Editorial: Cassandra Complex: Curtain Calls & Cyberpunx
By Antony Johnston
In his final Cassandra Complex, Antony Johnston looks back at some of the big stories from three years of Ninth Art, including Epic adventures, the decline of Crossgen, and the rise of comics piracy.

Things To Come: Previews May for comics shipping July 2004
By Greg McElhatton
Ninth Art announces its latest signing, as iComics' Greg McElhatton takes over the monthly Previews review. This month, he fixes his attention on new works from Paul Hornschemeier, Jiro Taniguchi and Jim Ottaviani.

Article 10: License To Shill
By Paul O'Brien
On the back of the PUNISHER movie, Paul O'Brien takes another look at Marvel's 'core business'. Licensing may be a sensible way to make money, but why is Marvel tapping the back-catalogue and not developing anything new?

Beyond Borders: Peter Is A Punk Rocker
By Marcos Castrillón
Ninth Art's foreign language correspondent goes native with a look at the work of Spanish creator Max, including the anarchic 80s trash culture comedy PETER PANK, mixing JM Barrie with Johnny Rotten.

Celebrity Meltdown
By Bulent Yusuf
With Joss Whedon's ASTONISHING X-MEN on its way, Bulent Yusuf looks at the phenomenon of the celebrity writer and asks, do we really need to look beyond comics to find yet more writers who can't keep a deadline?

Editorial: Face It, Tiger - Across The Universes
By Andrew Wheeler
As Mack, Oeming and Bendis make the jump to Marvel's newest imprint, DC WildStorm pulls the plug on two titles, and Erik Larsen takes over at Image, Andrew Wheeler takes a reading of the current state of the major superhero publishers.

Article 10: Power And Responsibility
By Paul O'Brien
When CrossGen's investors pulled the plug on Chuck Dixon's AMERICAN POWER, Dixon's fans cried foul - but was this really a case of corporate censorship, or did CrossGen cross the line?

Editorial: Camera Obscura - The Call
By Alasdair Watson
The ambition of most comic creators is to write supermen and mutants. The only way to make a living in comics is to write supermen and mutants. If these two things are true, says Alasdair Watson, then the industry has reached a dead end.

Destroy All Superheroes
By Alex Dueben
Some people don't like superheroes. You probably knew that already. Yet in the case of Alex Dueben, it's not that he doesn't want to like superheroes - it's just that he doesn't believe they have anything to say.

Things To Come: Previews April for comics shipping June 2004
By Katherine Keller
This month's guest Previews reviewer is better known as Sequential Tart's Kady Mae, slayer of fanboys. She casts an irascible eye over the first of the summer's comic offerings, and finds a few treats along the way.

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