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Yesterday, announcing over 200,000 sales of Justice League #1, DC declared it the best selling comic book of the year. I took issue with that, citing

We made a guess this morning that this big new Avengers/X-Men Marvel thing could be whatever had been teased at San Diego Comic Con as coming from Jeph

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Top Shelf Comix, one of the finer upscale American publishers who remind us that comics ARE an artform, damn it, and

Last night I saw the first episode of BBC3's The Fades at the BFT on the South Bank, surrounded by bloggers, hacks and BBC staffers out for a jolly. When

The “Remake/Remodel” challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the

So, everything from Action Comics #1 to Resurrection Man #1 is sold out and going to second print. But the speculator market is reacting to the news very

Out tomorrow from Avatar is the Crossed Vol 2 Family Values by David Lapham and Javier Barreno, the sequel to the Garth Ennis/Jacen Burrows zombie/Crazies

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran the news that the new Image comic book hit, 27, was running a competition, as people were asked to construct a message from

Pretty much Warren Ellis' final word on the superhero. Until his next one. The end of the world, narrated by a survivor (for now) and a look at how the

Comic book artist Matt Haley not obly created the poster for Morgan Spurlock's new documentary Comic Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope, but also art directed

Another Avatar plug of the week sees that most original of zombie franchises continue tomorrow. Romero-based gore on the West Coast, out tomorrow. Why not

A few days ago, Bleeding Cool pointed out that DC had bought Marvel as a Twitter search keyword, so that anyone who searched for Marvel got a DC ad up

It's a busy day for Avatar and its sister company Boundless tomorrow. Lots of big fat comics squeezing through the pipe. So let's make a start... LADY

I started getting complaints last week. That the weekly Marvel video show, The Watcher, was without its host and writer Grace Randolph, replaced by Ben

TweetWatch: On Ultimate Spider-Man... Mark Waid: Until Morales shows up on live-action TV, in cartoons and on toy shelves, I--with respect--cry foul. Tom

Courtesy of DC Comics come three previews to this week's DC relaunch titles, Grifter #1 by Nathan Edmonson and CAFU from iFanboy, Red Lanterns #1 by Peter

Sorry about the brevity, as you may gather, it's been a bit of a rushed weekend. Next week I will bore you at length about something, guaranteed. Top

So DC’s reboot has kicked off with the first batch of first issues, hitting the shops with plenty of promotional hype and media coverage. Just about every

As you heard about on Bleeding Cool yesterday, Dynamite is publishing Chuck Dixon's Seal Team Six novel on the Kindle for a cool 99 cents. And if that's

Before Dragon*Con, Bleeding Cool checked in with CraigsList Personals to see how people were planning to spend their time during the Atlanta-based comic

In the preview to Superboy #1, we noticed a prominent red haired young woman, and the internet has been abuzz with her possible identity. Her name is Red

That's the claim DC Comics are making. Look, they do it right here. Claiming over 200,000 copies sold. Which is fair enough. Except it's just not true.

We already knew that the Justice League, Batgirl, Action Comics, Hawk And Dove, Justice League International, Animal Man and Batman And Robin first prints

Yes it's a fan film. But it's an ever so entertaining a fan film. And with Pocket God selling millions more copies of its comic than, say, SDC has sold

The Adirondack ComicFest for November being organised by Rick Olney with some mysterious unnamed backers has been a little troubled. A number of guests

In July, ICV2 estimated that Batman #712 sold 51,385. If that held true for August, then Justice League #1 sold 170,000 and Flashpoint #5 sold 94,000,

On the left, the cover to the DVD of the Syfy movie, Mongolian Death Worm, which is about as good as it sounds. And the big splashy page from Stormwatch

GuyWatch: Russell Burlingame talks to Dan Jurgens about Justice League International #1 IX: Ice certainly seems to know what makes Guy tick. Given that

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool; Anthologies are the foundation stone of comics. So many characters and creators got their starts in 8 page tales of

At the midnight launch of the DCU at Orbital Comics, one thing was notable. They didn't have a whole lot of Animal Man #1 left for the shelf. And everyone