Comics You Should Own

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Published June 13, 2010 at 9:58 a.m.

Greg Burgas is now in his fifth year of telling you what Comics You Should Own, so its time to look back and check out the comics that have made his list so far, including runs from "Animal Man," "Amazing Spider-Man" and more! ...

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Image Comics On Sale June 16, 2010

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Published June 12, 2010 at 12:58 p.m.

Image Comics has provided CBR with advance looks at new comics on sale June 16, including "Age of Bronze" #30, "Fade to Black" #4, "Forgetless" #5, "Savage Dragon" #161, and "Shuddertown" #3! ...

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If I Ran Marvel Comics...

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Published June 8, 2010 at 7:10 p.m.
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then I'd introduce just what the comics world needs ... another X-Men title! No, no, I wouldn't call it X-Cess ... that'd be too much truth in advertising. I'd bring out a brand new X-Men #1 ("the first X-Men 1 in nearly twenty years," sez Marvel ... go ahead, collect 'em all!). I'd take the fine artwork of Victor Gischler and Paco Medina's advance pages for this new X-comic (you can see the pages here). And then I'd jettison all that vampire nonsense and bring aboard some good old

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We've Moved the Comics!

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Published June 8, 2010 at 3:19 p.m.
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As part of our library-wide reshelving (we're integrating the monographs and the journals), the comics & graphic novels have been moved from the basement to their new home on the second floor (east side of the building). They are no longer in compact shelving and are on the more spacious regular shelving. There is now natural light (indirect) and plenty of growth space ... Here are some pictures: ... View down the aisle ... View face-on. Look at all that growth space! ... Some Manwha. Again,

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New Library Comics: May 2010

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Published June 4, 2010 at 12:25 p.m.
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Here's a list of a comics we added to our library collection in May: ... Adam, Peggy. Luchadoras / Madrid : Sinsentido, c2007 ... Alexander-Tanner, Ryan. Television. Issue Number One, "The pilot" : a comic book / [S.l.] : Ohyesverynice Comics, [2007] ... Archer, Dan. Archcomix no. 1 / [S.l.] : archcomix.com, c2009- ... Archer, Dan. Whopper / Palo Alto, CA : [archcomix.com], 2009 ... Aya, princess of darkness no. 1. / Giza, Egypt : AK Comics, 2005- ... Bagge, Peter. Hate annual. no. 8 / Seattle,

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Hollywood Exposure Helping Comics

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Published May 14, 2010 at 10:09 a.m.

There is a very clear trend now with comics that are made in to movies or TV shows.  No matter how well the property does, especially in the case of a movie, it still helps drive sales of the comics they are based on.  This is a interesting trend now as traditionally print comics have [ ... ] ...

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Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber's 'Underground' TPB Covers for Every Publisher [Exclusive]

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Published May 3, 2010 at 5:30 p.m.
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Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber's 5-issue "Underground" series from Image Comics gets collected in trade paperback form this Wednesday and the creative team is going to great lengths to get the word out. Working from the idea that more publishers equals ... Read more ...   ... Permalink  Email this  Linking Blogs  Comments ...

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SWIPE FILE: 'Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose' vs. Courage Wolf

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Published May 3, 2010 at 4:45 p.m.
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I make fun of Jim Balent's comics on a pretty regular basis (in fact, I tend to do it on the same bimonthly schedule that the book comes out), but don't get the wrong idea: I never want that guy to stop making comics. There is a certain kind of ... Read more ...   ... Permalink  Email this  Linking Blogs  Comments ...

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FCBM6 Day 3

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Published May 3, 2010 at 3:59 p.m.
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It's day three of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our next selected entry is from Billy Hogan. The five comics that Billy listed are: ... 1. Superman ... 2. Legion of Super-Heroes ... 3. Powers ... 4. Planetary ... 5. Echo ... And his other ... thing of interest is the new JJ Abrams Star Trek film ... For Billy I have all four issues of Adam Cogan & Ryan Cody's Villains series ... For Billy's bonus comic, I'm sending him the Star Trek Halloween comic ... Billy's ... comics

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EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: "Batman Confidential" #44

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Published May 3, 2010 at 2:58 p.m.

Courtesy of DC Comics, CBR brings you an exclusive preview of "Batman Confidential" #44 by Kevin VanHook and Tom Mandrake, on sale this week in comics stores everywhere ...

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