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These are the prototypes for upcoming Dan Dare figures to be manufactured by day2daytrading, known for their retro-style Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon

Stolen Comic is a new website that, surprisingly, isn't a pirate torrent collection, but a way to publicly report stolen comic books and to warn potential

Devil's Due's Spartacus: Blood and Sand has a motion comic available. Narrated by Ray Park, the man who couldn't even do his own voice in Phantom Menace,

JimLeeWatch: Jim Lee is playing in the snow with his family instead of drawing a page of All Star Batman And Robin The Boy Wonder. Internet... attack!!!

So what's been happening this week? In Doctor Who coverage, we warned you not to go up against Noel Clarke on Twitter (T-shirt on the way), hosted some

Claude Moliterni, co-founder of Angoulême, the largest comics convention in the world, as well as the equally-famous Lucca comics festival died last

I was planning to take this week off or the holidays, but during the festivities, I ended up watching what I think is the best thriller of 2009 (not that

"Arrr! Jim Lad! Hoist the gutters! Splice the staples! Yo ho ho!" Are you a comic book pirate? Do you revel in illegally scanning an uploading comic books

Phil Hotsenpiller is the author of Rob Liefeld comic and religious parable, Armageddon Now. He's also teaching pastor at the Friends Church in Yorba

OzzieSportWatch: The movie American Splendor turned Australian basketball captain Adam Ballinger into a comic book nut. Which has given him an idea what

It's a credit to Geoff Johns that he manages to take one of the tropes of continuing superhero fiction - that main characters die but get brought back to

Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you about the existence of misprinted examples of DC's Blackest Night promotional items and name them Error Rings,

NextChristmasWatch: Will the hardcover Pogo collections from Fantagraphics be next year's must-have Christmas gift? GameWatch: The US Edition of the

Okay so Brits saw Doctor Who: End Of Time Part One earlier today and it's already heating up the illegal downloads. But if things are a bit slow on the

Okay, in Northamption. Burlesque photographer James Thorpe attended Alan Moore's Dodgem Logic launch party the other month and has kindly allowed Bleeding

Chris Claremont and Tony Lee. One known mostly for X-Men, the other known mostly for his waistcoasts. But both are comic book writers with relatively

Play the game of Chris Giarrusso's G-Man, G-MAN: ESCAPE FROM DARK FOREST. And not Pac Man. Oh no. Chris has a Mini-Marvels Ultimate Collection out this

McCoy: Frontier Doctor is a new mini-series from IDW by John Byrne, starring our favourite cantankerous medic, Bones McCoy, set between the original TV

Dan Slott has just tweeted an entire comic book from 2006. Surely a Twitter first? Follow his achievement here... and I hope he, James Fry and Andrew

1. Ed Contradictory, 2. The Invisible Skin. 3. Moon Freight by Luke Foster. 4. Comic Book Fanthropology by Sean Kleefield 5. Border Crossings 6. New

1. The Victorian Undead. A guest flashback page by Tom Mandrake from an upcoming issue from the DC/Wildstorm title. 2. The Legendary Tale Spinners l By

This visual, Solstice Sol'jer by Larry Marder, looks into the heart of the Summertime cycle of Beanworld, which starts in the next all new graphic novel

David Tennant's last words playing The Doctor? "You two with me, spit spot." Two Minute Timelord takes four minutes to run through the Russell T Davies

Eleven comic-related bloggers all committed to updating their blogs on Christmas Day. Why not check them out? 1. The Nerdery Blog Greg Hyatt's blog does,

One exclusive page from The Twelve: Spearhead written and drawn by Chris Weston, a prequel to the Twelve series by JMS and Weston. Out in March! And while

You won't read any spoilers for Blackest Night #6 in this post, which shipped to comic stores this week, to be held for next week, when Diamond Comics

First, Nick Barrucci of Dynamite tells me that all ten issues of the upcoming Green Hornet comic by Kevin Smith have been completed. No worries there. The

Okay, Deadpool is strangely, unbelievably, unexplainably popular now. After struggling to keep his ongoing series, he now has three or them. But March

Yesterday British tabloid newspaper the Daily Mirror ran an interview with Russell T Davies, showrunner and re-creator of Doctor Who, as he steps down and

SherlockWatch: Now Dan Lin, producer of Sherlock Holmes is adding to the lie that it was based on a graphic novel. Doesn't he read Bleeding Cool? So, as