Josemaria Casanovas loves to do connective covers, and his current one for the Ultimate Comics line is going for a homage to the most famous of them, the Jim Lee connective cover for 1991's X-Men #1. Which has recently returned for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Valiant Universe. But he's not just reprising the […]
Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List. Absolute Wonder Woman absolutely dominated the chart, selling over twice what Marvel's Iron Man launch did, and is one of four DC titles in the top ten. Marvel has five with X-Men beating IDW's strong placement for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in fourth place. No. Title Publisher […]
Marvel Comics' January 2025 solicits and solicitations have dropped with launches for Deadpool/Wolverine, Ultimate Wolverine, New Champions, Sam Wison: Captain America, Magik, Rogue: The Savage Land, Cable: Love And Chrome, What If Mickey And Friends Became The Fantastic Four, Doctor Doom Vs Rocket Raccoon, Daredevil: Unleash Hell, What If Galactus Transformed Hulk, Rogue, Gambit and […]
It looks like One World Under Doom kicks off in tomorrow's Avengers #19 by Jed MacKay and Farid Karami with a killer cover from Valerio Schiti. As Doctor Doom encounters the Avengers and suggests that they be a little less like the Avengers and more like the Authority. Captain America is a little less parochial, […]
DC Comics announced a new line, DC GO, a series of original vertical comic books published digitally through their DC Universe service. Now Marvel is doing basically the same, but calling it Astonishing, with Astonishing X-Men, Astonishing Spider-Man and Astonishing Avengers. "Starting today, Marvel Unlimited is launching an all-new Astonishing Infinity Comics line, beginning with […]
Nick Fury of SHIELD, in the Marvel Universe today, is Nick Fury Jr. The Son of the original Nick Fury, who keeps getting turned into one cosmic being or another. And, also, to make sure that the current Nick Fury of the Marvel Universe is more visually similar to Samuel L Jackson Jr who plays […]
Marvel Comics have a bunch of panels or New York Comic Con next week, official ones announcing new projects and giving away free exclusive variant covers to be flipped in seconds on eBay, licensed companies such as Todd McFarlane, Hasbro and Magic The Gathering, who will be showing off their comic book-derived merch, Marvel comics […]
Writer Deniz Camp talked about The Ultimates #5 earlier this week, Marvel's best-selling comic of the week, albeit selling a quarter of Absolute Batman in stores. He posted, "Issue 5 of Ultimates is out today! First appearance of our Hawkeye, we worked hard to make them cool, different, and yet undeniably "Hawkeye". It was noted […]
Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List. And it's a huge presence for Absolute Batman #1. selling almost four times its nearest competitor, Ultimates #5, close behind Transformers #13, as Terminator #1 from Dynamite also gets a spot in the top ten. It's the only DC title in the top ten. however, with one […]
Babylon 5, Jeremiah and Sense8 creator J Michael Straczynski has had a fractious relationship at Marvel, where he had a well-received run on Thor, Fantastic Four and Amazing Spider-Man, that led to him writing the Thor movie, though this soured towards the end over the handling of the One More Day event that annulled the marriage of Peter Parker and Mary […]
Yesterday, I reported that Wolverine: Revenge #2 from Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo had seen its final issue slip from the 25th of December to the 19th of February 2025. But that is a mere pinprick of delays over what is happening to another Jonathan Hickman title, Aliens Vs Avengers with Esad Ribic. The first issue […]
Back in New Warriors #11 in 1991, a story Days Of Present Past by Fabian Nicieza and Mark Bagley, a cross-time caper gave the young group a taste of the infinite, parallel versions of themselves in different dimensions, part of the Forever Yesterday storyline. And which saw a parallel version of themselves as the Mutant […]
The Ultimates #5 by Deniz Camp and Juan Frigeri continues tomorrow with Tony Stark, Iron Lad, dealing with the fact that not all his attempt to put right what once went wrong, are coming up the way he wanted. On Earth 6160, Clint Barton turns down the destiny of being a superheroic athletic marksman archer, […]
The Marvel/DC Crossover Omnibuses have been delayed, but one has been delayed more than the others. The DC Marvel Amalgam Omnibus collection has even been removed from Amazon searches, though you can find it through Google, and the schedules have it now for the 31st of December, 2024, though "currently unavailable" to order. I have […]
Josemaria Casanovas loves a connective cover, such as this one he did for Marvel's Star Wars: Dark Droids crossover and then for subsequent issues of Thunderbolts. Well, it turns out for the current connective covers for the Ultimate Comics line, he's going for a homage to the most famous of them, the Jim Lee connective […]
Two very different-looking Avengers Assemble today. From both Venom War and Ultraman X The Avengers gathering all manner of Avengers together. How rude. Wolverine joined the New Avengers back in the day and has been hanging around ever since, on and off. Although possibly not as rude as Peter Parker is being over in the Venom […]
Two weeks ago, Bleeding Cool teased that Marvel Comics would be introducing an Ultimate Guardians Of The Galaxy to the Ultimates comic. Now it's all gone official, as well as the rest of Marvel Comics; January 2025 solicits and solicitations for the Ultimate line, as it enters its second year. "The cover reveals and synopses […]
When Gerry Duggan teased a new West Coast Avengers in his Iron Man series, we noted it might be one made up of reformed supervillains. The first appears to be Ultron. Marvel has revealed the identity of another one of those, the former henchman Chad Braxton, now known as Blue Bolt. "This November, the Earth's […]
Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List. And it's a mutant week; X-Men takes the top, followed by Ultimate X-Men, Dazzler and Avengers, with a lot of X-Men in it. The Absolute Power crossover Wonder Woman breaks up the pack until X-Factor comes along… Marvel takes seven of the top ten, DC takes two […]
We ran a couple earlier today, and Marvel released a few as news stories over the past week. But here are the first two weeks, plus a bit, of Marvel Comics January 2025 solicits and solicitations, with all the covers Bleeding Cool can muster, With X-Men, Namor, Star Wars, Spider-Gwen, Avengers, Werewolf By Night, Daredevil, […]
