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There are the twenty-five best-selling collections or original graphic novels at Image Comics right now, as reported by the publisher, including physical

Clearly it's down to the presence of Torchwood in the town, constantly popping in and buying comics, books, CDs and DVDs to keep an eye on what the Doctor

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Ryan Haack writes, Do you sometimes wonder why you thought Christmas was so special as a kid? Why you spent Christmas Eve night sleepless and waiting for

Yesterday the Facebook page for comic book store Comic Book Jones of Staten Island, New York, posted the following; WE ARE SADDENED TO ANNOUNCE WE ARE

When Geoff Johns segued from Justice League to DC Rebirth and then into Shazam and Doomsday Clock, it was set to be the hard-and-fast near-future of the

Thanks to Bleeding Cool reader, Walter Lawson, for spotting this one. Picking up a copy of Red Sonja Birth of She-Devil #4... ...and, as he tells me,

James Tynion IV has been tweeting his plans for writing Batman in 2020, while getting on an aeroplane. My priorities for 2020. Batman is an action horror

Yesterday, the Facebook page of Dark Side Comics, of Chelmsford, Essex, posted the following; TOMORROW is your last chance to pop into the store before we

The Joker, the new movie from Warner Bros, is gaining far more controversy than anyone expected. Gun violence. Violence in media. Whether or not the

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported the news that Spawn #300 by Todd McFarlane and friends was the most-ordered comic in September, and the second

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Who - or what - is The Black Ghost? One of the more intriguing titles coming out via Comixology Originals' September slate is The Black Ghost - described

Show of hands: Did anybody expect that Spawn would end up as one of the biggest selling comic books of 2019? While sales have quietly been on the rise for

The day before New York Comic Con, Marvel Comics will publish the Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk one-shot by Al Ewing and Filipe Andrade. And people may

Steve Bissette is a comics writer, artist, editor, and publisher, best known for his work on Swamp Thing, publishing and editing Taboo, and creating

The Flash By Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol 1 is getting a new cover and new contents in a new printing, being rush-solicited through for FOC in a couple of

Bleeding Cool ran a first preview look at Marvel's upcoming Incoming one-shot for Christmas week. Well, it is also the prime candidate for comic book

DC Comics is looking to make more titles returnable for retailers, something they have made standard policy of late, despite the added costs and knocks to

A few more printing updates... Amazing Spider-Man #30, part of the Absolute Carnage crossover, is getting a second printing. As is Avengers #24, the first

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

Captain America: Sam Wilson - The Complete Collection Vol 1 was solicited from Marvel Comics in their December solicitations (and out in January 2020)

I wonder if Todd McFarlane's people had a word? Because it seems that the planned Marvel Zombies revival, dubbed Marvel Zombies Respawn it to be renamed

This week saw the publication of Harleen Book One by Stjepan Sejic, the first in a three-part series for DC's Black Label in a similar over-sized prestige

They may be teasing a marriage between Spider-Man and Black Cat in the upcoming Black Cat Annual, that simultaneously trolls the fans still annoyed about

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Well, we are not going to have to wait as long as we usually do for a Pixar movie. Jay And Silent Bob Reboot, the new movie from Kevin Smith, has a US

Disney executive Bob Iger's new autobiography The Ride of A Lifetime, looks at a number of contentious moments in Disney's history, including dealing with

Marvel Stopped the Presses to Remove Mark Waid's Captain America Essay From Marvel Comics #1000

It's curious to see the connections comic books can make. Mark Zaid, the lawyer representing the similarly-named Mark Waid in his defence against charges