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DC Comics' Featherweight in The Daily LITG, 10th of January 2026

Featherweight's revelations were the most read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Again. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.



Article Summary

  • Featherweight, DC's new trans hero, leads Bleeding Cool's most-read comic news for January 2026
  • Top ten trending stories include Tim Drake's status in Batman and Daredevil #1 news from Marvel
  • Catch up with year-by-year top LITG stories, tracking comic book industry trends since 2019
  • See special highlights, industry birthdays, and how to join the Daily LITG comic community

Featherweight's revelations were the most read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Again. 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 eighteen 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 here. And maybe you just have.

Featherweight, A New Trans Character For The DC Comics Universe
Cheetah And Cheshire Rob The Justice League #6

Featherweight and the top ten stories from yesterday

  1. Featherweight, A New Trans Character For The DC Comics Universe
  2. Tim Drake – "Robin No More" in Batman #6 Next Month?
  3. PrintWatch: Will Of Doom, Batman, K.O. Event Horizon, Deadpool/Batman
  4. Law & Order: SVU Crossover Event: Here's Our S27E09: "Purity" Preview
  5. Marvel Comics Promises To Take Better Care Of Daredevil #1 Blind Bags
  6. Cover Stories: DC Absolute Artists Create New Variants For DC Vertigo
  7. A New DC Comics Trans Supervillain in The Daily LITG 9th January 2026
  8. The Choices Being Made In DC's K.O. #3 And Aquaman #13 Next Week
  9. The Marvel Editorial Censorship Of Erik Larsen's Spider-Man Noir…
  10. Pokémon TCG Value Watch: Surging Sparks in January 2026

And some other stories I wrote yesterday:

LITG one year ago, Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson, Paul Rabin

All-New Venom #2
All-New Venom #2
  1. Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker, Paul Rabin and Dylan Brock (Spoilers)
  2. Pre-orders Arrives for Marvel Legends Nemesis Build-A-Figure Wave
  3. Jeff Lemire's Absolute Flash With A 15-Year-Old Wally West, And Grodd
  4. Jeff Lemire's Plans For Justice Society Of America in 2025
  5. Dexter: Resurrection Director Marcos Siega Confirms Filming Underway
  6. Jeff Lemire's Plans For Batman And Robin In 2025
  7. Ram V & Anand RK Reunite for Resurrection Man from DC Comics
  8. Why Bruce Wayne Got So Big in Absolute Batman #4 (Spoilers)
  9. The Fantastic Four: First Steps Star Teases A "Shiny" Silver Surfer
  10. Solo Leveling Season 2 Ep. 1: "You Aren't E-Rank, Are You?" Review
  11. Eisner Awards Now Accepting 2025 Submissions, Deadline 15th of March
  12. Timecop Creator Mark Verheiden's House Burns Down In LA Fires
  13. Barbie Comics Coming From Tokyopop & Mattel – and Hot Wheels Too
  14. Comic Artist Andrew C Robinson's House Burns Down In Eaton Canyon Fire
  15. Canto Co-Creator David M Booher's House Burns Down In LA Fires
  16. PrintWatch: Magik, Champions, Venom, Deadpool, Wolverine, City Beneath
  17. Mary Jane Watson and Paul Rabin in The Daily LITG, 9th of January 2025

LITG two years ago, Ultimate Spider-Man

Ultimate Spider-Man Spoilers in The Daily LITG, 10th of January 2024
Ultimate Spider-Man Spoilers in The Daily LITG, 10th of January 2024
  1. A Bigger Ultimate Spider-Man Change Than We Were Expecting (Spoilers)
  2. Adult Swim Introduces Its Own "Steamboat Willie" Mickey Mouse (VIDEO)
  3. Marvel Issues Ultimate Spider-Man #1 Reprint After Printing Flaws
  4. Jim Steranko Is Looking To Make America Great Again
  5. Who Is Doctor Hate? (Beast World & Amanda Waller Speculatory Spoilers)
  6. Ravensburger Announces Two New Disney Villainous Releases For 2024
  7. Star Trek: "Self-Righteous Strangers" Trying to "Erase" Kirk: Shatner
  8. Sting Wrestled His Last Match in Charlotte Last Night, Betraying WWE
  9. DC Comics Have Told Marvel That They Own Machine Man
  10. Aaron Rodgers Responds to Jimmy Kimmel: "All for Moving Forward" 
  11. Scoop: Ben Abernathy, Batman Group Executive Editor, Quits DC Comics
  12. Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, A Most Unlikely eBay Hot Comic
  13. Marvel Releases A Trailer for New Spider-Punk Series (VIDEO)
  14. Marvel Makes Superior Spider-Man & Marvel Zombies Variants Returnable
  15. Wings Of Fire Graphic Novel, Winter Turning, Best-Selling Book In USA
  16. Wrestling With Sting in The Daily LITG, 9th of January 2024

LITG three years ago, Toonami: False Submission

toonami
Image: Adult Swim Screencap
  1. Toonami: False Submission Ends Adult Swim Anime Block's On-Air Fan Art 
  2. In May, DC Comics Will Publish Batman #900 – If They Remember
  3. $80,000 Of Graded Comics Stolen From Canadian Comic Store 
  4. Night Court: Abby Talks Harry, Magic – More in Touching Preview Clip 
  5. No, It's Not Todd McFarlane's Mother Bidding On Spawn #1 At Auction
  6. "Mourning The Loss Of Family Members"- Flash #790 Spoilers Ahead 
  7. Star Trek: Rhodes Told She Was "Wrong Physical Type" for Enterprise
  8. 1923 Midseason Trailer: The Duttons Are Ready to Make Folks Suffer 
  9. Will Fox News Call DC Woke Over The Joker Being Batman's Friend? 
  10. The Rig: Like a Doctor Who Story Minus The Doctor (Unfortunately) 
  11. Dublin Gets A Batman, And Ghost-Maker Gets An Enemy (BatSpoilers)
  12. Lazarus Planet Is Affecting New Superheroes As Well As Old (Spoilers)
  13. Miracle Comics and the Rare Super-Science of Sky Wizard, at Auction
  14. Three More Comic Book Stores Close And Four More Open
  15. Captain Marvel, Or Shazam On Sivana's Monster World, Up for Auction
  16. Batcave Turns Brian's Comics of Petulama California into Ivy's Hideout
  17. The Return of Max Bemis' & Eryk Donovan's Heavy From Vault Comics
  18. Delta City Dreams Turn into a Nightmare in Robocop #1, Up for Auction
  19. DK To Publish A DC Comics Periodic Table Of Their Characters

LITG four years ago, The Penguin In The Batman

DC Comics' Featherweight in The Daily LITG, 10th of January 2026
LITG © 2021 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved. Photo Credit: Jamie Hawkesworth/™ & © DC Comics
  1. The Batman: New Look At Penguin/Riddler in 8 New Images, 2 BTS Images
  2. The Orville Season 3: Anne Winters, Ted Danson Offer "Cheers" From Set
  3. Generation 1 – 4 Species Still Not Released In Pokémon GO in 2022
  4. 8 Behind-the-Scenes Images and an Official Synopsis from Avatar 2
  5. How Superman: Son Of Kal-El #6 Came To Switch Out Robins
  6. Brandon Routh Felt "Respected" During Legends of Tomorrow Return
  7. Jonathan Hickman On His Abandoned X-Men Inferno Plans For Rogue
  8. Enola Holmes 2 Has Finished Filming, Netflix Posts Wrap Video
  9. Dexter EP Teasing "Exciting" Monday Morning Announcement? We'll Bite
  10. The Rookie S04E11: Will Nolan's "End Game" Prove Bailey's Innocence?
  11. Timeless #1 Review: Misses The Mark, Just Barely
  12. Human Target #3 Review: An Accomplishment
  13. Comic Store In Your Future: Ideas For Comics In 2022
  14. Batman #119 & X-Men #6 Beat Amazing Spider-Man #84 In Bestseller List
  15. The 1971 Debut of Mockingbird's Barbara Morse, Up for Auction
  16. Doctor Doom's Origin in Fantastic Four Annual #2, Up for Auction
  17. A Monkey Prince Thanks FOC It's 9th Of January, 2022
  18. The Kingpin Takes Over in Amazing Spider-Man #50, Up for Auction
  19. JobWatch: DC Comics Intern Positions In Burbank For The Summer
  20. Graphic Novel The Brightest Night Is The Best-Selling Book In The USA
  21. That's Really The Riddler In The Batman- Daily LITG, 9th January 2022

LITG six years ago, Wolverine celebrated his third claw

And we reported the name of the Metal sequel for the first time.

  1. 2019 Wolverine's Weiner X-Pick of the Year: Horniest X-Men Comic
  2. Death Metal – The Sequel To Dark Nights: Metal, From Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo
  3. The Long Read: Doomsday Clock is Canon and In Continuity
  4. Another Death For Wolverine in Dawn Of X… X-Force #5, Excalibur #5, Fallen Angels #5 and New Mutants #5 Spoilers
  5. What Does Kindred's New Gift in Amazing Spider-Man #37 Say About His Identity? (SPOILERS)
  6. "Pokémon" Expansions The Isle of Armor and The Crown Tundra Debuted
  7. Rob Liefeld on Most Comic Books Today: "Endless Talkfests, Just Cackling Heads"
  8. Ubisoft Releases The "Just Dance 2020" Song List
  9. Director Scott Derrickson Drops Out of "Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness"
  10. X-Men #7 Jumps From $3.99 to $4.99

LITG seven years ago, Scott Snyder was rewriting the DC Universe

While X-Men was bringing back lost mutants

Comic book industry birthdays

Comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date.

  • Brian Truitt, comics journalist
  • Former owner of Cosmic Comics, Brian Schur
  • Norrin Radd, Former Owner of Swords & Sorcery Comic Books Etc. Also he's the Silver Surfer.

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 comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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