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I wonder if this could be an injury to Spider motif? The January 17th edition of The New Yorker puts the accident-prone Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark on

Dynamite's Army Of Darkness comics have crossed over with a number of interesting sorts of the years, from Marvel Zombies to Xena, Warrior Princess Now, it seems its the turn of J Scott Campbell's Danger Girl from IDW, of whom we haven't seen new material since she left DC/Wildstorm. The publication will be a joint venture[...]

In honour of the huge amount of Spanish readers Bleeding Cool received this week, we decided to release the entire Lying In The Gutters (apart from this

As well as working on superhero comic books such as X-Men, Cloak And Dagger, Shadowmasters, Barb Wire and Spider-Man, he also drew a number of Clive Barker comics, namely Nightbreed and Book Of The Damned. It now looks like he's moved to Book Of The Saved instead. Orange Peel 3 is a Christian evangelical science fiction/fantasy parallel[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool; Top Shelf has just announced their new releases for 2011, and despite these dark economic times there's quite a lot of diverse quality material coming out from them that won't break your budget when you want some new comics to read, (Unless you're hopelessly addicted to Firestorm the Nuclear Man;[...]

Thought this was worthy of a little wider play...

The Amazing Arizona Comic Con on this weekend.. Pokewoman by Grant Brummett The Walking Dead panel by Matthew Noteboom. Adrian Lopez takes a shot of

Last year, Bleeding Cool ran a piece covering controversy over a certain commissioned sketch by Bill Sienkiewicz. The piece was years late and the

Alan Kupperberg is rallying a fundraising appeal to help the freelancing stalwart of the comics scene Paypal conributions can be sent to kupperberg@earthlink.net Tom can be reached in hospital at Atomica999@aol.com. StripWatch: The Appeal-Democrat flip-flops over its comic strips, running Stone Soup again after heavy complaints from readers after tghe strip was dropped a month ago. GoldenAgeWatch:[...]

Gabrielle Giffords, reportedly by an indiscriminate gunman. It is absolutely, absolutely unacceptable to shoot "indiscriminately". Target only politicians and their staff, and leave regular citizens alone. Please! The twitterstorm has, naturally, gone beserk. Left from blog, right from comics site, just to make sure it is the same fellow. With blog post "1 down, 534 to go",[...]

After a decade of deliberately ignoring their eighties and nineties works, Marvel have recently reaped the benefits of both big hardcovers and trades collecting past crossover events such as Secret Wars I and II, Inferno, X-Tinction Agenda, Acts Of Vengeance, Atlantis Attacks and Onslaught, while also spinning off a number of sequels in their monthly[...]

The last few days have seen the Spanish blogosphere go doolally over accomplished and prominent illustrator Elisabeth Nogales being caught out for blatant

And, uncharacteristically, Nightrunner creator and writer David Hine decided to talk about it. The show introduced the story, reporting on the right wing bloggers such as Warner Todd who have accused DC Comics of PC indoctrination. David Hine then took to the mike, being interviewed, initially asked if, he was a part of indoctrination; Well not only have[...]

Birgitta Jónsdóttir is the Icelandic politician at the center of the latest Wikileaks controversy involving the US Dept of Justice trying to force Twitter to turn over direct Twitter messages sent to and from her, Julian Assange, and others. But what is Birgitta Jónsdóttir's relationship with Julian Assange? And how do comic books come into it? Well,[...]

SwapWatch: Publisher Microcosm is offering to trade in your Kindle in return for comics, books and fanzines. "Why let fad technology kill print when you can take a stand and fill up your shelves in the process?" LocalWatch: The residents of Cookeville discover the "Cookeville pedigree" comic book collection. Named for its point of origin (Cookeville, Tennessee) [...]

I mean if the stereotype wasn't so true, it would be kinda insulting. But it is pretty much true, isn't it? San Diego City Council President Tony Young

We all know that the Joss Whedon showrun comic Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight is coming to a close, and that Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Nine is to launch from Dark Horse Comics later this year. Well now we know that comic book writer Birds Of Prey/Secret Six/Welcome To Tranquility's Gail[...]

Both Marvel and DC license their characters for all types of products. Joe Quesada once told me his occasional frustration about certain licenses that

Newly official Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Axel Alonson gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal As you do During which he was asked; Should comic books deal with adult themes, like nudity and violence? And replied; Absolutely I think we are shackling ourselves if we treat comics like they're just for kids There's plenty of[...]

He's just scored an appearance in the latest issue of Sweets from Image Comics by Kody Chamberlain (above), but he's racked up an impressive list so far... Anybody else like to step up? Jeff is trying to create the ultimate comic book crossover Him In as many comic books as possible He's just scored an appearance[...]

That's the Walking Dead #80 variant restricted to the first 1000 attendees fo the Amazing Arizona Comic Con taking place this weekend. Guests include

As the end of the year approached, the impossible happened and for December DC, buoyed by orders for David Finch's The Dark Knight topped marketshare over Marvel in terms of dollars for the first time since Superman karked it, though Marvel still kept the title for individual comics sold. Anything specific? Well, Dark Knight aside, DC[...]

With DCUO on two platforms, which had the easier controls for you? PC or PS3? Jim Lee: I was fine with both Blanemather: Will PS3 owners get to keep their Beta characters or do we have to start over? Jim Lee: In beta, characters are always wiped covey13: Which will you be playing in @DCUO? Heroes or villians? Jim Lee:[...]

Comics Alliance does this kind of thing so much better Nice art though. NewsWatch: Yesterday Sky News was pretty much running the Islamic Batman story throughout the day and every piece of media seems to have their own take. The old DC would have clammed up, and then made Nightrunner disappear for a few years, for fear[...]

In France, clothes shop Celio is licensing a number of DC images for a series of T-shirts, that come in reproduction comic boxes. The T-shirts have a

Greg Horn is a Marvel comics artist, best known for his painted work. But did you also know he's a Christmas tree designer? Here's his work from his family home this year, thanks to a few Marvel-royalty-funded Nightmare Before Christmas toys, a refreshing lack of concern over any "collectibility" and a certain amount of time… [...]

Last night, Scalped and Spider-Man/Wolverine writer Jason Aaron posted a piece on Comic Book Resources entitled "The Year I Stopped Caring About Alan Moore" where he reacted to an interview by Adi Tantimedh with Alan Moore published by Bleeding Cool in September last year. During the interview, Alan said; When Dave Gibbons phoned me up, he[...]

You know what San Diego? Why not issue a list of comic book creators who aren't going to Con this year? It may well be shorter. The new guest list is

A rogue group of police officers known as "The Punishers". Wearing black gloves and caps with white skull emblems on them. Some even with Punisher tattoos

Mimoco are launching a new series of DC Comics-styled USB Flash Drives Here we have Batman (black and blue), Robin, Joker and Catwoman, limited editions at 5000 eact, but expect a gamut of DC characters to follow. I expect The Flash will be popular. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/18474497[/vimeo] Mimoco are launching a new series of DC Comics-styled USB Flash Drives[...]