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I have to admit that Batman bit in this new Lego Movie trailer is amusing.  Some films have genuinely one of a kind aesthetics. The first Tron movie, for

WHAT TO DO IN LONDON TONIGHT COMICA PR: WHAT IS A SUPERHERO? with Kieron Gillen, Si Spurrier, Will Brooker, Richard Reynolds & Alex Fitch Tickets: £6.00 from WeGotTickets Where: Foyles Bookshop, 3rd Floor Gallery, London, WC2H 0EB A SECOND DARKNESS Christopher Mitten draws the cover for the second print of Ash And The Army Of Darkness #1. YOUR COMICS ARE WORTH NOTHING Yahoo[...]

From the upcoming Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men film from Sequart, I thought you might enjoy this little clip for the comics industry in the eighties. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uifbCLL-oW4[/youtube] Well, it is Hallowe'en… From the upcoming Comics In Focus: Chris Claremont's X-Men film from Sequart, I thought you might enjoy this little clip for the comics industry in[...]

Asterix And The Picts was published a week ago, under an extremely severe embargo. But once available, it has sold, and sold very well. One bookstore

Some senior comic book figures are rather happy that the news about DC Comics Editorial moving to Burbank happened when it did I'm told both the announcement and the meeting with staff was brought forward as a result of media interest in the news – which means for people not wanting to move coasts, they[...]

Here's the Daniel Acuna six foot wide poster, coming with special polybagged copies of Avengers #24.NOW... And here it is chopped up a bit so you can see

You know I like Letter 44, the new Oni Press book by Charles Soule and Alberto Alburquerque. I talked about it here quite a lot.

It's coming. Until then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3XyuN7VZAg  

Obviously all retailers will be mad at Mark Waid over this one. Including retailer Mark Waid. He'll be absolutely livid with himself. Marvel has announced

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. I was going to write 'The Top Ten Black Superheroes Created By Black People" as a bookend to my article "The Top Ten[...]

Round Kingston Vale on the outskirts of London, I've discovered that our house has become a target for kids at Hallowe'en time. Because I've now got the

Earlier this year, Titan Comics publisher the series Numbercruncher, by Si Spurrier and PJ Holden It sunk It didn't help that it was a really, really bad format to publish the comic in Serialised did not do it any favours As a complete story, it relies on you remembering clearly previous scenes as new scenes[...]

Joker concept art by Carlos D'Anda. An original print being sold at New York Comic Con In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each

With a number of people comparing the look of Dream by JH Williams III in yesterday's Sandman Overture to the actor Benedict Cumberbatch, it's worth

Last weekend, The Core in Cedar Falla, Iowa, held a costume competition for the Hallowe'en Comic Fest free comic giveaway day. They weren't alone, many

THE GIGANTIC GRAPHIC NOVEL THAT WAS REALLY GOOD The Bleeding Cool Fan Award-nominated graphic novel The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins has found itself on a slightly more prestigious award list, The Waterstones Book The The Year, where it is up against Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes' Levels Of Life. It already beat out[...]

So... sellouts and second prints! More books that have been burning through Diamond Comic Distributors Brian Jones and Bachan's new book for Boom!

Yesterday, The Daily Mail ran an article about Royal Descent, a new comic book published next week about member of the British Royal Family forced to kill

by Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2783/0/PCHPodcastEpisode62.mp3] After last week's intimate discussion with Ulises Farinas & Erick Freitas (which you can listen to here) and my recent film podcast with Before Midnight's Graham Reynolds (which you can listen to here) I suit up to chat with writer/artist Dean Haspiel (American Splendor, The Alcoholic, Billy Dogma) about his work on The[...]

I'm writing live from my local comic shop, Conquest Comics in New Jersey, and trying to sum up my reactions to what can only be described as a massive week for comics. This is the week for the release of three books I've been anticipating since they were announced, all for different reasons Sandman: Overture doesn't[...]

Black Science is Rick Remender, Matteo Scalera and Dean White's new book launching from Image Comics The first issue on sale at the end of the month And the Final Order Cut Off date is in five days time, November the 4th What does that mean? It means that up until that point, Image Comics[...]

So when it sells out, there will be no more made. The company has also made Unity #2 and #3 100% returnable for retailers who match or exceed 50% of their initial orders for Unity #1. We see "sell outs" all the time in comics but rarely do we get to see the actually numbers. According to Valiant's[...]

We mentioned the new enhanced editions of Jonathan Hickman's God Is Dead #1 and #2 the other day, but now we have some hard numbers. God Is Dead #1 sold

With one foot that's a little bird-like too. And a look at Beast Boy – sorry, Beast Man, from twenty years in the future in today's Teen Titans Annual. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, currently running their Mark Buckingham Fables exhibition and next week host a conversation with Blue Is The Warmest Color's Julia Maroh. [...]

  A panel from Legionnaires #7 by Adam Hughes. And a "Pop Comic Art" painting being sold on Etsy for $400. In Swipe File we present two or more

Incredibly shitty thing for BC to do. — Ron Marz (@ronmarz) October 30, 2013 Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool became aware of a story regarding the planned wholesale move of DC Comics from Manhattan to Burbank Important if true, it signalled a sea change in the way the comics industry, even now, still worked We asked around,[...]

But there are lots of comics on the stand, as ever! And I always like it when one comic makes me reconsider a totally unconnected title Such as the new Sandman Overture #1. And then reading Adventure Time 2013 Spoooktacular #1 straight afterwards. And straight onto Clive Barker's Hellraiser 2013 Annual #1 right after that. Excuse me, I'm[...]

Evil Kryptonian and sidekick Faora (who, in the past, has also been known as Ursa), most recently seen in the Man Of Steel movie (now coming to DVD and Blu Ray), makes her New 52 debut in the Superman Annual #2, out today. But while the costume may be rather close to the Man Of Steel[...]

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, currently running their Mark Buckingham Fables exhibition and next week host a conversation with Blue Is The Warmest Color's Julia Maroh.   We all remember that scene from the original Kick-Ass. And how it was translated onto the screen. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsvuP_ULzs0[/youtube] There hasn't really been much of a follow up since[...]

"A special one-off story written by Bill Willingham and featuring the return of fan-favorite gun-toting maniac Goldilocks Illustrated by exciting newcomer