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The Muppets Take Marvel in The Daily LITG, 2nd Of September 2025

The Muppets Do The Marvel Universe was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool, again, yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.



Article Summary

  • The Muppets Do The Marvel Universe leads as the most-read Bleeding Cool story for another day
  • Explore the top trending comic book news, including Marvel, DC, and major pop culture moments
  • Reflecting on six years of Lying In The Gutters with flashbacks to past big stories and trends
  • Noteworthy comic creator birthdays and an invitation to join the LITG daily email list

The Muppets Do The Marvel Universe was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool, again, yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past six years. Founded sixteen 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 run around 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.

The Muppets Do The Marvel Universe and the ten most popular stories, yesterday

  1. The Muppets Do The Marvel Universe In Variant Covers
  2. Police Called On Artist Accused Of Selling A.I. Art At Dragon Con
  3. Jorge Jimenez's New DC Comics Batman Corner Boxes Debut This Week
  4. Here's The 1:1000 Batman #1 "Blind As A Bat" Blind Bag Foil Variant
  5. The Cosmic Cast of Marvel's New Exiles Series in 2026 (Spoilers) 
  6. Disney/Marvel Now Restrict Fantagraphics Over Bill Everett Collection
  7. McFarlane Toys Continues Jim Lee X-Men #1 Statues with Colossus
  8. New Transformers Statue Hits Iron Studios with the Infamous Megatron
  9. Decline Of DC's Ratio Variant Covers Hits Comic Shops In Their Pocket
  10. DC Comics React To Stores Selling & Opening Batman #1 Blind Bags Early

And other stories of mine from yesterday.

LITG one year ago, Married With Children

Married… With Children: Christina Applegate on Bond with Ed O'Neill
Ed O'Neill and Christina Applegate in Married…With Children. Image courtesy of Sony Pictures TV
  1. Married… With Children: Christina Applegate on Bond with Ed O'Neill
  2. SCOOP: Marvel To Make Kitty Pryde Canonically Bisexual This Week
  3. Interview with the Vampire: Reid on Anne Rice, Switching Off Lestat 
  4. Stranger Things 5: Shawn Levy Shares Looks at Wolfhard, Hawke & More
  5. Bones: Emily Deschanel "Surprised" by David Boreanaz's Return Talk
  6. Incoming Absolute Power Gossip From DC Comics (Spoilers) 
  7. McFarlane Debuts New Batman: The Animated Series 1:3 Replica Cowl 
  8. Star Trek: Khan – Ceti Alpha V Update – Meyer
  9. Why Jen Bartel Stopped Drawing She-Hulk Covers For Marvel Comics 
  10. Firefly/Strange New Worlds: Mount & Fillion's Dragon Con "Crossover"
  11. How Tom Brevoort Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Magik
  12. Unearthing Details of Alan Moore's Long London: The Great When
  13. Jen Bartel Tells Marvel Tales in The Daily LITG, 1st of September 2024
  14. Things To Do In London If You Like Comics – September 2024 Edition

LITG two years ago, Atari 50th Anniversary Arcade

Atari 50th Anniversary Arcade Machine
Atari 50th Anniversary Arcade Machine Credit: Arcade1Up
  1. Arcade1Up Announces Atari 50th Anniversary Deluxe Arcade Machine
  2. It's Morphin' Time as the Power Rangers White Ranger Helmet Returns
  3. SEGA & OddFellows Ice Cream Collab On Sonic The Hedgehog Flavors
  4. Iman Vellani Signs Her New Ms Marvel #1 Comic at Her Old Comic Shop
  5. Doctor Who: Ncuti Gatwa Jacked as "Season 2 Approaches" (Series 15?) 
  6. Wonder Woman Will Fight The Entire US Army- And America Itself
  7. Pokemon TCG Releases Trick Or Trade BOOster 2023 This Week
  8. Heal Your Wounds with Hasbro's Transformers: The Movie! Ratchet Figure
  9. The Top 10 Comic Shop Monthly Bestseller List For August 2023
  10. Pokemon GO Announces September 2023 Content, Raids, & Events
  11. PrintWatch: Void Rivals & Plot Holes, But Marvel Cancels Second Prints
  12. Saki Sakimoto's Never Let Go in TokyoPop's November 2023 Solicits
  13. Preview Of Critical Role Legend of Vox Machina: Whitestone Chronicles
  14. The Bookshelves, Comics And Cartoons Of Freddie Mercury
  15. Zack Snyder, A Big Heavy Metal Magazine Fan, Knows It's For Sale
  16. The Punisher's Gerry Conway On His Cancer, Induced Coma And Surgery
  17. Things To Do In September 2023 If You Like Comics
  18. Tsubasa Yamaguchi's Blue Period Set in Kodansha November 2023 Solicits
  19. Sonic The Hedgehog Ice Cream in the Daily LITG, 1st of September 2023

LITG three years ago, Charlbi Dean Has Died

black lightning
Image: Screencap
  1. Black Lightning: Arrowverse Star Charlbi Dean Passes Away, Age 32
  2. House of the Dragon Perpetuates Orientalist, Sexist Stereotype
  3. Cyclops Gets Judged In A.X.E. Judgment Day (Spoilers)
  4. The Boys Season 4: Guess Who's No Longer in The Seven's Mural?
  5. When Todd McFarlane Drew Neil Gaiman's Sandman
  6. Daniel Cherry III Moves From DC Comics To SVP Of Adidas
  7. When Kayne West Screencaps Ye Bleeding Cool Daniel Cherry III Article
  8. Rachel Pollack Appeal By Neil Gaiman, Gail Simone, Shelly Bond & More
  9. A "Recognisable Marvel Entity" Is Behind All-Out Avengers
  10. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan 40th Anniversary Returns to Theaters
  11. DC Comics Signs New Deal With Universal, Canadian Distributor
  12. Confirmed: Bad Idea Comics First Appearances In Diamond Previews #408
  13. Lurker – a New Horror Comic From an All-Female British Creative Team
  14. Republican Candidate Reported To Police Over Possessing Gender Queer
  15. Things To Do In London If You Like Comics – September 2022
  16. First Look: Jorge Jiménez Draws Nemesis Reloaded For Mark Millar
  17. Cyclops Was Right In The Daily LITG, September 1st, 2022

LITG four years ago, Charlotte Flair and Nia Jax

The Muppets Take Marvel in The Daily LITG, 2nd Of September 2025

  1. Did Charlotte Flair& Nia Jax Shoot On Each Other Last Night?
  2. Dave Bautista Mocks Fox News: "They're So Pathetically Desperate"
  3. Marvel Announced Many Timeless Projects For 2021 and 2022
  4. More Thoughts About Today's Big Marvel Announcements
  5. After Almost Two Decades, Marvel Finally Announces The Reckoning War
  6. My Copy of DC's Pulped Free Comic Book Day 2020 Generation Zero
  7. Superman/Lobo Gets Patton Oswalt Effect Over "Anti-Savers" Hashtag
  8. The Wheel of Time: Rosamund Pike Reveals Teaser Drop This Thursday
  9. The Beatdown Has Tragic Consequences In Sinister War #4 (Spoilers)
  10. Time For Mr Sinister To Create Krakoan Chimera (Hellions #15 Spoilers)
  11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 CGC 9.8 Sells for Record $245,000
  12. Geoff Johns Unveils Unnamed Geiger Timeline & Junkyard Joe For 2022
  13. Gun Honey #1 Beats Spider-Man, Spawn & X-Men In Advance Reorders
  14. The Origin Of Doctor Strange On Auction At ComicConnect
  15. Marvel's Timeless Will Be A One-Shot Like Incoming And Marvel #1000
  16. Original Tim Sale Artwork From Batman The Long Halloween At Auction
  17. Fantastic Four #51 CGC Copy On Auction At ComicConnect
  18. Al Jaffee And His Take On Comic Cons For MAD Magazine At Auction
  19. Refuse x Last Resorts in Bad Idea Solicitations for November 2021
  20. Incredible Hulk #1 CGC 8.0 Copy Over $100,000 At ComicConnect
  21. Jim Cheung Draws DC Comics Superheroes For British Royal Mail Stamps
  22. Marvel's Announcements Are Timeless- Daily LITG, 1st September 2021

LITG five years ago, Erangel, Robin and Pokemon

  1. PUBG Mobile Releases Details On Erangel 2.0 Map Changes
  2. It's Official – Drake No More, Just Call Him Robin (Young Justice #18)
  3. Niantic Responds To Mega Evolution Controversy In Pokémon GO
  4. Tim Drake is Robin Again, Damian Wayne is Not
  5. Doctor Who Gets The Strangest Companion Yet in Time Lord Victorious
  6. Supernatural: Jared Padalecki's Bravelecki: An Epic Tale of Man & Wood
  7. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Glenn Howerton On Season 15 Status
  8. The Rarest Generation One Shiny Pokémon In Pokémon GO
  9. What On Earth Are The Justice League Going To Do About Superboy Prime
  10. DC Comics Closes Private Retailer Forum on Facebook
  11. Keanu Reeves' Comic BRZRKR Heads To Kickstarter
  12. The New Publisher Of DC Has The Initials D.C.
  13. What's Worse Than Having Your Name Misspelled In New Mutants Credits?
  14. 300,000 Not Enough? The Three Jokers #1 Gets a Second Printing
  15. Today, Batman Does His Very Best Peacocking (Batman #98 Spoilers)

LITG six years ago, Philadelphia, Conan, and Brian Wood

The details of the Diamond/Ablaze battle over Conan are ones I would really like to revisit one day.

  1. "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" Season 14: Dennis' "Bod by God"
  2. Diamond Cancels Conan Comics – Cimmerian: Queen Of The Black Coast – Over Legal Threats
  3. Dark Horse Cancels Brian Wood's Aliens: Colonial Marines: Rising Threat Over New Allegations
  4. Many New Games Workshop Releases Unveiled at NOVA Open
  5. "Firefly," "Stargate Universe" & More: Our "Streamer Second Coming"
  6. Comic Store In Your Future – 25 Hot Comics Right Now
  7. Let "Terminator" Die With Dark Fate, James Cameron [OPINION]
  8. Netflix: Reports of Streamer's Death are Greatly Exaggerated [OPINION]
  9. Frank Castle's Sense of Humor in Punisher #15 [Preview]
  10. Laura Hudson Talks About Brian Wood, Sexual Harassment and Tess Fowler

Comic Book birthdays today.

There might be partially slightly more of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

  • Walter SimonsonThor artist, Ragnarok creator.
  • Brian BuccellatoFlash writer.
  • Dan Hart, comics journalist.
  • Drew Ford, comics publisher of It's Alive.
  • Clam Crowder of Hashtag Comics.
  • Gabriel Bautista, artist on Albert The Alien, All-Star Western and The Life After.
  • Jason P. MartinVampblade writer.

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of comic books The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne and Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and Forbidden Planet. Father of two daughters, Amazon associate, political cartoonist.
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