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Batman's New Villain, Rhetoric, In The Daily LITG, 15th September 2026

Batman's New Villain, Rhetoric was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

Batman's New Villain, Rhetoric was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years. Founded seventeen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further seventeen 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 runaround the day before and possibly the day ahead. In summary, you can sign up to receive Lying In The Gutters as an email, below. And maybe you just have.

Batman's New Villain, Rhetoric and the most popular stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday

1. Rhetoric, The New Batman Villain, Created By Sharif Robbins-Brinson
2. Lanterns S01E05/DCU Notes: More Kane/Gotham, Abin Sur, Guy Gardner
3. Star Trek: Shatner on "The Cage" Pilot Issues, Getting Second Chance
4. Fans Are Very Excited For The Return Of Marvelman This Month
5. DC Vertigo, Black Label, Absolute, YA & Next Level NYCC Announcements
6. Dexter: Resurrection Season 2 Time Jump: Dexter's Feeling His Age
7. Absolute Batman Crossover News And More Retailer Exclusives At NYCC
8. Comic Store In Your Future: Sweet Sixteen Years In Business
9. Inside The Absolute Batman Day Comic, Batman Of Two Worlds (Spoilers)

And a few other stories I wrote yesterday…

• Joe Illidge Adapts Jonathan Conyers' I Wasn't Supposed To Be Here
• DC Vertigo: Fanatic And Necretaceous… Will We Learn More At NYCC?
• The Daily Show's Josh Johnson Goes To San Francisco's Comix Experience
• Acme Novelty Library #21 In Drawn & Quarterly November 2026 Solicits
• Dark Horse's D&D, Magic, Star Wars, Manga & Wanhwa NYCC Announcements
• Mark Bagley Original Art Sketch Cover From DNX #1 Blind Bag For $1000
• DC NYCC Announcements in The Daily LITG, 14th September 2026

LITG one year ago, Captain America & Wonder Woman Fighting in WW2

1. Marvel/DC Crossover Has Captain America & Wonder Woman Fighting in WW2
2. Ryan North & Ryan Stegman's New Amalgam For Deadpool/Batman (Spoilers)
3. Tom Brevoort Says "Substack, No More!"
4. Which Side Was Wonder Woman On In Marvel's Civil War? (Spoilers)
5. Deadpool/Batman #1 Preview: The Ultimate Guest Appearance Sales Boost
6. DC Comics Pulls The Gotham Sampler For Batman Day Now, As Well
7. Two and a Half Men: Jon Cryer Compares Sheen Situation to Kim Jong-il
8. The Bat-Man: Second Knight #1 Preview: Gotham's Noose Nightmare
9. Iconic Dave Cockrum X-Men #150 Original Cover Surfaces After 40 Years
10. Star Trek/Doctor Who Crossover in The Daily LITG, 13th September 2025
11. The First Cat in Space & Baby Pirate's Revenge Gets 150,000 Print Run
12. World Of Click: Besties: Set Sail Graphic Novel Gets 100,000 Print Run
13. Taking A Filippo Loreti Batmobile Watch Around Batman's London

LITG two years ago, Rogue In The Savage Land

1. Marvel Goes Full Fan Service With Rogue: Savage Land Comic
2. American Horror Stories Returns for 5-Episode Huluween 2024 Event
3. Waller Moved After Peacemaker "For a Variety of Reasons": James Gunn
4. A New Book Called "Stan Lee Lied", Claims That Stan Lee… Lied
5. Doctor Who: It's Jodie Whittaker/Jo Martin Team-Up Time, Big Finish
6. Svengoolie's Halloween BOO-Nanza! Offers MeTV Month of Tricks & Treats
7. Superman & Lois Final Season Images: Lois/Clark, Lex/Amanda & More
8. VP Kamala Harris on Gun Control, Economy & More in New ABC Interview
9. Wolverine #1 Tops The Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List
10. Frank Miller Is Falling In Love On The Path To Hell With This Cover
11. Peacemaker: It's Harcourt's "Birthday"! "A Heap of Mess" For Season 2
12. Charles Soule & Ryan Browne Follow 8 Billion Genies, With Lucky Devils
13. Shiver SuspenStories EC Comics in Oni Press December 2024 Solicits
14. The Completely Blank Comic Book Goes Back To "Print" Again
15. Stan Lee Lied Again And Again in The Daily LITG, 14th September 2024

LITG three years ago, Bill Willingham (Twice)

1. Bill Willingham Declares Fables is Public Domain, What Will DC Do Now?
2. Square Enix Lights Up the Night with Kingdom Hearts Keyblade Replicas
3. Bill Willingham Says He Has "Fired DC Comics" Over Fables
4. That's One Way To Avoid A Second Season, Marvel Kills Off Moon Knight
5. McDonald's Begins Pokemon TCG 2023 Promotions Is Now Live
6. Ahsoka: Carrie Coon Responds to De-Aged Anakin Skywalker Comparison
7. The First Five Pages Of Tom King & Daniel Sampere's Wonder Woman #1
8. Robert Kirkman's Energon Universe To Transform Comic Shop Sales
9. Marvel Comics Establishes "Gruenwald's Law" In Regard To Time Travel
10. Report: Jade Cargill Stops Stabbing WWE in Back, Will Join Instead
11. The Business of Freelance Comic Book Publishing by Gamal Hennessy
12. Adventureman Returns With Matt Fraction, Terry Dodson & Rachel Dodson
13. Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers #1 Opens With Over 153,000 Orders
14. Spawn News Coming From Liam Sharp & Valerio Giangiordano at NYCC
15. The Hellboy Inspiration That Richard Corben Gave Director Brian Taylor
16. Blandine Le Callet and Nancy Peña's Medea Comes to Comics
17. Sea Serpent's Heir Book Three For This Time Next Year From Skybound
18. Kingdom Hearts Keyblades in The Daily LITG, 14th September 2023

LITG four years ago, Woke Beano Bingo

1. When The Daily Mail Gets "Woke" Over The Beano Comic
2. Dynamite's Disney Gargoyles Comics Covers, Including Previews Catalog
3. Who Passes, Who Fails In Today's AXE: Judgment Day? (XSpoilers)
4. Minnie Mouse No Longer "Dripping With Excitement" At Disney
5. Tonight Is Celesteela & Kartana Regional Raid Hour In Pokémon GO
6. Red Sonja & Hell Sonja Team Up From Dynamite in December
7. Wolverine Knows What Peter Parker Did (Amazing Spider-Man Spoilers)
8. Pokémon TCG Reveals Charizard Alt Arts From Ultra Premium Collection
9. Kartana Raid Guide For Pokémon GO Players: September 2022
10. Pokémon TCG Value Watch: Lost Origin During Release Weekend
11. Skybound Announces Creative Team Lineup for Creepshow #4
12. Latest Comixology Original Takes Supernatural Census of New York City
13. The Summer Hikaru Died: Yen Press to Publish Sought-after Horror Manga
14. Matthew Rosenberg Launches Substack Comics With Juan Ferreyra & More
15. Joshua Williamson Launches New Nailbiter Comics On Substack Pro
16. Giulietta Romero: Hitwoman Gets Jennifer Blood Spinoff From Dynamite
17. First Look Disney+ Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules & Diper Överlöde
18. Vampirella To Give Birth In December 2022
19. Future State Gotham Goes Back To Batman's Beginning Before Final Issue
20. Radiant Pink Joins Radiant Black On Shelf Next To Power Rangers
21. Vampire Superheroes From Marvel (Again) With The Unforgiven
22. Dripping Minnie In The Daily LITG 13th September 2022

LITG five years ago, Philadelphia's Karen

1. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 15: The Gang Gets a "Karen"?
2. The Lake Trio Will Be Shiny in Pokémon GO Starting Tomorrow
3. Harley Quinn Comic Revisits Batman Not Going Down On Catwoman
4. Tonight Is Baltoy Spotlight Hour In Pokémon GO: Tips & Details
5. Marvel Zombies Getting Live-Action Treatment According To Mark Millar
6. Universal Monsters Return To Theaters This October From Fathom Events
7. The Sinner Season 4 Key Art: Her Sins Could Drown Them All- Even Harry
8. Superman And The Authority On Cultural Appropriation (Spoilers)
9. Meet The Justice League Of The Galaxy, The United Order (Spoilers)
10. Supernatural vs Arrow? Jared Padalecki, Stephen Amell Need Fans' Help
11. Marvel Reveals Devil's Triangle of Devil's Reign Comics for December
12. Marvel Cancels Hellions in December, Will Bring Back Goblin Queen
13. Old Man Logan Returns To His Future Past in Wastelanders
14. TOLDJA: DC's Maggie Howell Joins IDW – Senior Editor Original Content
15. Everyone Is Buying Grendel On eBay After Netflix Announcement
16. Separated At Birth: Fortnite Vs Warcorns: Combat Unicorns For Hire
17. Rorschach Did It 35 Minutes Ago (Rorschach #12 Spoilers)
18. Joe Benitez's Lady Mechanika: The Monster Of The Ministry of Hell
19. Julia Pennyworth Returns To The Batbooks With The Joker #7 (Spoilers)
20. Batman Not Going Down in The Daily LITG, 14th of September 2021

LITG six years ago, Pokemon, Witcher, Boys, Karate Kid

What you were reading yesterday, the numbers don't lie.

1. The Quick Catch Method In Pokémon GO Explained
2. The Witcher Season 2: Game of Thrones Becomes On-Set Cautionary Tale
3. The Boys: NOS4A2 Star Jahkara Smith No Fan of Stormfront Storyline
4. Top 5 Most Useful Legendary Pokémon In Pokémon GO
5. Karate Kid: William Zabka Reveals Pat Morita's Pitch for 5th Film
6. For All Mankind: The Real Sci-Fi Battlestar Galactica Should've Been
7. Top Five Shiny Pokémon In Pokémon GO: Generation One
8. Gossip: Big Writer Changes at DC Comics For 2021
9. DC Comics 2021 Spoilers: DC Toys Reveal New Look For The Joker
10. Transformers Dinobots Return to Form Volcanicus with Hasbro
11. DC Comics Recycles Gary Frank 5G Generations Covers For Death Metal
12. Ice Cream Man Gets A $100 Thank You Foil Variant As a Cherry On Top
13. Image Comics to Publish Jared Muralt's The Fall In English
14. Dave McKean and Jorge González Announce Collaboration Tomorrow
15. Stephen W. Martin and Lin Pham Create Nancy Spector Graphic Novels

LITG seven years ago, Marvel was cancelling the FF.

1. Marvel Comics Cancels Their Future…. Foundation
2. "The Orville": What the Series Can Teach "Star Trek: Discovery" [OPINION]
3. Doomsday Clock #12 – In Or Out Of Continuity?
4. "Rick and Morty," "Archer" & More: Animated & Overrated [OPINION]
5. This is How Tom King's Batman Ends… Not With a Bang, But With a POW!
6. Meet Anthony Marques, the New Owner of The Kubert School
7. "Lucifer": Kelly Clarkson Wants Netflix to Give the Devil His Due [VIDEO]
8. Bleeding Cool Has Bought The Snyder Cut
9. Rob Liefeld Says the Watchmen Movie is Better Than the Comic
10. Nightwing and the Teen Titans Are Coming Soon to Kotobukiya

LITG eight years ago, we had Gaimainsplaining while Marvel was cancelling Vision for still-dubious reasons.

1. Marvel Preview Reveals Rogue is Secret Daughter of Professor X and Lilandra
2. When Richard Meyer Tried To Gaimansplain Neil Gaiman Over His Own Career
3. 19 Revealed DC Comics Covers for October and November From Jenny Frison, Jim Lee, Bill Sienkiewicz, Frank Cho and More
4. Marvel Asked Chelsea Cain to Keep Vision Cancellation "Clean and Quiet"
5. 3 New Images From Titans Featuring a New Look at Jason Todd

Comic Book birthdays today.

Comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with seventeen years for us as well.

• Ed Solomon, writer of Bill And Ted Are Doomed
• Chris Wildgoose, artist of Porcelain, Batgirl, Batman: Nightwalker & Alienated.
• Founder of Act 4 Publishing, Scott Dunbier
• Tony Wolf, writer on Blood And Honor, Greenpoint Of View, Millenials.
• The Coldest City/Atomic Blonde co-creator, Sam Hart.
• Jesse Leon McCann, writer for Looney Tunes and Simpsons comics.
• Alan Light, founder of The Buyers Guide to Comic Fandom which became CBG.
• And CBG staff editor Kim Metzger
• Carol Lay, alternative cartoonist, comic creator on Mythos, The Simpsons, and prose writer for Ahoy Comics.
• Colourist on The Spirit, Peter Poplaski
• Chris Crosby, founder of Keenspot and writer of Superosity.
• Italian artist for StarComics and Sergio Bonelli Editore, Giancarlo Caracuzzo
• Max Douglas, aka Salgood Sam, of Sea Of Red and RevolveЯ, cartoonist, author, illustrator, and teacher,
• Comic book colourist Laura Martin
• Mark Stokes, comic book creator of Zombie Boy.
• Creative Director/Consultant at Alpha Channel Books, Ashley Fox.

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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