Just the top nine this week for… reasons. But Absolute Batman tops it with Absolute Flash, but with Battle Beast coming third and outselling every Marvel title this week. So that's four for Marvel, three for DC, and two for Image. All in the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List for the 19th of July, 2025. […]
Marvel Comics has dropped the following teaser, "Marvel Comics' Ultimate Universe approaches its endgame… learn more about Marvel Comics' Ultimate Endgame, a new event series kicking off in December, later this week." A little while ago, Bleeding Cool reported on a number of deleted bleets from Ultimate X-Men script adapter Zack Davission on BlueSky, […]
Amazon has some very stubby listings for next year's collections of the upcoming X-Men Age Of Revelation storyline with transformed and relaunched comic books series. Including a few nuggets yet to be officially revealed by Marvel, such as; The title Cloak Or Dagger refers to neither Cloak nor Dagger being able to exist at the […]
Marvel has revealed more creative teams and details for four more of the new X-Men: Age Of Revelation comics for October, renaming and relaunching titles across Marvel's publishing schedule for the length of the crossover, and that they are series, not one-shots. Catch up on the rest of our X-Men: Age Of Revelation coverage with this handy tag. The […]
Peter David died at the age of 68 at the end of May. An incredibly prolific comics writer, novelist, screenwriter and columnist, he wrote the likes of Incredible Hulk, X-Factor, Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Justice, Scarlet Spider, Spider-Man 2099 and much more for Marvel Comics. Today Marvel has begun published the following tribute to Peter David in […]
Fantastic Four #1 tops the chart, beating out Absolute Superman, with strong performances for Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees and the Marvel Swimsuit Special, no matter how recycled it may be. Magik and Supergirl also do well… six for Marvel, two for DC, one for Image, one for IDW. All in the Bleeding Cool […]
Surprise! Next week, comic book retailers will be receiving a "Shadow Drop" variant of Age Of Revelation #0, a prelude one-shot by Jed MacKay and Humberto Ramos that reveals how this new status quo came to be, and is available in stores next week. While additional copies of this surprise issue with a wraparound cover […]
J. Scott Campbell is creating 28 all-new variant covers, each with a Virgin and Trade version of each, as part of the new Just Spectacular Collection (JSC, do you see what they did there?) on Marvel Comics titles from August 2025. Here are the first ten… On Sale 8/6 ALL-NEW VENN #19 JUST SPECTACULAR COLLECTION […]
The new Captain America #1 by Chip Zdarsky and Valerio Schiti topped the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List (apologies for the delay) with Ultimate Wolverine, Amazing Spider-Man and Godzilla Vs Thor well ahead of Absolute Green Lantern, and the X-Men Hellfire Vigil and X-Men comparatively well down the list… but nine for Marvel and one […]
PrintWatch: Image Comics has third printings of Exquisite Corpses #1 and second printings for Corpses #2, as well as GI Joe #7, Lost Fantasy #2, Lucky Devils #3, and News From The Fallout #1. Though we currently only have covers for the Corpses books… all out for the 30th of July.# PrintWatch: Boom Studios has […]
In today's Amazing Spider-Man #7 by Joe Kelly and John Romita Jr, we get a new power for Spider-Man's arsenal. Quoite literally, as well as his powers brought on from a radioactive spider bite, he makes his own webbing, trackers, spotlights and whatever other gadgets he needs at the time. And fighting Hellgate in today's […]
Marvel Comics is creating more reasons for comic book collectors to buy their September titles just for the cover. And that's people who collect stuff with Stitch on it. As I have discovered at recent Book and Toy Fairs, there is a lot of demand for anything with Stitch on it—even more than for, say, […]
Mark Waid has confirmed the news that comic book writer, editor, editor-in-chief and publisher, Jim Shooter, has died this week at the age of 73, saying "I've just received word that Jim Shooter passed away of oesophageal cancer, which he's been battling for some time". Born in 1951, Jim Shooter was a professionally published comic […]
PrintWatch covers new second and third printings coming to the direct market, this week from Marvel Comics and Oni Press. And on August 7th Marvel Comics is providing second printings of Spider-Man And Wolverine #2 with a Kaare Andrews cover and a 1:25 variant also from Andrews. And Predator Vs Spider-Man #3 with a Paulo […]
Ultimate Spider-Man retains its place at the top of the chart, beating out DC Comics Absolute titles, but the big hit has to be a dry history of the DC Universe outselling the X-Men titles. Marvel has six of the top eleven, DC Comics has five. Yes, we got a top eleven this week courtesy […]
Marvel Comics has dropped their October 2025 solicits and solicitations for Ultimate Spider-Man: Incursion, Ultimate Black Panther, Ultimates, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ultimate Wolverine, And Ultimate X-Men. Which sees a death of Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales taking something Ultimate home with him, an Ultimate Fantastic Four. Previously tease as mice experiments from Reed Richards, the Doctor Doom […]
Once upon a time, I observed that the storyline of Ultimate Spider-Man was a reverse of the original Spider-Man story in new and interesting, and not totally obvious ways. Specicialy that of "with great power there must come great responsibility". Rather than having such power thrust on him as a teenager, and having to cope […]
A few days ago, Bleeding Cool reported on a number of deleted bleets from Ultimate X-Men writer Zack Davission on BlueSky, that stated that the Ultimate Universe was coming to an end after an intended two years, and the emergence of the Ultimate Reed Richards, The Maker, from the two year prison he has been […]
This past weekend, Spider-Gwen co-creator Robbi Rodriguez made an unannounced appearance at HeroesCon in Charlotte, North Carolina. He set up at an empty table next to comic book colourist Rico Renzi, who coloured those first Spider-Gwen appearances, and who was an official guest at the show. And Robbi Rodriquez brought with him something very special […]
The current Ultimate Universe comic book titles from Marvel Comics are taking place in real time, and see the Ultimate world as created by the Ultimate Reed Richards, The Maker. He removed many of the superheroes from the timeline and rallied those that did to his cause of power and control. He established a version […]
