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Written by Tony Lee, art by Rob Guillory... Twelve years ago, I had the idea for a comic series while returning back from the 2006 San Diego Comic Con. It

A major launch at this year's Thought Bubble Festival in Leeds is Grafity's Wall, a graphic novel that has been a year-and-a-half in the telling, from Ram

Issue #3 of the 100-Page Superman Giant comic begins shipping to more than 3,000 Walmart stores nationwide today, with all participating stores displaying

There's a lot of fuss about the upcoming Fearscape #1 by Ryan O'Sullivan and Andrea Mutti from Vault Comics. Not least from the comic stores who have gone

We've been very interested in the upcoming release of Gerry Duggan and John McCrea's upcoming series, from its initial launch, a look at the ashcan for

It may have been DC Comics' Heroes In Crisis that has hit the headlines. But, just as Brian Bendis wrote his own Hydra story in Jessica Jones which quite

So, not everything is peachy keen between Bruce Wayne and Damian Wayne (soon to be estranged), between Bruce Wayne and Jason Todd (he tried to kill the

Colour in comic books has become appreciated as a skill by the comic industry far more than it used to be. Partly this has to do with the technology and

We mentioned DC Comics' commissioned psychoanalysis of Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn and Booster Gold as a way to promote Heroes In Crisis.

We mentioned this in the Things To Do In London If You Like Comics article. But thought it may be deserving of a greater spotlight. Frazer Irving, comic

The Bodyguard is the British TV drama smash of the late summer. It has been the biggest scripted launch on British TV since 2006 and has knocked ITV's big

Welcome to the second daily Lying In The Gutters. A runaround yesterday's news on the site and what we might expect today. You can sign up to receive it

A bit of a change to DC New Age of Heroes title The Unexpected #5 in October. A change that was, it seems, unexpected.

Stanley "Artgerm" Lau writes of his variant cover for Catwoman #4, out in October.

Hey, Fandom! This week I talk all things Donny Cates. I can't help mentioning the coming Heroes in Crisis #1 and our Clay Mann signing.

DC Nation #4 is running Kenneth Rocafort's designs for characters of the Island of Misfit Supermen from Sideways, a stable point in the Dark Dimension,

This is John Foster Elliot. He is a screenwriter, musician, fantasy author, self-help author and psychoanalyst -- and he has been hired by DC Comics.

Courtesy of DC Nation #4, scheduled for December, our first look at the cover to Kelly Sue DeConnick and Robson Rocha's Aquaman run.

Amidst revivals of classic characters, dooming Justice Leaguers, and revealing the end-of-level bad guy, we also get this speech from Martian Manhunter.

New York Comic Con has released all their programming for their 2018 show. Here are all the comic book related panels for the weekend – just over a hundred.

For the last few weeks, Bleeding Cool has been stunned by the number of doppelgänger storylines that seems to be launched week in and week out, Mr And Mrs

Today's Thanos Legacy #1 is a rather serious tome. Aside from Cosmic Ghost Rider, bringing the madness, it tries to justify the previous claim that Thanos

Avengers and Justice League have been circling each other for the past year.

It's one of the superhero classic scenes of all time. One punch Batman.

The Walking Dead #183 by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard, Stefano Gaudiano, and Cliff Rathburn has been looking at the Commonwealth.

We've already seen one person pop up in today's Justice League #7, with all manner of portents of doom and gloom. And that was on the good guys' side.

Today sees the release of Cover by Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack -- their new series that will be impossible to find on eBay because of its name.

We've mentioned that Captain America by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Leinil Yu is the sequel to Secret Empire that Marvel Comics tried to avoid for some time. And

In today's DC Nation #4. we get a better look at The Green Lantern by Grant Morison and Liam Sharp.

Today's DC Nation #4 has the very tasteful idea of presenting a number of DC characters, promising one of them will be murdered, and offering odds on who