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You may have first heard the words City Of Bane on Bleeding Cool - and that Tony S Daniel was drawing this Batman arc that leads to the finale of Tom

That silhouette gets around you know. It’s all part of the way of teasing, suggesting, tantalising, playing the game, encouraging speculation before

DC Comics July solicitations launch the White Knight sequel series, Curse Of The White Knight by Sean Murphy, the new Bendis led titles, Jimmy Olsen and

Bleeding Cool ran the news about Asterix And The Chieftain's Daughter, a couple of times, actually. Here's the video presentation from Parc Asterix we

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the demands of

Bleeding Cool has got the tipoff from a superior source that we are to expect a second volume of the comic book series that crossed over the world of

Matthew Snyder writes, Welcome to the ComiXology Bestseller List, your guide to see how well your favorite titles are selling digitally. Every week I'll

Corey Hart, Director of Sales at Image Comics has been talking to retailers about their current and upcoming promotions for Image titles. And they've got

We mentioned that a certain Angel #0 was to be surprise-published on Wednesday. Retailers are also being given codes from which they can order the

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

Archie Comics look like they are running another round of trademarks of late, and maybe giving away upcoming plans for the publishing line - or for

I'm taking a wee break in Paris for the press launch of the new Asterix volume... so any Parisiens feel free to give me a shout. Until then, welcome to

Comic book retailers have been told by Marvel Comics that they have delayed the release of War Of The Realms: Journey Into Mystery #2 and #3 to allow

Marvel is shipping free Mothering Sunday or Mother's Day promotional material to comic book stores, arriving for the second week of May. Stores will

We looked at one bunch of Marvel Comics titles that had gone to second printings earlier this week, but it looks like they have sent back another batch,

A few changes between solicitation and publication from Marvel Comics ahead of the FOC cutoff... Amazing Spider-Man #22 is listed as being drawn by Ryan

Yesterday I went to Parc Asterix with the family for the announcement of the new Asterix album, Asterix and the Chieftain's Daughter. And ended up having

An hour ago, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Peter Milligan and Mike Allred were bringing back the comic book superhero team X-Statix, for Marvel Comics,

Once upon a time, in July 2001, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred revamped the comic book series X-Force in a way that had never been seen before for a

So I am having a little potter in Paris - I've been here with my family for the launch of the name of the new Asterix volume - well, it will be the

Bleeding Cool takes another look at the US trademark courts and which trademark registration attempts Marvel and/or DC Comics may be taking issue with

Avengers: No Road Home has already seen Conan travel from his Cimmerian world to modern day Marvel Earth (watch for him in the Savage Land soon). And in

The movie Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse has affected all sorts of people in all sorts of strange ways. Such as Frank Cho deciding to draw Venom

Chris Thompson, previously of Bleeding Cool, and the man who helped see Orbital Comics win an Eisner Award for Best Comic Shop, left to become Senior

Last month, we reported on comic book artist Joyce Chin being hospitalised as she was flying in to Chicago for the C2E2 convention, and how her husband

When DC Comics published Batman Damned #1 by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, the launch title for the mature-readers superhero prestige Black Label

Let's run the tally one more time. Doomsday Clock #10 was originally intended to be out in October 2018 and it should all have been over by Christmas,

Absolute Carnage is the big Venom event coming for 2019 from Donny Cates and friends. And it is being collected in all sorts of secret fashions. On

Okay. Let's go with the psychology of all this. In Batman #68, Batman continues to be subject to dreams and nightmares of a most intimate nature, ezposing

I said we were going to talk a lot about Batman #68 today. Especially since it touches on the difference between Batman and Superman. There have been a