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I am fully hooked on reading the Dark Horse series PastAways written by Matt Kindt and drawn by Scott Kolins. Issue #3 was incredibly active as the team,

Did you know that front man of Blink-182 Tom DeLonge has his own comic? Yep! From Magnetic Press, written by Tom DeLonge and Ben Kull, with art by Djet,

Gideon Kendall may be one of the first people I met in comics, or at least aspiring to comics, even though he was already a highly accomplished illustrator, and these days has been working on high-profile animation projects as well It just goes to show that you can be a top-notch artist whose work is[...]

It's not a tool I feel like you see too often in comics, which tend towards the more novelistic approach of narration captions, but, hey, it's a tool It's out there, The Bard used it, it's probably not worth dismissing entirely. – I know "technobabble" is the accepted term, but I've always liked "authentic technological gibberish"[...]

I was lucky enough to attend The Princess Who Saved Herself panel at Special Edition: NYC this past Saturday. I couldn’t help but purchase the book after

Well, we live in such a rich time for good comic books right now, Wednesdays always gives us a lot to chew over… Starve #1 and Injection #2 are both published by Image Comics tomorrow, in all good comic stores And a couple of bad ones as well. It's a science fiction comic that begins with[...]

Variant covers of Squirrel Girl, issues 1, 4, 3 and 2... Naughty comic book retailer who sent this in.

From Francesco Francavilla reprising his Silver Surfer poster, to Neal Adams revisiting the seventies, Here are almost all of IDW's exclusive retailer

Cover image for 75960620257700231 SPIDER-GWEN: GWENVERSE 2 LAND HOMAGE VARIANT, by Ron Marz & Ron Lim, in stores Wednesday, April 20, 2022 from marvel The Spider-Gwen comic book series has become quite the phenomenon at Marvel Comics But no one seemed to expected it A character that debuted seen in Spider-Man writer Dan Slott's Spider-Verse crossover[...]

Eearlier today we looked at six things DC Comics could be doing in their Big October, as teased by Dan DiDio. How about making it lucky number seven with a Poison Ivy book? The character has appeared recently in Gotham, recreated as the young Pepper Ivy, is very prominent in the new Arkham Knight game[...]

These are common comic book work-for-hire industry rates, compiled by Alex De Campi, and shown off at Special Edition: NYC at the weekend as part of a panel. That is… WFH/PAGE MAINSTREAM INDIE Script $80-100 $25-50 Covers $600-700 $200-500 Line art $200-300 $100-250 Colour art $120-150 $35-100 Letters $20-25 $10-20 They show common ranges of rate in the comic book industry right now, divided into big publisher and indie, in dollars, per page. It is[...]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUP_9BB6zWo[/youtube] The Advocate's Jase Peeples presented a special episode of DC All Access on YouTube, looking at the history of LGBT characters in DC Comics as part of Pride month, but makes a number of curious omissions. While it looks at what may have been clumsier efforts to portray such characters and issues in the past, he[...]

Bleeding Cool has pointed out that DC Comics seems to be seeing October as a big month rather than September this year So what might be in it? A few guesses… 1 Batman Eternal Year Two A second series of the year-long Batman weekly comic book from Scott Snyder and friends has been promised at some[...]

This week's exclusive extended previews is all about the women of Dynamite. We have the third issue of Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro and the second issue of

China's state news media stated yesterday that the government is to ban 38 Japanese comics and animated series for what they describe as "severely improper content" regarding the use of violence and terror. These include the international hit comics Attack On Titan and Death Note as well as the cartoon TV series Terror in Resonance. Dozens of[...]

A very non-offiical poster by James Zark that reinterprets Marvel characters Jean Grey and Susan Storm in the light of certain publishing and merchandising decisions made by Marvel Comics over the last year or so… In honor of Marvel Entertainment rebooting their line of comic books sans two of their finest heroines, here's my tribute to[...]

I met Brian Pulido and Steven Hughes that day and watched as they took a very different approach to comics, one that gained quickly in popularity I got to see the character of Lady Death go from the printed page to being a comic icon. Now, 23 years after seeing the character for the first time,[...]

Cover art by Alex Ross, interiors by Giovanni Timpano. First, the backstory: I was thrilled and honored when Nick Barucci of Dynamite Comics approached me to gauge my interest in writing an historic first team up of the Shadow and the Green Hornet Nick was familiar with my writing back in the mid-1970s at DC Comics with[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to discuss this week's upcoming books, speculating about where they are headed, and discuss their favorite storylines Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Thanks for pressing play! Are you a foodie? Love the culinary[...]

Archie Comics is gearing up for their big summer relaunch of Archie #1 by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples and in doing so, they have set up to do seventeen exclusive retailer covers so far And the artist being tapped to produce these covers include Jae Lee, Terry Moore, Dave Dorman, Cameron Stewart and a[...]

Conan: The Avenger #15 arrives on June 24th, and promises to bring with it some stellar artwork from Guiu Vilanova, particularly scenes set in the dark

Kidrobot, master of collectibles is moving into the world of Gremlins this summer, with Phunny plushes. These huggable collectibles will use Kidrobot’s

Some readers enjoy the hunt for those older comics from bygone eras to fill their collections, and regain their childhoods While I grew up reading superhero comics, others before me turned to Disney comics instead, or alternative comix that had no sign of spandex or anything considered normal These collections scatter in the winds of[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/OiCPodcastEpisode133.mp3] Following on from last week's episode with Jason Latour (which you can still listen to here), this week I'm back with Declan Shalvey (Deadpool, Moon Knight, Injection) at the launch of his exhibition in the Orbital Gallery. Declan & I discuss how he broke into comics, the perils and pitfalls of social media, his[...]

When I held this month's new issue of Feathers in my hands, I couldn’t help but feel a little sad knowing this was the last issue. After all, I had

This Week's Reviews: Midnighter #1 Giant-Size Little Marvels: Avengers vs X-Men #1 Broken World #1 Sixth Gun: Valley of Death #1 Secret Wars #3 Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows #1 Midnighter #1 (DC, $3.99) By Graig Kent It's hard to stay uniformly positive about DC Comics these days It seems like for every one thing they do right, there's a half dozen things they[...]

Bleeding Cool was first to tell you about DC Comics' plans to sell double page spread half page ads to Twix, putting the ads and the comics on he same pages for the first time since the seventies. Well, Nothing But Comics got in touch with the PR representatives of Mars Chocolate North America Corporate Affairs[...]

We ran a piece a week ago pointing out the lateness of the Secret Wars series after issue 3, and how it was taking a number of series with it. Well, below

For over a year now, Bleeding Cool has been reporting on the decision of Marvel comics to cancel the Fantastic Four and withdraw all manner of licensing imagery regarding the team, as a result of a falling out with Fox Studios, who own the movie and live-action TV rights to the comic book, as well[...]

The fifth in a series of secrets to be revealed around the Secret Wars Battleworld…. here are the previous first, second, third and fourth… hopefully