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We mentioned Mark Millar's comments about DC Comics abandoning Superman's secret identity on John Siuntres' Word Balloon podcast. But he had a few things

Diamond Comic Distributors has informed retailers that several Marvel Comics titles that scheduled to arrive in stores with product to go on sale on

The Shazam series by Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham has been repeatedly delayed, resolicited and delayed again. Issue 12 was solicited for March by Geoff

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Here's the list of PR plans that DC Comics has told retailers that they have arranged for the release of new YA titles Anti/Hero from Kate Karyus Quinn

Senator Debbie Stabenow, who represents Michigan in the U.S. Senate, took time out to promote a new Marvel superhero Amulet from Dearborn, Michigan making

The Crimes Of Passion one-shot from DC Comics, scheduled ahead of Valentine's Day, that may possibly be reuniting Harley Quinn and the Joker, hits FOC

While comics writer Scott Snyder has had big successes with Batman: The Last Knight On Earth and Undiscovered Country of late, health issues with one one

January 19th sees the launch of Avenue 5 on HBO in the USA and on the 22nd on Sky One in the UK. A new sci-fi sitcom created by On The Hour, The Day

This Wednesday sees the launch of Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor Season Two #1, featuring the first crossover between the Tenth and the Thirteenth

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

The Weatherman Vol. 2 wraps up with issue 6 on sale on the 29th of January, FOC this weekend, and we've got a lovely variant cover from José Ladronn to

I have been told that there are a few tickets left for this, and asked (not by Kieron) if I would mention it on Bleeding Cool. Fair enough. Kieron Gillen

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Tonight, we got the second episode of BBC One's Dracula adaptation, based on Bram Stoker's classic novel, from Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue.

DC Comics solicited a reprint of their very first Elseworlds book, Batman: Gotham By Gaslight by Brian Augustyn and Mike Mignola, which spawned so many

Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity is a popular Black Label title for DC Comics but, as with many of them, it has suffered from lateness. With only two issues

Marvel Comics have let it be known that the upcoming X-Men #5 by Jonathan Hickman and R.B. Silva reunite will deliver a shocking story that will lead

A few changes 'twixt solicitation and publication for Marvel Comics tonight. New Mutants #9 out in March was solicited as being written by current series

Marvel Comics is sending four titles back to the mill this week for second printings after selling out. Avengers #28, Excalibur #4, Spider-Ham #1

Things to do in London in January 2020… if you like comics, of course. And live in, or can get to, that there London. Exhibitions followed by events… let

Jupiter's Legacy by Mark Millar, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty began as Jupiter's Children, until a trademark fight saw them rename the book Jupiter's

The legendary H.T. Webster may be known to the cartooning world in general as the creator of "The Timid Soul", Caspar Milquetoast, but for players of the

The Best Of 2000AD is a new publication launching in a US-comic book-sized 100-page colour perfect-bound format, reprinting classic 2000AD stories from

The Atomic Basement Comics and Creators Lab opened its doors to the public yesterday for New Year's Day - and New Comics Day - at noon on Long Beach,

Roy Thomas writes, courtesy of his manager John Cimino, Happy New Year everybody!  In celebration of a new decade, my manager and friend John Cimino and I

Bleeding Cool has learned that comic book creator McSmesh aka ‘Sage’ is working away on an extensive warts-and-all Louise Brooks comic book biography.

Dav Pilkey's last Dog Man graphic novel, Fetch-22, had a five million print run and a sell-out tour that rocketed him to the top of the Bleeding Cool

With Boom Studios variant covers becoming quite the sought-after collector and speculator items of late – from second printings to one per stores  – and

I mentioned in my brief semi-spoilery summation of the first episode of Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Sue Vertue's Dracula, which aired on BBC One last