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The Fifth Color | Representation in ‘Ms. Marvel’
The “Guy Card” doesn’t exist. No one can take away your masculinity however you choose to define that. So get out there and take dancing lessons or moisturize your face (note: I have no idea what...
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Best of 7 | The best in comics from the last seven days
Welcome to Best of 7, where we talk about, as it says above, “The best in comics from the last seven days” — which could be anything from an exciting piece of news to a cool publisher’s announcement...
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‘Ms. Marvel’ rockets to the #1 slot on Marvel’s digital sales chart
It looks like Marvel’s emphasis on reaching a female audience may be paying off for Ms. Marvel. The first issue of the teenaged superhero’s series debuted last Wednesday to a chorus of critical...
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Comics A.M. | Author, ‘Vermillion’ writer Lucius Shepard dies
Passings | Award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Lucius Shepard, whose work included Life During Wartime and The Jaguar Hunter, passed away March 18. He was 66. Shepard ventured into comics...
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Comics A.M. | Algerian cartoonist seeks asylum in France
Legal | Algerian cartoonist Djamel Ghanem is seeking asylum in France as the prosecution and plaintiff appeal his acquittal on charges that he insulted Algeria’s president in an unpublished cartoon...
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Comics A.M. |‘Attack on Titan’ passes 30M in sales in Japan
Manga | The 13 volumes to date of Hajime Isayama’s dystopian fantasy Attack on Titan have sold a combined 30.37 million copies in Japan, making the manga only the third series to do so since market...
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The Fifth Color | The era of Ms. Marvel
Ms. Marvel #5 is the most important comic of the current era. Wait, I got ahead of myself. Comics have distinct eras that you can recognize simply by flipping through an issue. Whether it’s the...
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Comics A.M. | In San Diego, ‘comics had a great convention’
Conventions | Image Comics content manager David Brothers explains why this year’s Comic-Con International was a great convention, pointing out that there’s a lot more to the event than movies and...
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Read Chad Sell’s touching comic tribute to ‘The Authority’ #8
In the wake of Comic-Con International, The A.V. Club launched a week-long celebration of comics — called, appropriately enough, Comics Week — that’s included a discussion about diversity by Janelle...
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‘Ms. Marvel’ puts Logan to good use
[Editor’s note: Each Sunday, Robot 6 contributors discuss the best in comics from the last seven days — from news and announcements to a great comic that came out to something cool creators or fans...
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Comics A.M. | Duo jailed for trying to sell $9,000 in stolen comics
Crime | Two people were arrested Friday in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after police say they tried to sell $9,000 worth of stolen comic books to a local retailer. Marcelo Hernandez, 24, and Stacie...
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Kamala Khan and her creators named among ‘kick-ass Muslims’
Ms. Marvel writer G. Willow Wilson and editor Sana Amanat are in impressive company on BuzzFeed list of “21 Kick-Ass Muslims Who Changed the Narrative in 2014, which includes a Nobel laureate, a...
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Author Max Gladstone on crossing between prose and panels
This will not be a post about how Saga is awesome. I’ve written 30 of those already. No thrilling over Lying Cat here, no desperation for the next issue, none of my hopes to see The Will return to...
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Creators weigh in on 2014 and 2015 (Part 4)
Continuing with our annual “Looking Forward, Looking Back,” we asked creators and other industry figures what they liked in 2014, what they’re looking forward to in 2015, and what projects they have...
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Anti-Islam bus ads defaced with images of Ms. Marvel
Controversial ads on the sides of San Francisco buses that equate Islam with Nazism have been defaced with images of Marvel’s Kamala Khan, accompanied by slogans like “Stamp Out Racism.” According to...
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Comics A.M. | Malaysian cartoonist Zunar charged with sedition
Legal | Malaysian cartoonist Zunar was arrested last night on sedition charges stemming from a tweet criticizing the court that upheld the sodomy conviction of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim. On...
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Comics A.M. | 40 arrested in Japanese crackdown on illegal uploads
Legal | In their largest raid ever, police departments across Japan arrested 40 people between Feb. 17 and Feb. 19 on suspicion of copyright infringement for illegally sharing anime, manga, music and...
View ArticleComics A.M. | The changing face of female superheroes
A look at a new wave of female superheroes, from TV's Supergirl and Jessica Jones to comics' Ms. Marvel.
View Article‘Ms. Marvel’ wins best series at Angouleme
"Here" by Richard McGuire, and "Ms. Marvel" by G. Willow Wilson and Adrian Alphona were among the winners of the major awards at the Angouleme International Comics Festival.
View ArticleComics A.M. | Akira Himekawa to release ‘Zelda’ manga ‘Twilight Princess’
Akira Himekawa, the two-woman team behind the "Legend of Zelda" manga, will return with "The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess."
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