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King Of Thieves is not the sequel to a Robin Hood film but a new movie about the Hatton Gardens raid from 2015, notable in that it was carried out by

Today is Batman Day. How do I know? Because DC Comics sent me a shirt. Or at least a branch of DC Comics who don't know they aren't meant to send me

Welcome to the eighth daily Lying In The Gutters - our week anniversary. A runaround of yesterday’s news on the site and what we might expect today. You

Bleeding Cool mentioned that Marvel was making a big thing of Daredevil #612 as a potential end of the series before a relaunch of sorts. And that this

Matthew Snyder writes, Welcome to the Comixology Bestseller list, your guide to see how well your favorite titles are selling digitally. Every week I'll

David Avallone and Dave Acosta have a few things to say about their recently published Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark #2. DAVID AVALLONE: As always, go read

Last week there was a bit of a Comicsgate howl of rage against a decision by Marvel to hire academic, writer and visual artist Eve L Ewing to write

DJ’s Comic Corner in St Catherine's, Ontario in Canada in a new full-service comic book store that opened this past weekend. Run by Joanne

No sooner had peace broken out in the which-is-better-Venom-or-Watchmen debate as Donny Cates and Alan Moore reached an accommodation on the terraced

Star Port, Lynchburg, Virginia's last full-service comic book store closed a few weeks ago. Located inside River Ridge Mall since 2014, the owner told the

Ali-ventures is a new comic book by Betty Draws debuting at Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds in a week. Ali-ventures is a 3-panel comedy comic that's

Morgan Albritton was an employee of Haywood Comics at 600 Haywood Road, West Asheville. Like a number of comic stores of late, Haywood Comics was closing.

Retailer attendees at the New York Comic Con Retailer Breakfast this year will be walking out with some sweet swag just for turning up. There will be a

Bamf Comics & Collectibles of Maitland, Florida, has just had its grand opening this weekend, after a soft opening earlier in August. Owners Enzo

Fantastic Four #1 from Marvel Comics was the most-ordered comic book of August 2018 in the North American direct market of comic book stores according to

Bleeding Cool understands the Rose City Comic-Con panel report below, by Ian Melton, occurred before Chelsea Cain had been informed by Marvel Comics that

“Starring as a character in a comic series I’ve helped create has to be one of the coolest things I’ve done. Charlie’s story has its roots in Scottish

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for October and November 2018 shipping titles. As ever, you may have seen some of them – but you won’t have seen

The first episode of No Offence series 3 aired on Channel 4 last night and the internet exploded. But not just at the big plot twist in the first act.

We mentioned that prestigious London comic book store Orbital Comics was hiring the other day. Well there must be something in the Thames water because

Welcome to the seventh daily Lying In The Gutters - our week anniversary. A runaround of yesterday’s news on the site and what we might expect today. You

Moon Knight #200 appears to be the finale of the series. It was solicited as an extra-sized issue written by Max Bemis with art from Paul Davidson and

Once upon a time DC Comics Publisher and President Paul Levitz arranged to hide DC Comics in Warners' Research and Development division, limited access to

The opening episode of series 3 of No Offence, Channel 4's cop comedy-drama created by Shameless and Cracker's Paul Abbott, is on air right now. And yes,

It was announced in July. A sequel series to the original much-lauded The Vision by Tom King, Gabriel Hernandez Walta and Jordie Bellaire. A new series

Another tick on the checklist. Getting pretty full now. Only the George Perez box has a cross against it. And that's because him doing the cover for

Marvel Comics looks to be ramping up for Daredevil #612. Which it describes thus - 'The whirlwind adventure of the fall ends here, in an oversized and

Marvel is sending Fantastic Four #2, Amazing Spider-Man #5 and Infinity Wars #3 back to the printing mills for second printings, all oit on the 17th of

Valiant Entertainment has announced that they have made their freelance Sales Manager Emily Hecht a full time member of staff, adding Social Media Manager

Someone just popped up in the Spider-Man Unlimited App game. Venom, with a new look. So, @Doncates and @RyanStegman, look who made it into the Spider-Man