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And Dark Horse will be launching a series of birthday party promotions in selected comic stores. Oxford Comics And Games in Atlanta, Georgia from 4 to 7pm, with Georges Jeanty in attendance, Multnomah County Library in Portland Oregon from 5:30 to 7:45 pm with editors Scott Allie and Sierra Hahn, Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8[...]

Details are sparse at the moment, but Ken Akamatsu of free manga download site J-Comi has announced that his company is developing a comic viewer in

A series of tweets: Amanda Palmer: hey guess what we did last night (and this time it's legal) Neil Gaiman: I am the happiest and luckiest man in the

27 #2 by Charles Soule and Renzo Podesta ships this week, so it might be a good excuse to remind people of the puzzle within the comic – and the second print of #1 ships with #2. Pieces are scattered through the comics, with 27 guitar chords hidden on very specific pages throughout the comic Here[...]

Put it this way. If you're spending all your timein a watchtower on the Moon, you're going to want a drink. But how to you solve superhero squabbles over

As part of DC's Hold The Line At $2.99, the company has removed two pages from the standard twenty-two page comics story, on both DC and Vertigo titles. But what would replace them? Advertising? In-house or otherwise? Turns out it's letters pages, with the return of regular pages of communication between the readers and publisher in every[...]

Welcome to the very first Lying In The Gutters of the new year. Bleeding Cool wishes a prosperous and successful year to all of its readers. Although,

Marvel's teaser image, assembled over the Christmas/New Year break is starting to resemble a certain familiar character... albeit one now with spider legs.

Here are model pages from the upcoming Batman Live stage show from The Telegraph. Note the Jim Lee artwork used throughout...

WebWatch: Todd Allen's webcomic Division And Rush leaves the Chicago Tribune websites to set out on its own, talking about profane comments in an early episode that ware traced to a Tribune IP address… 1963Watch: Steve Bissette has pulled the plug on an Image revival of his 1963 characters, N-Man, Hypernaut, The Fury and Sky Solo… After[...]

Now sells for $14 Action Comics #890-894 $15 Now sells for $12 Green Lantern #29-35 $10 Now sells for $5 Sea Bear And Grizzly Shark $4.99 – Now sells for $6 Death of Dracula $3.99 – Now sells for 25c Fame: Robert Pattison $3.99 – Now sells for $3 Superman Batman Annual #4 $3.99 – Now sells for $7 M Rex Preview,[...]

This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I

They were ripped, still bleeding form the raw belly of the comics industry. There was the very existence of Watchmen 2, mocked at the beginning but later directly confirmed by Alan Moore. There were all those pre-San Diego announcements, from Uncanny X-Force, Ultimate Thor, Sarah Pichelli joining Ultimate Spider-Man, the end of Brand New Day on Amazing[...]

But what were the real, uncontrovertable, get-out-the-lightbox examples this year? Casaonaova definitely inspired some design elements for Action Comics Annual… X-Men Legacy definitely took from WILDCATS… Then there are the swiped from real life, like Jamie Redknapp as Jack Of Fables Lisa Edelstein as Señora Piernas from X-Factor Jennifer Carpenter as Lois Lane Then there were plenty of commercial use[...]

As Wizard increased the amount of comics conventions they were running, they also shed staff, as both comvention organisers Jeff Serling and Spat Oktan went. And just before the end of the year, Dirk Deppey announced that he'd been dropped by Fantagraphics. But it would be DC that would make the firing headline thuis year,  as they[...]