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It wasn't that long ago that Stan Lee was suing POW! Entertainment for a billion dollars. But then everything changed. And a month after his death, POW!

The biggest difference between Star Wars and Firefly, at least thematically, is that Star Wars merges traditions of samurai storytelling with the American

Today's Avengers #12 featured the new Secret Avengers, the Agents of Wakanda, operating out of the Avengers HQ and run by the Black Panthr, the current

Metal saw Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo reveal a whole new reality to the DC Multiverse, both below in the Dark Dimensions and beyond the Source Wall to a

Today sees the publication of Brian Bendis' first Wonder Comics title, Young Justice #1, with Patrick Gleason. You may have had a heads up about a mention

I talked about getting an advance look at Naomi #1, the new launch title from Brian Bendis, David Walker and Jamal Campbell, over the weekend. In today's

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 The Big Final Page

On what would have been David Bowie's birthday - and the day before Bowie producer Jeff Rougvie's Gunning For Hits: Music Thriller comic is published -

Tomorrow begins a new arc of self-contained (ish) one shots featuring the deepest darkest nightmares of Batman. Maybe. And we have some newly announced

Comic book writer Donny Cates tweeted his plans for this week. Heading to NYC tomorrow morning for a TOP SECRET mini-summit for the biggest thing I’ve

All the major comic book publishers had signed up to allow their comic books to be made available with all-you-can-eat digital services from Amazon,

  Moriah Rose Pereira, born January 1, 1995, is better known as the YouTube star Poppy. Her videos, directed and/or produced by Titanic Sinclair are

When the New 52 rebooted everything, Tim Drake was never Robin. He was Red Robin. Part of Dan DiDio's plans to deRobin the DC Universe. Not everyone plays

We continue to follow Bill Schanes' adventures through his past as a Vice President at Diamond Comic Distributors, while walking round the finest graffiti

Comics publisher and reporting website ComicMix has been fighting a legal case for a couple of years now against the estate of Dr Seuss. It revolves

Bill Schanes has been entertaining us all with his memories of distribution days past. And this beauty predated his time as VP of Diamond Comic

The following article contains major final page spoilers for tomorrow's Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1. You can stop reading right now and come back

This month Marvel Comics have begun to publish a series of collections, celebrating their 80th Anniversary, with one book per decade. We've now got full

I grew up without baseball sports cards being a thing. In the UK we had football stickers from Panini, that was probably the closest thing, but you'd

Tomorrow sees the release of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man from Marvel Comics, and new series stepping in the spot vacated by Peter Parker, Spectacular

Bleeding Cool has been sent an advance copy of Captain Marvel #1, out tomorrow. And have been allowed to talk about it today #respecttheembargo. Now, this

Obviously, Brexit was won by geeks. But tonight's Brexit: The Uncivil War on Channel 4 starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Dominic Cummings and directed by

2019 is the eightieth anniversary of the publication of Marvel Comics #1 by Timely Publications, featuring the Sub Mariner and the Human Torch. It began

Sentient, by Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Hernández Walta and Steve Wands about a colony ship in space, the USS Montgomery, where an artificial-intelligence being

Tom King tweeted some art by Clay Mann and Tomeau Morey from Heroes In Crisis. Probably issue 5, out at the end of the month. Issue 4's conclusion saw

Batman #62 is out on Wednesday, by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, their first joint project since the end of Mister Miracle. Tom King Is. So Is Mitch Gerads.

There are big spoilers here for Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt #1. Why? Because today is FOC date for the new series by Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard, Mary

So, 2019, what's up for superhero comics from the big boys through the year? I am told that 'Connective Tissue' is said to be the watchword for American

Only a month after his death, Stan Lee's passing remains in people's hearts and minds, especially as Marvel Comics continues a month-long cover memorial

NFL SuperPro was a comic book series published by Marvel Comics, in 1991 that ran for thirteen issues (including the debut 'Special') by Fabian