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Alex De Campi's exploitation series Grindhouse series for Dark Horse Comics has found itself getting more and more… adult, with successive issues. When I bumped into De Campi at San Diego Comic Con, she told me that upcoming issues of the Grindhouse: Drive In Bleed Out with John Lucas and Ryan Hill were basically, porngraphy[...]

The Marvel Previews volume, being sold or given away in comic book stores today, listing all the October-shipping titles has, it apears, been printed

Originally published by Image Comics in 1997, then picked up more recently by IDW, Syfy has ordered 13 one hour episodes of a TV show based on Wynonna Earp, the comic book created by Beau Smith and first drawn by Joyce Chin and Mark Irwin. The show will be made by SEVEN24 and IDW Entertainment and Emily[...]

Ye! That's right! People were buying comics at San Diego Comic Con as well as everything else And here is how some people found a way to flip them for profit! How naughty! Skybound and IDW did very well out of this, it seems, as did J Scott Campbell. And big props for We Can Never[...]

Batman Endgame Special #1 is a reprint of Batman #35 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, the beginning of the recent Endgame storyline gueststarring the

This is a Superman Golden Age Christmas comic book rack topper, measuring 14” x 21-1/8” produced in 1940, At Hake’s Americana & Collectibles, selling

Mad Engine recently became one of Marvel Comics' favoured licensor of T-shirts and similar items. Well, DC Comics has filed a lawsuit against Mad Engine over the following shirt design. Hollywood Reporter states that the item is sold in Target, but that after approaching Mad Engine DC Comics received no response for almost three weeks "in an effort to[...]

Tony Isabella has had a fractious time with DC Comics over recent decades The creator of DC's first prominent African-American character, Black Lightning, Tony has felt betrayed by DC's handling of his contract since Whether writing in the trade press thirty years ago, or the more easily quotable blog of his of recent years[...]

I actually rather like good cheesecake when it's in most pulp comics—context, personhood, and execution are everything, though You can tell me if I succeeded or not. Jana also only got the drop on Sonja because Sonja just went from zero gravity back to insane humidity and dehydration Jana is actually not a very capable fighter—she's[...]

Valiant's big Book of Death event has touted revelations and Easter eggs galore for the future of the Valiant Universe, and has so far delivered

But that can't be good, can it? The war continues… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently preparing for an exhibition launch for Mark Buckingham. Taking a run through anything Marvel publish today with a Secret Wars label on it. So while in Punisher: The Last Days, Castle goes out to one last mission… Loki: The Last Days looks[...]

With recent new X-creation, Goldballs. The one who creates gold balls. And then says "Goldballs" while doing it. A lot. No wonder everyone is going doolally for him. Um… where can I read that Maria Hill feature by PJ O'Rourke? Anyone? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently preparing for an exhibition launch for Mark Buckingham. [...]

Until she has a majority… Of course in a world in which the frontrunner for the Republican Party Presidential candidate is Donald Trump and the frotnrunner for the Labour Party Prime Ministerial candidate is Jeremy Corbyn, for similar but opposite political reasons, all of this seems far too likely… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London[...]

Which, it seems, will be never. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently preparing for an exhibition launch for Mark Buckingham. There's a new issue of Grayson out his week Which means another completely gratuitous mention about his backside.   They'll stop doing it when you stop ogling it Which, it seems, will be never. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London[...]

Looks like James Bond was always an Ant-Man ad waiting to happen. Was this entire Green Lantern film just there to promote Ant-Man? It would make a lot

Can a DC Universe survive the answers? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently preparing for an exhibition launch for Mark Buckingham.   It's one of the most famous scenes in superhero comic books By Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams, from mid-seventies Green Lantern. At its heart, it wondered why superheroes allowed injustices to continue under their noses. Well, today's[...]

And so here are all the covers to the Four Doctors #1 event… exclusive and otherwise. This spectacular 5-part weekly comics series is penned by Paul Cornell (Wolverine) and illustrated by Neil Edwards (Assassin's Creed), and stars the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors and their comics companions! The first issue hits comic stores on Wednesday August 12,[...]

Because Guy Gardner is having some self-identification issues. And it's not just a mental blip. It's all about the chemicals…. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently preparing for an exhibirion launch for Mark Buckingham. We've recently drawn attention to the current plotlne of Justice League 3001, in which the very male Guy Gardner has found himself in[...]

In comic shops this week is the latest issue of Jonathan Hickman's mythological mash-up, God Is Dead. As the war of the Gods devastates the planet,

Cover art by Ed Benes. BYRON BREWER: Victor, how does it feel to be working on one of the very rare team-ups of comics, one of only two that has happened in the last 15 years, meaning Conan and Red Sonja? VICTOR GISCHLER: On the one hand, it's an honor These are iconic characters and it's very[...]

The folks at Eurocomics bumped into Humanoids at San Diego Comic Con As well as getting a from-the-horse's-mouth explanation of the current state of Moebius licences, they got some clarification on the English publication plans for titles already being published by them in French. Here's what we know First about Moebius Humanoids controls the worldwide publication rights to[...]

Panelists included current Batman artist Greg Capullo, former Marvel Comics editor Danny Fingeroth, Batman author Will Brooker, and Lee Meriwether — the actress who portrayed Catwoman in the campy 1966 Batman movie. The panel was moderated by Dr Travis Langley, the author of Batman and Psychology: A Dark and Stormy Knight. Langley started things out by talking[...]

Mediatoon Licensing, a subsidiary of Média-Participations, the largest comics and graphic novel publisher in Europe, has officially confirmed the launch this fall of Europe Comics The news was recently announced at San Diego Comic Con and Book Expo America The joint digital initiative will encompass the online distribution of European works in English, the international[...]

JACO walks away annoyed, holding his holster steady while putting the raygun back into it. – JACO                                           Darn… – JACO                                           Blew the finish… So, What'd We Learn? – I actually had a surprisingly difficult time trying to figure out to describe the "sound effect in a dialogue balloon" effect? But I also find it completely delightful on the page;[...]

This is what a $30-$50 million dollar settlement brings you. The right to run Jack Kirby Monster Variant covers through your October comic books as theme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zubamg-hUWs From Patrick Willems for Bleeding Cool - the true experience of Hall H, San Diego Comic Con. The wristbands.

It's a throwback to the independent comics of the 1990s like Eightball and Love and Rockets The style is simple and cartoony but not comical Fox also really took to the character of Sylvia by conveying as much of her personality through her facial expressions and movements as Smith does with her words Also of[...]

Until now. This column will attempt to report on a month's worth of Valiant comics eh time so I'll read them as they were published, in an intermingled fashion. Which makes the first time the simplest – with X-O Manowar #1 by Robert Venditti and Cary Nord And it starts with a timeline graph Someone likes Jonathan Hickman… Star[...]

Here is a street sign for South Korean telecom corporation, KT Olleh....  And here is an image of The Flash from Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe: The Flash

Last year, the Australian National Ruby League issued some of the team shirts in Marvel Super Heroes variants. Thr, Wolverine, Captain America, Iron Man