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Manga sales boomed in North American bookstores in 2021, especially as a manga drought from 2020 had prevented many retailers from restocking the more

Vampirella? Indeed, it might not have been expected that some of the more nuanced and educative writing about the Black experience in America in comic

Chris Claremont is living his best life, posting on Instagram saying "sitting by the shore of the bay watching the storm roll in. Grabbing a tad of reward

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The Joker #5 beats the Spider-Man Sinister War event launch - but only just. And War Of The Bounty Hunters has lifted Star Wars sales too. And The Lot

Aaron Couch wrote a much-shared article for The Hollywood Reporter looking at Marvel and DC comic creators talking about the lack of credit and payment

Last month, we got a better look at the DC Comics Timeline that was announced in 2019, meant to have been in the Free Comic Book Day comic for 2020 (until

A large rampaging spider? A giant rock-formed god smiting the heathens? A Hyborian #MeToo campaign? No, Conan The Barbarian fears none of these things. He

After meticulous study, Bleeding Cool is currently preparing to publish the final, complete DC Timeline that Dan DiDio had planned to run alongside 5G,

Last weekend, Bleeding Cool reported that this week's DC Comics ads for Infinite Frontier had questions to ask. And presumably, some comic books out this

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We are still expecting an impending announcement of X-Men and the rest of Marvel's merry-marching mutants coming to the MCU (any day now, probably, just

Primer #2, published by Comico, is the first appearance of Grendel by Matt Wagner in 1982. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as

Every now and then someone tells me that Bleeding Cool totally made the DC Comics 5G plan up. That it was totally fake news. That it was never going to

The new Moon Knight series by Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappuccio (as first scooped on Bleeding Cool a month before it went official) is out next week.

Reading James Tynion IV's latest Empire  Of The Tiny Onion newsletter I suddenly got a Batman-style flashback to Evan Dorkin's return to The Eltingville

Amanda Waller is becoming more and more of a player in the DC Comics Universe of late. Thanks to a certain Suicide Squad movie on its way, her role has

It's Something Is Killing The Children time! James Tynion IV is currently moving his social media on Twitter from his personal account to his company

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Discussing his recent novelisation of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino was asked on BBC's Front Row tonight what he would do after making

Dan Watters and Dani last worked together on Coffin Bound from Image Comics back in 2019. Bleeding Cool loved that series immensely and so are totally

Scott Snyder has a kid. I bet they play Fortnite together. And while that kid's dad may write Batman comics, it's still not as cool as writing Fortnite

All that DC Comics has decided is fit to print in October 2021, the full DC Comics solicits and solicitations. From Batman to... well, mostly Batman let's

Now that we’re seeing The Department Of Truth ascend to the level of The Walking Dead, the publisher’s outdoing what many of us pegged as the “Image

Last year, Bleeding Cool announced a new graphic novel by Blur's Graham Coxon, Superstate, based on his new album of the same name. Both are released,

We’ve been covering closely the events in Boom Studios’ dual Power Rangers series, Mighty Morphin and Power Rangers, since the chart-topping, sold out

Superman & The Authority #1 by Grant Morrison and Mikel Janin is published this Tuesday by DC Comics. But the FOC date for Superman & The

DC Comics' Free Comic Book Day titles are not being distributed by FCBD's owner Diamond Comic Distributors in 2021 for the first time, after Diamond quit

Thank FOC It's Friday -  Planned to coincide and cover the demands of Final Order Cut Off at Diamond Comic Distributors. And now Lunar Distribution as

Black Cotton Star is a graphic novel written by XIII and Blake And Mortimer writer Yves Sente, drawn by Blackjack artist Steve Cuzor, published by Dupuis