More Witchblade Cosplay at AFA09

Alodia (http://alodiagosiengfiao.com/) and her younger sister Ashley (http://orangeish.deviantart.com/) dressed up as the girls from Witchblade.



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Commentary Track: Image United #1

With the highly anticipated "Image United" finally in stores, fans are understandably poring over the long-awaited first issue, but there are plenty of details and story choices made by the creative team that might not be noticeable at a first - or even second or third - glance.

In an effort to point out some of these behind-the-scenes creative decisions, CBR News has tapped the "Image United" creators and Image Comics partners — writer Robert Kirkman and founders Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino — for a series of Director's Commentaries following the debut of each issue.

For "Image United" #1, CBR spoke with Kirkman and Liefeld, the writer and layout artist duo behind the first issue of the miniseries. The pair provided a scene-by-scene breakdown of the entire issue and offered their reactions to seeing "Image United" come together for the first time.

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Image United #1 Sells Out!

The debut issue of Image Comics' major crossover event Image United has sold out at the distribution level.

The first issue of the six-part miniseries - written by Robert Kirkman (Invincible, Walking Dead) - sold out immediately after its debut this week despite what Image called a "significant overprint", and will receive a second printing.

Image United sees company founders Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino reuniting to illustrate the comic.

The series sees heroes from Image titles including Youngblood, Spawn, Savage Dragon, Witchblade and The Darkness uniting to battle the original Spawn.

Image United #1 second printing will be released on December 23.

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50% Off Entire TOP COW Store This Weekend!

If you visit the Top Cow Store over the weekend and enter IWANTMORECOW, you get 50% off EVERYTHING!

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Wizard Magazine Includes Top Cow in their Decade Issue

Wizard Magazine has included Top Cow in their Decade Issue out this month.

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Around Comics Talks Comics, Darkness, Phil Hester with Lance Briggs

Around Comics welcomes Bears great, and uber comics fan Lance Briggs to this week's show. Lance is one of the best players in the NFL, and he's also a dedicated comic book fan. Listen in as he talks about growing up with comics, how he's kept his love of comics alive through college and during his NFL career, and The Darkness.

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Chicago Bears linebacker a big aficionado of genre comics

Lance Briggs sank into the squishy red upholstered chair at Challengers Comics on Western Avenue. He sank so deeply his chin peeked above the table top before him. And though he looked a bit uncomfortable, he smiled like a kid who just found the compatriots he never knew he had.

He turned to Tom Katers, who sat across from him, whose face was half the size of Briggs' neck, and he said, yes, he was like Katers, he was a member of their "secret society."

Briggs said later he doesn't usually admit to that, certainly not to his friends or his teammates.

Not that he's ashamed.

It's just that, well, you know, he works weekends, has this intense job, and doesn't meet many people as obsessed with comic books.

Indeed, Briggs, 29, may be the most nonchalant comic book geek in the world, understandably oblivious to the taunts and snickers that greet your average, physically less-intimidating hard-core enthusiast.

So there was Briggs at Challengers the other night, prowling its aisles, stooping to examine a cover, then adding it to the expanding mound of $3 issues he was gathering beneath his arm, his eyes never leaving the racks. He's a big reader of "The Darkness," "New X-Men," "Pitt," "Silver Surfer." His total bill, a couple of hours later: $154.54.

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