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Up for FOC this week is a second printing of  Devil's Due Comics' Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Freshman Force Squad Special Limited to 500 copies,

Today sees a new Spider-Ham comic book come to Marvel, about a year after it really should have come out, after Into The Spider-Verse. At least it's

Doctor Strange: Surgeon Supreme #1 has given Stephen Strange his manual dexterity back, and with that has seen him return to a dazzling surgeon skill. And

Absolute Carnage ended with victory-ish, Carnage killed at the hands of a certain Dylan Brock. It was quite a thing. Or was it? It did meant that

Today sees the release of Marvel's Incoming #1, setting out the near future of the Marvel Universe into 2020. We had plenty of thoughts about what this

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Bleeding Cool has been fascinated by the long-running legal fight between billionaire Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter and Canadian millionaire Harold

We always like to keep an eye on trademarks by comic book companies with big multi-media presences. Because if they go to the bother of trademarking them,

Bumble is a location-based social and dating application that facilitates communication between interested users. Notably, for heterosexual matches, it

When it was announced and first published, Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Gary Frank and Geoff Johns, was intended to portray the

One year ago, Bleeding Cool was the first to mention the phrase 'connective tissue' in relation to the comics industry, and how it would be a watchword

It's Christmas Day, Have you noticed? Here are how a few comic book (and related) folk are celebrating the season. We begin with Christmas visuals from

Declan Shalvey is a generous man. He and Gavin Fullerton have been selling their ashcan of his upcoming Bog Bodies graphic novel at recent UK and Ireland

Donny Cates brought his cosmic storylines to a conclusion with last week’s Guardians Of The Galaxy, Bringing back plenty of his artists from Silver

Next week sees the release of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor: Season Two #1 comic book by Jody Houser and Roberta Ingranata from Titan Comics. And, for

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

It's Christmas Eve. The traditional time to gather around a roaring fire, roasting mince pies, supping mulled wine, and leafing through legal paperwork

This is a major opportunity for the New Year... an extremely high-quality Giclee print of the late Bernie Wrightson Frankenstein art piece, the original

Long-standing Spawn fans may recall that the character of Cyan, the daughter of Wanda Simmons and Terry Fitzgerald, was named after Todd McFarlane's own

Doomsday Clock is an unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, published by DC Comics, and concluding with this week's long-awaited

I normally wait until the New Year is a little closer. Or even been. But I'm taking the kids ice skating today, and then going to a carol service, so

Comics and Cards was a comic book store that closed in Tifton, Georgia back in 2018, after 25 years. But for committed comic book fan Scott Beasley, that

After fans gave a lot of love to seeing Elias Chatzoudis using Copic markers to create Vampirella sketches online, editorial at Dynamite asked if he could

Marvel Comics is going for second printings on Fallen Angels #4, Marauders #4, X-Force #4, Spider-Man #3 and Tony Stark: Iron Man #19. And we even know

Mexico-based restaurant, bar and store ComicX has finally opened its first US location, in north Phoenix's Desert Ridge Marketplace. The chain was created

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At Bleeding Cool, we are all massive fans of Meghan Hetrick. I'm on her Patreon, and love seeing the behind-the-scenes processes denied to everyone who is

Former Forbidden Planet NY employee and noted Wonder Woman collector, John Petrie is joining Valiant Entertainment as their new Senior Sales Manager.

Not Just A Comic Shop is a new comic book shop that opened this month in Eastbourne, in the Enterprise Shopping Centre. As you can see, it has toys and

The BBC, Neil Gaiman, and Christmas. It's starting to be a thing. Last year they ran With Great Pleasure at Christmas: Neil Gaiman and serialised his