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Hair To The Throne – The Daily LITG, 1st of May 2021

Welcome to the Daily LITG. The world can seem like a terrible and strange place sometimes, but there are highlights. At Bleeding Cool, you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more. But as comic shops across England are reopening en masse, the Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here.

Daily LITG: From Smeargle To Superman

The world keeps turning, and America is beginning to heal from all the burns. Even if a few scabs need pulling off first.

1. Here's How To Get Shiny Smeargle In Pokémon GO
2. Bryan Hitch Has A Hair-Trigger Over Superman
3. All 64 Designs For The X-Men's Hellfire Gala This Summer
4. Jim Zub On Being Fired Off Birds Of Prey Before His First Issue
5. First Look: Superman & The Authority by Grant Morrison & Mikel Janin
6. Can You Really Google Boris Johnson's Mobile Phone Number?
7. When Graphic Novels Just Don't Stack Up On The Bookshelf: Part 2
8. First Look: Moon Knight by Jed MacKay and Alessandro Cappucci
9. Boom Studios Cited In #DisneyMustPay Legal Fight, Over Buffy Comics
10. Penguin Random House To Offer Comic Stores Net 60 Payment Terms

ICYMI: more you may prefer from yesterday.

In case you fancied more LITG about comic books.

• Second Sight Publishing Donates 1000 Comic Books To School System
• Firefly Comic Makes A Big, Big Change To The 'Verse (Spoilers)
• No Coin Tossed For Your Free Witcher – Thank FOC It's 30th April 2021
• James Harren's Ultramega #3 Outsells Issue #2 
• Keanu Reeves' BRZRKR #2 Tops Advance Reorders
• Marvel PrintWatch: Way Of X, Alien, Carnage Gets Second Prints
• Manifold Reasons To Read The Daily LITG, 30th April 2021

LITG one year ago, Baby Yoda and Yaoyorozu

Bleeding Cool continued to report from the comics industry shutdown, With more from our favourite Baby Yoda, Yaoyorozu, and changes to Diamond Comics.

1. Funko Announces More Baby Yoda and The Mandalorian Pop Vinyls
2. My Hero Academia Yaoyorozu Gets Her Own Statue from Bellfine
3. Jay And Silent Bob Mall Brawl Will Be Released Next Week
4. How Barack Obama Wrote a Batman Comic With Jim Lee, on Sale at Walmart
5. Good Eats: Reloaded Review: Alton Brown Raises The Stakes On Steaks
6. Big First Appearance You Can't Miss in Buffy The Vampire Slayer #14
7. Funko Reveals Official Glams for Back to the Future Pops
8. Scott Lobdell – Red Hood And The Outlaws to End With #50?
9. Ubisoft Releases The "Just Dance 2020" Song List
10. Mitch and Elizabeth Breitweiser's New Comics Publisher, in Walmart

LITG two years ago, Yanick Paquette's Catwoman

1. The Look Of Yanick Paquette's Catwoman
2. Avengers Punch Up, Justice League Punch Down
3. DC's Year Of The Villain Leads to a Hostile Takeover in November 2019
4. Another Candidate For The Secret Six?
5. Giving Avengers: Endgame Credit Where It's Due (Spoilers)

Comic book birthdays today

There may still not be much of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are always getting older and still celebrating that special date.

• Alex Niño, 79, artist for Warren and Heavy Metal Magazine, still self-publishing.
• Phil Foglio, 63, creator of Buck Godot.
• Tim Sale, 63, artist on Batman: The Long Halloween, Batman: Dark Victory, Superman for All Seasons, Catwoman: When in Rome, Daredevil: Yellow, Spider-Man: Blue, Hulk: Gray, Captain America: White with Jeph Loeb.
• Mike Anderson, 48, of Rolled & Told.
• Matt Silady, writer/artist of The Homeless Channel and the Chair of California College of the Arts MFA in Comics graduate program.
• Marco M. Lupoi, Publishing Director at Panini SpA, former Editorial director at Marvel Comics Italia SrL, former Editor in chief at EDIZIONI STAR COMICS SRL
• Glenn Møane, co-creator of Outré.
• Mark Bourne, former Marvel and Malibu editor.
• Michael L. Peters, artist on Unbound, Heavy Metal.
• Baden James Mellonie, writer/editor/publisher at Eighth Continent Publishing
• Mark Walters, Show Director at Dallas Comics Show
• John Harris Dunning of Tumult and Salem Brownstone.
• David Hopkins, writer of Karma Incorporated and Emily Edison 

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.

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