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Marvel's promotion for a series of less-than-A-list characters getting a relaunch in 2011, using gunsight imagery... Marvel's promotion for a series of

It's reached a hundred issues, it's spun off into numerous series and books, it's even got a superhero team, and there's word of a TV series. And now Bill

Denis Robert is a French investigative journalist who revealed the first Clearstream fianncial instituition money laundering scandal ten years ago. Since

The first Indian Comic Con is happening in Delhi this weekend, and is already sold out. Regular Bleeding Cool  correspondent Mayank Khurana will be

Heroes on NBC was a superfiction TV show that never quite lived up to its potential. An attrribute it has passed on to the likes of The Cape and No

It's one of those things that annoyed me, as a comics reader, and I never got an answer to. In the Bendis-written New Avengers: The Illuminati series,

This is the tweet that started it all from comic book writer Ron Marz, in response to the news that Kickstarter folks had raised enough money to build a

When Diamond lost the UK shipment for Image book Halcyon #2, no one really noticed. Not until #3 came along anyway. Diamond didn't even bother to tell

We haven't even had Fantastic Four #588 yet but Marvel are previewing FF #1, now standing for Future Foundation and co-starring Spider-Man. Here's a

Marvel's Tom Brevoort tweeted; Is it really true that, for the Marvel-generated Doc Savage stories that DC has been collecting, they're not paying the

Where the mayor of Detroit feared to tread, Kickstarter has filled a gap. Three days in to its funding drive to raise $50,000 to fund such a statue

This is the cover to Outsiders #26, published this week. Bold, striking and powerful. And then you open the comic and on the very inside cover... You

GameWatch: DCU Online gets, well, eviscerated; TalentRelationsWatch: DC Comics look to hire... well... CB Cebulski by the look of it. DC Comics seeks a

Here is cover art for the Marvel Vs Capcom 3 comic book that came with preorders of the video game title. Looks fine, yes? A nice take on the old Secret

He's been making films about young superheroes recently. Both X-Men First Class and Kick Ass. But now, he looks like he's going to the old. Deadline

Retailers who attended the Dallas meeting of retail group ComicsPRO got a little swag. A variant cover for The Walking Dead #81. Isn't that nice? Might

The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC last night tackled the Obama Nation political cartoon series by James Hudnall and Batton Lash, calling them

MCM London Expo is the biggest comics convention in the UK, boasting an attendance of up to 100,000. Many come for the anime section and it draws huge

Did you like Blackest Night? Lots of people fighting with rings against rings? Technicolour everywhere and enough lens flare to satisfy even JJ Abrams?

From Amazing Spider-Man 654.1, a sneak peek at just what lies in store for our favourite web slinger in the year ahead. Looks like that loss of

Reading Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and Rick Veitch's Swamp Thing and Jamie Delano's Hellblazer, there was one event that sat heavy on John Constantine's

This character's name may really need changing when the Green Lantern movie is released in certain areas. It's bad enough that a number of people will be

IHaveNoIdeaWhoThisPersonIsWatch: Bluewater gets press for a comic about someone called Danica Patrick. WarWatch: A World War II pamphlet with cartoons

Here's a first look at the cover of CLiNT #6, now out sometime in March. And, it seems, with the finale of the second issue of Kick Ass 2. Which will come

Here’s the numbercrunching headlines, based on Marvel Comics solicitation information for March, for their Marvel character comics, including Marvel

Courtney Simmons has been named as the Senior Vice President of Publicity for DC Entertainment, working out of Burbank while the rest of the DC publicity

Aaron and Tri-Force Mike of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida share their excitement about comics, their hatred of haters hype us about about a full Venom

Did you like that peek at Tiotal Recall covers from Dynamite an hour ago? Did you? Did you really? Well have some more, a smattering of covers by Covers

What do you picture when you think about the movie Total Recall? Arnie's eyes bugging out or triple breasts? Sadly we get neither on the covers of Total

Yesterday, the comics internet woke up to a series of images sent under the headline "Stan Lee Lies" from a junk gmail account called Truth Teller. This