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In his private blog, the publisher of Image Comics, Eric Stephenson, has come out with a rather strong assault against Marvel and DC. And possibly a

Along the bottom of pages in the new Defenders #1 comic from Marvel are a number of phrases that seem to hint at future Marvel storylines. Some are clear.

The plan was to give comic stores a week's worth advance sales of the DC New 52 Hardcover in the run up to Christmas. A week for stores to handsell the

On The Colbert Report last night, as well as announcing his intention to host his own Republican Presidential Candidate Debate, Stephen Colbert took time

I always like to be blindsided by a comic. One that gives me some pieces of information, holds it in the open light, but then misdirects me completely.

Bleeding Cool told you there would be bigger changes in the new DCU after issue 6. And so it has come to pass. The latest is Paul Cornell, who will leave

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported how today's Valen The Outcast Joe Juski 1-200 cover variant was rather... limited. That only 25 were going to qualifying

This week marks the beginning of the fourth month for the DC New 52. Thirteen of them on the shelf... Swamp Thing and Animal Man #4. Seriously, as I spoke

It is the best selling comic book in the world, each volume selling millions in their first week on sale in Japan. And today volume 59 of One Piece is

The penultimate issue of David Lapham and Raulo Caceres' Crossed: Psychopath is out today, issue seven. That's it up above. Here's the solicits and

Okay, this is minor spoiler territory to be fair. Best be safe than sorry though. In today's Animal Man #4 and Swamp Thing #4 from DC Comics, the coming

Finally! They've fixed their camera! Mostly. There's a little bit of lip synching to fix, just pretend they're being dubbed. Adam and Anna from A Comic

OutWatch: When Quicksilver came out to Magneto. StoreWatch: Outer Limits Of Massachusetts gets profiled for being a 20th century store in a 21st century

Marvel publish Defenders #1 tomorrow. Here's a reprint of a Bleeding Cool article from a month ago that gave you a kind of "taster's menu" for the issue.

In 2004, he Disassembled them. He Reassembled them. He House Of M'd them. He saw them through a Civil War, A Secret Invasion, a Dark Reign, A Seige and

On The Colbert Report, the show has satirised the encrouching powers of corporations in the USA, including the likes of free speech protection, as the

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool How do you follow up on someone else's masterwork? It's one of the cornerstones of fan-culture: What would YOU have

Whoever is involved, whenever it is scheduled, DC Comics do seem to be continuing with the production of a series of Watchmen prequel comics by a variety

I was called a peddler of falsehoods by some for stating a couple of months ago that Gail Simone had walked off The Fury Of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men,

Valen The Outcast #1 is published by Boom! tomorrow. It comes with a 1-in-200 variant for the first issue featuring a Joe Jusko cover. Basically, if you

It is a list that is meant to represented the great and the good in French language comics, whatever their origin. And today the board of Angoulême 2012

Mark Millar calls it "the best idea I've seen for a comic in years. Genuinely original." Death Sentence is a self-published five issue comics series by

Kato of Steampunk Couture has been designing steampunk style clothing since early 2003. And a number of people seem to think that thge designs of Lady

He doesn't just oppose Frank Miller on the Occupy Wall Street front, or support their cause through interview, he's supporting it the way he knows best.

GiftWatch: Now even ABC News are running graphic novel holiday gift guides. Rick Marshall steps up. The standard superheroes and Walking Dead, but also

We told you something like this was coming. Marvel Comics is launching a Digital Coupon scheme with their digital comics, redeemable for Marvel print

They created the smash hit for DC Comics, Kingdom Come. And then famously fell out. And that was it for Mark Waid and Alex Ross for fifteen years. The new

You can see the meeting at Halfbrick. "Those Angry Birds toys are everywhere." "You can get them as hats now." "They had Hallowe'en variants." "They're

It will probably be in Midtown Comics off Time Square. It will definitely be on Livestream. And it will happen just as I'm bathing the girls. Marvel will

Remember remember the Fifth Of December. This is Julius Caesar as designed by Jack Kirby for a 1969 production. Okay, so what have people been reading