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News of several people being let go from Marvel Comics today cast a shadow over the entire industry, just as it had been catching its breath in the wake

You have to be intrigued by a process that ends up code-naming a highly controversial project Panic Room.  Because what were the odds that a secret

And it's a double... or the number of them in shops is being doubled, I mean.  There's a drinking joke there but it eludes me just this second.  But Point

...Launching it toward Earth. Or so went the original version. And in the New 52? We'll start to find out in January, it seems... Most-Read Comic Stories

DC's release this morning of January's Detective Comics cover and solicits -- which happens to feature the Penguin -- reminded me that I wanted to do  a

Between the Court of Owls in Batman and the Penguin in Detective, looks like we're in for some fowl play for the month of January. You know if Adam West

One of the things I like about the new Action Comics is the specific reference to some of the key iconography of the earliest days of the original series,

Or something like that.  But it's a pretty interesting batch of solicits for DC's Justice League Group January releases.  Here's the tale of the tape:

The Last Dog Of Krypton. Apparently gone, but definitely not forgotten.  Need we be reminded there was another side to the 1950s DC era that also gave

Despite the fact that Jack Kirby was an incredibly prolific artist with a career that spanned some 50 years, it's not every day that I see a picture of a

There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who like superpets, and those who don't.  Which type are you? Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The All-New

Not much info yet, but this has been one of the major lingering questions of the DC reboot, and now we know: Big news out of New York Comic Con: Shazam is

More creator news fresh from NYCC on the DC Comics New 52 front: Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens are joining forces to take on SUPERMAN for DC COMICS-THE NEW

BC field team correspondent Josh Kopin checks in from the Marvel Shattered Heroes panel at NYCC: Storm joins The Avengers as part of a larger roster

I was talking to Brendon earlier about how I think the move of Thor 2 from summer to November 2013 has a fair bit of comic-side significance because the

Writer Paul Cornell has elaborated on one of Vertigo's NYCC announcements today -- an ongoing series by Cornell and artist Ryan Kelly about a presidential

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool showed you video of a conflict on the streets of Seattle which led to assault charges for Phoenix Jones, even though the

DC Comics has been placing an increasing emphasis on marketing outreach in recent weeks, and the New York Times is reporting that's about to continue with

It's sort of a comic industry version of the Da Vinci Code: one of the oldest and most powerful organizations in comics with a long-forgotten book hidden

DC promised us some big New 52 creator announcements this week, and here's an interesting one indeed: Fan-favorite creator Ann Nocenti will be taking over

When DC hinted just a few days ago that we should expected major creator announcements during NYCC, one presumes that today's rumor wasn't quite what they

Just last week, Bleeding Cool told you that Barnes & Noble was pulling 100 popular DC graphic novels off of shelves in response to DC's plans to

Rich is somewhere in the air mid-Atlantic by now, I've got the last of the NYCC travelers on their way from the Avatar offices, and it very definitely

Avengers comic news. Avengers movie trailer and news. And NYCC hasn't even started yet.  The excitement over this trailer is palpable all over the

What promises to be a busy week of news for the industry certainly got off to a big start today -- Phoenix Jones in action, Wonder Woman controversy, all

The vintage comics scene has been buzzing for the past several days about word that a very high grade copy of Action Comic #1 -- stolen from Nicolas

As someone who has spread out a hard-won batch of comics on a table or floor for a group shot on more than a few occasions, I was a little surprised at

In another NYCC warm-up announcement, Jon Goldwater, co-chief executive of Archie, told the New York Times that the company will revive its stable of

Looks like we're getting the start of NYCC-week announcements today. DC tells The New York Post: DC will reveal some big-time creators who’ll be jumping

THE WORLD THAT'S COMING includes more O.M.A.C., according to both inker Scott Koblish and writer (and DC Co-Publisher) Dan DiDio.  That's good, because