Cosmic Ray of Columbia is a comic store looking for a very special 'customer', dubbed “Pants Book Guy” after allegedly putting $300 worth of comics down
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Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top ten stories read yesterday: Jim Zub Says Thousands
When last we checked in, Captain America #12 had patriotically slipped from the 19th of June to the almost perfectly patriotically 3rd of July, even as
This was the original solicitation for Marvel Comics Presents #5, out in May. MARVEL COMICS PRESENTS #5 CHARLES SOULE, CHRIS CLAREMONT & MORE (W)
When Marvel Comics solicited the massively oversized hardcover collection of Jim Lee's X-Men comics as Jim Lee XXL, they gave a relatively reasonable
The actual amount of creative input Bob Kane had into the creation of Batman has been up for dispute for some time. Indeed, the image used on this
Advanced Graphics is creating a bunch of standees based on the characters revealed in Avengers: Endgame so far, in their funky new space suits... in fact,
Next week, we’ll get to see what a select few comic shop retailers at ComicsPRO have already seen in Brian Azzarello’s first project since Batman: Damned,
In 2013, DragonCon co-founder and previous co-owner Ed Kramer pled guilty to three counts of child molestation and was sentenced to twenty years, with the
Clear line painter Carl Stimpson has returns to the gallery space at Orbital Comics that won it that Eisner, for his new exhibition – More Instant Mash!
Rob Potchak is putting out a new comic book called The X-Liefelds #1, his latest parody being published by Keenspot for July. The premise is, while Rob
The DC Year Of The Villain 25 Cent Comic has received a little cover text, just to give us more of an indication where this is going... 'The Most
Today sees the launch of BBC Sounds' new podcast mixture of sci-fi drama, environmental documentary and soundscape experimentation, called Forest 404. We
Right now, plenty of folk are beginning to line up for Midtown Comics' Grand Central store to open, with the first hundred people in line who purchase the
Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories read yesterday: That Ending of
A couple of weeks ago, Bleeding Cool mentioned that Shazam #5 by Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham had, like Doomsday Clock #10, slipped from the 17th April
This is how Batman #70 was solicited, beginning the Fall And The Fallen storyline by Tom King and Mikel Janin, leading into The City Of Bane by Tom King
Here's Andres Guinaldo's cover to Blade Runner 2019, the new comic book series by Michael Green, Mike Johnson and Andres Guinaldo, out in July. It
Jody Leheup and Nathan Fox's The Weatherman returns from Image Comics in June. And we know how it begins... with Nathan Bright the weatherman/secret agent
New York Comic Con will be making some changes for 2019. In a remarkably welcome PR move, they've chosen to announce these changes NOT in the middle of
Last year, retailers were rather surprised when a full order of a comic book arrived with no warning whatsoever. Die!Die!Die! by Robert Kirkman and Chris
Yeah, looks like we're doing this every month now. A Marketshare-Per-Capita chart. The usual marketshare shows how much share of the overall market a
Scott Snyder and Jorge Jiminez's Justice League are meeting their future counterparts (again) in today's Justice League #21. It has already been revealed
Leslie Sternbergh passed away at the end of February. An American alternative/underground cartoonist, living in the East Village of New York with her
Given the original schedule of Doomsday Clock, monthly with two gaps along the way, Doomsday Clock #10 was originally intended to be out in October 2018
Thanos #1 is out in three weeks. The new series by Tini Howard and Ariel Olivetti brings Thanos back to the land of the living, somehow, after his head
Captain America #9 by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Adam Kubert, Frank Martin, Joe Caramagna, Carlos Lao, Shannon Andrews, Alanna Smith and Tom Brevoort has, as we
Mister Mxyzptlk continues to kick it off in Justice League #21 by Scott Snyder, Jorge Jimenez, Alejandro Sanchez, Tom Napolitano, Andrew Marino and Marie
Captain America came knocking on the door at the end of Uncanny X-Men #14 warning Scott Summers of being manipulated by other forces. In #15, we see more
Don't you hate those articles that lead with 'The Ending Of xxxxxx Explained' as if a semi-intelligent person couldn't work it out for themselves just by