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This is Two-Bad. One of Skeletor's minions in the He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe world. Two beings of different species sharing the same body.

It became the character's catchphrase in the too-good-for-kids Teen Titans. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzp5z_iGvqU And in

Stan Lee may have been the great figurehead of across the divide to DC Comics, referring to them as the Distinguished Competition. But, after he stopped

So The Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing and Joe Bennett was the best superhero comic of 2018 by far. It cheated though, by not actually being a superhero book

Well now. Jimmy Olsen. Superman's Best Friend, he does get up to some adventures, doesn't he? Including in today's Action Comics #1006 , dealing with the

Fan service: material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series which is intentionally added to please the audience. The term originated in Japanese,

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Five most read stories yesterday: Timeless Season 3:

The new series of Luther started on BBC 1 tonight. With Luther fighting a serial killer who strikes at random, while the local gang lord believes that DCI

Okay, so there are spoilers going forward, Lots of spoilers, lots to discuss. If you haven't seen Doctor Who: Resolution, look away.... now. 1. Location

Things to do in London in January 2019… if you like comics, of course. Exhibitions followed by events… let us know if we missed any. Exhibitions: Then

  News for the Nekopara series of visual novels about Japanese confection makers who open a patisserie with two catgirls, Chocola and Vanilla, to be

We mentioned that it was happening in this appeal for Marvel Comics to reprint Spider-Man Noir in the wake of the Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse movie.

UPDATE: Oh yes - there are Daleks: They told you there would be no Daleks in the new series of Doctor Who. They lied. They teased Daleks in the trailer to

Scott Snyder writes Justice League. Charles Soule writes Wolverine. Together...they fight crime. No, I'm sorry, my mistake, together they are writing a

You don't have to read any of the spoilers after certain comic stores went rogue with the shipping schedule this week... But DC Comics does invite you to

Spider-Man Noir, the character created by David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky and Carmine Di Giandomenico as part of the Marvel Noir universe in 2009, recently

It's Motor City Comic Con of Michigan’s 30th anniversary in 2019. And you know what happens to you when you hit your thirties, you start to become really

Nine Worlds is an annual geek convention held in London every year with a keen emphasis on diversity and accessibility. Originally held in and around

The first issue came out on August 1st 2018. The second issue on September 12th 2018. The third issue was scheduled for the end of October 2018. But of

Many comic book creators have been sharing their goodwill for the coming year on social media. Artist J Scott Campbell's seemed especially timely. Last

Ben Dunn of Antarctic Press announced this week a new project he's been working on with artist David Furr. He writes, For quite some time David Furr and I

Welcome to the mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And feel free to correct me every time I write 2019 as

The Miami Herald has an unusual front page headline yesterday, amongst the family tragedies, the White House and Cuba, and sport coverage which may have

Local news station 3News reports that two thieves broke into a storage unit in Las Vegas and stole over a hundred thousand dollars worth of comic books.

You can dig a little further if you are after spoilers for tomorrow's Action Comics #1006, after certain comic stores put them on shelves a little early

It is New Year's Eve. Which means that's the time for the local supermarkets to roll out all their Easter confectionary. Naturally, I posted this on

Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2018 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the

Stabbity Bunny creator, Richard Rivera, has been hospitalized in recent months, and there is a GoFundMe appeal to help his treatment. . Rich had a minor

You've waited long enough. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the comics industry. And every year we get told how wrong

They may not all have been solicited as such. But Bleeding Cool is here to let you know which comics published in February and March that will lead up to