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Jesse James writes for Bleeding Cool all over the world... This past weekend I attended Wizard World Philadelphia Comic Con.  It was a long con for me and

They said that you could read Avengers Vs X-Men #5, and no other spinoff comic, and it would make sense. They lied. Because reading this month's issue

Okay, so here come some Marvel Reebok sneakers... but not all are that obvious. Let's go through them. The Captain America Ventilator, easy. Wolverine

We've been keeping up with updates over DC's confirmation of our story from April that all their books in September would be zero issues, with news that

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_eeH6dOswE[/youtube] DC Comics has announced that Alan Scott, the first Green Lantern, is gay! In light of that controversial and historic decision, host Grace Randolph and guest Alan Kistler discuss the history of gay characters in comics Alan Scott aka the Green Lantern, Northstar, Batwoman, Kevin Keller, Obsidian, Wiccan, Hulkling and more! Who is your favorite[...]

That it will tell the story of the new DCU Team Seven rather than the Wildstorm version, as referred to by Steve Trevor in Justice League, set during the period of Action Comics rather than the current day. Which is why that Zero issue will be so useful to start it off. UPDATE: CBR have some more[...]

DerryWatch: The 2D Derry Comics Festival gets some decent PR in the local press. No.1 New York Times best-selling author Tony Lee (Dr Who, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies), enthused about the three-day event on social networking sites. "I have to say, 2D Comics Fest was one of the best cons I've been to," Lee said[...]

Back in April Bleeding Cool first told you that DC Comics would run Zero issues of their New 52 comics in September, telling origin and early stories of the characters We then followed it up with details such as the Zero issues raising issues that would affect the next issues of all the titles, with[...]

The company will be revealing their plans at next week's Licensing Expo in Las Vegas, and moving ahead to recruit partners that will actually manufacture and sell the dolls, pillowcases, disposable diapers or, I suppose, lunch boxes. In the run-up to Batman '89, with the light-hearted 1960s zaniness of the show fresh in everyone's memories at[...]

Lucifer was the Sandman spinoff that could. By Mike Carey, Peter Gross and Ryan Kelly, it took the character of the Devil as portrayed in the Sandman

Dan Slott, Jimmy Palmiotti and Colleen Doran have been knocking back and forth the pros and cons of creator owned comics versus work for hire, sharing their own experiences and, for example, how Sandman pays Colleen's heathcare bills It was all rather civil. But then Erik Larsen joined in And it all got a little… rambunctious. Jimmy[...]

The word from DC Comics is that, of all the Before Watchmen titles, it will be next week's Silk Spectre series  that will stand out critically above the others Anna North interviewed Amanda Conner for Buzzfeed With permission, we reprint that interview here Check out Anna's other work tackling tech tweets, and the site's look[...]

I popped into Gosh Comics of London to check that Bleeding Cool Magazine #0 had, indeed, made it through the Queen's Jubilee Amd while I was there, noted a number of pages of original art from the upcoming League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 2009 volume Some we've seen before, some we haven't Kevin O'Neill was[...]

  We get it, gay marriage is the new hot topic in comics right now Archie Comics, Astonishing X-Men, Earth Two, it's all the rage So Jim McCann wants a little of that and would like to point out that Mind The Gap #2 out next week from Image Comics has an already married same-sex couple. An[...]

The Dark Knight Rises is almost upon us. Which means its time for the kiddie versions of the film. Scott Cohn has drawn the kids book, The Dark Knight

It's a given. The last time Damon Lindelof wrote a DC comic, it was a back up strip in Action Comics #900, in which Superman renounced his American citizenship, hitting the headlines worldwide, and seeing many condemn DC Comics as harbouring traitors Balls balls balls, that was David S Goyer Lindelof had a different story in[...]

Another Thursday, a new Crossed: Wish You Were Here by Si Spurrier, Javier Barreno and Gary Erskine. And the moral centre of the comic begins to shift and

Ande Parks writes for Bleeding Cool; Lone Ranger#4 Commentary Page One The end of issue three left Tonto for dead and, a few days later, the Lone Ranger

So, where is the smart money landing? The front line of comics retail is always best reported in these charts coveing the past week, as retailers jostle to get more copies of certain comics before they go on sale And for another week, Before Watchmen comics make up a lot of spots, it looks like[...]

Get all flamey? Tear the world apart? Something similar happened to the Kyle Rayner Green Lantern years ago, his girlfriend chopped up and stuffed in his fridge, leading to Gail Simone's infamous "Women In Refridgerators" article, looking at the the over-representation in comics of women getting killed in order to inspire the male lead to get all angry[...]

The first sale of the day at Wonderworld Comics   A fine looking display at A Comic Book Shop   Nicely labelled at Austin Books A fine display at Comickaze Picked up by contributor Kate Kotler, asking how she can write for the first issue. Now to see how it looks in London I'm just about to head in, I'll be at[...]

Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, as we literally corner them and and ask questions about comic books and related topics Unscripted, reality CC. This week, with the release of Earth Two #2 we ask[...]

Jesse James of Jesse James Comics writes for Bleeding Cool like an unstoppable writing machine. During Amazing Arizona Con this year I was hanging with Spaz Dog Press just chit chatting  Then all of a sudden Shawn says "I'll be back I have to go get a Foster book"  Well he said it so excitedly that[...]

Chris VB, out new Arizona Correspondent, writes for Bleeding Cool; The first time I visited an Atomic Comics store, I was convinced that I had found heaven on Earth You see, my parents had very recently split and my mom and I moved cross-country to start our lives over and I dove into comics to cope[...]

We'd mentioned how Seymour couldn't have been writing for the New Frontiersman in 1975. But that was just a marketing bit of bumf. But the first issue of

We now have a name for the man who has been exhibiting at British comic conventions, exhibiting and selling work from deviantArt creators and more,

We were the first to tell you about this second Walking Dead Vannen Watch, debuting at San Diego Comic Con alongside Walking Dead #100 and the Michonne

Bleeding Cool's new Kickstarter Correspondent, Shawn Demumbrum has lead three Kickstarter campaigns to launch comic books, two successfully funded and one

A clean, simple, moving style that's layered over a deep Dave Sim-style understanding of storyteling and the comics medium If you like Byrne, Bendis or Morrison, this could well be your favourite superhero comic book Mudman #4 by Paul Grist from Image Comics.  Just buy the damn thing. Prophecy #1 from Dynamite appears to be a[...]

In the Giffen/DeMatteis Justice League, there is one scene that will stand throughout comics history The time when Batman took down Guy Gardner Green Lantern with one punch Indeed "one punch" has become a mantra for some. Today, in Red Lanterns #10, we get a return to that with Batman stand-in Midnighter And a certain Red[...]