There’s something going on at Amazon, because the prices for many huge hardcover omnibus volumes have been slashed to $14 or $8.
If you head over to Bully, he’s put together a page that links to all the great deals.
It’ll be interesting to see if amazon honors the prices or cancels the orders if this [...]

Happy Anniversary to the first comics blogger, Neilalien. He discloses some Secret Origins of his blog today.

I wanted to do a mini-round up of things related to the GGNT list.
Graphic Novel Reporter has a roundtable discussion explaining the history behind the list.
Over at Good Comics for Kids, a discussion of some of the titles that made it onto the list.
I was happy to see that the title I nominated, Ken Saito’s [...]

Robert Downey Jr as Iron Man is still hot.
That is all.

I do have a fondness for the institution of the local comic book store, even though I don’t have the time to do the weekly run on new comics day anymore. I’ve been in some lovely and friendly comic book stores, but sadly the Simpsons’ stereotype of The Android’s Dungeon does reflect some elements of [...]

Robin Brenner has a very interesting post up at Good Comics for Kids, where she does some number-crunching with her manga and graphic novel circulation statistics. The most popular series aren’t what you might predict, which shows why it pays to pay close attention to circulation and patron requests when doing collection development for this [...]

With this post on Scare Tactics #8 we wrap up the the Convergence crossover featuring Amethyst in the Weirdoverse books. I feel like I involuntarily signed myself up for a Siberian death march and I only have a few more miles to go before I can collapse. Scare Tactics is a rock band of monsters. [...]

Via Twitter, here’s a follow-up story on the library staffers who were fired over their actions denying a patron’s check-out of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. It was interesting that the reason why they found out that it was on hold by an 11 year old was because one of the employees [...]

The third part of the Convergence crossover takes place in Challengers of the Unknown #6. This is more of a standalone story than the other titles, with the Gemworld connection not really made apparent until the conclusion of the story. The cover shows the Challengers ducking away from an orb emitting a strange yellow light.

In [...]

Here’s a brief story about library staff who claim they were fired for not allowing an 11 year old to check out League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. There seems to be an odd amount of grandstanding going on in the article.