Today Is Indy Comic Books Week
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Yeah, I’m not sure about the day/week discrepancy either. I do know that Diamond isn’t shipping the regular Marvel/DC/Image/Dark Horse/Whatever comics this Wednesday, and those comic creators not affiliated with “The Man” are trying to claim the week as their own. Hence, Indy Comic Week.
If you want to learn more, the movement has its own web page here, but this is the page with all the comics that are coming out this week, and, just as importantly, all the stores that will be selling them. If you want to learn more about some of the titles, Comic Book Resources’ Robot 6 has a great series of profiles on some of the comics. And I want to give a shout-out to frequent TR commenter RobP’s comic Unstoppable Force, which features a superteam including Abraham Lincoln, Miyamoto Musashi and Joan of Arc (and others) fighting a giant magic statue of Stalin. RobP was the one who alerted me to Indy Comic Week in the first place, so you see Unstoppable Force, you check that shit out.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.