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Although impossible to top the blitzkrieg of news that came out of the Image Comics Expo in February, this year's Emerald City Comicon did come with some cool news from the indie comics publisher who this year celebrated its 20th anniversary...

Busy as Man of Action is with Ultimate Spider-Man, Ben 10, Generator Rex and other animated properties, the multimedia collective founded by Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle has several more projects in the pipeline relating to the group's comic book roots according to The Hollywood Reporter...

On sale this week from Image Comics is Doc Bizarre, M.D. an original graphic novel written by Joe Casey and drawn by Andy Suriano. The story follows the adventures of the histrionic healer and his ghoulish sidekick as they administer infernal medicine to the monsters and and other supernatural beings of legend, all of whom occasionally suffer such human indignities as incontinence and impotence...

On sale in November is Vengeance #5, the penultimate chapter of the once-seemingly innocuous (no tie-ins, no events, no major characters) Marvel Comics miniseries by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta that has turned out to be one of the year's most critically acclaimed superhero stories...

The Marvel Universe unleashed Vengeance last week: a six-issue limited series by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta that promises to violate readers in all manner of improbable ways. It's a high-energy, high-impact trip into what Casey has called "the anarchy of youth" in the Marvel Universe...

Comedic Prophecy: As pointed out by Sal Loria, Archie Goodwin and Dan Jurgens were about twenty years ahead of their time with the cover to Armageddon 2001 #1. "Ten years from now the world will survive. These heroes won't," indeed. Manga: Ready to morph your otaku reading into a scholarly pursuit...

On sale now -- 4/20 -- is Marijuanaman, a 40-page hardcover graphic novella devised by reggae star Ziggy Marley. Written by Joe Casey and illustrated beautifully by Jim Mahfood, the story is about a noble alien whose species has THC instead of DNA and his biological reaction to Earth's cannabis plants causes him to transform into the superhero Marijuanaman and fight against an evil pharmaceutical

Following a couple of weeks of cryptic teaser images, Marvel Comics confirmed this week the coming of Vengeance, a six-issue miniseries written by Joe Casey with artwork by Nick Dragotta. Billed as an exploration of evil in the Marvel Universe from the point of view of a younger generation of villains, Vengeance #1 goes on sale in July...

The role of corporations in comics has taken a fascinating turn over the last few years. It used to be that corporations were the go-to adversary: shadowy mechanisms with bad intentions, ruled by greed and bureaucracy, with nearly limitless resources and capacity for mayhem...

Throughout November Image Comics released every few days a new teaser image for a mysterious and unnamed new series. In a lengthy interview with Comic Book Resources, comics writer Joe Casey (Gødland, Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance) revealed that series is Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker. Debut...