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Eight year old Luke Purcell, of Layton, Utah, likes to cycle round his block dressed as Batman. Last week, he was playing with a friend at their house,

The artwork for the front cover of Tintin In America, from the nineteen thirties, will go on sale in Paris next month, with a price expected to fetch

Very kindly, Marvel will be giving bundles of a Spider-Man/Sabretooth preview comic, featuring previews of a bunch of Spider-Man titles as part of their

  Welcome to the first comic book awards covering comics published this year, The Bleeding Cool Fan Awards The first half at least Or almost the first half And being presented at the Phoenix Comic Con at the end of the month, by me, and a bunch of comic book folk. Last year's Awards at C2E2 seemed[...]

Expect sell outs and second pronts across the board – which will also end up on this chart. While in the reorders for comics already shipped, the DC New 52 Justice League hardcover and Avengers Vs X-Men #3 even manage to top the Walking Dead collections… TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs 4/30 – 5/6             [...]

Next week in comics… the first issue of Dancer, a new Justice League, Glory, Manhattan Projects,  Hell Yeah and Locke And Key, Kirkman and Silvestri's Hardcore, a new Avengers Vs X-Men, Versus, Secret Service, Adventure Time, Lady Death and Sixth Gun… and then in two weeks a new Guild, Resident Alien, Night Of The Owls[...]

Visual treatments multiply and collide uncomfortably. Now I've seen the logo on the actual comics, it disappoints in that context too, in what should be it's strongest application. Sorry, chaps I know you meant well. Rian's book Cult-Ure looking at this kind of thing and much much more is currently on my bedside table A fascinating read… [...]

Mars Attacks #1 from IDW will come in 58 cover varieties... 56 normal and 2 special variants. Bleeding Cool is happy to present them all... do enjoy.

Dammit. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London.   Something has been tickling my head of late, reading the run up to the Court Of Owls A theory, nothing more, not backed up by any actual evidence, that would be far too messy, that Scott Snyder is going to do something big to the legend of Batman. We have[...]

Jim Lee and Scott Williams are drawing a 1:200 variant cover for all the first issues of Before Watchmen. Here is their black and white work for the cover

On Saturday from 6pm, Nick Abadzis will be signing at Gosh Comics in London for the launch of the collection of his seminal graphic novel, Hugo Tate Serialised in the likes of Deadline, and partially collected through Atomeka/Tundra, it tells the gradual shifting changing story of a happy go lucky stick figure, corrupted by complexity[...]

Stan also milked his injured status for some TLC from the quite-attractive ranch lifeguard personnel, asking if his injuries merited mouth-to-mouth, which, unfortunately for him, they didn't. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nQzq7VmKSU[/youtube] The news is out today that John Dokes, Senior VP at Marvel Comics has been let go by the company[...]

Recent, IDW published a new Popeye comic book. The first in quite a while. And it sold. Sold well. And kept on selling. And I've got the numbers. The

Both on the panel and to Aint It Cool saying; "But how is it any more wrong than the way any comics creators were treated, especially those who came out of the Golden and Silver Age? Worse than Jack Kirby, who couldn't even get his art back in his failing years? Worse than Siegel and Shuster?" I[...]

Well, it is a school after all… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. There's been a lot happening in Avengers Vs X-Men this week Possibly more than happened in the actual comic Some of it gets a little confusing as well Let's see if we can work it out. Because although Wolverine was dumped, JJ Abrams Star[...]

This notion that their powerful robot lions are what makes them an effective fighting force is one we've been rebelling against since the very beginning of the series, and that first panel on the page really is just another critical step to selling that idea. Page 22- I had this image (and these lines) in my head[...]

X-Men #6, hit comic shops, the Marvel Comics app, and Marvel Digital Comic Shop this June.   AVENGERS VS X-MEN #5 (APR120569) Written by MATT FRACTION Pencils by JOHN ROMITA JR Cover by JIM CHEUNG FOC – 5/14/12, ON SALE – 6/6/12   AVENGERS VS X-MEN #6 (APR120575) Written by JONATHAN HICKMAN Pencils by OLIVIER COIPEL Cover by JIM CHEUNG FOC – 5/28/12, ON SALE – 6/20/12 [...]

If you have the We3-related password from the mailing list, you can book tickets for MorrisonCon right now. For $767. For one night. For one. For one two

Bleeding Cool has been following ShiftyLook, the publisher created by Namco Bandai, to recreate arcade classics as webcomics, with an eye to revitalising their brands. The latest, announced on their podcast, is the game Dig Dug, being reinterpreted by a bunch of webcomic creators, for its 30th anniversary. Here's a list of their initial creators on the[...]

Si Spurrier’s instructions: You know the score, of course. In the Byronic tradition: blood-supping aristocratic wronguns, scantily-clad virgins,

Jim Lee's Zealot from the Wildstorm series WildCATS. And yes, yes, yes, her hips are wider than her shoulders, etc etc etc, but this is an interesting twist, one Image Founder introduing the characters of another Image Founder into the DC Comics universe. And she's not alone As well as appearances of Voodoo, Fairchild, various Daemonites and[...]

It cannot have escaped many people's notice that The Walking Dead is a popular comic book. So popular that retailers cannot keep up with its increase in

Here's an extended look at Dynamite's new issue of Dark Shadows, handily coincidental with the release of a certain film, and other less-extended previews

 There are currently two copies graded CGC 9.0, and three copies graded CGC 8.5. The Spring 1940 cover-dated comic from DC Comics contains the first appearances of both the Joker and Catwoman in stories by Bill Finger, Bob Kane, and Jerry Robinson The comic also reprints Batman's first-told origin from Detective Comics #33, and includes another[...]

Digital comics on Marvel.com are currently being served through a Flash player, which we all know aren't viewable on iOS devices. HitchWatch: Bryan Hitch draws an Action Comics variant Josh Adams really wants to buy it. DinoWatch: Steve Bissette creates a Tyrant In Slumberland print, the first Tyrant story I've seen in years… NoHoWatch: North Hollywood gets a[...]

Another nifty little mystery kicked off by DC's FCBD offering:  The New 52, the Black Room… but what’s in it? Here’s ten to start you off. Clicky for

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll2bgfih9bU Aaron and Tony of A Comic Shop in Florida, is still in Free Comic Book Day celebration. Aaron writes; Free

You have to feel sorry for Lalit Kumar Sharma. An Indian comic book creator, he has a number of prestigious comic book works to his name. But he's also a

Dr Manolis Vamvounis runs through last week's comics for Bleeding Cool. It's MULTIVERSE WEEK at DC, with not one, not two, but THREE stories set in alternate realities! EARTH 2 #1 begins "Five Years Ago", much like Justice League #1 back in September, and just like that series, it features the united might of that Earth's Big[...]

This is, naturally, for Third Eye Comics. The store also reports to Bleeding Cool on its Free Comic Book Day, with 2000 in their Annapolis store and how they easily went through a thousand copies of Finding Gossamyr And that Publisher Th3rd World Studios is planning on micro-distributed variant covers of that comic for specific stores[...]