Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy is a 1985 Western novel that follows a teenager from Tennessee, known as The Kid, born during the Leonids meteor shower of 1833, and his experiences with the Glanton gang, a group of actual scalp hunters who massacred Native Americans on the US/Mexican borders in 1849, against Judge Holden, a […]
Two weeks worth of the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List. This weekend and…. I seem to have lost a week. Sorry about that.This week Batman #146 tops X-Men #33 but also see four comics from Image Comics smash their weay into the top ten, the usual Void Rivals but also all three Ghost Machine comic […]
Do you remember Tim Daniel and Mehdi Cheggour's giant monster comic, Enormous? First published in 2012 as a one-shot by Image Comics, then a six-issue series from 215 Ink – now Invader Comics – in 2014, and a second volume in 2015, it is now returning in an even more enormous form on Kickstarter, just […]
On the 26th of July 2021, comic book creator Liam Sharp tweeted; I have been working on an Arthurian epic for over 30 years on and off, refining and refining it. And I still can't find a publisher for it. I think it's nearly time for me to just do it myself. Who'd be interested in supporting […]
PrintWatch: Marvel Comics is to put the new Deadpool #1 by Cody Ziglar and Roge Antonio to a second printing for the 15th of May, which also comes with a 1:25 variant. Covers – and cover artists – are not yet announced. PrintWatch: Stray Dogs team Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner has "sold out instantly […]
Deadpool and Youngblood creator, founder of Image Comics and Extreme Studios, Rob Liefeld is writing a memoir entitled Robservations, planned for publication in early 2025 through BenBella Publishing. Recently, Rob has been running a podcast with the same name, looking at the history of comic books and his involvement in it. He has been heavily critical […]
Jim Viscardi – or James Viscardi – founder of Bleeding Cool rival ComicBook.com, has left the company he co-founded to become the new VP of Business Development at Image Comics, effective immediately. Another one of the shoes dropping we mentioned last week. He will "oversee Image's audience growth and build new business relationships for the […]
On the 9th of January, Bleeding Cool reported that Ben Abernathy had quit the Batman Group Editor job (one that DC still hasn't found a replacement for) and on the 10th that he was heading to Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment. Almost three months later and Skybound has confirmed that scoop, as another box of shoes […]
Mark Millar has announced his next Millarworld titles from Dark Horse Comics to follow Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery and they are all sequels to previous comics published at Image Comics. Prodigy: Slaves of Mars, Night Club 2, The Magic Order volume 5 and a final series for Jupiter's Legacy. He continues, "You really are a bunch […]
Just mentioned this on the Three Jokers post, so here we go. This Wednesday has been dubbed Ghost Machine Day. Here are three previews for all three Ghost Machine launch titles, all written by Geoff Johns, with Rook: Exodus with Jason Fabok, Geiger with Gary Frank and Redcoat with Bryan Hitch, and all published by Image […]
In the bad old days, distributors often got comic books to stores on different weeks. Well, it seems to be happening again; Lunar Distribution stores got Savage Dragon #269, and Diamond Comic Distributors stores got Savage Dragon #269 this coming week. It went digital last week as well. This split may be why Savage Dragon #269 […]
Bleeding Cool gets the word on a number of major comic book industry hiring moves coming that may change the face of the direct market for comic books as it currently stands. That's basically it, by the way. But there are all manner of dots and crosses to be added, entire departments to be informed […]
Recently, Bryan Hitch launched new work for Ghost Machine, the creator-owned-and-shared imprint at Image Comics with his series Redcoat written by Geoff Johns, as well as Ultimate Universe with Jonathan Hickman at Marvel and The Last Days Of Lex Luthor with Mark Waid at DC Comics. But, with Ghost Machine Day approaching on the 1st […]
Printwatch: Marvel Comics is sending a bunch of titles back for multiple printings. But mostly from the Ultimate line. Such as Ultimate Spider-Man #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto for a fifth printing, for the 1st of May 2024. And Ultimate Spider-Man #3, also out yesterday, is getting a second printing with a 1:25 […]
It's no secret that Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers from Image and Skybound may well be the hottest monthly comic book series with not only record breaking sales in 2023 but with sales actually growing in 2024, a true rarity in the current market.However, I have been hearing that the debut of Jorge Corona (of Middlewest […]
Another week (without Batman or Amazing Spider-Man) sees an Energon Universe title, Cobra Commander #3, top the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, by Joshua Williamson, Andrea Milana and Annalisa Leoni from Image Comics and Skybound. Selling 50% more than Joshua's work on Superman, also on sale this week. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio […]
The June 2024 edition of Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly Previews catalogue is in stores from Wednesday, the 27th of March and features comic books, graphic novels, toys, and other pop culture merchandise scheduled to go on sale beginning June 2024. Those who are still with Diamond, that is. And a few who, weirdly aren't but […]
Nemesis has had almost as many publishers as Britain has had Prime Ministers of late, Marvel, Image and now Dark Horse. Now that Millarworld has left Image Comics for Dark Horse Comics, they have lined up the first of five new books with Nemesis: Rogues' Gallery. Which despite the naming tradition, is not a collection […]
This year, Image Comics have been publishing two interconnected comic books, The One Hand and The Six Fingers from separate creative teams. Both series will be collected as alternating comic books within a combined trade paperback in the fashion of House Of X and Powers Of X. Which is, let's face it, where Ram V […]
At the beginning of the year, Bleeding Cool reported on Todd McFarlane's new promotion "Spawnuary", in which he challenged artists to submit speculative cover artwork for his line of Spawn-related comic books. At the end of the month, Todd McFarlane stated he would choose his favourites and feature them as variant covers on the issues […]
