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Last night I ran a reduced spoilers review of The Fantastic Four. But I have been inundated with questions from people thinking about going to see the

The Ultimate Fantastic Four, by Brian Michael Bandis, Mark Miller and Adam Kubert launched in 2004, part of Bill Jemas' initiative to relaunch the Marvel

Once upon a time, there used to be both a Fantastic Store in the centre of Oxford and a Comics Showcase, down the hill, at the top of the Cowley Road. By

From the preview of Invincible Iron Man by Brian Bendis and David Marquez from CBR. A glimpse at what the new Iron Man suit can do...basically everything.

****WARNING: This is not a review filled with spoilers, just enough detail I believe to give you a flavour of what I thought about the film - and why. But

We have pointed out just how smart Jimmy Palmiotti is before now. How he uses Kickstarter to fund otherwise unlikely-to-be-published graphic novels. How

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

The first video Swipe File on Bleeding Cool. And I doubt it will be the last... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cul8ted-AU&feature In Swipe File we

It's just not a good day for fans of LGBT superheroes at Marvel these days. Not only has Hercules been straightened out, but Northstar has had his

This hasn't happened to San Diego. Yet. The website for this year's third annual Florida Comics Experience, a one day comic con event, announced big

Shane Davis has been sending out some neat promotional gubbins ahead of the release of his new Image comic book, Axcend, which is already playing havoc

The new issue of The Last Days Of Ms. Marvel is out. It is not quite the last issue until the world explodes and Secret Wars begins... and then Ms. Marvel

First we have a Journey To Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Shattered Empire variant cover by Francesco Francavilla, for Third Eye Comics... And another from

Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca already introduced Aphra, the Indiana Jones of the Star Wars Universe, working for Darth Vader into their titular

  I don't really know where Greg Land got this facial reference from, for today's Future Imperfect, but I don't think it was from a fifties

Gotta catch them all. And in this case, we have Midnighter #3 by Steve Orlando and Aco, a splendid comic with much to recommend it, innovative, fresh

Lying Cat is very much a break out character of Bryan K Vaughan and Fiona Staples' Saga, from Image Comics. The Cat even has T-shirts. That get worn

Private Eye, the British satirical magazine, really has become a font of knowledge for the inside goings-on at the Doctor Who production offices. You

By Octavio Karbank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TW1njkk52Q#t=76 This is the week of Dragon Ball Z! The latest addition in the DBZ universe, the movie

By Octavio Karbank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPhv_Ll-BzA You want Dragon Ball Z? You’ve got Dragon Ball Z! In five actual minutes, as opposed to the

A whole lot of people are coming out of screenings of The Fantastic Four at Cineworld cinemas in the UK, as part of a promotion with their Unlimited

Month three in our chronological re-reading (or in come cases first-read) of the new Valiant Universe, in totality. And that means X-O Manowar #3,

Comics and ice cream are not your natural bedfellows. Generally because ice cream ends up on your comic. But one Taiwanese store is throwing caution to

HeroClix, like many other manufacturers, have been denied the license to create Fantastic Four and X-Men toys by Marvel over the last year, as a result of

Forty year old Canadian comic store The Silver Snail, is to close its Ottawa branch . As famous as comic books come, it is legendary for the comics it

https://youtu.be/YM5plkL9eYg Three different Fantastic Four trailers. Three different lead in lines. The same laugh each time (though the last one is a

Last month, the owners of the Angoulême Festival, the largest comic book convention in the Western World, announced that it had canceled its contract with

Fear The Walking Dead (which we totally scooped existence of earlier this year) launches on Aug. 23rd on AMC in the USA. It will also air on AMC in the UK

As we earlier reported, the upcoming launch of Beauty #1 from Image Comics is coming with complimentary contraceptives. And posted by Dennis Bulger of

By Octavio Karbank https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzoj5XKEWLQ This last weekend, everyone and their brother watched as Ronda Rousey utterly destroyed her