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The Bat-Signal Popcorn Bucket in the Daily LITG 30th August 2024

The Bat-Signal Popcorn Bucket topped traffic again on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround.



Article Summary

  • The Bat-Signal Popcorn Bucket steals the spotlight in pop culture news on Bleeding Cool's Lying In The Gutters.
  • Check out the top ten stories, including updates on The Boys, Firefly, and new Spider-Man suits.
  • Discover other popular comic book stories and collector updates that made waves yesterday.
  • Reflect on past LITGs, from Todd McFarlane's Sandman art to Pokémon phenomena.

The Bat-Signal Popcorn Bucket topped traffic again on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years. Founded fifteen years ago, and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further fifteen years before that, Bleeding Cool has become one of the longest-standing and most well-known pop culture websites around. The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and possibly the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And maybe you just have.

The Batman Returns to Theaters Along with a Bat-Signal Popcorn Bucket

The Bat-Signal Popcorn Bucket topped the ten most popular stories yesterday

  1. The Batman Returns to Theaters Along with a Bat-Signal Popcorn Bucket
  2. The Boys Season 5: We're Getting In-Universe Final Season Updates 
  3. Mark Millar On All This Fuss About The Absolute Batman Logo
  4. Firefly: Jewel Staite on Why Series Endures; Fillion Being "The Best"
  5. A New Spider-Man Symbiote Suit For Aliens Vs Avengers (Spoilers)
  6. Yellowstone Teaser Doesn't Bode Well for Kevin Costner's John Dutton
  7. It's Morphin' Time with the Power Rangers Legacy White Ranger Statue
  8. Marvel Publish Star Wars: Last Stand To End The Galactic Civil War
  9. Today's X-Men, Past, Present, Future, Parallel & Crossover (Spoilers)
  10. Snag Up These Undead Beetlejuice Beetlejuice's Popcorn Buckets

And a few other comic book stories you might enjoy.

LITG one year ago, Catman, Catwoman & Feline Gentlemen

Wolverine is the Best at What He Does with Iron Studios New Statue 
Credit: Iron Studios
  1. The Catman Licks it Up with Iron Studios New KISS 1/10 Statue
  2. Rick and Morty Takes On Justin Roiland Issue & More Season 7 Notes
  3. The Transformers: The Movie 86-21 Ultra Magnus Arrives from Hasbro
  4. Marvel Comics Still Trying To Make G.O.D.S. Happen
  5. Zack Snyder Teases That Planet of the Dead Gets "Pretty Twisted"
  6. The Death That Justifies Batman's Take On the Gotham War (Spoilers)
  7. DC Comics President Thought Joss Whedon's Justice League Was Terrible
  8. Star Trek: Section 31 Production Update (For Now); Gets Name Change? 
  9. The Mark Millar Characters He Killed Off – But Not Eggsy or Hit-Girl
  10. Who Is On Whose Side in Batman/Catwoman Gotham War? (Spoilers)
  11. Savage Dragon and Blacula Join Spawn in Killadelphia Image Crossover
  12. Iron Man Writers On A Movie About An "Alcoholic Weapons Manufacturer"
  13. How Amanda Waller Takes Advantage Of Knight Terrors (Spoilers)
  14. Gotham's Violent Crime Down 75% Without Batman (Gotham War Spoilers)
  15. Antarctica to Become Ongoing Series at Top Cow
  16. Knight Terrors Changes How DC Folks Feels About Superheroes (Spoilers)
  17. Titan To Publish The Manga Prequel To Burst Angel
  18. Batman's Big Sleep – Today's Knight Terrors and Gotham War Spoilers
  19. My Mate Is A Feline Gentlemen in Yen Press November 2023 Solicits
  20. The Frankenstein Justice League in The Daily LITG, 29th August, 2023

My Mate Is A Feline Gentlemen in Yen Press November 2023 Solicits

LITG two years ago, Dream Of A Thousand Todds

When Todd McFarlane Drew Neil Gaiman's Sandman
Todd McFarlane's Sandman in Daily LITG, 29th August 2022
  1. When Todd McFarlane Drew Neil Gaiman's Sandman
  2. Yellowstone S05 Teaser: Time for The World to Get to Know The Duttons
  3. DC Introduces A Non-Binary Schoolfriend For Damian Wayne & Jon Kent
  4. Superman & Lois: Alex Garfin Clears Up Jonathan Kent Recasting Rumors
  5. Kyle Rayner Hispanic Heritage Month Variant Cooks Up Controversy
  6. Star Trek Day Trailer: Picard, Strange New Worlds, Discovery & More
  7. Marvel Comics Removes Masters Of Kung Fu Mentions From Its Website
  8. Yara Flor, Wonder Girl Revealed As Being Interested In Men (Spoilers)
  9. Teen Wolf: The Movie Mini-Teaser Debuts During MTV VMAs
  10. Todd McFarlane's Sandman in The Daily LITG, 29th August 2022
  11. Nat Gertler Brings The Factor Superhero Comic Back Into Print
  12. Giant Ants on the Moon and the End of Speed Comics, Up for Auction
  13. AWA Kills Bill Jemas' Lesser Evils Imprint, Cancels Emmett & Ginn
  14. A Look Inside Billionaire Island's Cult Of Dogs From Russell & Pugh
  15. The Mystery of Harvey's Rare Speed Comics #22, Up for Auction
  16. Nikolai Fomich's Flowers For Henry in CEX November 2022 Solicits
  17. Captain Freedom in the Rebooted Speed Comics #13, Up for Auction
  18. Grim #1 Has Sold Over 100,000 Copies… So Far
  19. When Your Graphic Novel Gets A Quote From Neil Gaiman On The Back
  20. 1976's Nova #1 CGC Copy Taking Bids At Auctions Today
  21. Comic Book Folk React To… Student Loan Forgiveness
  22. Robert Mgrdich Apelian Auctions YA Graphic Novel Fustuk to Penguin

LITG three years ago, Wrestling Has Gone To The Dogs

WWE Is Reportedly In The Dog House With Both Of Its TV Networks
LITG: something to do with wrestling, WWE
  1. WWE Is Reportedly In The Dog House With Both Of Its TV Networks
  2. The Walking Dead Rick Grimes Returns with threezero
  3. World Of Warcraft Dev Team Issues Statement On Game's Future
  4. Cowboy Bebop: Daniella Pineda, Lucifer Star Take On Faye Gatekeepers
  5. Letitia Wright Signed Marvel Contract For Many Movies (Spoilers)
  6. The Return of Todd McFarlane's Mr Bones to DC Comics Infinite Frontier
  7. Pokémon TCG: Evolving Skies Pull Rate Quest #3: Elite Trainer Box
  8. X-Men Magik Joins The Fight with Iron Studios Next Vs. Sentinel Statue
  9. Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem Trailer: Gloriously Campy & More!
  10. The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes In The Daily LITG 29th August 2021
  11. Jessica Drew and the Launch of Spider-Woman #1, Up for Auction
  12. Mister Miracle #4: The Source Of Freedom Review: Exposition
  13. Icon & Rocket #2: Season One Review: Enjoyable
  14. Kang The Conqueror #1 Review: Solid Timing
  15. King Spawn Takes Crown In This Week's Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
  16. GRRM and the Debut of Wonder Man in Avengers #9, Up for Auction
  17. What If Storyboarder Noor Rasoul Sells Graphic Memoir My January Heart

LITG four years ago, Pokemon and Kissing

  1. The Rarest Generation One Shiny Pokémon In Pokémon GO
  2. Mad Men: Welcome to the Longest Twilight Zone Episode Ever Made
  3. Supernatural: Jared Padalecki Tweet Like a Wooden Stake to Our Feels
  4. Marvel Boy and Hercules Are An Item Now – Guardians Of The Galaxy #6
  5. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Glenn Howerton On Season 15 Status
  6. Full A Mega Discovery Special Research Questline For Pokémon GO
  7. Doctor Who: In Praise of Peter Capaldi- The Meta Doctor We Needed
  8. McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Cyborg and Arkham Origins Get Glams
  9. Arrow: The CW's Arrowverse Never Needed Batman- It Had Oliver Queen
  10. WWE Smackdown – USPS Budget Cuts Come to the Firefly Funhouse
  11. Chadwick Boseman, Black Panther Star, Passes Away at 43
  12. Mark Millar's Plans For Jupiter's Legacy 3, Prodigy 2 and John Romita
  13. Boom Studios Really Wants Mega Man to be the New Power Rangers
  14. Alice Cooper and Neil Gaiman "Fiddling Around With Something"
  15. Free TARDIS in South-West London – Any Takers?

LITG five years ago, Justice League beat Doomsday Clock to bring back the Justice Society.

  1. Sorry Doomsday Clock, Justice League #30 Got There First – and Damian Wayne Joins (Spoilers)
  2. "Better Call Saul" Season 5: Bob Odenkirk – "It's Going to Blow Your Mind"
  3. Justice League Theatrical Cut Was So Bad It Made Zack Snyder's Cinematographer Cry
  4. When Black Panther's Costume Was Redesigned at Marvel to Placate Racists
  5. Could This Star Wars Theory About Emperor Palpatine Be True?
  6. The Starjammers Arrive in Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brisson and Rod Reis' New Mutants #1 #DawnOfX
  7. Naomi Arrives Early to Meet the Rest of the DC Universe, Today (Spoilers)
  8. Miles Morales Gets a Doppelganger in Absolute Carnage? (Spoilers)
  9. Is Jericho Playing Both Sides in Year Of The Villain? Or Did DC Make a Boo-Boo?
  10. Dude Thor Brings the Thunder and Cheese Whiz with S.H. Figuarts Figure
  11. DC's Legion Skin Colour Change Between Original and Reprinted Superman #14, Out Today
  12. LATE: DC Comics Cancels Orders For Shazam! #9, #10 and #11
  13. Jim Lee's Art from Legion of Superheroes, the Answer to Amazon Rainforest Fires and Jeffrey Epstein?

Comic Book birthdays today.

There might be partially slightly more of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

  • Robert Crumb, creator of Zap Comix.
  • Jack C. Harris, editor, writer, co-creator of The Ray and Annex.
  • Ken Bruzenak, comics letterer.
  • Rickey Shanklin, creator of Blood of the Innocent.
  • Craig Boldman, writer for Archie Comics.
  • Sean Von Gorman, artist on Toe Tag Riot, Pawn Shop, Liberator.

Comic Book birthdays today.

There might be partially slightly more of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

  • Jason Latour, co-creator of Southern Bastards and Spider-Gwen.
  • Tom Humberstone, editor and publisher of Solipsistic Pop. 
  • Bradley Bradley, grader at CGC.
  • David Messina, artist on The Bounce, Angel, Rom…
  • Sergio Rios of Gingerbread Man.

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@gmail.com.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and FP. Father of two daughters. Political cartoonist.
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