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Chip Zdarsky Leaving Batman in The Daily LITG 23rd October, 2024

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Chip Zdarsky leaving Batman was the most-read article 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.

Chip Zdarsky On His Decision To Leave Batman With #157 Next Year
Batman #157

Chip Zdarsky Leaving Batman and the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday

  1. Chip Zdarsky On His Decision To Leave Batman With #157 Next Year
  2. Katee Sackhoff Is Ready to Add Star Trek to Her Franchise "Hat Trick"
  3. Major Spoilers For Detective Comics #1090 With The Anti-Spider-Man
  4. Diana, Princess Of Hell, in Absolute Wonder Woman #1 Spoilers
  5. Tomorrow, DC Comics Publish A Hidden Prelude To The New Aquaman #1
  6. DC Comics Run Memorial Page For John Cassaday In Their Titles
  7. Action Comics #1072 Preview: Mon-El's Shady Past Unzipped
  8. A New Look Avengers For One World Under Doctor Doom (Spoilers)
  9. Diamond Comic Distributors Closes Plattsburgh Warehouse in New York
  10. Eddie Brock Is Now The New Carnage At Marvel Comics 

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LITG two years ago, Killing Off Batman

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  2. Warner Bros Discovery: Arrowverse Has Your DCEU Answers, Not Marvel
  3. Rob Liefeld's Heirborne, A Mixture Of Pro Gun & Occupy Wall Street
  4. Andy Diggle Returns To DC Comics With Batman: Legends Of Gotham
  5. Ironheart Preview: Riri Williams vs. Namor in New Black Panther Teaser
  6. First Appearance Alert: Mistress Vile Debut In MMPR #101
  7. Black Adam Entertains While Covering Familiar Ground {Review}
  8. Westworld Season 5: "Conversations" For Final Season; Fallout Update
  9. Spawn Unwanted Violence in Image Comics' Full January 2023 Solicits
  10. Eric Nguyen's White Savior In Dark Horse Full January 2023 Solicits
  11. Love from a Gorgon in Startling Terror Tales #13, Up for Auction
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  14. How I Became A Shoplifter in Sumerian January 2023 Solicitations
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  17. Akira Himekawa & Yasuhiro Nightow Join Marvel Comics Manga Tribute
  18. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Get Complete Omnibus Rescheduled
  19. Atomic Zombies & Other Mutants in Journey into Mystery #15, at Auction
  20. Children Of The Black Sun in Ablaze January 2023 Solicits
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LITG three years ago, Wonder Trans Women

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  4. Image Comics' Full January 2022 Solicitations From Arrowsmith To Saga
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  7. Power Rangers Lightning Collection Reveals Dazzle Hasbro PulseCon
  8. Darkrai Raid Guide For Pokémon GO Players: October 2021
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  10. Nightwing & Batgirl Revealed As Heterosexual (Nightwing #85 Spoilers)
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  12. Javier Pulido's Art On Ninjak #4 Was Redrawn By Beni Lobel
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  18. Hell Sonja and Pantha Launch in Dynamite's January 2022 Solicitations
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  20. Cursed Pirate Girl Returns in Boom Studios' Full January 2022 Solicits
  21. Star Wars Bake Off + Lone Goat & Kid in IDW Full January 2022 Solicits
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  23. Netflix's Pacific Rim: Black Gets A Prequel From Legendary In January
  24. Matt Kindt To Mike Mignola In Dark Horse Full January 2022 Solicits
  25. Jim Shooter On Being Blacklisted In Heavy Metal January 2022 Solicits
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LITG four years ago, the most-read stories

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  4. Sabrina, Sabrina, Sabrina – The Daily LITG, 22nd October 2020
  5. Donald Trump Releases 60 Minutes Interview, Thinks That's Good Idea?
  6. DC Comics Didn't Drop UCS – UCS Dropped DC Comics
  7. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina EP Aguirre-Sacasa: "Wicked News" Soon?
  8. Marvel Comics January 2021 Solicitations In Full
  9. Everything Coming To Netflix in November
  10. The Walking Dead Star Norman Reedus on COVID-Related Prod Changes
  11. Surprise! Runaways #32 Returns Next Week In Comic Book Stores
  12. MyComicShop Shares Coronavirus Fringe Science On Its Mailing List
  13. Clover Press To Republish Steve Niles' DC Comic, Simon Dark
  14. Marvel Publish Complete Jack Kirby War And Romance – Almost?
  15. Brett Booth Returns To Marvel With Jonathan Hickman's X-Men #17
  16. Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips Reckless Sequel, Friend Of The Devil
  17. Online Comic Store SUBaCOMIC Launches As Real Actual Shop In Peebles
  18. Dark Horse Announces Afterlift Chip Zdarsky/Jeff Lemire Bookplates
  19. True War Stories, Z2 Title For Local Comic Shop Day To Stir Things up
  20. John Barrowman's Webcomic, Acursian, To Be Printed In December

LITG five years ago, Flash was getting the 5G rumours…

Those original 5G plans – some of which are coming to fruition a year later…

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  2. The X-Men's Bishop Was Based On Efren 'Bata' Reyes
  3. Is Doomsday Clock Based on a Massive Plothole?
  4. The Future Of The Marvel Universe Sees Doctor Doom as Its Much-Loved Leader (Spoilers)
  5. Will Jo Mullein Replace Hal Jordan as the Green Lantern For DC Comics' 5G?
  6. Jim Lee Addresses THOSE Rob Liefeld DC Tweets Tastefully… Mike Zapcic, Not So Much
  7. Spider-Man's First Appearance in Japan Was Hidden in Their Version of Playboy
  8. What Secret Comics Will DC Be Publishing at the End of 2019?
  9. Marvel Comics to Launch Force Works, Machine Man, Rescue, Weapon.Exe and Ironheart For Iron Man 2020
  10. "Watchmen": Did Alan Moore Pull a "Screamin' Jay Hawkins" on Lindelof?
  11. Marvel Collects X-Men in a New Way, Beginning With Dawn Of X Vol 1 TPB in February 2020
  12. Separated At Birth: Ethan Van Sciver on Jawbreakers and Daryl Banks on Green Lantern
  13. Marvel Comics January 2020 Solicitations, From Star to Ravencroft, Frankensteined
  14. Sean Gordon Murphy on the Future of White Knight – And Scott Snyder
  15. Money Shot #1, Out Tomorrow, From Sarah Beattie, Tim Seeley, Rebekah Isaacs and Kurt Michael Russell is Vault's Best-Selling Comic to Date
  16. Marvel Chair Ike Perlmutter May Be Under Increased Criticism Tomorrow, With New Book from David Shulkin
  17. Mike Mignola's First Hellboy From 1991 Sells For $5000 on eBay
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LITG six years ago, Uncanny X-Men was body positive.

While the end of Marvel Netflix was nigh.

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  2. Punisher Season 2 and Jessica Jones Season 3, the Last Marvel Netflix Shows?
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  4. Laurie Strode Is Not Michael Myers's Sister for a Reason in New 'Halloween' Film
  5. Konami Releases Details on the First Three Yu-Gi-Oh! Sets of 2019

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.

  • Knights Of Pendragon and Roller Girls comic book artist Gary Erskine.
  • Writer. editor, publisher, Joe Illidge
  • Stand-up cartoonist Russel Harvey.
  • Age Of Bronze comics creator and Oz graphic novelist Eric Shanower.
  • V contributor Ryan Richards.
  • Comics colourist, Riccardo Gamba.

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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