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In Case You Missed It! A Round-Up of All the News That Mattered on February 16th, 2012

Columns

• Mignolaversity: B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Long Death #1

Podcasts

• The Hour Cosmic Episode 3: The Passion of the Croc Master Part 2

Reviews

• Road Rage #1
• Dawn of the Jedi #1
• Amazing Spider-Man #679.1
• DC Universe Presents #6

News

• The Incredible Hulk Is Forced To Stay Angry In New Arc
• Humphries To Write New Series For BOOM! - Higher Earth
• Niles, Mellon, Palmiotti, Gray and Noto Team Up For Creator Owned Heroes
• Humphries Joining Hickman on The Ultimates

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In Case You Missed It! - A Round-Up of All the News That Mattered on February 3rd, 2012

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Features

• Watch This: Boulet Makes A Steampunk Comic
• Finally, The One Forgotten Character In The Before Watchmen Series

Columns

• Friday Recommendation: The Alcoholic

Reviews

• Magic: The Gathering #1
• Uncanny X-Force #21
• GI Joe # 10
• Venom #13
• Justice League International #6
• The Twelve #9

News

• To to Replace Oliver on Batwing
• Robinson and Chang Bring Vandal Savage to DCU Presents
• Jane Goldman To Adapt Nonplayer For The Big Screen
• The Walking Dead Has Something To Fear
• Blacksad’s Fourth Volume (Finally) Gets Adapted For American Audiences
• Marvel Releases Four ENDS OF THE EARTH Teasers
• DC Reveals “The Liefeld Line-Up”

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In Case You Missed It! - A Round-Up of all the news that mattered on September 29th!

1. Dark Horse Announces NYCC 2011 Exclusive: I can’t tell you what it is here, check out the link!
2. Cassie Hack To Clash Against Victor Crowley In Hack/Slash Annual: The popular horror comic will meet one of the grand daddies of horror in this annual coming up!
3. Elephantmen Giant-Size Issue To Combine Three Issues In One Package: The increasingly popular book is releasing a special edition, awesome!
4. IDW Launches New Ongoing Ghostbusters Book: I AIN’T AFRAID OF NO BOOK
5. Joe Casey’s Dr. Bizarre, M.D. Set For October Release: Joe Casey and Image are releasing a new book about a globe-trotting Supernatural doctor. It looks awesome!
6. The New Defenders Team Gets Two More Members: Nick Fury and Ant-Man? INTERESTING!
7. Jason Aaron Talks Wolverine and the X-Men on Twitter: There are a lot of tidbits coming out of Aaron, including the addition of DOOP! DOOP!
8. Matt Fraction To Write GQ’s We Got ‘Em Comic: In addition to Marvel Comics, the Fear Itself Scribe is going to write a non-fiction comic about the death of Osama bin Laden? OK.
9. Morgan Edge Gets A New Look In The DcnU: Did anyone ask for a Raceboot? How about Morgan Edge? EH? EH?
10. Carol Watch ‘11 Week 4: You know that mysterious hooded lady? We call her Carol. And she’s STILL everywhere!! Look at it!
11. Violence in Comics: How Far is Too Far?: Matt discusses the issue of disturbing violence in comics, brought about by Kick-Ass 2 #4. Gonna throw up a trigger/trauma warning for y’all on this one. 
12. Joshua Luna To Write/Draw New Solo Mini Whispers: Half of the popular Luna Bros. is going to write his own comic. Guy, this is like a Coen Brother going on his own. Epic news.
13. Voodoo #1 Review: Matt read Voodoo! It’s from the new 52! Check out what he thinks!
14. Watch This: New Walking Dead Season 2 Trailer: I know you’re excited for the new season! Here’s another teaser!
15. Superman #1 Review: Gil read Superman for you to tell you how good it is. Aren’t you excited?
16. Teen Titans #1 Review: Brian analyzes the new Teen Titans book and tells you how good it actually is. Check it out!
17. Blackhawks #1 Review: David tells you how he FEEELS about the new action book from the DcnU, check it out!
18. All-Star Western #1 Review: Somehow Jonah Hex’s status quo changed because of Flashpoint! Yeah, I don’t know either! but hey, here’s a review!

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In Case You Missed It! A Round-Up Of All The News That Mattered On September 7th-8th, 2011

1. Zombies vs. Robots To Get Novelization: The popular IDW Franchise is getting some books published without dem dhere pikchturs!
2. Top Shelf’s Massive $3 Web Sale Has Begun!: Great stuff here for cheap!
3. Teaser Preview: Fearless: The new Image Book has a teaser, check it out!
4. IDW Debuts Graphic Novels on Apple iBooks: Do you have an iPhone or iPad? Yes? Then you need to see this!
5. Carol Watch ‘11 - Week One: That sassy hooded lady from Flashpoint is popping up all over the DCnU, and here’s a lowdown of where she’s been!
6. Wolverine Goes After Alpha Flight: Because Wolverine doesn’t appear in enough books as it is.
7. Fraction’s Last of the Independents To Be Reprinted Through Icon: If you like Fraction, this is probably something you need to know.
8. Marvel Releases Full X-Men Blue Team Line-Up: Cyclops and Emma’s merry band of mutant misfits makes its debut! (I love alliteration)
9. Oracle Addresses the Batgirl Reboot: Check out this video if you love Babs.
10. Help Do Something Nice for Mike Meyer: Mike is a big fan of Superman. Mike got screwed over by some asshat. Let’s help him out, shall we?
11. Casanova Avaritia #1 Review: Matt takes a look at Fraction’s creator-owned title Casanova. Is it worth adding to your collection? Find out!
12. Scott Snyder Dishes on Swamp Thing: Scott Snyder is the new Swamp Thing writer. If you’re at all interested, maybe you should check it out.
13. J. Scott Campbell Adds Variant Cover For The Infinite: YAY! Tumblr LOVES J. Scott Campbell
14. Marvel Releases Full X-Men Gold Team Line-up: Maybe instead of Scott and Emma, you’d like Logan’s Labor of Love as Leader of Mutants
15. Wolverine: Debt of Death Review: Hey, more Wolverine! Badical!
16. Digiversity: Digital Spotlight: Check out Ryan’s digital comic spotlight for hte week of September 9th!
17. X-Factor #224.1 Review: Gil looks at the new reader friendly X-Factor book. Is it good? Read and find out!
18. Thunderbolts #163 Review: Captain America and Namor are on the team, ABUH?! Patrick tells us if that’s a shot in the arm or a kick in the junk, check it out!
19. Friday Recommendation - Black Panther: The Man Without Fear: Josh tells you exactly why you should have read Black Panther.
20. Jennifer Blood #4 Review: Patrick looks at Garth Ennis’ OTHER title Jennifer Blood. How did it do? Check it out!

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In Case You Missed! A Round-Up of All The News From July 28, 2011

1. Colleen Doran Reveals Original Wonder Woman Redesigns: Kind of a “woulda been nice” thing, but check out these lovely designs that went unused.
2. SDCC ‘11 Aftermath - All Dark Horse Books Start for $1: Dark Horse is like your local crack dealer. Get ‘em hooked for cheap.
3. Amazing Spider-Man #666 Review: Walt talks about the new Spider-Man Event Spider-Island. Does it give him powers, or does it simply make him want to reach for the nearest can of bug spray? Click to find out!
4. The Cape #1 Review: Matt tells us all about the new IDW Series The Cape. Hopefully it’s better than the OTHER The Cape. The show, not the one-shot from last year.
5. Captain America & Bucky #620 Review: Patrick dissects the new take on the Cap and Bucky dynamic from the 40’s. This was a bit controversial on Twitter when it was posted, so you might need to see this!
6. Teen Titans #98 Review: Matt’s back with the Teen Titans. What does he think of the J.T. Krul/Nicola Scott book hitting the home stretch before it relaunches?
7. Bendis Reveals Powers’ Johnny Royale: On Twitter. But we have a screen shot just for you. Check out who it is!
8. Kick-Ass 2 To Return in August: What kind of shenanigans are they going to get into this time! That Kick-Ass and Hit-Girl, they’re such SCAMPS.
9. AMC Releases Statement Regarding The Walking Dead Changes: Frank Darabont leaveing is a big deal. Here’s what AMC has to say.
10. Marvel Releases New Ultimate Spider-Man Teaser: SIX DAYS SIX DAYS SIX DAYS.
11. EXCLUSIVE Preview - Drums #3: Thanks to the people at Image Comics, we have something great to show you guys! Check out this exclusive preview before you’ll see it at “the other guys.” You won’t find this on Newsarama! You won’t find this on CBR! And Rich Johnston WISHES he got this!

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In Case You Missed It! - a Round Up of all the News From San Diego Comic-Con 2011

1. DC To Publish Uncharted Comic By Williamson and Francavilla: The popular Sony Playstation franchise is being adapted into a comic! Cool!
2. Strain Officially Comes To Dark Horse: Guillermo Del Toro’s book series hits the 4 color medium!
3. Dark Horse Announces Three New Titles: If you want good comics, check these out.
4. Lois Lane’s New Squeeze Is…: If he were on The O.C., he’d have been a Water Polo Player.
5. Avengers Teaser Poster and Site Revealed: Prepare your nerd boners!
6. Rumor Mill - The Sixth Gun Coming to The Small Screen: This book is like Unforgiven meets Lord of the Rings. The show…I can only imagine.
7. Frank Miller’s Holy Terror Gets a Trailer: Oh happy day. Frank Miller gets more work.
8. Image/Skybound Announce “Album”: Kirkman and Adlard (from The Walking Dead) have their new title. 
9. Man of Steel Gets Pushed to Summer 2013: You mean I have to wait LONGER?!
10. Star Trek meets The Legion of Super-Heroes in July: Pardon me while I DIE laughing. And then pick up this title. For real.
11. IDW Announce John Romita’s Amazing Spider-Man - Artist Edition: Sr., not Jr.
12. Popeye Returns to Comics at IDW: IDW is like a licensing KING, let me tell you.
13. Marvel’s Next Big Thing Live Panel announces To New Books and More: Villains for Hire sounds a little like Secret Six, but that’s just me.
14. Amazing Spider-Man Gets a Teaser Poster: Check it Out Above!
15. Tim Bradstreet Designs Creepy Walking Dead Season 2 Poster: Check this one out at the link!
16. Archaia Announces Cow Boy by Nate Cosby and Christ Eliopoulous: And it looks ADORABLE.
17. THUNDER Agents Survives in the DCnU: And we couldn’t be happier!
18. Marvel and Capcom Re-Release Marvel vs. Capcom 3 - ULTIMATE STYLE: You had me at Rocket Raccoon
19. Witch Doctor Gets a Second Volume: And I am THRILLED.
20. Wolverine and The X-Men Cover Revealed (Sorta): and it is awesome!
21. Marvel Brings Us The Fearless: More Fear Itself news, dealing with the fallout of the Marvel Event.
22. Walking Dead Season 2 Gets a Trailer: I cannot WAIT until October
23. Marvel Teases Something with Spider-Man, Kane, and Burning: Hopefully it doesn’t TASTE like burning…
24. Fear Itself, Schism, and Children’s Crusade All End Together: And it was on purpose. Have you been reading them all?
25. Deadpool to Just Become Dead in 2012?: One can only hope.
26. Marvel To Release “Remastered” 20th Anniversary Edition of Claremont/Lee’s X-Men #1: 20 years? Time sure flies…
27. Brian Wood’s The Massive To Come from Dark Horse: that’s what she said.
28. Hellboy 3 To Maybe Actually Happen (Eventually): Color me stoked!
29. Is Ryan Choi back for the DCnU?: If so, I imagine Gail Simone is THRILLED.
30. Brian K. Vaughan Announces Saga from Image: Along with Fiona Staples, and we couldn’t be happier.
31. Check Out The Green Lantern Series Preview: It’s CGI, It has Hal Jordan! It has…headbutts to the face! Aw yeaaaahhhh!
32. Keatinge and Cho to Release Brutal: It comes in 2012, and it looks…brutal.
33. Marvel Announces Cable Reborn: Remember when Marvel said deaths would mean something? I don’t either…
34. Howard Chaykin Brings Back Black Kiss: Yay?
35. Lemire’s Underwater Welder Set For Summer 2012 Release: It looks great too.
36. Vertigo Announces new Fable’s Spin-off: It’s called Fairest. I’m just glad it’s not called Fairest and Balancest. (Because you know…Bill Willingham is a conservative…oh nevermind)
37. Hickman Announces Two More Image Titles: Another Multiversity Favorite Announces more titles from Image. It looks like Image is the place to be!
38. Marvel Teases Avengers Film With Concept Posters: OooooooOOoooOOOOoooohhhhhHHHhh
39. Conan Brings The Flaming C to Comic-Con: BEWARE HIS OVEN MITTS OF JUSTICE
40. Scalped to End with Issue #60: A bloo bloo bloo :(
41. Andrew Garfield is a Wonderful Person: He shows up to the panel in a Spider-Man costume. As a fan. You officially love him. Fact.
42. Eisner Award Winners Announced: When can we have an award show where Jason Aaron shows up in the same get-up Brian Wilson wore to the ESPY’s? That might be too chilling to imagine.
43. Image Announces Three New Title and a Hatchet/Hack-Slash Crossover: Iamge is just pumping out the titles lately.
44. Doctor Who 6.2 Gets a Sweet New Trailer: Awwww yeahhhhh
45. Marvel Reveals New Hulk Book: Just because they don’t want Jason Aaron to ever sleep again.
46. Marvel Unveils New Hulk Concept Poster: More Avengers teasing. Your nerd senses are buzzing.
47. Fraction and Dodson on new Defenders Book: Sweeeeeeeeet.
48. Marvel Announces Battle Scars: You’re not tired of these are you? Especially when it’s done by JRJr? OF COURSE NOT.
49. The Dark Knight Returns Gets Animated: Oh. I am SO thrilled.

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In Case You Missed It: A Round Up of the News That Mattered on July 13, 2011

1. Can Marz and Sejic Deliver Us From Evil?: The blockbuster team of Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic have a new title from Top Cow, and it looks AMAZING.
2. Amanda Palmer and Jason Webley Present Evelyn Evelyn: Something you have to see for yourself. Check it out.
3. Image Bulks Up With The Strange Talent of Luther Strode: Find out just what you need to know about the book Image thinks you HAVE to read.
4. Locke and Key Mania Come to SDCC: They want to LOCKE into your attention and then throw away the key! (ok, that was bad…)
5. Benaroya Holds Pre-Comic-Con Meet & Greet: Here’s your chance to meet up with some awesome creators, all solids guys. If you’re going to SDCC, check this out!
6. Elric: The Balance Lost #1 Sells Out:  Whatever, we knew them before they were huge.
7. Milk & Cheese To Be Collected in Deluxe Hardcover: That’s not vegan…
8. Critically Acclaimed Top Cow Series Approaches Finale: Dale Keown comes on-board to close out the epic Top Cow event Artifacts.
9. Are you Addicted To Aliens? New Book From Image This October: Check out Xenoholics, if you know what’s good for you. Anal probes suck.
10. Dark Horse Continues To Tease…Something: There’s a new book from Dark Horse…we’re not quite sure what it’s all about.
11. Aspen Releases Exclusives From Comic-Con: Here’s your chance to check out exclusive news from the biggest nerdgasm on he planet!
12. Green Lantern Spoiler Alert: Click at your own risk.
13. Marvel Launches Retailer Incentive For Stores: Here’s a list of a bunch of things I’m not sure I understand, but retailers might!
14. Frank Cho to Launch Guns and Dinos:Guns AND Dinosaurs? SIGN ME THE EFF UP.
15. Infinite Kung-Fu Gets a Stellar Trailer: You need to see this!
16. The Red She-Hulk Might Have Something Inside Her: Is this an upcoming episode of “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant?”
17. Brian Wood Dishes on the Icelandic Trilogy (Part One Out Today!): Do you love Northlanders? Then you need to see this.
18. Dark Knight Rises/Amazing Spider-Man Trailer Descriptions Hit The Web: Your next nerd boners reside in here. Trust me.
19. Red Wing #1 Review: David looks at Red Wing from Image Comics and tells us (or not) if it’s Jason Todd’s and Dick Grayson’s adopted baby, or not.
20. Fund It! The Illuminati: Walt wants an Illuminati book. I do too. He tells you who should helm it. He’s demanding like that.
21. What Is The Secret Behind the New Marvel Teasers?: Marvel loves their codes now. See if you can figure them out.

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In Case You Missed It - A Round Up of all the news and articles that mattered (July 9-11, 2011)

1. The Weekend Week in Review (July 9, 2011): Walt takes a tongue in cheek pass at a bunch of titles that came out last week.
2. Matt’s Got You Covered: Matt takes over for Burpee in his covers article and says what he thinks was the best this week.
3. IDW Announces Comic-Con Exclusives: They said “I’mma give those fans exclusives. Fans LOVES exclusives.”
4. Multiversity Comics Presents - Eric Stephenson: David talks to THE man at Image Comics. Anyone less than thrilled with the big two should listen up.
5. Who Are The Mighty?: First we had “The Worthy” in Fear Itself; now we have “The Mighty.” But where is “The Quality?”
6. Tin Tin Brings Excitment, Awesomeness To The Big Screen: Who doesn’t love Tin Tin? The Soulless, that’s who. Check out this trailer!
7. Multiversity 101 Special Edition - Observations at The Half: Josh and David tell us what’s going right and wrong with the two big summer events, both at their mid way point.
8. A New Iron Fist Series?: Check out the teaser in all its…slight Tumblr-ish Typographic glory.
9. DCnU - New Huntress Mini-Series Coming From Levitz, To. Coming in October: DC didn’t forget about everyone’s favorite sort of Batgirl Huntress. But they DID forget the Belly Window!
10. DCnU - Penguin: Pain and Prejudice: Check out the solicit for the Penguin Mini Waddling its way to your comic shop come October.
11. Burchett, Newsom and Rucka Combine for Lady Sabre Webcomic: Because he clearly doesn’t have enough to do, here’s Greg Rucka with a new webcomic.
12. The Latest Teaser For The Infinite Wants Something: Another day, another Liefeld drawn teaser. Aren’t y’all pleased?
13. Image Announces the Panels for SDCC: Check out everything Image at SDCC!
14. 23 Words That Say Why You Should Buy The Strange Talent of Luther Strode: You didn’t think I’d tell you HERE, did you?
15. The Dark Knight Rises Gets a Teaser Poster: Oh, it’s a city skyline. In the shape of a bat. clever.

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In Case You Missed It - Thursday, June 2, 2011

1. DC in September - What’s Real and What Isn’t [UPDATED!]: Still trying to figure out this DC Relaunch deal? Here is an article to help you navigate, updated with more newsbits
2. Image Comics at HeroesCon This Weekend: This one is pretty self explanatory. You going to be at HeroesCon? Go say hi!
3. Top Shelf Re-Releasing Beautiful New Edition of Blankets: If you haven’t read the book yet, now’s a good chance to jump on the bandwagon. Deatils at the link!
4. IDW To Release New True Blood Comic: I think this one speaks for itself, but click the link for more details.
5. Dark Horse Announces Digital Exclusives for Stores: Well, here’s one way to support the emerging Digital Market as well as Brick & Mortar Stores.
6. Review - Flashpoint #2: Click here to see Matt’s thoughts on the book that will irrevocably alter the DCU as we know it.
7. Review - Fear Itself #3:  Matt One-Two Punch at Event Reviews continues as he takes a lot at MARVEL’S event, Fear Itself #3!
8. DC Announces Eleven of their Fifty-Two Books: From Justice League International to Mr. Terrific, get a low-down on the books that will be the first out of the gate in the New-U
9. MGA Study Hall #4: Matt and Crit continue their retrospective of the hit Morning Glories title from Image and Shadowline! Don’t forget to check out Study Halls for Issues One, Two, Three, Seven, Eight, and Nine, respectively.
10. Zatanna Goes Missing from The Search For Swamp Thing: DC wants us to ask “Where’s Swamp Thing?” We’re asking “Where’s Zatanna?”
11. Review: 50 Girls 50 #1: Frank Cho draws some pretty ladies. And now he’s back with his own story about strong ladies…IN SPACE.
12. Review - Batman: Knight of Vengeance #1 (of 3): Dr. Thomas Wayne is a badass. But how badass? Read this review to find out!
13. Multiversity’s DC Wishlist: Check out what we as a site want from DC post-Flashpoint.
14. DC to Offer Digital Code with Comics: Want a digital comic to go with your print? Well, DC has you covered!
15. What IS Brian Wood Working On?: Do you know?