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Wizard World's next comic book-and-related show will be Wizard World Madison, with William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, Matt Ryan, Lisa Berry, Ruth

Marc Jackson writes This week I’ll be once again visiting The Lakes International Comic Art Festival in Kendal, here in the UK. This will be my third year

Coming in 2019 from Son Of Bigfoot director Ben Stassen and written by Gnomeo And Juliet and Mike Basset: Manager writing team Rob Sprackling and John R.

Welcome to the daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And it begins with some good news at last. Top five stories

Chicago comic convention C2E2 has shown off five new superhero mascots ahead of their 10th show in March 2019.  Chicago's own Ryan Browne (Curse Words,

Storytelling Across Media (SAM), the free, one-day symposium presented by San Diego Comic-Con on November 3rd for professionals and aspiring creators

The remade, rejigged, revitalised Harvey Awards, new for New York Comic Con announced their winners, down from twenty-odd categories to just six. The

Last week, we listed 492 'rare' variant comics that Marvel Comics was selling to retailers for the price they would have paid for a standard cover. We

We had Beta Ray Bill, Moondragon, Ghost Rider and Gladiator... Now we have Darkhawk, Nova and Phyla-Vell - who has been Quasar, Captain Marvel and Martyr

Anyone remember the War Wheel from DC Comics World War II comic Blackhawks? A gigantic wheel, spiked and heavily armored so that not even the largest

Valiant Comics' first feature film adaptation has been filming in South Africa for some weeks now, but not much has been heard or seen from the set

The British version of the TV show The Apprentice ran its second episode of the current series last night. In which Lord Sugar summoned the candidates to

A couple of days ago, Bleeding Cool reported on the theft of a couple of items at New York Comic Con. A cover to Savage Dragon by Erik Larsen from Erik

Marvel has sent a bunch of comic books back to second, third and fourth printings. And it seems to be Amazing Spider-Man and Venom where most of the

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Last week Batman #56 was one of the first to have this month's foil cover designs which have proved rather popular in stores. However while it is not as

Javier Fernandez of Nightwing, Doomed, Magneto and Red Hood was solicited as the artist on the upcoming Green Arrow #46 but it is not to be. Instead, he

Heroes In Crisis #2 by Tom King and Clay Mann was scheduled for October the 24th but has now slipped a week until October the 31st. Just a week, but it is

Nightwing #50 was quite the turning point in the life of one Dick Grayson. Published last week, and following on from the same week's Batman #56, the

More silhouette figures for the new Guardians Of The Galaxy launching in January from Marvel Comics by Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw are revealed today. We

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes, Hey Fandom! This week I talk all things Walking Dead Day, including our A Comic Shop exclusive

Batman: Damned #2 is coming. Honest. Once they've covered up one of two things. The second part of this Batman series for DC's Black Label mature readers

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

Here's the image for Guardians Of The Galaxy #1 that Bleeding Cool was first to show you last Thursday. And has now been all cleaned up. Now asking Who

Titan Comics has turned Rachael Stott's character design for Doctor Who, as portrayed by Jodie Whittaker, into a variant cover that retailers can order

Do you remember that episode of Star Trek: Voyager from the second season, Tuvix? In which a teleportation accident (yes another one) between Neelix and

  My attempts to interpret the Sage Force, one of the new forces in the DC Universe unleashed after the breaking of the Source Wall, as something to

Before the Secret Wars event, Marvel creators seem to have been told to use the 616 signifier for the Marvel Universe as much as they wanted, because

Circe, daughter of Helios and Perse is a Greek goddess of magic who imprisoned Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey and in some versions a daughter of the

Captain America #4 by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Leinil Yu, Gerry Alanguilan and Sunny Gho is published today. With such a famous political commentator now writing