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We followed it up with the news that Boom, Arcana and Titan were in the final running for the coveted prize. I understand, as of this morning, that British publisher Titan Comics has successfully won the US license, and will begin publication with stories featuring the Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi Doctors next year. Panini currently hold[...]

The final Shadowman #11 variant cover, featuring a perforated, removable Shadowman mask (and Halloween accompaniment) as designed by the great Rian

Time for another run through the week's comic books, in the most most popular weekly column at Bleeding Cool, X Thoughts About X. Every neighbourhood

Thrilling Adventure Hour, the new original graphic novel from Archaia is in stores tomorrow, but it actually sold out at the distributor level almost 3

Superior FOES is a truly unique book on the Marvel racks, Spenser made me care about Boomerang! And Deadpool Kills Deadpool is so out of touch with reality…Pandapool! Either that excites you or it doesn't I love Panda's, my nickname is Panda Baron! DC didn't disappoint with new writers clicking on three titles[...]

This was a tweet from Mark Waid, presuming regarding the film 2 Guns, based on a screenplay by Steven Grant, and the 2 Guns comic from Boom! drawn by Mateus Santolouco Mark Waid was, until fairly recently, editor-in-chief of Boom! Studios. Grant declined to comment, but encouraged people to speculate as they wish and invited Waid[...]

Data courtesy of Bleeding Cool's Mark Seifert, based on some serious jigging around with Bleeding Cool page views. With the films and TV, Marvel won San

Ron Richards was there for Image, Filip Sablik and Stephen Christy were there for Boom/Archaia, and Dirk Wood was there for IDW. The first question asked was whether superheroes made sense for the indy comic book companies Ron gave his personal opinion, not that of Image Comics, and said he thinks Marvel and DC have cornered[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool reported rumours that the US Doctor Who comics licence, to conclude at the end of the year, was likely to go to either Boom! or Titan. We now have a few more notes and another name to go with that. Firstly, I'm told that Titan Comics have proposed buying the UK published[...]

 Day Men #1 has sold out at the distributor level of its full 12,000 printing after going on sale last week and Boom! are setting up a second printing, cover above. Thanks for the stats folks, here's the plug;   DAY MEN #1 is the first time Brian Stelfreeze has drawn interiors on a regular series since 2005[...]

From two very separate people in two very separate parts of San Diego Comic Con, I had the exact two names as publishers gunning for the Doctor Who license, now that IDW and the BBC are splitting at the end if the year. The two publishers are Titan Comics and Boom! Studios Titan Comics are local[...]

1 SDCC exclusive hard cover Creators: Frank Miller, Steven Grant Publisher: Boom Available: Booth #2229 High concept: Collects the nine issue 2003 Avatar Press series that was adapted from Frank Miller's original Robocop 2 script by Steven Grant with art Juan Jose Ryp It's limited to just 250 copies for $35 at the show. Format:  The hard cover collects the[...]

Bleeding Cool Magazine interview with Matt Gagnon and Michael Alan Nelson BOOM! has a lot of exciting new projects coming up in their summer lineup But one of the books that has the most interesting twist is the upcoming title, Day Men Written by Matt Gagnon and Michael Alan Nelson with art by Brian Stelfreeze, this[...]

He's the new kid on the block at BOOM!, working on the Freelancers series, and a guy who is very passionate about comics And we had the opportunity to bring his youthful enthusiasm to a candid conversation with Steven Grant, a legend in the comics community and the creator of 2 Guns, a soon to[...]

And today Boom! appear to have launched theirs. Split into four sections, a home page that looks at current, upcoming and recently published comics, a shop to buy stuff from and annoy comic store retailers with, a page for upcoming events, signings, launches, convention appearances and… "Trending" Which is basically their news page, given a funky[...]