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The New Robin Comes With A Little… Extra
A Robin who can do this. And this. And this. Looks like World's Finest can do without Superman now…. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently exhibiting the work of Sean Phillips. This is the solicited cover to Batman And Robin #38, coming next year Featuring what appeared to be a returing Damian Wayne, doing a Superman pose and[...]
Who Will Be The Mighty Avengers In Five Months Time? (Spoilers)
Maybe missing a certain dark magician but he was only on board temporarily. Hmm, has any Avengers team ever stayed so constant of late? Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London Currently exhibiting the work of Sean Phillips. Today's Avengers continues the Time Runs Out storyline as it builds up to become Secret Wars This issue sees Avengers Vs[...]
Who Remains Inverted? (Axis Spoilers)
And the fact that he is just a head. And as for Carnage? Well, we see the aftermath of his heroic suicide mission to stop the bomb. But, as revealed by solicitations for future issues, the final page of Nova shows that he seems somehow hale and hearty, one week on…   Explanation to come I'm sure… Comics courtesy of[...]
ComicsPRO's Annual Meeting Moves To Portland For 2015
ComicsPRO, the comic book retailer trade organisation are having their annual drink up meeting in Portland, Oregon, next year from February 19th to the 21st, Handy for Dark Horse and Oni, and for the sizeable comic book creative community in the city. Held at the Portland Hilton and Executive Tower, bricks'n'mortar retailers will arrive for a weekend of free[...]
A Comic Show – A Sunstone Christmas And A S.H.I.E.L.D. NYE!
Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! It's Christmas Eve and week have New Comics Now! We even have a few for new Wednesday's New Year's Eve Wednesday. First there's the book inspired by the hit TV series S.H.I.E.L.D by Mark Waid The street date on this one is actually New Year's[...]
From Strip To Script – Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye
As such, I've been spending a fair bit of money on Transformers, but only those that are currently crewing the good ship The Lost Light. So, for this column, I want to take a look at the intersection between good comics and toy advertisement The page we'll be looking at comes from the second volume of[...]
Bleeding Cool Magazine Nominated For  Diamond Gem Awards 2014
All our collective fingers are crossed… 2014 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Over 4% Dark Horse Comics DC Comics IDW Publishing Image Comics Marvel Comics 2014 Comic Book Publisher of the Year – Under 4% Archie Comics Avatar Press BOOM! Studios Dynamite Entertainment Oni Press Titan Comics Valiant Entertainment VIZ Media Zenescope Entertainment 2014 Backlist Publisher of the Year Dark Horse Comics DC Comics IDW Publishing Image Comics Marvel Comics VIZ Media Zenescope Entertainment 2014 Comic Book of[...]
Marvel To Republish Archie Goodwin And Al Wlliamson's Empire Strikes Back – But Which Yoda Will We Get?
In August, Marvel Comics is republishing their eighties adaptation of Empire Strikes Back as Star Wars: Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Originall published in Star Wars 39-44, you can buy the original magazine collectionfor under ten bucks and the subsequent paperback version for a cent or the more recent Dark Horse republication for five bucks. But on the off chance that anyone[...]
Will Secret Wars Really See A Marvel Relaunch?
So the prevailing theory is that a whole bunch of Marvel comics are going to be cancelled as part of the Secret Wars event, and replaced by other books in the interim, just as happened with the Age Of Apocalypse event So Uncanny X-Men would be replaced by an Age Of Apocalypse, New X-Men replaced[...]
Could Secret Wars Be All About Mister Fantastic And The Infinity Gauntlet?
Dale Keown's cover from New Avengers #3 by Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting covers the Secret Wars Prelude from Marvel in May, collecting New Avengers (2013) 1-3, Secret Wars (1984) 10-12, Fantastic Four 611, Ultimate Comics Spider -Man (2011) 1, Ultimate Comics Ultimates 4. Follow the path to 2015's event to end all events, Secret Wars -an[...]