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Most comic book readers quickly learn that there is usually a delicate balance between character as superhero symbol and character as flesh and blood

Laurence Fishburne will play Perry White in the upcoming Superman film Man of Steel, according to the LA Times Hero Complex. The highly-regarded actor

The comics industry reminds me of politics, more and more as time goes by.   There's the system we have, and the system we want -- and it seems relatively

Well, it's not Ben Reilly. So, sorry any of you who stocked up on Ultimate Spider-Man #61. But thematically we were in the right ball park. In advance of

Sony has just released another group of high-quality photos from The Amazing Spider-Man featuring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone. I'm liking what we've

Weeks of high-level security on the production of The Dark Knight Rises came to a practical end over the past few days as filming has taken place in the

Celeb photo site eyeprime.net has loads of excellent pics of Batman fighting Bane on the set of The Dark Knight Rises: Christian Bale who plays Batman

The internet got another look at Tom Hardy as Bane today, in both pics and video. And while it's tough to tell too much from what we've seen without more

Lots of interesting stuff sneaking out today from this famously-secretive production.  Here's a glimpse of Tom Hardy as Bane and Christopher Nolan, among

Many comic book readers and commentators have increasingly made their voices heard on the issue of the participation of female creators in the new DCU --

That's the truest thing I've read on the internet today, from Hannah Shaw-Williams in her article on Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance. Because no matter

The New-52 Aquaman by Ivan Reis and Geoff Johns seems to be sneaking up on more than a few people. There's been quite a bit of optimism for the new series

We're officially in the second half of the comic book year with Comic Con behind us, and our first major bit of post-Comic Con comic news is  interesting

But when the ticket sales were accounted for on Monday, Paramount said "Captain America" had actually collected $65.1 million over the weekend. Of course,

Marvel has gotten into the habit of saying they "won" major cons in recent times, and of course...  that's marketing bravado and all in good fun, but it

Interesting coincidence that today's top two posts are both about character design. On the comic side we have copious amounts of artwork from DC's

Some fascinating behind-the-scenes stuff here: During today’s Designing the New DCU 52 panel at SDCC, attendees were invited to see how characters are

Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods was just put on HULU. (Hat tip to my friend moonandserpent, who brought this to my attention) Here's a bit of what Rich

It was another big day of news coming out of San Diego Comic Con panels, as Marvel, DC, Image, and Legendary all made major announcements for the day.

If you follow Rob Liefeld on twitter, you know he's a big time Los Angeles Lakers fan. Looks like Rob tried to convince Orlando Magic star Dwight Howard

UPDATE by Brendon: It looks like The Wrap may have misreported here. Their current, backpedalling, version of the story claims: the guard subsequently

Big news out of the Legendary Comics panel at San Diego today: Today the Legendary Comics panel at San Diego Comic-Con unveiled that the company will

A huge batch of art from DC's The Dark and The Edge panel today: During today’s panel for The Dark and The Edge at SDCC, we premiered art from ANIMAL MAN,

DC's ambitious schedule of panel talks and art releases continues: Today’s DC Comics-The New 52 panel at SDCC saw the debut of even more interior art.

Bleeding Cool told you a bit about the Amazing Spider-Man panel at Comic Con yesterday, including a description of the Lizard, but we didn't discuss this

As noted by Brendon yesterday, the Prometheus panel included a talk with Ridley Scott via satellite from Iceland.  What did he have to say?  Let's roll

San Diego Two In One! Or something like that. Panels from Marvel, DC, Image, and quite a lot more. But if you missed some of the fun yesterday and want a

Frank Darabont, Robert Kirkman, and several actors from the series discussed all things The Walking Dead in San Diego yesterday, and as Brendon told you

Hot off the first season of Game Of Thrones on HBO, George R.R. Martin is one of the big draws at San Diego this year -- we've been fortunate to have him

Didn't have time to post this earlier tonite and didn't want to let the opportunity pass -- there's some great stuff here.  This is the batch of artwork