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Dead End Kids #3 Delayed, Copies Selling for 750% of Cover Price
The comic book series Dead End Kids from Frank Gogol, Nenad Cviticanin, Sean Rinehart, and Source Point Press has been a bit of a hit on the aftermarket – and a delay in its release has rather exposed what such demand can do to an otherwise sane comics collector Dead End Kids #3, the final[...]
X-Men #1 Dominates Advance Reorders
X-Men #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu, and a plethora of variant covers has dominated the Advance Reorder chart this week, with only Spider-Man #2 and Something Is Killing The Children #2 poking its nose through. Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of[...]
The Daily LITG - 26th September 2019, Happy Birthday Louise Simonson
Michael Mendel Passes Away, Age 54 The Titles of the Final Issues Of HOXPOX, and Cosmic Universal Truths Revealed, in Powers Of X #5 (Spoilers) Today, Wolverine's Daughter Rien Becomes Part of 616 Continuity (Marvel Comics Presents #9 Spoilers) Harley Quinn's Name Revealed as an Exercise in Slut-Shaming (Harleen #1 Spoilers) First Preview of Marvel's "Incoming" – The Masked[...]
Zoe Quinn Creates a New Character for Marvel Comics (Fearless #3 Spoilers)
When Marvel Comics published Fearless #1, Bleeding Cool reported that it was 'an Actual Feminist Polemic' but that Marvel Fanboys would want it anyway, for the appearance of certain fan favourite characters, new to the Marvel Universe. We noted that there had been much outrage from certain corners of fandom at what they considered to be[...]
Harleen
Which begs the question, given issues with Mark Waid's Captain America in Marvel Comics #1000 and Art Spiegelman's piece for the Marvel Archival book getting Orange Skulled by Marvel editorial – what was the above like in its first draft? CAPTAIN AMERICA #14 (W) Ta-Nehisi Coates (A) Jason Masters (CA) Alex Ross "THE LEGEND OF STEVE" CONTINUES! As Steve[...]
Something New from Jamie McKelvie and Colin Wilson from Image Comics in 2020
But what comes next? Well, here's a teaser for… something new from the both of them from Image Comics for 2020 Something cosmic, something space-based, something with a female lead? These are just assumptions… …the link is to sign up to Jamie McKelvie's newsletter.  Where he will no doubt say more when he feels like it. McKelvie[...]
Batman News Sees James Tynion IV's "Something Is Killing The Children" #2 Orders Jump 70%
We were the first to tell you that Something is Killing The Children #1, his new creator-owned launch with Werther Dell'Edera, increased an unprecedented 170% at FOC, another uppercut in the increasingly-not-so-friendly rivalry between Boom Studios and Image Comics But as the Marvel vs DC of creator-owned comics has continued, Something is Killing The Children[...]
Peter Milligan to Announce New Dark Horse Comic at New York Comic Con
Dark Horse Comics has issued press attending New York Comic Con with an opportunity amongst many others, to interview Peter Milligan regarding a project with the publisher They just aren't saying what the project is, as they are yet to announce it Which they'll have to do for New York Comic Con or before. Milligan, started[...]
What's Ryan Stegman Up to In 2020 After Absolute Carnage?
So I am told to expect him to return to Venom after the Venom Island storyline. But man cannot live by drawing Venom alone and I am told he will be writing more comics for Marvel in 2020 – yes, that includes one or two Web Of Venom oneshot issues, but more besides And maybe not[...]
Why So Furious With the Dawn Of X Schedules?
I am told to expect a number of the comics to push for 16 or 18 books a year each, in order to reach certain internal Marvel numbers. Apparently the poorer-than-expected numbers of the Age Of X titles from earlier in the year, mean that the upcoming Xbooks will have to bring in the numbers a[...]