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Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – From Sanitarium To Starlight And Sex Criminals
[youtube]http://youtu.be/6XgV-Y73xV0[/youtube] Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This week Joe came for a visit, TMNT saw a meeting of evil villains, and we got some practice in for our live studio audience! We were also[...]
New Widget To Let Comic Stores Show Off Upcoming Comics Goes Live
At the Diamond Retailer Lunch at San Diego Comic Con, attending retailers were told about a new widget that Diamond was making available, allowing them to use Diamond's resources to place information about upcoming comics, direct on the retailer's website. The widget generates a web page of titles with graphics for the current on-sale week, and[...]
So How Did Titan's Doctor Who Comics Sell Over 100,000 Each?
During San Diego Comic Con, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Titan Comics had received over 100,000 pre-orders each for the first issues of their new Doctor Who series The publisher announced the news at the Retailer Lunch presentation, held by Diamond Comic Distributors… They then tweeted the news. 100,000 copies of #DoctorWho comics sold to retailers –[...]
The Innuendo Of Superman, Today
Go on, let's take the first page of New 52: Futures End out of context. I don't know, Superman, I think Wonder Woman deserves a little more romance than
So What Is Going On With The Inhumans At Marvel Anyway (Inhuman SPOILER)
Don't you feel grateful? So now will you go out and buy Inhuman like Marvel really wants you to? Look, Joe Madueira is drawing it and everything! Comics courtesy of Comic Connections of Banbury, Oxfordshire Who are running a special summer promotion though August, with a different offer announced on Facebook every Monday.   [...]
Googling Today's Amazing Spider-Man (SPOILERS)
And what does Marvel know of Googling? Is this the new euphemism we should be using? So Spider-Man editor Nick Lowe is telling us to… what with Silk? "Google" it? Please… But one other thing, you know how Captain America and Batman basically had the same plot for a few years? Dying by a magic gun, their[...]
Naming Maggie And Glenn's Kid In Today's The Walking Dead #130 (SPOILERS)
Spoilers spoilers spoilers.   Because there are comics spoilers And there are TV spoilers and there are collection spoilers And there are spoilers. I just hope that's enough. So, regular readers of The Walking Dead know Glenn died at the hands of Negan and his barbed wire-wrapped baseball bat Lucille. They will also know that, at the time, Maggie was[...]
Who Made Thor Unworthy To Hold His Hammer? (Original Sin #7 SPOILERS)
In Fantastic Four… Even Sue Storm has a go – and succeeds! Today? It's tough to be a Thunder God. Comics courtesy of Comic Connections of Banbury, Oxfordshire Who are running a special summer promotion though August, with a different offer announced on Facebook every Monday.   Today's Original Sin #7 looks like it will be leading right into the upcoming storyline[...]
Gail Simone's Last Batgirl – And Everyone's Smiling (SPOILERS)
And here, just to underline the point, is a panel that would just not have appeared in a previous issue of the series. Bring on the yellow Doc Martens! Comics courtesy of Comic Connections of Banbury, Oxfordshire Who are running a special summer promotion though August, with a different offer announced on Facebook every Monday. [...]
Talking with Rebel Artist Jason Deeble at Boston Comic-Con
By Shawn Perry and Victor De Leon Gosh it feels good to be a Bleeder at Boston Comic-Con. Greetings from Boston! Throughout this weekend I have met with a number of fascinating artists at Boston Comic-Con.  One of my favorite moments was meeting with Jason Deeble – a mild-mannered math teacher by day – who discussed his series[...]
A Comic Show – From Original Sin To Selfies
[youtube]http://youtu.be/vNK-vAkK_u8[/youtube] Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! I'm Aaron, in The Geek Easy with a stack of New Comics Now! This week Marvel has more Original Sin, issue #7 features Old Man Fury and some Watchers Amazing Spider-Man's tie-in gives us more Silk, Black Cat, and Electro[...]
The Pictorial Narrative, Roy Lichtenstein And The Pregnant Moment In Saga
The Renaissance, however, brought about a paradigm shift in painting, with virtually all works, "however specific or particular their actions, characters, place, or time–representing[ing] an event through an isolated moment" (Steiner 150). This was more often than not the climax of a story and came to be known as the "pregnant moment", defined by Douglas Wolk[...]