Last year, at the New York Comic Con, I was told by well connected senior individuals that a memo had gone out to Marvel senior staffers saying that the
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UPDATE: A few more added: Kevin J Taylor Nelson Blake Jr Sean Gregory Miller Francesco Francavilla Nat Jones David Mack Ken Meyer II Lea Hernandez Pia
As part of Avengers Standoff... Is that him. Unless of course it's junior... Or another star entirely? The original Nova, Richard Rider? Or even Quasar?
It looks like there's been a curious behind-the-scenes change to Doctor Fate. The solicitations for #12 and for #13 both mention the debut of Kent Nelson.
This is one of the weirder things I've seen on eBay... It's the install floppy disk for Heroes World distribution Heroes World was the comics
It sounds like a headline out of Warren Ellis's Iron Man run. Isaac Perlmutter, the billionaire CEO of Marvel and one of Disney's largest shareholders
4 Kids Walk Into A Bank #1 is the latest comic written by Matthew Rosenberg for Black Mask Studios, and out next Wednesday. But it has already sold out of
Ahead of next month's premiere of the TV adaptation of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillion's Preacher comic book on AMC, DC Comics is printing up free copies of
Red Giant Entertainment are the comic company with more false starts than the 100m dash. They abandoned their plans to launch hundreds and thousands of
Georgia Ball and Benedetta Barone are creating a new ongoing comic book series for Joe Books based on the Frozen movie, beginning with issue 1 in July.
Recent PR for Alan Moore's new novel Jerusalem that I - amongst others - published included details that seem to have come from his previous novel, Voice
It was only recently that DC Comics debuted a new character, Obscura, their first Malaysian super powered character, and based on the
The Discipline #1 and #2 by Peter Milligan and Leandro Fernandez from Image Comics have sold out and are getting second prints. Between fighting her
When DC Comics solicited a 1:5000 original sketch art, Marvel mocked it with not one but two 1:4999 cover variants instead. As if such a thing were
From Beano writer Nigel Auchterlounie.... I rather like that.
That's a success story. Spider-Man/Deadpool #1 by Joe Kelly and Eddie McGuinness from Marvel Comics has gone to a fifth printing. Spider-Man/Deadpool
Rat Queens may be on hiatus. But Kurtis Wiebe does have a new creator-owned series out with Mindy Lee starting just as Rat Queens goes "off air". Here's
When Marvel Comics issued their July solicitations to retailers and to the press, there was a difference. The press got this. GUARDIANS OF INFINITY #8 (W)
Zenescope are launching a superhero team comic - but one that's a little more Crime Syndicate than Justice League. Evil Heroes is a six issue limited
Creator of The Goon, Eric Powell has resurrected his old self-publishing company Albatross Funnybooks to put out his new series. Hillbilly. An Appalachian
Want to go to the Captain America: Civil War premiere in London? Want a chance to see it as well? Here's the info you'll need... good luck!
In 2012, Bleeding Cool reported the story that a sexual assault had taken place in a hotel lobby at WonderCon. It was so public that, by the time I woke
Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and
Yesterday, I brought your attention to Boom! Studios' offering two retailer exclusive variant covers for auction through Previews for Kong of Skull
The news went out as most of Britain was asleep. Which means a lot of Vertigo creators have been waking up to it. Here is the reaction to Shelly Bond
A few hours ago, I heard that DC Comics has let go Shelly Bond, VP and Executive Editor of the Vertigo imprint. I sent a few e-mails around to my usual
Boom! Studios' announced the addition of a significant, classic license in their July-shipping solicitations at Emerald City Comicon - King Kong. Kong of
Lucy Mangan's article on Victoria Wood for tomorrow's Guardian newspaper can be read here. For British comedy fans, this is as big a shock as the death of
Drew Ford is the man who brought a comic book line to Dover Books, reviving and reprinting what were once thought of as lost masterpieces by the most
Today Brian K Vaughan's digital publisher Panel Syndicate published a new Walking Dead comic by Vaughan and Marcos Martin, set within The Walking Dead