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Wizard World Philly Preview Here’s a small taste of what’s in store for Philly as Wizard World sets up its tents next week. [NJ.com] [Brian Michael] Bendis — the creative force behind several of the industry’s hottest-selling titles, including “New
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Mighty Avengers #3 If you recall, in an earlier post about my pull list at Hall of Heroes in Cherry Hill, NJ, I stated the following: And I couldn’t care less about what’s going on in The Mighty Avengers, but
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BLC’s Summer WonderFest Blank Label Comics, the ground-breaking co-op of independent cartoonists, is partnering with Project Wonderful to launch an ambitious concept in advertising that will offer never-before-seen marketing possibilities. BLC’s Summer Wonderfest is a limited-time offer through which advertisers
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Best Title in Comics: JLA Unlimited I’ve been trying hard for the past several months not to post this next item, but I’m afraid it simply needs to be said. JLA Unlimited is one of the top five monthly titles
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2007 Convention Schedule Wizard World Philadelphia is just around the corner — landing in Philly on June 15-17. I’ll be in Artist’s Alley, doing convention sketches and selling copies of my books. If there’s anything you’d like me to have
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The Ratings: Legion of Doom Lore Sjöberg has done a video version of his “Book of Ratings” on the subject of Members of the Legion of Doom. Come for the critique of Lex Luthor’s motivation, stay for “Bizarro Bob Barker
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Troops on a Plane Fellow BLCer Steve Troop just submitted the “Snakes on a Plane” spoof video from to the MTV Movie Awards. Over the next week, Web users vote on their favorite spoofs and the finalists will be shown
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A Peek At My Pull List I’m spending waaay too much on comics, so last month I decided to make some changes to my pull list at Hall of Heroes in Cherry Hill, NJ. New Avengers: DROPPED I’ve grown completely
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Heath Ledger as the Joker [NEWSARAMA] Here was the deal – last week, “I Believe in Harvey Dent� images appeared on the Internet, showing an image of actor Aaron Eckhart looking very…political. The reference, of course, the character in next
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Site Features There’s a new feature on the site, so it’s time for a re-cap of all the features, starting with the newest: Recent Posts: At the bottom of the blog is a list of ten preceeding posts. If you’d
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Tales from the Sinestro Corps Somewhere the Crypt Keeper is smiling. Making the Tales from the Sinestro Corps — found in the back of the current issues of Green Lantern — in the form of a caring, affectionate homage to
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Palmiotti and Grey talk Joker As predicted here, Joker is indeed taking center stage in DC’s Countdown series. ICN has an excellent interview with the two writers behind that series, Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Grey. [ICN] This week the Joker
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Greystone Inn archives: The End It was two years ago today that I started what would come to be the very last Greystone Inn story. The story flowed smoothly into the genesis of Evil Inc. In fact, there was never
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The Week in Villainy: April 8-14, 2007 Who’s Up and Who’s Thwarted Vapor and X-Ray: This entry is a little overdue, but with the next issue of She-Hulk coming out next week, TWIV felt it imperitive to get this one
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2007 Convention Schedule Here’s a list of the conventions I’m planning to attend. I’ve also listed the conventions (in grey italics) that I’m considering, but haven’t committed to. The bad news is that Chicago is officially a scratch for 2007.
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Shortpacked! book in preorders My Blank Label pal David Willis is wrapping up preorders for the first Shortpacked! print collection.That means it’s time to mobilize the BLC Army and give the guy a Big Push before preorders end Monday. Swipe
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‘Spider-Man 3’ Villains Talk About Villainy [AP] Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Man is so good at his job that his Hollywood handlers put him up against three enemies this time. “Spider-Man 3” continues Peter Parker and alter-ego Spider-Man’s battle against old pal
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Sinestro History [CBR]: Superman has Lex Luthor. Batman has the Joker. Hal Jordan of the Green Lantern Corps has Sinestro — but not just Hal Jordan; the entire Green Lantern Corps fears the renegade Green Lantern and his yellow power
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Top 13 Super-Villain Teams To celebrate the first Friday-the-13th of 2007, Evil Inc is proud to present a list of the Top Thirteen Super-Villain Groups in comics. Super-villain groups have matured from lame plot-device to gripping drama. Instead of throwing
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Sinestro Corps Special #1 [Newsarama]: …[Ethan] Van Sciver and [Geoff] Johns are reuniting for a 64-page one-shot in June that promises to take the Green Lantern universe to yet another level. Called Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1, the comic
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Greystone Inn archives: Lightning Lady and Keagan move-in together ‘Round about this time in 2005, Lightning Lady and Keagan were taking a Big Step in their relationship. Cohabitation comes with its fair share of pitfalls. Cohabitating with a super-villainess means
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2007 Convention Schedule Here’s a list of the conventions I’m planning to attend. I’ve also listed the conventions (in grey italics) that I’m considering, but haven’t committed to. The bad news is that Chicago is officially a scratch for 2007.
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Johnny Hart, creator of “B.C.� and “Wizard of Id,� dies at 76 [Associated Press] Cartoonist Johnny Hart, whose award-winning “B.C.� comic strip appeared in more than 1,300 newspapers worldwide, died at his home on Saturday. He was 76. “He had
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Happy Birthday to Me! I’ve got the best wife in webcomics! After an amazing steak-and-baked-potato dinner, my wife presented me with an early birthday present. It’s a polymer clay macquette of Miss Match by ‘N’Toonz! Click on the pictures for
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Con Report: Emerald City Comic Con — Sunday Sunday started with breakfast — this time with Howard Tayler and one of his children. The kid could put away waffles like a champ. I was envious of his metabolism. The Kurtzes
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The Best of Lightning Lady Check out the April edition of Previews magazine and you’ll see the latest offering from Greystone Inn Comics: The Best of Lightning Lady! This book is the genesis of the Evil Inc comic strip. Consider
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Con Report: Emerald City Comic Con — Saturday After I passed out in my hotel room (from exhaustion) Friday night, I awoke the next morning ready to venture out into Seattle to find breakfast. I got up early and planned
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Con Report: Emerald City Comic Con It’s official. I have been spoiled for any other comic convention I will ever attend. I can’t imagine I will ever be treated this good again, and it’s hard to envision my having as
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The Supervillain Book [Jennifer M. Contino / PULSE] If you’re bad to the bone, chances are you make an appearance in Visible Ink’s The Supervillain Book. If you’re a fan of those despicable dastardly characters, then you’ve got to check
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On Sale Today: Green Lantern #18 Star Sapphire Written by Geoff JohnsArt by Daniel AcunaCover by Ivan Reis & Oclair Albert The Star Sapphire has plagued Green Lantern throughout his career. But where do its origins truly lie? And why
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Emerald City Comic Con Emerald City Comic Con is this weekend! I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle on March 31st-April 1st. And so will the creators of the following comics: Sheldon, PvP, Penny Arcade, Starslip, Schlock
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52 #46 Y’know… Silver Bullet’s Jim Beard makes a really good point about DC’s 52. The idea to gather all of the “mad scientists” on Oolong Island is pure genius. Evidently, the brainy bad boys get their turn to shine
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Emerald City Comic Con I’ve got another big convention appearance coming up at the end of the month. I’ll be at the Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle on March 31st-April 1st. It’s my second convention appearance of the year,
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Site Features Time for the periodic review of the features of this site. If you’re a new reader, you’ll want to give it a quick skim. Blog: Register with Blogger, and participate in the discussion! It’s free! Google search engine:
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On Sale Today: The Brave And The Bold #2 Written by Mark WaidArt by George Pérez & Bob WiacekCover by Pérez Green Lantern and Supergirl are off to Ventura on the trail of the bizarre case that began in issue
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A Marvel Theme Park… In Dubai? [CBR] United Arab Emirate-based Al Ahli Group and Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL) announced today a partnership that will bring Marvel’s full library of Super Heroes — including Spider-Man, Iron Man, the X-Men, Incredible
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Broken Frontiers Interview T Campbell was nice enough to interview me for Broken Bubbles, the five-times-weekly webcomics podcast over at Broken Frontier. Twenty-five-minute spectacular… this was just too good to cut. The prolific cartoonist discusses his three latest projects (Evil
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Sinestro Corps Update [NEWSARAMA] GREEN LANTERN: SINESTRO CORPS SPECIAL #1Written by Geoff JohnsArt by Ethan Van Sciver and Dave GibbonsCover by Van Sciver The stellar creative team of the sell-out GREEN LANTERN: REBIRTH miniseries — Geoff Johns and Ethan Van
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Wizard World LA News Sounds like there was quite a bit of noise at Wizard World L.A. Here’s a brief roundup: DC: Booster Gold and Infinity Inc. DC Universe Mondo Marvel Marvel: X-Men Marvel: The Initiative Loeb & CO on
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Stan Lee Media vs Marvel… vs Stan Lee? This one broke over the weekend, but it’s still worth noting here. Stan Lee Media is suing Marvel for ownership of characters Lee created while at Marvel. Stan Lee himself opposed the
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Jay Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of King Features Syndicate, Dead at 50 [King Features] Jay Kennedy, editor in chief of King Features Syndicate, a unit of Hearst Corporation, died March 15, 2007, while on vacation in Costa Rica. He was 50 years
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Look What’s Big In June…And A Sinestro Corps Cover, Too DC is previewing two big covers for two big projects that are scheduled to ship in June. [NEWSARAMA] We’ve gotten our hands on two covers form major DC projects coming
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Animated “JLA: Countdown” parody This one made me chuckle. It’s a very well-written parody of DC’s “Countdown” series. More animated parodies by the same author: House of M, part one House of M, part two House of M, part three
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Marvel Preview: ‘Avengers: The Initiative’ Dan Slott’s new project, “Avengers: The Initiative” has already sold out through Diamond, and a second printing is being rushed through. The title is due to appear in bookstores April 4. Slott is a terrific
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Gyllenhaal To Play Captain Marvel? [TEEN HOLLYWOOD] Executives at Hollywood film studio New Line are desperately trying to sign Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal as Captain Marvel in Shazam! The studio is looking to bid on a big franchise along
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Colbert gets Cap’s Shield [NEWSARAMA] As Marvel hinted yesterday, Captain America’s shield made an appearance on last night’s The Colbert Report. The shield showed up at the end of the show; with Colbert first taking back his criticism of Cap
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Watchmen movie update According to the Hollywood Reporter, there are even more reasons to feel good about the success of Frank Miller’s 300… [HOLLYWOOD REPORTER] “Who watches the Watchmen?” was the tagline of the seminal 1986 Alan Moore miniseries about
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Another One Bites the Dust… Another comic strip, this time Bob Harrell’s charming Big Top, is calling it quits after a short time in syndication. Blondie, however will continue to be carried by the vast majority of American newspapers. Bob:
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Wizard: Guilty of Insider Trading? [NEWSARAMA] CBarger of Wonderworld Comics …questioned whether one eBay seller might have been given information that other retailers were not, as Wizard Universe, which is owned by the same company as Wizard Magazine, sold hundreds
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Medieval Friday From the Ugly Hill Web site: Do you stare longingly at the protective breastplate hanging in your closet every morning? Perhaps you long mount your mighty steed and gallop off to your afternoon meeting? Do you have trouble
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VILF shirts I still have a few VILF shirts available for sale. I have regular T-shirts and babydoll shirts. The T-shirts are $15 and the babydoll shirts are $20. Shipping and handling included. Buy ’em for you or buy ’em
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…huh…? [ASSOCIATED PRESS] Captain America has undertaken his last mission _ at least for now. The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the Daily News reported. On the new edition’s pages,
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On Sale Today: JLA #6 Written by Brad MeltzerArt by Ed Benes & Sandra HopeCover by Michael TurnerVariant cover by Adam Hughes DC’s super-hit cuts loose as best-selling author Brad Meltzer and artist Ed Benes unleash an unstoppable foe on
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Greystone Inn archives: Toxic Lad Having just wrapped up a look inside the Evil Inc Day Care, I thought I’d draw some attention to the Greystone Inn storyline that inspired me to create the day care in the first place.
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Two New Sponsors of Evil Please welcome two new Sponsors of Evil! The first if Bunky Nuglets. Bunky is a tightly-drawn personality-based comedy by Anthony Orr. From the creator’s blog on the first day of posting the comic: The idea
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WonderCon Roundup WonderCon wrapped yesterday, and it seems there was a lot of news made. Here’s some of the best stories from the weekend. DC’s Great Expectations Panel: [CBR] After Friday’s DC Nation panel, Dan Didio returned to Wondercon on
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New York Comic Con 2007 Con Report My first convention of 2007, the New York Comic Convention, was a tremendous success. I sold almost everything I brought to sell and met a truckload of nice people. All in all, it
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A Justice League movie? [ROTTEN TOMATOES] Now here’s a dream project that should fill the comic geeks and the movie nerds with much excitement: Warner Bros. just hired a husband-wife writing team to pen a “Justice League” movie. Read the
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Back in Black [NEWSARAMA] Spider-Man changes his look! Fans go crazy! And the best-selling singles that spring are by Van Halen, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins and Lionel Richie! That’s right, kids. We’re talking about when Spider-Man changed his clothes. With
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New York Comic Con: Feb 23-25 The first big convention of 2007 is this weekend! Make plans to be there immediately! Fellow BLCer Paul Southworth and I will be out there, but it won’t be the same without you! I’ll
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Greystone Inn archives: Mardi Gras Since Mardi Gras is here, I figured I’d dig up this storyline from the Greystone archives. It was based on a trip that my wife and I took to New Orleans in 2001. The hotel
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Creators Syndicate’s Torture Chamber Just when you think an institution can’t sink any lower… Check out the latest post on the Daily Cartoonist: Today, Creators Syndicate posted the first strip of a new feature that they have under development. The
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Wiki Watch: Starslip Crisis Riddle me this: When is a defeat really a victory? No one but the ultra-creative Kristofer Straub could have come up with this: There’s been a little bit of a furor over Wikipedia and its inclusion
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Wiki Watch: Ugly Hill Victory Paul Southworth posted some great news on his Ugly Hill Web site. Once again the fans have rallied around a comic that was threatened from being deleted from Wikipedia — and saved it. There’s been
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Seven Years! Today marks seven years of producing a daily comic strip for me! I launched my first comic, Greystone Inn seven years ago today. Greystone ran six-days-a-week (with few exceptions) until June 21, 2005. The next day, of course,
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Foglio’s ‘Girl Genius’ Comic Book Resources has an excellent interview with Phil and Kaja Foglio, creators of the fabulous Girl Genius. [CBR] Everybody loves a mad scientist. Well, okay, maybe not the villagers with the torches and the pitchforks, but
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New York Comic Con: Feb 23-25 The first big convention of 2007 is just under two weeks away! If you’re not making plans to attend this one, you really ought to consider it! Fellow BLCer Paul Southworth and I will
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Hey Wikipedia! It’s the Beevnicks! I have to tell you, Owen Dunne always manages to make me laugh. I truly think he’s a genius in every sense of the word. And one of my very first pieces of fan mail
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WikiWatch: Still ‘Ugly’ If Wikipedia spent less time trying to delete valid webcomic entries (like Ugly Hill), they’d have more time to ferret out actual problems such as those that arose when Anna Nicle Smith passed away.

WikiWatch: Getting ‘Ugly’ Moments after the dust settled on the Evil Inc/Wikipedia fracas, the Wikipedia entry for Ugly Hill entry has been flagged for deletion! The creator of the strip, Paul Southworth, was one of the first people to alert
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Greystone Inn archives: Prehistoric strips As I approach my seventh (seventh!) anniversary of daily comic-stripping on the Web, I thought it would be fun to review my very first attempts at Greystone Inn.

WikiWatch: Fini I just wanted to take a minute and thank all of you Evil Inc henchmen, lackeys, thugs, and goons. Your response to the Wikipedia situation was truly incredible! I could only wish that every cartoonist had people like
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WikiWatch: Un-Un-Un-Deleted! Thanks to the strong response from readers and right-minded Wiki-editors, the Evil Inc entry in Wikipedia has been restored — and much improved! But the battle is not over! First of all, anything that can be un-un-un-deleted can
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WikiWatch: Un-Un-Deleted! In an astounding display of hubris, the Wikipedia editors have deleted the entry for Evil Inc a second time! The vindictive move came mere hours after the entry had been reported un-deleted. It was also made in the
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WikiWatch: Day 2 The Evil Inc Un-Deletion Movement is off to a strong start! I can’t thank you guys enough for the support and the kind words. There is a very heated debate going on a Wiki over the subject
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WikiWatch According to a few Wikipedia editors, Evil Inc is not a noteworthy comic. They know nothing of the 11,000+ daily visitors (not counting newspapers). They know nothing of the newspapers it runs in — including Philadelphia Daily News (130,000
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Awwww… man! The wikipedia article for Evil Inc has been deleted. If you read the comments in this post, you’ll see that mentioning the fact that Evil Inc runs in several newspapers, including the Philadelphia Daily News, would help bring
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DC tease [Newsarama] Last week Newsarama got you a close-up look at the teaser image DC Comics distributed hinting at a future storyline or storylines. We also got DCU Executive Editor Dan Didio to agree to answer 20 of your
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Brick-and-mortar news New York fans now have two more choices for finding and buying my books! Cosmic Comics and Forbidden Planet will begin carrying my merchandise soon. Expect books on the shelves by next week. Both stores are stocking Evil
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Greystone Inn archives: Greek Mirth Last week I mentioned a storyline that planted the seed to end Greystone and launch Evil Inc. As a counterpoint, let me present a storyline that made it harder to leave Greystone. I mean… “lip-dancing
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Green Lantern Corps 8 Well. It’s official. I’m an old man. I’m a huge Green Lantern fan, and when I saw the launch of the Green Lantern Corps monthly title, it was a sight-unseen lock on my pull list. It
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Cartoon Archives: John Sununu In another installment of my ongoing series that looks into cartoons from my archive, here’s an editorial cartoon I created for The Repository (Canton, Ohio) in 1991. George H.W. Bush’s Chief of Staff, John Sununu was
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52 clue In the latest issue of DC’s weekly comic, 52, Dan Didio left a coded message about the secret of the entire series. Has anybody cracked it yet?

StarHarbor Nights You’ll notice a new ad for perennial Sponsor of Evil, Star Harbor Nights. It will appear across all of the BLC sites for the next couple days. It also features a couple familiar faces. If you’re not reading
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Webcartoonist Choice Awards The list of nominees for the Webcartoonist Choice Awards has been released. I’ve received my first nomination ever — for Evil Inc in the Best Superhero/Action category. Blank Label Comics cleaned up in the nominations as well:
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DC tease [Newsarama] DC has released what appears to be a teaser image with no information attached other than the subject line of an e-mail: “Let the battle cry be heard in the land, a shout of great destruction…” Which
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Greystone Inn archives: Henchmen, Thugs, Lackeys and Goons (2) Some more thoughts on the topic of henchmen, thugs, lackeys and goons. This time, as Samantha heads to Superhuman Resources to be tested to see which jobs she is best suited
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Free Comic Book Day 2007 The Free Comic Book Day people have released the information and images for all of the titles to be included in 2007’s Free Comic Book Day. FCBD falls on May 5 this year. For more
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2007 Convention Schedule Here’s a list of the conventions I’m planning to attend. I’ve also listed the conventions (in grey italics) that I’m considering, but haven’t committed to. New York Comic Con: February 23-25. Emerald City Comic Con: March 31st-April
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Questions for Upcoming Comixpedia Interview with BLC Comixpedia is planning an interview with the members of Blank Label Comics. You can post your questions over there. They’ll take the top ten questions, send them to us, and we’ll answer them.

Green Lantern #17 Newsarama has a very good interview with Geoff Johns in which he discusses the upcoming developments in the Green Lantern storyline. [Newsarama] The past has come back to bite Hal Jordan many times in his years as
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Greystone Inn archives: Henchmen, Thugs, Lackeys and Goons Today is the start of a new story arc in which we will meet the oldest living henchman. If you’re familiar with my previous strip, Greystone Inn, you’ve met him already. I
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Project Wonderful I’m participating in Project Wonderful, which is a unique approach to handling advertising on the Web. You’ll see the new ads to the left of this blog. If you’re seeing a “Your ad here” message, then there’s plenty
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New Avengers #28 Brian Bendis has revealed the final member of the New Avengers line-up: Spider-Man. [Newsarama] WHAT BRIAN BENDIS SAYS: “Spider-Man – the man who made the biggest boner move of 2006 [laughs]…. He has a lot to answer
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Race and Cartooning [Daily Cartoonist] Over on Jim Borgman’s blog he tackles a difficult topic of when he feels comfortable using minority characters when the editorial cartoon calls for a generic individual. His answer is interesting and he even redraws
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‘For Better or For Worse’… Not Retiring After All Here’s some pretty amazing news…. [E&P] Millions of readers will breathe a partial sigh of relief when they learn that Lynn Johnston won’t completely end “For Better or For Worse” around
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OtakuBooty Please welcome a new Sponsor of Evil: OtakuBooty. This is one of those “why didn’t I think of that” sites that I think many of you are going to appreciate. It’s a dating site for intelligent fans of anime,
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MySpace I’ve finally decided to start a MySpace page. I have no idea why, though. I’m clearly missing the point. If anybody has any ideas on how I can make the page better, please don’t hesitate to write.

Syndicate Bingo [E&P] A comic creator is playing bingo with his syndicate submissions. DailyCartoonist.com reported that Aaron Johnson sent his “What the Duck” strip last Thursday to Creators Syndicate, King Features Syndicate, Tribune Media Services, United Media, Universal Press Syndicate,
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Spider-Man 3 [Premiere.com] “Director Sam Raimi on why Spidey will finally face off against Venom: “[Avi Arad, the former chairman and CEO of Marvel Studios] said the fans want to see Venom. I come from a different generation. I read
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