2016 Archives

Okay so it's possible that all the Marvel Comics solicitations for March 2016 all went live while I was watching Star Wars… so here you go Sorry. We have more hints that Invincible Iron Man will be the comic to watch with this new arc, hinting ahead to Civil War II, while International Iron Man uncovers[...]

Marvel will no doubt be revealing all their March Comics solicitations tomorrow But we have had a look at their solicits for the Avengers Standoff event.

And they will be using their offering to promote 2016's summer event 4001 AD, which launches in May. A four issue mini-series by Matt Kindt and Clayton Crain, 4001 AD will also tie into the Rai ongoing series and a new series of one-shots spotlighting different 4001 A.D characters. It will also contain a look ahead at the March launch[...]

The new Prez series has been a real delight from DC Comics of late. But for those who want a little history of the character, DC Comics is creating a

And as Jeff Lemire hits the even bigger time as X-Men lead writer, he's not letting the movie-bound Bloodshot goes… Valiant is proud to announce the BLOODSHOT REBORN 2016 ANNUAL #1 – a 64-page extravaganza coming this March from New York Times best-selling writer Jeff Lemire (Extraordinary X-Men) and acclaimed artist Kano (QUANTUM AND WOODY, Swamp Thing)…[...]

DC Comics has already published a DC Universe By Alan Moore volume which, given DC's desire to seemingly recreate the events of his Twilight Of The

Eighteen months ago, we told you that DC Comics' French licensor, Urban Comics, was to republish a series of Batman comic books in black and white, Well,

This was then followed by a Batman/Court Of Owls Mask set, a Batman/Joker Mask set and a Deathstroke Comic/Mask set. Well, for Summer 2016, we are getting a Harley Quinn Comic/Mask set to join them. A graphic novel collecting Harley Quinn #0-#6 And a mask In the same box… Just in time for Summer 2016's hottest film, Suicide[...]

Much has been made of Marvel's recent decision to publish a publish of variant covers for their comics featuring Marvel-themed versions of famous hip-hop

Okay, who had money on this? The final issue of Secret Wars #9 has now been delayed yet again, to 6th January 2016. Originally planned for publication at the beginning of October to coincide with the All-New All-Different Marvel relaunch, the final issue of Marvel's big summer 2015 event will be now three months late. So far Already we[...]

Assault On Pleasant Hill is the next big Marvel crossover, based around the 75th anniversary of Captain America. All three of him. We had a solicitation

Ride along as James Sallis' lean neo-noir masterpiece unfolds onto the sun-bleached streets of Los Angeles in this exciting comic book adaptation. TPB • FC • $17.99 • 104 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-532-7 Bullet points: "Drive is a lean, taut story, where the details lend that feel of authenticity." — MajorSpoilers.com The sequel Driven coming spring 2016! Wynonna Earp[...]

Here are Image Comics' solicitations for February 2016, and the launch of Mirror from Emma Rios and Hwei Lim, and of Snowfall from Joe Harris and Martin Morazzo. There's also a collection of the DC/Helix series Bloody Mary by Garth Ennis and Carlos Ezquerra, who managed to get the rights back A collection of The Art[...]

As we mentioned earlier, Marvel may well be aware of Black History Month in February 2016, and that's the month they are launching the new Spider-Man series with a mixed race Miles Morales now part of the main Marvel universe and one of the new Avengers. Taking of that team, Avengers Standoff will prepare you for the next[...]

Thanks to ComicBook, Newsarama and CBR… more as they get released, Marvel solicitations for February 2016 Ms Marvel gets dropped from the Avengers (though she seems to be back by the next issue) and Old Man Logan is here to kill Hulks… UPDATE: And as we thought, Cloak And Dagger are back… UPDATE x2: And as we have[...]

CROSSED VOL 15 TPB $19.99 Cover: Christian Zanier Art & Writer: Mike Wolfer MR, Color, 160 pages Comics horror veteran Mike Wolfer writes and

It was meant to launch on the 16th November. Instead the debut issue of the All-New All-Different Marvel female focused Avengers superteam title A-Force

Oh boy. Patrick Willems and friends have knocked this one out of the park for Bleeding Cool. Hunter S Thompson goes to New York Comic Con and discovers

Mark Millar announced a lot of things at the Diamond Retail Summit at MCM London Comic Con yesterday. But not everything made the PR burst that was sent

Let's take a look at what's coming from Titan Comics and Titan Books in January 2016… DOCTOR WHO 8TH #4 (OF 5) VAR EDWARDS (W) George Mann (A) Emma Vieceli (CA) Carolyn Edwards 1932 Briarwood House As a jazz party preoccupies the English upper-crust, the Doctor and Josie discover a terrifying secret below stairs – the servants are[...]

Here you go folks…. Image Comics is starting 2016 off with a bang, with the debut of Simon Spurrier & Ryan Kelly's CRY HAVOC, Joe Kelly & Max Fiumara's FOUR EYES: HEARTS OF FIRE, Ted McKeever's PENCIL HEAD, Brandon Graham & Giannis Milonogiannis's PROPHET EARTH WAR, and Meredith Gran's OCTOPUS PIE! In addition to all this, you're[...]

Here come Avatar Press' first solicitations for 2016, from January… including a brand new comic book from Garth Ennis. GOD IS DEAD VOL 07 TPB $19.99 Cover: Jacen Burrows Writer: Mike Costa Art: Nahuel Lopez, Emiliano Urdinola, Juan Frigeri MR, Color, 144 pages Jonathan Hickman created an incredible world where the mash-up of religion and mythology meets modern reality[...]

Talking to publishers, retailers, vendors, creators at New York Comic Con there was one constant. People were making bank. More people were buying more

From Joe Glass, Paul Gullas, Adam Wolfe, Chuck Brouillette, Dan Celko, Madeline Ricchiuto, Christine Marie, Richard Epstein, Sofia Annunziata, June

Derek Trum writes, It was the day before the tenth annual New York Comic Con. I find myself sitting on a train hurtling towards New York from Boston at a

Announced at the Women Of Marvel panel at New York Comic Con, a Squirrel Girl/Howard The Duck crossover by Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Chip Zdarsky and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nrOtGRJkRA Am I wrong?

That's the panel, happening today at New York Comic Con... NYCC listing here, Facebook listing here, just gone up...  

New phone. Still a bit shaky and blurred. But still a run from one side of New York Comic Con's show floor to the other - and then back again via a

In the most recent issue of Bob Fingerman's Minimum Wage, we get the news of a third Minimum Wage series for 2016. It was at the end of a colourful departure for the series, usually in black-and-white with a blue wash, telling the day-to-day awkward life of a cartoonist trapped working in porn, and measuring the[...]