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Tuesday Runaround –  Funny Junked
Indeed, because the black-on-yellow spine reads only 'BEYOND', it has to sit next to the original to spell out the full title. DigiWatch: Roy Race, star of Roy Of The Rovers, is coming to a digital device near you, as Egmont put all the old strips from Tiger and Roy Of The Rovers online through Apple[...]
Monday Trending Topics: DC Zero Month
It was a full day of DC Comics September Zero month info popping up all over the internet  But you can catch up with it all right here on Bleeding Cool on the Zero Month tag. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Green Lantern #0 Brings Us That New Green Lantern… And The Third Army (UPDATE)  Green Lantern #0 will[...]
Batman Comes To Smallville
Bryan Q Miller is writing Smallville Season Eleven as a digital-first-then-print comic for DC Comics, playing up on the conclusion of the TV Series September, we get a new story called Detective Featuring a certain masked vigilante making his way to Metropolis… SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 #5 Written by BRYAN Q MILLER Art and cover by CHRISCROSS and MARC[...]
Countdown To The Eisners by Cameron Hatheway: Journalism, Design And Related
This week we'll be looking at Best Comics-Related Journalism, Best Comics-Related Book, and Best Publication Design If you need a reminder of what's been nominated, you can find the entire list right here, and see what I chose last week right here. Who is not eligible to vote? Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees) Non-creative publisher[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 11th June 2012
From Cake Wrecks This was the week in which DC Comics finally got round to mentioning that they were running all Zero issues in September After a number of their creators had inadvertently blurted it out at a number of conventions of course, necessitating a special letter being sent round asking them to shut the fuck[...]
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 2009 Out In… A Week!
Instead, it will be published in just a week's time instead, in both the US and the UK. I understand that UK journalist Laura Sneddon has had an advance copy to read and both her review, and a news piece concerning the comic, will see publication in The Independent On Sunday on the 17th of June. [...]
It's Young John Constantine, Folks!
Before Hellblazer? Well, why the hell not? Maybe we'll get a new Newcastle? JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #0 Written by JEFF LEMIRE Art by MIKEL JANIN Cover by RYAN
Batgirl And Red Hood Revisit The Joker In Zero Month
Robin, Jason Todd, died, and Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, was crippled. But then these are comics Jason Todd comes back to life and now as Red Hood leads The Outlaws. And Barbara became Oracle, and then Batgirl again, her revival ascribed to a procedure in South Africa. And DC's Zero Month looks likely to revisit all those experiences[...]
Top 100 Comics For May 2012
Which, adding UK sales, would push it over 20,000. There is of course quite a drop off after that, but it still puts a comic like Action Comics #9 into the 90,000-100,000 bracket… things are still looking good Next month? Let's see how Before Watchmen and Spider-Men affect the numbers… Units Revenue Rank Title Price Publisher 1 1 132.48 AVENGERS VS X-MEN #4 $3.99 MAR 2 2 130.53 AVENGERS VS X-MEN[...]
The Many Ghostbusters #9 Retailer Exclusive Covers From Tristan Jones
Why not cheer along? Midtown Comics, Times Square, New York, Jim Hanley's Universe, New York, New York and Lone Star Comics, Arlington, Texas. Things From Another World, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Austin Books and Comics, Austin, Texas and Graham Crackers Comics, Dekalb, Illinois.   Graham Crackers Comics, Downers Grove, Illinois, Graham Crackers Comics, Lakeview, Illinois[...]
A Giant Digital Leap Viewed From The Toilet
And that is pretty much answer to the question of why digital comics are only just taking off. Convenience. It might seem blinding obvious to many, but no-one really seems to be talking about the technology side of the digital comics debate Tablet technology has moved a digital future comics from a possibility into a reality[...]
Powers: FBI Becomes Powers: Bureau
Clearly it has changed from a comic about the superpowered police in the FBI, to a book where they investigate a mystery involving a desk drawer. In other ch-ch-ch-changes… The Flash #10 was solicited with art from Francis Manapul, but will now by drawn by Marcus To and Ray McCarthy. Green Lantern: New Guardians #10 was solicited with[...]
Orbital Comics Hires Gay Club For Astonishing X-Men #51 Party
Orbital Comics in London is situated close to Soho, the gay mecca of London And on Frith Street, lies CIRCA, a gay club that opened last year. To celebrate the wedding of Northstar & Kyle in Astonishing X-Men #51 Orbital will be hosting a wedding reception/party at there on Tuesday June 19 from 7:15pm. There will be[...]