2016 Archives

 Shown off by Marvel at the Diamond Retailer Breakfast ahead of C2E2 this morning, the comic book publisher is indeed entering the Presidential Election of 2016, with the Prince Of Life himself, Loki.We'd seen the Tradd Moore cover, but the Langdon Foss art was new Could this be the next Loki cosplay craze to catch on? Follow[...]

Women in Comics Con 2016 Highlights Importance of Diverse Voices by Ray Flook & Alejandra Bodden Coming-off the success of last year's inaugural event, Women in Comics Con 2016 returned to NYC this past Saturday with an even stronger focus/emphasis on educating the public on the role and importance of women working within the comic book/multimedia/pop culture industries[...]

It's happening on Saturday, folks. If you can't get to a participating store, Bleeding Cool will be providing almost-live coverage...

These are Diamond's nominees for the Spring Retail Best Practices Award for comic book retailers, to be voted on by retailers... is your local store

Wuvable Oaf was on a number of 2015 Best Of Comics lists. The Fantagraphics collection of Ed Luce's self published comics featuring an almost-naked hairy

At ComicsPRO in Portland, Dark Horse Comics just announced Avatar: The Last Airbender—North and South Part One by Gene Yang and Gurihiru coming out the

At ComicsPRO in Portland, Dark Horse just announced a new Conan series, Conan The Slayer by Cullen Bunn, Sergio Dávila and covers by Lee Bermejo and Mark

Dark Horse Comics has announced Wonderfall, a new all-ages creator-owned comic book by Red Sonja team Gail Simone and Walter Geovani, at ComicsPRO in

Dark Horse Comics has announced the Moebius Library: The World of Edena Volume 1 for the 26th October. The long out-of-print Edena Cycle from Moebius gets

We have Free Comic Book Day. We have C-Day. We have Doctor Who Day. And now we have Dark Horse Day. Announcing at ComicsPRO today, for the 30th

Here are Boom! Studios solicitations for May 2016 Pink Rangers, Black Dahlias, Mighty Morphin Power Weavers And Mousey Morphin Bricks…. MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS: PINK #1 (W) Brenden Fletcher, Kelly Thompson (A) Daniele Di Nicuolo (CA) Elsa Charretier What's to Love: We're so thrilled by the response to our Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic series that[...]

Big, big fan of Kaare Andrews, so very pleased to see Renato Jones: The One % solicited (and hope Vlaint doesn't try it with the trademark police). And

STARTS NOW! • Still dealing with the casualties of ELECTROVERSE, the Web-Warriors struggle to keep their team together. • Not only is the team struggling to stay together, so is the WEB OF LIFE AND DESTINY! • The latest special guest star from across the Spider-Verse is one of the event's breakout hits: SPIDER-PUNK! 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 SPIDER-GWEN #8 JASON[...]

Thanks to Marvel Comics for slipping these out a little early… AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #12 Writer: Dan Slott Penciller: Giuseppe Camuncoli • POWER PLAY begins now! The Amazing Spider-Man, Iron Man, Spider-Man and the rest of the All-New All-Different Avengers come together for this huge story! The most dangerous foe from SECRET WARS, REGENT makes his true intentions known – and[...]

Young Adult Library Services Association has released their Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2016 list, recommended for those ages 12-18… beginning with their top ten. Awkward By Svetlana Chmakova Illus by the author Yen Press, $11.00, (9780316381307) Art club and science club go head-to-head for a table at the Annual School Club Fair, while a boy and[...]

If 2015 was a year that, every month, saw sales better than 2014, it's not a good start to 2016… February and those DC Comics #50 issues can't come soon enough… TOP COMIC BOOK PUBLISHERS RETAIL MARKET SHARE MARVEL COMICS 44.38% DC ENTERTAINMENT 22.16% IMAGE COMICS 9.67% IDW PUBLISHING 4.11% DARK HORSE COMICS 3.06% EAGLEMOSS PUBLICATIONS LTD 2.26% BOOM! STUDIOS 1.98% VIZ MEDIA 1.18% TITAN COMICS 1.15% DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT 1.15% OTHER NON-TOP 10 8.89% UNIT MARKET SHARE MARVEL COMICS 48.17% DC ENTERTAINMENT 24.02% IMAGE COMICS 10.99% IDW[...]

Also for free… BOB`S BURGERS FCBD 2016 EDITION Z2 COMICS LAB FCBD 2016 EDITION THE TICK SPECIAL FCBD 2016 EDITION FCBD 2016 VIZ PERFECT SQUARE POKEMON POCKET COMICS SPONGEBOB FREESTYLE FUNNIES FCBD 2016 EDITION CON MAN`S SPECTRUM FCBD 2016 EDITION SCIENCE COMICS FCBD 2016 EDITION THE PHANTOM: 80TH ANNIVERARY SPECIAL FCBD 2016 EDITION ROM #0 FCBD 2016 EDITION LOVE AND ROCKETS SAMPLER FCBD 2016 EDITION[...]

You know, I can't tell a lie, we've missed him. But Frank Cho is back to his "outrage" sketch covers, and has put this one straight on eBay... I note a

We broke a few of these out yesterday, but go fill your boots... GOLD KEY: ALLIANCE #1 (OF 5) (W) Phil Hester (A) Brent Peeples (CA) Felipe Massafera,

Matthew Rosenberg has a new comic book out in April from Black Mask Comics called 4 Kids Walk Into A Bank, with artist Tyler Boss. A fun(ish) crime caper

Then, dive back into the early days in the Unknown where young Anna, the daughter of the Woodsman, must learn to survive in the woods on her own. 32pgs, FC $3.99 UNCLE GRANDPA 2016 GOOD MORNING SPECIAL #1 (W/A) Yehudi Mercado, Jimmy Giegerich, Jeremy Hansen, Philip Murphy, Evgeny Yakovlev, Andreas Schuster (CA) Robb Mommaerts Whats to Love: We can never[...]

Now, with the participation of Carter, IDW Publishing is proud to bring to comics the continuing adventures of iconic FBI Agents FOX MULDER and DANA SCULLY! FC • 40 pages • $4.99 The X-Files #1—Photo Variant Joe Harris (w) • Matthew Dow Smith (a) • photo (c) FC • 40 pages • $4.99 The X-Files # 1—Art Appreciation Variant Joe[...]

Images April 2016 solicitations… enjoy… and just who's head is that Rick Grimes? Heavy is the head that wears the crown… BLACK ROAD #1 STORY: BRIAN WOOD ART: GARRY BROWN & DAVE McCAIG COVER: GARRY BROWN APRIL 13 / 32 PAGES / FC / M / $3.99 Meet Magnus the Black, neither clean nor sober, neither Christian nor Pagan, but[...]

Boom! The full solicitations for DC Comics for April 2016… enjoy! BATMAN TITLES BATGIRL #51 Written by Brenden Fletcher, art by Eleanor Carlini, cover by Babs Tarr. After the events of issue #50, Barbara Gordon is at a crossroads in her life — will new horizons beckon her away from her home in Burnside? 32 pages, $2.99, in stores on[...]

Frankensteining DC's solicits for April 2016 together, piece by piece…. BLOODLINES #1 "HOSTILE TAKEOVER" Written by J.T Krul Art and cover by V Ken Marion 1:25 variant cover by Jill Thompson On sale APRIL 6 • 32 pg, FC, 1 of 6, $2.99 US • RATED T When a meteor crashes to Earth, bringing with it an unspeakable alien presence that[...]

The first collection of the comic has sold 100,000 copies thus far, been optioned for feature film development by 20th Century Fox,and won a couple of Eisners and Harveys along the way. I understand that in Spring 2016, Boom! Box will be launching a new original series from the creative team of Hope Larson and Brittney[...]

I adored Chew and marvelled at Alpha! I rocked out to Southern Bastards and groaned at Howard the Duck! This year, publishers got their shizzle tight! But what about 2016 bruv? What's that going to bring us? Here is my wish list of what should happen in comics in 2016. 1) A new Terrigen Mist should be[...]

Valiant have just dropped the fourth of five 2016 teasers they're debuting this week with looks ahead at their line-up of titles for the New Year. So we far we've gotten new glimpses of previously announced series including A&A, Divinity II and the 4001 AD event…but now we're getting something entirely new: "The Siege of King's[...]

Since the New 52 relaunch of September 2011, DC Comics have cancelled and launched a number of books. But some have been the same book relaunched under a

    Here are the remaining 35 Free Comic Book Day titles for 2016 – including the 2000AD edition with a Eric Powell Judge Dredd story that was previously reported as refused by the committee Looks like a little outrage went a long way.  Add to that Attack On Titan, One Punch Man, Stan Lee's The Unknowns,[...]