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Dr Mamoulis Vamvounis writes for Bleeding Cool In which I bitch and moan about comics on a weekly basis, in broken english and syntax Hey, it's all in good fun, right? X-MEN SCHISM #5 (of 5) I love Jason Aaron I do, he's the best new writer to come out of Vertigo in the past 3-4 years,[...]

 The excitement over this trailer is palpable all over the internet, and with plenty of time to plan, expect Marvel to take full advantage — both this week and in the months to come. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Did The DC Comics Relaunch Boost Marvel's Sales? They have just released their figures for the month of September,[...]

Title: The Independents: Burn Hollywood! Burn! Color Special Creators: Ben Christian and Cory Smith with Steve Talaba on colors Publisher: Really

Debuting at New York Comic Con… Title: Z-Girl and the 4 Tigers #2 Creators: Kirk Manley and Jeff Marsick with Euan Mactavish on colors Publisher: Studio Z

The “Remake/Remodel” challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the

One is a clear parody of the sexualisation of superheroines that repeatedly crosses the line in becoming that which it parodies. And the other is Attack

Flash artist/writer Francis Manapul, Animal Man/Frankenstein writer Jeff Lemire and Blackhawks artsit Ken Lashley are profiled together by their local paper, The Star, in the light of the DC Comics New 52 relaunch. Manapul expressed his excitement "The more you think about this initiative and the books that are spawning out of it, potentially what[...]

Debuting at New York Comic Con… Title: Dead Man’s Party #1 Creators: Jeff Marsick (Writer) and Scott Barnett (Art) Available: Booth #2950 (Small Press

Amanda Hocking is one of the true success stories of e-books, selling over a million of them, without having previous publishing experience or media

Every month ICV2 take Diamond's comparative sales figures and try to plug some actual numbers in, and extrapolate sales figures for the whole line. They have just released their figures for the month of September, including the DC Relaunch, and there are a few points to make. Now DC have stated that Batman and Action Comics both[...]

Obviously. Avengers #1 From Brian Bendis And Mark Bagley? With all that attention, it looks as if Marvel Comics thought they deserved a little as well. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Fox Cut Costs From Page One As Simpsons Writer Gets Paid WGA Minimum Rates If any show could justify paying voice actors $440,000 per episode it's The Simpsons[...]

You may have noticed that Marvel Films will be releasing a movie, The Avengers, next summer starring Samuel L Jackson, Robert Downey Jr, Chris Emsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlet Johannson and the like. With all that attention, it looks as if Marvel Comics thought they deserved a little as well. Bleeding Cool has been told that[...]

And he may not be sporting a bowler hat, but there's no mistaking that mix of cane, smart suit and a certain curliness of hair. Because that is Steed, government-sponsored adventurer of 1961 ITV series, The Avengers. Using the name a couple of years before Marvel Comics would, The Avengers was a TV series that lasted a[...]

Here's the cover to the Image edition of the small press hit Our Love Is Real by Sam Humphries and Steve Sanders. It's out in three weeks, but one hundred

Batman #1 Best Seller In September As DC Comics Take Seventeen Of Top Twenty 11 Scott Koblish On The Future Of OMAC (Now With Added Dan DiDio) 12 SCOOP: DC Grab Top Spot In September 13 Catwoman And Starfire Can Go Swivel, Here's Empowered Deluxe Edition 14 Swipe File: A Tale Of Two Teasers 15 Preview: Uncanny X-Men #1 16 Kal[...]

By this afternoon, he was no longer at Boom, but had been named Vice President of Marketing, Public Relations and Business Development at digital comics distributor ComiXology. Boom! have seen their books published by ComiXology and also had their comic book apps developed by the digital distributor. Looks like those ties could be even tighter now. Or looser. Or[...]

Some days, trying to nail the plot down to manageable levels was a bit like staring at the abyss and the abyss was laughing and giving us the finger. I always wanted to write a research-intensive period piece at some time or other, maybe end up on some BBC project eventually, not a DC superhero comic,[...]

Bleeding Cool have covered the real life superhero antics of Phoenix Jones, who patrols the streets of Seattle challenging the like of drug dealers, car

Rebellion are to repackage a number of Judge Dredd tales in a manga-sized format for 2012 to appeal to a new audience generated by the Dredd movie. The

Obviously. Today's New York Post sees a DC-arranged spoiler, talking to Wonder Woman writer Brian Azzarello and co-publisher of DC Comics, Jim Lee. *** SPOILER SPACE *** SPOILER SPACE *** SPOILER SPACE *** SPOILER SPACE *** SPOILER SPACE *** SPOILER SPACE *** That should do it. Anyway, in the paper, we learn that Wonder Woman is to discover that[...]

In January, Dynamite are publishing a new Kirby Genesis series, Dragonsbane, by Thor's Robert Rodi and Fritz Casas, with Alex Ross and Jack Herbert

As someone who has spread out a hard-won batch of comics on a table or floor for a group shot on more than a few occasions, I was a little surprised at the reaction to this story in the BC forum The collecting jones is about the thrill of the chase, having something cool that[...]

"They are not going to be water-downed superheroes, but they are not going to be dark either." Like most superhero lines, the characters have gone through numerous revivals, most recently when DC Comics licensed them in 2008. In another NYCC warm-up announcement, Jon Goldwater, co-chief executive of Archie, told the New York Times that the company[...]

DC tells The New York Post: DC will reveal some big-time creators who'll be jumping on board the "New 52" — the 52 titles it just launched with fresh takes on iconic characters like Superman, the Flash and Wonder Woman. The first name to drop is Andy Kubert joining Grant Morrison on Action Comics for #5 and[...]

Cricket enthusiasts, butterfly collectors and… comic store clerks. The shop used in the ad is Sydney's Kings Comics The action figure is from Paul Mason's comic, The Soldier Legacy and the comics and posters seen are also from Sydney publisher Black House Comics including Dark Detective, Eeek!, Kagemono and The Soldier Legacy. Youi is an Australian[...]

Maybe your family has been deleted by a change in continuity. Maybe some irresponsible rumour monger has suggested your book is to be cancelled. Or

The character may have been deleted by the evnts of Flashpoint. But Brett Booth does insist on keeping drawing him. I wonder if he knows something we

Rock Comic Con will also feature a slew of professional cartoonists from DC Comics, Marvel Comics and indie publishers who will be painting live art throughout the night The art will be auctioned off and proceeds will go to benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund,a non-profit[...]

This is the complete cover collection of Amazing Spider-Man #666 including all the different retailer-specific covers from around the world, displayed by

Batwatch: From Superpunch, right. GalleryWatch: Alex Ross gets an exhibition at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. "To many, people comic books have a