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Number crunching takes a terribly mercurial and statistical take on modern pop culture. Ascribing to the motto: Never mind the quality, feel the width, in

Despite Diamond's letter to publishers stating that comic books would now be delivered to all comic shops in the USA and the UK on the Tuesday of each

English film blog Hey You Guys was offered the original Kick Ass costume by Universal Studios to play with, and asked Bleeding Cool's Brendon Connelly to

TwitWatch: had a dream last night that Alan Moore and I killed @richjohnston with copies of @dodgemlogic. odd - though the worst bit was me making a cup

What's the comic? CLiNT, from Mark Millar anf friends. Featuring Kick Ass 2, Turf, Nemesis and Rex Royd. Cost: £3.99 ($6.17) Comics story pages: 71 Price

Couldn't make it to Fan Expo Canada? Of if you did, missed out on a panel or two? Time to catch up! Drawing Ahead: The Future of Comics (51:36, 47.2mb)

Pilgrim is a modern day magical fantasy horror series by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, broadcast by BBC Radio 4. And it gloriously and unashamedly rips off John

Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida talk about tomorrow's comics. See, they already get their comics on a Tuesday. Soon every comic shop will do

Last week, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Diamond Comic Distributors would move to ship comic books to all comic stores across the USA to Tuesday, for

Bluewater Productions continues to relive Revolutionary Comics' history with startling similarity. Kenneth Feinswog, has sent cease and desist notices to

Daredevil hasn't yet been made into a Silly Bandz or a Character Bandz. Even though Abomnation has. There's no justice. But Jock's cover art from

Collectable? Check. Cheap? Check/ Loved by kids? Check. Silly mispelling using the letter 'z' at the end? Check. Silly Bandz are a major US youth craze

Boo hiss. Paul Cornell's screened pilot of his new hospital sci-fi horror TV show Pulse on BBC 3 has not been picked up for a series. At the Edinburgh TV

Jeff McClinchey got busy with the clicky at the Fan Expo this weekend in Toronto. He told Bleeding Cool; The show seemed bigger then ever. They changed

What is it with arching back bald men with small hooked noses that Jae Lee just loves? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each

MarvelWatch: Today is the first anniversary of Disney's purchase of Marvel Comics. What has changed? In the day-to-day comics, very little. Certain

No advice, examples, tutorials, anecdotes or sneak previews in this special edition of Pond Life, just a cautionary tale and some setting straight of the

Many people seem to believe that Alan Moore hates films. He just doesn't like a lot of them these days. And he's not keen on people taking what he once

Or, The World of Visual Novels Part 3 This week, I’m going to cover a third visual novel creator, Type-Moon. Where 07th Expansion has become a successful

Both made headlines. Both were believed to have died at the hands of a sci-fi gun. Both had their roles taken over by their most famous sidekick. Both had

Another week, another set of statistically based lists on your Lying In The Gutters. Still trying to digest the gossip spilling out of the conventions. So

It looks like the upcoming Maryland Senatorial election will not be fought in the streets of Baltimore - but on the Jinxworld messgae board forums.

Both the movie adaptations of Wanted and Kick Ass have something in common. When it came to the comic book, they stuck with the beginning almost word for

So the BBC Doctor Who Adventures games have been being downloaded around the UK and everyone agrees, ther're moderately fun, with a horrible control

This is the new look for Lady Death, as seen in the Free Lady Death Premiere and Lady Death #0, and appearing on the cover of Lady Death #1 for January.

So, artist Jimmy Broxton is starting to get more attention with his upcoming work on Knight & Squire with Paul Cornell. And will be making his "first

QuesadaWatch: It is ten years to the day since Joe Quesada was appointed Editor-In-Chief at Marvel Comics. Jim Shooter only lasted nine years and Stan Lee

By: Greg Pak, Scott Reed, Tom Raney, Brian Ching Cost: Free Really? For now. Marvel have put the entire comic up as a digital preview By mistake? Not

Marvel Comics often provide previews of their comic books through their digital comics service Marvel DCU. And they've just done such a thing for

"Eighty-five million dollars? Really?" Apparently so. As much as Scott Pilgrim VS The World is a dazzling delight of innovative CGI, choreographed set