Comics Archives

Thomas Taylor is best known for drawing the cover to the first Harry Potter novel. But he has also written and illustrated a number of books, and now has taken the plunge into comic books, with Scarlett Hart, Monster Hunter written by Marcus Sedgwick.

VIZ Media's April 2018 solicits are out. New series Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boys and Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction are coming out, and Ruroni Kenshin and Naruto are getting more omnibus releases. More details here.

Abbott #1, the first original comics series from Hugo Award-nominated writer Saladin Ahmed (Marvel’s Black Bolt, the Crescent Moon Kingdoms novels) and

Zenescope has attracted Superman, Fathom and WildCATS artist Talent Caldwell to a new comic book series, Mainstream, out in April 2018, working with Michael Dolce and Tony Moy.

The world's largest comic book convention, Angoulême 2018, kicks off this weekend, with the announcement that the Grand Prix has been won by Richard Corben, beating out fellow nominees Chris Ware and Emmanuel Gilbert. The award includes being made President of next year's show.

David Avallone has provided us a commentary track for the newest issue of the Dynamite series Bettie Page that hits comic shops today. Read it here!

Hero Tomorrow is a 2007 movie (with a 2015 cut) written and directed by Ted Seduka and co-written by Milo Miller, set in and around a comic book shop.

Titan Comics may not have any new Doctor Who comic books for a little while. But they're launching five new (or newish) series in April 2018, including Peter Milligan on The Prisoner.

From one of the more activist comic book publishers out there, Black Mask Comics, for April 2018. Starting with the launch of Survival Fetish... SURVIVAL

When Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw joined the Thanos book from Marvel Comics, they included a new character, the Cosmic Ghost Rider from some time in the far

Red Goblin. Ever since Marvel teased a redness of a certain Goblin character, questions have been asked. Dan Slott ran a lovely little divergence suggesting that it could be Mephisto and this was all Spider-marriage related. But if it is, it's not from that direction.

The details of next week's Diamond Comic Distributors catalogue for comics out in April 2018, are out. FRONT COVER: The true parentage of Robin Damian

Sonic the Hedgehog starts the race again thanks to creators Ian Flynn and Tracey Yardley. Plus, more from Goosebumps, X-Files, TMNT, GI Joe and more. This all comes from April thanks to IDW Publishing.

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool ran a story looking at today's Justice League Of America #23, published today. It was based on the reading of a retailer

Every new Iron Man film deserves a new suit of armour. And Avengers Infinity War does have Iron Man in it - and everyone else. While there have been

DC Rebirth Special #1 by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank began the journey that led to the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, Doomsday Clock, currently being

This week's Amazing Spider-Man #797 annoyed me a little. Set in London, obviously we get a shot of the Big Ben clock tower. When for quite some time now,

Today, Superman and Booster Gold take a trip to the future in Action Comics #996 by Dan Jurgens, Will Conrad and Ivan Nunes. And find a planet colonised

The Marvel Universe begins with the space flight that Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm took, that saw them exposed to cosmic

According to a report from CNBC, Disney plans to pay more than 125,000 employees a $1000 bonus each, and also to invest $50 million in employee education programs. The reason: the recent tax reform bill, the landmark achievement of Donald Trump's presidency.

Newsweek has run details on the unpublished Superman story by Superman co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster that will appear in the Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman hardcover volume.

We've been looking through Marvel's solicitations for interesting stories, and we may have found one in the solicits for April's Avengers. It looks like Marvel could be planning to kill off a member of the team. At least, the solicit for Avengers #688 seems to imply as much.

It's a good trick if you can manage it. Avengers #677, published tomorrow, has sold out at distributor level and has gone to second printing. AVENGERS

A review of the latest Tom Stranger, interdimensional Insurance Agent as Adam Baldwin narrates A Murder of Manatees by Larry Correia.

The solicit for X-Men Blue #25 finally reveals the new team roster for X-Men Blue, which has been teased for a few months. That new roster, the cover appears to reveal, consists of Polaris, Xorn, Bloodstorm, Jimmy Hudson, Gazing Nightshade, and Daken.

Marvel's plans to slowly phase out needing to pay colorists by getting readers to color the books for them is kicking into high gear in April, with not

Dynamite has sent us an exclusive first look at the covers and solicitations for their trades / graphic novels shipping in April of 2018. Check them out here!

Last month saw the culling of many low-selling Marvel titles, but April's solicits appear to be relatively casualty-free. Except, that is, for the solicitation for Black Bolt #12, which, while not explicitly claiming to be a final issue, does feel a bit final nonetheless.

Mentioned in the solicits for Venom #165 for April 2018, is this promise: "IN THIS ISSUE: Startling revelations that set the stage for the Venom epic of the fall!"

Image Comics has a bunch of launches for April 2018 – Analog, Isola, Crude, The Dead Hand, Skyward and original graphic novels, Crossroad Blues: A Nick