday.  So unless you like reading (i.e., are over the age of 30), you probably don’t want to … Hit the [...]

Modok=One of the best Marvel characers to look at. Ben Templesmith=Genius comicbook artist. And please, go here and vote for your favorite comic book movie! Now hit the break for more news about comics and the world of comics…But beware of lurking spoilers!

I know I just did one, but with the release of new Justice League pictures, and information about the Batman reboot and upcoming sequels to GI Joe and R.E.D., I couldn’t wait for a regular bi-weekly update . . . Also, I want to say that the critics who said Transformers 3 was good and [...]

What to buy, what not to buy from the past month. WHAT TO BUY: THE TOP 5 TRADES OF JUNE 2011 These get a 100 percent solid recommendation from this city corner of the interwebs: Honorable mention:  X-Men: Second Coming.  This gets  a mention because it’s a lot of fun.  The tale of Hope coming [...]

Rollin in the Deep (Hourglass Sea Remix) And the John Legend cover…. http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F12723921 Rollin In The Deep (cover) – John Legend by balladsofmidnight

This week is almost all about reboots and returns.  And before the break, I’m leading with this: MORE DETAILS ABOUT DC’S NEW 52: PAGE LEAKED FROM UPCOMING GRANT MORRISON ACTION COMICS #1!! Just kidding. But here’s some stuff we do know about the upcoming revamped DCU: Action Comics and Justice League are set in the [...]

I figured, instead of breaking it up by media type, as I usually do in this column, I’ll do a Kasey Kasem reverse countdown. ‘Cause, I mean, everybody loves a list, right? Hit the break for news about Thor 2, But first, as per our new effort to boost trade sales and improve your reading [...]

This summer there are four—count ‘em: X-Men First Class, Thor, Green Lantern, and Captain America—major comic book movies coming out (not to mention the “minor” ones like Priest), and three of them involve characters created by Stan Lee.  So, I say to you: Stan Lee is the most important author of the 20th Century.  I [...]