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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[...]

When DC Comics relaunched their line as the New 52 in 2011, the fact that the maintay character of Barbara Gordon was no longer to be Oracle, the wheelchair bound informational guru, architect and archivist of Birds Of Prey but back in the Batgirl suit, irked many fans But they were placated by lieu of previous[...]

Titan Comics have announced that there's going to be a very special international focus on Doctor Who comics on July 26nd, drawing in retailers, fans, no doubt cosplayers, and of course, you, the comics readers I'm thinking this is going to be something like Hellboy Day as celebrated by fans and retailers a little while[...]

I got a chance to read Terminal Hero #1 by Peter Milligan and Piotr Kowalski and came away with some thoughts about the book. After having interviewed

Jim Lee draws Dave Cockrum's The Futurians Clifford Meth writes, If you were compelled to list the pivotal moments in comics' history, you'd have to admit that the revitalized X-Men, beginning with Giant-Size X-Men#1, was as important to the direction of Bronze Age comics as General Patton was to the outcome of World War II[...]

I am very thankful to Nick for the opportunity to bring Dawn together with a character I grew up loving. BC: What is next for Dawn and for yourself? Will we be seeing more Dawn comics in the future? Do you have any other projects in the works? JML: After I have completed Dawn & Vampirella I'll[...]

That said, it's been over two years on Earth 2 and eight with DC Comics, and I feel the time has come for me to take my next step. 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[...]

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 Spider-Man popped up a couple of times, the New Suicide Squad has some odd couples, Grayson was just awesome and Foxi came for a visit! Please be[...]

For the first time ever, Tonner Doll Company is going to be set up at this years San Diego Comic Con. And like everyone else, they're going to bring out

I love seeing behind the scenes how pages are done, so when an artist shows the step-by-step process, I think its worth taking a look at. Gabriel Hardman

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 dives into the root cause of why so many people hate the show Heroes of Cosplay on the Syfy Channel The episode also takes on the infamous cosplay article discussing[...]

By Tony Pannacio "It's not an 's.' On my planet, it stands for 'hope.'" — Kal-El speaking to Lois Lane, Man of Steel (2013) In Action Comics #1, Superman knocks out a guy who had been beating his wife, distinguishing him immediately as a hero whose mission is to protect and serve those who are oppressed by[...]

Valiant Entertainment use digital delivery service Dropbox a lot, it seems, to ferry files around the work, from creator to the office to the printer, to an open server in Miami were we can download the lot. Sorry, sorry, I was getting them mixed up with the BBC. Anyway, they were happy to be the subject of a[...]

That's equally appropriate when you're dealing with two titans of comics, whose work makes you feel a little dwarfed anyway, but this experience is so immersive that it's no longer just a metaphor. When the package arrived and I heard it was "really big", I thought that was an exaggeration Once I saw the scope of[...]

The mingled material remains of the London Rose and the Twin Towers haunt the New York of Thomas Alsop and how Chris Miskiewicz and Palle Schmidt's character confronts these mysteriously connected legacies is sure to be as thought-provoking as it will be entertaining. Come back next week when artist/writer Palle Schmidt and I chat about comics,[...]

Lawrence Ganem, Vice-President Talent Relations at DC Entertainment has been in touch with DC creators about changes to the way they get paid. It's all

Just within the 48 hours timeframe that comics legal and media Tony Panaccio recommended (and Tony will be writing an update for later today), DC Entertainment have reversed their decision not to allow the Superman 'S' symbol to be used on a memorial to an abused Canadian child, Jerry Baldwin. And just as it was social[...]