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Hotly-anticipated and almost instantly critically panned, Sony’s Venom has spawned a cascade of memes and a throbbing pulsating slash fandom which has

Our old friend Linda K. McLeod of Kelly IP, LLP of Washinton DC, representing Marvel Comics, is asking the US government for an extension to oppose a

Posted with permission of Redditor HydraVea, a before-and-after look at his diet regime, as seen through Black Spider-Man spandex costume. And this was

A spinoff of Melvyn Bragg's The South Bank Show, Opening Shot was an arts TV programme from London Weekend Television in 1993 aimed at a younger audience.

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Top five stories from yesterday: Chris Claremont Puts Batman

UPDATE: All gone now. Hope you were lucky... Okay, here we go. A bunch of Image Comics preorders have glitched on Amazon Kindle for free. You know how

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

I've been hearing more about how the reaction to the publication of Batman: Damned#1 is affecting other books, creators and employees at DC Comics. But

Troy Hasbrouck of Rebel Base Comics & Toys in Charlotte, North Carolina has put out an appeal, Bleeding Cool is amplifying it. He writes; Hey guys,

Yesterday, with a couple of thousand other folk at MCM London Comic Con, I saw what I was reliably told were the first thirty-eight minutes of the

Bleeding Cool has confirmed that a CGC 10.0 slabbed copy of Batman Damned #1 with the Jim Lee variant cover, signed by Brian Azzarello, Jim Lee and Lee

Bleeding Cool has been covering the upcoming launch of a new comic book/multi-media publisher Artists, Writers & Artisans Inc for a while now, since

Inside No 9 is the comedy horror anthology series by two of the League Of Gentlemen, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. Last night on BBC 2 they gave

David Avallone's Writer’s Commentary on Bettie Page Hallowe'en Special from Dynamite, out now... We start with the usual warning: here there be spoilers!

In Dark Knight Strikes Again by Frank Miller, we met Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman. In the recent Dark Knight III: The Master Race by

It was a curious decision for Reed POP Expo to hold both the MCM London Comic Con and the Paris Comic Con on the same weekend. But it did allow them to

Thanks to our friends at Fantha Tracks... the Hasbro Reveal Panel from MCM London Comic Con October 2018...

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. I have a cold caught from Joel Meadows at MCM London Comic

Many were lined up outside. Many tried the same for the panel yesterday. Many stayed through panel after panel just for a glimpse. As Critical Role proved

Ten Thoughts about Doctor Who: Arachnids In The UK, the fifth episode of Doctor Who series 11. Which really has one of the best wordplays as a title that

For the coming Sunday, at 7pm UK time... Doctor Who: The Tsuranga Conundrum Injured and stranded in the wilds of a far-flung galaxy, the Doctor, Yaz,

We already mentioned how the Critical Role panel at MCM London Comic Con went down. The voice actors-turned-Dungeons & Dragons players webseries that

For the Tenth Anniversary Edition of the Dark Knight Returns, they printed Frank Miller's original plot for the Dark Knight Returns. that saw different

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most-read stories yesterday Old Man Logan Finale May

Critical Role is an US-based web series produced by Geek & Sundry in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. It is

We mentioned a while back that DC Comics was to publish a collection of the original Nathaniel Dusk comic books by Don McGregor and Gene Colan that had

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool reported that the trade paperback Isola was getting an extra 16 pages for copies sold exclusively through Barnes And

Funko launched a number of exclusive vinyl Pop figures at MCM London Comic Con this weekend. Including this Ghost Rider version of Doctor Strange based on

There are 80-100,000 people at MCM London Comic Con. It feels like a quarter have to be in cosplay. Which means that this miniscule cosplay gallery is but

I had a lovely little chat with Billy Tucci at MCM’s London Comic Con. Where he was sharing art from his new Shi series, pushing the character’s timeline