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Red Mother #1, the new comic by Jeremy Haun and Danny Luckert from Boom Studios goes on sale this coming Wednesday. But not only has an overgenerous first

The School for Extraterrestrial Girls is a new series of graphic novels by Princeless creator and Unstoppable Wasp writer Jeremy Whitely and Yellow Peril

The Associated Press has the word about a new Marvel magical comic book in March 2020, set in New Orleans, a very American Harry Potter for the Marvel

Wonder Woman #750 was solicited as written by Vita Ayala, Marguerite Bennett, Kami Garcia, Dean Hale, Jeff Loveness, Steve Orlando, Greg Rucka, Gail

Yesterday, we looked at all the decade covers from a variety of decade cover artists for Wonder Woman #750 Including this 2010 decade cover from Jim Lee

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

I'm not sure if this is an intentional policy of Bleeding Cool to gather the voices in comic books that most annoy comics industry figures all in one

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

DC Comics have let retailers know the details on the Birds Of Prey 100-Page Giant #1 in comic stores for January 22nd and should be in mass-market stores

Robert Scott, owner and manager longstanding San Diego-based comic book store chain Comickaze Comics passed away yesterday. He was a comic book retailer

Later today, Marvel Comics will be telling retailers that they are sending three recent Dawn Of X titles back to the printing mill for second printings,

Here is the list of all titles being published for Thursday, December 26th. It's a small list. There are no ongoing DC Comics titles. But there is the

Courtney Ross was a character created by Chris Claremont, Herbe Trimpe and Fred Kida for Captain Britain Weekly #3 back in 1976 as a love interest for

During the Crisis event comic Flashpoint, by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert, an alternate reality version of Thomas Wayne appears as Batman. In this

Once upon a time, before the New 52, Conner Kent, Kon-El, was Superboy, a genetic construct of Superman and Lex Luthor DNA. He found himself palling

Man, Earth 44 is one very unlucky dimension in the DC multiverse. Back in Infinite Crisis #7... it was reduced to a crumbling shard that collided with the

Bleeding Cool has reported a couple of times on this upcoming David Tennant/Jodie Whittaker Doctor Who Crossover for 2020, from Titan Comics. Every time

In today's Doctor Doom #3 by Christopher Cantwell and Salvador Larroca, we get to see the population of Earth being asked to vote for Doom. Sorry, sorry,

Today sees Tom King's penultimate issue of Batman, with Mikel Janin. Batman #84. And it's not about Bruce Wayne - not directly. Instead, it's the story of

In House Of X, we learned that mutants, when brought back to life by The Five of Krakoa, are naked. And seem to remain naked when paraded in front of the

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

Charlotte McDuffie, widow of Milestone founder and Damage Control creator Dwayne McDuffie, writes to Bleeding Cool, Today is #GivingTuesday. Please

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is launching a number of #GivingTuesday donation levels with exclusive “Be The Light! Your Voice Matters” gear for

When DC Comics realise that Wonder Woman #84 counted as Wonder Woman #750 they did away with a bit of movie synergy in favour of an Action

In 2009, Avatar Press hired me, Rich Johnston, to found Bleeding Cool, as Head Comics Writer. Then in 2016, they ruined everything by hiring Jude Terror

We mentioned it in Things To Do in London If You Like Comics - December 2019. An Evening Of Creepy Comics being held at London's Cartoon Museum on the

Bleeding Cool just ran a piece looking at upcoming plans for the character of Luke Fox in the Batman comic books. Including the very real possibility that

Where is Gotham? And where is Metropolis? Described as New York at night and New York by day, respectively, their location has been up in the air.

Okay, okay, okay, not every story on Bleeding Cool is going to be pulled from James Tynion IV's newsletter. But today, maybe three of them are. We looked

In July, Image Comics is going to publish a new collection of 2014's Royal City by Jeff Lemire with a slight difference. Twenty new pages of story -