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Newsarama asked Joe Quesada what he thought about the notorious Heroes for Hire cover, and here’s what he had to say: First, I think people are reading way too much into that cover than was ever intended. I heard terms such as “tentacle rape” being thrown around when that in no way is what’s happening,…

I was going to make some sort of substantive post, but it’s Friday. Fuck it. Instead I bring you this Heaping Amount of Awesome, found via Warren Ellis, who got it from Jess Nevins. This, my friends, is what life is all about. Bonus Awesome: Check out Jennifer DeGuzman’s Fun With Slush and find out…

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is probably one of the most successful and acclaimed graphic novels of the last decade. This week, the film version – co-written and directed by Satrapi herself – debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. In the fall, it will be released in North America with an English voice cast of Gena Rowlands,…

No one will ever retcon the endings to Seaguy or WE3 or Vimanarama. Hellboy is the sort of comic Jack Kirby would have gotten around to eventually. Madman is friends with Mott, from the planet Hoople. Renée Montoya is a pretty interesting character, but she’s still just a watered-down and wimpy version of Tara Chace.…

And no, it’s not even the Spider-Man thing. The cover to Ultimate Power #7:(Note Kitty and the Thing at the bottom) And then the cover to Ultimate Fantastic Four #31: Oh, and two other drawings I pointed out here. The Thing might not be quite the same, but Kitty is certainly in the same pose…

Speaking of the DC solicits, we get this “description” of All Star Superman #9: ALL STAR SUPERMAN #9Written by Grant MorrisonArt by Frank Quitely & Jamie GrantCover by QuitelyBehold the Eisner Award-winning creative powerhouse in another fantastic exhibition of All Star bravura! Perils loom as Superman faces the strangest of adversaries. The reason for this…

Jock is awesome, as proven by the cover images for DC’s August books: Is there a better cover artist working in comics today? His interiors are pretty darn awesome, too. I’m going to have to go home and re-read Losers.

I’d forgotten how good Local could be. It’s understandable, I suppose. The book has shipped pretty sporadically for a while now. And while I loved the first three issues (the first four? I go back and fourth on #4, but more on that later), the last few issues have been merely good. But #9 is…

All right, I admit it: Comiquette-gate has far more legs than I’d thought possible. Yesterday, the New York Post checked in with an article about the Mary Jane and her laundry. It’s not terribly articulate, and I’m not convinced the writer actually knows what the internet is, as he says things like “on the site…