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Bleeding Cool broke the news this summer that DC Comics was looking to poach a certain John Romita Jr, a comic book creator who, following in his father's

Breaking Bad was the show that detailed how a good man became a bad man. Macbeth reborn, it was loved. Superior Spider-Man has told the tale of a bad man

April, a time of rebirth, or new life, of spring, of lambs, of chicks and a time to start over. Looks like some of the bigger comic book publishers will

So a box arrives from Federal Express, from an address on Sunset Boulevard, to leafy suburban Kingston Vale, London, this morning. The kids are rather

When we ran panels from last week's Superior Foes Of Spider-Man, featuring the origin of new supervillain Beetle, as the daughter of Tombstone, a few

Have you had anyone trying to sell you a full size replica R2D2 in the last week or so? Maybe get in touch... We had a break in over the holiday and my

Jonah Weiland is the owner and big cheese of Comic Book Resources. He used to be my boss when I wrote the Lying In The Gutters column for that site. And

Marvel TV Studios has found itself with a relatively decent TV show, Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. But curiously they don't have a comic with a similar

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

Bryan Talbot continues his role as his city's favourite comic book son as Sunderland City Council is getting him to him to draw the "Keel Line" in their

Brian Wood posted a little Clay Mann art on Instagram before the New Year... This is ahead of the news that Clay Mann is joining X-Men on art, alternating

  In April, Marvel Comics are presenting the Wedding of Deadpool. To... someone. But one comic shop isn't stopping with fiction. Third Eye Comics of

This New Year means lots of changes doesn't it? After gaining prominence on the Usenet messageboard rec.arts.comics.misc and then CBR back in the late

Last year we reported that Brian Keene and Greg Rucka were originally part of the writing team for the Five Years Later weekly comic event Future's End

Reaction to the official news (a year after it was unofficially reported) that Marvel would be taking the Star Wars comics licence, has been wide and

Yesterday, Frank Cho's Kickstarter for  "Drawing Beautiful Women: The Frank Cho Method" ended. It did rather well, pulling in over $150,000 against a

There is a Doctor Who event called, well, The Doctor Who Event, happening later this year at the University of North Florida. The website promises an

Coming out in one week's time... and the new Bleeding Cool Magazine! Wow, that's earlier than I was expecting! Including the sendaway for Uber 1/2... But

Did anyone see that coming? Oh, everyone did. Okay. Marvel and Lucasfilm, both owned by Disney, will be publishing Star Wars comics from 2015. Marvel were

Marvel Sales VP David Gabriel, he of "a death every quarter" fame, has given an interview to Diamond Comic Distributors' retailer site (thanks to the

Marvel Comics is upping its variant cover stock quite a bit for the ALl New Marvel NOW! relaunches... Here, in reverse order, are a bunch of additional

It's January! it's a New Year! So London is covered in rain, gloom and despair. But don't you fret! There are comic book things! Cameron Stewart, Will

Last year, the Marvel Ultimate titles were all cancelled, replaced by individual Cataclysm mini-series, which come to a conclusion in February. And

Out There was Humberto Ramos' second title from the creator owned Cliffhanger imprint from Wildstorm, after Crimson. A fantasy/horror comic, it ran for

We mentioned this upcoming series last year. Crash Landing, described as Flash Gordon meets Dracula by way of Stargate, is written by Tony Lee. Here are

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

A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool pointed out how there appeared to be an earlier version of Wolverine published by Marvel in 1973, sent in as a

2013 saw the release of Asterix And The Picts, a 35th volume in the long running Asterix series , and became the best selling comic book of the year.

Called it. A bit. We were down to two guesses. Thanos or Deadpool And it's Deadpool. Getting married. In April. Final piece of the puzzle courtesy of

Hastings, the largest direct market comic book store chain in the world, has announced a new run of exclusive covers, in a deal with Marvel and Kidrobot.