#Comic Books
CYCLOPS And CAPTAIN AMERICA Staredown In Amazingly Awful ‘AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #2’ Teaser.
I haven’t been covering the endless teasers for Avengers Vs. X-Men, but I had to post this one for two seconds. First off, there’s no way that Cyclops could hang with Captain America. Secondly, it features the best/worst tagline ever somehow deemed worthy of being put on a promo.
Hit the jump to check it out.
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ALAN MOORE On The Fans Who Will Buy ‘BEFORE WATCHMEN’ ILU, Alan.
Yo! I’m riding on this here high horse, and I’m swooping down with some awesomeness from Alan Moore on the fans who will buy Before Watchmen. Note: I know he’s generalizing since I think Rendar and others here at OL are going to buy it, and they seem like decent enough people. You know. Friends. A brother. But still. I fist-pump to the sentiment while acknowledging the necessary middle ground everywhere in Existence.
Comic Book Single-Issue Sales JUMP 22% In February. Everybody Drink!
Comic books! Don’t put em down, they ain’t dead yet. Or, at least that’s what I extrapolate from the news that single-issue sales rose 22% this past February.
Marvel Announces DIGITAL-ONLY ‘Infinite Comics’ Imprint. Shots Fired!
At SXSW, Marvel unveiled its “ReEvolution” initiative. Brief aside: who the fuck is naming things at Marvel right now? They all sound like B-SIDES of all the already awful Final Fantasy descriptors. Anyways. Moving along. The most striking part of this new movement is the announcement of a digital-only line of comics. Welcome to the future?
RIP: Moebius, French Mind-Bendy Comics Legend.
Full disclosure: I’m not intimately associated with Mobeius and his work, though my brother and I were even recently expressing a desire to correct this utter lack. I do know that he was tremendously influential, and his ripple-down has infiltrated the work of my more specific heroes.
‘SPIDER-MEN #1’ Comes This June From Marvel. NOTE THE PLURAL.
Marvel’s announced uh, something, in the vein of Spider-Men #1 arriving this June. At least I was all “If those fucks get rid of Miles Morales I will literally cut them”, but then I noticed something…it isn’t the Ultimate universe.
Hit the jump for the promo and speculation.
Joe Quesada Responds To DC’s ‘New 52’ and ‘Avengers vs. X-Men’ Comparisons
Marvel COO and former artist (shots fired!) Joe Quesada has spouted off about all the DC ‘New 52’ and Avengers vs. X-Men comparisons. If you’ve half a brain, it’s pretty much the noise you were expecting.
ComiXology Collects Hickmans’s Image Minis Into One Digital Bundle. TREMENDOUS
Welcome to the power of the digital. This is fucking *awesome*. In order to promote Hickman’s latest series The Manhattan Projects, comiXology is packaging all of the dude-scribe-wizard’s miniseries into one $35 bundle. Can you fucking fathom this?
DC New Website Has Exclusive ‘Before Watchmen’ Content. Burn It!
Oh goody! There’s a new DC website launching, and it’s going to have oodles if Before Watchmen content. I wonder if Anonymous is busy?
ComiXology Has Had Over 50 Million Downloads; How Many Are Paid Though?
comiXology may very well be the shape of comic book things to come. You know, when the funny book farms have their doors closed and their windows shuttered. Some interesting stats have been revealed about the service, namely how many downloads there have been and just how big of a month last goddamn December was for them.
