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New Ultimate Spider-Man Is Back In (Half) Black [SPOILER]
In advance of Ultimate Fallout #4's sale on Wednesday this week, USA Today has been given the scoop by Marvel who aren't quite sure why they are putting spoiler comics in spoiler bags anymore when they go and do something like this… We have an African-American president, so why not an African-American Spider-Man, too? Revealed in Marvel[...]
Advance Review: Flashpoint #4 by Geoff Johns And Andy Kubert
This is one of those compressed comics, a different page, a different place, jump, jump, jump There's a lot of the world of Flashpoint to fit into this slim volume. And what Geoff Johns gives us is a game of Quidditch in comic book form Harry Potter readers will be familiar with the fictitious sport, in[...]
Where In The World Is Wildstorm?
Some people are worried about upcoming DC continuity. In the new reality what stories hapened, what didn't. We;ve been assured that Killing Joke is part
Lying In The Gutters – 1st August 2011
So if last week's comics stories were all about gender, then it seems that the upcoming week's may all be about race Then we're due a week of gayness, then a week of white, straight male fans complaining that no one talks about them Then back to the ladies It's the monthly news cycle and[...]
DC Relaunch: Nicola Scott And James Robinson's JSA #1
And right on schedule comes this little gem. Dan DiDio told retailers a month ago that Nicola Scott had an upcoming project at DC Comics But word from late night San Diego bar gossip is that the project is with James Robinson (no longer writing the Hawkman relaunch) and it's the much[...]
Womanthology: A Modern Cinderella Story  – The Dirk Manning Interview
Have you always been a fan of comics since childhood or did you come to appreciate and enjoy the medium a bit later than that? Renae De Liz: My very first comic book was BETTY & VERONICA, and I think I was maybe eight-years-old or so Shortly after that when I first got my Sega Genesis[...]
Steve Bissette Calls For Action Against Marvel Over Jack Kirby Case
And  reminding us what one person dressed as Batgirl managed to do at San Diego Comic Con. I put it to you, ladies and gentlemen, that San Diego Comicon 2012 should be the least comfortable event Marvel or any fleeting participant in any product, movie, videogame, or anything derived from Jack Kirby's Marvel legacy, should ever attend[...]
The Power Of A Black Spider-Man
Tonight, it is possible that Marvel will pre-announce the identity of the new Ultimate Spider-Man to the Associated Press, or similar. It is possible he will be a young African American, potentially the Ben Reilly scientist character who has stores the late Peter Parker's DNA and that's certainly what Bleeding Cool has been speculating. But that's all,[...]
Monday Runaround – Blame It On The Batman
StoreWatch: Ace Comics in Colchester to celebrate thirty years in business. "I have seen big chain stores come and go and here I am I might have moved about, but I have learnt it does not really matter where I am We are doing just as well here as we did when we were[...]
The Grant Morrison Cocktail Glass Of Isotope Comics
Isotope Comics is holding a couple of events next weekend with Grant Morrison to promote his new book Supergods and is giving Grant MOrrison cocktail glasses to those who attend the late night party at the store. Combining a piece by Cameron Stewart and a design by Butcher Baker's Sonia Harris, it's the second Grant Morrison[...]