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Supreme Court Will Not Review Superman Rights Case
In November of 2013, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling that an agreement between Shuster's sister Jean Peavy and Warner subsidiary DC Comics superseded all prior grants and precludes the estate's attempt to terminate the copyright grant. The agreement was made after Shuster's passing Peavy wrote to DC and asked them to pay[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 6th September 2014 – Empire State Of Mind
The wonderful look of Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, from the upcoming issue 2. See you folk in New York… but first, what have you been reading this week? Or just yesterday? Well… there was one story from yesterday that not so much took the top spot of the week, but is in contention for the year[...]
Top 100 Comics September 2014 – How DC Got That Marketshare
Here's the top hundred selling comic books from Diamond Comic Distributors to comic stores in North America in September. Fifty-three for DC Comics, forty-three for Marvel, but DC putting more at the top swung that marketshare in their direction. Image grabbed the remaining four… And while the lowest DC selling book on the board was Batwing, it still[...]
Lots Of Things To Do In New York This Week If You Like Comics. Wow.(UPDATE)
Monday, October 6th Escape Pod Comics at 302 Main Street in Huntington, Long Island, will host a signing by Antony Johnston of Umbral, Fuse (and many other comics) from 5 to 8PM They say: "Meet one of our favorite comic writers and world-builder par excellence Antony Johnston, creator of The Wasteland, Umbral, The Fuse and more[...]
Boom Commits To Multi-Year Publishing Deal For James Tynion's The Woods
Boom's best original series launch since Waid's Irredeemable, itself broken by George Perez' Sirens. With a nicked-from-Image Comics first collection for $9.99 price point, and a new Tynion project in Memetic also looking to launch large, I understand that Boom will be committing to publish The Woods until its planned conclusion in a number of years time. This is[...]
Social Media Reacts To… The Cancelling Of The Fantastic Four
You have a duty to keep running. — Leo Sutherland (@leosutherland) October 5, 2014 Some were happy. Good "@bleedingcool: Fantastic Four To Be Cancelled In 2015 With A Triple-Sized Issue 645, For Fantastic Fourever http://t.co/9ZyRvvjOlN" — Jay (@KissMyKAPOW) October 5, 2014   As someone who's put principles ahead of common sense all too often, I'm OK with this decision: http://t.co/DtUuPbPEgI — Devourer[...]
"Ernie Is Pure ID, He Does What He Wants…" – Tim Seeley Talks Evil Ernie
As Dynamite's relaunch of the Chaos Comics characters continues, Byron Brewer spoke with one of the driving forces behind the project, Tim Seeley who is now writing Evil Ernie with his brother Steve Seeley. BYRON BREWER: Tim, as one of the main architects of the revival of the Chaos Universe, how successful would you say it[...]
A Place That Feels Like Home
I remember being naive enough to believe the hype at the end of issue #384, where the copy read "Oh, no! The (gulp) LAST SPIDER-MAN story?!! Be here in 30 days to find out!" I thought to myself, "Great, I just found this great new thing and it's going to be over next month!" I[...]
Amazon And Hachette Fishing For Marvel In 2015
From Amazon, Hachette and others, a few discoveries for upcoming Marvel collections. We already mentioned Fantastic Fourever of course… The Marvel Masterworks: Not Brand Echh Volume 1 will be made available separately from the big box, out in June 2015. Skrulls Must Die!: The Complete Skrull Kill Krew collecting the Morrison/Millar/Yeowell Skrull Kill Krew series as well as the more recent[...]
Gordon Ramsay Fish & Chips Comic Books?
NYCC announcement maybe? Anyway, there are some folk that don't so much register trademarks for comics, but just include comics in a list of things they might make. Such as Gordon Ramsay applying to register the phrase Gordon Ramsay Fish And Chips as a trademark for the following sectors; G & S: Printed matter; printed publications; instructional and[...]
A Short Story Of Dusk
It was a great time of wide eyed ambition and just having fun with comics I am still glad to hear word about what some of the old alumni are up to in the various creative fields. Below is a special preview just for Bleeding Cool readers It's the story that Joey did all the heavy[...]
Writer's Commentary – Troy Brownfield On The Blood Queen #5
We'll see how Elizabeth responds in #6, but we'll see more about the beginnings of that relationship in the Annual, on sale soon. Thanks again for your time, readers! I hope you enjoy the commentary and the comics themselves If you like The Blood Queen, keep spreading the word.  Thanks! The Blood Queen #5: Writer's Commentary by[...]
Catching Up With DICE Via The 2DCast Featuring Kim Brosnan, Michael Carroll, Daryl Shaw, Lucy Shaw, Chris Thompson And Chris O'Hallorhan
Our own Pop Culture Hound Chris Thompson drew our attention to the fact that the 2DCast produced a massive podcast out of D.I.C.E featuring a host of guests, himself included, and we thought we'd bring it to BC for your listening pleasure. [audio:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63269368/2dcastepisode56.mp3] They say: In this episode we look back with fondness over this past weekends Dublin[...]
Grayson #3 – Attack Of The Fridge
By Shawn Perry Grayson #3 picked up exactly where Grayson: Future’s End left off…by being the best darn comic book I am currently collecting!  For the
Cutter, Death Vigil And Tales Of Honor Previews From Top Cow
Three new comics and one collection comes out on October 10th from Top Cow and we've got previews of the three comics right here starting with the weekly Cutter #2, Death Vigil #4 and the conclusion of Tales of Honor with #5. CUTTER #2 (OF 4) Story: Robert Napton & Seamus Kevin Fahey Art / Cover: Chirs Dibari Issues[...]
Are You Missing Half Of Your Godhead #1 Fold Out?
New Gods are talking and then all of a sudden someone starts talking about Kyle Rayner out of nowhere. Here's how the pageless comic looks. And it appears all the comics in that stack suffered the same missing pages Is it worth checking your copy and solving the mystery? Worth checking your copies of Godhead #1 –[...]
The Statistics Of Batman Vs Wolverine From A Retailer Perspective
Wonderworld Comics retailer Dennis Barger posted his take on September sales in the light of Bleeding Cool's statistical analysis And he revealed some retailer truths He posts, Take Batman 3D versus Death Of Wolverine shiny #1. In my store we ordered 100 of both…. Batman 3D cost us $187.50 for 100 copies, Death Of Wolverine #1 cost us[...]