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Heads up, collectors: the countdown to San Diego Comic-Con International 2013 continues, and today, DC Comics has announced the convention-exclusive covers that'll be available at their booth.

Under normal circumstances, one imagines that the announcement of a new Justice League of America series by the creative team of Geoff Johns and David Finch would be pretty huge on its own, but as of today, DC has added an even bigger push to the new series...

Comic books have a history of attempting to tie-in with US Presidential Elections; in 2008, remember, Image Comics' Savage Dragon endorsed Barack Obama before the election, and Marvel Comics' Amazing Spider-Man hung out with him following his inauguration...

Digital: DC Entertainment has launched an Amazon storefront in conjunction with its deal to sell 100 graphic novels exclusively on the Kindle Fire tablet (for the time being). Gaming: DC Universe Online reports that its number of users has increased 6 percent a day since going free-to-play on November 1...

May's a big month for Marvel, what with the release of Thor and the continuation of Fear Itself, but it's ultimately Chris Yost, Paco Medina and Dalibor Talajic's X-Men: First to Last that's claiming 14 (with 13 images released thus far) of the publisher's titles for maximum variant coverage from artists Khoi Pham, Chris Stevens, Brandon Peterson, Lee Weeks, David Yardin, Michael Ryan, Patrick Zi

As you're all doubtless well aware, the Marvel Universe is soon to experience an influx of vampires -- including VAMPIRE JUBILEE -- and Marvel has decided to mark the occasion with vampire variant covers, in spirit of the zombie variants that everyone ate up like sweet, delicious undead candy...