Currently, the Batman monthly comic book by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez (and recently Ryan Sook), and the Absolute Batman comic book by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta seem to be telling a very similar story. At least in concept. So Vandal Savage has framed Batman for the murder of a policeman… … just as the Joker […]
Todd McFarlane's comic book Gunslinger Spawn #52 was listed in Image Comics' February 2026 solicits and solicitations on Bleeding Cool, like this. With a rather arresting cover by Gianerico Bonacorsi. With the Gunslinger Spawn, the Spawn from the Wild West dragged through the decades, shooting through the head of an individual with some rather far-right tattoos […]
Comic book writer, screenwriter, and cultural icon Grant Morrison has inspired a "Separated At Birth" special for Bleeding Cool in their most recent Substack, featuring Alan Moore, Crossed +100, the series Moore wrote for Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar Press, and the recent film sequel 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple – which Morrison hasn't yet […]
One of the hottest comic books right now, as part of the new 2026 comics speculator boom, is Star Wars #10, the final issue of the Marvel Comics series that fell foul to the Marvel ten-issue curse. And specifically, the John Tyler Christopher Action Figure variant featuring Boba Fett. As the Top Ten Hottest Comics […]
The Creeping Below by Brian Azzarello, Vanesa Del Ray and Hilary Jenkins, published by Boom Studios in 2024, getting a collection in March 2026. "THE GODS ABOVE, THE CREEPING BELOW. Val, an American heavy metal fanatic, is on her dream vacation: attending the Inferno Metal Festival in Oslo, Norway. There she meets a charismatic young band, […]
Clay Mann and Seth Mann as The Mann Boyz have created a wraparound retailer variant for his own comic book creator store for the upcoming Absolute Batman #18, featuring the new Absolute Poison Ivy (as seen in this week's Absolute Batman #17.) And a homage to a very different cover from a very different creator, […]
The Beauty television adaptation by Ryan Murphy for FX/Hulu was first announced at the end of September 2024 and has since been widely covered by my colleague, Ray Flook, here at Bleeding Cool. With additional reporting on the comic book co-created by Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley itself by yours truly, naturally. After teasing […]
This was the cover to Vertigo's Winter Edge, the first kinda-crossover from DC Comics, featuring a variety of short stories and previews of Vertigo series back in 1997 with this Brian Bolland cover. And now, as DC Comics is relaunching Vertigo twenty-eight years later, they are doing a new version of the cover with all […]
On their Substack, Grant Morrison has been discussing the process behind Batman/Deadpool, published by DC Comics today, including cover plans drawn by Morrison's Klaus co-creator, Dan Mora and We3 co-creator Frank Quitely. "I came up with two ideas – for the Dan Mora one, I suggested Batman and Deadpool doing Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, battling before an enthusiastic crowd of cheering angels. […]
Grant Morrison wrote Animal Man #19, published in 1984. Grant Morrison also wrote Batman/Deadpool #1 out this week, forty-one years later. And in the preview for the crossover, we see Deadpool dealing with the collapse of the walls around him, including the fourth wall… And, as Bleeding Cool gave you the nod in certain spoilers […]
The most recent letters page of Amazing Spider-Man #14 has had a bit of an oopsie, and qualified for a Separated At Birth edition, with two letter writers, one calling themselves Cosmic Carlos and the other Tombstone Tyler. No other identifying details, but it is more than just a naming convention that joins the two. […]
This is the cover to 4: First Family #1 by Chris Weston, published twenty years ago, a series by Joe Casey and Weston that rewrote and retold the origins of the FF and made it make a little more sense than the original from sixty-five years ago. And artist Chris Weston has noticed a similarity […]
Never has a Separated At Birth article ever been so literal. At the end of last month's X-Men #14, we discovered the true nature of Piper Cobb, daughter of an anti-mutant activist, claiming to be a mutant, even though the X-Men could not detect that she was one. And that this was all down to […]
In 2011, Image Comics published the comic book Lovestruck by Dennis Hopeless and Kevin Mellon. "It's a love story, but not like you think. There's no boy meets girl or star-crossed soul mates. Love is a billion-dollar industry. Cupid's the megalomaniac CEO. And Kali Monroe gets paid to break your heart. Love is all around […]
Dead End, or Dood Spoor, is a new Belgian TV drama from Bad Sisters co-creator Malin-Sarah Gozin starring Peter Van den Begin and Elise Schaap about a man "who is able to see flashes of what happened to something in the past when he tastes it — be that tasting a toothbrush, sucking on a […]
Comic book retailers who order through Lunar Distributors got a little surprise on their Transformers orders for next week which started popping in yesterday. A "cover F" for Transformers #11, out next week, by James Harren. And here it is. Co-creator of the series Rumble, artist on BPRD, Thor, Hawkeye Vs Deadpool, Heralds, Conan, and […]
This week saw the publication of Phoenix #1 from Marvel's From The Ashes X-Men relaunch. And rather good it was, there was plenty of praise for Stephanie Phillips and Alessandro Miracolo for the first issue. But there has also been a drip, drip, drip notice that some of Alessandro Miracolo's artwork seems a little familiar. […]
From the new Poison Ivy #24 by G. Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara out from DC Comics today. And from House Of M, by Brian Bendis and David Finch… As Poison Ivy makes it back from the here-after in the all-together. Poison Ivy #24 is published today/yesterday… POISON IVY #24 CVR A JESSICA FONG (W) […]
Bleeding Cool previously reported about how Blood Squad Seven #2 by Joe Casey and Paul Fry, from Image Comics in June, featuring the Savage Dragon, set in 1992. And would include a swipe or homage to Savage Dragon #3, the first mini-series by Erik Larsen from 1992. Well, it looks like they are doing something very […]
Image Comics reminds us that the Savage Dragon character created and published by Erik Larsen, as well as taking part in a meta-public-domain-industry-baiting exercise with Mickey Mouse (more on that later today), is also having something of his own swiped. Or homaged. Blood Squad Seven #2 by Joe Casey and Paul Fry, also coming from […]
