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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: Chris flies solo this week as he talks about comics[...]

Here are the exclusive Boom! comics available at San Diego Comic Con in two weeks time And then on eBay a few minutes after that… ADVENTURE TIME: BANANA GUARD ACADEMY #1 $10, limited to 500 copies Cover by Coleman Engle Writer: Kent Osborne Artist: Mad Rupert Not only are the Banana Guards hilarious as the Candy Kingdom's protectors, but this series is written by[...]

Back in about 2000 I started writing for a website called the Comic Book Galaxy, where I would review busts and statues that came out. One of the other

In the comics industry, there is a charity called The Hero Initiative, which raises money for comic creators who have landed on hard times (usually because they've been denied royalties on their creations at some point, or just aren't the flavor of the month) Marvel has given generously, while DC stiffed them for years Their[...]

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/orbital-podcast157.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 157 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we rev up with Ghost Rider #4, shape up with Ms Marvel #5, follow the doctor's orders with New Avengers Annual, question solitude with Superman #32, get possessive over Outcast #1, break[...]

Black Hammer is a new ongoing creator-owned series by Jeff Lemire and Dean Ormston from Dark Horse Comics, out later this year The visual says 2015, but the e-mail says late 2014 I'm sure they'll work it out… The series follows, a group of oddball superheroes who have been "wiped out of continuity" after an earth shaking cataclysmic "event"[...]

DC Comics has been publishing Trinity Of Sin: Pandora and Trinity Of Sin: Phantom Stranger for a little while now, (but no Trinity Of Sin: The Question) but they were recently cancelled by the publisher. DC have now told Newsarama that in October they'll be publishing Trinity Of Sin, a new series with all three characters, Jim[...]

From a successful Kickstarter to a 5 issue series from Image Comics, now collected in its first volume this week, to the announcement of the series' return this autumn, Rocket Girl has displayed all the velocity you might expect from the title, and that's all down to the vision of the series creators Brandon Montclare[...]

To my mind, Biomega pushed the comics medium as far as it could go in its breakneck hard science cyberpunk action, light years beyond any other comic out there and still unsurpassed, moving at beyond the speed of the  most frenetic video games let alone movies or comics That's no surprise considering Nihei is, unusually[...]

And comics news reporting sites become implicit in that market distortion every time we run them as a story. But hey ho, away we go In for a penny… First Ben Templesmith's The Squidder from IDW gets a second printing… Hack/Slash: Son Of Sam Haim #1, Nailbiter #3 and Southern Bastards #2 have all sold it of their[...]

We mentioned how Boom! was doing its best impersonation of Dynamite, and announcing its San Diego Comic Con news before the show actually started. Such as

Away. The Biggest Change To Constantine Isn't The Smoking Why The New DC Comics Royalty Deal Is A Bum One For Many DC Creators Scott Snyder Refutes The Man Of Steel Explanation That The S Stands For Hope Fox Cancels Ancient Egypt Drama Hieroglyph Before It Even Airs Snyder Hasn't Filmed Gadot As Wonder Woman Yet  Is Gal Gadot Finished Filming[...]

We are all expecting Marvel to publish an Ant Man solo comic at some point. There's a movie on the way (sadly without Edgar Wright at the helm) and an Ant

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8Ov1ZlQy54[/youtube] Neal Adams has announced a new upcoming DC Comics project in a video interview from Pensacon. Superman: The Arrival Of The Supermen. He says, We're going to have some Supermen arrive on Earth which I guess would put pretty mush any Superman scratching his head going what the hell are they doing there because it seems to me[...]

Wednesday, July 9th JHU Comics at 32 East 32nd Street will be hosting a signing by Reilly Brown (Incredible Hercules, DHP: St George, Cable & Deadpool) for the launch of Marvel's Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet #1 Khary Randolph and Emilio Lopez are also going to be signing copies of their Tech Jacket #1 from Image Comics[...]

Max Brooks, the New York Times Best-selling author of World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide will be signing copies of the newly collected edition of

With the upcoming every-spider-character-in-one Spider-Verse event, it wouldn't be the greatest deduction to expect a Spider-Woman comic book series to

CBR have been given the news by DC Comics that they are publishing a new ongoing Lobo series from October, from Cullen Bunn and Reilly Brown. And that it will star the character known as Twilight Lobo, Lipstick Lobo or whatever derogatory slur you want to use today. But that the original style Lobo will appear on[...]

DC Comics gave their good friends at Buzzfeed the first look at the themed variant cover programme in October, to follow up on the Bombshell, Batman 75th Anniversary and Selfie themed variant covers And it appears to be a little Hallowe'en themed… such as the Wonder Woman #35 by Aaron Lopresti above… UPDATE: And now from[...]

As long as I've been reading comics, someone has been trying to make comics based on the characters of Turok, Magnus, Solar and in some cases Doctor Spektor There is something about these characters that make publishers want to give it a shot Whether it was their original home at Gold Key, part of the[...]

Liz Jordan works at Orbital Comics I like Liz, she's funny, friendly and she geeks out at the tiniest mention of comics and comics-related media And anything Thor related is guaranteed to get her enthusing in a most engaging way She really is a great comic store clerk and her enthusiasm is incredibly catchy. So, I'm[...]

This is the new Captain America, as teased by Marvel last week. Who is it, well, those looking at other Marvel teasers shouldn't be too surprised. But the

By Michele Brittany, a West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent It was the third day of Anime Expo being held at the Los Angeles Convention Center over the

In our second free issue of the day we get Pathfinder: City of Secrets #2 to show you while #3 is on it's way to the comic shops this week. Dynamite and

Upon escaping captivity, he finds himself embroiled in a conspiracy that results in a team from the CIA's Special Activities Division seeking his help to unravel the mystery of "Operation Quisling." As the war in Afghanistan has all but ended, the conspiracy reveals a new threat, one that prompts Baker to make a unique statement[...]

A.G. Fielder writes for Bleeding Cool: One deadly woman. One masochistic man. She's hired to kill, and he's on her hit list. Who…will…survive? The moment

According to a press release, the new comic from Keenan Marshall Keller and Tom Neely, The Humans, has been picked up for a monthly series by a major comics publisher, with an announcement due at San Diego Comic Con. But first, they have self published a zero issue. Apart, they are nothing… deemed by society as outcasts,[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Geoff Wessel is a creator who never disappoints. I’ve talked about his stuff here before, and now, the latest issue of Keeper, his

Titan Comics brings us the 56 page hardcover graphic novel Chronicles of Legion Volume 1: Rise of the Vampires in early November, written by Fabien Nury, with artwork by Mathieu Lauffray, Mario Alberti, Zhang Xiaoyu, and Tirso There are many great incarnations of vampire stories in comics, past and current, but when a comic takes[...]

US translator and publisher of the Oh My Goddess! series by Kōsuke Fujishima, Dark Horse Comics announced at Anime Expo that they will be re-releasing the series after publishing the final volume last December. Just they'll be doing it a little bigger. Expect fifteen omnibus volumes to be contain the entire series in a bigger format with better[...]