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Straight from the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, our first look at the covers to Titan Comics' comic book series based on the Robotech license for next year, by Antonio Fuso and Luis Guerrero.  You can see more from Titan Comics' presentations here and here. For more spilling out of Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, click here. [...]

Titan Comics announced at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit a new comic book series Super Mansion, based on the Crackle TV stop motion superhero comedy show with Bryan Cranston, Seth Green, Jillian Bell, Keegan-Michael Key and Chris Pine, and will be supervised by co-creator of the show, Zeb Wells. We already mentioned Max Allan Collins' Quarry[...]

One of them featured a hitman named Quarry. Collins published three Quarry novels in 1976, one in 1977 and a final one in 1987. Twenty years later the character was revived by Hard Case Crime, who have published seven new Quarry novels and republished the original thre. And now, Titan Comics which has got into bed with Hard[...]

Here are three covers from the first issue, by Alex Ross and Cat Staggs and a seventies-style Colouring Book Cover. For more spilling out of Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, click here. The Dynamite/DC Comics crossover project Wonder Woman '77/Bionic Woman is interesting on a number of levels Not least that writer Andy Mangels[...]

We know what Marvel Comics, DC Comics and Valiant have in mind to release for Local Comic Shop Day 2016 on November 19th. And now we have Dark Horse Comics' plans, a Francesco Francavilla cover of the new Serenity #1. Also, Francesco's Black Beetle will return in DHP #29 in December as Dark Horse celebrates Francesco Francavilla's tenth year in[...]

And now we know what Valiant is up to, with exclusive cover variants for Harbinger Renegades #1 and Bloodshot USA #1. Not that there will be too many of one of them, the Bloodshot USA #1 cover by Antonio Fuso and is limited to 1000 copies. The  Stephen Segovia cover for Harbinger Renegades #1 should be easier[...]

Here's a peek… For more spilling out of Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, click here.   Novelist and comics writer David Liss  writes his first Green Hornet story with KISS artist Kewber Baal in The Green Hornet: Reign of the Demon, out in December from Dynamite. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, it could be the deadliest[...]

The 1First Comics/Devil's Due Comics Presentation At Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit seems to have been a highlight Because they had a video to play the assembled comic book shop owners. Although there were trepidations.  They do have a solution Anyone out there want to try it? They weren't taking any chances. Exactly Okay, here you go… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1JrazyHkqMVideo can't be[...]

— and now, DC announces two new items offered exclusively to comics shops participating in this event! At Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, retailers were told about two new items offered exclusively to participating comic shops from DC Comics. The first is the LCSD 2016 DC Comics Bombshells Killer Frost Statue. An all-resin version of the new Killer Frost statue features[...]

In 2015 the character was redesigned by Nicola Scott with direction from Gail Simone to look like this. In December 2016, the new design from Carlos Gomez looks like this. I mean that's beachwear. This is one of the projects Dynamite is announcing at the Baltimore Comic Con Retailer Summit. Somewhere deep underground, strange and powerful demons clad in[...]

Unrevealed publicly, but snapped at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, covers by Bill Sienkiewicz and Matt Wagner for Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye #1, the Young Animal comic by Gerard Way, Jonathan Rivera and Michael Avon Oeming. Thanks to retailer Dennis Barger for sending it into Bleeding Cool! For more spilling out of Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, click[...]

Shame the Bleeding Cool Top 100 List for 2016 wrapped already. We might have had a new contender... Valiant Entertainment today announced that Hunter

DC Comics have been boasting that, in the light of their DC Rebirth promotion, they have sold twelve million comics this summer (although no note as to how many of those will be returned) and that eleven comics sold more than 200,000 while sixty sold more than 100,000, with 21 titles going to second print[...]

And a final page in homage to twisted Toyfare Theatre. Well, announced at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, is the news that DC Comics will be creating a quarterly magazine sent to comic book shops previewing upcoming comics, and sitting alongside Marvel's Previews and Image Plus. No Price Guide though. Thanks to retailer Dennis Barger, who snapped the shot[...]

Well, joining that book, with Future Quest, Wacky Racelands, Scooby Apocalypse and Dastardly & Muttley =, from DC's Hanna-Barbera line, comes The Jetsons. By Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, and just announced by DC Comics at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. And snapped by retailer Dennis Barger for Bleeding Cool Thanks Dennis! For more spilling out of Baltimore Diamond[...]

We ran the rumour back in July, from the bars of San Diego Comic-Con. Yesterday, we looked at the evidence of upcoming covers of Detective Comics and last

And in February, will spin out the new Justice League Of America series. Thanks to the Wall St Journal. For more spilling out of Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, click here.   Marvel may be doing Inhumans Vs X-Men starting in November. But in December, DC Comics is publishing Justice League Vs Suicide Squad. Written by Joshua Williamson and drawn by[...]

The best comic book retailers in the business have descended into Baltimore for the Diamond Retailer Summit that occurs before Baltimore Comic Con It really is the place to be seen. It is slightly unfortunate timing that DC Comics announced that today was the day that retailers could rip off the covers of any DC Rebirth[...]

Baltimore Comic-Con cosplay back in 2014… Baltimore Comic-Con,held on September 2-4, 2016 at the Inner Harbor's Baltimore Convention Center, has announced its new, amended weapons policy. It used to read like this: No functional weapons are allowed at the Baltimore Comic-Con DO NOT BRING REAL SWORDS, GUNS OR ANY TYPE OF AUTHENTIC WEAPON TO THE SHOW[...]

Throughout the history of my work with Mike Mignola on Baltimore —first with Ben Stenbeck and now with Peter Bergting—we've gone to great lengths to try to create a layered story that is building toward a massive climax, but at the same time we take pains to make sure there are plenty of places where a[...]

From the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. If you're a creator, and you're going to tell the next guy in line that the major retailer who just left your table is an arsehole, you should probably make sure that the next guy in line is not the retailer in question's son. That is all. Okay, maybe another little one. One[...]

Welcome to the Harvey Awards held at Baltimore Comic Con, tonight the 26th of September! As the winners in each category are announced, we will mark the winners in bold within each category Vivek Tiwary, himself a winner of Harvey Awards as writer and Tony Award-winning Producer , took the stage as host at this[...]

Next year sees the 30th anniversary of the movie Aliens, and the 28th anniversary of Dark Horse publishing Aliens comic books as well as the 30th anniversary of the publisher itself. So you might be expecting some anniversary Aliens projects? That's what Dark Horse suggested to retailers at the Baltimore Summit yesterday. To follow up their line of[...]

DC Comics has been showing off all manner of Dark Knight III related stuff at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. With copies of Dark Knight III: The Master Race for retailers to peruse, and a mockup of the Complete Dark Knight volume. They also told retailers that the first "mini comic" embedded into the series, exploring[...]

Yesterday, at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, Marvel Comics committed to publishing the entirety of the Master Of Kung Fu in a series of four Omnibuses. The series was created after Marvel failed to get the rights to the Kung Fu TV show, but did get the rights to the character Fu Manchu So Marvel creates[...]

The comic book industry is waking up to the adult colouring-in craze right now. And in January, DC Comics will launch a themed variant line of black and white covers, not the usual "black-and-white" variety, but ones drawn intended to be coloured in by the buyers. I wonder how many people will actually colour them in? More from[...]

In photographic evidence from the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit… Action Lab Entertainment have launched their own ratings system for their increasingly diverse line of comic books. So for Everyone… with more Gronk from Katie Cook promised in 2016. Appropriate for 9 year olds and up. For 12 year olds and up… And for the older[...]

It's been announced repeatedly since 2012, before going on hiatus, and then being rejigged for publication with new artists. But now, honest-to-goodness, Devolution by Rick Remender, Jonathan Wayshak and Jordan Boyd will be out from Dynamite in January, as announced at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit. See more Baltimore Summit coverage right here. It's been announced repeatedly[...]

UPDATE: DC Comics just showed off this Dark Knight III variant cover by Dave Gibbons… The original piece runs below: We're not sure, from this photo, if DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio totally wants to be at the Baltimore Retailer Summit… Marvel's David Gabriel was pushing the success of attracting new customers for retailers with Star Wars – but also Squirrel[...]

Presenting at the Baltimore Diamond Retailer Summit, Valiant Entertainment have announced that their orders for their Book Of Death event in recent years. They called the "the most successful independent crossover event of the decade", with the next closest contender probably being Dynamite's Masks from a few years back with Alex Ross… That number has been reached[...]