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July's issue of Wired contained not only an analysis of Lois Lane, but also a piece on digital comics, entitled The Battle Begins.
American comic book fans live for Wednesdays. That’s the day the new issues arrive. Every major American comic book publisher uses a single distributor, Diamond, to ship boxes of their latest releases to roughly 2,200 comics retail stores across the country. The shop owners—or their minions—put that week’s crop of Batman or X-Men or Buffy the Vampire Slayer on the shelves, and then the fans arrive. A lot of them go to the same store every week, where they have a “pull list” on file, books they’ve asked to be set aside so they’ll never miss a single pulse-pounding issue. It’s a tradition.

To be more specific, it’s a dying tradition. The Wednesday crowd is the old-school audience, collectors who are willing to shell out $3 or $4 for a stapled-together pamphlet that they’ll put in a plastic bag with acid-free cardboard and store in a long white box. Those customers have been trickling away for years.

It's a decent read, and comes with some interesting art.

So, we've got Mister Miracle, Galactus, Optimus Prime, Jughead, Comet the Super-Horse, Jughead, Ch'p, Invincible, Lobo, Conan?, Green Hulk, Bizarro, Deadpool, MODOK, Bartman, Savage Dragon, J. Jonah Jameson, Nemesis, Darth Vader, Garfield, A Zombie, Captain America, Casper the Boy Who Died, Batman, Luke Cage, Doctor Manhattan, Wolverine, The Great Machine, S.T.R.I.P.E., Astro Boy, Spider-Man, Kilowogg, the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man, Death, Iron Man, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, an Alien, some GI Joe guy who I can't name, Sandman, Scott McCloud, Hellboy, Sonic the Hedgehog, Bender, Punisher's Q guy, somebody from an anime/manga and some guy on a pterodactyl.

Nope. There's no ladies in there.









And, in Eisner-winning Indie comics news, the film will be released before #2 comes out - Image's Nonplayer is going to Hollywood.. For those that missed Nonplayer #1, it's the story of a delivery girl and her online life in a fantasy VRMMORPG. It is, as you can see below, a beautiful book.