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Chip Kidd to Pen Batman Comic for DC

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Graphic designer, novelist and comic-phile Chip Kidd has announced that he will write a full-length Batman comic for DC. The news came via Twitter (where else?) from one of the audience members at the Chicago Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest, who witnessed Kidd's announcement and promptly spread the good news throughout the nerd world....  read more

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Paste's 10 Favorite Things About NYC Comic Con 2009

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"I want to see Emma Frost and Loki have a pillow fight!" The raucous statement echoes anonymously in a large, industrial room filled with 500 people at 2009 New York Comic Con. Each of the 500 in attendance laughs because they are well aware that a) Emma Frost is a fictional bleach-blonde mutant telepath who notoriously flaunts a leather Victorian corset. She is also a comic-book character. They're also aware that b) Loki is a the Norse Goddess of Trickery who often fights the Asgardian God of Thunder, Thor. She was once male before morphing into an extremely attractive female (magical possession, not transgender surgery,...  read more

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Chuck Palahniuk and DC Comics in talks

He's brought the world plenty of snuff to choke on, and at least one twisted lullaby, and now Chuck Palahniuk is in talks with DC to invade comic stores with his mad-satire....  read more

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iTunes offers DC Comics' animated series

Holy digital downloads, Batman!  DC on my iPod!?Before your mind goes totally kablam-o from childhood comic nostalgia, head safely to the iTunes-mobile to enjoy some good ol' good-vs.-evil instant gratification. Yes, the iTunes store recently added a selection of gems from DC Comics animated history, from relative newbies like Batman Beyond to the original Max Fleischer Superman cartoons....  read more

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