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If you were not previously aware, geek fashion haus Threadless has a line called Comics-On Tees which depicts a comic book story across a series of t-shirts, usually drawn by a different artist for each shirt and from a story by a single writer...

Marvel has announced plans to lure new and lapsed readers by launching or relaunching new series every week between October and February and reassigning popular creators to different franchises for the first time in years. Called Marvel NOW...

Just a few days after we learned that Dynamite Entertainment had done the impossible and secured the rights to reprint Howard Chaykin's legendary The Shadow: Blood and Judgement in a new graphic novel edition, the publisher dropped another pulp bomb on us Monday morning: Garth Ennis will write an all-new The Shadow series for Dynamite...

One sale this week is the first issue of Rocketeer Adventures, a four-issue miniseries featuring brand new tales of the cult favorite action hero created by the late, great Dave Stevens. Issue #1 comes with new stories by John Cassaday & Laura Martin, Mike Allred & Laura Allred and Kurt Busiek and Michael Kaluta & Dave Stewart, with pin-ups by Mike Mignola and Jim Silke, a cover by Ale

I've got to admit, I've been pretty skeptical of motion comics since they first hit the scene a few years ago. Part of my skepticism comes from the fact that I'm a die hard snob about comics as a medium: I believe very strongly in the idea that comics are as valid as any other form of entertainment, and don't need to be anything else...

I never fully got into Warren Ellis. "Transmetropolitan" seemed uneven to me, and especially when given mature-readers latitude he tends to include tons of... well, for lack of a better term, Ellisisms (Godzilla bukkake, "chair leg of truth", etc...

The West is going to get wild with innuendo June 9 as Marvel reintroduces its most clean cut cowboy in "The Rawhide Kid" #1 written by Ron Zimmerman with art by Howard Chaykin and a cover by John Cassaday. Treading on some familiar themes began by Zimmerman in 2003's "MAX" series, the not necessarily "out," but certainly proud version of the Rawhide kid is back in act

Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's "Astonishing X-Men" storyline "Gifted" has been making the motion comic rounds for a few weeks now. Episode one made a splash with a debut at Marvel Fest NYC 2009 and episode 2 hit the 'net on schedule two weeks later...

"There are mad and beautiful things beneath the skin of the world we know, that you only see when you look at things on a planetary scale..." -- Warren Ellis, from the original "Planetary" proposal With this week's publication of "Planetary" 27, one of the most articulate and influential superhero comics of the last decade finally spirals to its strange end... Rea

Tim Leong of Complex magazine (and former Editor-in-Chief of Comic Foundry) recently interviewed Joss Whedon about the upcoming season premiere of "Dollhouse," working with lead actress Eliza Dushku, the Emmy-winning web series "Dr. Horrible" and his Dark Horse comics: Complex: Do you think you take bigger chances in your projects because you have such a fiercely loyal fan bas