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A Comic Show – Rocket Raccoon's The Star! Star Lord's A Close Second
Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, it's another great week of new comics! Marvel wins the week, specifically Skottie Young's Rocket Raccoon #1! It was fun and whimsical like Young's usual work, but had the dark humor we expect for Rocket He's sort of like a reverse space Scott Pilgrim[...]
BAT Cons 2014 – Amazing Las Vegas Con Survival Plus Photogalleries
We had to make our way through the thick of it all to make our way to check in.  Then there was the long trek through the smog to make it to the hotel room. Needless to say there was no enjoyment to be had Thursday night.  Sick as a dog and oh, so miserable. We hoped[...]
Pop Culture Hounding Steve Orlando Of Undertow
By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode94.mp3] It's been a little while since the last episode with Tim Daniel (which you can still listen to here), but this time I'm back to chat with up-and-coming writer Steve Orlando about his hit mini-series Undertow, which had its penultimate issue this week from Image Comics. Steve and I discuss breaking into comics, how[...]
Comics And Cosplay Presents Con Week: Are There Too Many Cons?
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 where there are simply too many cons[...]
How Not To Miss The Arrival Of The Next Big Thing: Read Outcast #1
Now please don't burn me at the stake because I do read the comics and enjoy what I have seen of the show! As Julz Hendricks said in her review of Outcast on Bleeding Cool, the reason I find it difficult to join the party that is the television series is that I am honestly intimidated[...]
Jiro Kuwata's Batmanga Comes To DC Digital
A collection of all 53 chapters were published in a three volume box set in 2013. Now DC Comics is going to offer up the series, translated into English as a digital first series starting Saturday July 5th and released as a weekly series The book will retain its original right to left reading format This[...]
Essential 8 Comic Book Games – Cards, Batman, Seizure Dreams And More Batman
There are something like five billion cards in this box featuring some of the most recognizable Marvel Comics heroes and villains and an intricate but still somehow elegant cooperative/competitive gameplay that wasn't much like anything else I was familiar with We played one game and we were all hooked We returned home early from that[...]
Mark Waid Returns To Boom! For…Something
Mark Waid has announced that, after a parting ways with Boom! after his stint as Editor-in-Chief there in 2010, he is returning to the project with a new creator-owned work, alongside a "a dear friend of mine, one of the most revered artists in comics" with whom he has never yet worked before. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLCxVWpArE[/youtube] The guesses start[...]
What Was The Real Reason Amazon Bought ComiXology?
And then brought it under its conditions of publication by dropping the In-App Purchase option. But what really drew Amazon to ComiXology, aside from the reasons given? I'm am told from Amazon sources that, internally, the biggest reason for buying ComiXology was the ComiXology Submit service, where anyone and everyone can submit their comic books and, content[...]
Gen 13 Return In Two Weeks In Supergirl #33
They're back on July 16th in the new Supergirl #33, according to the cover. Some of the characters have popped up in New 52 comics since the relaunch, but not all together like this We knew they were coming – we just didn't know how. The solicitation for this issue reads, "Red Daughter of Krypton" – the finale![...]
Full Issue Of Vampirella #1 To Read As Issue #2 Hits Stands This Week
But if you missed issue one, Dynamite has sent us over the full issue to for you to read. Collins made her mark with the character Sonja Blue in both novels and comics She recently returned to the four-colored pages working on Red Sonja Now she is taking lead on one of the iconic "bad girls"[...]
Prints Charming – Figment In The Flesh
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… We already mentioned that Figment #2 was going to second printing, well, here it is. Other books doing the second print dance include Wolverine #9, All-New Ghost Rider #3,[...]
Talking Comics – Discussing This Week's Upcoming Comics From Green Lantern To Star Lord, Tech Jacket, And Nailbiter
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: Thanks for pressing play! Another week, another great stack of comics[...]
Orbiting Around The Wicked & The Divine, Witchfinder, Thomas Alsop, Alex + Ada And More
[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-Episode-156.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 156 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we worship false idols with The Wicked & The Divine #1, get an electric eel shock with Witchfinder #1, play the generation game with Thomas Alsop #1, let the juice loose[...]
Is Becky Cloonan's Gotham Academy The Batman Comic We've Been Waiting Years For?
  There have been many comic book pitches for kids/teenage reinventions of DC Comics characters at school And they all seem to have fallen at the last hurdle Lois Lane, Girl Reporter from Dean Trippe was a stand out But there was also  Joe Casey's Justice League Academy… Well, Gotham Academy, by Becky Cloonan, Brendan Fletcher and Karl[...]
Wolverine, In Memoriam
Often when Marvel relaunches a prominent book, they run a retailer promotion called a "party", to get a little audience participation going on. Well, that