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Who won't do it because it costs too much, doesn't bring in the crowds, or the right crowd, and anyway, why should they give away money. Because it's true, while the comics are free to the public, they cost the retailer for each one And some retailers see the sums and just… don't. But I thought it[...]

Sometimes this job is easy. Okay, it can mean several conversations with sources, company reps, the Bleeding Cool lawyers, my editor-in-chief ans a

Everything was also a launch comics aside from Walking Dead and it's tenth anniversary comic – and Superman Unchained #2 – both buoyed by higher than usual variant covers. Walking Dead #115 $2.99 Justice League Of America #1 $3.99 Superman Unchained #1 $4.99 Guardians Of The Galaxy #1 $3.99 Infinity 1 $4.99 Superior Spider-Man #1 $3.99 Uncanny X-Men #1 $3.99 X-Men #1 $3.99[...]

This is one of twenty covers to be released in February. The full list of steampunk covers: "Justice League" #28 "Justice League of America" #12 "Justice League Dark" #28 "Aquaman" #28 "The Flash" #28 "Wonder Woman" #28 "Batman/Superman" #8 "Earth 2″ #20 "Superman/Wonder Woman" #5 "Action Comics" #28 "Superman" #28 "Batman" #28 "Detective Comics" #28 "Batgirl" #28 "Batman and Two-Face" #28 "Batwoman" #28 "Nightwing" #28 "Green Lantern Corps" #28 "Green Lantern: New Guardians" #28 "Teen Titans"[...]

Coming from Dark Horse at the end of the month...

LSCC seems set to pursue the "big con" model we see at NYCC and C2E2 while still pursuing a big focus on comics in the vein of Baltimore Comic Con To do that, they feel that a "diverse mix of exhibitors and creators" are the best bet to increase momentum. But the Con is also focusing[...]

Sorry, comics! — Ron Perazza (@Perazza) January 6, 2014 Left to go get lunch an hour and a half ago, never went back because the @Marvel offices are on fire. — Ben Morse (@BenJMorse) January 6, 2014 @davizlopez @Marvel Not quite ON fire, but there was A fire and we got evacuated We're all ok. — Ben Morse (@BenJMorse) January[...]

What happens if you take a bunch of Best Of Comics 2013 Lists from Amazon.com, Uproxx, Washington Post, Salon, Wired, AV Club, Time, Paste Magazine, CBR, Vice, io9, News OK, Digital Spy, Crave Online, Filth + Fabulations, Village Voice, Hollywood Reporter, Good Reads, Serial Optimist, Comics Alliance, What Culture, Newsarama and even Bleeding Cool? Then give[...]

Bleeding Cool kept its full posting rota through Christmas and the New Year, although one story this week looks destined to be the most read Bleeding Cool post in 2014… Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week "Authorship Is Censorship" – Bleeding Cool In Conversation With Shia LaBeouf Talking To Andy Olsen – The Original Creator Of Marvel's[...]

Timmy Tattoo is located at: 394 New York Ave, Huntington, NY Thursday, January 9th Neal Adams will appear at Midtown Comics Downtown for a special signing of the all-new Detective Comics #27 The signing will be held from 6-7PM.  Purchase of Detective Comics #27 is required to attend the event Midtown Comics Downtown is located at 64[...]

This is the first clip from Justice League: War. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs0w8unoioA And this is how that scene played out in the Justice League #1

A rather fun Marvel source came through with a few stories this morning. Before I'd even written one of them up, it had already been confirmed by a PR

Bleeding Cool broke the news this summer that DC Comics was looking to poach a certain John Romita Jr, a comic book creator who, following in his father's footsteps, had become a very familiar artist at Marvel, drawing in his time, pretty much everything at the publisher He'd only strayed Image-wards for his own co-creator[...]

Breaking Bad was the show that detailed how a good man became a bad man. Macbeth reborn, it was loved. Superior Spider-Man has told the tale of a bad man

April, a time of rebirth, or new life, of spring, of lambs, of chicks and a time to start over. Looks like some of the bigger comic book publishers will be doing the same. DC Comics will be moving to Burbank en masse (or at least a little under half of them will be, it seems) but[...]

The rights to Speed Racer had become a bit of a mess in the last couple of years but now that a lawsuit has been dismissed, all the rights go back to

Artist Ben Templesmith has been fired up about drawing Twin Peaks material.  Could it be that he's heard the announcement of David Lynch's additional

When we ran panels from last week's Superior Foes Of Spider-Man, featuring the origin of new supervillain Beetle, as the daughter of Tombstone, a few

Jonah Weiland is the owner and big cheese of Comic Book Resources. He used to be my boss when I wrote the Lying In The Gutters column for that site. And

Marvel TV Studios has found itself with a relatively decent TV show, Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. But curiously they don't have a comic with a similar

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. Of course, this week it was Tuesday Warriors And with Marvel only publishing four new titles, only three of them managed to chart, with[...]

Bryan Talbot continues his role as his city's favourite comic book son as Sunderland City Council is getting him to him to draw the "Keel Line" in their

Brian Wood posted a little Clay Mann art on Instagram before the New Year... This is ahead of the news that Clay Mann is joining X-Men on art, alternating

  In April, Marvel Comics are presenting the Wedding of Deadpool To… someone. But one comic shop isn't stopping with fiction. Third Eye Comics of Annapolis and California, Maryland, is not only having Deadpool writer Gerry Duggan on hand to sign copies in store, but will have an ordained minister to marry any couples who wish to tie[...]

This New Year means lots of changes doesn't it? After gaining prominence on the Usenet messageboard rec.arts.comics.misc and then CBR back in the late nineties, Gail Simone was recruited to write Simpsons comics by Bongo, and then picked to write for Marvel There she wrote books like Deadpool and Agent X before she left for DC[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Bombay Berserker Brewery: Clown Shoes Brewery This week, I return to Clown Shoes Brewery, but not for an IPA.  Today, I am

Last year we reported that Brian Keene and Greg Rucka were originally part of the writing team for the Five Years Later weekly comic event Future's End from DC Comics, but both pulled out. We couldn't get him to talk about it then, but now he's confirmed the story. I'd previously said "No" to many other projects[...]

Reaction to the official news (a year after it was unofficially reported) that Marvel would be taking the Star Wars comics licence, has been wide and varied But here are some responses from people more closely attached. First on Facebook, Lucy Autrey Wilson, formerly of LucasFilm, posted Lucy Autrey Wilson Taking the license away from Marvel and[...]

Yesterday, Frank Cho's Kickstarter for  "Drawing Beautiful Women: The Frank Cho Method" ended. It did rather well, pulling in over $150,000 against a

Use it on your cell phones, Tablets, or again just plug in your TV, Xbox 360, Wii, or PS3, etc. Shipping to your area is included in the price. Is Perryman organizing the show? Is that why he's responding directly to site inquiries? And is someone like Colin Baker okay with being denied residual royalty payments for[...]