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By Christopher Helton One of the things that brings together the readers, and writers, of this site is the fact that we love comics. We love all sorts of

By Christopher Helton I want to get the hyperbole out of the way at the beginning of this: If Wayward, the new Image comic from Jim Zub and Steve Cummings

By Christopher Helton When your first complaint about a new comics is “man, that was too short” that bodes well for the issue, right? It does for The

By Christopher Helton Dan Didio gets a lot of grief over the management side of his work at DC Comics, but I have enjoyed his comic writing work at the

Caliber Comics was the publisher that brought Brian Bendis to our attention, published the songs of Alan Moore and gave us the early works of Guy Davis,

Two upcoming variant covers from Hastings, a Marvel Wolverine Labbit to kick off the new Wolverines series, and a My Little Pony...

Marvel are putting out a new series, Disney Kingdoms: Seekers Of The Weird, based on the work of their Imagineers team... Except it appears that comic

Grindhouse: Doors Open At Midnight, from Dark Horse, is in its third issue, and that means it’s on its second two-parter, each drawn by a different

Thanks to today's Amazing X-Men #2, we all got a lovely image of the demonic hellion form of Jack The Ripper flashing Northstar in hell. And, from what it

Ian Mageto writes; Seemingly over night the last two decades, the world of cosplay has exploded. Which was once the hobby of a few super fans has grown

There's a common trick in popular entertainment. Taking the popular thing off the table. Relegating it. Putting the focus on something else for a while.

While the official solicitation for All New Marvel Now Point One reads; • Here we go again! It’s your one-stop entry point to the world of ALL-NEW MARVEL

Last month, Bleeding Cool reported on the arrest of long time comics collector and dealer, Keith Contarino, and accusations from customers that he had

Okay, this I just wanted to run. Philip Bond's variant cover to Kick Ass 3 #5, available for retailers to order with every fifty standard comics they get.

I only just realised that in the Aardman Batman, his teeth mirror the Bat symbol. Hmmm. I'm sure everyone realised before but I couldn't find reference to

Adi Tantmedh writes; This week sees the first issue of ZERO from Image Comics, the new spy series by enfant terrible Ales Kot. Edward Zero is a kind of

By Victoria Marsden I know it sounds strange, but ever since I saw this cover a couple of days ago it’s been knocking around in the back of my head. It’s

Empowered is a bit of a guilty secret comic of mine. Funny, clever, sexy, silly and deep, it attempts of have its cake and eat it, licking it's dirty,

This week... well, we didn't go to war in Syria. Yet. But we read some things... Top Twenty Traffic Stories Of The Week Justice League #23 Vs FCBD 2012

So, Catwoman had a reinvented character from the past return to comics last week, with little fanfare from DC, but much fanfare from the comic community.

Kevin Keller's Glad To Be Me by Dan Parent heads up year of collections from Archie Comics in 2014, including their first mature readers title, Afterlife

It was my favourite book from San Diego Comic Con. It felt like a shoo-in for an Eisner nomination next year. And luckily Hannah Means-Shannon, senior New

They don't move. They are not lenticular. They are not even in colour. But in November, IDW are promoting the Artist's Edition format that reproduces

Shawn French writes; June 12, 1993. I was a young stand-up comedian, carving out a decent living in the middle rungs of the New England comedy scene. I’m

by Chris Thompson It’s a very exciting week as the Pop Culture Hound podcast hits the magic number 50! After 49 episodes, one special (with Alan Moore, no

By Victoria Marsden A few months ago, I was thrilled to read that Adrian Tomine was putting out another issue of Optic Nerve, the offbeat mini-comic I had

24 year old Luke Junior from Sheffield, was taking part in a charity event, when he saw a suspected shoplifter run out of the store, so he ran after him

John Jackson Miller writes; As reported here Friday, January comics sales performed the rare feat of beating December's sales; now, with the release of

Bryan Hitch's interview with CBR was revelatory in all sorts of ways. If only for the comics that weren't as well as the comics that are. Such as; my one

Dynamite.com was first registered back in 1996, for an internet service company. They picked up a few clients, but them on the home page, but they didn't