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Next week sees the launch of Itty Bitty Comics: Grimmiss Island, Batman: Arkham Knight, Detective Comics Endgame, Southern Cross, Spawn Resurrection,

Away from Secret Wars, Amazon reveals a very obscure Marvel reprint, reprinting Greenberg The Vampire by JM Dematteis from the early eighties for no

Marvel's comic book series Alias, that formed the basis for the upcoming Netflix series AKA Jessica Jones, so as not to get confused with another TV show

Marvel seem to have given Amazon.com a series of placeholder titles for upcoming books. But there is still enough to data mine some erroneous conclusions

Tomorrow sees the The Cartoon Museum in London launch their new Comics Gallery and Comics Creators project. It's completely free, though booking is

Nonplayer #2 has been a long time coming. Originally planned for May 2011, it makes even Brilliant #6 look timely. And it is finished, I can confirm that,

This was the solicited "subscription variant" cover to GI Joe #6 by Dheeraj Verma, featuring the Baroness. Heavy on the butt, but nothing unusual. But on

As Jeff Lemire tells us, Secret Wars will not affect All-New Hawkeye. It's looking more and more that, while Secret Wars will see new series launched and

Marvel and DC may not be having a crossover. But Prints Charming and Cover Variance. Marvel are letting Midtown do a second print of their exclusive

Hollywood Reporter ran the PR about the Secret Wars Future Imperfect story, from Peter David and Greg Land, revisiting the classic future-set Hulk story.

It may be some comfort to DC Entertainment that at one point many more were believed to be leaving the publisher. But in the months since, some have been

An occasional look at lateness, comics that are on the schedule to be published but maybe a little later than we might have thought... and when we might

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

Baltimore is expecting six inches of snow today, as the winter weather reaches new peaks in the season. THe National Weather Service projects up to 10

Much as we like them, it can't just be King Comics in Australia and Jesse James Comics in Phoenix. But you can bet your bottom dollar they'll send in

A bunch of comic fans were surveyed asking which of the DC books launching in June are they most looking forward to. Now bear in mind the publicity on

Bleeding Cool has been noting not just a confluence of Marvel and DC's event storylines of late. Both exploring their respective multiverses, both seeing

  The original sketch is being sold by spartacus-is-cool on eBay... Though it does bear a similarity to this original Judge Dredd commission by Walking

Here's a look at the Harley Quinn #16 triptych of covers featuring The Gang of Harleys, that combines the original standard cover, and the 1:25 variant

We know that “Weird Al” Yankovic is guest-editing an upcoming issue of Mad Magazine #533, the first guest editor in the publication's history. And he is

It was meant to hit tomorrow. But it's out now.... the new trailer for Avengers: Age Of Ultron https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQVEC1YGLK4 And yes, it's

This week sees the publication of Nemo: River Of Ghosts by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, the final chapter in the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Nemo

Batman Eternal #52, the final issue in the DC weekly series written by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Ray Fawkes, Kyle Higgins and Tim Seeley and drawn by

The Multiversity Directors Cut #1 was solicited as a special version of Multiversity #1. THE MULTIVERSITY DIRECTOR’S CUT #1 Written by GRANT MORRISON Art

From today's New 52: Futures End... as the series approaches its conclusion... 1700 Broadway is the offices of DC Comics in Manhattan. And right now it

From the Star Trek New Visions #5 fumetti by John Byrne, out today. Aw man.... When I reviewed Nameless #1, I called it "Sandman meets Armageddon". Got

Do you remember that scene from Animal Man #19 by Grant Morrison and Chas Troug? In which Buddy Baker, high on mescalin, looked directly at the viewer and

Do you remember that Superboy Infinite Crisis punch? The one that shattered reality, and gave editors the company over an excuse for continuity errors

From the inside page of today's Miracleman #16, published by Marvel Comics and reprinting and remastering the original issue by Alan Moore and John

Last week, Bleeding Cool let you know about a certain scene in the most recent issue of Catwoman. At the time, no one else seemed to have thought it