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The guy deserves MARQUIS billing, credit, royalties (as do all colorists)& beyond — Scott Snyder (@Ssnyder1835) April 18, 2014 Well, you know, DC Comics have a presence at Wondercon this year Why doesn't someone, in the Q&A sections tomorrow… ask them? And then let us know what the answer is… Lots of room for an Onion AV Club[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode85.mp3] Following on from last week's chat with Iron Fist's Kaare Andrews (which you can still listen to here) – this time around I catch up with prolific writer Cullen Bunn (Magneto, Sinestro, The Sixth Gun) to talk about the many books he's doing, including The Remains from Monkeybrain Comics! We talk about how he[...]

By Devon Sanders Recently, artist Yanick Paquette drew attention to the fact that certain publishers don't pay any sort of royalty or give cover credits to some of comics' most important and hardest working creative, its colorists, and we covered it here at Bleeding Cool. I reached out to one of the medium's best, Rico Renzi, colorist[...]

In May, the crossover will start alternating with the ongoing series. The panel then focused on video game tie-ins for DC comics, and the audience was shown a trailer for Infinite Crisis, which featured taglines like  "We all fight for something, while showing Joker clocking Batman in slow motion The phrases "Hope" were superimposed over a[...]

At the IDW Hasbro Panel at Wondercon, IDW just announced a new Transformers series beginning in August, entitled Primacy. This was the expected name of

By Jared Cornelius In the summer of 2012 Valiant Comics returned from the grave, they rose not as shambling zombie, but as a glorious phoenix, but I didn't know that.  At the time I had turned my nose up at X-O Manowar and Bloodshot, I scoffed at the idea that the 90's were back and expected another round of Malibu or Awesome Comics.  But last year on a whim I decided to[...]

Timothy Carson writes: With the upcoming release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, it’s no surprise that Peter Parker’s comic variation is flying off the

Titan Books work way ahead on announcing releases, which means more comics previews for us, and so for September and July release respectively, and appearing in April Previews, we have two new graphic novels today: Springheeled Jack and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Cheery stuff You'll certainly get your dose of Steampunk and Horror[...]

Coming out of Wondercon… the news that Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier have completed the long awaited Groo & Conan crossover series, the first issue of which is planned to make it out in July in time for San Diego Comic Con. But right after that we can expect a new twelve issue Groo The Wanderer[...]

Captain Action Cat, the new Dynamite series from the Art Baltazar and Franco team has received less than six thousand orders for the first issue of their

Dynamite is launching a new line of creator driven comics with all new characters from a diverse list of popular creators. Kicking it off is The Devilers from Joshua Hale Fialkov and Matt Triano There will also be covers by Jock and a retailer incentive cover by Marc Silvestri. When the world is under siege from the[...]

Look out for our trusty writers Dan Wickline, Joshua Stone, Michele Brittany, Jesse Criscone, and Bill Watters in panels and on the hunt for stories… There's a good representation of publishers here at Wondercon this year, including: Dark Horse, DC Comics, Top Cow, IDW, Boom! and more on the floor, with Marvel also running a few[...]

The only big problem with the movie is a fan boy nitpick that seems like it was cut out for cost or the wrong decision not to include it was made (because running time is not a factor at a little over an hour); I'm talking about what could have been an adrenaline fueled first[...]

By Ed Saul We’ve all heard the countless jokes about the Voyager hologram-character calling himself “The Doctor”, but this is a different case entirely.

Well, the cover variants anyway. That's right, Ash and Sheila from Army Of Darkness are getting married in Dynamite's Army Of Darkness: Ash Gets

Arguably a more westernised comic than the likes of Naruto and One Piece, Attack On Titan has the potential to be another Walking Dead, in comics terms at least. But most comic stores and book stores don't even have one copy of one volume, published in the US by Random House. Right now, Attack On Titan Vol[...]

Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy’s Most Wanted is a new one shot from Marvel for July by Will Corona Pilgrim and Andrea Di Votti, starring Rocket Raccoon

Looks like we may have another fight with UK Customs on our hands! Image Comics are putting out a new Black Kiss Christmas Special by Howard Chaykin...in July. Because… comics. Falalalala lalalala…. Looks like we may have another fight with UK Customs on our hands! Image Comics are putting out a new Black Kiss Christmas Special by[...]

This probably won't be up for long. Not at this price. But the Annotated Sandman Vol. 3 is currently listed on Amazon for $19.71, compared to the $49.99

Dynamite are announcing today that they are serialising the previously-published Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Echoes graphic novel, into a four issue

Man does not live on comics alone Sometimes he wants to read about comics Bleeding Cool Magazine, Previews and Overstreet all have Free Comic Book Day versions out for the first Saturday in May, May the third And here is what you might be able to expect… Bleeding Cool Magazine Publisher: AVATAR PRESS INC Bleeding Cool Magazine celebrates[...]

MCFARLANE PICKS UP A PEN Marc Silvestri and Todd McFarlane's variant cover for Skybound's Manifest Destiny. SPIDER-FAN Author of the UK Comic Book Babylon book (and Bleeding Cool alumni) Tim Pilcher talks Amazing Spider-Man 2 on Business Week. COMIXOLOCAUST Shaun Huston asks, what happens to your digital comics when your provider goes away? Like many of the users I saw on[...]

Getting a jump on next weeks books early, Valiant has sent over a preview of Eternal Warrior #8 by Greg Pak and Robert Gill. You have to love that when

By Panel 2 Panel Bleeding Cool welcomes back the Panel 2 Panel podcast team joined by Joe Pezzula of Where The Witches Lurk.  They say: This week the crew

Sci-Fi author and now comics writer J.C De La Torre hosts a podcast on science fiction, "Transmissions from Atlantis" and since his comic Star Mage has been recently released by IDW, his latest podcast functions as a kind of reader's guide to the series In the interest of bringing you everything we can on a[...]

He came into Fantom Comics, the shop I managed at time, with this bold statement that Washington, DC-area geek culture had been underserved and he wanted to do something about it. I had nothing for him but doubt. True, the DC area has been underserved The greater DC/Maryland/Virginia area has its fair share of excellent comics shops,[...]

Thankfully Mike Federali can put his mind at ease as his comic convention Tidewater Comicon was a resounding success this last Saturday. With the hope of bringing a legitimate convention to the tidewater area of Virginia Beach, Federali and those on his team set forth to bring the best mixture of comics and geeky interests to[...]

  The latest official accompanying art from Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (which I don't care what anyone says, I think is pretty damn fine) by

It is not intended to be revisionist, postmodern or ironic, but searching in tone and sticking to the facts narrated in the poem, and with full power to convey the epic and melancholic resonance of the verses through the formal resources of contemporary comics. The outlook is not, then, the genre of sword and sorcery and[...]

In collecting the materials for the book, they've demonstrated that there are many potential Pop Culture scholars out there, and it's a matter of providing the framework and encouragement for developing this field of study further. I asked the co-editors quite a few questions about how they went about putting this book together, and also, given[...]