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X-Men Press Release Drops And SXSW Attendees Get Exclusive Variant

X-Men Press Release Drops, And SXSW Attendees Get Exclusive Variant

At the Future of Marvel Comics X-Men and Digital Comics panel at South by Southwest (SXSW), Editor-in-Chief C.B. Cebulski and VP, Executive Editor Tom Brevoort were joined by writers Jed MacKay and Gail Simone to announce what's coming next for Marvel's line of X-Men comics. This new era of X-Men will be centered around three […]

Phoenix X-Factor Storm Nyx X-Force &#038 Wolverine Announced At SXSW

Phoenix, X-Factor, Storm, Nyx, X-Force & Wolverine Announced At SXSW

I am sure there will be a press release out any second now. But until then… the Marvel/X-Men panel at SXSW announcing the new X-Men titles to the world has exploded. Marvel Executive Editor, SVO and X-Men Group Editor Tom Brevoort has promised that X-Men: From The Ashes will put the X-Men characters back in […]

Three Ongoing Main X-Men Comics Announced For SXSW

Three Ongoing Main X-Men Comics Announced For SXSW

So. according to the news breaking out before the SXSW panel in about a quarter of an hour, following the Krakoan Age, we will have three main X-Men series, Gail Simone and David Marquez's Uncanny X-Men, Jed MacKay and Ryan Stegman's X-Men, and Eve L. Ewing and Carmen Carnero's Exceptional X-Men, a the core ongoing […]

Gavin Guidry &#038 Jonathan Case The New Artists On Birds Of Prey

Gavin Guidry & Jonathan Case, The New Artists On Birds Of Prey

When Birds Of Prey #9 was solicited for May, it read thus: BIRDS OF PREY #9 Written by KELLY THOMPSON Art by VARIOUS Cover by LEONARDO ROMERO Variant cover by EJIKURE $3.99 US | 32 pages | Variant $4.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 5/7/24 If the Birds of Prey have one mission, it's "protect […]

Anjali Singh Launching Own Literary Agency With Graphic Novelists

Anjali Singh Launching Own Literary Agency With Graphic Novelists

Literary agent Anjali Singh, former editor at Other Press, Simon & Schuster, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Vintage Books is best known for discovering an early self-published version of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis in Paris and helped make it an early international smash of a graphic novel. She is now launching her own agency, Anjali Singh Literary, […]

Image Comics To Publish A Self Help Book In June 2024

Image Comics To Publish A Self Help Book In June 2024

Novelists and writing duo Owen King of Sleeping Beauties, The Curator and Jesse Kellerman of The Genius, The Golem of Hollywood team up with artist Marianna Ignazzi of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, An Unkindness of Ravens, colourist Fabiana Mascolo, and designer/letterer Ian Chagren for the upcoming five-issue comic book miniseries, Self Help. This new launch out […]

Darcy Van Poelgeest &#038 Ian Bertrams Precious Metal Finally For June

Darcy Van Poelgeest & Ian Bertram's Precious Metal, Finally For June

Little Bird by Darcy Van Poelgeest, Ian Bertram, Matt Hollingsworth, Aditya Bidikar and Ben Didier was a bit of a hit for Image Comics in 2019 and snapped up an Eisner Award in the process. You can read the first issue for free, here. Before it was even finished being published, Poelgeest promised a sequel, Precious Metal, for 2020, from the same creative team. […]

Finding Comics And Graphic Novels at London Book Fair 2024

Finding Comics And Graphic Novels at London Book Fair 2024

It's the final day of London Book Fair, and I have been wandering around picking up all manner of stuff, meeting all sorts of people as well as bumping into the likes of Mike Holman from Diamond, Dirk Wood from Image Comics, Alan Payne from Dynamite Entertainment, Jamie Elby from Rebellion, Joel Meadows from Tripwire, […]

DC Collects DC Pride Covers As DC Pride Uncovered #1

DC Collects DC Pride Covers, As DC Pride Uncovered #1

Every year, DC Comics runs a bunch of variant covers on certain comic book series for Pride Month. And this year, they have collected a number of those covers in its own publication. DC Pride: Uncovered #1, on sale on the 11th of June, is a gallery comic of covers from Jen Bartel, Phil Jimenez, […]

Did Marvel Add $10 To The Cost Of Immortal Thor Vol 1 By Mistake

Did Marvel Add $10 To The Cost Of Immortal Thor Vol 1 By Mistake?

It has been pointed out that the new collection of Immortal Thor Volume 1 paperback is a little on the thin side for thirty bucks. But was this a mistake? Here's what you get for your money… IMMORTAL THOR VOL. 1: ALL WEATHER TURNS TO STORM TPB Collecting IMMORTAL THOR #1-5 and material from THOR […]

DC Comics Cancels Orders For Justice Society Of America #11

DC Comics Cancels Orders For Justice Society Of America #11

Bleeding Cool has been following the increased delays to the Justice Society of America series for the last year. The first issue by Geoff Johns and Mikel Janin was released in November 2022 as a monthly spinning out of Flashpoint Beyond, The Golden Age and Stargirl, launching the new Golden Age titles at DC Comics, […]

DC Pride To Celebrate Doom Patrols Rachel Pollack

DC Pride To Celebrate Doom Patrol's Rachel Pollack

There was a time when DC Comics wanted to forget about Rachel Pollack. A prominent trans creator picked by Grant Morrison to continue the Doom Patrol series after they left, the series was repeatedly uncollected, with collections listed and then disappearing. The success of the Doom Patrol TV series which used a number of characters […]

MCM Comic Con Makes A Big Pitch At London Book Fair

MCM Comic Con Makes A Big Pitch At London Book Fair

Reed Exhibitions/ReedPOP owns both the London Book Fair and the MCM Comic Con brand, but until this week the two had never met. That changed, as MCM Comic Con set up shop at Book Fair with a big message. Launch your book at MCM. Their NYCC shows had a big Book Contingent, and it is […]

Whose Fault Was The Break-Up Peter Parker or Mary Jane (Spoilers)

Whose Fault Was The Break-Up? Peter Parker or Mary Jane? (Spoilers)

Mary Jane's aunt Anna Watson may be cured of the viral violent urges caused by the Orchis-tainted Krakoan medicine provided by the mutants of Earth. But in today's Amazing Spider-Man #45 by Zeb Wells and Carmen Carnero, she remains in Ravenscroft Institute alongside a number of other familiar-sounding folk. The Human Fly created by Len Wein, […]

The Fifteenth Doctor Revisits Past In New Doctor Who Comic For June

The Fifteenth Doctor Revisits Past In New Doctor Who Comic For June

Titan Comics are launching their new Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor for Free Comic Book Day on the 4th of May, 2024, just ahead of the new BBC Doctor Who series starring Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor. And now we have a few more details about the comic book regular series that will follow later […]

Thor Pays A Visit To Marvel Comics in The Immortal Thor #8 (Spoilers)

Thor Pays A Visit To Marvel Comics in The Immortal Thor #8 (Spoilers)

Today sees Thor Odinson go up against one of his competing mothers' Gaea, to hold her to account for threatening the people of the Earth, in Immortal Thor #8. With an eye on the Big Oil/Tech/Magic company Roxxon. Just as we are about to enjoy The Roxxon Age Of Comics in May. In Immortal Thor #4 […]

How Do You Stop A Juggernaut Or Anna Watson X-Men vs Orchis Spoilers

How Do You Stop A Juggernaut Or Anna Watson? X-Men vs Orchis Spoilers

Today sees the publication of Krakoan tie-in titles Dead X-Men #3, Amazing Spider-Man #45, Wolverine #45, Fall Of The House Of X #3 and X-Men Unlimited #130. The impact of Orchis and Krakoa continues to spill out across the rest of the Marvel Universe, with Anna Watson still in the Ravenscourt Institute after her Krakoan […]

Destinys Prophecies Realised in Fall Of The House Of X-Men (Spoilers)

Destiny's Prophecies Realised in Fall Of The House Of X-Men (Spoilers)

Today sees The Fall Of The House Of X #3 by Gerry Duggan, Lucas Werneck and Jethro Morales, but it also harkens back to two other comics written by Gerry Duggan, X-Men #24 and Hellfire Gala #1. In X-Men #24, Destiny spoke to her adopted daughter Rogue about events that were to come. And come they […]

Storm And Her Sexuality In Ultimate Black Panther #2 (Spoilers)

Storm And Her Sexuality In Ultimate Black Panther #2 (Spoilers)

Today sees the publication of Ultimate Black Panther #2 by Bryan Hill and Stefano Caselli, part of the seriously strong launch of Marvel's Ultimate line, and making all manner of changes along the way as you might expect. So we have T'Challa married to Okoye, and there is a prophecy to come. A woman of […]

Comparing Both Current Dune Adaptations As Comic Books

Comparing Both Current Dune Adaptations As Comic Books

Legendary Comics announced today an official movie graphic novel based on Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures' Dune: Part Two, the film adaptation of Frank Herbert's book from Denis Villeneuve. So, if you want to get that IMAX feeling you can hold it really close to your face. Dune, Part One comic book writer Lilah […]