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Once upon a time, Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm stole a rocket ship and launched it into space. Whereupon it went through a cosmic

We know that big changes were made to Batman Damned #2 as a result of the reaction to Batman Damned #1. But it seems that some things haven't changed. And

In the Fantastic Four Wedding Special, out tomorrow, the lead story by Gail Simone and Laura Brady sees the bride-to-be Alicia Masters gets taken out be

This week sees the launch of the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse movie, featuring Miles Morales as Spider-Man. By a staggeringly huge coincidence,

 The Show is the new feature film currently filming in Northampton, written by Alan Moore and directed by Mitch Jenkins, to follow their previous Show

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: Ratched: Ryan Murphy

Two of Antarctic Press' biggest comic books from 2018 are going back to print. Rags #1 is getting a third printing, Punchline #1 is getting a second

It's all go today in comic books. No sooner is Greg Goldstein out at IDW, and Chris Ryall back in, and all the questions and answers that will bring, then

Roy Thomas co-created Carol Danvers as Ms Marvel - now Captain Marvel - with Gene Colan back in Marvel Super-Heroes #13 in 1968. The new Captain Marvel

Much-loved Canadian comic book store The Comicshop of Vancouver, British Columbia, has had a tough few months. For reasons revolving the transfer of the

J Scott Campbell is one of the best-selling comic book artists today - even though he doesn't seem to create comic books anymore. His Spider-Man story

We looked at the top ten and the November marketshare for comic books ordered by direct market comic book stores in North America in November 2018 - what

Vicious Creatures is a collection of horror comics that London comic book creator Sarah Gordon has been working on for a couple of years. Short, bloody

In cinemas in November 2019... Here's a teaser poster look at Sonic The Hedgehog, the movie. From the producers of Deadpool and The Fast and Furious. Yup.

We have mentioned ShortBox, a box of comics exclusively created and shipped out by mail every quarter, and published by Zainab Akhtar, on Bleeding Cool

In 2019, the British Museum in London is to put on the largest exhibition dedicated to manga ever held outside Japan. It was probably the perfect time for

The BBC's "Tolkien In Love" is available now for FREE, and follows J. R. R. Tolkien's meeting Edith Mary Bratt in 1908 at Oxford.

There is a naming structure to many Dalek stories in Doctor Who. Blank Of The Daleks. Including: The Power of the Daleks The Evil of the Daleks Day of the

In the UK we have just finished watching the Doctor Who Series Eleven Finale, The Battle Of Ranskoor Av Kolos. And watched the trailer for the New Year's

You know the way it goes. Bleeding Cool gets a story through frankly excellent sources, run the story, and everyone says it's fake news. Age Of Ultron

We've just seen the finale of Doctor Who Series 12 over in the UK. Which was followed by a trailer for Resolution, the Doctor Who New Year's Day Special.

At the beginning of the year, Bleeding Cool reported on US discount store Ollie's Outlets getting $2.5 million worth of Marvel and DC graphic novels and

This is the Top 10 Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are

Marvel Comics will be encouraging retailers to arrange launch events for Guardians Of The Galaxy #1, getting a new series by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw on

Doctor Who star John Barrowman is undergoing plenty of media attention right now, thanks to Britain's biggest reality TV show, I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out

Marvel Comics had never quite had the trade paperback sales enjoyed by DC Comics. Hell, in the year 2000, they did everything they could to actively push

Ed Hime, who previously only had two episodes of E4's Skins to his TV name a decade, but a long history of radio and theatre work, wrote last week'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: DC Comics Change

A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool published a list of Marvel Comics titles which would be honouring the co-creator of the Marvel Universe, Stan Lee, with a

The new Tom Taylor-written comics series Friendly Neighbourhood Spider-Man was announced with up-and-coming artist Juann Cabal from All-New Wolverine and