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So, Marvel are going to want to launch Star Wars #1 with a bang. They will want it to be the best selling comic for January- by a long way. And here's one

Marvel already cancelled the Axis series once, and resolicited it as Avengers & X-Men: Axis, a name change chosen to help increase sales. Last week,

In December, Dark Horse is adapting the Fate/Zero manga into English. Originally this was a prose prequel to the Fate/Stay Night visual novel - a very

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

The Death Of Wolverine series was originally intended to ship an issue every week in September, and orders were made even further in advance by retailers

Here are this year's winners of the Ignatz Awards, taking home bricks tonight, from the Small Press Expo in Bethesda, Maryland, sponsored by ComiXology.

Another week, another new Doctor Who. Truly we are a blessed nation. 1. Keep Reading That Doctor Who Annual Short Story Steven Moffat wrote Corner Of The

When Marvel put out Ghost Rider #15 back in the nineties with a glow in the dark cover, I remember it gave more than one retailer a heart murmur at night,

Kirk Staley went to San Diego Comic Con on behalf of Bleeding Cool. Our Senior Deaf Correspondent, he brings a rare perspective to the show. On San Diego

Once upon a time, there were a line of Marvel Comics graphic novels. Or novellas really. Superheroes, sure, a smattering of Heavy Metal style sorcery, the

We mentioned this the other day, but the Japanese release of the manga Attack On Titan vol 15 and 16, in December and April, will each come with an

Gregory Woronchak writes, When I was young, one of the highlights of my weekends was unfolding the bulky Saturday newspaper to find the big comics

When Alan Moore announced he'd finished his novel Jerusalem, there was one fact everyone wanted to report. Northampton News Comics legend Alan Moore has

The Guardian newspaper has a short but proud history of serialising comic books in its pages, with both Posy Simonds' Gemma Bovary and Tamara Drewe

This is Francesco Francavilla's variant cover to Original Sin Annual #1.   And this is Gallieno Ferri's cover for Zagor #85 from July 1972. Thanks

Earlier in the year, Bleeding Cool reported on the news that the BBC were adapting Neil Gaiman's novel The Anansi Boys into a TV series. Back then Gaiman

No, this Captain America sketch, though signed from Jack Kirby, is not by Jack Kirby. Not even a little bit. That doesn't stop it being sold on eBay as if

Bud Light have been running a promotion under the hashtag #whateverUSA, where Vanilla Ice serves ice cream to a grateful crowd. It looks a little like

The scuttlebutt from sources in Detroit is that one of the Batmobile models being used in the filming of Batman Vs. Superman has gone missing, believed

I'm generally badly jetlagged at American comic conventions. Not at this year's New York Comic Con though, it seems. Last week we reported on the The

This week sees the launch of Booster Gold, Oddly Normal, George Perez's Sirens, Purgatori, Itty Bitty Bunnies and Six Million Dollar Man Season #4. And

The CBLDF Liberty Annual 2014, supporting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, is publishing by Image Comics on the 8th October -  with the Final Order

Titan Comics are publishing the digital comic painted by Simon Bisley, 13 Coins, in print for the first time in October. But you can get a signed copy in

Midtown Comics is offering seven exclusive variant covers in October, six of which will be out just in time for New York Comic-Con...   Death Of Wolverine

The first season of the Attack on Titan anime aired a year ago. People have been wondering and wondering and wondering about a second season. Now we know

Michael Davis is an artist, writer, mentor, and entertainment executive. He writes, I admit I’m a bit of a girly man. Most of my friends are women. Women

Yesterday we ran a piece about Kelly Sue DeConnick talking about never having been invited to a Marvel Writers Summit. Indeed, it seems that no female

There is something, in economics, called a Veblen good after economist Thorstein Veblen. It is one that if you put the price up, more people buy it or

Last week, Scott Snyder gave a little teaser of a Cliff Chiang Wytches #1 cover.... @cliffchiang Wytches #1 variant tease pic.twitter.com/1rYHQbczjv —

During his interview on Sunday’s episode of Dewoh’s “Let’s Get Graphic with Marcus Jay” writer Cullen Bunn revealed that he is working on two new Deadpool