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April 29th sees the release of Doom Patrol #6 by Gerard Way and Mike Allred - even though it should have been out in February. There are serious delays

June 3rd is Wonder Woman Day. And DC Comics will be publishing two free comic books. Free for customers, that is, the retailer still has to pay some. But

A few DC Comics variant covers I haven’t seen around the place yet. You may have. But you probably haven’t seen all of them… Suicide Squad #16 by Lee

In the acclaimed literary classics that form the American Pie series of movies, one recurring trope is that of the character Finch gaining carnal

Last week, my youngest daughter was the subject of an accidental lemon muffin theft by one of the country's national treasures, ex-footballer, TV

Remember X-Men: Battle Of The Atom? Of course you do. There was a first issue that focused on the All-New X-Men, colloquially known as the O5, standing

In a recent issue of Captain America, it was revealed that the original way Bucky Barnes, The Winter Soldier, met his death... ...had been rewritten. So

The season finale of Season 7 of The Walking Dead is upon us, airing on Sunday. But as another Wednesday goes by without a new Walking Dead comic book,

When I spoke to Simon Bisley at the 2000AD convention a month or so ago, he told me how he had scaled back his wanton gratuitous nudity for the

Previously in DC Rebirth... Saturn Girl, the Legionnaire from the 31st Century, is in the present day.  Banged up in Arkham Asylum. With Emerald Empress

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grqYCGYAk08 Valerian And The City Of A Thousand Planets is the new adventure film from Luc Besson, of Leon, The Fifth

While the eyes of the industry will be on WonderCon this weekend, Scott Snyder has let us all know of an announcement he's making with Greg Capullo on

Today sees the release of the first X-Men ResurrXion titles. So what's going on? Well, Marvel Comics has an immigration problem. X-Men Prime #1 gives us

When Donna Troy was brought back into the DC Universe with the New 52, rather than the John Byrne-origin that she was formed of clay, she instead was

Well, you can't have a title such as The Master Race without a little overt Nazi imagery. Such as bringing back Bruno.   In The Dark Knight Returns,

You read about Noble, the first of the ongoing Catalyst Prime series first on Bleeding Cool. Now we get a first peek behind the cover of Noble #1.

It's a weird week for comics this Wednesday. A fifth week for DC Comics, so that's annuals and late comics. The annuals are DC/Hanna Barbera crossovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkZdsgd2A7w Aaron Sorkin of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom! This was one of those fifth Wednesday

Frankly, with all the timeline rewritings going on of late, can anyone blame Wonder Woman? Welcome to Titans Annual #1, a kind of Justice League vs Titans

Back in 2013, Bleeding Cool asked "How Can We Persuade Aaron Sorkin To Write Superheroes?" On the basis that in Sports Night, The West Wing, Studio 60 On

Once upon a time, the Beast went back to an indetermined time to bring the younger X-Men from the past to the present day in the hope that their idealism

Dark Horse editor Daniel Chabon gave an interview to Court Of Nerds, published today, which talked about the ten-year history of Jeff Lemire's Black

At the end of Thunderbolts #10, Kobik, the Cosmic Cube given human form. who thinks that making people into Hydra agents makes everyone happy, is there to

It's been over a month since the last episode of Marvel's Agents Of SHIELD. The next,What If... is lined up for April 4th. Here's a peek at what's

Most publishers these days are keen to sell out their issues and rush back to press as soon as possible. The downside, however, is that it can take

This is how you launch a comic book! Dynamite Entertainment is launching a new Gold Key line this year, featuring the likes of Magnus, Solar and Turok,

  Landry Q. Walker and Mel Rubi are to continue Dynamite Entertainment's adaptation of George R R Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire with the second

Jody LeHeup and Sebastian Girner have been around comic books for years, editors at Marvel, Valiant and Image. Now they have their own comic, announced at

Mike Wellman of The Comic Book Bug in Southern California, often featured in these hallowed pages, has a problem with thieves. He writes on Facebook, As

https://twitter.com/THEBRYANHITCH/status/846381054671884289 Absolute Authority was the first of DC's Absolute formats, pioneered by Wildstorm EIC Scott