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Batman doesn't kill. That's a credo from the character from round about Day Two. He doesn't carry a gun, he doesn't kill, he saves the lives of people who

Today sees the Fantastic Four go up against Galactus again. Or at least they would if they could, it turns out that Doctor Doom wants all the glory for

So, Superboy is back. Jonathan Kent returns to Earth in Superman #7, out today. He has been gone for seven years, now aged seventeen and now sports a

Once upon a time, in Amazing Spider-Man #800, former host of the Venom symbiote, Flash Thompson, died. As Anti-Venom, in battle against the Red Goblin,

A new image for an upcoming cover of Doomsday Clock, Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, appears in DC Comics titles today,

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most read stories yesterday Jonathan Kent,

This week, 32,000 Los Angeles teachers went on strike, leaving 600,000 children without classes. Negotiations between the United Teachers Los Angeles

There's that scene in the Dark Knight Returns that sticks out, Batman berating himself, counting out the lives of those who have died because he let the

This was the promised third printing cover of Fearscape, the up-itself new comic book about a writer writing about a writer written by a writer. With lots

As discovered by Coliseum Of Comics, the largest comics and collectibles retailer in the Southeast of the USA, with stores in Northeast and Central

This April, ahead of the release of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel will reprint classic Marvel comics in some way related to the movie for a dollar each as

Like the current Captain America series, Black Widow works as a sequel to Secret Empire--just a really delayed one. And the first issue by the Soska

2000 AD didn’t get into Free Comic Book Day this year (aside from their Funny Pages title reprinting old IPC humor strips) but, true to form, that doesn’t

As seen in a preview of Superman #7, published tomorrow, Jonathan Kent has returned to Earth from his trip away with his revived-by-Manhattan-transfer

I think someone's been reading Ed Piskor's X-Men: Grand Design and as the connective tissue gets unraveled, tomorrow's Invaders #1 looks to rewrite the

Tomorrow sees the publication of Uncanny X-Men #10 (concluding the Disassembled story) with all manner of mutants pitted against a Nate Grey-possessed

Tomorrow's Marvel Comics Presents #1 is really heavy. Or rather, the Namor story is. The Wolverine story uptop sees soldier Logan fighting in World War

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most read stories yesterday Activision Blizzard

It was solicited as "The Last Cold Case", but the four-part Batman/Flash crossover written by Josh Williamson crossing over with Tom King and Clay Mann's

Once upon a time, there was a weekly kids comic called Battle, featuring tales of war (mostly from World War II) published by IPC. Originally Battle

Last year, the international Walker Stalker/Heroes And Villains/Fan Fest conventions, with shows across the USA and Europe, announced two new shows:

The Schomburg Center’s Annual Black Comic Book Festival has announced its full schedule for their seventh event, kicking off this Friday with a free

Erik Burnham has a writer's commentary on Vampirella/Dejah Thoris #4 from Dynamite, out now. Hey, everybody! Erik Burnham here, got a little bit of

President Barack Obama read Spider-Man and Conan comics when he was younger, and could still quote from them. So when he became President, marking the

Aspen Press is often first out of the gate with solicitations and so it is for April shipping comic books. Just the one for that month though... and just

The four-issue Marvels Annotated miniseries is a reissue of the original Marvels comic book series by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross that will

Comic book retailer and Bleeding Cool regular Dennis Barger of Detroit's Wonderworld Comics shares an exchange with an eBay seller. In early December, he

Bleeding Cool has been looking at the legal trademark fights that Marvel Comics has been going through to defend their Wakanda trademark, after the

Diamond Comic Distributors had an Infinity Gauntlet cookie jar in stock last year. It sold out fast in the wake of the Avengers: Infinity War movie. Now,

London-based graphic novel publisher SelfMadeHero has released its run of graphic novels for the spring of 2019. And they lead with a big name with a big