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Mike Richardson Fired From Dark Horse – Daily LITG, 5th of March, 2026

Mike Richardson being fired from Dark Horse was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

Mike Richardson being fired from Dark Horse was 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.

Mike Richardson Fired From Dark Horse and the top ten stories from yesterday

1. Mike Richardson Fired From Dark Horse After Founding It 40 Years Ago
2. Marvel To Launch Shalla-Bal: Silver Surfer In June 2026
3. The Look of DC Next Level and All-In Act II Ahead of ECCC
4. The Future Of The Legion Of Super-Heroes in DC's K.O. #5 (Spoilers)
5. Firefly: Nathan Fillion Recruits Jewel Staite; March 15th Announcement
6. Jonathan Hickman & Adam Kubert Create The Grittiest Spider-Man Ever
7. The Sex Lives Of Mary Jane, Peter Parker, Venom & Aunt May (Spoilers)
8. What The Joker Knows About Batman…(Spoilers)
9. The Multiverse, Metaverse & Absolute Crisis Of DC's K.O. #5 (Spoilers)
10. New Powers & Future Of The DC Universe After DC's K.O. #5 (Spoilers)

And a few other stories I wrote from yesterday…

• CoverWatch: David Nakayama's White Colour Block Variants From Marvel
• Speculator Corner: First Appearance Of Green Lantern Squirrel, Ch'p
• Boom Studios To Reboot Mighty Morphin Power Rangers For 2026
• What's Happening To The Titans After DC's K.O. #5? (Spoilers)
• Superman Kills Again In DC's K.O. #5 (Spoilers)
• DC Comics Curing The Joker In Batman #7, Out Today? (Spoilers)
• Shalla Bal, Silver Surfer in The Daily LITG, 4th of March, 2026

LITG one year ago, Alien: Earth Series Preview Including Timothy Olyphant

1. Alien: Earth Series Preview Includes Look at Timothy Olyphant & More
2. USA Imposes New Tariffs On Canada, Mexico & China, Including On Comics
3. The Rookie Season 7 Ep. 10: "Chaos Agent" Official Overview Released
4. Was This The Very Last Diamond Comics Previews Catalog ever?
5. Dynamite's Nick Barrucci, On Image Comics Leaving Diamond Entirely
6. Superman & The Absolute Universe Version Of The Legion Of Super-Heroes
7. Rob Liefeld On Re-Inking Todd McFarlane's Inks On New Mutants Covers
8. Jack Kirby's Family Address President Zelenskyy Of Ukraine
9. Diamond Blowing Out 1:100 Image Comics Variants For $10 A Pop
10. Was This The Very Last Diamond Comics Previews Catalog ever?
11. Should We Buy A Gun? A New Graphic Novel From Divided Perspectives
12. Cullen Bunn And Riley Brown Adapt Dead Acre As A Vault Graphic Novel
13. Doctor Doom Teams With The Avengers in One World Under Doom #5
14. A Very Topical Graphic Novel About Chamberlain In Need Of A Publisher
15. Timothy Olyphant: Alien Earth in the Daily LITG, 4th March, 2025
16. USA Imposes New Tariffs On Canada, Mexico & China, Including On Comics

LITG two years ago… Sting winning final wrestling match

1. Sting Wins Final Match in Ultimate Betrayal of Wrestling Legacy
2. Tom Brevoort On Big Plans, "Wokeness", And Disney's Input Into X-Men
3. Birds Of Prey In Underwear? DC Asks What Else Could You Possibly Want
4. This How Zur-En-Arrh Allies With Amanda Waller? (Batman #145 Spoilers)
5. We Know Why Bruce Dickinson Wore A High-Vis Jacket At His HMV Signing
6. Jack Kirby's Daughter, Susan Kirby, Was A Sixties Pop Star In Britain
7. The Crow, The Brandon Lee One, Gets A 4K Steelbook In May
8. Last Week Tonight: John Oliver Knows Who New DCU Batman Should Be
9. Amazing Spider-Man #44 Tops Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List 
10. Things Get Buggy with Hasbro's New Transformers Insecticons Set 
11. More Rebel Moon Comics After House Of The Blood Axe From Zack Snyder
12. Yen Press Launches Two Lesbian Mermaid Manga In May 2024 Solicits
13. Bruce Dickinson At Comic Con In The Daily LITG, 4th of March, 2024

LITG three years ago, Batman is Back with McFarlane Toys

1. Batman is Back with McFarlane Toys Brand New The Flash Collectibles
2. Doctor Who 60th Anniv Event: Tom Baker Returns for Ep. 1 "Past Lives"
3. Sons of Anarchy: "Totally Different," "Really Cool" Project News Soon?
4. Star Trek: SNW's Anson Mount Addresses His "Dearest Discovery Family"
5. Hasbro Loses Their Minds By Dropping $75 Carbonized Star Wars 2-Pack 
6. The Last of Us Season Finale Will "Divide People Massively": Ramsey
7. Scott Adams Asks Readers To Help Him Rename Dilbert 2.0
8. Attack on Titan Final Season: The Final Chapters Special Now Streaming
9. Knight Terrors is "Freddy Vs DC Heroes" and Began in Superman #1
10. Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Ep. 4 "No Win Scenario" Preview Released
11. The Elusive Pre-Code Horror of Mysteries #1, Up for Auction
12. Skottie Young's I Hate Fairyland #5 Comes With Jack The Radio Song
13. Preparing For New Volume of America's Best-Selling Superhero Dog Man
14. Another New Hero To Debut In Marvel's Voices: Pride 2023 For June
15. YouNeek Studios Creates Afrofuturist Superhero Crossover, The Oloris
16. Caitlin Like's Solo Graphic Novel Debut, The Hundredth Voice
17. Flash Movie Batman in The Daily LITG, 4th March 2023

LITG four years ago, The Batman's Post-Credit Scene

1. After 3 Hours It's Not Worth Staying For The Batman Post-Credit Scene
2. Jason Aaron Apologises For Pocahontas Slight, Donates Conan Payment
3. Grant Morrison Confirms Damian Wayne Was Consensual
4. Mattel Honors 12 Global Female Role Models with New Barbie Collection
5. Garth Ennis Returns To The Punisher In Vietnam In 2022
6. Quantum Leap: Raymond Lee Tapped to Lead Pilot; Plot Twist Revealed
7. The Psychopathic Spider-Man – With Great Power Comes Nothing
8. Harley Quinn: Patrick Schumacker Shares Excellent S03 Production News
9. G.I. Joe Snake Eyes Deluxe Edition Deploys with Mezco Toyz
10. Hasbro Reveals Transformers The Movie Junkheap and Sludge Bots
11. Valiant Classics Reprints For 2022 & 2023, 250 Pages For $24.99
12. Separated At Birth: J Michael Straczynski's Patriot And Sgt Flag
13. Wait Ages For DC/Marvel Mecha Comics, Then Two Come Along At Once
14. Your Free IMAX Batman Comics Can Pay For Your Batman Movie Ticket
15. Scout Comics Joins Diamond's FOC From April 2022
16. The Return of Wampus From Hexagon Comics In March 2022
17. Batman: The Long Halloween Giveaway With The Batman Cinema Tickets
18. King Conan, Not-Pocahantos and The Daily LITG 4th of March 2022

LITG five years ago, Pokémon GO, Wolverine, and Lucifer

1. Today Is The First Team GO Rocket Hour In Pokémon GO
2. The Demasculation Of Wolverine In X-Men Comics Today (Spoilers)
3. Lucifer: Lesley-Ann Brandt Thanks Tom Ellis, Will Miss Beating Up PA
4. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Nightman Not Leaveth McElhenney
5. Buffy Star Charisma Carpenter: Joss Whedon Post Was "A Call to Action"
6. The World Wakes Up To Shazadam Being A Thing In Infinite Frontier #0
7. Marvel Cuts The Cord And Cancels Cable With #12 In June
8. Giovanni Battle Guide for Pokémon GO Players: March 2021
9. Niantic Fixes The Catch Rate of Certain Species In Pokémon GO
10. Pokémon TCG Drops New Shining Fates & First Partner Packs Tomorrow
11. Mongolian Wind: Magnetic Press to Publish Lavish Artbook by Lu Ming
12. Glarien from Charlie Stickney & Romina Moranelli Expands White Ash
13. Grimm Fairy Tales Hits #50 Again in Zenescope's June 2021 Releases
14. Alternate Reality Comic Black Cotton #1 Goes to Second Print
15. Why Does James Bond Join Blofeld In James Bond: Agent Of Spectre?
16. Marvel Cuts The Cord And Cancels Cable With #12 In June
17. Jim Shooter Recalls Counterfeit Valiant Comics Sting in New Interview
18. FOMO Of A Black Superman – Action Comics #9 (2012) $2000 On eBay
19. Marvel Comics To Publish Marvel Voices: Pride For Pride Month?
20. Caroline Leigh Layne Replaces Rebekah Isaacs On Money Shot From Vault
21. 134,000 Copies Of Keanu Reeves BRZRKR #1 Still To Come To Comic Shops
22. Webhead, Taegukgi, Spider-Man and Alien Top Advance Reorders
23. "Racist Gandalf" Used By English Holiday Park To Blacklist Irish
24. Hannibal Tabu and Quinn McGowan's Project: Wildfire From Second Sight
25. Kev F Sutherland – A Graphic Novelist In Search Of An Agent

LITG six years ago – WildCATS was beginning to return

And comics were jumping in price again.

1. The Return of WildCATS and All the Delicious Contradictions Of The DC Timeline in Flash #750 (Spoilers)
2. Man Who Writes 6-Dollar X-Men Comics Amused by How Affordable They Used to Be
3. Jay Garrick Was Now Inspired By Wonder Woman in 1940 – Flash #750 Spoilers
4. Parties And Prejudice On Krakoa, Today (Excalibur #8, Marauders #9 and Strange Academy #1 Spoilers)
5. Mongol Brings Warworld to Superman, as Lois Lane Goes Up Against ICE (Spoilers)
6. Dan Slott Says Empyre Will Do Things to the Fantastic Four That Cannot Be Undone
7. Did Gotham Have A Zorro? Batman #90 Spoilers
8. Justice League Odyssey #19 Keeps Rewriting the Timeline Too (Spoilers)
9. The Cartmel Masterplan is Now the Chibnall Masterplan – 19 Questions (And Some Answers) From Doctor Who Finale
10. "Riverdale" Season 4 "Chapter Seventy-Two: To Die For" [PREVIEW]

Comic book industry birthdays.

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

• Andrea Mutti, artist on Port Of Earth, Rebels, Infinite Dark, Nathan Never
• Sam Eggleston, writer on Combat Jacks.
• Thom Pratt, Owner / Art Director at Clownfish Studios LLC
• Nathan Massengill, inker on Deadpool and Justice Society of America.

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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