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The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has issued its end of year report, embedded below. They mention actions the nonprofit activist group has undertaken

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported that Doomsday Clock #8 had been leaked online, after it was published in Russia on the Madefire App. And that this

UK comic book chain store Forbidden Planet has asked Bleeding Cool to spread the word about an employee of theirs who has been reported as missing, with

December begins. The festive season is upon us. And there are more and more comic conventions on this weekend. Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The

This scene from the upcoming issue Doomsday Clock #8 may look a little on the familiar side. Re-prising as it does an image from the final page of

Welcome to Thank FOC It’s Friday, a weekly mailing list, similar to The Daily LITG, but every Friday and planned to coincide and cover the demands of

Cmci book stores will be getting a bunch of books for December 19th that they aren't allowed to sell. Instead they have to be kept back for the subsequent

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported on a large number of layoffs at Lion Forge Comics in St Louis, Missouri, as they undergo significant restructuring. We

Alongside the release of the new Into The Spider-Verse movie, Marvel Comics is launching a new Miles Morales: Spider-Man series. Issue 1 is out in a

Bleeding Cool reported on some serious restructuring going on, last night, at Missouri-based publisher Lion Forge. And that there are twelve people now

Doctor Strange #11 was solicited for February as a $5.99 comic. Slight blip there, it's still only $3.99. Doctor Strange #10 is $5.99 as its doubling up

Doomsday Clock #8 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank is published next week. The series, an unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, has been both a critical and a

The Richard Starkings series from Image Comics, Elephantmen, ended in December 2017. But he did also tell us that they would return in some form. And, we

Bleeding Cool mentioned that Marvel Comics was to run a tribute to co-creator of the Marvel Universe Stan Lee after he died earlier this month. Marvel

When the Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz mini-series, Extermination was announced by Marvel Comics, dealing with the fate of the O5, the original five X-Men

Two comic books out from Marvel Comics this past week have sold out at publisher and distributor level and have gone back to the printers for a second

Okay so it's 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 Cancels

At New York Comic Con, Bleeding Cool was first to report that Marvel Comics were promising a Skrully event for February. It looked as if it were a sequel

Tony Stark: Iron Man #7 was originally intended to be published for my birthday, on November 21st. Dan Slott is thoughtful like that. Sadly Bleeding Cool

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran a story about Topps suing the artist Luis Diaz over his parody of their Garbage Pail Kids sticker line - itself a parody of

Last year, comic book publisher Lion Forge Comics of St Louis, Missouri was expanding. In October they added 4 new editors then acquired comic book

Comicon has a preview of the upcoming Dark Horse comic book Call Of Duty: Zombies 2 #3. Just the kind of thing you might expect. You can read the full

Thanks to blogger Rikdad for his blogpost looking at the Heroes In Crisis series so far - will illustrations we've sourced to back up what he's seeing.

British publisher Hachette has been reprinting the old Marvel UK Transformers comics in handy hardcover volumes. But they came a bit of a cropper when it

The world has been covered in alien infecting water, part of a marine galactic invasion force. Drowned Earth. And the Kraken has been awoken. The Justice

Amy Chu has a Writer’s Commentary (along with her Interns) for Dejah Thoris #10, on sale now from Dynamite. She writes, Hey everyone! Your friendly

Jae Lee was solicited, again, as variant cover artist for Justice League #14. This is his upcoming cover for Justice League #13. Instead he's been swapped

After two volumes, DC Comics has opted to cancel the already-listed third Kyle Rayner collection.

Launch titles for DC Comics' young adult graphic novel imprint Ink and kids graphic novel imprint Zoom will be getting a sales bump from a new promotion

Wonder Woman #61 was solicited with art from Cary Nord and Mick Gray. But in their place - for issue 61 at least - will be Xermanico, otherwise known as