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A couple of looks at two Aftershock Comics titles out next week... The debut of Second Sight #1 by David Hine and Albert Ponticelli Ray Pilgrim knows how

Chris Ahrnsbrak went to PAX South. And we made him take all these cosplay shots for Bleeding Cool...

By Ian Melton It isn’t his first OGN, but Jonathan Case has something special with his most recent book from Dark Horse The New Deal.  Perhaps best known

Gutter Magic #1 was recently published by Comics Experience and IDW. But there's a problem. This comic book, by Rich Douek appears to have gone missing.

I've been going drinking on and off with Andrew Wheeler for almost twenty years. More a mental state rather than physical, as he's been living in North

The first 72 pages of a very long but very funny Secret Wars parody, Illuminated Wars, has begun. You can read the prologue here but the first full

Crossed is the franchise series created by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows for Avatar Press. They both return to to it occasionally but have other series

For April, Action Comics #51 was solicited as written by Peter Tomasi, as part of an eight part story across four titles for two months, Superman, Action

Peter S. Svensson writes for Bleeding Cool Young Justice. Fantastic animated series that ran on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2013. Two seasons of

There are a lot of fans of the Gambit/Rogue relationship from X-Men. Some from the comics, some from the animation. It is a really big thing.

By Ian Melton   Secret Wars has made a video game canon; well as least a version of it so far.  This week's Contest of Champions, issue #5, actually has

  It ws announced that February would have a bunch of Neal Adams variants covers for DC Comics titles. Ans we saw all the pencils. But they never

Since I first started talking about the new DC Comics renumbering and relaunching planned from June, there has been something that has evaded me. Is it a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNe-4H5i9FM  Aaron Haaland writes, Hey Fandom! This week had some great comics, and while I'm not talking about any DC

Bleeding Cool has already mentioned how a bunch of pitches and ideas have simply been thrown out with the news of the upcoming DC Comics Rebirth event,

It's a hard time pitching at DC Comics right now. Everyone's at it, everyone's in competition with each other - even those who don't know they're in

The Walking Dead's Tony Moore, currently running his own comic convention, sent out a shout out to the comics industry about a fellow called Scott Roush

I find all sorts of things on the internet. Tumblrs, twitters, FTP lists, on one occasion typing the word "Batman" into the DC Comics search engine and

Dave McKean, graphic novelist, musician, writer, designer and performance artist, will be debuting his latest project in March. Black Dog – The Dreams of

The sales are in for the DC Comics Vertigo new launches that ave been running for the last few months. Good for Vertigo.... but not good for DC Comics.

2000 DC: Black To The Future - How eschewing the establishment allowed me focus on what was is missing and what matters in making comics. By Kwanza

From 2008 to 2009, DC Comics ran a weekly series (right) called Trinity, written by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza and drawn by Mark Bagley, Art

Bleeding Cool has already told you that we are getting a new Titans series as part of the upcoming DC Rebirth event. We didn't now if there would be a

I understand that, as part of the upcoming DC Rebirth project, DC Comics will be launching a new Justice Society Of America comic book. Currently in the

This initially also came from Writer X - read his credentials here. It's not a "glamorous" casting as with Batman, but it makes me very pleased. Because

Another DC Rebirth rumour comes from Writer X - I talked about his credentials here. He - or she, I suppose, though the person identifies as male - claims

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Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill are the creators of League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. But, for Bleeding Cool owner Avatar Press, they are starting something

Crossovers are a funny thing. Two media properties smashed together in an attempt to get the fanbases of both reading, and some passerby rubberneckers as

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