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If you look on Google Maps on Wells Street in London's West End, you'll see the Cartoon Museum listed. A jewel in the crown of the comic art scene, with

The War Of The Realms. Marvel's upcoming series. If you just want the main story, you can buy the series, and probably Avengers and Thir, alsowritten by

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 Comics Cancels

Bleeding Cool told you that Marvel is giving promotional items to comic stores to help sell the launch of the upcoming War Of The Realms event comic,

A fair few solicitation changes are coming to Marvel's upcoming titles. Some big names jumping about, Gerardo Sandoval off Cosmic Ghost Rider with issue 2

As Marvel Comics create more and more variant covers, so the demand for each one becomes less and less. So, to make the numbers up, they have to add more

Image Comics are sending two of their recent bestsellers back to the printers. Skottie Young and Jorge Corona's Middlewest is getting a third printing for

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Naturally, DC Comics are promoting their Midnight Releases at comic shops for Detective Comics #1000 on Tuesday, March 26th. Those participating can also

DC Comics seems to have been running a bulldozer through their Big Books schedules of late. At least these Big Books having their orders cancelled will be

It’s Thursday, so you know what that means? Another delay to Doomsday Clock #9, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank,

When DC Comics published Batman Damned #1 by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, the launch title for the mature-readers superhero prestige Black Label

I can't help but feel this is partially my fault. Last August, Bleeding Cool interviewed the amazing Mark Russell about a work in progress, Second Coming

Writer Zack Kaplan, of Eclipse and Port of Earth is to be the new co-writer of DC Comics' Nightwing series, replacing Eric M Esquivel as

Is there anything Batman can't do? No, of course there isn't. Batman is the best there is at what he does and what he does okay that's the other guy. But

Skottie Young is a real favourite internally at Marvel Comics. Naturally, his cartoon skills opened up a whole new market for the publisher, as well as

As described by the FBI in a press release last month describing recent such incidents, Swatting is “the action or practice of harassing a victim by

Of late, Bleeding Cool has been hearing the rumour that Marvel Comics is moving to the West Coast. Going cheek-by-jowl in West Hollywood with the rest of

Here at Bleeding Cool, we are a prudish lot. We avert our eyes at every Frank Cho cover, cover the table legs of chairs lest they inflame lustful thoughts

The second printings have only just arrived. But it seems that Conan The Barbarian from Marvel Comics is seeing its first and second issues from Jason

Kevin Smith is a well-known writer, director, producer, actor, reality show host, podcaster and stand-up comedian. Today, he has a new comic book out,

For a little while, Bleeding Cool has been trying to point out that Superman, knowing all he does, really shouldn't have let his

  In the run-up to Detective Comics #1000, Peter Tomasi and Doug Braithwaite have been telling a story in which Batman has been personally targeted.

There was a time that Nick Spencer got a lot of criticism from all sides of the internet for turning Captain America into a fascist. Because that's a

Bleeding Cool has been pointing out how Barry Allen seemed to be blissfully unaware of the death of Wally West in Heroes In Crisis for months. While

Today sees the publication of Wonder Twins #1 by Bleeding Cool crush Mark Russell and Stephen Byrne, who we quite like as well. Part of Brian Bendis'

Dial H For Hero is the new series from Brian Bendis‘ Wonder Comics imprint at DC Comics. Written by Sam Humphries, drawn by Joe Quinones, a preview of the

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 Masters of the

Dr. Manhattan is afraid enough that Superman will kill him that he brought Jor-El back from the dead to (maybe) stop him in Doomsday Clock, the

These are Francesco Mattina's exclusive covers of Detective Comics #1000 for Midtown Comics. $18 for the first, $25 for the second. With a slightly