Happy Birthday, Tom Spurgeon!
You would have been 52 today, and we all still miss you.
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Marc Alan Fishman’s Snarky Synopsis: The New 52 – Futures End #7
Written by Brian Azzarello, Jeff Lemire, Dan Jurgens, and Keith Giffen. Art by Aaron Lopresti, Art Thibert, and Hi-Fi. I beg you, dear reader, to not skim over the author credits in this review. Azzarello. Lemire. Jurgens. Giffen. A master of noir, the macabre, cape and cowl, and team action. I want you to let…
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Go read “The Horror Lovers”!
http://horrorloverscomic.com/post/85821885752 What if the Marx Brothers ran Roger Corman’s movie studio? Find out in “The Horror Lovers”, created by Valerie Gallaher and Bobby Timony!
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52 To Prose and Sound
Hot on the heels of our Infinite Crisis review (audio edition) comes word that 52 is getting the exact same treatment: a novelization this July by Greg Cox, and a full-cast audio adaptation by GraphicAudio. Greg tells our Glenn Hauman: "I thought I’d shamelessly plug the 52 novel, which goes on sale in a couple…
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MARTHA THOMASES: 52-Skiddoo
This is the week that DC’s 52 came to a close. The company’s first attempt at a weekly comic since Action Comics Weekly more than 15 years ago, unless you count Mike Carlin’s interconnecting but freestanding Superman series. It was, by most accounts, a commercial and critical success. 52 re-defined what comics can do, as…
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Sales spurt continues into ’07
Good news from our friends at ICv2 — the rise in sales of periodical comics last year is continuing, thanks largely to event comcis like Marvel’s Civil War and DC’ 52. There was a less than 5% drop between Civil War #s 5 and 6, and the most recent issue sold more than twice as…