Recently Bleeding Cool ran a missive from Roy Thomas, regarding Captain Marvel and Avengers Endgame. His collaborator on the Kree/Skrull storyline which
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Marvel Comics has only sent three comic books back to the printers for second prints after they have sold out from the publisher and distributor – though
A few more twists to upcoming solicits from Marvel Comics, as editors bring on other artists to help get books out of the door on time. Avengers #12 will
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 Poison Ivy Death
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
It's been threatened. It's been feared. It was mentioned in passing by Booster Gold in Heroes In Crisis #2. It was teased in the suggestion that Harley
Cullen Bunn writes a commentary on the recently released Vampirella Vs Reanimator #1 from Dynamite. Hey, folks! Cullen Bunn here! I’ve been asked to give
Mike Armstrong joined Reed Exhibitions as an Exhibitor Marketing Consultant in October 2008. Ten years later then made him a Vice President. He came to
Wow Comix in the north of England, with two stores in Greater Manchester, one in Sale and another in Stockport. Not so much a chain as a link. Well, as of
Black Hammer is a comic book franchise created by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston and published by Dark Horse Comics. This shared superhero universe tells
Three comic books going to second printing - Heroes In Crisis #2 (though the first issue is still available in first printing), The Green Lantern #1
DC Comics is making the launch of Brian Michael Bendis, David F. Walker and Jamal Campbell's new series for the Wonder Comics imprint returnable to
Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for January 2019 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them – but you won’t have seen most of
In 2015, DC Collectibles issued this statue based on Ant Lucia's designs of the Joker and Harley Quinn reprising the famous V-J Day kiss. It was so
Catwoman #7, initially solicited with artwork by Joelle Jones and Elena Casagrande, has now dropped Jones (though she is still the writer on the
Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. This is the funniest joke in The Batman Who Laughs,
Batman Creature Of The Night is a prestige mini-series that has been a long time coming from Kurt Busiek and John Paul Leon. The first issue came out over
In Batman Damned we saw some rewriting of the lives of Bruce Wayne's parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne. His parents were shot in Crime Alley, their deaths
During the summer, just after San Diego Comic-Con, Bleeding Cool's Mark Seifert began what would be a curtailed series, Marvel Declassified, looking at
In Watchmen, the reason that there aren't any superhero comic book being published in the eighties is explained away that real-life superheroes had a
Valiant Comics has been tweeting out a few teasers in recent days. This bottle of wine. And this sword. Under the label #ValiantClassified. Now they have
Free Comic Book Day is on May 4th, 2019. But the fifty (ish) titles that will be given away will be announced next week, on the Free Comic Book Day's
Batman doesn't use guns. Not unless something really bad has happened. In the Batman comics that has been explained as a consequence of his parents being
At the beginning of the year, Valiant Entertainment had an Editor-In-Chief in Warren Simons. Bleeding Cool got the scoop he was leaving after the DMG
Man, I thought Marvel were going to do this properly. But no... After running a serious of teases suggesting that Marvel was going to rewrite the history
Three Batman comic books concern the Joker today. And also concern themselves whether he is dead, alive or looks like him. Batman Annual #3 hardly does,
It's weird when related comic books suddenly seem to start telling the same stories. We went through a plague of doppelganger storylines at Marvel Comics
In last week's Batman #60, Commissioner Gordon became a bat man of his own, as he took a baseball bat to the Bat Signal, severing the police department's
Who wants to be a god? There is so much competition these days. Well, Nathan Grey fancies having a go in Uncanny X-Men #5 out today. And decides, with
Today sees the publication of Detective Comics #944, the first issue written by Peter J Tomasi in a role we first reported back in January 2018 and then