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A middling week. But in two weeks? The launch of the DC Villains Month 3D Covers (if you're lucky) and Forever Evil, The Star Wars and Baltimore: Infernal Train, Black Dynamite from IDW, Love Stories To Die For and Reality Check launches from Image, Infinity hits its second issue and we get the first issue of[...]

Toronto newspaper The Star announces that Canadian Jeff Lemire's next project for DC Comics will be Justice League Canada – the renamed Justice League America – to be officially announced today at the DC Panel at Toronto Fan Expo. UPDATE: British comic artist Mike McKone will draw the new title. And no, it's not an April Fool. The[...]

It's a two tone version of the L'il Gotham image by Dustin Nguyen below, one of the comics being given away. UPDATE: The bag's gone full colour Must have reached a stretch goal or something.   Here's the Hallowe'en bag, that comic stores will have in time for this year's Hallowe'en ComicFest, where stores will be giving[...]

Stan Lee started off the first day of Fan Expo in Toronto by letting all the fans at his panel know they’re the reason he won’t be doing one of his standard Marvel cameos in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Now Millarworld has reshaped comics in the 21st century and turned into a powerhouse force to be reckoned with Riding a wave of grand slam properties ranging from comics to box office smash hits like Wanted, starring Angelina Jolie, and Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2, Mark Millar has built an empire by collaborating with the industry's[...]

A few days ago, Tom Brevoort tweeted this page from the upcoming Mighty Avengers #1 by Al Ewing and Greg Land. People tweeted back. @tombrevoort Greg

Lucart writes; Unless that's a tease for something coming up in "our" universe, that means that the Legion of the past 23 issues has been in the 31st century of Earth-2's universe! Could that mean that, potentially, the only time we've seen Lightning Lad and the others were in their Morrison-Action Comics cameo appearances? How that pertains[...]

From this week's Nova, if you put your little Marvel AR app over it, then you get… The New Warriors, then? For Marvel Now Two? Here's a look at some other Marvel AR content from this week's comics. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thURzepTd5o[/youtube]   From this week's Nova, if you put your little Marvel AR app over it, then you get… The New[...]

I noted the other day how the latest episode of New Tricks used a number of comic book creator names. But who did "Skinner" refer to? Well, could be

Available right now at Toronto Fan Expo, is the Crossed: Badlands Patient Zero Ashcan, a preview of next year's return to the series from Garth Ennis,

Okay, I'm going to give this a go. I think it's what Amy Chu and Steve Morris are expecting from me. Avatar are publishing a number of exclusive cover

It's not a publisher using characters familiar to kids in rather strange sexually violent fashions, but it's a publisher known for putting out horror comics, putting out horror comics with horror covers for adults It's also a relatively small publisher, the impact it has on the market is less than a Premier publisher, say. Heidi alleges[...]

It's been a while since we've heard from Nancy Silberkleit, the co-CEO of Archie Comics, after her legal fight with the rest of the company, with suits and counter suits flying until they finally settled. But now she is suing Samuel Levitin, her long standing friend and liasion to Archie Comics, for sexual harassment, stating that[...]

And giveaways and prizes from: Nintendo of Canada, Sony PlayStation Canada, Ubisoft Canada, Paramount Home Video, XSEED Games, Silver Snail Comics & Toys and more Tickets here. Caption, the long standing British small press comics convention at the East Oxford Community Centre in Oxford is on this weekend with guests Rian Hughes, Andrzej Klimowski, Danusia Schebal,[...]

From Tom Brevoort's Tumblr; If you could get five writers currently at DC, who would you get to write for Marvel? And what would you want them to write?

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! But in[...]

Writer Julian Simpson is at it again. From yesterday's episode of New Tricks on BBC1. Maybe not as obviously as before. But we have a new character,

Hannah Means-Shannon, senior New York Correspondent for Bleeding Cool writes; I'm at Conquest Comics in New Jersey today, my local shop, to check out some of the titles coming out this week in real time, including Dexter #2 from Marvel, Bloodshot 0 from Valiant, Judge Dredd #10 from IDW, and Batman '66 #2 from DC[...]

The first issue, in which Zero encounters a bioengineered terrorist whose body is a bomb, is drawn by Michael Walsh, who previously worked on the critically-acclaimed time travel Image series COMEBACK, written by Ed Brisson. Subsequent issues will be drawn by comics stars like Mateus Santolouco (Dial H, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Morgan Jeske (CHANGE), Tradd[...]

[audio:http://popculturehound.net/podpress_trac/web/2495/0/PCHPodcastEpisode53.mp3] by Chris Thompson Hot on the heels of last week's interview with rising star Joshua Williamson (which you can find here), I chat with another burgeoning talent in the form of Sam Humphries (Our Love Is Real, Uncanny X-Force, Avengers: A.I.) whose self-published series Sacrifice is collected by Dark Horse Comics this week. We talk about how[...]

  On the 18th of August, Mark Waid posted in response to Ron Marz; @ronmarz I wouldn’t worry for him. At least he’s writing Superman. — Mark Waid

December brings the comic industry its favourite things. Big, heavy collections of big heavy comic books, aimed at the Christmas market. But, instead, it

"We, uh, we spent five grand on lawyers' fees. They sent letters. We were very keen to discuss it and we've never heard back from them. All I can say is

It's Wednesday! Lots of comics came out today! Here are a few thoughts about a few of them Mostly (but not totally) ones I haven't talked about already today… Okay, firstly, I want Cosplay of this guy by NYCC and secondly, the Judge Dredd that I know would grab that and use it as a[...]

I wonder how his body will react to this kind of interaction instead? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the Dead Cats work of Christian Ward. There's using tact And then there's Darwin in today's X-Factor, addressing a certain Monet. You know this can only lead in one direction, right?   No, not that[...]

Good comics And far more explosive than triggering a sun into supernova. Of course they are not the only Infinity labelled comics this week There's also Thunderbolts… Although, you may have to wait till next week to see if their New York gang mission turns all Turf on us… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the[...]

But there are consequences… Bleeding Cool has run other stories of late suggesting that identity may be a major factor in other comics' upcoming stories Hats (or masks) off for Superior Spider-Man getting in first. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the Dead Cats work of Christian Ward. At the end of the last[...]

Could it be New Warriors? Could Captain Marvel head them up? Could it be something completely different? There are those Tales To Astonish and Tales Of Suspense trademarks still going wanting as well. And could it begin with today's Nova? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the Dead Cats work of Christian Ward.       [...]

And gets an unequivocal response. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently exhibiting the Dead Cats work of Christian Ward. Spoilers and stuff… Bleeding Cool was the first to cover the news that Batwoman, Kate Kane, had proposed to her girlfriend and police officer Maggie Sawyer It was quite a thing – though DC's PR machine didn't[...]

Superman comics (and the recent Man Of Steel movie) have, every now and then, shown Superman at odds with a military figure or two, though usually it all gets resolved and everyone fights on the same side. That's what's happening (ish) in the current Man Of Steel comic from DC Comics and two of their highest[...]