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Last night, comic retailer trade organisation ComicsPRO posted on their Facebook page: ComicsPRO, the Comic Book Industry retail trade organization, is

Shatterproof glass there, I see... here's the original SPECTRE logo.

This is the design for the official T-shirt for Free Comic Book Day 2015, featuring a variety of people reading comics, race, gender and alien

We recently reported that artist Pat Broderick is returning to DC Comics after twenty years away. Artist on Micronauts,  Batman: Year Three, Doom 2099 and

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

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool broke the news that DC Comics are planning a Dark Knight Returns threequel, with Frank Miller and Scott Snyder named as

Okay, so December has an exclusive Funko Pop vinyl figure in Loot Crate's biggest crate to date. The subscription box of stuff for geeks has something

In the back pages of yesterday's Uber #20 written by Kieron Gillen, he talks about his new Crossed series for Crossed Badlands, and gives it the title

Another Thursday, another new chapter of the Garth Ennis webcomic Crossed: Dead On Arrival. The crowdsource fundraiser has passed its important $10,000

And giving that ball-riding robot a little more screentime, Thank you George Peter Gatsis... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kFWN30TvqQ

This is the identity sketch drawn from Selina Kyle's description of the killer of the Waynes in Gotham. This is a guy from the pilot episode at the

Next week sees the launch of Bitch Planet, Spider-Man & The X-Men, Herald: Lovecraft & Tesla, Eternal, Lady Demon and The Valiant. And the week

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive. He writes, “What a GREAT movie!” said the daddy. “Fantastic!” replied the mommy.

So, that was a story, yesterday. Broken by Bleeding Cool, then picked up and confirmed by a number of other reporting organisations. That Frank Miller and

Just announced, the name of the classic evil world-dominating organisation from James Bond novels and films past, gives its name to Spectre, the next

We thought they were "Inversion" variant covers. We were very very wrong. This January, ESPN will host the first ever College Football Playoff – and your

Comic book creators Simon Furman, Geoff Senior, Bob Budiansky, Jose Delbo,  Lee Sullivan, Stephen Baskerville, Andrew Wildman, Guido Guidi, Nick Roche,

We mentioned the launch of iVerse Media's new update for their ComicsPLUS app earlier today, with a host of new features designed it seems, to take on

Concrete Park is a sci-fi comic book series by Tony Puryear and Erica Alexander and published by Dark Horse, first in the Dark Horse Presents anthology,

At New York Comic Con, I got to see iVerse's new comic reading app. It was a rather interesting departure, allowing you to incorporate your, erm,

They were as thick as thieves at San Diego Comic Con. Frank Miller and Scott Snyder. The greatest Batman author from the past and the greatest from the

We ran this story a couple of months ago, but it has now gone official. Free Comic Book Day has reduced its offering to fifty titles, back in 2012 levels,

Lots of comic books out today... People are probably going to scream at the end of the new issue of Chew. Almost noting I can post from this issue will

Heathcliff listens to Ashes On Sunday, a band from Burnside, in today's Gotham Academy. And from the cover of Batgirl #35. This is how they are building

Today is a very special episode of Grayson, in which our hero walks across a desolate expanse in extreme weather conditions, clutching a small baby,

Do you live in or around Manhattan? Are you awake? Dressed? Come on, don't be slacker here. Get yourselves to Hell's Kitchen, where they are filming a

We have already met new Inhuman Xiaoyi, and her pressure changing abilities. In today's Inhuman #9 (coming right off the back of last night's Marvel's

We've seen some of these pages before, but not the ones with Kraven. Something tells me that the FOC date for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 by Ryan

Courtesy of Heritage Auctions, an unrestored copy of Action Comics #1 published by DC Comics in 1938, featuring the first appearance of Superman, and

MCM Comic Con is coming for you, wherever you live, it seems. The British Comic Con organiser, responsible for the MCM London Comic Con, and then spinning