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Bucking the trend in bookstores, Hawkeye may not have made it into the top ten monthly comics, but it often topped the charts in collections, beating the likes of Batman, The Walking Dead and Saga It represented a creative renaissance at Marvel, the idea that anything could be done with these characters, including portraying an[...]

Of late it seemed to have shrunk down to Kelly Sue DeConnick, G Willow Wilson and Sara Pichelli on regular books, just as DC Comics started to really ramp up their numbers. But the Death of Wolverine spinoff books (no longer a World Wthout Wolverine) have been announced by Marvel for the rest of the year, as[...]

Bleeding Cool's SDCC 2014 announcement from Dark Horse is the impending March 2015 series Neverboy written by Shaun Simon of The True Lives of the

Last month we pointed out DC Comics had increased their marketshare of the direct comics market against Marvel in May, after a number of months suffering in the low twenties. In May, DC Comics basically maintained that, their dollar share dropping from 30.04% to 29.88% an their unit share dropping from 33.52% to 33.20% Not even a half point drop[...]

On Saturday, Third Eye Comics of Annapolis, Maryland will be holding the launch party for Wayward #1, the new comic written by Jim Zub and with an exclusive variant cover (above) by Chip Zdarsky, both of whom will be signing and sketching. If 100 people say they are going, Third Eye will move the location to their[...]

A new comic series from Jacob Semahn and Jorge Corona,  Goners from Image Comics, out in October. From the colonization of Roanoke to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Latimer Family throughout the centuries have been the famous first line of defense against all that go bump in the night The modern-day progenitor, Raleigh Latimer, and his[...]

P. Craig Russell has moved through five volumes of graphic storytelling instructional video projects that are going to produce an entire generation of

Lots and lots of guns.   UPDATE: Here's the full solicit: An entirely self-contained comics event spotlighting Bloodshot, Eternal Warrior, Geomancer, and a cast of heroes and villains from across the Valiant Universe, THE VALIANT is a visionary new adventure from three of the greatest creative talents in comics today. The Eternal Warrior has protected the Earth for more than 10,000[...]

Nicola Scott teased us all about her final DC project. To see out my contract, I'll be doing a short but personal project with my all time favourite character, then…… I'm stepping into the world of Creator Owned for a while. Her next announced project after that is for Alan Moore's ElectriComics, something called Sway with Leah Moore and John Reppion. But[...]

The habit of booking guests into hotels near Heathrow airport, an hour away by public transport and only running a shuttle from the hotel to the show in the morning and the early evening caused Neal Adams last year to simply upsticks and book his own hotel for his family in nearby Kensington. Today, however, it's[...]

Hell, he's got a unique take on the world and art and comics in general His work has a specific energy that really works in the context of this particular story. Issue #2 Michel Fiffe – I didn't know Michel before I asked him to work on Captain Victory, but I sure as hell knew his work[...]

Katie Kubert recently resigned and moved to Marvel Comics. Simone tweets, From what I have seen, @cameronMstewart @babsdraws @brendenfletcher are going to deliver a great looking book Please support them in this. — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) July 11, 2014 @cameronMstewart @babsdraws @brendenfletcher You guys will kill it, I am sure. — Gail Simone (@GailSimone) July 11, 2014 Okay, just to clarify[...]

How do you approach something like that? JOE HARRIS: Well, "Alice Cooper" is a persona, and a pretty larger than life "character" already without my help… but I was given a lot of leeway to build this comics mythology out from some of the more well-known aspects of the "Alice-verse." My approach was guided by Dynamite's[...]

I can say with ease that this is one of the best Bosnian comics ever produced, and in such a small country of only 3.5 million people, it is rare to see such maturity of style and expression, and also productiveness that Kostja continues to exhibit. If my review should urge you to spend £5 or[...]

I'd have written a Top 15 or 20, but hey, I gotta go read that darn comic again. Rocket Raccoon #1 is written and drawn by Skottie Young and published by Marvel Comics. Abdulkareem Baba Aminu is a BleedingCool contributor, newspaper editor, award-winning journalist, cartoonist, comic book creator, painter and poet The Nigeria-based writer has reviewed comics,[...]

IDW and Hasbro have gotten together with Heritage Auctions to raise money for charity. What they have done is put together a one-of-a-kind issue of My

By Ian Mageto Comics and Cosplay host and Bleeding Cool's Bleeding Cosplay columnist Ian Mageto presents another episode of Comics and Cosplay, and this time he follows up his review on why so many people hate the show Heroes of Cosplay on the Syfy Channel with a look at Heroes of Cosplay's main competitor show's first season,[...]

This summer Valiant has been rolling along with their Armor Hunters event and now they have announced that there will be a one-shot this October called

You may have seen the Out of Step Arts Collective representing at SPX or more recently at HeroesCon in North Carolina, and the stand out from the crowd for being an independent arts collective with quite a few highly original comic book creators in their ranks across a wide range of styles and subjects and[...]

According to USAToday.com, Archie Comics is taking their Red Circle comic characters and making them a little darker Characters like The Shield, The Fox, Firefly and The Web will be relaunched next year under the banner of Dark Circle Comics. We got a rumbling of that back in May from the retailer summit and Rich wrote it[...]

Hasbro (owners of Wizards of the Coast, who produce D&D as well as the card-based fantasy game Magic: the Gathering) has a good working relationship with IDW, who have produced D&D Comics in the past. Most notably, a fantastic series written by John Rogers (Leverage, Blue Beetle) with art by Andrea Di Vito which died too[...]

 When Rick mentions that they have one lifer and Magna asks to talk with him.  Rick says he's very dangerous, but if she wants to talk to him she may when he returns from the Hilltop, but Magna doesn't seem too thrilled with Rick's answer. With the packing done, Rick and Carl are all saddled up[...]

By David Dissanayake Outcast, the new Skybound/Image Comics horror series from Robert Kirkman, Paul Azaceta, and Elizabeth Breitweiser hit stands a couple weeks ago to almost universal acclaim.  A really well constructed neo-horror story of demons and possessions, Outcast is off to a very promising start with its double-sized first issue It is decidedly different from[...]

Yesterday, DC Comics filed to register the Superman 'S' symbol as a trademark for belt buckles. It looks as if someone might have been going through their trademark on the symbol in recent days for… some unknown reason… and found it it was lacking in their paperwork. But not only that, it's also filed paperwork to register[...]

The hat doubles as a logo for Image Comics…. It's the revival of their old series Punks, with brand new stories That hat? It's Abraham's… Punks was a series by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Kody Chamberlain that ran on MTV Geek which was then totally forgotten about But now it's back, with brand new stories… Kody described it as a comic[...]

The AV Club have been given the news by Marvel PR that Ales Kot and Marco Rudy are to launch a new Winter Soldier title continuing the story of Bucky

Comico was a comics publisher in Pennsylvania that, through the nineties, published books such as Robotech, Jonny Quest, Mage: The Hero Discovered, Elementals and Grendel before it went bankrupt in 1990. The publisher was sold to one Andrew Rev who started publishing colour comics under the name, including The Elementals, until 1997 with the final issue of the Elementals Vol 2 Sex[...]

Ensconsed at DC Comics he has nonetheless lined up a new book with Matt Kindt and Paolo Rivera at New York-based Valiant Entertainment. CBR have been given the news by Valiant who tell them that the new book is a "prestige" standalone series, in the spirit of "Kingdom Come." As CBR points out, Kindt has drawn issues of[...]

Recently we noticed that between preview…. … and publication…. …C comics managed to edit out the red trunks from the Superman image on a newspaper front page.   Superman's classic red trunks, his underwear on top of his trousers as some see it as, were originally modelled on the shorts worn over tights in wrestling exhibition matches in the[...]

Bleeding Cool sources who have been rather reliable in the past have told us that they have seen Batman V Superman designs for the character of Doomsday.In the comics, Doomsday was the creature who killed Superman, in an epic battle across all the Superman titled, culminating a battle composed entirely of splash pages drawn by[...]