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Barely a week after release, artist Jamie McKelive and writer Kieron Gillen's music-fueled PHONOGRAM 2: THE SINGLES CLUB #1 has sold out at a distribution-level with a second printing on the way. "Clearly, we're overjoyed," Gillen said. "When you do a book as personal and warped as PHONOGRAM, you're always slightly worried that no-one else will care. To have it come out, review phenomenally and actually sell out in a week... well, short of Kenickie reforming or Jamie ge...

Yesterday morning USAToday's Pop Candy blog finally revealed the Barack Obama variant to Erik Larsen's SAVAGE DRAGON #145, coinciding with his first comic book appearance as President. "I had always intended to follow up Dragon's previous presidential campaign with his own endorsement, but I never anticipated how much heat it would generate," Larsen said. "When Barack appeared on the incentive cover of SAVAGE DRAGON #137 as a candidate it led to the book going through n...

Comic artist Todd McFarlane dropped by X-Play to show off some of his amazing videogame action figures. He also stuck around and drew a custom piece of art featuring his character Spawn at a holiday teddy bear picnic that has gone horribly wrong. X-Play is auctioning off this cool artwork to benefit Child's Play, a community based game industry charity that works to make children's lives better through toys and games. Their network includes 40 hospitals worldwide. All proceeds from ...

Top Cow Productions, Inc. announced today that fans who have been clamoring for the return of the Hunter-Killer series and anticipating more Cyberforce will finally get their wish when the publisher launches Cyberforce/Hunter-Killer, a monster crossover limited series set to debut in July. Eisner-nominated writer Mark Waid (The Amazing Spider-Man, Kingdom Come), who co-created Hunter-Killer with Top Cow founder and CEO Marc Silvestri in 2005, will pen the story. Providing art will be ...

On Free Comic Book Day 2009, fans will get an unprecedented chance to jump on board one of comics' most legendary superhero series as Image Comics and creator Erik Larsen give away an entire issue of SAVAGE DRAGON! "For Free Comic Book Day I wanted to give readers an exciting stand alone issue that would give them an idea of what I'm doing with the book after February's relaunch in #145," Larsen said. "It's a great introductory issue for new readers and it features the ...