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Like many comics news sites, Bleeding Cool has been running announcements about the launch titles for Catalyst Prime, the new superhero line from Lion

Courtesy of Doctor Strange #17, out today, from Jason Aaron and old friend Frazer Irving. And a new addition to the "should I punch a Nazi" debate that

Neil Gaiman has been promoting his new book, Norse Mythology, through a variety of media. And in the process recommended Sue Perkins to play the lead in

Over the last few years, Marvel has been bringing the New Universe characters back to Marvel's Universe, slowly but surely. Starbrand and Nightmask in the

Bleeding Cool recently ran a story, emanating from a recent Marvel creative summit, that Marvel was putting the overtly expressed politics back in the box

ComicsPRO is all kicking off as retailers and publishers descend on Memphis, Tennessee. Bleeding Cool has been listing what's going on and what's going

DC is working with media buyers National CineMedia (NCM) to help promote comics shops in their local cinemas. NCM will help stores tag their details onto

Valiant’s Savage series has been something of a sleeper hit with its first issue hitting four printings and its titular new character faring well with

Trinity #7 was solicited as being written by Francis Manapul and drawn by Clay Mann. Instead it's to be written by Cullen Bunn. The original

The annual ComicsPRO conference is kicking off today in Memphis, TN, and, over at IGN, Valiant has begun rolling out the first of what I’m told are

Back when It was announced that Simon Baz was to be a new Green Lantern, there was commentary asking why, when he carried one of the most powerful weapons

In the battle for representation, there's an argument that says that it's not the first to break through, but the second. The first is the exception that

Everyone's a critic. In today's Uncanny Inhumans, Maximus has a question to ask about the current Inhumans Vs X-Men crossover. Rude. I mean IVX hasn't

Brandon Wainerdi writes, The Dallas Comic Show was this weekend and I took to the con floor for to figure out what the big news coming out of the Irving

Gwen Stacy died in a rather undignified fashion. To be fair, most everyone does. But unconscious, knocked off the Brooklyn Bridge by the Green Goblin,

Every now and then, Marvel and DC Comics tell very similar stories simultaneously. X-Men and Doom Patrol. Man-Thing and Swamp Thing. The death of Batman

That's the thing about the DC Universe. They just love showing us the future. Even if that future never comes to pass, seriously, did anything in Five

The charismatic Walking Dead comic book character Paul Monroe, otherwise known as Jesus, was defined as a gay character a long time ago, but the

Today's Harley Quinn #14 sees the mistress of unrule open something that clearly wasn't meant to opened. Released a figure who was meant to have been

The fifth issue of Meanwhile. the anthology comic from Soaring Penguin Press launches today with a signing event from Orbital Comics in London, from 5pm

At 2000 AD, it’s Pat Mills who’s known for stitching all his creations into one big continuity blanket (one of 2000 AD’s first strips, Invasion, is meant

York Comics And Cards, of Parma, Ohio is to close. The owner posted to Facebook tonight, CLOSING SALE AFTER 23 1/2 YEARS WE ARE CLOSING OUR DOORS. UNLESS

A few DC Comics variant covers I haven't seen around the place yet... well, DC are off on one of their two-day retreats right now. No one is answering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn_4BTeNBoA Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom! This week of comics was won by DC hands

In the latest DC All Access video, Jim Lee shows off the pencils to an upcoming Grifter variant cover for The Wild Storm, and talks about how each is a

Tomorrow's Marvel comics come with free digital download codes for the following titles: Deadpool & The Mercs For Money #1 - of the Mo Mercs, Mo Money

My kids grew up on CBeebies, the BBC's young children's channel. And Andrew Davenport's Teletubbies and In The Night Garden played major roles in that.

From the shout sheet for next week's Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD, Marvel seems to be teasing the deaths of a couple of their main cast. Now, this could be

We told you over a month ago that Marvel would be running a Secret Empire title doubling up with Spider-Man for their Gold Free Comic Book Day title,

Bleeding Cool pointed to Scott Lobdell's introduction of a new trans woman character for the upcoming superhero team book No World, combining characters