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Last Week's Comics In Twenty-Five Panels
Dr Manolis Vamvounis writes for Bleeding Cool. Last week in comics: WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN #10 alone makes up for everything that's sucked in AVX so far The major mutant players come together at the Jean Grey school and actually behave like the characters we know for a change Cyclops and Wolvie have an insightful discussion about[...]
Army Of Darkness Vol. 3 #3 – Writer's Commentary By Elliott Serrano
That's part of the collaborative nature of creating comics that I enjoy so much, seeing what other members of your team bring to the story. Ashley's internal monologue also teases the idea that she has seen evil in many of its myriad mundane forms, not just as one who fights the evil dead. PAGE TWO: If you're wondering[...]
Speculator Corner: Thief Of Thieves #4 Already Selling For $13.50
Tomorrow we get the fourth issue of Thief Of Thieves, the new Robert Kirkman/Nick Spencer comic from Image Comics that's already been picked up for a TV series from AMC. Shops just can't keep this comic in stock, and the usual reduction of orders for subsequent issues from retailers hasn't been matched by lessening demand – quite the[...]
President Obama On The Avengers
In my Avengefuls comic for Boom!, I had President Obama shooting Osama Bin Hulk in the head with the line "guns don't kill terrorists, Presidents kill terrorists." It felt right. We know President Obama used to read comics Even when he was all grown up Appearing on The View, he was asked about Kardashians, Fifty Shades[...]
Selling The Todd McFarlane Cover To Spider-Man #1… And More
It's iconic and probably bsums up nineties comics better than any other It will sell for an absolute mint. But it's not the only Marvel nineties piece of note he appears to be selling There are also the following items Clicky for biggy Much biggy.. The cover to Amazing Spider-Man #328 by Todd McFarlane The cover to Marvel[...]
Agent Coulson, The Avengers And The Future
Comics lore is embarrassingly full of characters who die in one story for impact who are resurrected again for a different sort of point Do you think it will be any different with Agent Coulson? If you do, allow me to point out the many, many ways Joss Whedon's script allows for Coulson not just to[...]
Matt Hawkins And Rahsan Ekedal's Think Tank For August
We've just had Manhattan Projects from Image, the latest in a run of fantasy science comics (and yes, I have my own somewhere in the pipeline) In August we get the next one, from Top Cow's Matt Hawkins and Rahsan Ekedal, Think Tank. And it's hard not get the original Manhattan Project fear from this comic[...]
Tuesday Runaround – Clowes, Kapow And Cricket
Thanks for the years of service,' " he says. "But I do think things have changed with comics over the years, and that was sort of my reason for embracing the whole thing The book and these museums were dealing with it in such a way that it wasn't like they were treating comics like this weird[...]
Monday Trending Topics: Neal Adams, Christos Gage, and First X-Men
That was my pitch." Read more.   Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Cancels Justice League International With Issue 12 In September, DC Comics publishes zero issues of the New 52, to celebrate the year anniversary of the revamp Some books however, it seems, may not make it that far. Wolverine: The First X-Men (Or X-Man?) From Neal Adams And Christos[...]
An Ending Of Things At DC Comics
Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot of[...]
Put Some Clothes On Spider-Woman
It may have been Free Comic Book Day a weekend ago. But that doesn't mean everything was left to undulate in the breeze. Take this scene from the Marvel
Lying In The Gutters – 14th March 2012
Now Roger Langridge Quits Marvel And DC Comics Over Ethical Concerns 10 Avengers XXX: A Porn Parody Gets A Cover 11 John Dokes Let Go By Marvel In Move That May Spell Their Doom 12 Zealot And Deathblow Join The New DCU 13 "No More Avengers" To Make AVX A Little One Sided 14 Avengers Assemble #3 Gets A Spoiler[...]
DC Cancels Justice League International With Issue 12
In September, DC Comics publishes zero issues of the New 52, to celebrate the year anniversary of the revamp. Some books however, it seems, may not make it that far. Justice League International #12 will be the last issue of the series. An interesting decision as it outsells the like of Suicide Squad, Superboy, Birds Of Power, Green[...]
Tom DeFalco Takes Superboy From Scott Lobdell
Could even Scott Lobdell write four books a month for DC Comics? No. Today, we discover that Tom DeFalco, who has co-written recent issues Superboy with Scott Lobdell, is taking over the book with issue twelve in August, though the art team stays the same. SUPERBOY #12 Written by TOM DeFALCO Art by R.B SILVA and ROB LEAN Cover by STEVE[...]
Countdown To The Eisners by Cameron Hatheway – Best Graphic Album
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 staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.) Fans Before I go back to baking cookies for the entire[...]
Wolverine: The First X-Men (Or X-Man?) From Neal Adams And Christos Gage
Today, Marvel will talk about a new thing from them called The First X-Men. Two-and-a-bit years ago, I first mentioned that Neal Adams was planning a Wolverine series with Marvel, to follow Batman: Odyssey. Then last year, Neal Adams tweeted; Clearing the board for a five part Wolverine that Marvel seems to have re-titled "The First (something!)" I[...]
Tim Pilcher Says Too Many Cons, Not Enough Pros
Tim Pilcher, ex-editor of DC Comics, and current head of Comic Book Alliance writes for Bleeding Cool, after attending and exhibiting at this weekend's Bristol Comics Expo; I've been attending comic conventions in Bristol ever since Kev F Sutherland first set one up to replace the defunct UKCAC, way back in 1999 That's 13 years—unlucky for[...]
Free Comic Book Day, Australia Style
Here's how last weekend's Free Comic Book Day looked down under, at Kaboom Comics in Toowoomba That's a lot of double-ohs… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6hDeLeDCA[/youtube] Here's how last weekend's Free Comic Book Day looked down under, at Kaboom Comics in Toowoomba That's a lot of double-ohs… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC6hDeLeDCA[/youtube] [...]
Hawkeye, For Better Or For Worse
Jesse James of Jesse James Comics of Glendale, Arizona, writes for Bleeding Cool; When I was twelve and a half years old I was blessed to have met Jack Kirby Even at that age I realized who was sitting in front of me Little did I know that my one minute talk with The King[...]