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Announced at San Diego Comic-Con today, Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime are releasing two new titles from their Hard Case Crime line of comics – Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini and Quarry's War. Created by artist, author, director, and playwright Cynthia Von Buhler (Speakeasy Dollhouse), Minky Woodcock: The Girl Who Handcuffed Houdini has[...]

Bleeding Cool reporter Mike Sangregorio writes: This past Wednesday, the complete Doc Unknown was released by Dark Horse Comics This fair-sized hardcover collects the entirety of the original comic series along with its miscellaneous and ancillary stories Bleeding Cool spoke with writer and creator Fabian Rangel, Jr about his inspirations, goals, and how great it is[...]

Legendary comic book representative Bob Wayne gave the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) presentation to retailers today, as is now traditional. He talked through how the charity had a dozen big things to deal with in the last year, but is getting proactive with retailers, setting up a Retailer Workship to educate comic stores in[...]

Valiant has been showing off their wares today at SDCC, mentioning that 'Bloodshot Salvation' is "Jeff Lemire's darkest since Animal Man."

Dark Horse ran a very visual presentation to retailers at the Diamond Retailers Lunch at San Diego Comic-Con this afternoon, and we have plenty of pics.

Titan Comics has made their presentation to comic book retailers at the Diamond Comic Distributor Retailer Lunch They began with an apology: their big launch for 2017, Robotech #1 has, it seems, been accidentally sent early by Diamond to some retailers, so they will have it in store this coming Wednesday, rather than the official[...]

We'll look at all of those in a minute, but this might be worth a highlight: despite the success of Young Animal at DC Comics, Gerard Way will finally deliver the long-promised Umbrella Academy: Hotel Oblivion series with co-creator Gabriel Bá for Dark Horse. First announced in 2009, the comic's third volume is now promised for 2018 — which could[...]

He informed the audience that anyone who signed-up for the Lord of Light newsletter through comiccon2017@lordoflight.net will receive a free print of one of the characters. Royer closed out the panel by proposing that the thus far unused design for the "Royal Chambers of Brahma" be used for the next building to host the convention. [...]

DC Comics SVP John Cunningham told retailers at San Diego Comic-Con that Doomsday Clock #1 is the culmination of everything Geoff Johns has ever done for DC Comics, and that it brings together every bit of history and takes it into tomorrow. He says that it will be the biggest selling comic of the year, though I'm not[...]

Todd McFarlane and his entertainment division (McFarlane Films) is partnering with Jason Blum and Blumhouse Productions, the producing force behind recent hits Get Out, Split, and The Purge franchise, to develop a feature film around the Spawn comic character created by McFarlane and published by Image Comics. McFarlane has written the first draft of the screenplay and is set to make his[...]

DC Comics SVP John Cunningham told retailers at San Diego Comic-Con that Dark Days: Metal #1 will top the sales list for the month But he says that when he read the final page, he thought, "Oh shit, no one has enough books." He believes Tom King's Mister Miracle is "a work of genius" and that "he's[...]

Just announced at the Marvel Retailers Lunch taking place at San Diego Comic-Con, a few Marvel Star Wars plans, including a new Thrawn series.

Could it be the ghost of Sex Pistol Sid Vicious who becomes Fergie's ethereal companion and unlikely father figure? Bound to Fergie for reasons unknown, is Sid in search of redemption himself or out to prove that punk is alive and well 40 years later? There will also be the Black Crown Quarterly, a 48-page compendium[...]

At the Marvel retailer meeting at San Diego Comic-Con, it was announced that Disney will be creating all-ages books featuring Marvel characters to introduce kids to the Marvel universe and its many heroes and villains. You know, like Marvel used to do by themselves. The first one will be a Spider-Man Christmas special, entitled Deck The Malls. Marvel Comics are[...]

Marvel has announced the return of Captain America for Marvel Legacy in November by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, with Captain America #695.

49th Key is an original story from Erika Lewis and artist J.K. Woodward debuting at San Diego Comic-Con, courtesy of Heavy Metal.

Nick Kazden writes: At the end of the first official day of San Diego Comic-Con, Black Mask assembled a group of some of their hit writers and artists to talk with fans about the future of the publisher. "Everyone in Black Mask works in different genres, but comics are what brings us together," said Matteo Pizzolo, moderator[...]

Marvel announced 'Iron Fists' during yesterday’s Next Big Thing Panel at San Diego Comic-Con, and will be announcing more series soon.

Today, comic book retailers will be meeting with representatives of Diamond Comic Distributors to receive a provide a number of retailer exclusives.

These are the best types of stories from San Diego Comic-Con. Yesterday'ss Extreme Comics panel took an unexpected turn when comic artist Marat Mychaels proposed to his girlfriend Mandy Burden In his proposal, Marat spoke of his connection with Rob Liefeld, his 23-year relationship with the studio, and how Mandy would be the second half of his[...]

Picked up, still hot, from the smoking area outside the Hyatt hotel in San Diego, this tip suggested that the true identity of the man who has been both observing and messing with Superman's life, taking it apart and then putting it back together, is…well, you can read it yourself, if you don't mind spoilers. But next[...]

Star Wars: Darth Maul #3 from Marvel Comics was solicited with this cover by David Lopez. So was Darth Maul #5. Both were published as solicited, as Marvel promised. Caveat emptor then? It seems not Marvel Comics will be sending stores replacement copies for Darth Maul #5 with a brand new cover And no, we don't know what[...]

Marvel Comics was originally going to advertise the Secret Empire comic book series on TV, but some negative public reaction to the very existence of the storyline — despite having a silver lining, according to Marvel EIC Axel Alonso — seems to have scuppered that plan, as well as various other activities in renaming and rebranding[...]

Executive Director Charles Brownstein and Editorial Director Betsy Gomez gave a presentation that highlighted the state of censorship in 2017 and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund's efforts to defend the people's right to read and publish comics. The first incident the team discussed was the attacks at Charlie Hebdo in 2015, calling it an important[...]

At the Geoff Johns spotlight panel at San Diego Comic-Con, you get a massive DC Doomsday Clock pin for coming along! You get a massive DC Doomsday Clock pin for coming along! Everyone gets a massive DC Doomsday Clock pin for coming along! But we also got a sneak peek at the first few panels of Doomsday Clock, too… out in November[...]

Joe Glass writes: Starting my first full day at San Diego Comic-Con 2017 with a nice Spotlight panel, this time for popular comics writer Gail Simone, who has worked with most major publishers on books like Batgirl, Red Sonja, Deadpool and more. The panel started with Simone being awarded an Inkblot Award, which she was not expecting. The panel was amusingly hosted by[...]

Straight from Dynamite, here's a writer’s commentary by Erica Schultz on Charmed #5, the final issue of the current series.

The upcoming new Asterix comic book, Asterix And The Chariot Race, has just set its very first print run at five million.

The sixth Thought Bubble Anthology is being rush solicited through Diamond Comic Distributors via Image Comics as the show is a little earlier that usual this year and it appears folk may just have noticed. But it does provide a stellar line up of creators – and indicate who may be making the trek to the[...]

A source learned that a number of the artists for the DC Masterclass/Dark Matter books have only signed on to their respective books for three issues each.