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It all leads to their best hope: the Phantom Zone?! ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #3 As an epic space battle rages above the Earth, how will humanity and the other heroes of the DC Universe cope with this Day of Doom? What we already know, thanks to Superman #32 by Geoff Johns and John Romita, is how Doomed is going to[...]

By Nikolai Fomich In 1994, Batman and I saved America. But I’m getting ahead of myself. It was the first of July, and the Environmental Fund Celebration

RT @bleedingcool Why The New DC Comics Royalty Deal Is A Bum One For Many Creators http://t.co/5vx8YHsz4t — Jimmy Palmiotti (@jpalmiotti) July 3, 2014 Chew on this awhile… RT @bleedingcool: Why The New DC Comics Royalty Deal Is A Bum One For Many Creators http://t.co/WccUISxFby — robertliefeld (@robertliefeld) July 3, 2014 So that was our biggest story yesterday[...]

We'll just make a few changes like introducing universal healthcare free at the point of need, ban the personal ownership of guns and you won't have to wait three months for Downton Abbey or Sherlock. The comics may have a few small changes as well, Superman will fight for Tea, Justice And The Empire, Captain America[...]

It's time to announce the winner of the Dynamite Charity Contest where the winner, having written a small essay about one of the charities being featured

From the final page of this week's Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man.

Bastien Vivès' graphic novel published earlier this year, Polina, a ballet epic set in Moscow and Berlin was a bit of a smash hit, especially in

Something's in the air. As well as Big Nemo, there is Little Nemo: Return To Slumberland from Eric Shanower and Gabriel Rodriguez starting in August from IDW… Then there is the Locust Moon Nemo project with an array of creators, currently on Kickstarter.   And on top of these, a French project by cartoonist Frank Pe. Four Nemo In Slumberland[...]

Javier Garcia-Miranda is definitely an artist to keep an eye on. He started out with Zenescope working on Robyn Hood Vs. Red Riding Hood and the

In 1986 Neal Pozner wrote a new Aquaman mini-series and came up with a new design for costume, basically a undersea camouflage. It was a dramatic shift

Have you finished reading the books you got yesterday and are already thinking about what to get next week? Well here we have a double shot of previews

By Ian Mageto Comics and Cosplay host and Bleeding Cool's Bleeding Cosplay columnist Ian Mageto presents a week of videos for "Con Week" where he investigates hot topics around how cons and anime conventions are run and what the experience is like for fans In this episode he discusses the problems and possible fixes for online[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! A bunch[...]

Kline polled the 2000+ retailers, who do the bulk of their ordering from DC and Marvel, to find out what they were looking for – quality of comics, a range of genres, and making deadlines And as an aficionado of comic books, Kline knew that entertaining, solidly written and illustrated comic books would appeal to[...]

 Jonathan Hickman, Nick Dragotta and Frank Martin have quickly become one of the most tremendous powerhouse teams in all of comics, and if you've been reading the series you know why. If you haven't checked out the series yet, I obviously cannot recommend it highly enough  A heady brew of sci-fi, fantasy, and western, East of[...]

This is the cover to Vertigo's new series, Bodies.   DC Comics have got David Finch to draw a 1-in-13 variant cover to help goose sales of the first issue, which will also be fully returnable to retailers who order 90% of their orders on American Vampire: Second Cycle So, given your prejudices about Finch and the[...]

Kenneth Rocafort and colourist Dan Brown – though sadly that's not their actual Twitter handles. But it, and all the covers below, mark a sea change at DC Comics with, for the first time, colourist names on the cover, something Bleeding Cool made quite the issue about. Blond, Hi-Fi, T&R Horie and more, take a bow[...]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx3dBxBUQaQ[/youtube] Justin Jordan of Luther Strode, Deathstroke, New Guardians, Dead Body Road, the upcoming Spread and Crossed is adding three new books to his plate over at Boom! Studios. The first launches in November. Oh and also from Boom comes the October debut of the Spera: Ascension Of The Starless by Josh Tierney and assembled web and indie creators Giannis Milonogiannis, Cécile Brun, Olivier Pichard, Mindy Lee, Sourya Sihachakr and Valentin Seiche. SPERA is a stunningly illustrated[...]

DC Comics has told the LA Times about an upcoming creative change to the Green Arrow continuing series. Writer Jeff Lemire (whose DC Exclusive deal recently concluded) leaves the comic with #34 in September, replaced in October by the executive producer of the TV series Arrow Andrew Kreisberg and one of its writers Ben Sokolowski. And artist Andrea Sorrentino will also be gone[...]

Enormous was an enormous comic from Image. It left. It is now being published by the far smaller publisher 215 Ink. The demand for it however, hasn't

Some of the figures from DC's new royalty payment plan have started trickling down… I'm sure there's more to come, but under the new DC payments plan, I'm told from repeated sources that freelance writers will get around 5.4% of net revenue, instead of roughly 2% of the cover price. And while the print and digital numbers are now being[...]

It was only published this week. It's the only issue from the series that's been made available on the all-you-can-eat digital comic reading service. But

The Daily Mail has run a rather visual report on filming for Season 5 of The Walking Dead. But how much of the Season 4 finale have they spoiled in doing

(Note - as opposed to what may have been inferred, Top Cow would like to assure Bleeding Cool readers that they don't charge for pitches, that the Creator

Mark Waid's new Doctor Spektor series is unique among the Gold Key characters that Dynamite has relaunched. Unlike Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Magnus: Robot

Would you consider your tenure on Vampirella as part of that trend, and how do you see women's rise in the comics industry? NC: I would have to say that I am part of the trend, given the fact that I am the first woman (to my knowledge) to write for Vampirella in her 45 year history[...]

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 we celebrated the happenings of the Albuquerque Comic Expo, got hyped on Guardians Of The Galaxy, and we were extra ready to welcome Cassie Hack back[...]

I forgot about this character until I saw the announcement of the new series with Jen Van Meter and Roberto De La Torre. This incarnation of The

However at a recent Long Beach Comic Expo, indie creators in the audience were told that they 100% had the ability to create their own comic. Fanboy Comics Managing Editor Barbra Dillon hosted the Indie Creators, Unite! A Guide to Self-Publishing panel and was joined by indie creators Yehudi Mercado (Pantalones, TX, Buffalo Speedway), Siike Donnelly[...]

By Ian Mageto Comics and Cosplay host and Bleeding Cool's Bleeding Cosplay columnist Ian Mageto presents a week of videos for "Con Week" where he investigates hot topics around how cons and anime conventions are run and what the experience is like for fans In this episode he discusses the prices we pay to attend conventions,[...]