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Jim Lee is arguably the most popular American comic book artist of the past 30 years. He’s also the head of arguably the largest superhero comic book publisher in the world as the chief creative officer/publisher at DC. In his 30+ years in the business, he’s created A-list characters for …

It’s important to admit that after hundreds of hours of Animal Crossing: New Horizons (opens in new tab), we all have some very specific new behaviours. Perhaps your IRL morning now has a 20 minute play session before getting down to the reality of the day, or maybe your in-game …

The X-Men line’s first crossover of the ‘Dawn of X’ era is about to kick off in X of Swords: Creation #1 by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz, which provides some backstory and lead-up for the Tarot-themed, sword-wielding X-Men event. (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab) …

So much can change in a year. In mid-2019, Marvel was coming off the back of an unparalleled one-two-three combo of Avengers: Endgame (opens in new tab), Spider-Man: Far From Home (opens in new tab) and Kevin Feige’s wave of SDCC announcements (opens in new tab) that teased everything from …

You know about Oz – but do you know about The O.Z.? As in the Occupied Zone. Writer David Pepose and artist Ruben Rojas have reimagined Frank L. Baum’s fantastical realm into a gritty Hurt Locker-esque war story. (Image credit: Ruben Rojas/Whitney Cogar/DC Hopkins) (opens in new tab) Scheduled to …

Deafening darkness and big-rig truckers – welcome to Scott Snyder and Tony S. Daniel’s new series Nocternal. (Image credit: Tony S. Daniel/Tomeu Morey (Best Jackett Press)) (opens in new tab) This new creator-owned, ongoing series from the two longtime Batman creators keeps the darkness, but trades in Bruce Wayne and …

With deaths, double-crosses, and surprise weddings, Marvel said the last issue of Empyre would be one of the defining moments of their star-spanning event. But I’d said they were wrong — because the real highlight of the series is here. Empyre #5 credits Written by Al Ewing and Dan Slott …

Video game music composers work audible magic. There’s a popular take on movies and their music that suggests the former would be nothing without the latter. There’s definitely some truth in that: watching a horror movie on mute is less scary; battle scenes become documentary sequences without bombastic orchestral arrangements. …

Black ops meet black magic in the upcoming creator-owned comic book series Shadow Service. (Image credit: Vault Comics) (opens in new tab) Writer Cavan Scott and artist Corin Howell introduce you to this world of mages, maguses, and wizards, and the people that try to make sense of it all. …

When is a twist not a twist? That’s the question I felt reading Empyre #4 (opens in new tab), which had been teased as a big reveal for Marvel’s latest cosmic series — but having read the issue a few times, I’m still not quite sure what was supposed to …