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Image Comics Wins Publisher Of The Year At Diamond Awards
With Image beating back the traditional winners of the Publisher Of The Year (over 4% marketshare) Marvel and DC. Image also grabbed Best New Comic Book Series for East of West and Best Free Comic Book Day book for The Walking Dead Special. DC took six awards over all with Top Dollar Comic of the Year for[...]
Former LucasFilm's Art Director, Gary Winnick, Gives You Bad Dreams In April
Out from Red 5 Comics in April… From the co-creator of Lucasfilm's Maniac Mansion comes a lavishly illustrated twisted tale of whimsy, bouncing off classic fairy tale tradition When Mother Night goes missing, everyone slowly loses their minds from a lack of sleep An odd band of dreamworld misfits must band together to find her. And if[...]
Thaniel, A New Comic, With Two Issues In April
In April, Ossm Comics will publish the first two issues of Thaniel through comic book stores, a four issue mini-series, with the remaining issues in May and June, just in time for San Diego Comic Con. Here's what's coming. Throughout the universe there is one constant; everything dies Growing up on the streets, losing everyone closest to[...]
Friday Runaround – Batman, Spider-Man And Mountain Dew Cheetos
The comics industry's two biggest names on front and back. THE FUNKY GIBBON Buy this sketch and imagine who it might have been drawn for in happier times…  AUTISTIC SUPERMAN IN NEW YORK Dover residence Dave Kot recently released what he claims is the first comic to feature an autistic superhero. Since then, he said, local middle schools have[...]
Code Black – 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. In 1956 the two-year old Comics Code Authority (CCA) tried its best to stop EC Comics from publishing a particularly offensive comic book[...]
JM DeMatteis Is Aflutter About New Project with Mike Ploog in 2015
The Nigeria-based writer has reviewed comics, novels, movies and music for a variety of platforms, including Komikwerks.com, where he worked as Special Features Editor He is currently the Creative Editor of Daily Trust, the most influential newspaper in his country You can follow him on Twitter @KareemReal By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu J.M DeMatteis is a comic[...]
Comic Shop Owners' Last Chance To Order For Hellboy Day
In a me-too promotion along the lines of Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press' Crossed Day, Dark Horse is reserving a whole day to celebrate Hellboy's twentieth anniversary on March 22nd. But today's the day the retailers set their Final Order Cut-Off figures for all the comics and things they'll have on sale for then. Here are the[...]
How MailOrderComics.Com Went Down
So what happened with MailOrderComics.com that necessitated DCBS stepping in and taking on their unfulfilled orders How would that be possible anyway? Bleeding Cool investigations have unearthed that MailOrderComics.com over extended their credit with Diamond, in the region of a low six figure sum and basically last week, they didn't get the comics they'd ordered[...]
JM DeMatteis Is Working On 'Top Secret Animated Movie' And Reveals Origin of One Punch
The Nigeria-based writer has reviewed comics, novels, movies and music for a variety of platforms, including Komikwerks.com, where he worked as Special Features Editor He is currently the Creative Editor of Daily Trust, the most influential newspaper in his country You can follow him on Twitter @KareemReal By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu BleedingCool had a chat with[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks – Time To Get Furious
And the week after, the launch of Jokers Daughter, Wolverine, Punisher and Ms Marvel. So… what are you buying? DARK HORSE COMICS CONAN PEOPLE O/T BLACK CIRCLE #4 $3.50 FURIOUS #1 $3.99 GANTZ TP VOL 30 (MR) $13.99 NEVER ENDING #3 (MR) $3.99 SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #1 $3.50 SERENITY LEAVES ON THE WIND #1 VAR CVR $3.50 SLEDGEHAMMER 44 LIGHTNING WAR #3 $3.50 DC COMICS ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN #9 $3.99 ALL STAR WESTERN[...]
Superior Spider-Man Spoilers Spur Advance Reorders As We Get A Bunker Buster
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! Well, the[...]
Turok, Magnus And Solar – How Dynamite Were… Inspired by Valiant
Last year, it was announced that Dynamite had the won the Gold Key licence, to publish comics characters from the sixties, most recently published by Dark Horse, but best known for being published by Valiant Entertainment/Acclaim in the nineties. The new Valiant Entertainment didn't acquire the Gold Key licenses, but most people still associate the characters[...]
Will We Get A Black Wally West From DC Comics?
She's unaware of Barry's strong feelings for her. Iris West and her father, both adoptive and real (from the 30th century) in the comics, were white. Which means, while it is likely that Barry Allen will be white, with those surnames, when Wally West, Iris' nephew, Kid Flash and eventual inheritor of the Flash name turns up,[...]
Thursday Runaround – Wayne Manor In Lego, Hawkeye In Cake
I wish I had at any point in my life had such a cake. CINEMATIC VISION Kevin Maguire puts the Marvel Studio actors to work. Y: THE LAST RIGHTS The film rights to Y The Last Man could be reverting… Brian Vaughn tells CBR, It's my understanding that the rights to "Y: The Last Man" will revert back to[...]
Interview Show It's A Draw With Natalie Kim Debuts – Featuring Simon Fraser
It's A Draw will be releasing new episodes on Youtube and the Frederator Network on Tuesdays and Thursdays, but it's Tuesdays that will capture the interest of comics folk particularly, since Natalie Kim will be sitting down with comic artists to talk and draw with them, and who knows what craziness might ensue? In Natalie Kim's[...]
Death Is Coming To Harbinger
USA Today covered news from Valiant as one of its characters is going to die. The three part story arc Death Of A Renegade by Joshua Dysart and Clayton
DCBS Takes On MailOrderComics.Com's Commitments
Earlier today, Bleeding Cool ran a story about many complaints from customers of MailOrderComics.com and their fears that their orders, often hundreds of dollars each, we're not going to be fulfilled and that the company was going out of business. We were able to ascertain that there was a plan of action from another company to[...]
Gendercrunching November 2013 – DC Drops And Image Expo Raises Questions
We also take a look at Image comics in light of the recent discussions about diversity at Image Expo 2014. DC COMICS After a record breaking October, DC dropped like a stone across the board In November 2013, DC put out 73 new comics featuring 656 credited creators, 579 men and 77 women Here are their stats: While[...]
Are We Living In The Comics Future That Mark Millar Predicted?
This is what he saw, and how it turned out… And no, this isn't the usual shite where people say GAMES will replace comics That argument was crap and made about as much sense as CHEESE replacing comics, the two things being totally different No, this is for real And take it from the politics buff[...]
What Is Up With MailOrderComics.Com? (UPDATE)
MailOrderComics.com is a popular online comic book seller, which, as the name suggests, specializes in sending comics by mail order to those who want them Whether back issues or regular standing orders, it has a good reputation. Or at least it had. The website is currently showing most stock as unavailable, people haven't been receiving their orders[...]
Wait A Minute. Is That Rich Johnston In My Dark Horse Presents Comic?
You never know who she will find unworthy of life… The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne: The Library In The Body begins today in Dark Horse Presents. Oh, and if I didn't mention it, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne is written by me and drawn by Simon Rohrmuller. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London[...]
Thirty-Nine Thoughts About Thirty-Nine Comics – All New Invaders, Batman, Mighty Avengers, Batman And Robin, Hawkeye, Transformers, Animal Man, Origin II, X-Factor, Wonder Woman, Sex, Harley Quinn, Batwoman, X-Men, Midas Flesh, Jinnrise, Star Wars, Pretty Deadly, Deadly Class, Dead Body Road, Chew, Umbral, Krampus, Zero, Bad Ass, Peanuts, TMNT, Elfquest, Mind MGMT, Dark Horse Presents, Captain Midnight, X-Files, Massive, Judge Dredd, Mega City Two, The Mocking Dead, Samurai Jack and Aphrodite XI Hidden Files
Has comics' most sacrosanct suspension of belief been shattered? After all in the new Batman… …the secret identity of Bruce Wayne can be maintained even when the Commissioner is talking about Bruce Wayne by taking his glasses off A kind of anti-Superman paradigm there Whereas over on Mighty Avengers… Okay, even if you hadn't been spoiled on[...]
Wait A Minute. Is That Milk And Cheese In A My Little Pony Comic?
We'll destroy those little girl's minds, reference by reference. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London This week hosting an art battle between Savage Pencil and Chris Long, commencing this evening.. Battle of the Eyes (Savage Pencil & Chris Long) will be in residence from Wednesday evening, and throughout the day from Thursday to Sunday The Orbital Gallery[...]
George Romero Rewrites Night Of The Living Dead In His New Marvel Comic
And so it continues…       However, the comic version does take a different twist, and in more in line with George Romero's treatment of zombies sometimes taking on aspects of their previous lives to alter their behaviour… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London This week hosting an art battle between Savage Pencil and Chris Long, commencing this evening.. Battle[...]