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Last year, Devil's Due Publishing left Diamond Comic Distributors, leaving a large amount of debt, both to the distributor and to creators, alongside

Another look at a comic store going above and beyond this Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May the 5th. Memphis Comics & Collectibles will have a signing with Chris Haley, artist on Lets Be Friends Again and Captain American Idol (yes that one) will be signing copies of our new comic… a lot of copies. He[...]

From Moonstone in July, Thor, Unkillable Thunder Christ #1 from The Blackest Terror and Bleeding Cool's Eric M Esquivel, and Ander Sarabia. Real Gods

The fools. Installment One – MARK WAID I'm a huge believer that the first issue of a comics series–or, more applicable to what we're doing here, the first installment of a serial–fails miserably if the reader can't walk away with a clear idea of what the series is going to be about. Meltcast 2.0 with the Hernandez Brothers[...]

I heard rumours about this story earlier in the week, but due to its nature, didn't want to run what was then largely speculation. A number of Texan

It's the cover to Walking Dead #19. It's the first appearance of hit Walking Dead character Michonne. It's drawn by Walking Dead co-creator Tony Moore.

John Romita Jr, co-creator of Kick Ass, The Gray Area and long standing Marvel artist will be attempting to sign and sketch continually for longer than

This could well be the biggest comic publisher debut in a decade. I understand that X-O Manowar #1, the debut title from the new Valiant Entertainment,

And Marvel Boy, sometimes referred to as Captain Marvel.   Just as DC Comics have abandoned the Captain Marvel and Marvel Family names, looks like Marvel are making their own Even if they'll all end up having the same name.   We knew it might well be coming in Secret Avengers #27 Because of, you know, the cover[...]

This letter appears in the new issue of Daredevil, out yesterday. Mike Allred's iZombie comic book has been cancelled at Vertigo, and while naturally he

File under Comics Curios. Considering what Marvel have done to Frank Castle of late, this doesn't seem that far out there, does it? Here, from Brendan McCarthy's files, is his rejected-by-Marvel Wolverine pitch from a while back. Tried this one out with Jason Aaron on script He liked it and christened it "Wolverine's Venom!" A faulty, old prototype[...]

The last issue of Playboy featured an original Walking Dead short story by Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlars. The new issue features an interview with

So what's coming down the pipe next week and the week after? Dark Horse have just the one comic, but it is Andi Watson's Skeleton Key so that's good. DC Comics start with the issue nines and the Second Wave issue ones Image bring us Epic Kill #1 and Mind The Gap #1. Marvel have Avengers Vs X-Men[...]

It was meant to come out two years ago. It didn't. Now Top Cow have made it available to retailers without going through the usual channels. Which means

It was a tiny crack, but for the first time, it looked like maybe there was a way for Moore and DC to get along. LoveWatch: Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales got together over comic books, it seems. MovieWatch: How to superhero movies affect superhero comic book sales? Comic stores sound out. Over the last few years, Joss[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4Od9A2Nto Mike Wellman, the manager of The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California, takes us through all the Free Comic

We also take a look at sales by gender, but that discussion gets quickly sidelined by how few women there are in Diamond's Top 300 comic books. DC COMICS After an off month in January, DC was back at their usual total In February 2012, DC Comics put out 82 new comics with 662 credited creators, 589[...]

As is, surprisingly, Hardcore #1 from Image Comics. What the hell is that you ask? It's a book that was solicited two years ago – TWO YEARS AGO – as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season Created by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri, written by Robert Kirkman, originally  drawn by Brian Stelfreeze Rather than resolicit, the[...]

We've been following the rise of Kickstarter and its affects on the comics industry One pertinent trend is the increase of name comic creators using the system to crowdsource advance payments on books that may not be profitable in other ways Some comic book creators have been, publicly and privately, rather dismissive and critical of[...]

Bleeding Cool continues to celebrate comic book stires that are going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day in 2012, this May the 5th. Collectors' Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, will run FCBD 9am until 9pm.Although you may want to be there earlier. The first twenty-five in line will get a Free Movie Pass to see AVENGERS[...]

It's clearly a good day for parody superhero comics… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London Their Roger Langridge signing is on Saturday, as well as their new Roger Langridge gallery exhibition into May. Bleeding Cool ran the cover to Goon #39 a while back, and I made a point to buy it as a result[...]

The alternate DC Comics history that reshaped the DC Universe and led to the DC Relaunch and the New 52 last year. And now, it appears, to be the next DC Direct-To-DVD movie, according to Kevin Conroy who commonly plays Batman in such animations, and recorded his role in the new movie the other night… Check in[...]

So, the massive incentives retailers were given to order massive amounts of Avengers Vs X-Men comics have not only see the comics sell through once but also twice. I understand that Marvel is going back to print on Avengers Vs X-Men #0, #1 and #2 for a third time. That all Avengers Vs X-Men tie-in titles are[...]

New Avengers gives as a reworking of the opening of Avengers Vs X-Men, seeing the planet of plant people destroyed, but in terms of our own world... a

But it does paint a rather possible future, with Superman hunted down, referred to as an "it" rather than a person of any description… given recent issues of Justice League, is this the way Superman is going? Chris Sims wrote a piece mocking Before Watchmen by suggesting other DC Comics by Moore that they could prequelise[...]

That could also happen. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London Their Roger Langridge signing is on Saturday, as well as their new Roger Langridge gallery exhibition into May. In today's Astonishing X-Men, Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins give us a big old fashioned superhero fight scene between these X-Men and the Marauders, both physical and[...]

This comic is not quite as silly though. And it seems that despite the fluster and the bluster, the wit and the whimsy, Uncanny X-Men is taking the Palestine/Israel and Waco allegories and moving it on, yet again. In other AVX news, Secret Avengers has a massive plot twist just waiting to be spoiled (not by me)[...]

Where they have just got last week's comics…   In AVENGERS VS X-MEN #2 the fight is ON! The second issue of the mega-event contains a whole lot of punching, shields being thrown, optic beams and stabbing, along with an insane amount of deliciously Claremont-by-way-of-Fraction hyperbolic narrative The focus jumps across different battle match ups, ranging from[...]

StanWatch: Stan Lee doesn't know why Jack Kirby would get a credit on The Avengers movie. TeamWatch: Phil Hester and Todd Nauck are reviving the Kirkman/Benito Cereno series Guarding the Globe, and will launch in a story in the Image Free Comic Book Day issue. ReprintWatch: Lots of Batman and Batman-related comics are being reprinted. SwipeWatch: The Eagle[...]

Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool; For everyone who receives this, Tony DeZuniga was the first Filipino artist whose work was accepted by an American