The terror that flaps in the night is back! The avian-themed superhero cartoon -- and a personal favorite from the Disney Afternoon of yore -- "Darkwing Duck" is heading not to the Disney-owned Marvel Comics but rather to Boom! Studios, where it will be written by Boom! editor Ian Brill and illustrated by James Silvani in a four-issue miniseries this June. "I watch the original shows now and I'm ...

The DC Nation panel Q&A session at Emerald City Comic-Con on Saturday afternoon jumped into several controversial issues in the comics world, including the recent death of Lian Harper and the Marvel Comics promotion that invited retailers to strip covers off DC books. It also featured revelations of about the new "Batman Beyond" and "Superman Beyond" series, the future of the JSA on ...

ComicsAlliance is live on site at Emerald City Comic-Con in Seattle, where the the big Marvel Q&A panel, "Mondo Marvel," just kicked off at the convention center with a huge roster of Marvel writers on hand: Matt Fraction, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Kieron Gillen, Joe Kelly, C.B. Cebulski, Joe Kelly, Rick Remender, Jeff Parker, and Paul Tobin. Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada began ...

Threads: A design from Sean T. Collins's sweet David Bowie comics sketchbook by "TV on the Radio" singer Tunde Adebimpe is now on sale as a t-shirt, with the proceeds to benefit disaster relief in Haiti. (via ADD) Too Hot: Barnes and Noble has reportedly refused to carry Molly Crabapple's lovely erotic graphic novel "Scarlett Takes Manhattan," calling it "too pornographic." iPhone preview here. ...

Emerald City Comic-Con kicks off this weekend in Seattle, and for those of you planning to attend, we've got a little contest set up because we're givers, really, and we want to give free stuff to you. Dark Horse Comics will be giving away limited edition lithographs from Star Wars, Usagi Yojimbo, Abe Sapien, The Goon, and Ghost. And all you have to do to win one is take a picture. ...

"Let's Be Friends Again" -- one of our favorite comics-centric webcomics -- recently posted what they call "the latest in our ongoing series of 'Let's never get hired to do real comics!' comics." Which is to say that they take -- I'm not even sure you can call them analogues, they're pretty much just Dan DiDio and Joe Quesada standing behind podiums with the names of their respective companies, ...

LongBox, a new digital comics platform that's aiming to become the iTunes of comics, is about to launch its new Beta version at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle this weekend. But while most of the world will only be able to read through a few watermarked sample comics until the wider release, ComicsAlliance readers will have an opportunity to get a wide range of comics through LBX before the ...

If you're entertained by Marvel vs. DC factionalism and enjoy a little corporate theater between the Big Two, then you probably love Marvel executive editor Tom Brevoort no matter which company you back, because the man knows how to stir things up. As he's explained before, he sees the Marvel/DC relationship as a friendly, but competitive one: "DC is the competition. Friendly, but not ...

Since his mainstream comics debut nearly five years ago, writer Fred Van Lente has been one of our favorite writers, climbing slowly but steadily to prominence by self-publishing books like the Xeric Award-winning "Action Philosophers" while simultaneously rising through the ranks at Marvel Comics, making his name first in the "Marvel Adventures" line aimed at younger readers, before moving on to ...

The Covered Comics blog -- where modern artists illustrate their own reinterpretations of classic comics covers -- held an art show at the Secret Headquarters comic shop in Los Angeles over the weekend, and you can now check out (and buy) many of the highlights from the show at the Secret Headquarters Flickr account, which has a few NSFW images in the bunch. Covered Comics is also posting more ...