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It may be the greatest album title since Kirsty Macoll's Electric Landlady. But Megadeth's upcoming 35th anniversary ultimate greatest hits record

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: DC Cancels

Damian Hess, better known by his stage name MC Frontalot, is an Brooklyn-based hip-hop performer, web designer and professional geek. He was a musical

The Captain Marvel movie is out this week. But there are no-specifically Captain Marvel comics published this week. But that's okay, Marvel Comics have

Matthew Snyder writes more about the break-in at Invincible Comics of Modesto, California. And how one of the comics was recovered... When Sean Beck and

Mr Mxyzptlk was created by Jerry Siegel and Ira Yarborough as a mischievous imp from the fifth dimension in 1944, trying to trick Superman in a cartoonish

It's not exactly a surprise that Al Ewing likes to make his Marvel titles play with all the others - even those that Marvel has forgotten about itself.

This is the cover to Champions #3. Which, deals with the fallout of Champions #2. The one in which Miles Morales did a deal with Mephisto to save Ms

Bleeding Cool told you that Marvel was going to do one of its secret variant covers this week. And sadly they missed a truck not making it Meet The

Who fancies a history recap? No, not of the Walking Dead but the Ceaușescu family of Romania? Nicolae Ceaușescu was the general secretary of the Romanian

Apollo authors Chris Baker and Matt Fitch write for Bleeding Cool about their webcomic, Our Land. Why a webcomic? The simple answer: No one wanted to

We mentioned yesterday that the new Darth Vader comic book, Star Wars: Vader: Dark Visions #1... ...seemed to reflect the classic Frank Frazetta painting,

Doomsday Clock #9 is having a busy week. The unauthorised sequel to Watchmen published by DC Comics has had Donald Trump tweet out how much better he is

Batman in the Justice League. It's never going to be easy. Surrounded by demi-gods, when all he has is a grappling hook and a plan. And it turns out that

Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, is set in the near-future of the DC Universe. It had a choppy beginning gettibg the dates straight,

Of late, we have had an uptake in superheroic children of superheroes. At DC Comics of course. Fantastic Four really began this with Franklin, but there

Everything you knew was wrong. Doomsday Clock, DC's unauthorised sequel to Watchmen has been spinning the story of The Supermen Theory, that the US

Wolverine is back. Cyclops is back. Most of the X-Men are in a pocket universe living out the Handmutant's Tale (I'll keep calling it that until it

Today sees the long-awaited publication of Doomsday Clock #9 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen published by DC Comics.

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top six stories read yesterday: DC Cancels

The final pages of a lot of DC Comics titles are going to seem a little odd tomorrow, as they are taken over by Mad Magazine writers and artists telling

Tomorrow sees the publication of Star Wars: Vader: Dark Visions, the comic book that was hurriedly put together after Chuck Wendig was fired from the

At the end of last month's The Green Lantern by Grant Morrison, Liam Sharp, Steve Oliff and Tom Orzechowski, Hal Jordan, dismissed from the Green Lanterns

Young Justice #3 is out tomorrow, by Brian Michael Bendis, Viktor Bogdanovic, Patrick Gleason and a brace of colourists and inkers keeping the comic on

Tomorrow’s Marvel Comics titles comtinue running old Stan’s Soapbox editorial comments from the comics in the sixties, in tribute to the man. (Talking of

At ComcisPRO, Dan DiDio talked about DC Comics reducing the number of collections they publish. But initial signs indicate that the nature of the

With many comic book creators, you'd suspect this to be a joke. But with Tom King, it's usually deadly serious. Turned in the outline for my last 30

Tomorrow sees the publication of Green Arrow #50 from DC Comics. But it's not the comic that was intended - as it is the final issue of the series.

Here's a preview of Batman #66, published this coming Wednesday by DC Comics and drawn by Jorge Fornes, even as he dives deep into David Mazzuchelli, as

Tomorrow begins the Justice League’s journey to the Sixth Dimension, as set up in Lionel Luthor’s History of the Legionnaires Club in recent Justice