Help John Ostrander Fight Glaucoma

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Published July 22, 2009 at 9:00 a.m.
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Longtime comics scribe John Ostrander needs your help. After a continued battle with Glaucoma, the "Batman," "X-Men," and "Justice League" writer needs an expensive operation to ensure the integrity of his eyesight ... To help, Gail Simone and friends ... Read more ...   ... Permalink  Email this  Linking Blogs  Comments ...

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FAQs For The San Diego Comic Con

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Published July 18, 2009 at 11:40 a.m.

Okay ... Things are going to be a bit patchy here for the next seven days, due to work and travel ... So no more Station Idents, I’m just going to post when I can ... FAQs for San Diego, then: ... * PLANETARY #27 comes out in October, I’m told ... * FELL #10 is underway right now on this end, so don’t bug Ben ... We’re on it ... It’ll be a while before it’s ready ... * DESOLATION JONES remains in temporary limbo for various reasons ... Wildstorm and I are working on it, is all

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IN-DEPTH: Ethan Van Sciver

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Published July 16, 2009 at 5:44 p.m.

With "Blackest Night" on sale now, artist Ethan Van Sciver goes in-depth with CBR about his involvement with the epic Green Lantern saga as well as his earlier work on "Cyberfrog," "Impulse," "New X-Men" and more ...

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Happy Birthday, Colleen Coover!

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Published July 13, 2009 at 11:01 p.m.
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is a truth universally acknowledged," wrote somebody famous named Jane who wasn't Jane Wiedlin, "that all the best people have birthdays in July ." It's true! Starting on July First with Missy Elliott, Alan Ruck, Debbie Harry, Leslie Caron, and a way cool guy some of you may be familiar with, all the way up to July Thirty-First with J. K. Rowling, Ted Cassidy, and Dean Cain ... with Kate Bush, Phil Proctor, Beatrix Potter, Gracie Allen, Mick Jagger, Arthur Treacher, Raymond Chandler, Diana

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Ryan Reynolds Is Green Lantern, Natalie Portman in 'Thor'

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Published July 13, 2009 at 3:30 p.m.
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Several major casting announcements have come down the pipeline for upcoming supehero movies, including Ryan Reynolds -- who recently starred as the Marvel vigilante Deadpool in "X-Men: Origins: Wolverine" -- beating out Bradley Cooper and Justin ... Read more ...   ... Permalink  Email this  Linking Blogs  Comments ...

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Marvel's 25th Anniversary - who's left?

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Published July 13, 2009 at 12:10 p.m.
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Marvel's 70th Anniversary covers made me look over at Sean Kleefeld's old post with all of Marvel's 25th Anniversary covers from 1986 ... and I got to thinking: what happened to all these books? ... Of Marvel's 27 (including Dr Strange who didn't get a cover) ongoing books at the time - and bear in mind that Marvel shipped 39 titles in just one week recently! - 6 of them were the Star Comics' kids line (Care Bears, Ewoks, Heathcliff, Masters of the Universe, Muppet Babies and Peter Porker) ... 4

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Marvel 70th Anniversary Variants: X-Men!

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Published July 10, 2009 at 10:28 a.m.

Courtesy of Marvel, CBR brings you exclusive first looks at the 70th Anniversary variant covers for the publisher's X-Men line of books, featuring the art of Greg Land, Rob Liefeld, Harvey Tolibao, Jason Levesque and more ...

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The List: 7/9/09

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Published July 9, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
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Short reactions to recently read comics ... Johnny Hiro Vol. 1 - I bought all three issues of Fred Chao's justifiably well-praised book as they came out, but I planned on picking up the trade anyway to help support an artist (and book) I admire, and because I wanted to be able to easily grab this off the shelf whenever I wanted ... Getting two entire issues' worth of new material, and several pages of new strips and chapter page art besides made the decision even easier ... There's nothing I

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New Library Comics: June 2009

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Published July 8, 2009 at 8:43 a.m.
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Here are the new comics that we added to the library's collection in June: ... Allred, Mike (Mike Dalton) Madman atomic comics vol. 1 / Berkeley, CA : Image Comics, c2008- ... Angst : the best of norwegian comics vol. 2 / Oslo, Norway : Jippi Comics : No Comprendo Press, 2007- ... Bailey, Neal. Michelle Obama. / [Vancouver, Wash.] : Bluewater Comics, [2009] ... Baker, Kyle. Special forces bk. 1. Hot to death / Berkeley, Calif. : Image Comics, 2009- ... Brinkley, Nell, 1886-1944. The Brinkley

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Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: May 2009

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Published July 7, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

by Paul O’BrienIt’s an uneventful month, in every sense of the word ... By ICV2’s estimates, sales were down a massive 19% compared with the previous year ... But then, that’s hardly surprising ... May 2008 saw the release of FINAL CRISIS #1, SECRET INVASION #2, INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #1, GIANT-SIZE ASTONISHING X-MEN #1 and [ ... ] ...

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