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"Trickster is amazing. ... It has replaced the 40th floor Hyatt bar." That was the endorsement made by Bob Schreck of Legendary Comics at a round table discussion at Trickster in San Diego on Thursday. For years the 40th floor bar at the Manchester Grand Hyatt was the essential after-hours spot for anyone looking to network with publishers, editors and creators...

If you've never been to San Diego's Comic-Con International, it's hard to picture just how huge and insane it truly is. Last year's attendance numbers topped out around 120,000 people, turning the little town that Ron Burgundy made famous into a nightmarish maelstrom of Twilight shantytowns, promotional blitzes and a decibel level akin to a black metal concert...

We already told you the great news about Dark Horse bringing Jeff Parker and Erica Moen's beloved Bucko webcomic to print, but the Oregon-based publisher came to Seattle's Emerald City Comicon with a few more cool announcements to make. Readers can look forward to brand new series Colder, an ongoing horror/crime from title writer Paul Tobin (Small Favors, Spider-Girl) and artist Juan Ferreyra (Rex

Opened with a keynote address by Publisher Eric Stephenson that emphasized personalities and relationships in the comic book scene, the first Image Comics Expo in Oakland, California, came with more major publishing announcements than we expected...

Movies: Captain America: The First Avenger will arrive on Blu-ray and DVD October 25 in both 3D and standard versions. Surveys: The American Bible Society surveyed a few thousand people about a certain translation of a bible verse using unspecified methodology and a percentage of respondents incorrectly attributed it to Captain America (among other figures)...

As part of the growing creator-owned comics activism (and perhaps as a response to the increasingly extra-comics nature of Comic-Con International), a large group of comics writers and artists have conspired to created TR!CKSTER, a multi-purpose event and retail space across the street from the San Diego Convention Center, site of this summer's massive comics convention...