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When Disney first bought Marvel Comics in 2009, there was a very palpable fear in fandom that Marvel would be subsumed by the beast and lose whatever edge

One day last month saw the release of Darth Vader #8, Siege #2 and The Wicked + The Divine #13. Three books written by Kieorn Gillen out on the same day.

A Michael Davis - From The Edge Special - The Right Thing To Do. Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive. He writes, Since

We pointed out that #DeadComicDay is coming, where DC and Marvel put out ten new comic books between them on September 30th. But one of them is Sandman

How can NYCC 2015 be but a month away? There's plenty more to announce but here are a bunch of exclusive comic books, to debut and be exclusive to New

Here's a black-and-white look at the brand new James Bond comic book VARGR, by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters. Unlettered, uncoloured, the rest is yet to

We've had it teased that Brian Bendis would be writing a second, spinoff Iron Man title, featuring someone who was not Tony Stark. Well, I'm getting the

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran an account of a panel at the Houston Awesome Comic Con, in which Mark Bagley and John Romita Jr talked about the lives and

UPDATE: It looks like Marvel has noticed. Seven items have now been moved to the schedule: Captain America: White #2, Cavalry SHIELD 50th Anniversary #1,

Jeffrey Veregge is the artist of the new Red Wolf comic book from Marvel in December. following the character's appearance in the Secret Wars series 1872.

It is true that Dragon*Con has a certain reputation. But that's never come without the word "consent"... 11Alive reported that "Atlanta police are

Here's the.. amended version. You can see the full version of the Italian comic book master Milo Manara's cover of GQ Italia for September, right here. No

Dragon*Con has a certain reputation. For fun, fantasy and... another word that begins with "F". And while all comic cons have a certain profile on

Diana McCallum reported for Bleeding Cool from Fan Expo in Toronto this weekend. Which included writing up a Marvel panel where Marvel Senior VP CB

From the Amazing Houston Comic Con this weekend, comes a rather uncomfortable report from the John Romita Jr/Mark Bagley "Architects Of Pop Culture"

Did you check out the Study Hall Of Justice novel listed this morning? Well there are more Amazon goodies to find if one but looks as far as DC Comics is

I already mentioned the Locke & Key Shades Of Terror: Colouring Book from IDW, now listed on Amazon. But there's some more Amazon fishing to be done

We broke the story back in 2013, that Ales Kot was working on a new graphic novella about an Islamic transgender pop star, called Anti-Star. We later

Goldtiger was a Kickstartered comic book project by Guy Adams and Jimmy Broxton that... kinda disappeared. A fictitiously revived exploitation comic book

There was one story last week. Okay, there was two, don't forget the return of Firefly as a comc for next year, but yeah. Marvel Studios, Marvel Studios,

All power to Tortsein Adair over at the Beat for the persistent Googling on this one. Study Hall of Justice is a new series of novels of younger reader

Adult colouring books are such the rage now. And a number of comic book companies have realised that all they have to do is put out the black-and-white

They promised it would come. And now it is. A landscape-formatted Deluxe hardcover for Brian K Vaughan and Marcos Martin's The Private Eye, originally

This is Older Than the Hills, the new graphic serial by Martin Hayes and Chris Askham is launching in Volume 18 of David Lloyd’s digital magazine Aces

On September 2, 2015, Forrest Helvie (w) and Michelle Lodge (a) released their collaboration The Adventures of Whiz Bang: The Boy Robot on Kickstarter

I've mentioned before that I enjoy Illuminating Comics best with the focused totality of their sarcastic powers. Which they appear to have just done

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Bleeding Cool writer Dan Wickline is giving his novel Deadly Creatures: A Lucius Fogg Mystery away free on Kindle this weekend, through till Monday. This

By Ian Melton Cut down before it even reached two years, word went out that the mobile game X-Men: Battle Of The Atom will close down on November 30th. 

The Kursk Written by Sasha Janowicz. Art by Andrea Montano. Covers by Slawomir Nietupski. Edited and Adapted by James A. Bretney. Published by Lucha