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Every week, until this current week, your Local Comic Book shop got in the weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond.  Now some of these goodies sell out fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond […]

Batman #92, Empyre #0: Avengers and Empyre #0: Fantastic Four lead the list of scheduled releases this week on Comixology. Bleeding Cool has taken a look at all the titles that the major comic book publishers still have scheduled on ComiXology for release this coming Wednesday, April 1st. While a number of publishers have pulled […]

It's been a hectic month full of announcements from comic book publishers reacting to the rapidly-changing business conditions created by the coronavirus pandemic. We've been keeping you informed about current matters within the industry here at Bleeding Cool, as every comic book publisher in the business assesses how to navigate these unprecedented conditions. Here's a […]

I have been writing this article for almost twenty-four hours. Been talking to senior comic book industry figure after another. The problem is, the second I get a hold of what might actually be going on, the situation changes from under me. But everyone is agreeing that this current coronavirus pandemic, and the reaction to […]

IDW Publishing has solicited a new series, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Blind Prophet – but today has cancelled all three solicited issues of the series, without explanation. Solicited as 'a never-before-seen chapter of the Ghost Recon game series' it looks like it will remain never-seen, Before the events of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Nomad and Walker are […]

Today, I have been talking to comic book retailers, publishers and distributors alike, looking at the effect that the coronavirus pandemic is having on comic book stores and the comics industry as a whole, and it is not looking good. To the extent that this could mean the end of the direct market as we […]

Fears around the spread of the coronavirus pandemic have closed comic book conventions and now comic book publishers too. This is what Bleeding Cool has been hearing regarding a number of comic book publishers – and distributors – as of today. I will add new reports as they come to us, and edit this post. […]

Every week your Local Comic Book shop gets in the weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond.  Now some of these goodies sell our fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more.  […]

The new The Crow: Lethe comic book, launching from IDW tomorrow, is from two of our favourites, Tim Seeley and Ilias Kyriazis. But it appears that IDW has sold out of all copies in advance and so is going to a second printing for April 15th. Here are the setails for tomorrow's comic, in case […]

John Layman and Nick Pitarra's Leviathan series from Image Comics has not been seen for well over a year now. And it looks like that's all we're going to get, folks. Leviathan is dead, sorry to say. Nick has my blessing to finish it, but I don't think that will happen. I apologize to anyone […]

IDW is set to release what editor Scott Dunbier calls "a holy grail" of artist's editions: Michael Golden's Micronauts.  Coming in June, Michael Golden's Micronauts: Artist's Edition will give hardcore fans of the cult-favorite series, a segment of the population known as Microbronies, not only a veritable treasure trove of Golden's art from the series, […]

Every week your Local Comic Book shop gets in the weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond.  Now some of these goodies sell our fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more.  […]

I was literally on the phone to DC Comics sources when this broke at ComicsPRO in Portland, Oregon. The news that in October, Locke & Key creators Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez will be crossing over Locke & Key with Sandman, created by Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg. Locke & Key just debuted […]

IDW has a bunch of launches in May 2020, from licensed titles such as Star Wars Adventures #1, Captain Marvel #1 and the crossover My Little Pony/Transformers #1, as well as creator-owned series Bermuda #1 by John Layman and Nick Bradshaw and Sea Of Sorrows #1 by Rich Douek and Alex Cormack, Chained to the […]

Superstar artist Rob Liefeld is creating a Snake Eyes comic this year, as Bleeding Cool revealed a few months ago as the greatest news of the decade. It seems that Snake Eyes: Deadgame will launch in June, and Liefeld visited fast-food news website ComicBook.com to spill the beans on the series. According to Liefeld, IDW […]

IDW revealed in a press release today that Road of Bones creative team Rich Douek and Alex Cormack will reunite for another horror story, but this time, instead of being set on a road, it's set on a boat! Called Sea of Sorrows, the five-issue miniseries follows a salvage crew seeking treasure on a sunken […]

IDW has been banking the promise of future profitability of its money-bleeding company on all of the sweet intellectual properties that they can turn into television shows and movies, which means they'd better start producing more of them instead of all the licensed comics that make up the majority of their publishing slate. With that […]

When the Mane Six gallop alongside Autobots in battle, the forces of villainy stand no chance… IDW is to publish the very first official My Little Pony/Transformers crossover comic book, four issues, weekly in May in all comic book stores. In My Little Pony/Transformers, the scheming Queen Chrysalis casts a spell in search of changeling […]

IDW has released a preview of tomorrow's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #270, showing operatives of Bernie Sander's righteous presidential campaign battling operatives of the corrupt Democratic National Committee as they try to screw Sanders out of his rightful victory in the Iowa caucuses, at least in our interpretation of the comic. As the […]

Every week your Local Comic Book shop gets in the weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond.  Now some of these goodies sell our fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more.  […]