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Having taken a look at May's single-issue releases from Marvel, it's time to check out what for many readers is the main event of any comic book shipping schedule: the collected editions, which compile and usually complete comics stories initially serialized monthly in 20-page pamphlet-style comics you totally can't put on a shelf...

Courtesy of Marvel, ComicsAlliance brings you an advance look at new comic books going on sale in May, 2012. All of the following books can be purchased at finer comic book shops, where you can also pre-order your selections to ensure you'll get a copy before they sell out...

I have this theory that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips are the best writer/artist team presently working in the mainstream comics industry. They've been collaborating for over ten years now, and at this point they're a well-oiled machine. Brubaker and Phillips' shadowy, hardboiled tales have been my primary method of scratching the crime comics itch for ages now, and the pair's latest work, Fatale

Jason Patric and Lucy Punch will star as Detectives Christian Walker and Denna Pilgrim in Powers, a new FX pilot based on the long running creator-owned superhero crime series by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Also featuring Charles S...

Mark Millar's inaugural Kapow! Comic Con was by most accounts a good time for professionals and attendees, and naturally came with some juicy announcements of new projects. Among them, Nick Spencer and Emma Rios on a new Cloak & Dagger series for Marvel, and no less than four new creator-owned series from Millar, including a Hit-Girl spinoff and a new superhero book with Frank Quitely. ... Rea

Returning in June with a brand new story is Criminal, the endlessly acclaimed ICON Comics crime series created by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. While always an essential and hugely rewarding read, the series' next arc, "The Last of the Innocent," sounds like it may be the best yet...

Marvel Comics announced on Saturday the coming of Brilliant, a new creator-owned series written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by Mark Bagley. On sale in July and hyped as "More Social Network than Avengers," the series follows a group of young geniuses who endeavor to discover whether superpowers could exist in real life...

It's hard to believe it's taken this long, but Powers, the long-running superhero noir by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, has been picked up for a television pilot for the FX network. News came over the weekend that an impressive troupe of talent will be behind the show, including writers and directors associated with hits like The Walking Dead, The Shield, Justified and Sons of Anar

On sale this week is Incognito: Bad Influences #3 by the consistently excellent creative team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, creators of Sleeper and Criminal. Published by Marvel's ICON imprint for creator-owned comics, the Eisner-nominated Incognito tells the story of Zack Overkill, a former supervillain who lived in the U...

When last we saw Zack Overkill, the ex-super science villain turned reluctant vigilante hero of writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips' Incognito, he was heading off into the sunset in a flying car, the day saved, his life continuing to turn around for the better...