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Marvel Announce Rocket Raccoon Issue for Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day 14 will see two Marvel titles released, CBR have reported today. Alongside the previously announced Brian Michael Bendis/Nick Bradshaw story featuring the Guardians of the Galaxy,...
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Toy Fair 2014 Part 1: Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, My Little Pony in...
Yep, Toy Fair is here again and The Beat trekked over icy veldts to bring our reads only the VERY FINEST artsy iPhone photos of all the cool stuff. NO LIe. I managed to take like 600 photos in two...
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Skottie Young to draw Rocket Raccoon series
That Rocket Raccoon exploitation we told you about is well underway, but when the exploitation takes the form of a series written and drawn by Skottie Young, it’s really really hard to complain. And...
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First look at Skottie Young’s Rocket Raccoon interiors
As announced yesterday, Skottie Young, Eisner winning artist, will be writing and drawing a ROCKET RACCOON ongoing series in July. And here’s some interior pages. Also of note: David Peterson (Mouse...
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The Retailer’s View: On Rocket Raccoon Orders Topping 300,000
by Brandon Schatz When Marvel first announced the Rocket Raccoon book, I was fairly excited. Pairing the character with Skottie Young just as interest would crest for the movie seemed like a...
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Rocket Raccoon #1’s Initial Orders Inflated By Single Source
art by Skottie Young by Brandon Schatz A few days before the book’s final order cut-off with retailers, Marvel let it slip that their upcoming Rocket Raccoon series had garnered over 300,000 initial...
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Nice Art: Jeff Smith covers Rocket Raccoon for SDCC Marvel exclusive
I’ve wondered in the past if Rocket Raccoon would get overexposed before Guardians of the Galaxy comes out. Well as long as that exposure is swell variant covers by Jeff Smith, I have no worries about...
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SDCC 2014: Day -1 — a peak at the floor and The Year of Guardians
I kind of had an inkling that Guardians of the Galaxy would be the big thing at Comic-Con 2014, and after looking on the floor for a few minutes…I was right. If it isn’t the Lego Rocket and Groot, it’s...
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SDCC ’14: Cutest Little Rocket!
There are some totes adorbs kids in costume running around San Diego. This little Rocket Raccoon is one of them.
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Sales Charts: Rocket Raccoon #1 tops July
As expected, although still shockingly, Rocket Raccoon #1 by Skottie Young was the #1 comics periodical for July, according to Diamond’s just released stats. As reported earlier, RR #1 sold some...
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Milking the last drops, Marvel releases a final Rocket and Groot variant for...
This November’s Marvel comics will include a ton of Rocket Raccoon and Groot variant covers, making this officially the Year of An Awful Lot of Rocket and Groot, but as a waffer-thin nod towards...
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*Sunday UPDATE* SDCC ’15 Exclusive Funko Toy Announcements
By Nick Eskey Thanks for tuning in geeky guys and gals to this Sunday update of SDCC ’15 Funko toy release. Better known for their “POP!” line, Funko strives to “cover as many beloved licenses and...
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The All-New, All-Different Marvel Rundown Week Thirteen: Rocketing into The...
It’s time for an early/late addition of the All-New, All-New Different Marvel Rundown. Marvel shipped a select few comics early including Rocket Raccoon and Groot #1, this week’s exclusive #1! This...
View ArticleIs Nilah Magruder the first African-American woman to write for Marvel?
There was a lot of buzz a few months ago when it was announced that esteemed writer Roxane Gay and poet Yona Harvey would be writing World of Wakanda, a spin-off of the Black Panther universe. Both...
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The Marvel Rundown: Jennifer Walters is in a Post-CIVIL WAR II State of Mind
Civil War II has concluded and we’ve got our thoughts and two brand new ongoings in the post-Civil War II Marvel Universe. Marvel NOW! 2.0 has begun in final days of 2016 but what comics are worth your...
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Review: There goes Rhymin’ Brian (Michael Bendis) in the whimsical,...
Guardians of the Galaxy #16 STORY: BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS ART: VALERIO SCHITI COLORS: RICHARD ISANOVE PUBLISHER: MARVEL A quick note on my reasoning for writing this review the way I did. I decided to...
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REVIEW: With Only 5 Issues, Is it Already the End for Deadpool the Duck?
When comic creators decide on doing a crossover, it’s pretty much guaranteed that shenanigans will ensue. When Marvel deemed that Deadpool and Howard the Duck should “join forces,” they might have...
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Rocket and Groot star in their own series of animated shorts
There's probably a whole marketing treatise to be written about how Disney identified Rocket Raccoon and his tree buddy Groot as the breakout stars of Guardians of the Galaxy and leveraged them all...
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Sales Charts: Rocket Raccoon #1 tops July
As expected, although still shockingly, Rocket Raccoon #1 by Skottie Young was the #1 comics periodical for July, according to Diamond’s just released stats. As reported earlier, RR #1 sold some...
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Milking the last drops, Marvel releases a final Rocket and Groot variant for...
This November’s Marvel comics will include a ton of Rocket Raccoon and Groot variant covers, making this officially the Year of An Awful Lot of Rocket and Groot, but as a waffer-thin nod towards...
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