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In One Week, In Two Weeks – Here Comes Loki
#Loki #AgentofAsgard #comics — Mandy P (@Brown_Ajah) January 31, 2014 Think I'm going to get a monthly sub for Loki: Agent of Asgard Because when it comes to Loki I have a… thing. — Ashley Lukens (@AshleyLukens) January 31, 2014 And next week, the launch of Royal Masters Of War, City: The Mind In The Machine, Fuse, Mercenary[...]
Now Earth 2 Gets A Weekly
Next week's Bleeding Cool Magazine has a lot to say about weekly comics, with DC launching both a Batman Eternal weekly comic as well as the Five Years Later-set Future's End weekly comic. But they are not alone. We knew that we were getting a new Earth 2 title to accompany the current monthly Well, we're now[...]
New Warriors, Undertow, Harley Quinn And Deadpool Top Advance Reorders
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! New Warriors[...]
The Most Well Timed For Valentine's Day Comic Ever
With his The Most ADJECTIVE Romance Comics Ever in which a fifties-style romance comic has been recreated, with missing words, allowing an audience to fill them in with hilarious consequences. Nat writes, The game can be played in a group of two or more, with one player calling out the word types for other players to suggest[...]
Friday Morning Runaround – Massive Marvel Media Murmurings
AFTERMARKET WITH ARCHIE Going to the ComicsPRO meeting of retailers at the end of February? Archie, as well as sponsoring Friday night cocktails will be bringing Francesco Francavilla, to sign the ComicsPRO variant edition of Afterlife With Archie… THE MARVEL UNIVERSE WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY Mark Millar makes big plans for Millarworld Though presumably without Flash Gordon…. Stan[...]
Bob And Bobette Get A Modern Makeover
Bob And Bobette is a classic Belgian comic strip. It looks like this. Or rather it did. Because it's getting a revamp and now looks... like this.   Quite
Pop Culture Hounding Zack Whedon – Finding Serenity
By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode74.mp3] After last week's enlightening discussion with Clifford Meth (which you can still listen to here), this week I take some time to chat with Zack Whedon about his film & television work, as well as his return to comics this week with Serenity: Leaves On The Wind from Dark Horse Comics! Zack & I[...]
Aging Disgracefully – What's Behind 75 Years of Success For The Beano?
In the 75 years that have since passed, the publication has had to evolve to suit an ever-changing audience, societal shifts and even fashion trends, if taking into consideration the amendment of Dennis' dad's haircut in August 2012. The Beano stands on higher ground on the valley of British comics sadly dampened by a downpour of[...]
Five Things About Zero Issue 5
By Alasdair Stuart Ales Kot is one of the most interesting, innovative writers working in the field today. His previous work including Change, Wild
Code Black 2: Shutout by Michael Davis, From The Edge
Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool This is the second in an series begun last week Although closeted in the interim report of the comic book hearings, race[...]
Is Cat Grant Talking About DC Comics Here?
Now the editorial practices of some areas at DC Comics get some stick from folk on the internet Occasionally even from me But when their own characters start talking out of class, something's up. Take Cat Grant in yesterday's Superman. Obviously I can empathise a little But it got me thinking. You don't suppose Scott Lobdell has had[...]
Extended Preview – Li'l Sonja
Continuing their Li'l Dynamites event, we get an extended preview of Li'l Sonja by Jim Zub and Joel Carroll. Li’l Sonja is a warrior girl who travels the
It's A Draw With Natalie Kim – Featuring Robin Ha
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKIqGM1fEcQ[/youtube] Natalie Kim is back with her new interview show talking about comics with creators, this time with Robin Ha of The Strumpet, Shattered: The Asian American Comics Anthology (Secret Identities), and Women of Marvel. Natalie Kim writes: We sit down with independent comics master, Robin Ha, who discusses how Alabama and Seoul, Korea are not so different. Panel[...]
The Top 5 Reasons Of All Time To Use Top 5 Lists (UPDATE)
It was a well-reasoned list that showed an awareness of TV and film culture as well as comics culture and as we have been saying on Bleeding Cool of late, we want to welcome in new voices and new opinions—this article was an example of that. The website Outhousers decided this spelled the doom of Western[...]