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X-Factor Preview in the Daily LITG, 14th of August 2024

The X-Factor #1 topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories.

The X-Factor #1 topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories yesterday – as well as this day over the past five years. Founded fifteen years ago, and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further fifteen 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. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And maybe you just have.

X-Factor Preview topped the ten most popular stories yesterday

1. X-Factor #1 Preview: Mutant Drama and Patriotism
2. McDonald's Brings Back Nostalgia with New Collector's Edition Cups
3. DCBS Told Readers That Dstlry Cancelled Comics When They Left Lunar
4. Become Spider-Man with Jazwares New Official Primalux Costume
5. Peter Parker Love Life in Zeb Wells' Amazing Spider-Man #55 (Spoilers)
6. Default Judgment Asked Against DC & Marvel Over Super Hero Trademark
7. Is Iron Fist Getting A New Blue Costume From Marvel For 2025?
8. The Return Of A Fantastic Four Vehicle Not Seen In 30 Years (Spoilers)
9. Hellboy Director Neil Marshall on What Went Wrong in the 2019 Reboot 
10. Paramount Global Cost-Cutting Shuts Down Paramount Television Studios

And a few other comic book stories you might enjoy.

• Who Are… The Shadow Lanterns? And What Is Their Oath? (Spoilers)
• SCOOP: Tom King To Launch A Trinity Series For DC… With Three Of Her
• Hellverine Will Return… Marvel Comics Makes A Promise (Spoilers)
• Jim Lee, Frank Cho, Milo Manara & Kaare Andrews on 65 Years of Asterix
• Now Transformers Gets Middle-Grade Graphic Novels, Worst Bot Ever
• Review: We Can Be Heroes by Anna Krauze, a Thunderbolt of a New Play
• Danica Novgorodoff & Meera Subramanian's A Better World Is Possible
• Peter Parker's Waiter in the Daily LITG, 13th of August 2024

LITG one year ago, a World's Finest Preview

1. Batman/Superman: World's Finest #18 Preview: A Tale of Two Tight Suits 
2. Neal Kirby Challenges Marvel's Version Of Fantastic Four's Origin
3. The Latest On IDW's Cancelled Creator-Owned Comics
4. Dark X-Men #1 Preview: Turn Off the Dark
5. Iron Man Gets A New 300 Piece Golden Mark III Armor from Hot Toys
6. Tom Brevoort On Chuck Dixon On Fox News- Daily LITG 12th August 2023 
7. Greg Weisman Offers Gargoyles, Young Justice, Rebels Residuals Reality 
8. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Showrunners on Season 3 Ambitions & More 
9. After Ms Marvel Dies, Spider-Man Tells Her His Big Secret (Spoilers)
10. Jared Padalecki & Genevieve Padalecki Take on "Family Feud" (VIDEO)
11. The Strange Case of Blue Ribbon Comics and Diary Secrets, at Auction
12. Trick-Or-Read For Halloween From Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse & Kodansha
13. Cartoonists Vs Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick & Small Boats Week
14. Knight Terrors Reveal Catwoman's Own Doubts Over Gotham War (Spoilers)
15. Five Comic Book Stores Open, Five Close, Two Re-Open
16. Dog Man: The Scarlet Shedder Will Be USA's Best-Selling Book Next Year
17. The Top Two With Tom Brevoort in the Daily LITG, 13th of August 2023

LITG two years ago, Promises Made Over Star Trek Janeway Statue

1. Star Trek: Kate Mulgrew Promises No "Temporal Anomalies" This October
2. Warrior: Martial Arts Western Was Made for Bruce Lee & Action Fans
3. DC Comics Responsible for Mandela Effect, and More Dark Crisis Gossip
4. Halloween 4K Collection Releasing In October, Contains Producer's Cut
5. CGC Changes Policy On Clayton Crain & Black Flag's Acetate Covers
6. Constantine, Titans & Doom Patrol: New Report Offers Update Mixed Bag
7. Avengers 1,000,000 BC #1 Preview: Odin's Shameful Kink Exposed
8. So Who Is Wearing The New Spider-Suit? Peter Parker Or Norman Osborn?
9. James Gunn Clarifies GotG Volume 3 & Holiday Special Detail
10. Today Is Galarian Zigzagoon Community Day In Pokémon GO
11. The Saint & the End of Lev Gleason's Silver Streak Comics, at Auction
12. Ace's Dr. Fate, Flash Lightning in Sure-Fire Comics #1, Up for Auction
13. Miles Burks Auctions Webtoon Comic Encore! To HarperAlley
14. A Look At The Black Flag Booth At FAN Expo Boston Comic Con
15. The Sea Witch Debuts in Frank Frazetta's Death Dealer #5 [Preview]
16. Feel Like a Sucker With Black Flag Comics at Fan Expo Boston?
17. Scott Snyder's Teaching Plans For Substack Year Two
18. Chip Zdarsky's Substack Year Two Plans Are Reduced Fees, No Founders
19. Justice League Dark Still Coming To TV- Daily LITG, 13th August 2022

LITG three years ago, Free Comic Book Day Today

1. Greg Berlanti & "Green" Arrow Convinced Stephen Amell to Return
2. Law & Order: Mariska Hargitay Hits Meloni with Her Own SVU/OC Surprise
3. Is The Eevee Community Day Ticket Worth Buying In Pokémon GO?
4. Titans Star Vincent Kartheiser Investigated for On-Set Conduct: Report
5. Substack, Bisexuality, Stephen Amell in Daily LITG, 13th August 2021
6. DC Comics Full November 2021 Solicits – Not Only But Mostly Batman
7. Batman Teams With The Authority In November From DC Comics
8. The Sylveon Name Trick in Pokémon GO: Eeveelution Guide
9. Harley Quinn Goes "What If…?" Vibe with Batman/Catwoman Sex Life
10. How Do Substack Comic Creators Sleep At Night?
11. First Look At Free Comic Book Day's Black Mask Black/Calexit Special
12. Batman Teams With The Authority In November From DC Comics
13. Tee Franklin, Bobby Moynihan and Andrew Wheeler on DC Comics Special
14. Danny DeVito Writes The Penguin Comic Story For DC Comics
15. The Promise Collection 1941/1942: Comics Go to War
16. DC Comics Full November 2021 Solicits – Not Only But Mostly Batman
17. Speculator Corner: First Appearance Of Robin's New Boyfriend
18. Jordie Bellaire To Write The Wasp For Marvel Comics' Darkhold
19. Free Comic Book Day Sales Tomorrow – From Sublime To Ridiculous
20. Fanboy Rampage: A Substack Comics Special
21. Jimmy Palmiotti's Rage At Kickstarter Comics With Scott Hampton
22. DC One Million Omnibus Misses Out Four Issues?

LITG four years ago, Seth McFarlane, Michael Sheen and Aquaman

The big changes that have led to DC Comics layoffs were confirmed, as we started to see initial impacts, but Aquaman leaving us would have been too soon — and part of something bigger.

1. The Orville Creator Seth MacFarlane Is Going to "War" with NBCU
2. Supernatural: Michael Sheen Greets Misha Collins with Castiel Cosplay
3. DC Comics to Cancel Aquaman With #65 In November
4. The Office is Getting a New Wave of Funko Pops with Exclusives
5. Evidence Of A DC Change Already – Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy
6. DC Comics Layoff Details Confirmed By Letter From Letterer
7. Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird's TMNT Last Ronin Delayed With Big Changes
8. Stargirl, White Canary Get Their Turn; Jim Lee Designs DC's Trinity
9. Detective Comics #1027 Is Not The Thousandth Batman Issue…
10. Ric Grayson No More – Nightwing Gets His Memory Back Next Month
11. DC Comics Appoints New General Manager to Start In Mid-September
12. The Hägar The Horrible Strip That Inspires Joe Biden Every Day
13. Boom Orders Retailers Destroy Faithless II #2 Second Printing
14. Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Pulp Sells Out Through Amazon
15. In One Month Netflix Tripled Old Guard's Lifetime Comic Book Sales

LITG five years ago,

1. New Youngblood Publisher Will Meet Alan Moore's Conditions, No Matter How Outrageous
2. The Thief Who Tried to Sell Comics Back to the Store She Robbed Them From
3. Can Moira MacTaggert's Multiple Lives Explain The Dead X-Men? [X-ual Healing 8-7-13]
4. "The Boys" Season 2: Karl Urban's Looking a Little "Butcher'd" [IMAGE]
5. Twitch Employees To Openly Testify In Phantoml0rd Lawsuit
6. Marvel Comics' November 2019 Solicitations For #DawnOfX X-Men, X-Force, New Mutants, Fallen Angels, Marauders and Excalibur
7. Tomorrow's Captain Marvel #9 – Not The Comic Some Speculators Thought it Might Be (Spoilers)
8. Marvel TV's Loeb: "Adventure into Fear," Howard the Duck, Netflix & More!
9. Marvel Comics Brings Back the Die-Cut Cover to JJ Abrams' Spider-Man #1
10. Tarantino Responds to Bruce Lee Depiction Criticism in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"
11. Should We Brush Up On Our Phalanx Before Reading Tomorrow's Powers Of X #2? (Potential Spoilers)

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.

• James Hodgkins/Jimmy Broxton, artist on Saucer Country.
• Gary O'Donnell, artist on FutureQuake.
• Tim Daniel, comics colourist
• Drew Bittner, comics editor.

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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