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Over the past few years, Archie Comics has gotten into the variant cover game, and they're doing it better than just about anyone else in comics. The results have been great pieces that we never would've expected to see ten years ago, including stuff like Francesco Francavilla doing zombie-inspired "Afterlife With Archie" covers that led to him actually drawing their upcoming zombie book. Truly, we live in strange times.

Despite various incarnations over the years (including two separate versions published by DC Comics) and the involvement of creators like Carmine Infantino and Alex Toth, Archie's superhero characters have always been the weirder branch of the Riverdale family tree...

Movies: Brazilian site Cine Macado's three new character banners for Captain America: The First Avenger. Something tells posters with better Photoshop cutouts will surface soon. Digital: Dark Horse Comics has announced special digital incentives from July-September for brick-and-mortar retailers of the best kind -- free digital download codes for exclusive eight-page stories stemming from top tit

Despite the medium's obvious contradictions and flaws, some creators have valiantly attempted to pioneer genuinely good motion comics. Last week we saw the first chapter of Dan Hipp's Tokyopop opus GYAKUSHU! adapted as a curiously compelling 40-minute motion comic, and we're treated this week to a similarly cool but seriously not-safe-for-work piece from Dean Haspiel: Billy Dogma in Sex Planet...

The MONSTERS Project continues with a piece of original art by artist and Emmy winner Dean Haspiel, who has previously lent his drawing hand to American Splendor, the webcomic collective Act-i-Vate, and the recent Vertigo graphic novel Cuba: My Revolution...

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You don't see a lot of actors playing comic book creators in mainstream TV or film, so it's been a bit of a pleasant surprise to see comedian and actor Zach Galifianakis playing a Brooklyn comic book artist named Ray Hueston on the HBO comedy "Bored to Death...

Dean Haspiel has had a pretty good career in comics and graphic novels. He's assisted on comics such as "American Flagg!," "Elektra: Assassin" and Walt Simonson's run on "Thor". He co-created "The Verdict" and "Keyhole," the latter of which introduced his character Billy Dogma...

Drama: After taking his irritation with the new Marvel X-Men/vampire storyline to the mattresses (and the internet forums) yesterday, Mark Millar has now taken down the post, apparently after a conversation with Marvel Publisher Dan Buckley...

I first met Dean Haspiel on a memorable flight from Baltimore to San Jose for APE some ten years ago. Also along for that Southwest redeye flight (which, if memory serves, only held the four of us) were Greg Bennett (friend and fellow Alliance blogger) and Chris Oarr (friend and, as Dino affectionately dubbed him on that trip, "the Alex P...