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Star Wars Day?  That’s so played out, folks.  Today is MORNING GLORIES DAY!  Happy Birthday to Zoe, Casey, Jade, Ike, Hunter and Jun! 

I don’t have a new birthday pic done up, so here’s an oldie in honor of the kids’ birthdays.

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In Case You Missed It! - A Round-Up of All the News that Mattered on February 22th, 2012

Features

• Multiversity Comics Presents: Colleen Coover
• Hembeck Covers The Avengefuls (Exclusive)

Columns

• Art of the Week (Week of 2/22/2012)
• MGA Study Hall: Issue #16
• Haunted Trails - Issue #19
• Soliciting Multiversity: Image’s May 2012

News

• Mignola Preaches Patience, Hellboy in Hell Is On The Way
• Gillen, McKelvie, and Wilson Are Ready for One More Time
• Mind The Gap Begins The Mystery With Free 9-Page Digital Prologue (Preview)

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In Case You Missed It! - A Round-Up of All the News that Mattered on January 18th, 2012

Features

1. The Hour Cosmic Episode 1: Lobster Genre
2. 4 Color News and Brews: LIEFELDMANIA (Part Five)
3. Soliciting Multiversity: DC’s April 2012
4. MGA Study Hall: Issue #15
5. Multiversity 101: Out With the Old, In With the New?

News

1. All The Justification You Need To Buy A Serpent Uncoiled In Two Minutes And Fifteen Seconds
2. Whatever Wiebe And Rossmo Have Planned With Debris, You Want It

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My contribution to the 2012 ‘Monsters & Dames’ artbook that will be available exclusively at the next Emerald City Comic Con, at which I am a guest.  The original inks will also be available there as part of the auction for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. More info here: http://www.emeraldcitycomicon.com/monstersndames.php

This was the first piece I’ve done on my new Cintiq 24HD!

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Homework!

I don’t have enough copies of Morning Glories. I should probably get this too.

And by “I should get this” I mean everyone following me should get this.

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In Case You Missed It! - A Round-Up of All the News That Mattered On October 6th-7th,2011

October 6th, 2011

1. Schism #5 Review: The X-Men event that will change the X-Men forever has finished! What did Matt think about it though? Check it!
2. Marvel to Offer Free Digital Copies with Print Copies of Avenging Spider-Man: Marvel, like a true visionary, will steal ideas from competitors! This is not a bad thing in my opinion!
3. MGA Study Hall Special Edition Issue #11: Nick and Joe are back with more commentary about the runaway Image Comics hit, Morning Glories! Check it out!
4. MGA Study Hall Special Edition Issue #12: Here’s some MORE commentary! I bet you’re sick of these guys by now! No? I know, they’re so charming.
5. Huntress #1 (of 6) Review: She’s back in the DCnU, and she brought Paul Levitz and Marcus To with her! And Gil’s gonna tell you how it was! Awesome! Exclamation points!
6. Action Comics #2 Review: Brian takes a look at Action Comics #2. What?! Gil didn’t review it?! 
7. Swamp Thing #2 Review: Josh reviews one of the books with the biggest buzz in the DCnU, Swamp Thing! Check it out!
8. Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant! Collection Debuts as a NYT #1: Congratulations to Kate Beaton! 

October 7th, 2011

1. MGA Study Hall Special Edition Wrap Up: After an epic week of commentary, here’s an easy reference of all the interviews here! If you love Morning Glories, you should check this out!
2. DCnU; Batman Top September Sales Charts: Here’s a breakdown of the sales for last month, with some pleasant surprises! Yay comics!
3. Limited Empowered Deluxe Edition to Offer High End Masturbation: Who doesn’t love masturbation? The soulless, that’s who.
4. Jim Shooter Reviews Red Hood and Catwoman; Reaches Same Conclusions as Rest of Internet: Wanna see what a comics veteran thinks about the DCnU? Sure you do!
5. Superior #5 Review: David tells you how he feels about the much delayed Mark Millar/Leinil Yu joint, Superior! Check it!
6. Whatever Happened to the Krul of Tomorrow?: Seriously, the guys books are not good, but Teen Titans was? Why?
7. Casanova: Avaritia #2 Review: Check out David’s review of the Matt Fraction Creator-Owned Title Casanova! Is it better than Fear Itself? Only David can tell you.
8. Supernatural #1 (of 6) Review: Gil likes his mini-series’ apparently! Check out his thoughts on the adaptation of the popular CW franchise!
9. Brian Wood to Write Something Involving Quentin Quire: This is awesome news if you love Brian Wood and Quentin Quire like we do! Awesome!
10. Animal Man #2 Review: Patrick reviewed one of the other big surprises from the DCnU, Animal Man! How did it do though? Click the link to find out!
11. Avengers 1959 #1 (of 5) Review: Matt loves him some Avengers. Here he talks about the new mini starring the Avengers from 52 years ago. Wait…52? I thought that was a DC thing!
12. Digiversity: Digital Spotlight (Week 10/07/11): Ryan discusses the new digital releases this week, check this out!
13. Stormwatch #2 Review: Brian reviewed the Paul Cornell book Stormwatch just for you. You should read it to say thanks.
14. Friday Recommendation: The 100 Titles You Can’t Buy From Barnes & Noble: Because of DC releasing their graphic novels digitally through the Amazon Kindle Fire, B&N had a hissy fit and pulled a LOT of DC’s mostfamous books from their shelves. Check out what you should buy on that new Kindle or from your favorite LCS or from amazon. Seriously B&N, talk about a worthless gesture.

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In Case You Missed It! - A Round-Up of All the News That Mattered on October 5th, 2011

1. Exclusive Preview - Undying Love Volume 1: Check out some bonus artwork from the new trade!
2. The Strange Talent of Luther Strode #1 Review: David reviewed the hotly anticipated Image book just for you; so you should read it.
3. Art of the Week (10/05/2011): Check out this quick art gallery, with work from Tradd Moore and David Lafuente!
4. The Walking Dead #89 Review: David also read the new Walking Dead book. You should read this too.
5. MGA Study Hall Special Edition Issue #9: David and Crit continue their special editions of the MGA Study Halls with Joe Eisma and Nick Spencer, discussing the characters and plots in-depth.
6. MGA Study Hall Special Edition Issue #10: In case you haven’t had enough Joe and Nick, here’s more talk about Shadowline’s book Morning Glories!
7. Longbox Diving: Hellboy - Seed of Destruction: Matt takes a look at the original Hellboy story to find the story threads tied up in the most recent arc! Check this out!
8. 4 Color News and Brews - September to Remember (Part Four): David and Brandon are drunk, and yet they STILL discuss comic books. Also: Brandon punches himself in the junk. If THAT’S not enough reason to watch it, I don’t know what is.

A tease of what is coming from Multiversity this week (Taken with instagram)

For reference, 346 minutes = almost 6 hours worth of material.

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In Case You Missed It! - A Round-Up of all the news that happened from August 17th-19th, 2011

Wednesday August 17th, 2011

1. Marvel Experiments With a Daredevil Audiobook: A very cool idea that has finally come. Marvel made good on this one
2. OUR LOVE IS REAL Comes to Image!: The indie sensation finds its way to Image! Check the link for the full press release!
3. Mike Carey Wraps Up His X-Men: Legacy Run: After six years, Mike Carey is turning over the reins to one of the flagship titles in the X-Universe.
4. Doctor Who 6.2 Gets a Prequel-sode: Grab your hankies!
5. Batman: Earth One Has a Cover And a Release Date: Hold on to your butts!
6. Dysart, D’Errico Bring Helmet Girls To Life in 2012: With some stunning art, check it out beyond the link!
7. Morning Glories Gets a Deluxe Edition: If you haven’t had the chance to read this fantastic book, here’s your chance. All in one sitting.
8. Speculation Central: What’s Going to Happen With The X-Men Books?: Here we guess at what’s going to happen with the new status quo post-Schism.
9. DCnU Trailer/Commercial Premiere: If you somehow missed the commercial, here it is in all it’s glory
10. Artist August: Dustin Weaver (Interview): Check out our interview with the incomparable artist of the S.H.I.E.L.D. series from Marvel Comics!
11. Artist August: Dustin Weaver (Art Feature): We’ve posted some of his art, now check out more here!
12. Natalie Nourigat’s Between Gears Being Published by Image: You might recognize the name from an interview we had earlier this month, but now she has her own book coming from Image, congratulations to her!
13. Second Volume of Emitown, new monthly series from Emi Lenox?: Congrats to her too! This is great news for a great artist!
14. Ratfist To Be Published By Image: Another new series from Image, publishing the unique looking webcomic.
15. Faith Erin Hicks First Second Project Friends With Boys Launches Online: A new book from First Second Books, check it out!

Thursday August 18th, 2011

1. Daredevil #2 Review: I hope Matt hears me booing him for this review. BOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
2. Artist August: Reilly Brown (Interview):He’s a relative newcomer in the medium, but he’s definitely madea splash. Check out our interview here!
3. X-Men To Continue Into The New Status Quo: We originally assumed it might go the way of S.W.O.R.D., but it looks like we were wrong. And it looks like it’ll be led by…Jubilee?
4. Artist August: Reilly Brown (Art Feature): You read the interview, now look at some of his great art!
5. Journey Into Mystery #626 Review: Matt looks at the book starring baby Loki and if it’s worth the price of admission.
6. We3 Deluxe Edition Review: Patrick looks at the ultimate We3 hardcover and tells you if it’s worth it!
7. Josh Fialkov Joins Nick Spencer As Co-Writer of Iron Man 2.0: Nick’s a busy guy, so he might need a little help.
8. Support Caanan Grall’s Max Overacts Volume One IndieGoGo Campaign!: Support Indie comics guys. It’s worth it for great comics like this.
9. Quote of the Day: Warren Ellis on the DCnU Launch: “The New DC comics stuff looks so much like stuff I would never read that it oddly fills me with hope that they are targetting the core audience they want. If a 43-year old man looks at most of this promo stuff and goes meh, then that’s very probably a good sign for them. Best of luck to Dan D, Jim L et all for the imminent relaunch.”

Friday August 19th, 2011

1. Top Cow’s “Pilot Season” Returns For End of 2011: Top Cow’s Unique format for launching new mini’s is back in October! Make sure you check them out!
2. The Mighty Skullboy Army Returns With Volume 2: Dark Horse’s adorable title is back with a second volume. Awesome!
3. Fear Itself Gets Three More Issues In November: Just what we need, more Fear Itself.
4. Hellboy Returns With Hellboy vs. The Aztec Mummy: Wait, didn’t he die? OH COMICS!
5. Ultimate Fallout #6 Review: It’s the end of Ultimate Comics’ latest event that sets up the new post-Peter Parker status quo. What did Matt think?
6. Artist August: Khoi Pham (Interview): Check out our interview with one of Marvel’s go-to artists!
7. Artist August: Khoi Pham (Art Feature): Now check out Pham’s awesome artwork!
8. Friday Recommendation: Brian Bendis’ Daredevil: He didn’t like Waid’s Daredevil, but he DOES like Bendis’, see why here!
9. AoA Nightcrawler to Remender, Rodriguez’ Uncanny X-Force?: Well, that’s a cheat, but I love me some Kurt. Interesting he’d lead this seeing as how 616-Kurt was so opposed to the idea!
10. Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Crushes My Soul: David doesn’t like it. It has Nick Cage. You probably wouldn’t either.
11. DC Fifty-Too: Can We Please Have Katie Cook’s Dex-Starr?: YES! Can we?!
12. Digiversity: Digital Comics Spotlight: Check out Ryan’s weekly column focusing on digital comics!
13. The Secret Society of Super-Villains Vol. 1 Review: Patrick looks to the past to check out a book from the 70’s. Does it stand the test of time?
14. Quote of the Day: Ed Brubaker on Bucky During Shattered Heroes Press Conference: check it out just beyond the link!

Part one of two, there’s more coming!

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In Case You Missed It: A Round-Up Of the News on June 7th, 2011

1. This Week In Comics!: Check Out What’s coming out tomorrow on Comic Day! We’ve moved it to Tuesdays to better help you out.
2. Check This Out! Jim Stoeke’s Spider-‘Nam: Stoeke re-imagines Spider-Man during the Vietnam War. It looks REALLY cool.
3. Jeff Lemire’s Essex County To Be Adapted To Film: I think the title say it all. Check out the details following the link.
4. Comics Should Be Cheap!: Do you have a budget for comics? Don’t we all! Check out what we’re picking up for OUR $20.
5. Black Panther Is The Most Dangerous Man Alive: Well, at least he’s not an “American Panther.”
6. Off The Cape-Chester 5000: Do you like robots? Do you like erotic love stories? Do you like Victorian-Era settings? Well, it looks like this book is for you! And David loves it! Want to see why?
7. DC Goes With The Weird And The Strange: No it’s not a crossover, it’s another wave of the new books coming in the DCnU. From Justice League: Dark to Animal Man, check out the list!
8. MGA Study Hall - Issue #6: The last of the retrospective is up, and now it’s time to look to the future! But in the mean time, check out this issue and the previous Study Halls here: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8, #9

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In Case You Missed It!: A Roundup of all the news from Friday, June 3, 2011

1. DC Announces the new Green Lantern Books: Do you like Green Lantern? Do you have a favorite? Are you concerned your favorite might not make it to the Post-Flashpoint DCU? Well, here’s your guide to where your personal Lantern is heading in September.
2. Review - Flashpoint: Abin Sur #1: Speaking of Green Lanterns, the Flashpoint Green Lantern has some stuff coming this week. What did Walt think of it? Click to find out!
3. Review - Moon Knight #2: Patrick takes a look at the new series from Bendis and Alex Maleev. Who needs the Avengers when Moon Knight is every Avenger at once?
4. Multiversity Comics Presents - Christian Ward: Today David talks to Infinite Vacation artist Christian Ward. Want to know what it’s like to work with Marvel Breakout Nick Spencer? Here’s your chance!
5. Review - Thunderbolts #158: Do you fear…crappy comics? How about necessary tie-ins to Line-Wide Events? Well, here’s your chance to see if this tie-in to Fer Itself is actually worth it!
6. MGA Study Hall - Issue #5: The Morning Glories retrospective continues as Matt and Crit sit down and discuss Issue #5. Make sure to check out the previous issues before this, as thar be spoilers. Previous issues: #1, #2, #3, #4 #7, #8, #9
7. Friday Recommendation - Morning Glories: In case it wasn’t clear we love this book, here’s  Fridy Rec to settle the matter once and for all!
8. Crossed Out Crossovers - Secret Wars II: Someone clearly has it in for Patrick as they asked him to cover the crossover Secret Wars II for his series about crossovers.
9. This Month in Comics - May 2011: Brandon gives you a low down on what he considers the best and worst of the month.
10. The Weekend Week in Review: Walt looks back at the smaller books that came out this week in a less than serious tone. There might be spoilers, but if you hven’t read your books yet, spoilers are the least of your concerns.