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There will be a the Avengers Vs X-Men: Front Line equivalent of a comic and you'll see crossovers in Avengers, New Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine & The X-Men, but the likes of X-Force, Thor or New Mutants should remain crossover free. Maybe this could be an event that the average comic reader might be able to[...]

This week, ex-Chicago governor Rod Blagojevich was sentenced to fourteen years for corruption. Which gave me thought to revisit the time he came to Wizard

But with even the most successful mainstream digital comic books like Justice League get around 20,000, it shows just how much of an audience for digital comics is remaining untapped so far…       Ape Entertainment and Bolt Creative have announced that Pocket God have sold over half of a million Pocket God digital comic book downloads[...]

As Elke Pollard was painting Alan Moore's portrait, they reached an arrangement in which she could take his old computer keyboard (he was upgrading),

It bears repeating that at the beginning of the year, DC Comics's marketshare figures had slipped in the twenties, lagging far behind Marvel That they have achieved three market share dominances three months in a row despite publishing far fewer titles than Marvel, is a real achievement for the publisher And it was Justice League[...]

Chris Ryall, editor-in-chief of IDW, recently tweeted; "Freelancers, really, take this to heart: if you're writing characters you don't own and want to keep writing them, mind what you say online." What might have caused such a proclamation? Could it have been Mike Costa, talking about writing Transformers comics? He was asked if he even liked Transformers anymore,[...]

Yesterday, assistant commissioner of trademarks in New Zealand, Jenny Walden, as declared that Superloans character Buck does not infringe the Superman trademark of DC Comics/Warnr Bros The Dominion Post reports that Walden said that, "although it was clear Buck was a superhero because of his "exaggerated musculature", fitting body suit and his ability to fly, there[...]

I hope you will be too… StoreWatch: Evermore Nevermore of Mesa, Arizona, is to close. MangaWatch: While the mass media commemorate the life of Jerry Robinson, mostly by explaining who he was, mostly  referencing Batman and the Joker, the Anime News Network remember him as the co-creator of manga Astra. TigerMomWatch: Chinese ten year old girls have created[...]

Issue 7 seems the cut off point for many, with George Perez leaving Superman, Fabian Nicieza leaving Legion Lost for Tom DeFalco, and Ann Nocenti taking over from Keith Giffen and Dan Jurgens – who took over from JT Krul – on Green Arrow. Russian Scanlations Of American Comics Show Real Design Sense  Recently, Bleeding Cool featured[...]

  He was Archie Comics' first openly gay character Then in a future world, he'll take part in Archie's first same-sex marriage And now… could he be Archie Comics' first gay President? Class President that is Here's a preview of Kevin Keller #4, shipping from Archie Comics next week.   He was Archie Comics' first[...]

A number of us older types grew up reading American comics with a running commentary from cartoonist Fred Hembeck Whether appearing in the trade press or the comics themselves (my favourite was the Fantastic Four Roast that Marvel published), Fred Hembeck specialised in a pun-heavy, continuity-heavy, knock knee-heavy approach that enriched the comics, made them[...]

I had originally planned to use this second column to compile a list of those uncollected runs for which comics fans were crying out for collected editions, but it seems that asking BleedingCool's hive-mind of readers for suggestions at the end of last week's column was opening a real can of worms. It turns out that[...]

Comic book readers have become used to having to wait an extra day or two over Christmas and the new year for their comics But the day early shipping continues to reap rewards in that regards. As Christmas Day and New Year's Day both land on a Sunday, US and Canadian comic shops will reveive their[...]

If you want to start hunting for clues behind Avengers Vs X-Men, you might want to start here... a preview of Avengers X-Sanction #1 by Jeph Loeb and Ed

Recently, Bleeding Cool featured a letter from a Russian comic book pirate, requesting unlettered art files from Skullkickers creator Jim Zubavich, so that he could create Russian language translation illegal copies of the Skullkickers comic. So how widespread is this sort of thing? And how valuable would unlettered files be in such a context? Well this[...]

UPDATE: Well that was quick. James Robinson and JT Krul will write separate stories in Men Of War issue 7. Original story: Two days ago, DC mentioned on

Towards the end of an interview with the Washington City Paper, Michael Uslan talked about his upcoming plans for writing Archie comic, with all the

Tim Pilcher used to work for DC Vertigo back in the day when they used to run a UK office. One project he worked on, that was announced as coming from

Valiant Entertainment is to launch in May 2012 with Free Comic Book Day, and a free comic featuring stories from X-O Manowar, Bloodshot and Harbinger, along with a slate of issue ones of the new Valiant comics The cover above features X-O Manowar by Jelena Kevic-Djurdjevic. Valiant Entertainment is to launch in May 2012 with[...]

Needless to say, the knowledge that this primordial force is about to land in your backyard inspires everyone — Cap, Cyclops, Thor, Wolverine, Hulk, Nova — to drop what they're doing." KiddWatch: Chip Kidd on the origins of Batman: Death By Design; He was in the role of interviewer with award-winning writer Neil Gaiman ("Sandman," "Batman R.I.P.")[...]

 Can you imagine if twitter had existed during the height of the Mark Alessi / Bill Jemas era?  That would have been fun. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Eric Stephenson Slags Off Marvel And DC Over 2012 Publishing Plans In his private blog, the publisher of Image Comics, Eric Stephenson,has come out with a rather strong assault against Marvel[...]

So, I've read a copy of Scarlet Spider #1, the new title spinning out of Spider-Island starring Spider-Man villain Kaine, now rehabilitated as Scarlet

Si Spurrier (who has a new comic out today, The X-Club #1 from Marvel) gave his Remake/Remodel instructions out last week: LORNA DRAKE Bunty was a British comics anthology for girls published by D C Thomson & Co from 1958 to 2001 It consisted of a collection of many small strips, typically the stories themselves being three[...]

In his private blog, the publisher of Image Comics, Eric Stephenson, has come out with a rather strong assault against Marvel and DC And possibly a challenge. He basically accuses them of living in the past, citing Marvel's big 2012 announcement of an X-Men Vs Avengers event reminiscient of a similar one from the eighties, and[...]

Along the bottom of pages in the new Defenders #1 comic from Marvel are a number of phrases that seem to hint at future Marvel storylines. Some are clear.

Retailers can start selling the volume the moment they receivce them on Tuesday the 13th rather than waiting for Wednesday with the rest of that week's comics. So there's that.   The plan was to give comic stores a week's worth advance sales of the DC New 52 Hardcover in the run up to Christmas A week[...]

Pick up Action Comics #4 by Grant Morrison and Rags Morales and read that Given that you'd read issues 1 to 3 of course. However, if you're not intending to read Action Comics #4, maybe you're an old time fan jaded by the new approach, it's possible, just possible, this article may give you reason to[...]

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported how today's Valen The Outcast Joe Juski 1-200 cover variant was rather... limited. That only 25 were going to qualifying

This is indended to bring US digital readers up to date with Japanese releases, and combat the damage done to sales for Viz by illegal digital scanlations of this most popular comic. What this does to print retailers, is another matter. This move will also bring One Piece readers up to date with the comics' serialisation in[...]

The penultimate issue of David Lapham and Raulo Caceres' Crossed: Psychopath is out today, issue seven. That's it up above. Here's the solicits and