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The de facto star of this clip was a sextagenarian with a memorable beard and a T-shirt proclaiming that he is a m*therf*cker. The Dark Knight Rises Plot Thickens: Batman's First Encounter With John Blake Revealed  But who's this John Blake? Well, we think we know.  Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Watchmen 2 Art: Nite Owl By Andy Kubert And[...]

No matter how many cover assignments I get with CROSSED, I keep coming up with ideas because of how versatile the concept is. As you can tell with both CROSSED and NEONOMICON, I have been heavily influenced by classic horror comics EC Comics and even classic DC Comics did amazing work in the genre, and I'm[...]

Keith Davidsen: It’s been four years since you launched CROSSED, telling the fantastic first story before allowing others to play in your sandbox. How did

  Warp Nine Comics of Clawson, Michigan are getting ahead of everyone by opening today with a sale. Most others can wait until at least tomorrow. Legend Comics of Omaha, Nebraska, are having Five Sales In Five Days Monday: 50% off our back-stock of variant cover editions Tuesday: 20% off all regular Marvel hardcovers Wednesday: 20% off all Dungeons and Dragons[...]

So be good for comics' sake  And you've all been very good this year, indeed  Rich wrapped some presents earlier, and has them ready for Christmas  He and I were joking earlier that Christmas day was the only day of the year we could run this without crushing the server, but having had a peek[...]

Yes I know it's Christmas Eve and here I am blathering on about Valenetine's Day. But a few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool told you that Marvel would be issuing

The comics industry is at pause Everyone is at home with their family – or at least on their way home, after popping in to see to the mistress Welcome to Page Six One Six, the occasional blind items column of Bleeding Cool Stories where the names have been changed to protect the guilty, stories[...]

It was partially my fault, in that I'd approached Alan Moore on behalf of the BBC's Today programme several years ago. Lost Girls was to be published,

ArchieWatch: ABC looks at changes at Archie Comics – both gay and digital… video platform video management video solutions video player It is not of course the first same sex marriage in comics history Not even in mainstream comics, The Authority got there first… GameWatch: Top Cow try to persuade people that American footballer Lance Briggs' upcoming comic[...]

It's getting a bit sludgy in comic book news right now. It's all about lists of the year, creator Christmas cards, discussions on what has been, and what

Who gets the hardcover, who gets the soft… here's how it's breaking down.  Hardcovers:  Paperback:  Batman Swamp Thing Action Comics Batwoman Green Lantern Wonder Woman Batman And Robin Justice League Detective Comics  Batgirl Catwoman Justice League International Animal Man Batwing Superboy Red Lanterns Green Arrow Demon Knights Stormwatch Suicide Squad Frankenstein OMAC Legion Of Superheroes Mister Terrific Hawk And Dove Deathstroke Grifter       [...]

Here are the two customizable retailer covers for Avengers Assemble #1. Retailers who order more copies of the regular version of Avengers Assemble #1

So there's this website. Wonder Woman Foundation, run by a Joseph Armour. Inspired by the DC character, this is its mission. We are teaching farmers

Rhee Moral Geometry Genma Visage   Honorary Achievement in Horror Comics Gene Colan Bernie Wrightson       Oh look, a comic book award that Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press has a shot at actually winning. The Third Annual Horror Comic Awards, voting open until the end of the year Here are the nominees Oh look I accidentally listed the Avatar nominees in bold red. Writer[...]

A digital offering, over 40 pages long, of Christmas-related female-formed comics, illustrations and prose, only for those who funded the project Here's a few examples… By Devin Grayson and Sally Stone Thompson By Bridgit Scheide By Laura Morley and Tanja Wooten. By Kimberley De Liz By Ariel Rivas By Sherri Rose, Aja Moore[...]

Earlier this year, Bleeding Cool helped Tony Lee and Image Comics find a new artist to replace Becky Cloonan on the MacGyver comic book And yesterday we reported that a winner had been found, Will Sliney But who else pitched for the series? Here are a few examples – and they might just be available[...]

We noted that the French market seems to have four of them, it turns out he's actually written six over the last few years, but they have been translated into French first… ProseWatch2: Miles Prower takes on comics-to-prose; "How could there be any debate about which is superior? The prose tells us exactly how Superman spoke[...]

Fox News' The Five discuss the Republican Presidential candidates all picking Superman as the superhero they'd like to be (aside from Ron Paul who

From the Cookie Baking Bitch tumblr So in Red Hood and the Outlaws, Crux is a black man who turns into a giant green monster. And, in Teen Titans, Skitter

18,000 comics from the late 1930s to the early 1950s — the earliest days of American comic books — in unimaginably high grade condition  All the important issues from comics' formative years are there –Action Comics #1, Detective Comics #27, Marvel Comics #1, Superman #1, and on and on — as well as most of[...]

Courtesy of Gosh Comics, London, who are part and parcel of Knockabout Comics, the UK publisher of the League Of Extraordianry Gentlemen Kevin O'Neill is nine pages away from finishing the art, and the finished final volume of The League Of Extraordinary: Century, set only a couple of years ago, is planned for publication in[...]

THR reports that Stan Lee is to create a new comic book character for the Indian marketplace, Chakra - The Invincible. A Mumbai-born teenage technical

Here's a list of comics shipping next Wednesday, that's December 27th 2011, folks And it's followed by a more tentative list of comics shipping on Wednesday 4th of January 2012 That's right folks, the first comics of the New Year… December 27th 2011 Dark Horse ANGEL & FAITH #5 BROTHERS OF THE SPEAR ARCHIVES HC VOL 01 DISNEYS COMICS &[...]

Here's how Marvel describes the comics. Spinning out of Disney XD's cartoon series Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes and just in time for Marvel Studios 2012 blockbuster film The Avengers, these two all-ages adventures feature all the daring & destruction you can handle in the classic Mighty Marvel Manner! Join Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, the Hulk,[...]

Knowing that Batman: Leviathan Strikes! published yesterday from DC Comics would be set in St Hadrian's did bring to mind images of a St Trinian's girls school where the pupils are taught in the most extreme subjects possible. And knowing that the comic would feature the blonde Stephanie Brown going back to high school in the[...]

MarriageWatch: CNN runs preview clips of Life With Archie #16 – or as we're calling it, the first gay biracial military wedding in kids comics. LocalWatch: Kody Chamberlain gets local press for Sweets and Punks ahead of a signing at Barnes & Noble with Rob Guillory in Lafayette, LA. GenderWatch: In the week of November 16th, DC[...]

Mason Cook is an an independent comic creator based in Brisbane, Australia, releasing a new comic book, Dwarf And Gnome, in January. I thought this five

If you took all the clothes worn by all the ladies on the following Dynamite covers, would you have enough material to make one costume that wouldn't make

Can you feel your buttocks tightening? "Doron Ofir Casting and 495 Productions is proud to launch the search for the most passionately obsessed, proudly self-identified pop culture fanatics from the worlds of comics, graphic novels, sci-fi, anime, manga, video games, toys, movies, and television." Yeah, exactly. "FANDOM RISING" will boldly go where no fanboy or fangirl has gone[...]

How can we tell? Because that's when Marvel Comics often  appear to try and meet some kind of end of quarter targets by shipping all the books that should have shipped by then Including, it seems, Captain America issues five and six, both published next week. As is Captain America And Bucky #625. So basically, if you like[...]