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A few days ago, comic store employee, Rachel of SoCal Games & Comics of Temecula, California, posted the following tweet. $817.21 of abandoned

Joywave is an American indie rock band from Rochester, New York, consisting of members Daniel Armbruster (vocals), Joseph Morinelli (guitar), Kevin

Much to the surprise of no one, Boom Studios Once & Future #1 from Dr. Kieron Gillen and Maybe-A-Doctor-But-We-Haven’t-Asked Dan Mora sold out at

At 4am my time, 8pm his time, Jonah Weiland, my former boss - and former owner - at Comic Book Resources confirmed the Bleeding Cool story, that he was

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

Do you remember when we had the great internet meme of Venom being better than Watchmen? With some people getting rather serious about it, and Marvel

This could be the worste timing, or the best timing, depending on how your marketing head positions itself. But Brandon Rhiness, Carlos Trigo, Przemyslaw

Dan DiDio looks to have had a fun time playing with his Kong doll at San Diego Comic-Con. If he didn't see the convention from a distance, and position

I only accidentally browsed into this one, but it was worthwhile. Paul Levitz, former president and publisher of DC Comics posted on Facebook in the wake

Bleeding Cool noted that Marvel Comics was putting together a 3,600-page slipcased box set of X-Men, dubbed the Children of the Atom Box Set. And now we

I have been talking to a tonne of people about DC Comics plans for the 100-Page Giant line of mixed reprint and original comic books, previously exclusive

Intern for the Kansas City Star, Nicole Asbury has followed up on previous reporting over comic book writer Jai Nitz, accused of sexual harassment earlier

Once upon a time, at a London comic book convention in 2012, DC Comics publisher Dan DiDio announced that an existing DC Comics superhero would be

Tommy Gun Wizards, the new series from Christian Ward and Sami Kivelä published by Dark Horse is going to Final Order Cut-Off today. This is Christian

Bleeding Cool has been curious over the place of Mephisto in the upcoming Marvel Universe, with lots of recent appearances in Doctor Strange, Champions,

Out this week is Heavy Metal Magazine #29 - the Industrial Issue. And Bleeding Cool has quite a few preview pages to look at... We begin with three pages

Marvel Comics have regularly run prequel comic books set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, usually written by Will Pilgrim Corona, the man who stands on

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

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran the story that the planned Wildcats comic book by Warren Ellis and Ramon Villalobos, based on DC Comics Publisher Jim Lee's

Often - indeed pretty much always - when a comic book is coming out, publishers run previews of the comic ahead of time, to entice people in. Often the

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

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

Clay Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, When you name your comic PREGNANT BITCHES OF WAR, you tend to raise some eyebrows. The first thing anybody wants to

We like to keep an eye on Jean-Marc Lofficier's Hexagon Comics USA line, European comics mostly written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, translated into English

For the first time, this is the Top 100 list of the most-read comics on new digital comic book reader Graphite which offers comics for free with ads, or

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The war of words between Boom Studios and Image Comics over bragging rights to the relative performances of ongoing series Die by Kieron Gillen and

Jude already ran a preview for Absolute Carnage #1 by Donny Cates and Ryan Stegman, out this Wednesday. But we've heard some people making the complaint

In the final issue of The Batman Who Laughs by Scott Snyder and Jock, Bruce Wayne got the triggered Batman Who Laughs within him flushed out through blood

Andrew Rev, the man who bought publisher Comico and Elementals in the nineties, looks to be starting up a new publisher, Terrific Production LLC, from