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Marvel Comics returns to market dominance, selling almost one in every two comic books ordered in the North American comic book direct market, with a

Marvel has announced a new Shang-Chi series launching this June, to be written by Gene Luen Yang with art by Dike Ruan and Phillip Tan. The New York Times

Lots of comic shops choose to open their doors for the first time on Free Comic Book Day. I think last year we counted eleven, all told. Well, it's still

Gosh Comics of London, launched Steven Appleby's cross-dressing superhero graphic novel Dragman last night (pictures throughout below). They have a busy

Marvel is putting a few more comic books back to second printings. They are not all Star Wars comic books. But they are mostly Star Wars comic books. We

Boom Studios and Dynamite Entertainment are the leading proponent of what is known as the FOC cover, releasing cover images just before the Final Order

Marvel Comics is ramping up their exclusive retailer variant cover programmes again. for March they pulled it back to seven but for April, it was double

It looks like the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting comics beyond just the cancellation or postponement of comic cons, like WonderCon most recently. Bleeding

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail

(Image Comics, creative team: Mike Costa, Nate Bellegarde, Tamra Bonvillain, Sal Cipriano) From the start, there is no shortage of ability, talent and

(Image Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Mike Huddleston, Rus Wooton) With enough supplementary material to make a good chunk of a series bible,

Giant-Size X-Men Magneto was solicited as drawn by Ben Oliver. But retailers have just been informed, that it will now be drawn by Ramon K Perez. This has

(Marvel Comics, creative team: Jonathan Hickman, Mahmud Asrar, Sunny Gho, CLayton Cowles) This issue is messy and funny and splashy and stupid in the

The latest series set in Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston's Black Hammer Universe will be Barbalien: Red Planet, a five-issue series by Lemire, Tate Brombal,

(Marvel Comics, creative team: Greg Pak, Rafele Ienco, Neeraj Menon, Joe Caramagna) Old business pops up to shake the Lord of the Sith to the core. This

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Comic-Con International had cancelled April's WonderCon in Anaheim. No sooner had the word dropped that

Wizard Entertainment of the double-decade Wizard Worlds is to launch “Wizard World Virtual Experiences” just as WonderCon announced its

Comic-Con Museum, a subsidiary of the nonprofit organization that also runs San Diego Comic-Con and WonderCon, has announced that, following the

Back during Tom King's Batman run, in the good old days of 2019, Batman had what we're pretty sure was a 47-issue arc where he was having "Knightmares,"

DC Comics has released their Bat-family solicits for June ahead of the full solicits later this month as Joker War sweeps across the line. So what's going

Bleeding Cool has received the following statement from Comic-Con International regarding the planned staging of Wondercon in Anaheim, California, for

Batgirl will relive her greatest traumas... again... this June as Joker War rolls through Batgirl #48. Kicking off a new storyline called "The Last Joke,"

Have you ever taken a look at this guy and thought, "you know, I bet he was a sexy teen heartthrob?"   Well, somebody did, and her name was Nora.

Image Comics has announced a new original graphic novel coming by Alex de Campi and Erica Henderson. Called Dracula, Motherf**ker, the pulp pyschological

I may be the wrong guy to review a Transformers comic - I grew up with Japanese giant robot anime, so I always thought Transformers was a US toy company

Anthony Oliveira is best known for writing comics such as Steven Universe, War of the Realms, Pros and (Comic) Cons and Shout Out. But the comics creator,

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and

Today is my daughter Eve's fifteenth birthday. I know, right? But I wanted to talk about her fifth birthday, ten years ago. Or rather a week before it

Valiant Entertainment has announced a new series launching in June from writer Max Bemis and artist Nathan Stockman, with colors by Brian Reber, and

Courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, here are the nominees for the Diamond Gem Awards of 2019, to be voted on by comic book retailers in the direct