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Toronto newspaper The Star announces that Canadian Jeff Lemire's next project for DC Comics will be Justice League Canada - the renamed Justice League

Endymion Mageto, our Senior Cosplay Correspondent writes; Rather than joining in the first week frenzy over SyFy’s new show Heroes Of Cosplay, I decided

Here's the Hallowe'en bag, that comic stores will have in time for this year's Hallowe'en ComicFest, where stores will be giving out free comic books.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgc5jFvyuMg Patrick Willems did rather well at San Diego Comic Con. His friends caught up to him on Twitter...

Stan Lee started off the first day of Fan Expo in Toronto by letting all the fans at his panel know they’re the reason he won’t be doing one of his standard Marvel cameos in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Well, in 1988/1989 they did. From The Wall Street Journal... Best known as a wacky prankster in Burton's 1988 comedy, Beetlejuice, Keaton has a receding

Today I received my delayed-by-Her Majesty's Customs comp copies of the Avengefuls trade paperback I wrote. Clearly they thought there were secrets

In November, Image is publishing The Art of Millarworld, featuring every Mark Millar creator owned title cover, regardless of publisher. In the ‘40s, it

A few days ago, Tom Brevoort tweeted this page from the upcoming Mighty Avengers #1 by Al Ewing and Greg Land. People tweeted back. @tombrevoort Greg

So this week saw the final issue of The Legion Of Superheroes. In an epilogue, it featured this panel, with Bouncing Boy talking to Triplicate Girl.

From this week's Nova, if you put your little Marvel AR app over it, then you get... The New Warriors, then? For Marvel Now Two? Here's a look at some

I noted the other day how the latest episode of New Tricks used a number of comic book creator names. But who did "Skinner" refer to? Well, could be

Available right now at Toronto Fan Expo, is the Crossed: Badlands Patient Zero Ashcan, a preview of next year's return to the series from Garth Ennis,

Okay, I'm going to give this a go. I think it's what Amy Chu and Steve Morris are expecting from me. Avatar are publishing a number of exclusive cover

Something we managed to miss a whole month ago. TV, comic and novel writer Paul Cornell wrote a blog post about his upcoming final Doctor Who comic book

So I found myself involved in a little back and forth on Twitter yesterday. Heidi MacDonald on The Beat, posted a piece criticising Avatar's covers for

It's been a while since we've heard from Nancy Silberkleit, the co-CEO of Archie Comics, after her legal fight with the rest of the company, with suits

Si Spurrier reminds us that there’s a 2000AD-esque signing at Forbidden Planet and London today, 6-7pm. Rob Williams, Al Ewing and Si Spurrier,

From Tom Brevoort's Tumblr; If you could get five writers currently at DC, who would you get to write for Marvel? And what would you want them to write?

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

Writer Julian Simpson is at it again. From yesterday's episode of New Tricks on BBC1. Maybe not as obviously as before. But we have a new character,

Hannah Means-Shannon, senior New York Correspondent for Bleeding Cool writes; I’m at Conquest Comics in New Jersey today, my local shop, to check out some

Zero is the comic from Ales Kot and a bunch of artists - the first issue headlining Michael Walsh. I hear orders are high. They may be higher with the

by Chris Thompson Hot on the heels of last week’s interview with rising star Joshua Williamson (which you can find here), I chat with another burgeoning

  On the 18th of August, Mark Waid posted in response to Ron Marz; @ronmarz I wouldn’t worry for him. At least he’s writing Superman. — Mark Waid

December brings the comic industry its favourite things. Big, heavy collections of big heavy comic books, aimed at the Christmas market. But, instead, it

Noe there's a thing. You are an actor, you are trying to film a scene from a TV show with a large crowd of adoring fans penned in tweeting your every twitch. But there is something you want to say. And they may provide you with just the opportunity.

Senior #Setlock Correspondent, Lizzie Holmes, gave us a lovely serious of shots from this afternoon's filming on Holmes series three, in London. Outside a certain flat...

"We, uh, we spent five grand on lawyers' fees. They sent letters. We were very keen to discuss it and we've never heard back from them. All I can say is

It's Wednesday! Lots of comics came out today! Here are a few thoughts about a few of them. Mostly (but not totally) ones I haven't talked about already