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The Vertigo panel at ECCC promised much, but it was basically what you read in that Entertainment Weekly article last week. And on Bleeding Cool two years
As 'Goes Down Swinging' is Dan Slott's final storyline on the Amazing Spider-Man comic book, Slott has only so long left for the teasing and tantalising of the Spider-Man audience over the cosmically annulled Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson marriage.
San Diego is more than just Comic-Con. It is also home to comic book publisher and multi-media operator IDW, behind comics such as Locke & Key, Transformers and Star Trek, and TV shows such as Wynonna Earp and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. And they are hiring.
Ben Quinlan writes: In writing comics, we are given an opportunity explore situations and options that we couldn’t in real life. In my current project, Black and Blue (live on Kickstarter now), one of the main characters, Mattaya, is conscripted into the underwater army, the Aquamarines.
More Evidence on Whether Spider-Man's Iron Spider Suit in Avengers: Infinity War Has Arms (Spoilers)
Diamond Select Toys have a number of silhouetted statues of toys from Avengers: Infinity War up on Diamond's website, silhouetted so as not to spoil any visual reveals or plot points from the upcoming movie. But a silhouette can only hide so much.
House Amok by Sebela and McManus, Euthanauts by Howard and Robles Announced from Black Crown at ECCC
Announced at ECCC yesterday, Shelly Bond's Black Crown imprint from IDW has two new titles to its bow: House Amok and Euthanauts.
At the Diamond Comics retailer meeting yesterday, Diamond's Chris Powell told retailers that they had all but sold through on the new Comic Book Spinner Rack they'd recently made available to retailers. But would be getting a lot more in.
Max Anderson has been Stan Lee's minder for over a decade. He runs Stan Lee's Collectibles, which sell a number of Stan Lee signed collectables, the Stan
We just ran the speech that Dinesh Shamdasani, e-CEO of Valiant Entertainment, made at ComicsPRO. The big question is, where will Dinesh end up next?
The photo from Entertainment Weekly showing the writers of the upcoming The Sandman Universe curated imprint was a little on the dour side. But we have proof at least one of them, Dan Watters, can smile.
Apparently, DC's rumored mature-readers imprint Black Label definitely does exist, but it won't be announced at ECCC. It looks like one imprint is more than enough for Seattle stages.
Here are Brian Michael Bendis's two new Jinxworld titles to accompany the old titles finding a new home at DC Comics: Pearl and Cover.
Marvel Comics recently solicited a new series aimed at younger readers called Marvel Super Hero Adventures, a five-issue limited series featuring kid versions of their superhero line. However, orders from comic stores of the individual issues have been low, and Marvel Comics has decided to do something about it.
Marvel has announced Mark Waid and Jesus Saiz will be the new creative team on a relaunch of the series. And they are taking him cosmic.
For May, and Marvel Comics' so-called Fresh Start, they will be smashing their records and allowing exclusive retailer covers for 13 titles.
On the day of release, Cult Classic: Return to Whisper #1 by Eliot Rahal, Felipe Cunha and Dee Cunniffe from Vault Comics sold out at the distributor
Novelist Margaret Stohl is to write the Fresh Start relaunch, The Life Of Captain Marvel drawn by Carlos Pacheco, launching in July. Disney's TV station
Last week, Dinesh Shamdasani, the e-CEO of Valiant Entertainment, forced out by new owners, the Chinese investment firm DMG, spoke to the assembled
Amazing Spider-Man has been burning up the charts and the aftermarket in the run-up to Amazing Spider-Man #800 and Dan Slott and Stuart Immonen's final
The latest timeslips for DC Comics... We reported on the missing Doom Patrol #12, seemingly blinked out of existence and from the planned collection. But
Currently, Britain is under snow. And storms. And blizzards. And hurricanes. And chills to the bone. Two cold fronts have collided over this Sceptered
There are always a few changes ‘twixt solicitation and publication for bigtime comic book publishers. Sometimes they get the details wrong, sometimes the
Warner Bros. Television and DC are inviting fans into their SXSWXDC Super Hero lair for the duration of SXSW (March 9th–18th).
Bleeding Cool first ran the news that a series of Sandman spinoffs based on ideas by Neil Gaiman was coming from DC Comics. Earlier this week we stated that it would be announced this week instead. And it has. Just a little earlier than we thought.
At the Diamond Retailer Breakfast being held today in Seattle, before this year's ECCC begins, Bleeding Cool's Ian Melton was on hand to report back the news to retailers and readers not able to attend.
Dark Horse’s Spell On Wheels creative team, Kate Leth, Megan Levens, and Marissa Louise, will be creating graphic novels based the Mysticons TV show, which recently premiered its second season on Nickelodeon’s Nicktoons.
It seems the appeal of Stanley "Artgerm" Lau's variant covers works as well on The Mighty Thor as it did on Supergirl. There's also strong anticipation for Weapon H, Avengers, Thanos, and Kick-Ass.
At the infamous Marvel retailer summit in March last year that ICV2 candidly reported from, they quoted Senior VP David Gabriel as saying "I'm going to
In June last year, we told you that Nick Spencer would be writing an ongoing Spider-Man series for Marvel after Secret Empire. In July we told you it