The Daredevil Annual was solicited by Marvel Comics before the lockdown for May, then delayed and now rescheduled along the way. It was announced as something a bit special. Written by ongoing Daredevil writer Chip Zdarsky, who also drew the cover, it was to be drawn by Tom Strong co-creator Chris Sprouse and titled "One […]
Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 10 most-read stories yesterday "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia": A Reigniting of "The Office" War? Bethesda Softworks Releases A Summer Roadmap For "Fallout 76" "It's […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] We see Tom Strong once again shutting down a scheme from Paul Saveen in Millennium City. After another successful mission, Strong is ambushed by Doc Dread. Meanwhile on our Earth, the Terrifics continue their search for Tom Strong and a means to stop Doc Dread. Mister Terrific clashes with Simon Stagg, and Rex […]
The newly relaunched Captain America series is getting its first newly relanched annual in September, the House of Ideas announced in a press release today. Written by Tini Howard with art by Chris Sprouse, Captain America Annual #1 is set in World War 2 and features Cap and his faithful sidekick Bucky encountering a group of […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Matt Murdock walks into a courthouse and sees something he never expected to see… anything. There is a stone being held by Turk Barrett. Before long, Murdock suits up as Daredevil and realizes that this stone allows Turk to hear thoughts, and the former henchman is using it to move up in the […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The team is baffled by the message left by Tom Strong, and they ask how Phantom Girl arrived in the Dark Multiverse. She explains how she was sucked in through a portal in space. Mister Terrific explains that they'll need the antenna attached to Tom Strong's device, and this wakes something up. The […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] We arrive at the conclusion of Bleeding Cool's Five Days of Black Panther with the current Black Panther series by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates and artists such as Chris Sprouse, Brian Stelfreeze, and Leonard Kirk. This was my first Black Panther solo series, as I was turned onto the character primarily by Al Ewing's […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The Jabari-Lands plead with the Queen Mother to allow them to rescue the Midnight Angels, Ayo and Aneka, from the clutches of Azania. The Queen Mother turns her down, saying that Wakanda cannot risk open conflict with their troublesome neighbors. Meanwhile, Black Panther, Shuri, Thunderball, Zawavari, and Manifold continue to track the rifts […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] Black Panther and Shuri team up with the Dora Milaje in their move against Ras the Exhorter and his cult dedicated to the Originator gods of Wakanda. The Dora Milaje strike at where they believe Asira, a former flame of T'Challa's who was kidnapped by his enemies, is being held. Meanwhile, T'Challa and […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] There is a new god being worshipped in Wakanda, the nation of the Black Panther, and it is called Sefako. A man called Ras the Exhorter has been preaching in the name of this Sefako, and he is gaining many followers. This is troubling T'Challa, who has called Storm to Wakanda to aid […]
[rwp-review-recap id="0"] The mystery of the Gods of Wakanda must be put on hold for the Black Panther while he investigates the disappearance of a former flame, Asira, by the Fenris Twins. He leaves Ororo Munroe, AKA Storm of the X-Men, to go out and use her powers to tap into the nature of what […]
He's around here somewhere…. Holy fucking Christ, I just saw @mrmarkmillar! — Jean Gay 🏳️🌈🔥🦅 (@JosephGlass) October 23, 2015 Announced at the far more secretive than usual Diamond Retailer Day at the London ExCel Centre for London MCM Comic Con, Mark Millar has laid out his upcoming plans to ComicBook. We knew about Empress with […]
Grant Morrison has written the Multiversity Guidebook. But who is drawing it? The DC Comics website lists Ben Oliver, Chris Sprouse, Dan Jurgens, Cameron Stewart, Klaus Janson, Gary Frank, Nicola Scott and "Various". Whereas Amazon lists Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jae Lee, Jon Bogdanove, Gary Frank, Todd Nauck, Chris Sprouse, Andrew Robinson, Duncan Rouleau, Cameron Stewart, Pete […]
By Rich Johnston, Hannah Means-Shannon, and Christine Marie Why 11? Building on our inaugural Bleeding Cool "best of" lists last year, we encourage you, dear readers, to dial it up to 11. It's no exaggeration to say that this has been an extreme year for the number of new and innovative comic series reaching readers […]
Sage Ashford offers his Annotated Reading of The Multiversity: Society of Super-Heroes: Conquerors from the Counter-World #1 from DC Comics by Grant Morrison and Chris Sprouse. [*SPOILERS BELOW!!] The "Immortal Man" is a version of Anthro, the First Boy, created by Howard Post in Showcase #74 back in 1968. This isn't the first time Grant […]
By Nas Hoosen In my last post here at Bleeding Cool, I pointed out that superhero comic fans spend so much time reading between the lines of Grant Morrison's comics that we sometimes miss the best parts: the jokes. Considering how much the new issue of his metaseries, The Multiversity, got me thinking about fear, […]
From the Liveblog by Joe Glass: SHIELD issue 1 coming in December by Mark Waid and Carlos Pacheco, Alan Davis, Chris Sprouse and more, introducing characters from the TV show into the 616. They will be done in one stories, and everyone in the MU is a potential agent of SHIELD. Coulson is one of Waid's favorite […]
But there's more than one Tom in Tom Strong and The Planet of Peril…Does that complicate things? A little but not so much. Tom in any parallel universe has a hard time concealing a few innate qualities, particularly when under pressure trying to save his daughter Tesla from a life-endangering pregnancy prompted by the volcano-nature […]
This week is rightly being described as "massive" for comics, given the Thanksgiving holiday, it seems like companies would very much like you to be reading comics while noshing on a turkey drumstick or in the post-food haze of couch potatoing. It's a mini Chris Sprouse festival, and the stonking return of Five Ghosts, Sledge-hammer […]
And the autumn just keeps gathering steam, which for those on the East Coast of the USA is beginning to feel like a build toward New York Comic Con where announcements are already being teased and big creators are shuffling around their portfolio in new configurations for the coming year. This week we have the […]
