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Front Cover Art To This Year's Biggest Selling Comic Revealed

Front Cover Art To This Year's Biggest Selling Comic Revealed

Courtesy of Comics Place The front cover art for Asterix and the Picts, out in three weeks, the first Asterix book not to be drawn by Albert Uderzo, with a print run in French alone of two million, now expected to sell out on the first week of sale. There was a lot of fuss over[...]
Thirty-Four Thoughts About Thirty-Four Comics – Uber, Grindhouse, Garfield, Spawn, Mara, Lazarus, Mind The Gap, Fantomex, Action Comics, All New X-Men Special, Mighty Avengers, Infinity Hunt, Movement, Earth 2, The Star Wars, CBLDF Liberty Annual, Hinterkind, Witching Hour, Hit, Robocop, Todd The Ugliest Kid On Earth, Crossed Badlands, Superior Foes Of Spider-Man, Mighty Avengers, Detective Comics, Iron Man, Hunger, Bushido, Spera, Quantum And Woody, Shadowman, Suicide Risk, Bedlam And Occultist

Thirty-Four Thoughts About Thirty-Four Comics – Uber, Grindhouse, Garfield, Spawn, Mara, Lazarus, Mind The Gap, Fantomex, Action Comics, All New X-Men Special, Mighty Avengers, Infinity Hunt, Movement, Earth 2, The Star Wars, CBLDF Liberty Annual, Hinterkind, Witching Hour, Hit, Robocop, Todd The Ugliest Kid On Earth, Crossed Badlands, Superior Foes Of Spider-Man, Mighty Avengers, Detective Comics, Iron Man, Hunger, Bushido, Spera, Quantum And Woody, Shadowman, Suicide Risk, Bedlam And Occultist

Okay folks, I've just read a lot of comics this week I'm coming up for air. We start as we mean to go on, with Uber #6 by Kieron Gillen and Canaan White And rather than live live soley in the super, we also get some pre-super setups and the horrors of war And some rather[...]
President Blair – Or President Blaire? (Battle Of The Atom Spoilers)

President Blair – Or President Blaire? (Battle Of The Atom Spoilers)

Bendis and Immonen portray an actual apocalyptical scene better than most comics I've seen, certain any movie I've seen Destruction, madness, really big things and a real sense of dread and hopelessness I'd scan some examples but I've spoiled enough Maybe… No, it's much better than that Enjoy. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London[...]
Why Nightwing Won't Die In Forever Evil

Why Nightwing Won't Die In Forever Evil

We reported that Nightwing's fate would play a central part in DC Comics' Forever Evil series – which some folk took to mean that he's be killed off So we pointed out that wasn't happening and instead we'd get a little Civil Warness instead. Well, today's Forever Evil #2 cements that Nightwing's not going anywhere, courtesy[...]
Warren Ellis And Mike McKone's Avengers: Endless Wartime REPRINT REVIEW

Warren Ellis And Mike McKone's Avengers: Endless Wartime REPRINT REVIEW

One of a new line from Marvel Comics and, it seems, replacing the Season One line in the publisher's schedules. It shipped early to comic stores, well ahead of its October release date, due to an error by Diamond Comic Distributors Retailers were warned of the problem by Diamond, and told that secret shoppers would penalise[...]
Flesh and Blood Book 3 Keeps the Hammer Horror Tradition Alive in Comics

Flesh and Blood Book 3 Keeps the Hammer Horror Tradition Alive in Comics

David Blake Lucarelli writes; In Los Angeles there is a monthly gathering of comic book pros, entertainment industry peeps, and comics fans called Comic Book Sunday It's there that I often run into Sam Park, the co-founder of the Monsterverse line of comic books Talk to Sam long enough and you begin to feel the great[...]
A Comic Show – Lights Out For Forever Evil

A Comic Show – Lights Out For Forever Evil

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRf6-Oa-11Q[/youtube] Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; Hey Fandom! It's me Aaron, for A Comic Show talking about new comics now I'm very thankful with how well Villains month was received here and with how awesome my birthday turned out at the shop[...]
Christmas Day Comics Will Be On Christmas Eve

Christmas Day Comics Will Be On Christmas Eve

Last month, Bleeding Cool covered what we thought would be happening for comics over Christmas Week and it looks as if we were pretty close. The week before Christmas, retailers will get extra comics that they will be told to keep behind, and only put out on sale on Christmas Eve, a Tuesday And most of[...]
The Parties Of New York Comic Con 2013 (UPDATE)

The Parties Of New York Comic Con 2013 (UPDATE)

This is a list in progress… add more in the comments and I'll update the article! WEDNESDAY NYCC Pre-Party At Bergen Street Comics Zack Soto, Farel Dalrymple, Jon Dermot Woods, and Nathan Fox appear at Bergen Street Comics 470 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 at 8:00pm RSVP on Facebook Rock'N'Comix 8 to 10 p.m., sci-fi rock band Americans UK is hosting a[...]
Gendercrunching And Ethnocrunching Comics – July 2013

Gendercrunching And Ethnocrunching Comics – July 2013

We also follow up on last year's nationality and ethnicity statistics to see what, if anything, has changed over the past thirteen months. DC COMICS DC was up and down by category, but averaged out to match their June totals overall In July 2013, DC put out 79 new books featuring 685 credited creators, 605 men and[...]