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UPDATE: We find out now! David Lapham's Stray Bullets, finally, comes to Image Comics This wonderful crime series that turned Lapham from a relatively unknown artistat Valiant into one of the greatest comic book voices of his generation, is back. I rather like Stray Bullets See. The original article runs below. Maybe we'll find out when Previews comes[...]

He did however thank BC for noting his importance to comics. Screw was hugely important to a lot of cartoonists and illustrators Goldstein kept a lot of old underground cartoonists and future top illustrators in work, and in pay, in difficult times He published Robert Crumb, Milton Knight, Brad Holland, Danny Hellman, Bob Fingerman, John Holmstrom,[...]

Boom! Studios is starting up a new "Pen & Ink" program. The refer to the line as, "a limited line of publications designed to spotlight some of the

New Orleans is now a dangerous post-apocalyptic nightmare and the hero, in search of his missing son, must fight his way through the dystopian Underworld to investigate his son's abduction only to discover that the answer lies in the darkness of his past. Delta and Avalon are really parallels of each other, opposite sides of the[...]

It's always fun to follow an official trademark application. It can show the intent of a publisher, but also how much they care about the trademark being

Enclosed within a brief case you would only see in the movies that contained money instead contained one of the rarest comics in existence It was an original volume 1, Detective Comics #27, the first appearance of Batman, and commanding a seven figure value in mint condition. His customer came in with one intention: to sell[...]

We're a couple of months away from the release of the next League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic, Roses Of Berlin. So why not enjoy a look at the last

In November, Gary Buechler, owner of the Comics Outpost store in San Francisco, posted the following: At the end of the week, the Buechler posted; The Comic Outpost will live on It has been sold This is a good thing! Later that day, Brian Hibbs of Comix Experience sent this message out: Dear Awesome Comic Outpost customer! I want to introduce[...]

Backer Gaile Vanpraseuth writes: Let me start by saying I’m not a writer I’m just a comic book geek who trawls the internet for cool stuff and cool is

Well, that's one of the DC Comics editors in New York who won't be making the move westwards in sixteen months. Bleeding Cool understands that Wil Moss, editor on DC titles such as Flash, Green Arrow and Suicide Squad, and with long runs on the Superbooks will instead be working at Marvel Comics' offices on Monday[...]

Most of us (by that I mean comic book fanatics) have a handful of books by certain writers or artists that we've looked through sooo many damn times that the pages are pretty much falling out. One of the very first comics I couldn't put down was the Gen13 first miniseries Trade-Paperback I've gone through that[...]

James Best III got one of the five #GoldenTicket comics Here's where the lucky guy told the rest of the board! Best will receive one four-day pass to New York Comic Con 2014, a one-of-a-kind Valiant prize package – a tour of Valiant's New York City offices, dinner with Valiant editorial staff, and a comprehensive collection[...]

This is Orbital Comics, in London, official suppliers of weekly comic books to Bleeding Cool, and now transformed into an art studio, with artists, paper, pens, beer, a life model and props. This week, Jason Atomic hosted a life-drawing class featuring Manko, in a catsuit and posing with raygun-style weaponry. It was booked up well in advance, the[...]

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. DC Comics take the top three spots without worry this week, with Marvel's top selling title only getting fifth place Could an underprint and[...]

We were wondering what might be happening with Brian Bendis' plans for a new superhero comic in the Marvel Universe, The Utopians. We weren't the only

And there's a nice big content-undetermined Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Ghosts of the Past. And following the massive oversized Wolverine: The Adamantium Collection, we now get a 720 page X-Men: The Adamantium Collection collecting comics by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Chris Claremont, Fabian Nicieza, Jack Kirby, Neal Adams , John Byrne and Brent Anderson A snip[...]

Well that was fast. Teased, then announced at New York Comic Con, a new Elektra series was set to debut from Marvel Comics in March Reinventing Frank Miller's character and star of panel and screen, it was one of a number of new solo female character books from Marvel as part of the All New Marvel[...]

From Marko Manev's series of iconic superhero posters from February this year. And from the March solicitations for Marvel Comics' Silver Surfer, by Dan Slott and Michael Allred, variant cover by Francesco Francavilla. But was actually published originally in 2010! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]

I've also been known to break out my opinions from time to time, particularly about indie comics, the creator-owned movement in the mainstream, and the like. Obviously, I love the medium and have pretty eclectic tastes; usually I'm looking for a certain ring of quality and passion in a given comic that catches my attention and[...]

Next week sees issue ones for previous issue zeroes Ghost and Harley Quinn, the launch of Teen Titans Go and the Illegitimates, 8Bit Zombies from Antarctic, Midas Flesh from Boom! and the final Locke & Key. The week after that? Not so much… DARK HORSE COMICS BLOODHOUND CROWBAR MEDICINE #3 $3.99 BPRD HELL ON EARTH #114 $3.50 BUZZKILL #4 $3.99 CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT #6 $2.99 CONAN THE[...]

Instead, China enjoyed things from swamps, seven issues of Swamp Thing taking up the majority of the top ten – in reverse chronological order, too! United States The Walking Dead #118 $2.99 Justice League (2011-) #25 $3.99 Batman (2011-) #26 $3.99 Justice League 3000 (2013-) #1 $2.99 Justice League of America (2013-) #10 $3.99 Uncanny X-Men #15.INH $3.99 Wolverine and the X-Men #39[...]

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! The second[...]

The Hachette Group's catalogues for distributing Marvel's titles have gone live for the end of 2014. Obviously, much of what is listed are what we'd

We did rather suspect this was coming. TALON #17 Written by TIM SEELEY Art by JORGE LUCAS Cover by EMANUEL SIMEONI On sale MARCH 26 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

Here comes Magnus Robot Fighter #1 from Dynamite Entertainment, out in March. (W) Fred Van Lente (A) Cory Smith (CA) Gabriel Hardman THE GOLD KEY UNIVERSE

Here we go folks!!! Magneto #1 John Cassaday variant, New Warriors #1 J Scott Campbell variant, Superior Spider-Man #27.NOW Mark Brooks variant, All-New

And for share of actual comics sold, Marvel is ahead on 33.65% to DC's 31.90%, a hauntingly similar to October's 33.63% and 31.15% So what changed? Image? No, their retail marketshare was down from 9.26% to 8.67% , while unit share dropped from 10.85% to 9.77%. Instead DC, Marvel and Image's loss seems to be spread[...]

UPDATE: We've now confirmed the Survive creative team as Brian Bendis and Joe Quinones, with Olivier Coipel on the cover. There are no Ultimate titles

Looks like DC Comics have a challenger for September domination. For the first time, Marvel is offering an exchangeability program for the upcoming March launch of a new Wolverine ongoing comic as part of All New Marvel Now, by Paul Cornell and Ryan Stegman. Retailers are encouraged to order lots and lots – and rather than make[...]

Previewed at New York Comic Con (preview embedded belowed) by relatively new publisher Blue Juice Comics, a new pirate comic Annie Bonnie, by Tim Yates. "There are many tails in the world: rat tails, cat tails, skinny tales and fat tales but the only ones worth speakin' of… the only ones worth tellin'… are the tall[...]