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By Chris Thompson After last week’s chat with Clifford Meth (which you can still listen to here), this time around I catch up with writer Justin Jordan to
By Jared Cornelius As a comics fan I often find myself being reductive and cynical about revivals and updated properties. It's so easy to be cynical
By Joseph Kyle Schmidt I’m not the world’s biggest Warren Ellis fan. It’s not that I’m critical of any of his work, because that’s not true. I’ve pretty
One of the many things the Batgirl comic, under Gail Simone, accomplished was the emergence of a regular transgender character in a mainstream superhero
The Diamond chart lists The Walking Dead #128 as the 9th best selling title in the direct market for June. Diamond's chart on Monday will show
On Wednesday we Frankensteined what we could. On Thursday we ran all the San Diego Comic Con programming for the day. And then we wept at al the things we
We wrote about Clydene Nee earlier this year. But with San Diego Comic Con in less than two weeks, it's about tome for a reminder. A regular volunteer
It's safe to say there have been a lot of behind the scenes rumblings on this one. The moment that Matt Fraction left the high profile title Inhuman
Well, now Marvel have a few more people to invite to their Women Of Marvel panel at San Diego Comic Con. Of late it seemed to have shrunk down to Kelly
Bleeding Cool's SDCC 2014 announcement from Dark Horse is the impending March 2015 series Neverboy written by Shaun Simon of The True Lives of the
Last month we pointed out DC Comics had increased their marketshare of the direct comics market against Marvel in May, after a number of months suffering
On Saturday, Third Eye Comics of Annapolis, Maryland will be holding the launch party for Wayward #1, the new comic written by Jim Zub and with an
We mentioned this was coming. And now it is. A new comic series from Jacob Semahn and Jorge Corona, Goners from Image Comics, out in October. From the
P. Craig Russell has moved through five volumes of graphic storytelling instructional video projects that are going to produce an entire generation of
As they promised, CBR have been given the news about a new Valiant series. Called The Valiant. From Matt Kindt, Jeff Lemire and Paola
Nicola Scott teased us all about her final DC project. To see out my contract, I’ll be doing a short but personal project with my all time favourite
The London Film And Comic Con, taking place at Earls Court starting tonight and over the weekend, has had some interesting histories with comic book
When I interviewed Joe Casey about the new Captain Victory And The Galactic Rangers, he talked about how no single artist could come close to what Jack
Gail Simone is appearing at the London Film And Comic Con this weekend (taking of which, show organisers? Please get in touch, I have questions...) Which
Alice Cooper has been a performer since he first took the stage fifty years ago, back then going by his real name of Vincent Furnier. Four years later he
By Emir Pasanovic In my last text, I mentioned in a few places how beautiful Croatia's coast is, but how can I portray how much the sea really shapes the
By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu With the Guardians of the Galaxy movie just round the corner, all kinds of promo stuff are popping up. But Rocket Raccoon #1,
IDW and Hasbro have gotten together with Heritage Auctions to raise money for charity. What they have done is put together a one-of-a-kind issue of My
By Ian Mageto Comics and Cosplay host and Bleeding Cool’s Bleeding Cosplay columnist Ian Mageto presents another episode of Comics and Cosplay, and this
This summer Valiant has been rolling along with their Armor Hunters event and now they have announced that there will be a one-shot this October called
You may have seen the Out of Step Arts Collective representing at SPX or more recently at HeroesCon in North Carolina, and the stand out from the crowd
According to USAToday.com, Archie Comics is taking their Red Circle comic characters and making them a little darker. Characters like The Shield, The Fox,
Peter S. Svensson writes for Bleeding Cool: Dungeons & Dragons. The game where people roll dice, and pretend to kill things and take their stuff. The
By Jared Cornelius Welcome back to Typing on The Dead: Bleeding Cool’s Walking Dead recap column. It’s been a strange few months for the cast of the