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Your contributions are greatly appreciated and will help us maintain the site, get new equipment, and encourage us to keep going on those cold lonely nights. Chris Thompson Twitter: @popculturehound Orbital Comics' website: www.orbitalcomics.com Greg Ruth's Twitter: @GregRuth Greg Ruth's website: www.gregthings.com And if you missed my previous chats with Greg about his work, you can find them here:popculturehound.net/episode-60-discovering-the-lost-boy-with-greg-ruth; and also[...]

Appearing in regular DC Comics tomorrow, such as Justice League and Batman Eternal, the ad for the Harley Quinn Annual #1… Friend of the site and owner of Detroit retailer Wonderworld, Dennis Barger, has some qualms He posted on Facebook, While this is clearly going to be an adult comic, and yes we have a higher (yeah[...]

Because Rex is the hero comics deserves, but not the one it needs right now So we'll boo him Because he can take it Because he's not our hero He's a silent guardian A watchful protector An auteur. The Auteur: Presidents Day (Oni Press) Written by Rick Spears Illustrated by James Callahan Colored by Luigi Anderson 144 Pages, FC, $19.99 Cameron[...]

We have a new Secret Wars. We have a new Civil War. And now we have a new Age Of Ultron. And Marvel Zombies. All at once. You know, a Fall Of The Infernal

In addition to the stunning cosplay galleries presented to us from New York Comic Con by our Senior Cosplay Correspondent and Comics and Cosplay host Ian Mageto, numbering 135 photos, and 151 photos already, we have "The Big One" now, 320 photos taken on the first and last days of New York Comic Con 2014. Wowzers! #gallery-1[...]

Brian Goldberg writes from New York Comic Con for Bleeding Cool: I recently started a sketch book.  My previous collection of sketches were loose and all

June Vigants writes from New York Comic Con for Bleeding Cool: I attended the Transgender themes in comics panel this Sunday at NYCC. The panel was moderated by Charles Battersby, a playwright and theatre critic and a member of PressXY, a website exploring transgender issues in gaming. They regarded the term "Transgender" in a rather broad sense, connecting[...]

This is how some women feel, in the comics medium. Comics at one time were considered stuff for children.  It was a story telling medium designed to be read by kids The creators were straight white men They wrote primarily for children who were the same race that they were Today readers of comics have changed[...]

By Adi Tantimedh Ales Kot talks eloquently about the themes of war, violence and politics in his writing, all present in Zero, Secret Avengers and Bucky

This angered Marvel Entertainment chief Ike Perlmutter, who ordered the screenwriters to write Iron Man out of the script entirely, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. We have recently reported on stories regarding Ike Perlmutter cancelling the Fantastic Four comic out of spite, as part of soured relations between Fox Studios and Marvel over[...]

A trusted Little Bleeder who wishes to remain anonymous writes for Bleeding Cool, If my information adds up, Marvel will be bringing a heck of a Marvel

It measures what are known as the Wednesday Warriors, those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. Last week was a big sales week for comics, to coincide with the New York Comic Con The launch of Batman: Endgame, the launch[...]

The upcoming new OVA will be "Love, Live, Alive". Before the Q&A session Kevin McKeever announced that Dynamite Comics and World Events Production will publish a Voltron/Robotech Crossover. [Rich adds… though Nick Barrucci of Dynamite denies it, and says this is the crossover they published a couple of years ago Why this was presented as new, is[...]

And Bozz Chronicles with the fill-in artist issue redrawn. And now we move from the eighties to the nineties with JM DeMatteis and Paul Johnson's Mercy, a graphic novella fully painted and published by DC Comics twenty-one years ago in 1993  This is how it looked back then.   And these are the some of the behind-the-scenes thumbnail pages[...]

  Phone a friend? Fifty-fifty? Ask the audience? You'd have thought he'd have been a bit more present, what with the recent death of his

The Chilling Tales Of Sabrina #1 has sold out in the first issue from Archie Comics Similarly reinvented as a horror title along the lines of Afterlife With Archie, I understand that Diamond Comic Distributors has sold out of the first issue, with a second print to come I'm not given any sales figures but[...]

A lot of the thrill, for me, is covering new ground (new genres, new situations, new locations) and pushing myself out of my comfort zones. MM: Any plans for more original crime comics in the near(ish) future? DS: In fact, there is — I'm very close to finalizing a deal on a creator-owned comic project that I've[...]

Late word has come in that Robert Downey Jr. is on the verge of signing on to Captain America 3 which is going to bring the Civil War storyline into the

Dynamite has struck a licensing agreement with Arcane Wonders for multiple product categories based on Mage Wars, their tabletop fantasy game. The first

Timothy Carson writes for Bleeding Cool: Type Lynne Yoshii’s name into the search bar of Google and a slew of beautifully rendered images will appear on

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! There's so much great stuff hitting the[...]

Its part of the new Chaos Comics line and is written by Aaron Gillespie and drawn by Javier Garcia Miranda. Dynamite has sent it over as part of their Chaos Weekend going on over at Comixology where you can get a bunch of their Chaos titles on sale through today. Check out the sale here. [...]

Deadpool #1 Earth 2: World's End #1 (DC Comics, $2.99) By Graig Kent One of the few big successes of DC Comics' linewide reboot was Earth 2, which arrived in their first wave of New 52 replacement books.  Earth 2 allowed writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott to reimagine the Justice Society and build an entire[...]

Marvel has released this image today for Civil War. Captain America and Iron Man fighting over Spider-Man... armored Spider-Man at that. Seems like

There is money to be made in new comics, especially exclusive variant, and there are many who chase it With the cost of tickets, parking, hotels, and travel, people try to make the cost back wherever they can By far the hottest book coming out of New York Comic Con was the Wytches #1 NYCC[...]

One of the biggest and most discussed stories in the bars at NYCC this year is the move of DC Comics from New York to Burbank in April. And at the private Batman 75th Anniversary Party held in ornate glory and expense in New York, the conversation continued And this is what we learned through the[...]

Confirms Iron Man 4 And Gives The Latest On Sherlock Holmes 3  135 Cosplay Photos From Day 3 Of NYCC Scott Snyder Has Successfully Persuaded DC Comics To Push Batman Back To $3.99 Marvel's Daredevil Panel In NYCC – With Rosario Dawson Axel Alonso's Very Kind Address To Marvel's Creators Regarding Bleeding Cool From The Marvel Booth At NYCC –[...]

Adi Tantimedh writes, Nothing fuels aspiring comic book creators more than the advent of a convention, all the enthusiasm, creative energy seen on the show floor and pent-up desires of fans who want to become pros. Fortunately for aspiring comics creators, the market and industry has grown so much that there's now a good range of books[...]

Both Detective Comics #27 (1939) and Batman #1 (1940) were shown and afterwards the panel was asked about their favorite Batman villain Almost everyone mentioned The Joker, although Neal Adams only said his name because he couldn't pronounce the name of his favorite villain (Ra's al Ghul) Jim Lee liked Catwoman though, especially the Julie[...]

IDW Publishing and Marvel have joined together to create the Marvel Artist Select series. These books will feature stories specifically picked by the