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Savage Skateboard Dragon
Freakshow are to release a series of comic book-based skateboard decks, starting with Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon, under the name Longbox Edition. Freakshow's Jim Sprandel, behind the line,  was the only intern at Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti's Event Comics back in the day. They will be made available signed and unsigned. Freakshow are to release a[...]
Marvelman Comes To Avengers Vs X-Men?
And we get a look, at least, at what a Mister Sinister styled Utopia would look like as well… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, currently running a Dan Parent Archie gallery exhibition Avengers Vs X-Men #6, Secret Avengers #28, New Avengers #27 and Uncanny X-Men #14 are all published from Marvel Comics today.   The big game-changing[...]
Wednesday Runaround – Two Weddings And The Walking Dead
WeddingWatch: The New York Times reports on today's same-sex wedding at Midtown Comics Downtown, to coincide with the launch of Astonishing X-Men #51. In honor of the release of "Astonishing X-Men No 51," in which the mutant superhero Northstar marries his boyfriend Kyle, Midtown Comics will present the wedding of Scott Everhart, 39, and Jason Welker,[...]
Tuesday Trending Topics: The Comedian And Camelot
It was recently renewed for a second season. Did The Comedian Kill Marilyn Monroe? Five Pages From Before Watchmen | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors Here are five pages from Before Watchmen: Comedian, published tomorrow, by Brian Azzarello and JG Jones from DC Comics, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly. Brian Michael Bendis Thanks Howard[...]
A Very Gay Orbital Party For Astonishing X-Men #51
Here's a scene from tonight's launch of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring the wedding of Northstar and his boyfriend Kyle, from Orbital Comics in London, and the gay nightclub CIRCA Blinding. Of course, that was before the footie began… Here's a scene from tonight's launch of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring the wedding of Northstar and his boyfriend[...]
Help Prevent Static's Co-Creator Being Buried In A Pauper's Grave
Washington will still wind up on Hart Island, home to New York City's indigent burials, without any ceremony or respect and his only lasting memorial will be the Milestone Comics that many have read and enjoyed. If you'd like to do your part to ensure this doesn't happen, please donate to the Hero Initiative and ask[...]
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes – Knights, Grifters And Academics
You publish fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty comics a month Sometimes schedules slip down the cracks Sometimes solicitations aren;t as complete as you might have liked Sometimes there are ch-ch-ch-changes. Here are the latest credits shuffles. Demon Knights #11, out in July, has dropped Diogenes Neves and Oclair Albert as artists in favour of Robson Rocha. Grifter #11 was to[...]
Brandon Generator Serves Up a Third Helping
The latest half comics-half animation-half social network inspired narrative is back (in three halves) for its third episode. The Random Adventures of Brandon Generator by Edgar Wright, Tommy Lee Edwards and Julian Barratt is now live here As ever, it's there to advertise what the sad-sack web browser Internet Explorer 9 can do, but it works[...]
The Boy Who Hated Ultimate Spider-Man
Ultimate Spider-Man is a successful show on Disney XD, with decent ratings, audience reaction and the kind of thing a broadcaster likes to hear. It was
Swipe File: Defenders And Wimbledon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjJbkv1H3PM The BBC's new Wimbledon trailer reminded a number of Bleeding Cool readers of another advertising campaign...
Tuesday Runaround – Kick Assed
GlitchWatch: Kick Ass 2 hardcover gets a 50% discount from Amazon UK… a greater discount than many retailers pay… VolunteerWatch: The kind of industry story that will warm your heart. Imagine this: 300 people—some on foot, some in vehicles including cars, trucks, a motorcycle with a sidecar, and a wheelchair—all showing up at Source Comics and Games[...]
Monday Trending Topics: Summer Of The Walking Dead
Rich helps us get ready for one of the biggest events of the summer with an advance review of the issue leading up to it: The Walking Dead is about to become the most popular monthly comic in the comics industry, even if it is just for one issue But that is issue one hundred[...]
Your Weekly Shaky – Cross-Screw
This week's illustration by Shaky Kane, of Image Comics' Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred, is an original, inspired by Avatar's Crossed series, entitled Cross-Screw… This week's illustration by Shaky Kane, of Image Comics' Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred, is an original, inspired by Avatar's Crossed series, entitled Cross-Screw… This week's illustration by Shaky Kane, of Image Comics' Bulletproof Coffin:[...]
Now Kickstarter Brings Us… The Return Of Micah Wright
He wrote a critically acclaimed run on Stormwatch for DC Comics, Team Achilles And animator and video game writer Micah Ian Wright's work was given added gravitas, writing about a US army group sanctioned with the job of keeping superheroes in line, when he used to be a US Ranger And one who now criticised[...]
The CBLDF Goes To Bat For Neonomicon
Bleeding Cool reported last week about the case of a young teenage girl taking a copy of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrow's Neonomicon, published by Bleeding
Countdown To The Eisners by Cameron Hatheway: Best New Series
You almost can't believe no one else had thought of them first. It's also great to see Kirkman and Howard back to creating comics together, because their previous labor of love The Astounding Wolf-Man died too young, in my opinion You just know Howard is having a blast on art duty, because some of the designs[...]
IDW Solicitations In September 2012
Geronimo! FC • 32 pages • $3.99 DOCTOR WHO: DAVE GIBBONS COLLECTION Pat Mills, Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse, & John Wagner  (w) • Dave Gibbons (a & c) Industry legend Dave Gibbons illustrated a classic run of Doctor Who comics, and this oversized book collects them all! And in full color! Gibbons-drawn strips began appearing in the very first[...]
With This Green Lantern Ring, I Thee Wed
We mentioned this last week, but Midtown Comics has now given out more details. Along with a number of comic stores across the country, Midtown Comics Downtown in Manhattan are hosting a same-sex wedding in their store between customers  Scott Everhart and Khris Wilson to coincide with the release this week of Astonishing X-Men #51, featuring a[...]
Walking Dead #99: The Bleeding Cool Review
This article contains minor spoilers, but nothing that I believe spoils the comic book reading experience. The Walking Dead is about to become the most popular monthly comic in the comics industry, even if it is just for one issue But that is issue one hundred I've just read issue 99. No spoilers here Not, at least,[...]
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 2009: The Bleeding Cool Review
But they should find a lot more to love with this chapter. I think I'm going to go and read it again. The big signing is this Saturday at Gosh Comics on Berwick Street, as well as the release of the Black Dossier vinyl record, only available, in person, at that store along with the newly UK-redistributed[...]
Monday Runaround: Zombie Cars, Zombie Lighthouses, Katy Perry
Because she wore a dress and did her hair. Meanwhile, Katy Perry made a bid to join the ranks of Spider-Man, The Fantastic Four and Captain America. She's long favoured the cartoon look, but America's favourite songstress excelled herself tonight by transforming into a bonafide superhero for the MuchMusic Video Awards. The 27-year-old looked like she'd stepped straight[...]