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What bonds these two pillars of the DCU together? What tears them apart? Find out as Batman continues on his quest for the one thing he's never had, happiness. RATED T In Shops: Jan 17, 2018 SRP: $2.99 I get the word that it is "basically Action Comics #761 from 2000 just with Superman switched to being Batman."[...]

Instead, I found the April 2018 solicitations listings on their sister-retail site Comics Cavalcade. You know, they have my email address and everything. Anyway, they have the new series of Crossed +100 written by Amazing Spider-Man writer and Netflix Daredevil's Christos Gage. And a massive slipcase volume of Star Wars/The Wicked + The Divine writer Kieron Gillen's Uber series. #gallery-1[...]

DC Comics and DC Television is set up in Washington, DC this weekend for the Martin Luther King Jr Weekend and they're doing a live panel right now that you can steam below The panel includes Greg Berlanti, Geoff Johns, Caity Lotz, Brandon Routh, and more There is a whole schedule of panels you can[...]

Bleeding Cool's Will Romine has just seen the DC animated movie version of Mike Mignola and Brian Augustyn's Batman story Gotham by Gaslight, premiering

Retailers were recently given the chance to order any Marvel Legacy Lenticular covers previously used as promotional items — which was promptly criticized and orders were cancelled. So what happened to all those Legacy lenticulars, then? An item appearing on retailer invoices might give a clue.

Recently, Bleeding Cool covered Marvel Comics's attempt to liquidate much of their stock of collections, trade paperbacks, digests, and hardcovers at pennies on the dollar through Diamond Comic Distributors, leading to a burst in recent sales at prominent retailers Well, they still have a few left over, being sold on pallets, a thousand at a[...]

Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics have announced a new comic book series, Crude by Steve Orlando, Garry Brown, and Lee Loughridge following the story of former assassin Piotr Petrovich Bilibin, who while attempting to avenge his son's death finds a history of corporate corruption within the oil company his son worked for at the time of his murder. The[...]

pic.twitter.com/tCQ4J5zv8k — Ed Piskor (@EdPiskor) January 4, 2018 But both issues have sold out at distributor level, and the collection of the first two issues won't be out until April, and because it's oversized, will cost three times as much. But not to worry! Not to fret! On Valentine's Day, Marvel Comics will have second prints of both volumes[...]

In a somewhat surprising announcement, Conan the Barbarian is returning to Marvel Comics, his original comic book home The Robert E Howard creation first debut with Marvel in 1970 and ran for 275 issues until 1993, along with a handful of miniseries and 235 issues of Savage Sword of Conan magazine 650 issues total form[...]

Check out these upcoming DC Comics covers for February 2018 shipping titles As ever, you may have seen some of them, but you won't have seen most of them… Do you have a favourite amongst them? Any comic book worth buying for the cover? Let us know… Justice League #38 by JG Jones. Nightwing #38 by Yasmine Putri. Nightwing[...]

If I hadn't had seen a small degree of it with my own eyes, I would be in full on defending Stan mode. Bleeding Cool has been asked not to identify the couple, but the artist is well known and a relative veteran in the comics and TV industry Stan Lee's attorney, who has denied the[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors reports that Dave Hawksworth, Diamond employee since 1996 and longtime Diamond Outside Sales Manager, passed away in his sleep on January 9th. His history in comics distribution goes back further than that, as he previously worked for Capital City Distribution as a field representative. "Dave's sales territory encompassed one-third of the U.S[...]

It appears that Crime Stories with Nancy Grace co-host Alan Duke may have been the origin of the recent story involving allegations of sexual harassment against Stan Lee, and Duke has a lot to say on Lee and his family.

"What If Ivanka Got Woke?" That's the great promotional strapline behind new comic book series Billionaire Killers by writer Matteo Pizzolo and artist Soo Lee from Black Mask Comics asking "what if" the children of the .0001% rejected their family legacies of global brutality and tore down the billionaire patriarchy? Editorial credit: Albert H Teich / Shutterstock.com "Billionaire[...]

It starts with a free level that has five digital comics including the one below, but where it's low res here, the one in the bundle is high res. As the tiers go up, the bundle adds more and more until the top tier includes 77 digital comics, three limited edition comics, a bust based on[...]

A new allegation of sexual harassment against Marvel Universe co-creator Stan Lee has surfaced, this time brought forth by a female massage therapist. Lee has so far categorically denied all allegations.

Shawn Aldridge has provide us a commentary track for Hack/Slash vs Vampirella #4, a book he did with Rapha Lobsco for Dynamite.

The videos show a series of images from the comics giving a brief history of the characters with a text giving the story I'm not exactly sure why they don't have someone actually doing a voiceover, which would be helpful, but instead it's just music and text to go along with the images. The opening was[...]

Well, as of this week, that also appears to include someone who had a lot of DC Comics stock — with graphic novels and collections from $1.99 each. As their ad says, they bought "19 truckloads" of comic collections, HCs and TPBs, and are charging between $1.99 and $12.99 — that'll be the omnibuses, no doubt. Worth[...]

Rather than encouraging retailers to order more and more to get a big discount, Robert Kirkman, Lorenzo De Felici, and Annalisa Leoni's Oblivion Song gives retailers a big discount, no matter how many they order.

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And[...]

Thanks for joining us after a two week break for our fifth edition of Happy Trails!, Bleeding Cool’s live-blog of Syfy‘s Happy! and tonight’s fifth episode, ‘White Sauce? Hot Sauce?".

Mike Carey has provided us with a writer's commentary for the second issue of Barbarella he did with Kenan Yarar for Dynamite.

Me: Well…Wife: They need to send me my damn book. — Tom King (@TomKingTK) January 10, 2018 Is it because King left Marvel for rival DC Comics to not only write Batman, but also to repeat his critically acclaimed Vision success with Mister Miracle? Probably not It seems that Marvel may just be stingy all around with the[...]

Dark Horse has provided us an exclusive five-page preview for the upcoming Dept. H #22 by writer/artist Matt Kindt and colorist Sharlene Kindt.

Okay... it's not a particularly complex checklist for  Infinity Countdown. It may get a little more complex down the road. But Marvel has issued the following Infinity Countdown checklist, just in case you have difficulty collecting one comic book series and a couple of one-shots.

Fan demand has resulted in a fourth sold-out issue in a row for publisher IDW at the distributor level — G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero #247, written by Larry Hama and drawn by Netho Diaz.

They first came to Bleeding Cool's attention however when they targeted the appearance of Archie Comics in Toys 'R' Us, with a gay interracial marriage on the cover. Well, it seems that despite their best efforts, people are still reading And so now they are targeting Scholastic Book Fairs. Scholastic Book Fair is a fun, pop-up events[...]

He gave further details as to the sale. Thanks to everyone for all the kind words and well-wishes! They are really touching my heart! But it is time to talk about the GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE that begins Monday 1/8! 50% OFF ALL BACK ISSUES!! 30% OFF ALL TRADE PAPERBACKS!! 25% OFF ALL TOYS, FIGURES AND STATUES!! 15% OFF[...]

Calexit, the comic book by Matteo Pizzolo and Amancay Nahuelpan from Black Mask Comics, telling the story of a California that decides to go its own way, that had a pretty damn fine launch in 2018 And it has now sold through its second printing and has gone to a third. It also comes with this cover[...]