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Bleeding Cool has been going on about 'connective tissue' being the big buzzword in superhero shared-universe comic books this year, but Dan DiDio was the

We're running through a lot of Marvel odds-and-sods for 2020 while we wait for San Diego to wake up. And here are some unexpected items coming through...

Okay, so this may have partially been my fault. Only partially. In February last year, John McCrea and Gerry Duggan announced their new crime comic, Dead

Yesterday at the DC Publishers panel, Dan DiDio talked about the future of MAD Magazine, stating that it was a tough choice for DC to move it off

Publisher's Weekly has confirmed what Bleeding Cool told you two days ago, that IDW has acquired Sunday Press Books. Well, Publisher's Weekly says that

We looked at a few Omnibus volumes Marvel Comics has lined up for 2020. But there are a number of other collections coming up from Marvel worthy of note,

Well, that's one way to pay for your trip to San Diego Comic-Con 2019. Sleestaks are creatures from the Land Of The Lost TV series from the seventies. And

The new series Strikeforce by Tini Howard and Germán Peralta spinning out of The War Of The Realms will launch in September, with the following

Marvel Comics Presents has had a stand-out storyline set across the decades by Charles Soule and Paulo Siqueira, Wolverine: The Vigil. narrated by somone

The House Of X is the new revamp of Marvel's mutant titles as two twice-monthly series, House Of X and Powers Of X, running twice-monthly for three

We looked at a few Omnibus volumes Marvel Comics has lined up for 2020. And here's a look at a few of the oversized paperback Marvel Monograph volumes,

  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

  Texas newspaper Hill Country News has reported that city officials at the Leander Public Library abruptly cancelled an appearance of comic book

Courtesy of Daniel Celko, Erin Wilhelm, Madeline Potts and Mike Sangregorio, here's a little look at some of the cosplay on display at San Diego Comic-Con

During the Q&A session at the DC Comics Publishers Panel at San Diego Comic-Con today, Dan DiDio talked about the previous lack of any such timeline.

There are always a few changes 'twixt solicitations and publications for Marvel Comics. Mind you, this week, while they are all sunning themselves in

Chuck Rozanski is a well-known name in comic books, behind Mile High Comics, one of the most prominent comic book retailers in America, with the largest

Yesterday saw the final issue of Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, with Tempest #6 providing the final cap as the book

Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk adventure game developed by MidBoss and released in 2015. Renamed 2064: Read Only Memories for the PlayStation 4 in

There may be more from Marvel Comics to announce later. But for now, the word that Captain Marvel #8, a sellout in stores this week is going to a second

It's alive... it's alive... Mike Sangregorio reports for Bleeding Cool from the IDW panel at San Diego Comic-Con that Zoe Quinn, video game developer, and

Wally West has been through the wringer at DC Comics. Deleted from existence as part of the New 52 reboot, reinvented as a new character to tie in with

Joe Hill, as we mentioned, is at the DC Comics Publishers Panel, and took the opportunity to announce the first titles in his Hill House Comics horror

DC Comics publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee, along with new creative hire Joe Hill, have been talking about the plans of DC Comics today at San Diego

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

Courtesy of Erin Wilhelm, Madeline Potts, Joshua Stone, and Mike Sangregorio for Bleeding Cool, over six hundred shots of San Diego Comic-Con 2019 Preview

It's the fiftieth anniversary of San Diego Comic-Con. And Image Comics has got a brand new booth - with images on all sides. Here's a look, from the San

Dark Horse Comics has already published a number of Stranger Things comic books, spinning out of the Netflix TV show. Next year, they will publish the

We saw what DC Comics was doing this way earlier today. So as San Diego Comic-Con kicks off, it's time to have a look at some upcoming very big books from

Tomorrow at San Diego Comic-Con, the very-much-alive and occasional Bleeding Cool contributor Michael Davis will be hosting his long-running Black Panel