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  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[...]

vampire action, with the odds stacked in the vampires favor by a factor of about 100 to 1. BC: This is the first time the comics are doing an original story and not an adaptation Why the change? And how much involvement does Jim Butcher have in the project compare to when you are adapting a completed[...]

As Bleeding Cool told you back in January, DC Comics are publishing a new weekly series set in the alternative universe of Earth 2 And back last June, we told you that a planned Earth 2 second series with the then-Earth 2 writer James Robinson, was enough to make Robinson walk off the book. Now, Earth[...]

UPDATE: Marvel's David Gabriel gets in touch to tell us that Comic Shop News misquoted him, and that he never said that the Essentials program was ending.  The original story follows below. The most recent issue of freebie comics newsletter Comic Shop News confirms what some had been expecting The end of the Marvel Comics Essential line, phonebook-sized[...]

Bleeding Cool spoke with co-writer on the series with Mike Mignola and EIC at Dark Horse, Scott Allie, last week about just how Abe Sapien #12, coming in

Six Million Dollar Man #2 Writer Commentary by Bleding Cool's Jim Kuhoric P1 -2 Welcome back – Previously on The Six Million Dollar Man: we pick up with

Matt Hawkins, editor-in-chief of Image Comics studio,Top Cow and writer of Think Tank, has some wisdom to impart…. Some pitching advice: 1) understand that no one will be that excited to read your pitch This is because we read so many bad ones that the expectation is that it won't be good If we're excited after we[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! Futures End[...]

And could a side product of its use be the resurrection of Damian Wayne? Writer Pete Tomasi says to the LA Times,  Weeeeelllll, you're making a biiiiggg assumption that it's Damian that comes back from the dead, and in a general note I'd say that anyone coming back from the dead, be it comics or in real life, would[...]

British comic book retailers have been told by Diamond UK that the Satellite Sam Tijuana Bible incentive will not be available within these shores. Image Comics had previously announced that a fictional "Tijuana bible", based on the small press pornographic publications that lampooned cartoon figures, sports stars and actors from the twenties to the sixties, would feature[...]

I remember back in the glory days of the Warren Ellis Forum that, every now and then Warren would ask what odd characters people would like him to write,

Another couple of previews of comics coming up for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May the fourth Two original comics for the kid and the kid at heart… Top Shelf Kids Club (W/A) Eric Orchard, Rob Harrell (CA) Eric Orchard Here at Top Shelf, we're celebrating FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2014 with friends old and new —[...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This is the first Art Episode.  ALL of the art this week was slammin'! In this episode we learn about metal, love, and just what exactly the powers of[...]

On a recent trip to the Cradle Of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY while his son was on Spring break... Batman Eternal and American Vampire scribe Scott

A couple in San Francisco has posted about a couple lost packages from the post office. In the package were three pages of original art from Scott

Gerardo and I have been making our short stories for years now, as a kind of training, to learn the ways of making comics, you know, late at night after our day jobs So this one was our first attempt at tackling popular characters, and to be honest we definitely didn't expect the amount of[...]

I was going to accentuate the things I love about comics and I was going to leave the rest of the Internet to chime in about what was wrong I decided if I didn't enjoy a comic book or a creator or anything comic book related, I wouldn't write about it and I decided that[...]

And even Kitty Pryde pops by as well. You know, those were good times, weren't they? Anyone for boiled eggs? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, Currently running the Cult exhibition… It's only for just one panel In today's Amazing X-Men As Nightcrawler returns to the land of the living and the X-folk have a… coming back[...]

Okay, with the DC Comics solicitations being released any day now, it looks as of we'll be seeing the September Futures End #1 oneshots solicited alongside the July books as, learning from last time, DC are giving retailers a two-month-early deadline to order the 3D cover titles this year. But one of the books that hasn't[...]

It's easy to see why Allegri has made such a big impact on the comic world. Check out these amazing covers by Allegri (cover A) and Zac Gorman (cover B) and variant covers by Colman Engle (cover C) and Becky Dreistadt (cover D). Boom! Studios, take all my money! Julz Hendricks is a co-host of[...]

Last week, Marvel held a creative retreat, where a bunch of comics folk working for Marvel get together and shape the next waves at Marvel. From CBR, To that point, is the focus at the retreats mainly the big line-wide events, or are arcs in individual titles also developed? Alonso: At every retreat we discuss individual characters, families —[...]

It came from a collection of golden age comics that were chewed on by a rat The books have varying degrees of chew marks on them I am dubbing this the "Rat Chew Pedigree" because these all came from the same collection. Doesn't quite have the same ring as "Edgar Church Collection" but it'll do for[...]

And the artwork by Joe Bennett is so energetic that you never feel like your looking through the lens of history at a legacy character. I shot some questions at Frank Barbiere, exactly 5 in number, to try to gauge his motivations in updating Solar and hopefully catch a sneaky glimpse of where the book might[...]

What if that is more than a metaphor? And I don't mean that as well as a headmaster, hired assassin, poker player, peace negotiator in Madripoor and bar stool, he is also working in a salon. No, I'm talking about Wolverine's hair. What if that's what's been going on all these years? Hair that looks like his[...]

Valiant only has one book out this week, but boy is it a doozy. X-O Manowar #24 is billed as a "Prelude to Armor Hunters" – Valiant's forthcoming,

You know how this works… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, Currently running the Cult exhibition… From Batman Eternal #2 posted today, Jim Gordon in trouble Batman on the case And Catwoman on Batman's case.   Oh Batman! Catwoman will only throw herself at you rubbing herself up and down your suited body for so long before she moves[...]

Another couple of previews of comics coming up for Free Comic Book Day on Saturday May the fourth Two comics with their origins in Japan… but taking very different tacks. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Publisher: Papercutz In 1993, The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers burst on the scene in an explosion of colorful combat, bizarre monsters, incredible robot battles,[...]

Spin-off series by the end of the year? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, Currently running the Cult exhibition… From today's copy of X-Men. A brand new team of mutants, formed within the confines of the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning Made up of Broo, Rockslide, Hellion and Anole And their name? Yup, Bromo Superior[...]