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The Thing With A Beard In The Daily LITG, 26th June, 2025

The Thing With A Beard was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool again yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

The Thing With A Beard 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 ten most popular stories yesterday: The Thing With A Beard 

1. How Long Until The Thing Has A Beard In The Comic Books As Well?
2. Absolute Legion And Doomsday Set Up DC Comics' New Crisis (Spoilers)
3. Green Lantern Brings Back A Character From Animated Series (Spoilers)
4. What's New About The New History Of The DC Universe? (Spoilers)
5. Superman Destroys Shield Symbol In A Very Comic Book Way (Spoilers)
6. Tom King Returns To Batman In 2026 With The Best Artist In Comics
7. Mattel Debuts SDCC 2025 Hot Wheels 50th Anniversary Jaws Set 
8. Horrified: Dungeons & Dragons Edition Announced 
9. Doctor Who: BBC Apparently "Sorry, Not Sorry" for Ncuti Gatwa Spoilers
10. Ultimate Spider-Man's Ultimate Responsibility For His Kids (Spoilers)

And a few of my other stories from yesterday

• Diamond Moves To Liquidate All Consigned Comics "Held Hostage"
• How Lex Luthor Is Hiding From Superman Now (Superman #28 Spoilers)
• JMS Wrote Thor In 2007 After Mark Millar And Neil Gaiman Dropped Out
• Marvel Just Published a H.E.R.B.I.E. Comic That Will Break Your Heart
• Is New Orleans Becoming A Sanctuary City For Mutants? (X-Men Spoilers)
• Tom King On Batman In The Daily LITG, 25th June, 2025

LITG one year ago, Blood Hunt Spoilers

1. Blood Hunt #4 Goes Back To Marvel 30 & 42 Years Ago (Big Spoilers)
2. Gerry Duggan & Chip Zdarsky Pay Rob Liefeld to Teach Jonathan Hickman
3. Deadpool & Wolverine: 3 New High-Quality Images Have Been Released
4. Jared Padalecki Discusses 2015 Mental Health Struggle, Walker Ending 
5. The Impact House Of Brainiac Will Have On Superman (Spoilers)
6. More Woke Genderswitching With Zenescope's Sherlock Holmes And Houdini
7. Naboo Royalty Arrives with Mattel's SDCC Star Wars Hot Wheels
8. Filip Sablik Quits Boom Studios, Planning Something With Jamie S Rich
9. Why Chris Claremont is Writing X-Men Again But Not The Main Comic
10. Interview with the Vampire S02 Finale Images: Is It Truly "The End"?
11. Witchblade #1 Gets A Slice Of The Action With 80,000 Orders
12. X-Men '97 Takes On Hulk #340 Vs Wolverine From Todd McFarlane
13. 3 New EC Comics Horror Hosts Debut in Oni's Epitaphs From The Abyss
14. Cr1TiKaL/MoistCr1TiKaL/penguinz0 Launches New Comic, Plague Seeker #1
15. Image Comics Opens Nominations For Comic Book Retailer Awards
16. Killadelphia Expands in 20° Past Rigor #1 From Zombie Love Stories

LITG two years ago, Herogasm Warning

1. Supernatural Fans Offer The Boys Fans Herogasm Warning; Kripke Agrees
2. The Boys Brought Jeffrey Dean Morgan to "Herogasm" Three Times
3. Pokémon TCG To Release New Shiny Charizard & Rayquaza Cards
4. Yehudi Mercado Apologises For "Miles Thor-ales" Portrayal In What If?
5. Venomized Wolverine Slays with New Figuarts Tech-On Avengers Figure
6. Today Is Deino Community Day In Pokémon GO: June 2022
7. The Flash Season 8 Finale Images Released; Tom Cavanagh on Thawne
8. Bleeding Cool Gives You The Boys: Herogasm For Free
9. Comic Shops Lose Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Last Ronin Advantage
10. Now Marvel's Hulk #10 and Thor #28 Slip From August To October
11. The Debut & Origin of U.S. Jones in Wonderworld Comics #28, at Auction
12. Bleeding Cool's Mammoth San Diego Comic-Con SDCC 2022 Party List
13. The Debut of the Flame in Wonderworld Comics #3, at Auction
14. Now Marvel's Hulk #10 and Thor #28 Slip From August To October
15. Comic Shops Lose Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Last Ronin Advantage
16. Bad Idea Invites First Customer Pins To San Diego Comic-Con VIP Party
17. Sivana's Presidential Propaganda Campaign in Whiz Comics 4, at Auction
18. Nick Cagnetti's Pink Lemonade In Oni Press' September 2022 Solicits
19. Matt Baker's Rulah, Jungle Goddess in Zoot Comics #8, Up for Auction
20. Kaare Andrews Returns To E-Ratic In AWA September 2022 Solicits
21. Prague Shakespeare Company Macbeth Adapted Into Graphic Novel
22. Finally, The Best Of 2000AD In Rebellion September 2022 Solicits
23. Yehudi Mercado Apology For Miles Thorales in Daily LITG 25th June 2022

LITG three years ago, DC Comics Vs Zack Snyder's Twitter

1. DC Removes Zack Snyder Cut of Batman Going Down on Catwoman
2. Jared Padalecki Doesn't Sound Too Happy About Supernatural Spinoff
3. Giovanni Battle Guide For Pokémon GO Players: June 2021
4. Deciding Which Pokémon To Power-Up In Pokémon GO
5. The Bidoof Breakout Begins Tomorrow In Pokémon GO: Full Details
6. Warren Ellis Issues Statement Accepting So Many Of Us Website's Offer
7. Image Comics Will Not Work With Warren Ellis Until He Has Made Amends
8. DC Comics Confirms Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy Go Down On Each Other
9. Star Wars: Jodie Comer Reflects on Her Rise of Skywalker Cameo
10. Pokémon TCG Reveals "Celebrations" As Their 25th Anniversary Set
11. The Golden Age Version of Harley Quinn (Sort of), Up for Auction
12. NFTWatch: Neal Adams, Dorkland, Soonay and The Emergents
13. X-Men #1 CGC 9.6 Goes for Record $702,000 at ComicConnect
14. Rebellion Collects DC Comics' Judge Dredd For 2000AD 45th Anniversary
15. Star Wars Bounty Hunter Deva Lompop Debuts In Jabba The Hutt Comic
16. Rick & Morty's Mr Nimbus Gets A Comic in Oni September 2021 Solicits
17. Godkiller: Spiderland Returns in Black Mask September 2021 Solicits
18. Rob Liefeld Returns To X-Force In November For 30th Anniversary
19. St. Mark's Comics Teams Up with Brooklyn Cyclones Baseball Team
20. Jeffrey Veregge, Hospitalised, With Lupus, Renal, Respiratory Failure
21. Better Grab Graded Copies Of Sandman #1 While You Still Can
22. MOM, Michonne & Stabbity Bunny, Thank FOC It's Friday, 25th June 2021
23. Mirka Andolfo Takes Over Red Sonja – Dynamite September 2021 Solicits
24. Primordial & Frontiersman in Image Comics September 2021 Solicits
25. The First Dell Twilight Zone Comic Is On Auction At ComicConnect
26. Titan Comics' Gun Honey and Life Is Strange in September 2021 Solicits
27. Karl Kesel & David Hahn's Impossible Jones From Scout in September
28. Full IDW September 2021 Solicits – New Star Wars & TMNT Last Ronin
29. Bigfoot Frankenstein & Hath No Fury in Action Lab September Solicits
30. The First Appearance Of Rhino In Amazing Spider-Man Is On Auction
31. Maw, Short While, Firefly: River Run in Boom September 2021 Solicits
32. JMS Returns to Telepaths with Steve Epting in AWA September Solicits
33. Werther Dell'Edera's He Who Fights With Monsters in Ablaze Solicits
34. Dave Sim Is Nostalgic For Pandemic In September's Cerebus In Hell
35. Mazebook and Snake Eyes On Next Week's Diamond Previews Covers

LITG four years ago, Harley Quinn, Alan Scott, More Marvel Gossip

Comics chatter dominating traffic, with a new Harley Quinn announcement getting folk all of a twitter.

1. Harley Quinn #1 Announced Tomorrow? What's Up With Her Neck?
2. Alan Scott, Green Lantern, as a Gay Man in the 1940s
3. More Marvel Gossip – Eternals, Children Of The Atom, Moira MacTaggert
4. The Stand Introduces Viewers to Mother Abagail, Randall Flagg and More
5. Male Comic Creators Take The #ComicsPledge – A First Step
6. Kieron Gillen and Jacen Burrows Create Warhammer 40K Comics For Marvel
7. Supernatural, Animal Kingdom and Lucifer, Daily LITG, 23rd June 2020
8. 25 Modern Comics That May Jump In Price – Comic Store In Your Future
9. Joe Sinnott, Legendary Comic Book Inker, Dies Ages 93
10. South Park: HBO Max Killed These 5 Episodes! Those Bastards!

LITG five years ago, When Loki Was Being Teased

1. The New Borderlands 2 DLC Throws More Shade at David Eddings
2. "Loki": Tom Hiddleston Teases Disney+ Series' "New Departure"
3. Jonathan Hickman Calls X-Men Continuity "Random Unconnected Gibberish"
4. "The Loudest Voice": Seth MacFarlane on "Segmented" FOX Relationship
5. Jon Del Arroz Identifies Secret Left-Wing #Comicsgate Grifters
6. Batman Damned #3 is Finally Out Tomorrow – Here's a Preview With John Constantine as Robin

Comic Book birthdays today

There may not be much of a party atmosphere right now. It all depends on which state you are living in. But comic folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

• Tom DeFalco, comics writer, former EIC of Marvel.
• Abigail Brady, writer of Transrealities.
• Ryan Browne, of Curse Words, God Hates Astronauts.
• Lisa Y. Wu of A Wave Blue World.
• Joe Harris, writer of Great Pacific and The X-Files: Season 10.
• Adam McGovern, writer of Nightworld.
• Olly Cunningham, writer/artist of Black Lines.
• Jim Pascoe, writer of Cottons: The Secret of the Wind.
• Gerry Giovinco, former publisher of Comicon, current publisher of CO2 Comics.
• Logan Dalton, comics reviewer.

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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