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Comic book legend Walt
Simonson^[1] has been in
the news quite a bit recently, first with the announcement of
his upcoming arc on The
Avengers^[2] with Brian
Bendis, and now with the reveal of a DC
Comics^[3] original
graphic novel that he has written and drawn, The Judas
Coin^[4].

Revealing the cover to the 94-page book on The
Source^[5], DC said it
"features characters from all across the DC Universe."

"The cover for The Judas Coin was designed and drawn with
inspiration provided in part by movie posters from the '60s and
'70s," Simonson exclusively told The Source. "In particular, I
was thinking of the posters of Bob Peak, who did such beautiful
work back then with montage. Peak was a master at creating a
strong central image and surrounding it with smaller, often
fairly loose images derived from various scenes in the movie."

"I make no claims to Peak's draftsmanship, but for a work like
The Judas Coin, comprised as it is of six separate but related
stories, I wanted a cover that would provide both a strong visual
image at its core, and a series of small drawings that would
reflect the structure of the book's interior. Batman and
Two-Face, eternal enemies, provided a good focal point. The
vignettes around them echo the individual stories within the
book."

The Judas Coin is set for release on September 18, 2012.

References

1. ^{^} Walt Simonson
   (stars.ign.com)
2. ^{^} upcoming arc on The Avengers
   (comics.ign.com)
3. ^{^} DC
   Comics (comics.ign.com)
4. ^{^} The Judas Coin
   (comics.ign.com)
5. ^{^} The Source
   (dcu.blog.dccomics.com)

References

1. ^{^} http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7345b6/3q11_cayman_island
   (us.lrd.yahoo.com)
2. ^{^} 3Q11 Cayman Islands Mobile
   Operator Forecast, 2011 - 2015: Cayman Islands to have 0.17
   million mobile subscriber connections in 2015 with Digicel
   taking 61.3% market share
   (us.lrd.yahoo.com)
3. ^{^} http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/7345b6/3q11_cayman_island
   (us.lrd.yahoo.com)

Officials in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar have
hit back at Ed Miliband's comments on 'tax havens'

Gibraltar's chief minister Fabian Picardo met with Mr Miliband
in London this week, accompanied by the minister for financial
services, Gilbert Licudi.

“Following Mr Miliband’s recent remarks about tax havens, the
chief minister and Mr Licudi briefed Mr Miliband on the latest
developments in Gibraltar and in particular on the work of the
finance centre as a fully compliant EU financial services hub
that operates entirely in keeping with EU directives and
regulations, fully compliant with OECD rules also and therefore
not by any measure a 'tax haven'," a government spokesperson
said.

Officials in the crown dependency of Guernsey have also
dismissed Miliband's threat to wage war on UK tax havens, as
"political posturing". Charles Parkinson, Guernsey's treasury
and resources minister, said the comments were of no concern.

Mr Miliband has said the UK should encourage offshore
territories to reform or face being blacklisted. But officials
on the Rock point out many reforms have already taken place.

In January last year, a new Income Tax Act came into effect in
Gibraltar, which Gibraltar says marked the territory’s 14-year
transition from "tax haven" to an integrated, mainstream
European financial services centre.

A key part of the act reduced company tax from 22 per cent to
10 per cent, making Gibraltar new-business friendly.

"The Rock is fully compliant with EU financial services
regulation, money laundering and co-operation rules and has
achieved OECD White List status," said Brian Stevendale,
business development director of Gibraltar marina resort Ocean
Village.

"EU, European Economic Area and Swiss nationals are free to
work and reside in Gibraltar without a permit and personal tax
is capped at a low level.

"Meanwhile ‘passporting’ of financial services has been in
place since July 2003, allowing firms and certain funds to
offer their services and products throughout Europe (Chicago
Options: ^REURUSD^[1] -
news^[2]) on
the basis of their Gibraltar licence.

"Also, interestingly, Gibraltar falls outside EU Customs Union
that delivers substantial benefits that haven’t gone unnoticed
by re-insurance and internet gambling companies, in
particular."

References

1. ^{^} ^REURUSD
   (us.lrd.yahoo.com)
2. ^{^} news
   (us.lrd.yahoo.com)