The Bleeding Cool Fan Awards have just been presented at Phoenix Comic Con, sponsored by Boom. Here are the results. With Saga, and Saga-related individuals and projects picking up five of the twenty-one awards handed out. As ever the awards …

Comic book stores with Diamond Comic Distributor accounts are able to visit the San Diego Comic Con for free, two tickets per store. The individuals in question have to have official buying power in the store and it’s seen as …

Over at Jalopnik, Jason Torchinsky tackles a question I’m sure a few of us have wondered about over the years: What’s that car Superman is hoisting on the cover of Action Comics #1? Torchinsky makes a pretty good case that it’s …

You can find Brian Augustyn and John Derrick West at Phoenix Comic Con next to the line for Brian’s creative partner on Gotham By Gaslight, Mike Mignola. But they have something new to show people. The first pages, in black-and-white …

Jason Carter from Babylon 5 here, posing with some prosciutto, next to the olive dip. Now, I have done a lot of comic cons but Jason has done even more. And he, like I, were in praise of the hospitality …

Coming from Monty Nero and Mike Dowling in October from Titan Comics, is the collection and continuation of the Death Sentence story that’s been running in CLiNT Magazine the past year. A superhero comic with a touch of the Strikeforce …

A new, three part story set in the Dredd 3D movieverse and after the events of last year’s movie is to appear in The Megazine later this year, kicking off in September.

From a presentation by Diamond Comic Distributors UK at the retailer summit at London MCM today, they dropped some heavy numbers on the retailers present. 2012′s sales were 10% up on 2011, to 8 million units imported into the UK. …

Boom! is launching a new series in September called Hit, a new crime book written by Adventure Time‘s Bryce Carlson and Vanesa R. Del Rey with the cover below by Ryan Sook. They had better hope it is also a …

At the Diamond Retailer Meeting in London today, held alongside the MCM Expo, IDW announced that, as well as the Judge Dredd series, they are going to start to run Sinister Dexter comics next year, reprinting the classic 2000AD comic …

It’s Friday morning in Arizona, okay? So we’re getting a new X-Men #1, courtesy of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel. Which naturally means variant covers. Here are a few, including one from Limited Edition Comix in the UK, raising money …

Phoenix Comicon opened yesterday. A casual, laid back Thursday ahead of the tumult to come… Saturday is especially rammed! Here’s a look at the show before it opened, and then as the hordes entered… Queues were long and heavy for …

I expect he was named in reference to the song Ulysses by The Sweet. That would be a Morrison-y thing to do.

His last one was stolen. He only has this one now. But the Chogs are coming, the toy spinning off from the comic book Chew, in which chickens have been banned and frogs and being genetically altered to try and …

 by Cameron Hatheway It’s a sometimes confusing time to be a kid; they see themselves as too old to be reading children books, but not quite there yet with the more young adult selections. Caught in a prepubescent limbo of …

Yesterday’s top two stories paint an interesting picture of some of the world’s largest media companies marking their territory in the ink, paper and fabric (and blood and sweat) of the Marvel Universe.  Strange world. True forever, still a little …

Hank Scorpio was one of the major comic book piracy sites in the industry. It didn’t host any files, but it linked to a series of download sites such as Hotfile,  SendSpace and the like. Named after the Simpsons character, …

There you go, folks! The first seven pages of Captain Midnight #1 by by Joshua Williamson and Fernando Dagnino coming soon from Dark Horse. On the run from the US government after fleeing custody, Captain Midnight has been labeled a …

Contrast and compare the original, UK edit of the Walking With Dinosaurs trailer and this new, US version. The main difference is a pretty substantial one…

The Jim Henson Gallery is to house a new, permanent exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. I’ll see you there.

Another set back for one of the most set back films in the modern history of setting back.

Brrrrr. I absolutely never want to get within twenty metres of Krusty the Clown.

Two little bits of Judge Dredd business came out of this afternoon’s Retailers Conference at the MCM London Comic-Con. I’m going to share the film-centric one first. Because, you know. Films.

There’s been some hypemongering talk of a possible fifth series or feature-length special, also funded by Netflix. I’d have paid it more heed if it didn’t seem perfectly timed to get headlines for the show just before the relaunch.

“Well, duh,” of course, but in case you were in any doubt.

Taking the Human Centipede back to the moral outrage that sparked the idea in the first place?

I love zombies, so right now, I love TV.

While my Aaron Sorkin fever is being stoked by the imminent second series of The Newsroom, I might dip back into The West Wing.

I don’t like clowns, I don’t like dolls and I don’t like blu-tack. This poster for The Conjuring has my red needle at 33% “freaked out,” maybe a little higher because that face is kinda clowny.

First up, the Green Band version – which still features talk of “a big black penis” and footage of Jennifer Aniston stripping. And then there’s the Red Band one.

This trailer, directed by Jon Favreau and starring Giancarlo Esposito, has done nothing to curb my excitement for the online, sort-of MMORPG.

Danny Trejo, Lady Gaga, Amber Heard, Antonio Banderas and a very authentic VHS vibe.

I had been waiting for this.

Not sure if the videos from Patrick Willems and the gang from Bleeding Cool’s “Afterwards They Will Explode” have ever deserved that title quite so much as the do this week…

Its story really is the sort of sticky concept that could be endlessly recycled I think, with no small thanks to that deceptively crass title.

That’s right. Never ever ever. Ever.