The Diamond website says comics arrive on Wednesday as usual despite the holiday. Check with your local retailer just to be sure, though.

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Justice League of America: When Worlds Collide HC

Dwayne McDuffie website

Wikipedia entry for Milestone Media

Amazon link to buy Icon: A Hero’s Welcome (new edition)

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Also this week:

Stormwatch PHD: Worlds End TP

Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular

Uncanny X-Men: First Class #4 (of 8). If only for this scene. (Thanks, Jon!)

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Also notable:

Green Lantern Corps #41. Blackest Night tie-in.

Act-I-Vate Primer HC. I saw a panel discussion at a Brooklyn book fair recently with these guys, and they do some terrific online comics. This collection is an all-new sampler of the creators in this comics collective. Good stuff.

Amelia Rules: A Very Ninja Christmas HC

Star Trek Countdown HC

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The Black Age of Comics Convention in Chicago was last weekend (which I totally forgot about). Here are some pics from the BACC blog, and some more from the Black Superhero message boards.

Congratulations to Kyle Baker, whose book Nat Turner won the Harvey for Best Graphic Album, Previously Published. Full list of winners here.

Olivier Coipel will be the artist for Marvel’s next big event, Siege. Writer Brian Michael Bendis talks about it here.

Foul Play is a San Francisco theater production who are currently putting on adaptations of “B-movies,” including the old Jane Fonda SF romp Barbarella. In this new stage production, a black actress takes on the lead role.

A whole bunch of news items on South African cartoonist Zapiro.

Jamal Igle video interview.