Hope springs eternal--how else can anyone explain the decision by Mark Millar and Titan Publishing to launch a new newsstand comic book publication in 2010?   However laudable the decision to create a 21st Century equivalent of the Eagle comics magazine that so many U.K.-based creators grew up with (see "Millar Launching UK Comics Magazine"), Millar’s magazine ran into the same strong headwinds that have been eroding newsstand magazine sales around the globe (see "Newsstand Magazine Sales Plummet Again").
 
Of course the mag’s puerile title, which got it banned in a few U.K. supermarket chains, didn’t help either, and there might have been a bit of confusion on the direction of magazine, which had plenty of content that skewed in a far more mature direction than Eagle.  Still the now-cancelled title did provide the first publication of Millar and John Romita, Jr.’s Kick-Ass 2: Balls to the Walls, as well as Monty Nero and Mike Dowling’s Death Sentence, which was successful enough that Titan is publishing the high concept saga as a standalone comic (see "Trailer for Titan's Death Sentence Comic").
 
Ironically, the cancellation of CLiNT was announced on the Comic Book Resources site on the very day that Jeff Wadlow’s movie adaptation of Kick Ass 2: Balls-to-the-Wall debuted in the U.K., and just two days before the film opens in North America.  The tear-stained last issue of CLiNT, CLiNT #2.8 ships to newsstands in the U.K. this week and to U.S. comic shops on September 10th.