Well, it’s that time of year again, when every comic site begins compiling lists of their favourite releases of the year. So I thought it was high time that I started to compile my list, it being the penultimate day of the year, and all. I thought I would start by putting together a list [...]

Dark Horse have informed Hypergeek that they are readying a new Usagi Yojimbo plush toy for release in the spring! I need one of these. Sooooo cute!
The plush will be available to order from the January issue of Diamond’s Previews, with an on-sale date of May 2010.
Press release:
THE RABBIT RONIN FINALLY GETS HIS OWN PLUSH [...]

As a follow-up to Diamond Distribution’s Top 20 Publishers, Top 300 Comics, and Top 300 TPBs & GNs for November 2009, I have used the raw data to construct the sales charts for independently published titles in November 2009.
Diamond provided their own indy charts, but I chose to ignore them, for a couple of reasons. [...]

Diamond Distribution have just supplied Hypergeek with a full run down of their November 2009 Direct Market sales figures.
If you are not familiar with how Diamond’s sales figures, here’s how they are calculated:
Data for Diamond’s sales charts—which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe [...]

Diamond Distribution just supplied Hypergeek with data for the top publishers and products for November 2009.
If you are not familiar with how Diamond’s sales figures, here’s how they are calculated:
Data for Diamond’s sales charts—which include the monthly market shares and all top product charts—are compiled by Diamond Comic Distributors from a universe of over 4,000+ [...]

A few days ago, Hypergeek revealed that Dark Horse Comics were collaborating with L.A. based clothing brand, The Hundreds (http://www.thehundreds.com/), to produce some sort of Usagi Yojimbo related apparel.
Now, Dark Horse have sent Hypergeek a press release with full details of this collaboration:

Dark Horse Teams with The Hundreds to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary Of Usagi [...]

Dark Horse Comics were teasing on their Twitter account about an upcoming collaboration between two brands, one of which celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. Your humble host correctly guessed that the Dark Horse published property was Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo.
Dark Horse then directed me to the site http://www.thehundreds.com/, home to Los Angeles based clothing [...]

Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai is an Original Graphic Novel written and illustrated by Usagi Yojimbo creator Stan Sakai. 2009 Marks the 25th year of publication for Stan Sakai’s rabbit ronin, Usagi Yojimbo, and to mark this occasion Sakai decided to create a special standalone OGN.
Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai is a 64-page hardcover book, and is also [...]

The red-hot, sold out Marvel Comics phenomenon continues in Strange Tales #2, on-sale October 7th. Marvel’s greatest characters are brought to life by the hottest independent creators including Peter Bagge, Max Cannon, Jacob Chabot, Jonathan Hickman, R. Kikuo Johnson, Matt Kindt, Tony Millionaire, Jim Rugg and Jhonen Vasquez! The second issue of this landmark Marvel [...]

The following comic previews are for Dark Horse Comics titles on sale Wednesday September 16th 2009.
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Comics

Beasts of Burden #1 – 3 Pages
Citizen Rex #3 [...]