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Comic-Con 2011: Marvel Updates Summary and Upcoming Titles List

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Five for Free on Mondays! Marvel is offering something special to, as they put it, “help you through your school and work week. Every Monday Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited will be posting newly digitalized comics, five of which will be free to non-subscribers. Even better, these new, free comics will be from recent collections or even [...]

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Comic-Con 2011: Dark Horse Fall Preview – Big Names with Big Upcoming Titles Equals Lots to Look Forward To!

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The Dark Horse fall lineup is exciting for science fiction, fantasy, and horror fans across the board. Along with its regular line of comics, Dark Horse announced three new comic book titles set to debut consecutively from October through December: Orchid by Tom Morello, House of Night by P.C. Cast, and The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck [...]

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Comic-Con 2011: Marvel Announces New Title, DEFENDERS

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   Defenders #1 Cover by Terry Dodson A-list team Matt Fraction and Terry Dodson come together once again in the upcoming Marvel series, Defenders, set to debut in December. This classic Marvel league of heroes will include Doctor Strange, Namor the Sub-Mariner, The Silver Surfer, Iron Fist, Red She-Hulk, as well as a rotation of other favorites. The [...]

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Either It’s In You Or It’s Not – Marvel Teases Next Event After FEAR ITSELF

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Fear Itself is to end in October. Consider Marvel can hardly go an issue without a big event, surely there is something to follow on it’s heels right? Of course there is. Today Marvel released the following teaser image with a promise to reveal more at Comic Con.  Find out more at the Fear Itself [...]

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Osama bin Laden: Big, Green, and very much Alive in the Pages of Savage Dragon

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  Erik Larsen, writer, artist, and creator of Image Comic’s title, Savage Dragon, doesn’t shirk from controversy for the sake of a well-written story. He’s already portrayed many political figures within his decade of writing this book: Hitler, both the Bush men, Barak Obama, even God and the Devil. And like the days of comics-old, he [...]

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Finally! Lady Mechanika #2 to be Released Next Week! Check out the Aspen Comics Preview

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Steampunk fans rejoice! Comic fans rejoice! Heck, everybody join in and rejoice because after a six month delay, Lady Mechanika #2 will finally  be released Wednesday July 13. This series has immediately captured audiences in a big way. It certainly captured the interest of the comic reviewer on Lytherus (me). If you aren’t sure what Lady Mechanika is but [...]

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Grant Morrison Discusses Starting Over with Superman’s Action Comics

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Action Comics will be going from 900+ issues, back to #1 this coming September. The writer who will be presenting this reboot for Action Comics fans is the well respected Grant Morrison. Morrison has big shoes to fill, considering that 1938 issue of Action Comics #1 was the debut of Superman by Jerry Siegel and Jim [...]

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Marvel to End Uncanny X-Men in October

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“After a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights,” – Marvel.com. An internal war is brewing in the corps of the X-Men (they just don’t really know it yet). The upcoming event, Schism, is set to end more than just the sometimes-fragile bond between alpha males and constant competitors Wolverine and Cyclops. Schism is going [...]

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What the DC revamp means for Batman: Titles and Images for Reissued Batman Released

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Ever wanted to own Batman issue #1? Or howabout Detective Comics issue #1. Well, your chance is coming. Of course those number ones will be the first of the Batman line of the new DC revamp coming in August. Here is a list of the other titles, as announce by DC  today: Batman #1: Written by [...]

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Excerpts From Time Travel YA Book “Ruby Red” and Gamer GN “Level Up”

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I was extremely excited to come across these excerpts. Ruby Red I almost purchased in the store, but at the last minute put it back and decided to go with my original choice (not for lack of interest; I had a coupon and book one was more money). But I was curious about it, and it [...]

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