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On November 26th, Titan Comics invites you to stare directly into the brain of the Merc with a Mouth with The Philosophy Of Deadpool - a guide to the

Retailers have been told that if they want a retailer exclusive cover of DC Crimes Of Passion #1, as seen in the recent DC Comics February 2020

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 took the kids to London's Leicester Square for an advance viewing of Frozen II, on general release around the world from November 22nd. Now over the

'Dear Rich', the letter wrote, 'can you explain why Marvel Comics has just switched the age guidance on Morbius The LivinG Vampire Omnibus from T to

King Thor #4 is not the only comic book that is getting a... helping hand on the artwork from non-solicited comic book creators. Though maybe these are

Here's the full 'trade dress' of the cover of Superman #18, by Ivan Reis, Joe Prado and Alex Sinclair. With Superman removing his Clark Kent glasses and

Recall when we alerted you to the fact that retailers were selling the one-per-store variant cover for Folklords #1 – Boom Studios’ latest original hit

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

Just got out of seeing Frozen II with the kids at Leicester Square. It’s out on November the 22nd here, but the big question I have been asked, especially

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Mondo Tees. Mondo, and Madison Gate records putting Christopher Lennertz score to the Amazon series The Boys, based on the Garth Ennis and Darick

Sometimes solicitation credits don't tell the whole story. Here's the new listing for Justice League Dark #20 for February 2020, from DC Comics

Back in the Batman/Flash crossover The Price by Josh Williamson last year, we got to see a near future in which Batman and Superman were involved in what

It was only eight years ago that DC Comics Publisher Dan DiDio declared that all the lead DC Comics characters could not be married (apart from Animal

The Green Lantern was relaunched with much aplomb a year ago, from Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp, ostensibly as a cosmic police procedural series but it

This is the solicitation for Lois Lane #8 from DC Comics' February 2020 solicitations. Which ties in with the current storyline with Superman supposedly

The current Inferior Five series from DC Comics by Keith Giffen, Michele Delecki and Jeff Lemire was solicited as a twelve-issue limited series, and with

Former Top Shelf employee, Robert Venditti is best known as creator of The Surrogates, and an extensive writer for Valiant and DC Comics, relaunching

We ran the Frankensteined versions earlier, here are the real things. DC Comics' February 2020 solicitations... THE FLASH #750 “THE FLASH AGE” BEGINS!

King Thor #4 was solicited as written by Jason Aaron drawn by Russell Dauterman, Mike Del Mundo and more. It is Jason Aaron's final Thor storyline for

Hero Collector, Eaglemoss’ imprint for genre collectables, is launching a new magazine-and-figurine collection based on Rick and Morty, the fourth season

We have talked about DC Comics' upcoming Massive Week, December the 18th. Which will see the release of the final issue of Doomsday Clock, the final issue

DC Comics’ February 2020 solicitations will go up later today. But first, as is traditional, we get a chance to Frankenstein those that have already been

Man, this feels like writing one of those Marvel future printing stories. Just... from Image Comics. We start with Spawn #300 getting a fourth printing

The Absolute Carnage trade paperback by Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman was solicited as collecting Absolute Carnage #1-5 and at 176 pages, would cost

It is fair to say that after Brian Bendis joined DC Comics, brought with him his creator-owned Jinxworld series, took over the Superman and Action Comics

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a semi-weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but (mostly) every Friday and planned to coincide and cover 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

Here's a few covers coming for Final Order-Cut Off this weekend and beyond.... UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY #2, B cover by Francis Manapul RED MOTHER #1 FOC cover