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MembershipWatch: So who else got one of these? And who else is going to run run run run to their comic shop to see their little face appear in Avengers

Aaron and Mike from A Comic Shop in Florida celebrate the arrival of Avengers #1 and defend the honour of Aquaman in this week's run around this week's

Numbercrunching is a review format that values statistics, over less quantative measure when looking at comic books. It generally fails and gets dragged

We’re doing something a little different this time, Post-Mod Squad. Since my last five posts have been super self-indulgent ramblings about my personal

The bestselling comics list still seems to be full of titles like Naruto, Fruits Basket, Maximum Ride, Pokemon, Vampire Night, Death Note and Bleach. But

The Cape, NBC's new superhero drama. I reviewed the script last year, reproduced below. But what I'm getting from the visuals is a real eighties/early

It was looking to be a clustershag of epic proportions. The New England Wizard World show the week before Reed's massive New York Comic Con in

HamillWatch: Looks like Mark Hamill is going to direct a movie based on the Black Pearl comic book series - that he wrote. He'll probably write the

"That was always the plan. We only went to a $3.99 price point if we had 30 pages or more of content. We're going to hold to that line as long as we can."

Well itls one of my favourite books. But just now, author G Willow Wilson has made a rather sad announcement about her Vertigo series Air, drawn by M.K.

Okay, this is a thing. The British Film Institute, at London's South Bank Centre is having a bit of a Doctor Who thing on, come Wednesday the 2nd of June.

Busy week at Lying In The Gutters. I mean it's not all been porn. Just some of it. Remarkable really - considering all that we've seen and not even a

Quite possibly the most enjoyable thing I've read this week. Chris Sims' superheroic periodic table for Comics Alliance. I am drop dead jealous of its

A lack of publisher at DC Comics for a few months seems to have stymied what might have otherwise been grander 75th Anniversary plans. But variant covers

Saw something interesting when I’m out and about these days: a lot of women in their 20s and 30s are reading the first two Stig Larsson’s MILLENIUM

Six months ago, Bleeding Cool covered the small press gay superteam comic Spandex, and the resultant international media press it got as a result of well,

There's been some debate as to whether we'd see Jeff Bridges donning the famed eyepatch in the Coen Brothers remake of True Grit - the one that made John

SuitWatch: Siegel/Schuster representing lawyer Marc Toberoff has responded to the Warners suit against him. His office states; Warner and Mr. Petrocelli

John Byrne has pointed out a fair few times his annoyance with this famed bitchslap of Green Lantern by an elderly black gentleman for his lack of racial

The WebTV series The Variants, a comedy set in a comic store, has just posted the final part of the tenth episode, the last in the first series. Filmed at

Shea Hennum gets up, gets out and takes in Ridley Scott's latest run through Sherwood Forest with men in tights... We’re all pretty familiar with the

I've known Tony Lee for a long time. Possibly too long. I count him as a friend and have been entranced to see him emerge from wannabee to, well, bee. His

Vince Cracchiolo reports for Bleeding Cool from Motor City Comic Con in Novi, Michigan. No, this convention has not been bought by Wizard. Yet. Marvel and

Brighton on the South Coast of Britain has held their annual Hero Run again, a charity event where every runner dresses up in a comic book-related or

The Forbidden Planet/Titan Books/Diamond UK relationship is all very twisted, considering that once upon a time, they used to be the same company but have

GainesWatch: John Landis is setting up a biopic based on EC Comics and Mad Magazine founder and comics legend William Gaines. And that Joel Eisenberg has

If you include the Christmas episode (and don't include Sarah Jane Adventures) then this is the half way point of Matt Smith's first year. So what's going

To mark the recent death of the character Ryan Choi, the more recent version of The Atom, and following up on Chris Sims essay on the Racial Politics of

The original is famous for all the wrong reasons. Tagged by the BBC as the worst film ever made, this story inspired by Alfred Hitchock's The Birds tells

We’ve always been interested in people whose career crosses over from one industry to other connected industries and Dave McKean certainly falls into that