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Fantastic Four #1 topped the charts, but it was closely followed by Sandman Universe #1 -- and in some stores, Sandman Universe beat FF.

A open meeting was held at Nine Worlds this afternoon in Hammersmith, London about the show's future after this weekend.

Welcome to Lying in the Gutters, Bleeding Cool’s weekly runaround of the most-read stories on the site through the week. And this week, the meta-fictional

We had the July 2018 marketshare and top ten on Friday but now we get the bigger picture... TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products

Courtesy of Simon Russell, as posted to Awesome Talk on Facebook (and used with permission). As seen in WH Smiths yesterday. The Beano Christmas Special

Ronda Pattison writes, I wasn't supposed to work in comics. I read and enjoyed comics, as most kids do, but I wasn't obsessed. When a comic store opened

Yesterday, John Harris Dunning talked to Matt Fitch and Chris Baker about Apollo. Today they swap places, Matt Fitch and Chris Baker talk to John Harris

Bleeding Cool has had quite a decent hit rate when it comes to DC Comics' mature readers superhero line Black Label. Here is the latest.

The variant cover to Jenny Frison's Wonder Woman #52 that retailers had ordered looked very different from the one DC is pushing now.

Unusually, three big books top this week's Advance Reorders, starting with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips's 'My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies'.

It is the geekiest of geekiest worlds, finding the tiniest details to obsess over but simultaneously expanding the appeal to as many people as possible.

John Harris Dunning asks questions of Matt Fitch and Chris Baker, about their new comic, Apollo, with Mike Collins from SelfMadeHero.

All is well again with Fantastic Four's return. It’s fitting that Marvel’s first family would be the ones to deliver Marvel’s first No. 1 spot this year.

Ray Chou writes: Last time I wrote to Bleeding Cool in 2015, I detailed five lessons we learned from our first year in comics. Since then, we’ve continued

At last year's Black Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Wayne Brady and Michael Davis announced a new planned comic book and multi-media line, Level Next. With

Phoenix Comicon parent company makes 8 redundancies before their slew of 2019 shows, as well as naming new employees following exits.

Supers (Book One) is the first of a series of superheroic graphic novels by French creators Frédéric Maupomé and Dawid, being published from November by

Nine Worlds is in full swing at the Novotel London West hotel in Hammersmith. But before the show began, there were thirty hours to transform the place.

Batman #50 will be one of the best-selling comics of the year. But with Marvel sporting an Amazing Spider-Man #800 and 126 titles to DC's 97, it was

Ah.. Nine Worlds - the only show I can anticipate ever hearing one person explain, in public, to two others about A/B/O slashfic. And how it brings new

So this seems to have started happening on Twitter. People who promote their campaigns with an automatically generated Kickstarter shortlink have noticed

Last night we mentioned that Ron Lim would be joining Mark Bagley on Venom: First Host but there a few more creative changes coming down the pipe, between

Seven used to be the magic number when it came to Marvel Comics and exclusive retailer variants. In September, retailers had eight opportunities to get

Heading on the bus from my house to Hammersmith for Nine Worlds London Geekfest 2018. I popped in last night for some cheese and company and to pick up my

Venom: First Host is a weekly mini-series running in September, telling the story of Venom's First Host - before Eddie Brock, before Peter Parker and

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

ProPublica has published an article looking at the activities of Marvel chair Ike Perlmutter as an advisor to the Department of Veteran Affairs.

Brandon Dayton's Green Monk has a new volume out in September from Image Comics. Will Final Order Cut-Off coming on Monday, this seems a perfect time to

Here's an update (of sorts) on those 10 competing/overlaping panels at London's Nine Worlds Geekfest on Friday at 11:45 am

The Harvey Awards 2018, to be announced at this year's New York Comic Con, revealed their 30th anniversary nominees and new categories.