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A scabbard without a sword inspires few legends and has never led to the murder of an unprepared archaeologist. Most would brush off the tragic end to a man lost in a senseless crime; thefts and their fallout are nothing new to the 24-hour news cycle. One grandmother knows better, however, and once she hears […]

Courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, here are the winners of the Diamond Gem Awards of 2019, voted on by comic book retailers in the direct market. Diamond says that "nominees were chosen by a panel of Diamond product specialists based on their overall impact on the industry, while comics and related merchandise were chosen on […]

Boom Studios today announced the BOOM! Retailer Support Services Program, a comprehensive set of initiatives effective immediately to aid comic book shops worldwide affected by the current coronavirus pandemic, with registered, qualified retailers gaining the following benefits. Full Returnability Through June: BOOM! Studios will extend the industry's best returnability program, the BOOM! Guarantee, by making […]

The world may be currently shut down as we attempt to flatten the curve of the coronavirus pandemic, but that doesn't mean people need to stop masturbating to comics. In fact, they may even be masturbating more, stuck at home with nothing better to do. With that in mind, Faithless II #1 launches from explosive […]

Boom Studios and Dynamite Entertainment are the leading proponent of what is known as the FOC cover, releasing cover images just before the Final Order Cut-Off date in an attempt to goose last minute orders out of retailers. But this week, Marvel, Valiant, Vault and DC are stepping in too. Dynamite especially use tiered covers, […]

Everyone knows that middle-schoolers and high-schoolers can't be friends. It would upset all of the social norms that hold society together. But BOOM! Studios plans to defy convention with Jo & Rus, a new middle-grade graphic novel by Audra Winslow where its titular characters cross the grade-divide thanks to the coercion of a talking cat […]

Ah, the late nineties, when all of our problems were so much simpler. Back then, the worst thing we had to worry about was that all of our computers were going to shut down because they couldn't handle four-digit years. Nowadays, a senile grandpa is about to battle an egomaniacal nitwit for the presidency, the […]

The Power Rangers and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continue to crossover in in two weeks with the penultimate issue of Power Rangers/TMNT. It's the perfect fusion of intellectual properties popular in the 1990s that still retain an aging base of hardcore fans, in the case of the Power Rangers, the world-famous hardcore fan base […]

On April 22nd, explosive publisher BOOM! Studios offers you a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, comrades! Just like socialist hero Bernie Sanders, you too can vacation in a communist utopia… in your mind! That's because BOOM! will then publish Emei Burrell's We Served the People: My Mother's Stories, set one the vibrant life of 1960s communist China under […]

Other comic book publishers are still busy pulling out of next week's Emerald City Comic Con due to concerns about the coronavirus, but not explosive publisher BOOM! Studios. BOOM! is pressing forward, announcing plans to exhibit at the next big comic on, April's WonderCon. In addition to holding a panel on Saturday, April 11th, BOOM! […]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios trolled its customers Thursday by releasing a preview of an upcoming quote book with no actual quotes in the preview. The Quotable Giant Days, by writer John Allison and artist Max Sarin, purports to collect " a mixture of witty and humorous quotes" from the series, but all we get in […]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has announced a new Power Rangers original graphic novel called Power Rangers: Sins of the Future, a sort of comic book version of a "where are they now?" segment starring Pink Ranger Jen Scotts and Red Ranger Wes Collins set after the end of the Power Rangers: Time Force TV show […]

Boom Studios and Dynamite Entertainment are the leading proponent of what is known as the FOC cover, releasing cover images just before the Final Order Cut-Off date in an attempt to goose last minute orders out of retailers. But this week, Marvel, Valiant, Vault and DC are stepping in too. Dynamite especially use tiered covers, […]

At 12:17pm PT, The Beat posted an Exclusive transcript of the address to ComicsPRO by Filip Sablik and Morgan Perry, in which they talked about the importance of publishers managing launches, understanding comic stores and buyers, and lesson from Trader Joe's, as well as launching a number of new titles. It was a rather good […]

As you've been reading, Boom Studios announced some major talent scalps today, with Marvel's Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk) and returning artist Simone Di Meo (who Marvel had poached from Boom for Champions) debuting their first-ever creator-owned series in They Only Find Us When They're Dead and Marvel and DC's Tom Taylor (Wolverine and DCeased) joining […]

Not content with only having Image Comics co-founder and CFO Erik Larsen waging a war against them, it looks like Boom Studios has poked the bear in Burbank and scored themselves a defector from DC Comics with Tom Taylor, the writer behind some of their biggest books in the last five years including Injustice and […]

Boom Studios just kicked off their ComicsPRO presentation – straight into Bleeding Cool's inbox, by going back to their biggest book – Power Rangers. Yes, the series where Boom sold 800 copies in 15 minutes at one store of issue #25. With those same Power Rangers still driving buzz amongst readers and collectors, retailers' ears […]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has announced the next middle-grade horror graphic novel from big shot writer R.L. Stine in Stine's Just Beyond series, set to hit stores this October. Just Beyond: Welcome to Beast Island will feature artists Kelly and Nicole Matthews and letterer Mike Fiorentino. The book is about an ill-fated visit to the […]

Angel #9… now called Angel and Spike #9… is in stores from explosive publisher BOOM! Studios next week, picking up the story after the events of the Hellmouth super-mega-crossover event, by Bryan Hill and Gleb Melnikov, and with so many variant covers, you'd think the super-mega-crossover event was still going on! Well, the reason for […]

Firefly #14 is in stores from explosive publisher BOOM! Studios next week, by Greg Pak and Lalit Kumar Sharma, and this preview below shows that this issue may finally put an end to a long-held misconception about Firefly fandom. As we all know, the official term for hardcore fans of Firefly is "firebronies." But we've […]