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The BBC has announced a bunch of writers and directors for the upcoming new Doctor Who season, starring Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor and showrun by Chris

It was the animated series of the '80s. Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, with Peter Parker's flatmates Iceman and Firestar and introducing many Marvel

DC will be announcing their November 2018 solicitations shortly. But they have put a few out there already... let's stick them together and see what kind

Eve Ewing is an academic, a poet, and a playwright -- and now the new writer of Riri Williams: Ironheart, a new series being launched by Marvel in November.

A Writer’s Commentary: Leah Moore on Sherlock Holmes: The Vanishing Man #4, out now from Dynamite. If you're a creator who would like to offer such an

This September, Image Comics will be running added variant covers to benefit their Portlandian neighbours, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), the

This is the original version of Brian Patten’s poem Where Are You Now, Batman? as published in The Mersey Sound in 1967. It has been revised significantly

Hari Conner is the illustrator who creates comics such as webseries Nyx in the Overworld currently published on LINE Webtoon under the name Hari Draws.

I'm in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne today, a city I haven't been to for 20 years, not since Alan Moore's 40th birthday recording of Birth Caul.

Batman and Justice League were hard to separate at the top. Some stores had Batman as bestseller, some had Justice League.

Welcome to another week's Lying In The Gutters. A chance to catch up with the most-read stories of the week on Bleeding Cool. Consider it a primer for the

Announced at Power Morphicon, in Anaheim this weekend, Diamond Comic Distributors will have an exclusive Funko POP vinyl figure of Lord Drakkon.

Venom's chest symbol was first seen in the 1980s Secret Wars series, the new Spider-Woman's chest symbol which was then picked up by Spider-Man when he

T'Challa is the name of the Black Panther. Thanks to the movie, everyone knows that. But what does T'Challa as a name actually mean? The Wakandan

Reddit is the self-styled front page of the internet. Folk post links, text posts, and images, voted up or down by other folk, organized by subject into

There are all sorts of songs associated with Cockneys and the East End of London that could benefit from some Punisher. And we might be getting our chance.

We gave you six Marvel Omnibuses for 2019 a short while ago -- and here are another six from later in the year. The Thanos Wars: Infinity Origin Omnibus

The Guano Guy is like Seinfeld with superpowers, a G-rated Deadpool, or a mix of The Tick, Batman '66, and Disney Cartoons.

The Firefly Loot Crate is late. Really late. It should have been out in May 2018. But is now arriving almost as they had rescheduled it... almost. Which

This is the preview of Action Comics #1002 by Brian Michael Bendis and Patrick Gleason that ran on DC media partner site Syfy a couple of days ago. And

First Marvel Comics released the "spoiler" cover artwork. Then they released the Uncanny X-Men artwork. And now they release the preview for Hunt for

A judge has placed a restraining order on former Stan Lee associate Keya Morgan to stay away from Lee for a minimum for three years.

We've been through this with the Beast over in Marvel's comic books. And now it's time for Batman in DC's comics.

While DC claimed three out of the top four spots, Marvel got five of the next six, leading to a 5-4-1 Marvel victory in the Top 10.

Steve McNiven was announced as the artist on the upcoming high-profile The Return of Wolverine series. And he has been showing off his

Landry 'White' Walker's writer’s commentary on A Clash of Kings #12, from Dynamite, part of their A Song of Fire and Ice comic book adaptation.

The upcoming Battle Lines variant covers for Marvel titles, ahead of the new mobile game's release in October, have undergone a lot of solicitation changes.

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

Regular readers of Bleeding Cool (and Lying in the Gutters before it, and All the Rage before that and The Gutter Press before that and Rich's

Best known for creating Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe, Cullen Bunn and Dalibor Talajic have a new original graphic novel coming from AfterShock Comics.