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  "You know that you are really famous the day that you discover you have become a comic character" - Nelson Mandela From South African cartoonist

Batman/Superman #6 was out yesterday, with a cover by Brett Booth and Norm Rapmund. Familiar at all? And the cover to Avengers Vs Thanos, by Jim

Published by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, comes this new comic book publication for Amazon's Kindle. As I was writing up this short piece on it, I heard

Comics, comics, comics, next week brings us the launch of Justice League 3000, Sinister Dexter, Indestructible, Dead Body Road, Krampus, Inhumanity Awakening, Marvel Knights Hulk and Doc Savage. And the week after? Issue ones for previous issue zeroes Ghost and Harley Quinn, Teen Titans Go and the launch of Illegitimates… DARK HORSE COMICS ABE SAPIEN #8 $3.50 ABE SAPIEN #8[...]

Here it is! Part four of the five part Aquaman: The Teen Drama project created by Patrick Willems and friends. There is no better thing to watch online

Hence the final page reveal. If Freddie Williams II was an artist in the nineties, he'd be invited to form Image Comics His work has grown into something organic, bouncy, detailed and reminds me of an earlier Greg Capullo or Todd McFarlane It's exciting and is worthy of appreciation of its own It's cool for kids[...]

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! Jupiter's Legacy[...]

He began his career in X-Men #1, attacking a US nuclear base. And now? He has his own ongoing series. Last week, Bleeding Cool told you that big things

De Campi is known as a bit of a rabble rouser, particularly on the state of comics, the role of women in the industry, and is also voluble about her experiences working with Kickstarter, and most recently, with Dark Horse with whom she has been well-pleased. So, what does it mean when a voice for girl[...]

Remember, they gave these Baltimore Comic Con variant covers away for free. Now a copy of that Cryptozoic Man #1 variant of signed by the Comic Book Men,

A Bleeding Cool reader and print comic book subscriber writes: I subscribe to several comics through DC and Marvel I thought you'd be interested in a letter I got from DC today together with my copy of Detective Comics #26 I've attached a picture of it Apparently I will not be receiving Detective Comics #27 because[...]

Arvid Nelson chatted with Zub about his career and how he deals with the comic industry. ARVID NELSON: I won't ask you "how did you break into comics?" because you've already got a great essay on your site (www.jimzub.com) but I would like to know what one of your biggest surprises is about writing comics[...]

Here's the variant cover to The Other Dead #4, the zombie animal comic published by IDW, in which President Obama gets involved during a zombie animal

Fearless Defenders has come to an end. So wherefore now its writer Cullen Bunn? Well, something with Gabriel Hernandez Walta from Marvel it seems...

I'm reviewing live with first looks at today's releases here at my local comic shop, Conquest Comics in New Jersey, and it's another week of tough choices so I'm casting my net wide and taking in the comics goodness We've got books from Marvel, Avatar Press, Image, Vertigo, Archie, and Dark Horse just to pick[...]

Pride Of Baghdad, as the multiple layered title suggested, was about pride. Creatures, keeping their own respect, strength and fortitude as the world fell

Here it is! Part three of the five part Aquaman: The Teen Drama project created by Patrick Willems and friends. Are you following the story so far? Or do

On December 3rd, the University of Oregon announced that they had received a 200,000 dollar endowment from a private benefactor to be dispersed over 4 years in support of their one-of-a kind minor in Comics and Cartoon Studies, the first of its kind in the USA The minor, which is only one year old, is[...]

Jason Latour and Mahmud Asrar are relaunching Wolverine & The X-Men in March because... well... same school. Similar cast. But new creative team. And

And just as that led to the battle between Earth 3 and the New 52, so Summer 2014 will see the war extend to… Earth 2. David Copperfield Files Trademark For "DC" Comics Trademarking DC for comic books (twice)? I don't think Warner Bros will put up with that I look forward to reading opposition documents soon[...]

Bringing you the biggest sound effects in comics, relative to a character's size. See, in comparison, The Phantom Stranger has got nothing Seriously John Constantine, why the reaction, the 'O's are only just bigger than your head. Frankie, do you remember her, Frankie, do you remember? Fearless Defenders, its last issue, goes out with a blast. It's[...]

However, due to the winter rush, those affected have been asked to stay in their cocoons if at all possible for the next six months, while they work through the backlog. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, currently exhibiting the work of some rather well known comic artists from Portland. If the healthcare.gov website wasn't under enough[...]

Well, as they've been doing in Young Avengers, it turns out that comics are magic as well. That's a zoomed in section from a full double spread And there's plenty more besides as well Time to go and pick up a great comic folks And, as the above may suggest, it works so much better in[...]

There may be a war for thickness going on in comics right now. We know the current pricing deal Marvel's comics are generally 20 pages long and are priced at $2.99 and $3.99, though with the latter you get a free digital download And occasionally you get 31 page stories such as today's Inhumanity #1. DC comics[...]

Whether it's the US bombing Pakistan or everyday gun toting Americans threatening to blow Amazon's new delivery system out of the air, or toy drones as the hot toy for Christmas, all you need now is for a drone to start twerking with a chicken for a hat and the internet is over. Well, he may[...]

So make sure you read it before you read… last week's comics And there's also Secret Avengers #12, which is listed on Diamond's forms as an Infinity crossover… but isn't. No, the main event is Inhumanity, and Inhumanity #1 by Matt Fraction and Olivier Coipel New Inhumans Exploded Attilan Gone Black Bolt But the comic is[...]

So you bought The Complete Zenith by Grant Morrison and Steve Yeowell for £100. And now you discover that Rebellion are putting out a series of hardcovers

From last week's Marvel titles, a smattering of Augmented Reality videos, as they were captured and all smooshed together. So a new chapter of As The Page

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlBke5kVHE8[/youtube] Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida writes; Hey Fandom! It's another week of new comics now! We have Inhumanity and Superior Venom from Marvel, Rover Red Charlie from Avatar, Ghosted and Velvet from Image, and some great Pak Superman from DC. First up Ennis' Rover Red Charlie was the most fun I've had read[...]

Detective Comics #27 is coming… for a second time Here is the solicitation. DETECTIVE COMICS #27 Written by JOHN LAYMAN, SCOTT SNYDER, PAUL DINI, BRAD MELTZER, GREGG HURWITZ and PETER J TOMASI Art by JASON FABOK, NEAL ADAMS, DUSTIN NGUYEN, GUILLEM MARCH, FRANK MILLER and others Cover by GREG CAPULLO 1:100 Variant cover by JASON FABOK 1:50 Variant cover by KELLEY[...]