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We should be pretty back to normal this week as far as coverage, going a bit heavier when it comes to games since we just came off of Gen Con. We’ve missed a few “Around the Tubes,” so below is catch up with some older news and throughout the day, we’ll be posting news we might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

Bleeding Cool – The Superhero With Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Well that’s just shitty…

Bleeding Cool – How A Soft Cowboys & Aliens Opening May Affect Platinum Studios – Doh!

IGN – Race in Comics: Spider-Man’s Impact – A take on Marvel’s recent announcement.

Bleeding Cool – Joe Quesada Commissioned By President Obama – We are so raising revenues through sales of alternate covers.

ICv2 – Sony Sets Date for Garfield ‘Spider-Man’ Sequel – Yes, that’s a sequel to a movie that hasn’t even been released yet.

Kotaku – Sunday Comics – Each week, Kotaku brings some great web comics.

Obsessive Reaction – Race in comic books, does it even matter? – An interesting take on the new ultimate Spider-Man.

Comics Alliance – Warner Bros. Purchases Film Rights to Nate Simpson’s ‘Nonplayer’ – Has the second issue even come out?

ICv2 – ‘Game of Thrones’ Helmer in Talks for ‘Thor 2’ – Could be a really good fit.

Monthly/Quarterly Sales Numbers:

ICv2 – Game Sales Grew in Q2

ICv2 – Top 10 Card Games–Q2 2011

ICv2 –Top 5 RPGs–Q2 2011

ICv2 – Top 10 Board Games–Q2 2011

ICv2 – Top Collectible Games–Q2 2011

ComiChron – July initial, June final comics orders online; IDW sets record

Con Coverage:

MTV Geek – Gen Con: New Marvel Comics RPG Games Announced By Margaret Weis Productions

CBR – Geoff Johns & Jim Lee Named Guests of Honor at New York Comic-Con

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Cambridge First – Batman: Hush Unwrapped Deluxe Edition

English Chick 21 – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel

CBR – Rachel Rising #1

CBR – Scalped #51

IGN – Comic Book Reviews for 8/3/11

Paste Magazine – Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (8/3/11)

Around the Tubes

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Brett

It’s the latter part of the week with new comic releases yesterday. What did you get? What do you plan on getting? While you look forward to a long weekend, here’s the news you might have missed.

Around the Blogs:

The Beat – Center for Cartoon Studies awarded $255,000 community development grant for Inky Solomon Center – Great to see expansion of this.

Media Bistro – How ComiXology Will Support Independent Creators & Publishers – An interesting conversation and well worth the read.

ICv2 – Transformers 3 Earns $13.5 Million on Tuesday – Or it doesn’t open as well cause it’s terrible.

The Beat – Adam Sandler wins legal battle against comic book – Seriously? Guess you’d have to sue every kid who did this too.

Con Coverage:

The Mary Sue – There Will Be a Full-Sized (at Least on the Outside) TARDIS Replica at San Diego Comic Con

MTV Geek – ‘Heroes And Villains’ Android Figures Heading To SDCC!

Comics Alliance – Plastic Avengers Assemble for Exclusive San Diego Comic-Con Mini Muggs Pack

Bleeding Cool – Is Wizard World New England 2011 The Next To Go?

CBR – Fans plan protest at Comic-Con against DC relaunch

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Bleeding Cool – Batman Incorporated #7 And FF #5

CBR – Detective Comics #878

MTV Geek – The Goon #34 and The Strange Case of Mr. Hyde #3

MTV Geek – Incorruptible #19 and Amory Wars: In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 #12

IGN – Scalped #50

MTV Geek – The Sixth Gun #12

Bleeding Cool – Uncanny X-Men #539 And Flashpoint: Canterbury Cricket

Complex – Review: Is “Detective Comics” Still The Best Book At DC?

Around the Tubes

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Brett

The world continued to comment on Action Comics and Superman yesterday. We’re not going to cover the coverage much anymore, but expect actual commentary as to the politics of what Superman did. Check out below the rest of the news you might have missed, since I’m sure your day was spent watching the Royal wedding.

Around the Blogs:

Kotaku – Captain America Weighs in on Wikileaks – I haven’t read the issue yet, I’m sure I’ll have some opinions and coverage.

Wired – Prolific Comic Writer Bendis Tackles Marvel Universe MMO – This is an MMO I can get into.

Kotaku – Dark Horse Digital Comics Debuts with Dungeon Siege III – Whatever happened to their press list I was on? I swear I was at one point….

Kotaku – The Murderous Math of The Darkness II’s “Quad Wielding” – Some details of the upcoming video game.

Around the Tubes Reviews:

Seattle PI – Action Comics #900

Comic Book Resources – Batman Incorporated #5

Comic Book Resources – Detective Comics #876

The Herts Advertiser – New Ultimates: Thor Reborn

Scifi Mafia – Project London

IGN – Scalped #48