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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?

Pick of the Week – American Vampire #16

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I was a bit down (and probably at times harsh) over the first few issues of this Vertigo series.  American Vampire has grown and matured into a solid vampire tale that stands out from the over abundance of vampire stories out there.  The series has spanned a few decades already and right now is in the middle of a vampire infestation during war.  It’s a beyond solid story and one I’m looking forward to this week.

  1. American Vampire #16 – see above.
  2. Flashpoint tie-ins – So far so good, I really don’t think you can go wrong with any of these releases this week.
  3. Venom #4 – I’ve been pleasantly surprised by this series and the new take on the Venom character.  It’s been fun and entertaining.
  4. Last Immortal #2 – I read the first issue as part of Top Cow’s compilation and this was one of the comics I really wanted to see more of and luckily I get the chance.
  5. Farm 54 – I read it and holy shit is it good.