CONVENTION: BOOM! Studios reveals Emerald City Comicon exclusives

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BOOM! Studios proudly unveils its exclusive items for Emerald City Comicon 2013 including exciting new debuts and fan favorite series. Both BOOM! Studios and its all-ages imprint, KaBOOM! Studios, will be representing at the Washington State Convention Center in full force from March 1st through March 3rd with exclusives for ADVENTURE TIME, ADVENTURE TIME: FIONNA & CAKE, BRAVEST WARRIORS, PEANUTS, DEATHMATCH, and FREELANCERS. BOOM!’s newest limited series, ALIENS VS PARKER, co-created by comedian Paul Scheer (NTSF:SD:SUV::, THE LEAGUE, & HUMAN GIANT) and writer Nick Giovannetti will debut at the show with a pulse-pounding cover by Joe Quinones (WEDNESDAY COMICS, AMAZING SPIDER-MAN). And fans of the smash all-ages hit, ADVENTURE TIME, won’t want to miss the exclusive wraparound cover by Dustin Nguyen (BATMAN: L’IL GOTHAM) of the ADVENTURE TIME MATHEMATICAL EDITION HARD COVER. To add to the excitement, BOOM! will be debuting two new projects featured in exclusive limited edition prints by Brian Stelfreeze and Mike Kunkel. Swing by the BOOM! (#2002) and KaBOOM! booths (#2102) for more information!

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VARIANT: Marvel unveils ASM #700 3rd printing variant

Though The Amazing Spider-Man has ended, people are still clamoring for the issue that killed Peter Parker (spoiler).  Now Marvel has released a third printing of the issue, that features and all new cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli.

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VARIANT: The Walking Dead #1 variant available at all Wizard World Comic Con 2013 attendees

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Robert Kirkman, creator and writer of the groundbreaking, Eisner-Award winning The Walking Dead comic book series and graphic novels continues to break records in all of its incarnations. Wizard World and Skybound, Kirkman’s imprint at Image Comics, have teamed to bring fans what they want, more of The Walking Dead! Now, all full-price attendees at every Wizard World event in 2013 will receive a limited-edition, exclusive cover variant of The Walking Dead #1.

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VARIANT: Aspen announces Valentine’s day Charismagic variant

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Starting on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, Aspen Comics will be offering a special Charismagic: The Death Princess #2 Valentine’s Day exclusive cover by internationally-acclaimed artist Vincenzo Cucca and superstar colorist Peter Steigerwald, limited to only 214 copies.

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VARIANT COVER: Aspen Comics announces retailer incentive covers for Legend of the Shadow Clan #2

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On the heels of the successful launch of their “10 for 10” anniversary initiative and the first release, Legend of the Shadow Clan #1 selling over 35,000 copies, Aspen Comics plans to keep the momentum going for issue number two, highlighted by a special J. Scott Campbell Retailer Incentive cover amongst other incentive offers for fans and retailers.

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DIGITAL COMICS: comiXology shows off first truly digital variant comic book cover

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Award-winning graphic novel publisher Archaia Entertainment has teamed up with Ishinomori Production Inc. and comiXology—the revolutionary digital comics platform boasting iTunes’ #3 top grossing iPad app of 2012—to deliver the first “truly digital” variant comic book cover! Created specifically for comiXology’s Guided View reading technology, the cover to Cyborg 009: Chapter 000 celebrates the 75th birthday of legendary manga creator Shotaro Ishinomori, known the world over for creating Go Rangers (the precursor to Power Rangers), Cyborg 009, Kamen Rider (a.k.a. Masked Rider), Kikaider, and Skull Man.

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VARIANT COVER: Wolverine goes full Catwoman on All New X-Men #7

During the months following DC’s New 52 launch the accusations of artist taking the woman anatomy and throwing out the window to make for titillating images were flying all across the Internet. Well it appears that Catwoman isn’t the only superhero without a spine as can be seen on Guillem March’s variant cover for All New X-Men #7.

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VARIANT COVERS: Dark Horse Comics shows off limited variants for Star Wars #1

If you were one of the lucky few that got their hands on the now sold out Star Wars #1, consider yourself lucky.  If you didn’t, there’s still a chance to get your hands on four extremely limited pencil variant covers from Dark Horse Comics.

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VARIANT COVER: J. Scott Campbell covers Aspen’s 10 for 10

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Aspen Comics continues to add more incentive for fans and new readers to join in on the publishers’ tenth anniversary initiative with the announcement of superstar artist J. Scott Campbell coming aboard to provide covers for all ten “10 for 10” issue #2 releases. Aspen Editor-in-Chief Vince Hernandez discusses the addition of Campbell to their growing “10 for 10” initiative:

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