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Welcome to another special episode of The Orbiting Pod! With it being the 75th Anniversary, and with a new film out this weekend, DC Comics have dubbed today Man of Steel day! To celebrate, the Orbiting Pod crew have dedicated a whole episode to Superman!

Two launches from two companies today. Both involving various post apocalyptic scenarios, and both heavy on the media satire. Six Gun Gorilla reminds me

In the original Detective Comics comics, Batman had purple gloves. He really did. Although in reprints, DC tried to hide that fact turning purple

We mentioned yesterday that the ending of this issue would give X-Men readers of a certain age the warm and fuzzies. And dammit if we weren't right. But

Regular readers will know Orbital Comics of London well, if only by reputation. A West End London basement shop that moved and expanded, creating a pop

A short while ago, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Joshua Hale Fialkov walked off the Green Lantern books he has recently been hired to write, and then

In the new issue of Constantine, out today, Zatanna looks to the future. And doesn't like what she sees. What of it she can see, anyway. "Vague

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpIBl6liRfc Fresh from the store... Superman Unchained #1, unfolded. Rather than stitched in, the four page foldout is

Straight from those Gentle Giants. A bust of Zap Comix' Robert Williams, Mr Bitchin, exclusively for San Diego Comic Con. One per person. Unless of course

I signed up to a Hotmail account in the mid nineties. Years later I signed up to a Gmail account, because it I stopped using my Hotmail account in favour

  This weekend, a new comic store opened in the Greater Toronto area in Ontario, Canada. It's called Fortress Inc, it's got a great looking

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran an article on 2 Images Solutions, who were specialising in photographing cosplayers in fixed positions and rotating them, to

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cPNK6frHsE Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes; Hey Fandom! Thanks for watching A Comic Show's New

Cameron Hatheway writes; My first favorite multiplayer video game growing up was 007: Goldeneye for the N64. For hours on end my friends and I would sit

I understand from pretty decent sources that the new team on Action Comics, after Scott Lobdell's fill-in, are Batman/Superman's Greg Pak and New

From the preview to Superman Unchained #1, out tomorrow. Nagasaki, days after the nuclear bomb explodes at Hiroshima. Or was it a nuclear bomb? This

One of these will be mine. Oh yes, one of these glowy Chogs from Chew will be mine. I'm looking at you, San Diego Comic Con...

If you are in your late thirties, there is a period of time in The Uncanny X-Men which is probably very special to you. Chris Claremont obviously, but

We were only just talking about *that* Hulk cover... A batch of Marvel comics will be getting Lego variant covers in September. Here are three of them,

The Hollywood Reporter has the latest on the legal situation between Ghost Rioder co-creator Gary Friedrich and publisher Marvel Comics over the ownership

For a while, Ed Catto and Joe Ahearn have been trying to revive the Captain Action property, publishing comics, starting a toyline, doing deals with other

So Channel 4 just got our attention....

Warner Bros. Consumer Products EMEA has announced the German chain Lidl as its destination European retail partner for Man of Steel. Which means Lidl will

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13D1I5s236o You'll want to watch this for 16-minutes-and-chang to believe it. But a short Scribblenauts Unleashed: A DC

Will Romine writes; Hello Friends! It's your old pal Will Romine here with a review of Batman #21, which marks the beginning of Zero Year. My LCS

by Brian M. Puaca Making his first visit to the Heroes Con and, apparently, his first ever visit to the state of North Carolina, Jim Steranko delighted

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q14YEEd8uCU The United States vs. PFC Bradley Manning: A Graphic Account From Inside the Courtroom is an upcoming graphic novel

DAMSELS: MERMAIDS #2 Matt Sturges (w) Jean-Paul Deshong (a) Paul Renaud (c) FC • 32 pages • $3.99 The Little Mermaid searches the seas for an artifact to

The Nerdy Show guys write; E3 2013 is here! This year, the biggest event in gaming is more intense than ever with two new consoles vying for superiority

Attendees of the MCM London Expo... sorry, Comic Con are familiar with the shared events at the ExCel London convention centre. Whether it was the Zumba