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Adam Prosser's Kirby-meets-Archie mash-up

The Archon by Adam Prosser

Johanna Draper Carlson points out that Adam Prosser has posted his 24-Hour Comics Day comic on the web. It's one part Kirby's New Gods, one part Archie Comics and all parts awesome -- heck, it's likely the coolest thing you'll see today.

Skottie Young guest draws The Abominable Charles Christopher

The Abominable Charles Christopher

Earlier this week artist Skottie Young filled in for his friend Karl Kerschl on The Abominable Charles Christopher, Kerschl's webcomic about a a sweet but somewhat dim sasquatch-like creature and his forest friends.

This is the second time Young has filled in for his friend, as he explained on his own blog:

Karl reached out and asked me to do a guest strip for his webcomic while he was out on some giant world tour where people are worshiping him and what not. I was flattered and agreed instantly. Then I realized that his wasn't the first time I would be there to help save Karl in a rough spot. (just kidding, he needed no saving, and i'm convinced he actually had enough strips to cover his time away and just posted my out of pitty...haha) Eons ago, when I was waiting tables at Ed Debevics in Chicago, I got my first phone call from Marvel asking me if I could do a fill in issue in the ICEMAN mini series. And artist named... you guessed it, Karl Kerschl had some life things going on and they needed someone to fill in. I had never drawn a comic book in my life and was about to do my first for Marvel. And the rest is history...or still happening, or something like that.

After seeing the strip, now I really just want to see Young doing a webcomic of his own.

Ellis releases Shivering Sands as a print-on-demand book

Shivering Sands

Writer Warren Ellis has released a new book called Shivering Sands -- "a book containing a selection of essays, articles, columns, rambles and jabberings that were written in various places on the internet over the last seven years or so" -- as a print-on-demand book through Lulu.com.

"I’ve been talking about POD for months, and I thought it was time to try it out," he wrote on his blog. "This work has not been collected in one place before, and I think pretty much none of it has ever been on paper." You can check out a preview over on the Lulu.com site.

Magneto rounds out new Ultimate Alliance 2 content, which is available now

Magneto

Downloadable content for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 became available in respective stores for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 today, allowing fans of the game to purchase five new playable characters and other content. Joining the previously announced Black Panther, Psylocke, Carnage and Cable is Magneto.

The download pack costs $9.99 on PS3 or 800 Microsoft points on Xbox 360. And don't forget you can now get the Juggernaut for $1.99; he was previously only available if you preordered the game from Gamestop.

Milestone Forever brings much-needed closure, finally ... maybe?

Milestone Forever

According to this post over at DC's The Source blog, original Milestone Comics editor-in-chief Dwayne McDuffie is teaming with several artists who worked on the original Milestone Comics line back in the 1990s to wrap up the stories that were being told in those books before the line was canceled. It also sounds like it'll somehow transition the characters from their separate Milestone-verse to the DCU proper, where we've already seen them show up in the pages Justice League and Teen Titans.

McDuffie will team with John Paul Leon, Mark Bright, Chris Cross and Denys Cowan to wrap up the stories from Hardware, Icon, Shadow Cabinet, Blood Syndicate and Static. I figured we were well past ever seeing these characters again in their original environment, so this is welcome news, even if it is "a bittersweet tale that chronicles the literal end of a universe."

Straight for the art | Jeffrey Brown’s Haruki Murakami

Jeffrey Brown’s Haruki Murakami

Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time!, the blog that posts portraits of authors by comic creators, recently posted one of Haruki Murakami by Jeffery Brown. You can see the back story on it, also by Brown, over at Kevin Church's blog.

Straight for the art | Monster Mashups

Monster Mashups

Dean Haspiel points us to Monster Mashups, a collaboration between Tim Hall and Jen Ferguson "depicting the lesser known aspects of some of the most notorious creatures in the Western lexicon of horror." Haspiel says:

Tim Hall (writer) and Jen Ferguson (artist) began collaborating late in the summer of 2009, when Tim became aware of Jen’s peculiar art and vice-versa: a working friendship was born. Tim Hall had begun “Uplift the Positivicals,” a new “comic without comics” (somewhat like Hazel Motes’ “Church of Christ Without Christ” in Flannery O’Connor’s novel “Wise Blood”) on Act-i-vate.com, a webcomix collective founded by mutual friend and artist Dean Haspiel. Tim asked Jen to illustrate some of his most demented passages, which turned out to be the perfect assignment for the artist, who years earlier had nearly been booted out of an illustration program at Pratt and sworn off anything that involved “assignments.” Tim’s first request of Jen is that she draw a plushie’s fantasy: a Paddington Bear bed with mechanical arms. After this intriguing first request, stranger ones followed.

Wolverine: Weapon X 100 covers up for bid at eBay

by Josh Medors

Several pieces of original art from The Hero Initiative's Wolverine: Weapon X 100 Project are available for bidding on eBay ... including this one by Josh Medors, which just looks absolutely incredible. Also pieces from Chris Bachalo, Colleen Coover, Art Adams, John McCrea and several others can be found as well.

Go check'em out and place a bid; it's for a good cause.

H. R. Giger's Batmobile design

...would have looked something like this:

Batmobile by H.R. Geiger

The essential Super Punch has more images and information on Giger's rejected designs for the Batmobile from Batman Forever.

Fall of the Hulks Alpha preview

from Fall of the Hulks Alpha

Marvel sent over some pages from their upcoming Fall of the Hulks storyline, which kicks off with an "Alpha" issue in December. You can see additional pages from it here (where you can also see the ad/homage to the original Fall of the Mutants ad that ran in various Marvel comics back in the 1980s).

The book is written by Jeff Parker with pencils by Paul Pelletier. The story revolves around the Leader, Mad Thinker, Egghead, M.O.D.O.K., Red Ghost and Doctor Doom putting their heads together to create some sort of battle plan that leads into the World War Hulks event. More details on that can be found here.

Check out additional pages after the jump ...

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This Wednesday, the spies and rockers come in from the cold

This week is a good one for fans of espionage and spies, as Marvel releases a new Black Widow miniseries; Vertigo gives us the further adventures of Fabletown's resident spy, Cinderella; and Titan collects the old James Bond newspaper strip into a giant omnibus. If danger is your business, business is good.

Rock stars, meanwhile, are kind of like super spies, only with guitars and groupies instead of guns and Bond girls. And this week sees several rockers releasing books, as Anthrax's Scott Ian tackles a new Lobo miniseries, Zak Sally of the band Low does Like a Dog and the second issue of Kill Audio by Claudio Sanchez of the band Coheed and Cambria hits shelves.

Several new series kick off this week; in addition to what I listed above, there's also a new Age of Reptiles series, a Great Ten miniseries, Charlie Huston's Deathlok, another Oz series from Marvel, Psylocke and Iceman minis, and the long-awaited Stumptown. And wrapping up this week are Marvel's Strange Tales anthology, Dark Horse's End League and Witchfinder, Tyrese Gibson's Mayhem, Iron Man Armor Wars and Boys Herogasm.

These only scratch the surface of what you'll find in stores this week. To see what Kevin, Chris and I are keeping an eye out for, read on ...

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Straight for the art | Sam Hiti's Death-Day

from Death Day

Saw this on Paul Pope's Twitter feed ... artist Sam Hiti has kicked off a webcomic called Death-Day, as well as an accompanying blog. Go check it out.

By the Hurrying Hordes of Holborn: McCarthy's Dr. Strange/Spider-Man promo

Fever promo

Mark Kardwell shares with us an "idea sketch for a 'Coming Soon" type of advert" for Fever, the upcoming Dr. Strange/Spider-Man miniseries written and drawn by Brendan McCarthy. This Marvel Knights series is due in April, McCarthy told Kaldwell.

iFanboy creates the Ultimate Comics Twitter Lists

The social networking site Twitter recently added a new function called "Lists," which allows users to create and share lists of Twitter accounts. The fine folks at iFanboy have done the world a solid and created several comic book oriented lists, so you can easily find Twitter feeds for creators, companies, podcasters, bloggers and media.

They've also set up a list for their staff, an idea I shamelessly stole as soon as Ron Richards emailed me about their lists. Now you too can find out what Brigid had for breakfast, what Kevin thinks of V and who Carla dressed as for Halloween, all from one handy feed.

Slash Print | Following the digital evolution

comiXology

Digital comics | Kiel Phegley talks to Ira Rubenstein, Marvel's executive vice president of digital media, about their partnerships with comiXology, iVerse, ScrollMotion and Panelfly. comiXology, meanwhile, has added another Marvel title to their catalog this week -- Civil War.

Digital comics | Don Reisinger over at CNET reviews several comics applications for the iPhone, including comiXology, Clickwheel, iVerse Comics and Comic Envi.

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