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Grant Morrison Day On The Daily LITG, 18th October 2025

It was basically Grant Morrison Day on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Might be today as well. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.



Article Summary

  • Grant Morrison Day takes over Bleeding Cool with exclusive interviews and headline stories
  • Top ten most-read articles center around Morrison's impact on Batman, AI, Legion, and more
  • Throwbacks to past years highlight industry news from IDW logos to Cyclops, Wolverine, and Jean
  • Stay updated with Lying In The Gutters—sign up for the daily roundup of comics and pop culture

It was basically Grant Morrison Day on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Might be today as well. 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 over sixteen 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 run around 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.

Grant Morrison Day On The Daily LITG, 18th October 2025
Photo of Grant Morrison by Jason Mouratides/CC

Grant Morrison Day and the ten most popular stories, yesterday

  1. Grant Morrison On Damian Wayne's Past, Present And Future
  2. Grant Morrison On Alan Moore, Watchmen And Peter Thiel
  3. Grant Morrison On The Great Lie Of Kryptonite, 5G And "Lightray Is"
  4. Chuck Dixon Posts Absolute Batman As An Agent Of ICE Fighting Antifa
  5. Grant Morrison On Using A.I. To Create Art, But Not Owning A Cellphone
  6. Deniz Camp Explains Why The Ultimate Universe Is Ending
  7. Grant Morrison On The Legion Comic With Jim Lee That Never Happened
  8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 Sells Over 100,000 Copies
  9. Donatello Joins McFarlane's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Collection 
  10. The Answers To Life, The Universe And Everything From Grant Morrison

And a few other stories I wrote yesterday.

LITG one year ago, the Comics Industry on the IDW Logo

IDW Debuts A Very Stupid New Logo For Their 26th Anniversary, At NYCC
IDW Logo
  1. Comics Industry Tells IDW To Change Their Stupid New Logo
  2. Seriously Professor X? For The Fourth Time? Uncanny X-Men #4 Spoilers
  3. Ultimate Wolverine by Chris Condon and Alessandro Cappuccio at NYCC
  4. Marvel Launches Astonishing X-Men, Spider-Man & Avengers – Vertically
  5. Hasbro Reveals Takara Tomy Transformers Trainbots Godbomber Figure
  6. Marvel Announces "Rise Of Emperor Doom" For 2025
  7. The Future Of Wally West, Dick Grayson & Donna Troy (Spoilers)
  8. IDW Debuts A Very Stupid New Logo For Their 26th Anniversary, At NYCC
  9. Marvel Premier Collection A Half-Inch Bigger Than DC Compact Comics
  10. Wally West, Dick Grayson, Donna Troy- Daily LITG, 17th October, 2024

And comics stories you might prefer…

LITG two years ago, Willow Wars

Willow: George Lucas Agreed With Bringing It Back On Solo Set
Willow Ufgood (Warwick Davis) in Lucasfilm's WILLOW exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
  1. Willow Star Warwick Davis Questions Disney About Series Being Pulled
  2. NYCC Batman Gossip: The Return Of The Three Jokers
  3. DC Confirms Green Lantern Does Not Have Sex With J Edgar Hoover
  4. The Deletion of Judy Garrick, Daughter of Golden Age Flash (Spoilers)
  5. The 25 Hottest Selling Comics Of New York Comic Con
  6. Steve Bell Dropped By The Guardian Over Benjamin Netanyahu Cartoon
  7. Wouldn't You Like To Live On Earth 22? (World's Finest Spoilers)
  8. Superman Revisits The Chains That Bind In Superman #850 (Spoilers)
  9. Matthew Vaughn Says He Quit X3 Over Fox Exec Plan to Trick Halle Berry 
  10. Nightwing's Beatrice 'Bea' Bennett, Captain Blüd, Revealed (Spoilers)
  11. Women Go to War in Fiction House's Fight Comics, Up for Auction
  12. An Indiginerds Preview From James Willier & Sam "Mushki" Medlock
  13. Jarrett Melendez & Danica Brine's Chef's Kiss Again In 2025 From Oni
  14. Sheena's Own Series in Sheena, Queen of the Jungle #1, at Auction
  15. Maurice Whitman Covers Fiction House's Man O' Mars #1, up for Auction
  16. A World Without Willow in The Daily LITG, 17th of October, 2023

LITG three years ago, The New Thirteen

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  1. Who Are The 13 New DC Continuity Characters From Flashpoint Beyond?
  2. DC Cancels Heterosexual Robin Comic After 17 Issues as Sales Fall Flat
  3. Time Masters to Change Batman's Origin After Flashpoint? (Spoilers)
  4. How Nostalgia Will Bring Watchmen Into Geoff Johns' New Golden Age
  5. Clerks III Review: Kevin Smith's Life Affirming, Soul-Wrenching Comedy
  6. Rick and Morty Season 6 Midseason Teaser: Clues to What's to Come?
  7. Joe Madureira, Jenny Frison & Artgerm Join I Hate Fairyland
  8. Straight Males, Sales Fail, in The Daily LITG, 16th of October, 2022
  9. Doctor Who: Chibnall on "Very Different" Regeneration; "Power" Images
  10. Will Jason Aaron's Most Ambitious Series Also Be His Highest Ordered?
  11. The 1950s Horror Noir of Witches Tales #25, Up for Auction
  12. Diamond Lil and the Scene of the Crime in Pay-Off #1, Up for Auction
  13. King Kong 1968 Gold Key Comic Book Adaptation, Up for Auction
  14. Dynamite Gets Jerry Lawler & Friends To Promote Dan Jurgens' Tarzan
  15. James Tynion IV & Fernando Blanco Announce New Comic, W0rldtr33
  16. Will Speculators Spec On Booher & Shehan's Specs, Or WhatNot?
  17. Doctor Who, Alice Cooper Marvel Premiere Books Up for Auction
  18. Five Things You Need for a Great Superman Halloween Costume
  19. All 2022 Local Comic Shop Day Titles So Far Include 8 Billion Genies
  20. Yoe! Books, Clover Press Kickstart Popeye Variations Art Book
  21. Time Masters to Change Batman's Origin After Flashpoint? (Spoilers)
  22. Eight More Gender Queer Graphic Novel Stories Across America
  23. Robin Still On Top In The Daily LITG, 17th of October, 2022

LITG four years ago, The Abuse Of Bewitched

LITG: Bewitched screencap
LITG: Bewitched screencap
  1. Bewitched Was A Classic TV Master Class in Abusive Relationships
  2. Saturday Night Live: Pete Davidson, Rami Malek Are Squid Game-Bound
  3. Amazon Is Destroying The Comics Industry In A Brand New Way
  4. Katy Perry, Post Malone, & J Balvin Featured On Pokémon Cards
  5. Y: The Last Man – Brian K. Vaughan Confirms No FX on Hulu Season 2
  6. Jonathan Hickman Working With Chris Bachalo On A New Comic For Marvel
  7. Swamp Thing Comes to McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse with Two Designs
  8. Lamb Review: This Is A24 at Its Most A24 and It's Awesome
  9. The Riddler and Catwoman from The Batman Arrive from McFarlane Toys
  10. Laurie Strode Is Not Michael Myers's Sister for a Reason in New 'Halloween' Film
  11. Victor Fox's The Eagle, Rebooted for War in The Eagle #1, at Auction
  12. Marvel Character Inspired by a 1954 Movie, Black Knight #1 at Auction
  13. Nice House On The Lake #5 Review: Unexpected Directions
  14. Crossed #0 and the Breaking Point of Civilization, Up for Auction
  15. Comic Store In Your Future: 11 Years Of Learning The Comic Business
  16. Whiz Comics #4 & Sivana's Subversion of the U.S. Govt, Up for Auction
  17. The Me You Love In The Dark #3 Review: Focused and Intimate
  18. DC Comics Creators Got Negative Royalty Statements In Error
  19. Flash Comics #5 and the Dynamics of Collecting, Up for Auction
  20. X-Men, Spider-Man & Hulk Beat Batman – Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
  21. The Spider-Man Saga that Spun Out of Stan Lee's Vacation, at Auction
  22. Bisexual Superman Thanks FOC It's Sunday, 16th October 2021
  23. Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz & Sal Buscema Fund The R.I.G.H.T. Project
  24. The Toxicity Of Bewitched in The Daily LITG, 17th October 2021

LITG five years ago, Transformers, Pokémon GO and Moira MacTaggert

Grant Morrison Day On The Daily LITG, 18th October 2025
  1. Hasbro Unveils Deluxe Figures from Transformers: The Movie
  2. Defeating Giovanni in Pokémon GO: Rocket Leader Counters for Fall 2020
  3. Transformers Generations Retro Headmaster Figures Coming from Hasbro
  4. Moira MacTaggert Has The Same 1-In-8-Billion Bloodtype as Wolverine?
  5. Full "A Tale Of Tails" Research Tasks In Pokémon GO
  6. Separated At Birth – Doctor Doom and Cocaine Bear
  7. Conan O'Brien Casts NBC Trump Town Hall Shade, Evokes Tonight Show
  8. Is The Charmander Community Day Ticket Worth It In Pokémon GO?
  9. Galarian Yamask & Wild Spiritomb Found In Pokémon GO Datamine
  10. DC Comics January 2021 Solicitations – In Full
  11. Michael Ralph Graphic Novel Before 13th Rewrites History Of Abolition
  12. Midtown Comics Hiring For Back Issue Warehouse In Long Island
  13. Tom King Interviews Dave Gibbons Live at Baltimore Comic Con Online
  14. TKO Has New Comics For November, From Niles, Orlando and Paknadel
  15. W Maxwell Prince Launches Clown Anthology Comic, Haha, From Image

LITG six years ago, Scott, Jean and Logan were superheroes' first throuple.

And Frank Miller disagreed with Quentin Tarantino.

  1. Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean Grey – Marvel Comics' First Throuple?
  2. Frank Miller Tells Us Whether Superman or Clark Kent is the Disguise in Superman Year One: Book Three (Spoilers)
  3. Unicorn No More, Deadpool, Everyone's Combining Symbiotes in Today's Absolute Carnage Comics
  4. Check Out Scott, Jean and Logan's Living Arrangements in X-Men #1 (Spoilers)
  5. Flash Forward #2 Rewrites Heroes In Crisis – the Heroes Wally West Killed and His Timelost Kids… (Spoilers)
  6. Blood Splatter Protectors Are Killer For Your Funko Collection [Review]
  7. Undiscovered Country #1 is Image Comics' Biggest Genuine Launch in Five Years With 83,000 Pre-Orders
  8. Solicits and Covers for January's Batman #86 and #87, the Start of the Post-King Era
  9. Did Justice League #34 Just Spoil the Next Month-and-a-Half of DC Comics (Spoilers)
  10. Speculator Corner: Is Director Devo From X-Men #1 From Uncanny X-Men #467 or Not?
  11. Pepe Larraz's Cover for the House Of X/Powers Of X Hardcover
  12. Atlantis Attacks… Again at Marvel in January from Greg Pak and Ario Anindito

LITG seven years ago, Gun Media was reviving the past

And Kyle Baker's Black Panther was quite a thing.

  1. Gun Media Discusses the Future of Friday The 13th: The Game
  2. The Futures of Turtles, Ponies, Ghostbusters, and Kyle Baker's Black Panther Debuts in IDW January 2019 Solicitations
  3. Comic Shops Get an Exclusive John Constantine Funko POP for Free Comic Book Day 2019 (UPDATE)
  4. So Who Wrote These Words in Justice League and Aquaman: Drowned Earth? (Spoilers)
  5. Damian Wayne Gets A Crush – But Not on Crush (Teen Titans #23 Spoilers)

Comic Book birthdays today.

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

  • Steve Epting, artist, co-creator of Winter Soldier and Velvet
  • Tye Bourdony, owner of SciFiPulse
  • Comic book reviewer Kat Hill
  • Andrew Peterson, Over Night Empire Owner/Artist/Writer

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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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