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The Guardian newspaper just named Providence one of their best comic books of the decade, which is handily timed for one event happening this week. Oh,

Comic-Con International, the non-profit company behind San Diego Comic-Con has spent a not-insignificant portion of the last decade defending their

Last year saw a number of sequels to Watchmen published, including Doomsday Clock, HBO's Watchmen, Watchmensch in Heavy Metal Magazine's Soft Wood and

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is offering copies of the new Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams hardcover graphic novel, published by

Thought bubbles have fallen out of favour in comic books over the last couple of decades. Instead, their role has been taken by the internal monologue

David Avallone's Writer’s Commentary on Bettie Page Unbound #8, out from Dynamite now. Did you have a nice holiday and/or holidays? Did you read Bettie

Donny Cates and Jim Lee will be attending a special signing event at Torpedo Comics OC, Orange County, California in a couple of weeks. Two such high

November saw the release of the first Vampirella novel, Blood Invasion by Sunglasses After Dark and Swamp Thing author Nancy A Collins. And we have the

This week sees the launch of James Tynion IV's first solo issue of Batman. But he had written for the comic book before. Indeed, his first published comic

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

Tonight saw the airing of Doctor Who: Spyfall Part Two on BBC 1. By getting rid of all the spy stuff. And going a very different route... spoilers of

I'm still writing the Ten Thoughts for this week's episode of Doctor Who, Spyfall Part Two. But first a look at next week's episode, airing on BBC1 in the

Phyllis Christine Cast is an American romance/fantasy author, known for the House of Night series she writes with her daughter Kristin Cast. And they are

Nathan W Pyle has been running Instagram comic for a few years. Publisher Wildfire in the UK and HarperCollins in the US (I got the former, obv) has taken

This morning I have mostly been playing a fan-fic text adventure in the Hitch-Hikers Guide To The Galaxy mode, based on Alan Moore and Ian Gibson's The

Over the last couple of years, DC Comics and Walmart ran a number of exclusive over-sized anthology comics in the European model, with one or two original

The King of Elfland's Daughter is a 1924 fantasy novel by Lord Dunsany and widely recognized as one of the most influential and acclaimed works in fantasy

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what

Will Morgan, of the 30th Century Comics store in Putney, England has a story to share - just in case any other comic book stores are being targeted. So,

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

I rather enjoyed the BBC adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula by Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue - now on Netflix. Well, the first two episodes

This Wednesday sees the release of The Clock #1 by Matt Hawkins and Colleen Doran, from Top Cow/Image Comics. We ran this preview before. But that's

Marvel Comics is to begin its second wave of Dawn Of X rollouts with Wolverine #1 in February, by Ben Percy, Viktor Bogdanovic and Adam Kubert. Those who

We mentioned Mark Millar's comments about DC Comics abandoning Superman's secret identity and the current status of Starlight on John Siuntres' Word

So I just read Jude's preview of Deadpool #2 out on Wednesday. I am sorry but I am weak. Between a reference to Galaxy Quest and Boaty McBoatface, writer

DC announces contents for Batman Giant #3, on Final Order Cutoff this week. With a cover by Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira this issue includes these new

We mentioned Mark Millar's comments about DC Comics abandoning Superman's secret identity on John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast. But he had a few things

Diamond Comic Distributors has informed retailers that several Marvel Comics titles that scheduled to arrive in stores with product to go on sale on

The Shazam series by Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham has been repeatedly delayed, resolicited and delayed again. Issue 12 was solicited for March by Geoff