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When last we saw The Riddler, he had gone through a major change. Year Of The Villain: The Riddler saw him decide to put away foolish things. Fed up of

While today's Dawn Of X X-Men titles have a lot to say - or play with - about death, Marauders #6 also sees the L'il Hellfire Club launch a new assault on

So how have Superman and Batman been doing? Not great, to be honest. They (with Wonder Woman) built Sanctuary as a mental health haven for superheroes

Today sees the release of Guardians Of The Galaxy #1 from Al Ewing, Juann Cabal and Federico Blee. And with Al Ewing having been the lead writer on

Batman #87 continues the series obsession with the architecture of Gotham and Bruce Wayne's surprising rebuilding of the city between issues. Including

There's quite the divide in media today, the old dinosaurs of radio, TV and print, versus the up and coming buzzwords of online news. Today's Amazing

Okay, so we are getting a little more connective tissue in DC Comics today over the Infected storyline. Batman/Superman #6 has the infected Commissioner

Today's Amazing Spider-Man understands the clickbaity appeal of Krakoa to the Marvel audience right now. As well as Mephisto and Skrulls... And after last

Loot Crate still keeps ticking along after its bankruptcy and reformation, and still appears to be bringing the goods to their monthly geek demographic

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

Dan Fraga will be crowdfunding the return of Black Flag in April. The outline is written. He has cover inks by what he describes as some heavy-hitting

We told you first that Boom Studios plans to send every issue of James Tynion IV & Werther Dell’Edera’s Something is Killing The Children and Doctor

Kevin Eastman has provided unpublished art for the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #102 ComicBooks For Kids! variant. This issue will debut at C2E2

While Marvel Comics seems to be settling on around 7 or 8 exclusive retailer covers a month - that few retailers seem to take up - DC Comics seems to have

You may recognise Peter Pantazis' name for his long carer as a colourist, colouring comics including 51 issues of Trinity, 30 of Justice League of

Here's a look at the new Batman character Punchline, potentially a new partner for The Joker, and to be seen in The Joker War, designed by Jorge Jimenez,

A few months, Bleeding Cool noted that an old friend, Joseph Elliott-Coleman was getting some rather major comics-related work, contributing a prose story

Courtesy of tomorrow's Batman Beyond #40, spoilers for which are all over the place regarding the identity of the new Batwoman of the future, Batman

We normally do this for Marvel and DC Comics. But now we find ourselves doing it for IDW Publishing, The changes between solicitation and publication.

Remember when they first released the new Sonic The Hedgehog film trailer last year and everybody started calling for classic Sonic the Hedgehog rather

Four years ago, we started to hear about a revival of the classic comics-and-music magazine Deadline that originated the comic character Tank Girl by Alan

Free Comic Book Day this year on May 2nd sees Udon Studios publish their hundredth Street Fighter comic, if you add all the series up. And so, naturally,

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjBBEOg6lhE And here is a transcript... I expect you think you know this story. Child finds alien, Small-town America

In the lead up to its landmark 300th issue, Heavy Metal is going back to its sci-fi roots with a special preview release of Heavy Metal Magazine #298, The

Taboo of The Black Eyed Peas will be reviving Marvel Comics' Werewolf By Night, co-written with Benjamin Jackendoff and drawn by Scott Eaton. And bringing

James Tynion IV has been writing on his newsletter about Batman again, You really should sign up. And he's talking about this week's Batman - and the

At the weekend, former Marvel employee and EIC of Comic Book, James Viscardi, tweeted the following. Had a really interesting #comics market conversation

Well, I suppose there is a film coming out. Looks like I have another book to add to Marvel's Frankensteined April 2020 solicitations.  A new Black Widow

Bleeding Cool has been of late not just reporting Diamond’s Top 500 ordered comics and graphic novels by North American comic book stores, but also