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Last year, we looked at the solicitation for the Secret Wars Prelude, searching for potential clues toward the Secret Wars. The book includes early issues

Today sees the launch of The Walking Dead #138. The series has a history of introducing standout characters, those with a particular point of view,

This Friday sees the launch of Red Nose Day, the Comic Relief telethon on the BBC that has already introduced my daughters to the concept of blindboxing

Tomorrow sees the final issue of Sheltered, the Image comic book about kids against the rest of the world. And Yesteryear Comics in San Diego have two

Daughter of the late comic book creator Al Plastino, MaryAnn Plastino Charles posted to Facebook this week, Please get Al the credit he is due and all the

Thanks to Newsarama, CBR, ComicBook, Uproxx, Hitfix, Nerdist, EW and Topless Robot let's piece what we can together for DC Comics' solicitations for

I think that's only five left... Marvel.com have announced a new Secret Wars spinoff, Squadron Sinister, based on the parallel universe Justice League

Well, we can't just talk about DC today. The Carol Corps are the collective name for Captain Marvel fans, specifically the iteration written by Kelly Sue

Here's the solicitations to Superman #41 in June, with new writer Gene Luen Yang. Looks like HeroComplex couldn't make it to the DC press junket as one of

Over to Newsarama, who have been revealing their discussions with Dan Jurgens and Bernard Chang at the DC press summit last month with their media

It's come to define the character. John Constantine, wide boy occultist, smoking a cigarette, lighting up the creases of his trenchcoat. But not any more.

And there we were thinking it was just a brand new suit. Criminals are a cowardly and superstitious lot, I shall become a grasshopper. DC media partner

It looks like the embargo has been lifted on a press jolly the DC Comics crew had with selective members of what they euphemistically like to refer to as

Consider this an increasingly regular feature looking at comic books that have gone to second prints or more. Now, it is worth remembering that some

Intrepid convention reporter for Bleeding Cool, Kirk Staley, tweeted out to the executive producer of Daredevil for Netflix, @stevendeknight I was

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

A little Spider-Cosplay.... This weekend saw the launch of the Instore Comic Convention kickoff, with publishers and creators  Skyping in from across the

Last year, Marvel Games changed. They fired seven long standing senior employees as the division of Marvel Entertainment began to make big changes. The

It was the Midtown variant cover for Avengers Vs. X-Men that started the whole Skottie Young Baby Variant cover that has obsessed the industry since.

Adi Tantimedh writes, Oh Japan, don’t ever change. At the corner of my mind’s eye, Assassination Classroom has been lingering like that weird kid at the

 Looks like we will have more new Secret Wars beginning in July... As today sees HitFix reduced the amount of to-be-announced Secret Wars titles down to

  UPDATE: It looks like this! The original article follows: Secret Wars has its Battleworld foldout map. Axis had its weird lenticular thing which

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool got to see a page from the upcoming Dirk Gently series from IDW courtesy of the Instore Comic Convention Kickoff, Well now

USA Today is today's DC media partner, to announce details on the upcoming We Are Robin series, part of June's DC mini-relaunch by Lee Bermejo, Rob Haynes

Okay, we're in the final stretch for the Marvel announcements of the Secret Wars spinoff books for June. There appear to be nine slots left. This is out

  Peter Milligan is returning after thirteen year to the sci-fi weekly comic 2000AD to revive his co-creation Bad Company, the series he created

This is what the newly reformed Valiant Entertainment has been building towards for the last few years Turning the superhero line they publish into

Joe Glass writes, There are many out there who may be familiar with Fighting Fantasy. And there are many, perhaps, that are not. I would fall into the

Josh Werner writes, As Art Director at the indie publisher Source Point Press, I was proud to take on a larger editing and publishing role on the brand

Announcing to friends, colleagues, the world, that someone is transgender, is just one small part of what can be a very complex process in changing the