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Last night, in London's King's Cross, Channel 4 unveiled a line-up of programming for the year ahead. This included airing a clip of Dan Reed's Leaving

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The end of January already? If we still wrote cheques I

If today's Marvel Knights 20 #6 reminds you of The Matrix Revolutions (and it really does...) then today's Justice League Annual #1 has quite the Pirates

So Captain America is suspected of the murder of General Ross in the current comic book series. To be fair, his parallel reality-version did just conquer

Peter Parker, Spider-Man has had an... eventful life. Saved New York, saved the world, saved the universe, travelled the cosmos, become a god fought in

In the animated movie Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur, the hypnotised Shaggy beats up an entire biker gang. In 2017, this clip had the Ultra Instinct

We have been told that Poison Ivy died in Heroes In Crisis. Harley Quinn mourned her, throwing a rose off a Gotham bridge. While seeking to avenge her by

We've had a theory running through recent months at Bleeding Cool concerning Brian Bendis' redefining of the roles of Lois Lane, Superman, Clark Kent and

It may be my favourite scene in the Matrix trilogy, where Neo confronts the Architect and is told that he is not the first Neo to make it to this point,

Bleeding Cool has pointed out the strange DC Universe incongruity that everyone seemed to notice that Heroes In Crisis saw Roy Harper die over in Green

When it was Northstar, it made front-page headlines worldwide. A decade later, Apollo and Midnighter also got their fair share. By the time Alan Scott and

Heroes In Crisis writer Tom King tweeted out... For the kind people who have been asking what my next new project will be, the sort of next Mister

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday Late Night Rumours

ABC has ordered a pilot, adapting the Oni Press comic Stumptown by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth, for their Tuesday evening slot. The Eisner-nominated

Take the Dynamite Entertainment preview from a few weeks ago, add a new preview (the day before it's published) and you have a twelve-page preview for a

Once upon a time, over forty years ago, Brian Bolland designed an advert for London comic book store Forbidden Planet. I found this version in an old copy

Once upon a time, many continuities ago, Jimmy Olsen was a Giant Turtle Boy, with special lizard powers. Every now and then it comes up again...but is

Not all copies of Marvel's relaunch of Conan The Barbarian #1 went on sale earlier this year. Some were kept back by Comic Sketch Art, which has

Bleeding Cool has pointed out the strange DC Universe incongruity that everyone seemed to notice that Heroes In Crisis saw Roy Harper die over in Green

BCCM Boarder Collectables, run by Val and Al Giplin, is a comic shop that has had a rather varied path; operating from market stalls, back bedroom, and

Earth is the last realm standing in Marvel's upcoming The War Of The Realms. But what happened to the other realms? Marvel Comics lays out what's coming

More Detective Comics #1000 exclusive retailer variants popping out. To follow the ones we ran here, here, here and here. Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau will be

Crossed is a horror comic created by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows for Avatar Press - the publishers of Bleeding Cool. A zombie-esque series, it sees an

You may have read a rather spoilery Age Of X-Man Alpha #1 article a few weeks ago on Bleeding Cool. You may have not. But with tomorrow's publication of

At the beginning of the new Doctor Strange series by Mark Waid and the gloriously beautiful Jesus Saiz, the good Doctor lost his magic. He tried to get it

So The LEGO Movie 2 is coming. I'm seeing it on Saturday. But before that, stars of the movie Chris Pratt and Tiffany Haddish will be opening up - and

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five most-read stories yesterday Scott Bakula

Last week, Bleeding Cool ran advance word of a meeting at DC Comics' Burbank HQ regarding a restructuring of the publisher. This saw a reorganisation

Robert Lee Beerbohm is an American comic book historian and retailer, involved with the rise of comics fandom since the sixties. A fixture in the growing

Andrew Wildman writes on Facebook, Recent painted cover by Clayton Crain for Venom Unleashed. Alongside my cover for Carnage Unleashed in 1995. Not sure