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Boulder Daily Camera is also sugarcoating sales

The Boulder Daily Camera of Colorado follows the example set by the Boston Globe, and provides their own local fluff-coated coverage of store sales:In the comic industry, superheroes are saving...

Boston Globe goes into freefall covering comics sales

The Boston Globe writes about the opening of a comics store in the city, and turn out the gazillionth whitewash of the industry and how it's doing:The publishing industry is in a freefall, but comic...

Sgt. Rock being sent into the future

So there's a movie in the works based on DC's famous WW2 army hero, as reported on the Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog, but it looks like they're about to commit another grave mistake, by...

But is Captain America a stooge for leftists?

The Ventura County Star publishes an article about a new book published by an academian named Robert Weiner called "Captain America and the Struggle of the Superhero: Critical Essays", which examines...

NY Post sugars it up for Wizard

The New York Post has written a sugary article about the publisher of Wizard magazine:Pop culture is finally catching up with Gareb Shamus.Shamus, 40, grew up around his parents' Nanuet, NY, comic...

What does the Virginia Commonwealth Library celebrate as its 2 millionth comic acquisition?

According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, it's the Spider-Man comic with Obama in it:Virginia Commonwealth University's library has acquired its 2 millionth volume: a Spider-Man comic featuring...

Once, superhero movies did sell comics...

But things have certainly changed since then. The Norridge Harwood Heights News writes an interview with a local comics store owner, where he tells towards the end:Stangeland acknowledged comic book...

Rooting for villains is ludicrous

The Nashua Telegraph writes up a bunch of brief "recommendations" of several items old and new, and what's said about the new Secret Six has me feeling bothered:?Secret Six: Unhinged? (DC Comics,...

Marvel used to be good at selling comics, but what about today?

The Nashua Telegraph writes a superficial column about Disney's buyout of Marvel, and there's at least one part here that can be commented on:Q: Will Disney sanitize Marvel Comics, or otherwise...

Colorado Gazette shows no love for Iron Man

Nor for that matter does IM's current writer Matt Fraction, IMO. The Colorado Springs Gazette writes a fluff-coated article talking about how Tony Stark is being "put through the wringer":Tony?Iron...