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Are You Ready For Top Cow's Critically Acclaimed Series Think Tank This September?
From Image Comics, bestselling writer Matt Hawkins (Tales of Honor) and artist Rahsan Ekedal comes Think Tank: Creative Destruction #1 The story centers on an unknown enemy who savages the technological infrastructure of the US Panic and conspiracy theories spread as David Loren and his misfit science team continue work on the TALOS project, trying[...]
Francis Manapul Walks Off Detective Comics For Something New
Bleeding Cool has long championed the work of Francis Manapul at DC Comics, as he created many an innovative approach to comic book storytelling, especially on The Flash We have also enjoyed his work on Detective Comics, and wrote about it earlier today. But it will be a short lived stay He writes on Twitter. Today is[...]
The 28 Skottie Young Marvel Pins Of San Diego Comic Con
I have to say, I never thought that AVX variant cover for Midtown Comics would still continue to have such sway in the comic book marketplace. Well, at San Diego Comic Con, you can now get his Marvel character designs in pin form at the Marvel Booth We'd give the booth number but seriously, it will[...]
Fight Club 2 Dominates Advance Reorders
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! Fight Club[...]
Batgirl And Mad Max Furiosa Get Second Prints, Despite Controversies
"Kept" is not freedom. And so, it saddens me that the guy in charge of shepherding the Fury Road comic so fundamentally misunderstands his own source material. Theresa Juriso, The Mary Sue … that doesn't seen to have harmed sales either and DC Comics have also sent that book back for a second printing as well. It's a cliché that[...]
This Year's Black Panel At SDCC Will Be The Last Black Panel?
I have always told people that the two best panels at San Diego Comic Con are Sergio & Mark on Thursday afternoon and The Black Panel on Friday morning, which has been running since 1998. And while the former continues to entertain a reasonable audience, the latter fills to capacity, and you have to run to[...]
Canada Claims USA's Most Precious Icon In We Stand On Guard
This image may include imagery and ideas that some may find rather offensive. First an encounter, a century and a half away, with a familiar symbol. As we have seen so very vividly in the last few days, certain symbols can express and embody so much that their presence and absence can have a very emotional and[...]
Midnighter, To Russia With Hate
One of the skills of a fine commercial comics writer woring on a work-for-hire property is to take a phrase or a moment so associated with a character and find a totally different context for it that seems so obvious, the second after it is used. Which is how this very familiar Midnighter monologue over the[...]
The Secrets Of Today's Secret Wars As Everyone Is Versus Doom….
That will end up on Youtube.   Maybe take some poster advice from Secret Wars Journal's second half. Or find some use for Wolverines-who-died-too-young-now-revived-by-Hank's-time-travel-experiments who never really lived as an X-Man, from X-Tinction Agenda… Secret Warsiness out of 10 Doomheads: Secret Wars by Hickman and Ribic Secret Wars Journal by Tieri, Aukerman, Isannove and Silva X-Tinction Agenda by Guggenheim and Di Giandomenio Giant[...]
Miss Fury And Lady Rawhide Combine For Swords Of Sorrow One-Shot
The original cover depicts four stars of the series: Red Sonja and Vampirella (two characters with long traditions of comic book adventuring), as well as literary heroine Dejah Thoris (from the Warlord of Mars novels and comics) and Jana from Frank Cho's Jungle Girl The photo reenactment features four lovely cosplayers: Tabitha Lyons as Red Sonja,[...]
The Police Case Against Superman In Today's Action Comics #42
The last issue of Action Comics saw the police of Metropolis descending upon the neighbourhood in which Clark Kent lives to burn it to the ground, for reason of alien cooties, or somesuch, now that everyone knows Superman's secret identity. Anyway, Superman has an issue with that, as you might expect And in today's issue from Greg Pak[...]
I Seem To Have A Comic Published Today. Somewhere.
Just don't tell too many people, okay? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London, who will be making their first trip to San Diego Comic Con together later this week But first, they have a signing with Si Spurrier today and an exhibition launch and talk with Mark Buckingham on Saturday…     [...]
Knights Of The Old Republic's HK-47 Revisisted In Darth Vader #7, Out Today
In IG-90, however, the speech patterns are far more HK-47. Embed: And here's a Youtube link to remind you… [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1gTas7OAA[/youtube] Threat: Buy it or be eviscerated, meatbags… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London, who will be making their first trip to San Diego Comic Con together later this week[...]
Even Later Secret Wars Crossovers
We've been looking at the lateness of Secret Wars titles here, here and here. Well more titles continue to fall down the schedules, here are some new
A Comic Show – Secret Wars Stands On Guard!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U229B_5V37s[/youtube] Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop writes, Hey Fandom, I'm back with another week of New Comics Now! Brian K Vaughn's new Image #1 is here, and you need it, even if you hate Canada We Stand On Guard is a double sized $2.99 book you won't regret buying[...]
Preview Regular Show's 25th Anniversary Issue This Week
Some of which are based on Cartoon Network TV shows such as Adventure Time, and classic comics like Peanuts. This week brings us an anniversary issue of Regular Show with their 25th issue, written by Kevin Church, with art by Mad Rupert In this stand-alone story, Benson gives all Park employees fitness devices to encourage them all[...]
After Nearly 25 Years, Care Bear Comics Are Coming Back!
Roar Comics and AG Properties debuted a new reading experience for children of the '80s (and their kids) An all new series of Care Bears comics! For the first time in nearly 25 years, the comics will continue, written by Georgia Ball (My Little Pony, Scooby Doo), with illustrations by Melanie Gillman (As the Crow[...]
Countdown To The Eisners 2015 – Best Coloring
However, that's not keeping me from being vocal regardless! Who is eligible to vote? Comic book/graphic novel/webcomic creators (writers, artists, cartoonists, pencillers, inkers, letterers, colorists All nominees in any category Comic book/graphic novel publishers and editors Comics historians and educators Graphic novel librarians Owners and managers of comic book specialty retail stores Who is not eligible to vote? Comics press or reviewers (unless they[...]
From Strip To Script – Kyle Baker's Plasticman Featuring Superman
By Josh Hechinger Welcome to From Strip to Script, where I take a page of finished comic art and try to derive a script from it, to see what I can learn from the exercise. While I didn't read it at the time, I do remember this iteration of Plastic Man coming out waybackwhen; I mean, if[...]
Talking LGBTQ Comics And SDCC With Brian Andersen(UPDATE)
By Joe Glass Earlier this year, Brian Andersen had a very successful Kickstarter for his comic Stripling Warrior, about a gay Mormon superhero, that also got a lot of media attention. Andersen has been making LGBTQ themed and starring comics for some time now, and has also been a major part of the visible gay comics-making community. We[...]