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Del Rey have taken down their Star Wars Books Facebook page. And it's all down to the The Alliance to Preserve the Expanded Universe whose plans to spoil

You're going to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens. That's pretty much a given. But what about when you have seen it? Well, if you like the performance of

TV Land is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom. Earlier this year they were targeted by the pressure group over the

From the Star Wars press event with the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens in London, Harrison Ford says that he wants nothing to do with the planned

Jeff Lemire is an award winning comic book writer/artist, including work like Essex County and Sweet Tooth. But of late he has been more prominent writing

A few changes 'twixt solicitation and publication... Batman and Robin Eternal #11 solicited with art by Fernando Blanco was joined by Christian Duce. The

The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive on the existence of a comic called North, written by Michael B Jordan,  Nathan Edmondson, drawn by Denys Cowan and

https://twitter.com/TomBrevoort/status/677260632878485505 Welcome to the Fourth Bleeding Cool Top 100 Power List for the next Bleeding Cool

I'm not in New York, I'm in London. But if I were, tonight I'd be going to the Hanging With Handai Event at the Society Of Strip Illustrators, featuring

    Here are the remaining 35 Free Comic Book Day titles for 2016 - including the 2000AD edition with a Eric Powell Judge Dredd story that was

Super Zero is a new comic launching today from Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Rafael De Latorre, Marcelo Maiolo and John J Hill from new publisher After

 Surely that should be "snikt"? Marvel may have killed off Wolverine and DC Comics may have banned any Marvel crossovers, but from today's Batgirl,

Next week's Previews from Diamond Comic Distributors is getting a bit of a visual refresh. With Predator: Life And Death from Dark Horse and the

IDW's Solicitations for March 2016... including the "What if" style Deviations five week series, Back to The Future going ongoing, new Mars Attacks:

A look around some of Marvel's comics published today to try and work out just what's going on... That's how Squadron Supreme begins. With the destruction

Prime Minister David Cameron is currently engaged in Prime Minister's Question Time in the House Of Commons. After batting away a question from Douglas

Kieron Gillen recently DJ'ed for Run DMC. Honest. One hell of a muso, . These days, he writes the musically obsessed Phonogram and The Wicked + The

Whether of not the current run of Justice League takes place before or after the current storylines in Batman, Superman, Action Comics and Superman/Wonder

IDW have announced that their Back to The Future comic book series, rather than a mini-series concluding with issue 5 will now be an ongoing series, wit

Thirty-eight reviews... out of hundreds spilling out... Bleeding Cool As good as Empire. The Guardian - 5 Stars Star Wars has now gone beyond the sci-fi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyGcx-SLKAc Rich Johnston's take... Yesterday I went to Leicester Square with my passport, embargo form and ticket to see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzVsN4f5QFg Aaron Haaland writes, Hey Fandom! I'm back with some New Comics Now, but I'm so pumped for Star Wars! Thursday

This is Tom Ellis, playing Lucifer, reading Lucifer, out tomorrow. And taken by co-star Lesley-Ann Brandt. He'll always be Miranda's Gary to me.

Okay so it's possible that all the Marvel Comics solicitations for March 2016 all went live while I was watching Star Wars... so here you go. Sorry. We

Angoulême have announced their Official Selection for 2015, what they consider the best comic books published in the French language for the last year. It

... I will be able to talk about it in seven-and-a-half hours time. See you then.

I'm hoping that includes the Jim Lee original art variant... The Howard Stern Show and DC Comics are offering one lucky fan the prize of a lifetime: all

Bitch Planet #6 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Taki Soma is (finally) coming out in the first week of 2016. As well as now being $3.99, with fluorescent ink

Last year we ran a story about a comic store in conflict with one of its employees. The writer Jennifer Williams and Harrison’s Comics owned by Larry

Welcome to the Fourth Bleeding Cool Top 100 Power List for the next Bleeding Cool Magazine, being serialized right now on the Bleeding Cool website. It's