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.
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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.
A quick trip down the Amazon often provides for a surprising catch. It looks as if April may be bringing us one of those weekly event books from Marvel,
Almost two years ago, writer/director/actor/comics creator Shia LaBeouf contacted Bleeding Cool about the mini-comics he was creating and selling at
This is the new Superman LED sign, to be offered to retailers for advertising and promotional purposes. Though they still have to pony up a three figure
It's New Year's Day. The chocolates have been eating, the kids are screaming around the house, the eggnog is on the wall, you've watched all the boxsets,
Tomorrow, Marvel Comics will reveal their big Wedding Day comic for April. And it seems to have come down to two options. One sees Thanos marrying Death.
Coming in from Twitter... a five mile long apology from Shia LaBeouf to Dan Clowes over the plagiarism of Clowe's short story from LaBeouef's short film.
When we last met big time nineties comic book artist, Dan Fraga, he was working as director on The Ricky Gervais Show for HBO. Well, now he's back to
On the last day of 2013, Google was granted a patent for "Self-creation of comic strips in social networks and other communications", which means;
Chain Reaction is a BBC Radio 4 interview show in which one guest interviews another - and the next week the second guest interviews a third, and so on.
ACBD has looked at the overall French comic book market, and we have learned lots of things. Here are just a few. 5159 comic books were published in
This is outside Barts Hospital in London right now. It's on in two-and-a-half hours in the UK folks. And we can all see how right, or wrong, Bleeding Cool
The end of a year and the beginning of another, is not just a number. For many, it's a chance to look back, take stock, look forward and make changes. And
The Chew Smorgasbord got a mention in the Top 11 Graphic Novels of the year. How much of it is down to Poyo is probably up for debate. But the odds are,
They began in the year 2000. Welcome to one of the longest running annual awards in comic books, the Rumour Awards. Except for some reason we seemed to
So I've spent New Year's Day reading the screenplay for Suicide Squad, by Justin Marks, writer of the Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li.
Image courtesy of The Outhousers. It's midnight here in the UK, where Head Comics Writer Rich Johnston and Head Film Writer Brendon Connelly are toasting
Just in case you weren't spoiled the last time they tried to spoil it, here's the listing from today's Diamond Previews...
Brian Bendis has posted some of what he'll be up to in 2014. We have a a Trial Of Jean Grey, more Peter Parker/Miles Morales Spider-Man, The United States
Retailers are invited to vote for the following products for the Diamond Gem Awards 2013, for items sold through the year. Here are the nominations.
This is Nick Barrucci, the publisher of Dynamite Comics, publishers of The Twilight Zone #1 out today, written by J Michael Straczynski. It features the
My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way has announced a new comic. And it's got cats in it. So the new icon is getting lots of cool feedback.I hadn't intended to
Roses Of Berlin isn't out yet, but the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen chapter by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, River Of Ghosts, will complete the
My, that's one serious allegy to cats, courtesy of Red Lanterns. Well, Forever Evil: ARGUS, it all depends whether it's original Matrix, or Matrix
There just aren't enough female supervillains in the supervillain industry. Okay, at Super Con panels, there may be one token female supervillain at the
So, Dynamite are publishing more new books today than Marvel. And two are launches, Legenderry and The Twilight Zone. And each has a bevy of
It was the decision that saw JH Williams III and Hayden Blackman walk off Batwoman, the comic that they had been working on together before the New 52
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