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Collectors Cornered #15 – Giant Sized Halloween Celebration!
Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, as we literally corner them and and ask questions about comic books and related topics Unscripted, reality CC. Happy Halloween from CC! Fear the Living signing with[...]
Thursday Runaround – Contastic Weekend Ahead
Skottie Young,  David Lafuente, Tommy Lee Edwards – the latter two talking about their new Jonathan Ross comics, Golden Age and Home-Run Do let me know if you're planning to go… WomenWatch: CNN asks about the perception of female comic book readers in the industry, talking to Brian Jacoby of Secret Headquarters Comics and Games. That[...]
Wednesday Trending Topics: Near Future Shock
 If you don't wanna know, you don't wanna scroll… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Winter Soldier #1 From Brubaker And Guice In 2012 Today Fear Itself #7.1 is published. The Future Of Uncanny X-Men Has A Little Phoenix Flair Well, with today's release of Uncanny X-Men #1, why not have a look into the future of that title too? Thirteen Thoughts[...]
The Infinite Vacation #3 Church Of One Video
In the new issue of Infinite Vacation, out today from Nick Spencer and Christian Ward, from Image, there is a video shown in comics form to promote the Church of One Who, despite the evidence on hand, in their own convoluted logic, preach of only one universe. And here's that video… in video form. [...]
Google Street View Enters A Comic Shop
Comics, Toons N Toys of Tustin, California in now a permanently explorable area – and also permanently fixed in a time before the New 52 as well… It is a little bit The Android's Dungeon, isn't it? As Google Street View extends itself into areas not reachable by car, and into buildings of businesses who say[...]
MCM London Expo Under Criticism From Orang Utan Comics
Met up with friends, found some cool stories, saw lots of cool comics, costumes and finery and my two daughters enjoyed themselves too But not everyone seems to have had a great time. Ian Sharman is a comic book creator who has created his own mini-publishing empire as Orang Utan Comics, firstly publishing his own work,[...]
A Taxonomy Of Our Love Is Real by Sam Humphries
Today it is in comic stores worldwide courtesy of Image Comics, although it appears a number of stores received severe allocations Nevertheless this is probably your best chance to get a copy Here, from writer Sam Humphries is a guide to all the printings so far… Please forgive me if all the editions and printings and[...]
Is This A Case Of Schrödinger's Krypto?
And that was the goat-like creature shown to Superman in Action Comics #2 by Lex Luthor. However later on, I heard there was disquiet from DC over that statement That it might not actually be true But no one was saying anything. Today's Action Comics #3 may give some home to Krypto lovers Not only do you[...]
Steve Ditko's Birthday Original Art Gallery
It can be said without hesitation that the world of comics would be a very different place today without the contributions of Steve Ditko  Born November 2, 1927, Ditko began working in comics in 1953 and went on to create or co-create characters such as Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Captain Atom, Hawk & Dove, The Creeper,[...]
Chester Brown And Friends Draw Tintin
In an exhibition sponsored by Toronto's premier comics store The Beguiling, Chester Brown and other Canadian artists including Michael DeForge, Joe Ollmann, Zach Worton, and Faith Erin Hicks have drawn their versions of the popular Belgian comics character for Toronto Draws Tintin The opening party is tonight from 7-11 at the Steamwhistle Gallery The pieces[...]
Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen DC New 52 #3 Comics – Action Comics, Animal Man, Stormwatch, Detective Comics, Green Arrow, OMAC, Men Of War, Batwing, Red Lanterns, Hawk And Dove, Static Shock, Swamp Thing and Justice League International
Detective Comics #3 Shock values aside, one of the biggest surprises for me has been Tony Daniel on Detective Comics I've usually found his work in the past to be mediocre at best, both writing and art Both have stepped up considerably for this comic and that hasn't changed for issue 3, especially the writing,[...]
Nicola Scott To Pencil Superman #3 (UPDATE)
You were asking about prominent female creators working on prominent DC books? Rather than the solicited continuing artist Jesus Merino working from George Perez' layouts, Superman #3 shipping later this month has instead be drawn by Nicola Scott, working from the same layouts. Perez is quoted in Action Comics #3 today saying "Nicola Scott will be pencilling[...]
The Winter Soldier #1 From Brubaker And Guice In 2012
But I think it solves this teaser… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London. Today Fear Itself #7.1 is published Which features the memorial service for Bucky Barnes – Captain America's sidekick in the war, who was revived as Soviet weapon The Winter Soldier and then became Captain America when the original was thought dead. During the[...]
Wednesday Runaround – Weddings, Angels And Book Burning
NovemberWatch: Ladies Making Comics goes native… November is a month that, for most USAmericans, is associated with Thanksgiving, the holiday where we get together with our families, stuff our faces, and watch football and parades with giant balloons. It is also, unfortunately, a holiday overrun with a wildly inaccurate and bowdlerized mythos, with the indigenous North Americans[...]
Tuesday Trending Topics: When Emails Go Wrong
At least you can delete those regretted tweets. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: New Covers For Old – Justice League Dark #3 The solicited cover for Justice League Dark #3. When A Comics Pirate Is Really Silly Here's an e-mail that a Bleeding Cool reader recently received; When DC Clicked CC Instead Of BCC Well, the other day it was DC Comics'[...]
The Comic Book Celebrity Book Club
Today's Orbital Comics podcast features a long interview with the Mike and Laura Allred after their signing this past weekend at the store And in a long meandering, engaging chat about their lives and work, they reveal one big secret of the industry, their comic book celebrity book club. Mike Allred, Laura Allred, Craig Thompson, Matt[...]
Can You Help Post Bail For Steve Rude?
The website of Nexus co-creator Steve Rude reports that he has been arrested; "Steve has had a back and forth with the neighbors for quite some time now
A Comic Show – Zoophilia, Blair Butler And Nasty Nick Spencer
This week sees Aaron and Anna of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida (hey, weren't we just talking about them?) focus on indie comics shipping tomorrow with Our Love Is Real, Heart, The Last Of The Greats, Infinite Vacation and Crossed Psychopath taking their attention (what no Ganges, Aaron and Anna?) Then it's time to turn[...]
DC Pays 75% Of Occupy Metropolis Press Ad
DC Comics run a co-op advertising scheme where they will pay 75% of the cost of a comic store's advertising as long as they only feature DC product and make DC the most prominent aspect of the ad. And that's what Bleeding Cool Fan Award winning store, A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, just did Except[...]
Vampire Academy: Frostbite Preview
It's a way off completion. But at the MCM London Expo, the second volume of the Vampire Academy graphic novel, based on Richelle Mead's books, adapted by
When A Comics Pirate Is Really Silly
Here's an e-mail that a Bleeding Cool reader recently received; Subject: Comic E-Book Subscription Service 'Hi all, I just wanted to let you all know that
Retailers To Get Original Dan Brereton Art For The Last Battle
Who better to hunt Cammius than the man who taught him the very skills he now uses to defy Rome? Rodius must choose between duty to Rome and Caesar or the barbarian he raised as his own son. Story by international comics legend TITO FARACI (Diabolik, Spider-Man: The Secret of Glass, Daredevil and[...]
Tuesday Runaround – When The Legion Meets Rule 34
Do a search for "jeff moy" legion "rule 34" – the internet rule that for everything that exists, there must be a sexual version of it – and, well, you may find all sorts of NSFW images, such as the rest of this sketch of Triplicate Lass… MTVWatch: A still from the MTV Geek interview, still[...]
Monday Trending Topics: Prepping For Fantastic Four #600
Quite a few big-2 comics have been pulling me back in, in recent months, and it looks like this is going to be one of them Always been a big fan — stumbling onto a pile of Jack Kirby FF's as a kid is one of the things that got me into comics — and[...]