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WTF Certified DC Comics
What's on the WTF gatefold you ask? Well some people on the DC message board have been giving it some thought… Ch-Ch-Changes We've noted a few surprise cover changes of late at DC Comics, but what else has been twisting under the editorial knife? Most-Read TV/Film Stories Monday Kryptonian Countdown Clock And Man Of Steel Image Gallery In fact, this[...]
Wonder Woman WTF (WWWTF?) – Friday Trending Topics
It was to the events described in the most recent issue that we were referring to… The New 27 – DC Marketshare Slips In March 2013 In February, DC Comics saw one of their marketshare figures fall below the psychologically important 30% mark In March they have fallen further, both now under 30% DC have a 27.09%[...]
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But it seems we'll never see the foldout version, as it has been redrawn… Red Hood And The Outlaws #19 Changes Cover… And Artist It was one of the first WTF covers from DC Comics to have its gatefold revealed, albeit not officially. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Tuesday: Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Filming In Trafalgar Square, Streaming Now On The[...]
Who Wants To Be Rob Granito?
Jonathan Glapion posted on Facebook; Will someone please explain, how could this possibly be a commission? I'm going to try not to jump the gun and go all
Black Panther Kicking Ass? Monday Trending Topics
Kick Ass 2 actor Morris Chestnut has deleted the Black Panther tweet that got the Marvel movie gossip mill churning yesterday… but is that to be seen as a confirmation of sorts or not…? Most-Read Comic Stories Monday: The Possible Parentage Of Superboy? (POTENTIAL SPOILERS UPDATE)  I'm being told that at some point we may be discovering that[...]
Swipe File: Kate Woodger And Disney
Kate Woodger writes; I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me? My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so
Trinity War Takeover – Sunday Trending Topics
Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, Steven Moffat has explained what his basic story arc for series five would have been if David Tennant stayed on and Matt Smith not been recruited. Joss Whedon's SHIELD Show Gets An Official Plot Blurb – And Full Title  If you weren't convinced that this show was getting a full series order[...]
Justice League And Trinity War – Saturday Trending Topics
It's shaping up to be an interesting summer in comics: Here we go folks The covers to Justice League #22, Justice League Dark #22 and Justice League Of America #6 for July as a composite cover, which appears to be kicking off The Trinity War Which we've been waiting for almost as long as Age[...]
Carrie. Carrie Kelley. Robin – Friday Trending Topics
I think it's one of the most interesting articles I've ever had the pleasure to write, and picking Joe's brain for the material to make it happen was a distinct pleasure. Most-Discussed In The Forum Friday: Carrie Kelley To Be The New Robin On The Gatefold Cover Of Batman And Robin #19 The article below was sent to[...]
Zatanna's New Look – Thursday Trending Topics
 Earlier tonite, Geoff Johns tweeted: A New Credit For Superman – "By Special Arrangement with the Jerry Siegel Family." (UPDATE)  "By Special Arrangement with the Jerry Siegel Family." In One Week, In Two Weeks – The Walking Dead Gets Another Death  Next week, Dark Horse kicks off the first, or the zeroeth, issue of X, and there are Buffy[...]
Legendary Comic Book Artist, Former DC Comics Publisher Carmine Infantino Dies
His earliest comic work was in Marvel/Timely's USA Comics #3 in 1942, but he is best known as a creator for designing the updated version of the Flash and his new alter ego Barry Allen with Robert Kanigher and Julius Schwartz in 1956, which would become a key impetus in revitalizing super-hero comics for what is[...]
The New Batwing – Wednesday Trending Topics
Could this be a certain businessman's never-before seen son? The Full Extent Of The Death of The Family Fallout From Detective Comics #19 (or #900 depending on your point of view) we see the full fallour of the devasting effects of the Death Of The Family crossover. Thirteen Thoughts About Ten Comics – All New X-Men, Superior Spider-Man,[...]
Trending For Real, Trending Fools – Monday Trending Topics
And a few people seem to have noticed. Dark Horse To Adapt George Lucas' Original Concept, The Star Wars, Into Comics – Anakin Starkiller, General Luke Skywalker And More At WonderCon, Dark Horse announces new eight issue Star Wars series for September – The Star Wars Based on George Lucas' original concept that eventually became the Star[...]
The Star Wars And A Good Spring Weekend – Sunday Trending Topics
Based on George Lucas' original concept that eventually became the Star Wars films. Most-Read Comic Stories Sunday: Dark Horse To Adapt George Lucas' Original Concept, The Star Wars, Into Comics – Anakin Starkiller, General Luke Skywalker And More At WonderCon, Dark Horse announces new eight issue Star Wars series for September – The Star Wars[...]
Swipe File: John Byrne's Star Trek And Tee Busters
John Byrne's cover to his IDW Star Trek collection of comics. And those people at Tee Busters. Send in the lawyers! In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or works of the lightbox We trust you, the reader, to make that[...]
X-Men Days Of Scripting Past – Thursday Trending Topics
Then we'd get a call from the X-office saying, 'We're not doing that story any more'. Gene Ha, DC Comics And Top Ten Season Two (UPDATE) A Little Bleeder writes from FablesCon last weekend; The Changing Face Of Cyclops X-Men Consequences Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Rumour: The Revolving Door On The Prometheus Sequel Oh, Prometheus[...]
Gendercrunching January 2013 – And Marvel In 2012
We also take a look at Marvel's 2012 numbers overall to see how things have changed over the past year. DC COMICS DC bumped their usual fourth week books from the end of December to the first week of January, avoiding releasing books on a holiday and taking advantage of January being a five-week month, so there[...]
Don't Call Them Mutants – Wednesday Trending Topics
The 'M' Word represents everything I hate." The X-Men comics have often used allegory to address such prejudice, with "mutie" being the original epithet, with Kitty Pryde once comparing it on panel to the N-word, recently succeeded by "genefreak" But "mutant" has generally remained descriptive in the comics Uncanny Avengers #5 seeks to change that… Most-Read Comic[...]
Marvelman – Tuesday Trending Topics
Especially one scene which will make a lot of people start squeeing, including one particularly excitable shop worker at Orbital Comics Let's talk about that now Twenty Seconds Of The Wolverine – And How It Might Tie In With The Comics And Wolverine appearing to have problems with his healing factor Another example of the comics getting[...]
Batman After Robin – Monday Trending Topics
Lots of zeroes… Five Hundred And Twenty-Five Free Digital Comics From ComiXology So you crashed and burned trying to download 700 free Marvel comics the other week Well, Bleeding Cool has painstakingly looked through ComiXology's listings of free comics, removed all the previews for paid comics that we can find, leaving us with 525 free comics[...]
525 Free Digital Comics From Comixology – Sunday Trending Topics
Maybe it's digging out of this bizarre early spring snowstorm in the midwest, or maybe it was reading all of these free comics: So you crashed and burned trying to download 700 free Marvel comics the other week Well, Bleeding Cool has painstakingly looked through ComiXology's listings of free comics, removed all the previews for paid[...]
Still More DC WTF – Friday Trending Topics
It worked because the audience were caught off guard. Most-Discussed In The Forum Today: Fialkov Left DC Comics Over Plans To Kill Off John Stewart, DC's Black Green Lantern I have been told by a number of high profile industry sources that Fialkov was asked to change his upcoming story to one that killed off Green Lantern John[...]
Swipe File: Echo And… Echo?
From Terry Moore... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic
Joshua Hale Fialkov, Andy Diggle, And DC Comics – Wednesday Trending Topics
Wednesdays are typically dominated by talk of the week's new comics, but not this one: I understand that Joshua Hale Fialkov has walked off both Green Lantern books he was due to begin writing, "Green Lantern Corps" and "Red Lanterns". Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Now Joshua Hale Fialkov Walks Off Green Lantern Books I understand that Joshua Hale Fialkov[...]