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Jonathan Hickman's Imperial in The Daily LITG, 21st of February 2025

Jonathan Hickman's Imperial was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.



Article Summary

  • Jonathan Hickman's Imperial tops Bleeding Cool's stories, blending House of X and Ultimate narratives.
  • Bleeding Cool's daily rundown includes Marvel and DC Comics news that captured reader interest.
  • Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion and new series announcements create buzz at ComicsPRO.
  • Stay updated with The Daily LITG for pop culture insights and past year's comic book industry highlights.

Jonathan Hickman's Imperial was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before – as well as over the past six years. Founded sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip 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. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And maybe you just have.

Jonathan Hickman's Imperial at ComicsPRO
Jonathan Hickman's Imperial at ComicsPRO

 Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion and the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday

  1. ComicsPRO: Jonathan Hickman's Imperial is House Of X Meets Ultimate
  2. DC Comics Full May 2025 Solicits and Solicitations on Bleeding Cool
  3. Sophie Campbell's Supergirl #1 For May, Costume Designed By Artgerm
  4. Marvel Comics Kills Off Thor
  5. Marvel To Publish Ultimate Spider-Man Incursion in June 2025
  6. Your First Look At Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion At ComicsPRO
  7. ComicsPRO: Marvel Announces Bring On The Bad Guys Titles For 2025
  8. IDW Launches The Kai-Sei Era, A New Godzilla Universe
  9. The Death Of The Silver Surfer From Marvel Comics in June 2025
  10. ComicsPRO: Chip Zdarsky & Valerio Schiti On Captain America #1

And a few more of mine from yesterday;

LITG one year ago…  The Boys Season 5 Is Back In Town

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The Boys Image: Prime Video Screencap
  1. The Boys Season 5 Listed to Start Production This & Wait, What?!?
  2. New Scarlet Witch Launches In June 2024 From Marvel
  3. Transformers Megatron Gets New threezero's Vintage Animation Figure
  4. Nightwing Tells Batman He Can Swing If He Wants To (#111 Spoilers)
  5. Daredevil, Back In White, For His Pilgrim's Progress (Spoilers)
  6. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Prequel Focuses on Pike/Una Early Years 
  7. Love And Hate Between The Batman And The Joker (Batman #144 Spoilers)
  8. True Detective: Nic Pizzolatto Not Taking "Night Country" Success Well
  9. Ultimate Spider-Man #2 Preview: Goblin's Grand Entrance
  10. Optimus Prime Goes Vintage with threezero's MDLX Transformers Line 
  11. The Elusive Ajax-Farrell Secret Love #1 From 1957, at Auction
  12. The Price of Stardom in Hollywood Secrets #1, Up for Auction
  13. Death Ratio'd by Mark Russell and Laci in AWA May 2024 Solicits
  14. Steve Orlando & Megan Huang's Scale Trade in Magma May 2024 Solicits
  15. Princess Gwenevere And The Jewel Riders in Mad Cave May 2024 Solicits
  16. My Bad Gets Zapped In Ahoy Comics May 2024 Solicits
  17. Fairy Tales And Judgment Days In Archie Comics May 2024 Solicits
  18. The Boys Season 5 Is Back In Town in The Daily LITG 20th February 2024

LITG two years ago, John Cleese "Must Apologise" for New Fawlty Towers

John Cleese Guilts BBC into Restoring Fawlty Towers to Streaming (Image: BBC)
(Image: BBC)
  1. John Cleese "Must Apologise" for New Fawlty Towers with Daughter 
  2. The Future Of Superman At DC Comics (Super Spoilers)
  3. Warrior Nun/#SaveWarriorNun Tweets Break 10M; Barry Keeps Promise 
  4. Star Trek: Picard Season 3 E02 Preview: Last Chance at First Contact?
  5. Rick and Morty: Evil Morty's Meta Mind Blower Key to Everything?
  6. Buffy Star Charisma Carpenter Shares Great Look Back at '90s Con Scene
  7. Rainbow Six Siege Reveals Roadmap For Year 8 Content
  8. The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon Star Norman Reedus Gets A Visitor 
  9. AEW Rampage Slam Dunk: Keith Lee Returns on Very Disrespectful Show 
  10. Nightwing #101 Preview: Time to Meet the New Titans
  11. Pyroman vs the Snake Cult in Startling Comics #20, Up for Auction
  12. Lazarus Planet Does Not End With Omega – That's What Batman Is For
  13. DC Turns Batman: The Killing Joke Into A Movie? (Batman Spoilers)
  14. Simon & Schuster To Republish Boom Studios' Peanuts Comics
  15. Alex Schomburg Covers the Black Terror #11, Up for Auction
  16. Ed Piskor's Red Room: Crypto Killaz in Fantagraphics May 2023 Solicits
  17. ComicsPRO: Oni Press Teases Upcoming Surprises And Retailer Swag
  18. ComicsPRO: Gun Honey Gets Spinoff, Heat Seeker, With Artgerm
  19. Doc Strange Channels Superman in Thilling Comics #4, Up for Auction
  20. The Last Jewish Daughter Of Kaifeng in Fairsquare May 2023 Solicits
  21. Octobriana Goes Full Tilt Boogie in Dead Good Comics May 2023 Solicits
  22. Schomburg, Frazetta and Moldoff Work on Black Terror #22, at Auction
  23. AWA Finally Publish Queer Gatsby Graphic Novel in May 2023 Solicits
  24. Chip Kidd Writes Spider-Man: Panel By Panel To Follow Fantastic Four
  25. Scout Comics Launch Ten New Series In May 2023 Solicits
  26. Astro & Inez in CEX Publishing's May 2023 Solicits

LITG three years ago, HBO Shows

 

westworld
HBO Westworld logo thing
  1. Westworld, Arrowverse, Six Feet Under, True Detective: HBO Updates
  2. Predator 2 Shaman Predator, A NECA Toy Fair BC Exclusive Reveal
  3. Patton Oswalt Vs ComiXology And The App Update
  4. A Tale of Two Reachers: In Defense of Tom Cruise's Jack Reacher
  5. Stephen Amell Checks John Cena Over Peacemaker's Green Arrow Diss
  6. Smallville: Alan Ritchson On How He Had & Then Lost Aquaman Pilot
  7. Futurama: Community Star Yvette Nicole Brown Supports John DiMaggio
  8. James Gunn on Why He "Would Never" Direct Live-Action Rick and Morty
  9. The Walking Dead S11E10 Preview: Connie's Commonwealth Concerns
  10. Star Trek: ViacomCBS Not Happy with Strange New Worlds Screencaps
  11. George Pérez's JLA/Avengers- Thank FOC It's Sunday 20th February 2022
  12. Marvel Takes The Top Five Of This Week's Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
  13. Michael Walsh's New Graphic Novel From Humanoids, Oates & Elyphyne
  14. Code 45 #1 & Misfitz Clubhouse #1 in Scout Comics May 2022 Solicits
  15. Walsh Brothers' Ballad Of Ronan in Action Lab's May 2022 Solicits
  16. Another All-Ages 2000AD With Cadet Dredd- Rebellion May 2021 Solicits
  17. Patton Oswalt Vs ComiXology In The Daily LITG, 20th February 2022

LITG four years ago, The Boys, Ultraviolence and Lucifer

The Boys, Buffy, Walker & Lucifer - The Daily LITG 20th February 2021
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The world keeps turning, and America is beginning to heal from all the burns. Even if a few scabs need pulling off first.

  1. The Boys Star Jack Quaid as Starlight Is a Sight You Just Can't Unsee
  2. Dark Side of the Ring Welcomes The "King of Ultraviolence" to Season 3
  3. The Mandalorian Ex-Cast Member Gina Carano Breaking Silence (Again)
  4. Mewtwo Raid Guide For Pokémon GO Players: February 2021
  5. Funko Unveils Shared Retailers List For Emerald City Comic Con
  6. The Flash: Grant Gustin on Bettering Himself; Beefier Season 7 Barry
  7. MOTU: Revelation: Sarah Michelle Gellar on Teela, Kevin Smith & More
  8. The Boys Adds A Bit of Star-Bright to Jack Quaid's Starlight
  9. Lucifer: Lauren German Honors Stunt Team, Left Us Doing Double-Take
  10. The Boys, Buffy, Walker & Lucifer – The Daily LITG 20th February 2021
  11. Original Art Auction- Arthur Suydam, Jock, John Byrne, Marc Silvestri
  12. Gary Frank Original Artwork From Hulk to Doomsday Clock For Auction
  13. WandaVision Adds Allan Heinberg And Jimmy Cheung To Creator Credits
  14. Gung Ho Returns With Anger In Ablaze May 2021 Solicitations
  15. Han Solo-Vibes in Becstar, Launching in Mad Cave May 2021 Solicits
  16. Long Knives Returns In Print in Black Mask May 2021 Solicits
  17. Chris Claremont Has A Happy Ending For WandaVision In Mind
  18. 11 New DC Comics From DC Middle Ages To Elseworld To Deathstroke Inc
  19. Invincible Red Sonja #1 Leads Dynamite's May 2021 Solicits

LITG five years ago –  Supergirl was the canary in the cage.

And straightwashing met the statues.

  1. Twenty-Eight DC Comics Selling Fewer Copies Than Supergirl
  2. The Straightwashing Of Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy Continues In Statue Form?
  3. Marvel Comics Gets Fully Unionized in May 2020
  4. "Rebuild of Evangelion" Characters Get New States from Bandai
  5. Don't Pay $15 For Batman #94
  6. The Joker Takes His Crowbar to Dick Grayson One More Time (Nightwing #69 Spoilers)
  7. "The Blacklist": Red & Liz Accept NBC's Season 8 Renewal Mission
  8. The Spider-Man Who Laughs? Marvel Heroes Get Dark Variants in May
  9. "The Umbrella Academy" Season 2: They're Back – But When Are They?
  10. "Walker": "PLL" Alum Keegan Allen Cast as Jared Padalecki's Brother

LITG six years ago Critical Role split

And Brian Bendis gave Superman super-beard growth.

  1. Critical Role Announces Split From Geek & Sundry
  2. Brian Bendis Has Given Superman a Brand New Super Power
  3. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton On Reddit Q's [Video]
  4. This New Chinese Poster for Alita: Battle Angel is Gorgeous
  5. Doctor Who's Mandip Gill: Cool with "Thasmin," Doctor-Yaz Shipping

Comic book industry birthdays.

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

  • Diamond Comic Distributor's VP – Retailer Services, Chris Powell
  • Former Marvel financial VP, Barry Kaplan
  • Frank Brunner, horror writer/artist on Doctor Strange, Howard The Duck, Conan and head of character design for Fox animated X-Men series .
  • Cartoonist Brian Douglas Ahern of Pigboys
  • Joseph M. Monks, co-creator of Cry For Dawn.
  • Cartoonist Mark Brewer 
  • Douglas Franchin, artist on Halo and X-Men Blue
  • Greg Carter, writer of Love Is In The Blood

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