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With Comic-Con 2011 about to kick off next week, we're preparing by taking a look back at some of our favorite videos from last year. Nearly everyone who attends comes away with at least crazy convention tale to tell, and since creators are no exception, we got Grant Morrison ("Batman Inc"), Kieron Gillen ("Thor"), Jamie McKelvie ("Phonogram"), Jeff Lemire ("S

We reported last week on the forthcoming end of the long-running Uncanny X-Men comic, but like most superhero demises -- especially where the X-Men are involved -- a Phoenix-esque resurrection is just around the corner. This morning, Marvel Comics announced that the X-Men franchise will experience a "regenesis" (not a relaunch, not a reboot -- a regenesis...

With Action Comics, Detective Comics and Batman being renumbered as part of DC's September initiative, that leaves Marvel's Uncanny X-Men as the longest-running uninterrupted title in comics. For a month. This morning, Marvel announced to the Associated Press that as a consequence of the events of Jason Aaron's X-Men: Schism event series, the stalwart Uncanny X-Men will end as of October's #544, g

Loki, the villainous mastermind who could never be trusted because he was always scheming up a long term con, got a fresh start after his death at the end of Siege and his reincarnation as a child. The story of Young Loki is now being told by writer Kieron Gillen, penciller Doug Braithwaite and colorist Ulises Arreola in the pages of Journey Into Mystery, a fantastic adventure tale about a trickst

On sale now is the six-hundred and twenty-second issue of Marvel Comics' Journey Into Mystery, which is the first issue written by Kieron Gillen. A ComicsAlliance favorite for his work on Phonogram, Gillen returns to the world of Thor, Loki and the rest of Marvel's Asgardian mythology for what he intends to be a 30-40-issue epic with a planned beginning and end...

Batroc the Leaper's not a character who commands much respect in the Marvel Universe. As a French mercenary trained in the style of kickboxing known as "savate," his role is usually to play the part of the Washington Generals to Captain America's Harlem Globetrotters...

British punk outfit Art Brut have a new album coming out in May that's called Brilliant! Tragic! Frequently hilarious frontman Eddie Argos is a known comic book sympathizer, having provided a cover quote for the collected edition of Phonogram: The Singles Club, a favorite of hopelessly obsessive music fans and ComicsAlliance staffers alike...

The Spring of 2011 is going to be an especially eventful one for Marvel Comics fans, particularly those fond of writers Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen and their work with the X-Men and Thor franchises. Fraction and Stuart Immonen's Fear Itself storyline begins in March, while April sees not just the premiere of Kenneth Branagh's Thor film but also new ongoing Thor comic books in the form of Frac

In case you missed the ball getting dropped in Times Square last Friday, it's a New Year, and that means it's time for people all over to set their goals for the next twelve months. But we normal folks aren't the only ones making New Year's Resolutions, and while comic book characters tend to go less for things like "hit the gym more often" and "quit smoking" and more for stuff

Prev ComicsAlliance's Best of 2010 list continues!   5. Phonogram: The Singles Club by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie Production delays, a printing error, and that pesky need to make a living nudged this seven-issue series into this year, when we were finally able to see the completion and collection of one of the best comics of 2009. It ...