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Britain's best selling comic book, Viz, a satirical comedy anthology of comics strips and mock magazine/newspaper articles with an adult reading audience, has joined the Readr App, which allows subscribers to read twenty minutes of magazines from their collection for free every month, though you can subscribe for a monthly fee for an all-you-can-eat buffet. This[...]

Chris Thompson writes; [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode20.mp3] This week I take a look back at the absolutely amazing Malta Comic-Con I've recently returned from – then Taylor & I discuss some of the gems found there, including Sean Azzopardi's latest release Same Day Return. We also present a very special panel I conducted with comics industry legends Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, Secret[...]

And just as the TV series shows us one charismatic leader in The Governor, so the comic shows us the life of a very different tyrant, but one who may be equally convincing He does have a bit more of a pottymouth on him though. So this is The Walking Dead #105 in Negan's fucks. [...]

Set within one of the gallery spaces at Saint James Cavalier Centre for Creativity in Valletta, the show is a joint project between Malta Comic Con and the French Embassy. If you've never seen Corto Maltese before then you're in for a treat Although many of the books are out-of-print in English, a new edition of[...]

5 #1 £2.49 All-New X-Men #3 £2.49 Amazing Spider-Man #699 £2.49 Detective Comics (2011-) #15 £2.49 Hawkeye #5 £1.99 Thunderbolts Vol 2 #1 £1.99 Action Comics (2011-) #15 £2.49 All New X-Men #2 £2.49 Invincible #98 £1.99 Earth 2 (2012-) #7 £1.99 Canada Avengers Vol 5 #1 $3.99 All-New X-Men #3 $3.99 Amazing Spider-Man #699 $3.99 Hawkeye #5 $2.99 Detective Comics (2011-) #15 $3.99 Earth 2 (2012-) #7 $2.99 All New X-Men[...]

Chris Thompson writes for Bleeding Cool… just before he heads off to Malta! [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode18.mp3] Taylor and I have mixed views about this week's Marvel Now! books, and find we don't see eye-to-eye with Daniel Way's Thunderbolts #1 or Jonathan Hickman's much-anticipated Avengers #1. Taylor also chats with Ryan Ferrier (Tiger Lawyer and Challenger Comics) about his career thus[...]

And then immediately relaunched as a new digital comic book publication. Which has just happened. The zero issue is free, with five strips, Desperate Dan, The Numskulls, Bananaman, Blinky And Brassneck, Keyhole Kate and new superhero strip RetroActive The site is very "live", it wobbles, it animates, it offers games, it offers distractions and yes, it[...]

Dan Hart writes for Bleeding Cool; So, this week sees the release of the most pre-ordered comic in the world, this month at least (Rich adds… yeah, Amazing Spider-Man, All New X-Men, Uncanny Avengers or Batman might just have the lead But still, over 100,000… ) IDW's latest licenced property is the hugely popular cartoon My[...]

UPDATE: May not just be the UK… You know how we said IDW had printed over 100,000 copies of My Little Pony #1? It seems they may have missed out a few thousand for whatever reason. Diamond Comic Distributors has informed UK stores, a few hours after I started making enquiries, that My Little Pony will only[...]

During New York Comic Con, Bleeding Cool told you (and everyone at NYCC as well it seems) that IDW's first issue of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic comic had gathered 90,000 orders for the first issue. But it seems that not all the numbers had been counted Now they have, and they have topped[...]

I wonder how long it will take Equestria Daily to link here? Starting the clock… now. The six A B C D E F covers that will also be collected in the box set. They form the following hexatych. There is the "Subscription variant" by Jill Thompson intended to be available to those who reserve copies from their[...]

From a recent interview with Russell T Davies about his new TV show Wizards Vs Aliens, he told the Telegraph regarding Doctor Who; “Don’t ask me about the

Crossed continues to grow as a franchise comic for Avatar with ongoing comics, spinoff series and now films. Its creator Garth Ennis is not only returning with an arc with issue 25 with artist Raulo Caceres in March, for the annual C-Day promotion, but Garth will also return one year after that with issue 50. The difference[...]

Here are just a few… *Dark Horse is pleased to announce the third installment of the wildly popular Dragon Age series! David Gaider—the lead writer of the Dragon Age games—takes three of the games' most beloved characters on a quest into the realm of nightmares, demons, and magic! King Alistair, allied with the world's most feared warrior[...]

A mix of X-Men and Marvel Now art that wasn't in the Marvel Preview earlier. I get the word that Indestructible Hulk is going to be a very different book

Colin O'Mahoney writes for Bleeding Cool; After a four year hiatus, Ireland once again has a comic convention Dublin International Comics Expo took place over the weekend in a pavilion erected in Dundrum town centre, just opposite The Big Bang store, which runs the show. D.I.C.E being on a much smaller scale than most U.K and U.S[...]

Stan Lee has had to cancel many appearances lately, leading to speculation, at nearly 90, it is due to health. The only reason reported was it was a "a

Yesterday, Wizard World sent round the following message; Last night, we were informed by Stan Lee's management that Stan would be unable to attend any upcoming appearances for the near future, including the Ohio Comic Con, as well as the "Authors Authors" Toledo-Lucas County Public Library appearance set for this Thursday, September 27th We will let[...]

comics convention Tickets still available… In a very special episode of the PCH podcast, I chat with legendary creator Alan Moore ahead of this weekend's N.I.C.E Convention in Kettering. Convention organiser Jeff Chahal from Close Encounters in Northampton also stops by to explain how the show came to be and what his purpose was in doing it. Finally,[...]

Is your retailer going to New York Comic Con? They may come back with more than a case of bed bugs. Retailers who attend certain Diamond Comic Distributors meetings will return with a bunch of goodies, often of the limited variety. They will include a Dark Horse Horror Exclusive Lithograph, an NYCC Aquaman #12: Robot Chicken variant,[...]

This week is the beginning of DC Comics' Zero Issue initiative, where all their DC New 52 titles publish a flashback issue zero, but one that still has relevance to the ongoing narrative, and more importantly the next issue You know, like you first read about on Bleeding Cool. What we didn't tell you (because we[...]

Yes, I'll run this blatant PR piece showing off the Baltimore Comic Con variant cover of Marceline & The Scream Queens #1 from Boom! on Bleeding Cool Why? Because everyone loves a bit of Adventure Time. Yes, I'll run this blatant PR piece showing off the Baltimore Comic Con variant cover of Marceline & The[...]

This week's episode of the free webcomic Crossed: Wish You Were Here does not feature a single member of the Crossed It's far worse than that It's time to talk about Sofia And Shaky' actions regarding her… This week's episode of the free webcomic Crossed: Wish You Were Here does not feature a single member[...]

And it looks like one of Tokyo's finest cultural icons, a comic book. The shelves are stacked like the tiers of a comic book page, and include speech balloons as part of their shape. And the display tables are created to resemble a pile of comics, with the pages curving up at the top. One way ticket to[...]

There'a a new wepisode of Crossed: Wish You Were Here up by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erkine hitting the interwebs. And slightly less of the

The last time I felt like this about a mainstream superhero comic was the first issue of Wolverine And The X-Men #1 by Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo It was just a perfectly structured story That one saw the new school opening with the education board following Wolverine around the school as more and more[...]

A variant cover even, showing a kind of "what if"?  But in this week's Star Trek/Doctor Who: Insurrection Squared, we got a flashback to Tom Baker fighting alongside the crew of the classic Star Trek crew against the older styled Cybermen. The cover to Star Trek: Doctor Who/Assimilation Squared #3 featuring Captain Kirk facing off a[...]

Cartoon strip Thatababy by Paul Trap did seem to get rather hung up on movie continuity in the new Amazing Spider-Man movie this weekend... The reboot of

A comic reader (let's call him Mike) posted; Dear Friends A tragic event happened today, a few mouths back I was having a discussion about The Walking Dead with a friend in work, he was slagging the comic off and calling Mr Kirkman some nasty names. The Main point was that The Walking Dead is very predictable[...]

Greg Pak would like to tell you about his new comic, X-Treme X-Men Via the medium of film. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JtAmc7Miw[/youtube]   Greg Pak would like to tell you about his new comic, X-Treme X-Men Via the medium of film. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JtAmc7Miw[/youtube]   [...]