Comics Archives

Starting in Dark Horse Presents #8, out the first week in February, a surprise listing! Almost as much a surprise to me! The Many Murders Of Miss

Basically a story about an invader of dreams as an action adventure comic rather than the introspective exposition of mythology, reality and fiction of DC Comics and Neil Gaiman's Sandman that created a comic book legend Because, as we all know, Sandman is Sandman done right But can there be any other challengers? It seems inherent[...]

I've given the thirteen-or-so thoughts of the week's DC Comics a bit of a break for now It was doing my head in, and I was reading too many comics that I just didn't like, which is never good for the soul. But if I was still doing them, then this scene from this week's Batgirl[...]

Best X-Men in years. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London – whose tenth anniversary new website will be going live any day now. I have been backwards about coming forwards about my admiration for Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo's work on the new Wolverine And The X-Men series Set in school, with lots of text, panels fighting[...]

Demon Knights is one of the ten or so New 52 comics that I eagerly read by choice every month But there's been something nagging at the back of my head, and this issue gave it an extra tug. Demon Knights is a Dungeons And Dragons game, given narrative form Writer Paul Cornell used to play[...]

Bleeding Cool has been following the theory that Marcus Johnson, mysterious star of Battle Scars, is Nick Fury's son, and potentially creating a new black Nick Fury in the standard Marvel Universe in time for the Avengers movie, starring Samuel L Jackson in the role. Well, today's comics comes with some new information Here are three[...]

Aaron brings back Tri-Force Mike this week, as the staff of A Comic Shop in Florida look through today's comic books and makes their recommendations. Do

8 comics section with Doonesbury's vicious attack on Newt Gingrich (whom I do not support in any way) Maybe next week you can arrange for the "Blondie" strip to have Mr Dithers rail on how President Barack Obama's oppressive regulations and heath care demands are killing American business Or at least put Doonesbury on the[...]

  The announcement that Walt Simonson will do a six issue stint with Bendis on The Avengers seems to have everyone's attention today, and with good

According to estimates made by John Mayo, DC Comics sold the most of the Top 300 trade paperbacks and hardcovers in December 2011, taking 27.21% marketshare by volume (and 32% by dollar) against Marvel Comics' 20.09% marketshare by volume (and 25.62% by dollar). But inbetween them snuck Image Comics, taking 24.4% share of all the hardcovers[...]

And I don't know if it's the cold, but she seems a little edgier than usual, talking about tomorrow's comics Publishers beware! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1G4XM-cKRE[/youtube] Every week, I get more grateful that Grace Randolph creates her Think About The Ink videos for Bleeding Cool And I don't know if it's the cold, but she seems a little edgier[...]

Despite DC having a stellar end of year performance, their very rocky start to 2011 and Marvel's recovery in December seems to have given Marvel the edge in marketshare last year, though a reduced lead on 2010. In 2011, Marvel had a 37% share of dollars spent on comics through Diamond Comic Distributors and 41% of[...]

Going to San Diego Comic Con this year? Remember how tricky it was last year? Well this year it's different. This time, before you register, you have to

When I was a young, strapping lad trying to break into comics, I'm talking years and years ago, I met Walt at a convention I showed him my childish sketches and he treated me like a peer He was so generous an empowering and set me on a course to be where I am now[...]

The Sun Journal of Lewiston, Maine, reports that last night the ten strong board of the Regional School Unit votes that Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics from an Unpleasant Age by Ariel Schrag should remain in middle school libraries in Dixfield, Mexico and Buckfield, although parental permission will be needed for the book to be[...]

As a Christian, I find myself often in conflict with what are touted as official Christian responses to some matter or other. Whether that be Christian

  IDW are now advertising brand new series digital only Transformers series, Autocracy by featuring it on the iPad and iPhone. Tranformers: Autocracy

Colouring was still undeveloped in comics, and often would obscure the linework The Titan editions are still my favourite version of the Alan Moore run. Techniques are far more advanced today, of course, with colouring often accentuating the art, making it richer, deeper, as much an art form as the linework itself. But I still get a[...]

As part of "C-Day" on March 14th, Avatar are reissuing Crossed #0 as Crossed C-Day edition entitled Crossed: Get Infected, to be given away or used in

Star Wars and DC Comics flash drives have just got smaller… In March, Mimoco will launch a new line called Mimimicro, a smaller version of the popular licensed character USB flash drives, Mimobot. These can still be used as flash drives but will also work as a microSD memory card reader, enambling greater transference of information between[...]

Yesterday, we learned of the upcoming Batman/Detective Comics crossover Night Of The Owls from the official DC Source blog. But also at the Superman Homepage, Matt Idleson talked about a Superman, Superboy and Supergirl crossover this summer He wrote; Many things that will be factors in ACTION this year are being established in issues #5-6, Frank[...]

Rob was a regular figure in the British comics industry, known by all and he continued running the Marts until last year Following his arrest, they have been continued by others, keen to keep the institution alive. The Daily Mail reports that Barrow's lawyer argued "In the last 15 years an obsession arose with collecting pornography[...]

SimileWatch: Richard Cohen compares Mitt Romney to Reggie off of Archie Comics. He has the coldness of Reggie from the "Archie" comics — the guy who had everything except, notably, his name on the cover. StripWatch: The new Let's Be Friends takes a little Bleeding Cool inspiration. FeedWatch: Fiona Staples responds to Dave Dorman's breastfeeding blog post to[...]

Expect Detective Comics' rise to a $3.99 book as well to contain something similar. John Romita Jr Draws Avengers Vs X-Men #1 Anyway, Avengers Vs X-Men #1 written by five writers, drawn John Romita Jr, out in April, Psylocke Vs Black Widow and Magneto Vs Iron Man fight scenes in another comic… but will it knock Justice[...]

Dave Dorman has explained on Twitter, regarding his earlier blog post, that he doesn't find breast feeding offensive, just that he didn't appreciate the

And, weighted to how many were actually ordered, the average price drops from $3.54 to $3.44. Basically, comics got ten cents cheaper in 2011, in a year when American inflation should have taken the price from $3.58 to $3.70 or from $3.54 to  $3.67 Which means they are around twenty cents cheaper than general inflation would[...]

Todd Nauck is one of the most widely read Western comic book artists today, with his work appearing on a number of All Ages superhero titles that are translated around the world, as well as many custom licensed comics from Marvel and DC, with print runs in the hundreds of thousands, as well as work[...]

If you're wondering whether supervillains have blown up your hometown lately, go check out my Google map of the real-world Canadian locations used in Alpha Flight comics For now, here are the highlights.   5 Calgary It was the first Canadian city Alpha Flight ever trashed, and it wouldn't be the last. The team's debut in Uncanny X-Men #120-121[...]

In artwork released as part of Marvel's Liveblog with Rick Remender and friends, as Gabriel Hardman joins Rick Rememder on Secret Avengers from issue 22,

Back in the days of the distributor wars of the mid nineties, you couldn't move without getting a press release about another publisher going exclusive to