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eBay are launching a special-themed Comic Book Superhero auction to celebrate something of other, with a bunch of sixties CGC comics, recent sketch

The Keyboard Continues To Be My FuckMonkey: COMICS! Convention season, I'm reliably informed, is In Full Swing.  Here then is a ludicrously tangential

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. An event where oodles of free comics will be given away from oodles of publishers in oodles of stores. So what else is

Bleeding Cool contributor Alasdair Stuart conducts a thortopsy... So that's what a God of Thunder looks like. After Latino Review's leaked picture of The

Tomorrow is Free Comic Book Day. I'm planning a special Bleeding Cool surprise in an hour or two, but for now here's a preview of DC's offerings, from War

A writer begins a story. Then another takes it on. This is an Exquisite Corpse, Vertigo style as House Of Mystery is written by Bill Willingham, Dave

"You cannot win an argument just by being right" Four Lions is a comedy about Islamic fundamentalist terrorists. If that sentence fills you will utter

I've never read a Funnyman comic. A line, tucked away in biographical piece about Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, what they did after Superman and Superboy

HexWatch: The new Jonah Hex trailer hits the intraweb. MadibaWatch: An unauthorised biography of Nelson Mandela in comic form has won Best Book For Older

20th Century Fox have acquired the rights to turn Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' 2009 Incognito series for Marvel Comics into a movie, telling a story of

The Batman Vs Robin arc concludes next week in Batman And Robin 12 by Grant Morrison and Andy Clarke. And if you, like me, can't wait those few more days

This is a double page spread from 2000AD's ABC Warriors by Pat Mills and Mike McMahon. And this, The Virus Is Activated By Fear from a new exhibition by

Well now this wasn't announced. There was nothing in the solicitation for X-Factor #204. But the issue in question features the first appearance of the

Chaps and chapesses, check those Green Lantern rings that were given away again for free recently. It looks like they shared a production process with the

Last week, I discussed the importance of getting an endorsement for your comic or graphic novel, so this week I want to concentrate on another aspect of

I understand that the famed waxworks museum in London, Madame Tussauds (which also hosts the London Planetarium and is well worth the ticket for that

To coincide with Free Comic Book Day, a new web-sitcom Forever Wednesday will be launching this weekend - a female-based geekcom, set in and around a

As part of a protest against the cost-structures being imposed by French comic publishers in the light of new digital publishing initiatives, the French

FilmWatch1: Millar-hating Latino Review run a shot from the set of Thor, showing The Destroyer, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Journey Into Mystery

Some would call it good business. Others a sweetener. Others a bribe. Either way, San Diego has made a bold move to ensure Comic Con International: San

The new Green Hornet issue from Dynamite Entertainment has been hyped as an essential buy for a death scene of a major Green Hornet character. Which is

Right hand side of Rich Johnston's brain: Can I really justify running this Legion Of Superheroes #1 variant cover by Jim Lee. Left hand side of Rich

The Iron Man PR onslaught is upon us. Who cares if the film is getting mediocre reviews, look at all the cool spinoff stuff. Like this Race Of Champions

I have no idea what it smells like. But considering that the Iron Man fragrance Only The Brave is from the Diesel brand, I'm thinking something

I know, I know, it's a bit of a spoilery day really isn't it? Mind you Marvel have not seemed to have bothered YouTube about that Iron Man 2 clip yet, and

Opportunities like this don't come along too often. The Atlantic Centre For The Arts in Florida is offering a  residency as Associate Artist for a comic

New father Aaron sporting his Bleeding Cool T-shirt with fellow Floridan AComicShop.com worker Mike take us through this week's comics. Look at Aaron's

The first Iron Man was one hell of a surprise. Expectations weren't exactly high, we were expecting a Transformers-style mixture of bombast and

A post-credit sequence at the end of the first Iron Man movie starring Samuel Jackson and linking the movie with the now-established wider Marvel Studios

Two/three years ago  Comic Book Resources, I reported extensively on the Alan Moore/Mitch Jenkins project Unearthing, based on the Moore's extended essay