Comics Archives

Ah well, it was still fun speculation.  And the original Sand Superman saga from 1971 is still my favorite 70s-era Superman story. I stumbled across a

Ward Sutton looks at the current political players for the Village Voice, via the iconography of DC Comics, and asks if they can be relaunched as well?

Rather than simply relying on sales figures, which never tell the full picture, we ask retailers what is, and what isn’t, moving for them, and here’s what

This past Wednesday, DC released The Ray, Volume III, #1, bringing us the fourth incarnation of the Ray, this one a Korean-American named Lucien Gates.

Thanks to Amazon, we have a glimpse of upcoming Marvel plans. Lots of the usual collections of current and classic comics, with a few surprises. In July

Aaron and Anna get dressed in the Christmas spirit to look through a monster week of comics, from new Justice League to Wonder Woman to X-Force to Hulk,

It was noted that in the March 2012 solicitations for Marvel Comics, that the Marvel Adventures line of comics had come to an end. Spider-Man #24 and

Si Spurrier’s instructions: "Dredd is an American law enforcement officer in Mega City One: a violent city of the future where uniformed Judges combine

Grace Randolph looks at tomorrow's comics today with her new Think About The Ink - Stacktastic video blog, which Bleeding Cool is honoured to host. This

It doesn't happen often. An in-comic goodbye to someone at a comic publisher who has been made redundnant. Most companies are embarrassed by such things -

Stuart Moore was a DC editor for the Helix line, which launched amongst other things, Transmetropolitan. Working for Vertigo, he was then headhunted by

It was a terribly engaging theory, that Superman was intended to have been replaced by a Sand creature back in 1988, as a possible get out to the Lois And

Batwoman artist Amy Reeder has been breaking down some of her upcoming cover for the series, from sketches to colours, on her Facebook page. Here are

Man, I'm tearing up. Congratulations, you guys.

ChangeWatch: Todd Allen tracks changes in DC creator solicitations from issue 1s to issue 7s for The Beat. Sadly he misses out special mention for those

With the official release of the new trailer, The Dark Knight Rises plot speculation reached a fever pitch today, and spiked a months-old BC post about

The Samurai's Blood trade paperback by Owen Wiseman and Nam Kim , published by Image, produced by Benaroya Publishing, is on the 29th of February. Which

DC's New 52 Free Comic Book Day title, as well as showing off the best of the relaunched titles, will also offer retailers the chance to show themselves

All four branches of Atomic Comics of Arizona closed down in August. And now the chain is to be stripped for parts. On Tuesday the 3rd of January, at

This weekend I ran a piece by Scott Edelman about the work of Sharon Moody, who paints, amongst other things, reproductions of comic  books in mid-read,

So anyway, that's my Christmas card this year. Merry Christmas all, to those who get Lying In The Gutters by e-mail. Bleeding Cool will be running through

Six years ago, DC Comics changed their logo from the decades old DC bullet designed by Milton Glazer to the "DC Swoosh" designed by Josh Beatman of

The last big video game to be released this year is the MMO STAR WARS: THE OLD REPUBLIC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzdCdRPESps Too bad the actual

Patrick Willems delivers another stellar video for Bleeding Cool. And this time it's rather close to home, delivering a list of ways that publishers

DC has released a preview of this Wednesday's Leviathan, the comic wrapping up the Batman Inc series than ran before the relaunch. At the end of Batman

  Kim Jong Il was known for, amongst many other things, kidnapping movie directors he liked to entertain him. Well, his successor and son, Kim Jong

CookWatch: Anthony Bourdain's Get Jiro cooking graphic novel from DC Vertigo gets a cover. StarWatch: Paul Cornell talks about being starstruck. "At

Based on the title alone, Stan Lee ought to be annoyed about at least one of these Sharon Moody pieces too, I think. That aside, I've heard it said that

Probably best known as the director of eighties horror movie, Chillers, Danny Boyd has moved into graphic novels in a big way of late. As well as the

To comic book fans, the name Raphael means one thing, and one thing only. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. But when Tony Perottett of Slate.com visited