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Things To Do Out West And On The West Coast This Month If You Like Comics
By Michele Brittany, a West Coast Correspondent For Bleeding Cool I'm always on the lookout for events to attend – comics, horror, celebrity, anime, etc – and I'm figuring that I'm not alone While my immediate focus is Southern California, I did also check elsewhere in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington I can personally vouch[...]
Building a Better Monster: Final Volume of Ultrasylvania Set for Release
3: The Book of the Damned – set for release on March 31, we close the book on this tale (if you'll pardon the pun/cliche).  The hand-picked students working herein – Kirt Burdick, Monica Disher, Ha Huy Hoang, Marc Schultz, Nathan Shorts, Josef Sison, Erik Solem, and Zhuozheng Zuo – represent the next generation of[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – Guardians Of The Galaxy On The Rise
It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. Guardians Of The Galaxy rises to the second spot as everyone goes wacky for Rocket Raccoon… and The Wake is rising in prominence too. Superior[...]
Booze Geek – Green Jack Rippa And Superior Spider-Man
By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Green Jack Rippa Brewery: Green Jack Ales & Stout After a prolonged absence due to traveling and sickness, the Booze Geek is back.  For my returning review, I delved into an English ale from Green Jack Ales by the name of Rippa, a triple ale. Rippa is a mahogany brown color, looking not unlike a[...]
Valiant Unleashes Chromium Covers This Summer
Valiant comics has a new retailer incentive push that involve 5 wraparound chromium covers for their big Armor Hunters 18-part event this summer The covers will come out in June and July and will feature the art of Jorge Molina, Mico Suayah, Clayton Crain, Philip Tan and Lewis LaRosa. Each Chromium cover is a jumping on[...]
Kidwell, Zornow And Fotos Return To War – '68: Rule Of War
Image Comics is going back to the zombies of the Vietnam War in the latest offering from Meatgrinder Studios, '68: Rule of War The four-issue mini-series by Mark Kidwell, Jeff Zornow and Jay Fotos changes the focus from the zombies to more human monsters. The new series follows CIA Special Agent Declan Rule and his dog[...]
Swipe File: J Bone Vs Uncle Deadward
Accomplished cartoonist J Bone (currently seen drawing Saviors from Image) is currently fighting a certain Uncle Deadward (or Edward Wihnan) over what
Gendercrunching – December 2013 And The Year In Review
We also take a look at the past year in total and see how each category is trending. DC COMICS The losses across the board weren't dramatic for DC, but the gains were tiny In December 2013, DC Comics released 76 comics featuring 659 credited creators, 584 men and 75 women Here are their stats: Overall, DC fell[...]
Titan Comics' Doctor Who Comics Not Available In Print In The UK
It does seem a little ridiculous. A British publisher, employing British creators, licensing a British TV show from a British broadcaster cannot sell the comics in Britain. I've just had that confirmed to me by BBC Worldwide after being given the runaround by Titan Comics The new Doctor Who comics can't be sold in print form in[...]
Comics Industry Reacts To… Eric Stephenson's Speech At ComicsPRO
Bleeding Cool ran the speech as it was being read at the ComicsPRO retailer event at Altanta, Georgia A message from Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson on the state of the comic book industry He was forthright. And straight away the tweeting began. Maybe people should focus on their comics rather than slagging off superheroes, Star Wars,[...]
Paul Levitz Joins The Board Of Directors At Boom! Studios
Paul Levitz was the President and Publisher of DC Comics for, well, a pretty damn long time He was deposed by Diane Nelson and chose to walk rather than take a lesser role, though he kept writing Legion Of Superheroes books for the publisher. Then that stopped as well, though he keeps up with Worlds Finest. And[...]
The Return Of Kelley Jones' Hammer
Kelley Jones posted the above art to Facebook with the line, Here he is, for Richard Pachter, there will be a little news soon for the big guy. Hammer was a comics series that Dark Horse published in the late nineties and he hasn't been since Looks like that won't remain the case for long. Lovecraftian superhero book,[...]
Joining The Dots On The Third DC Comics Weekly
So, yesterday at the ComicsPRO retailer event in Atlanta, Georgia, DC Comics announced their third weekly title, but wouldn't say what it was. Well we have the Batman Eternal weekly, we have the Five Years Later/Future's End Weekly… A month ago, we ran the rumour that DC were prepping an Earth 2 Weekly. We have also previously run[...]
Friday Morning Runaround – What A Watterson
PLUNGING THE DEPTHS Survey: What do you all think? Chloe Bennet as FATHOM's Aspen Matthews #aspencomics @chloebennet4… http://t.co/43Oy7VqP5a — Aspen Comics (@AspenComics) February 28, 2014 SUPERHEROES ON THE SLOPES   Francesco Francavilla designs the Winter Olympic look for superheroes… THE WHITE HOUSE OF IDEAS [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77pnVFLkUjM[/youtube] "Basically I'm here to announce that we're building Iron Man." Man, Obama[...]
Louise Simonson Writes 'Super Secret Crisis War' For Cartoon Network Comics
Could these be "pilot comics" to test the viability and popularity of other Cartoon Network characters getting their own series? You may very well think that, I couldn't possibly comment.   Expect IDW to announce this during their presentation at the ComcisPRO event in Atlanta, Georgia today. But they are releasing a Cartoon Network crossover event this summer,[...]