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By Jared Cornelius It's a beautiful Friday afternoon and my fiancé and I have made the hour trek to enjoy the spectacle of Wizard World Philly.  As we arrive at the convention center it's clear to me the annual event has been going strong as costumed fans stroll down 12th Street.  A fan cosplaying as Gambit[...]

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-Episode-155.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to Episode 155 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we get pulled under by Detective Comics #32, go on a field trip with Infinity Man & The Forever People #1, stick em up for That's Because You're a Robot, put our[...]

When you read pulp characters like Dashiel Hammett and Raymond Chandler, they are complex, and don't want their assignments, but get drawn into "webs" and end up being "flawed heroes". Barbiere speculated that "post-Millenial" comics feel the need to be "needlessly complicated" and that leads to audiences identifying pulp heroes as overly simple, and in Five[...]

There's a lot to be said about The Wicked + The Divine #1. And thankfully writer Kieron Gillen has said most of it right here. Some things I'm glad I got,

  Beginning in October, the new and the old, 75 years after the publication of Marvel Comics #1 in 1939, the comic that would give the publisher its name decades later. Bruce Timm adapts Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge, the prose stpry fron 1941 and Stan Lee's first creative work for Marvel. James Robinson and Chris Samnee recreate the birth of the[...]

By Ian Mageto Ian Mageto, Bleeding Cool's Senior Cosplay Correspondent and Comics and Cosplay host joins us this week to count down the Top 10 Most Influential People in the world of Cosplay This list isn't just who is hot or who has the best cosplay, but giving credit to those individuals who have had a[...]

From Funko... a set of Pop Vinyl figure sets, exclusive for San Diego Comic Con, the Ghostbusters, as well as a Re-Action figure for the Rocketeer. RT TO

The second arc of God is Dead, entitled Book of Acts, takes the form of a 2 part all-star team up under the guidance of series writer Mike Costa. In

Peter & Maria Hoey By Nikolai Fomich Philadelphia's Locust Moon Comics has announced a Kickstarter campaign for their oversized hardcover anthology, Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream Inspired by cartooning and animation pioneer Winsor McCay's classic Little Nemo in Slumberland, this original work will revisit McCay's Slumberland world and feature "an almost impossibly star-studded lineup of over one[...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Usagi Yojimbo. Mouse Guard and Mice Templar. And now... Squarriors. By Ashley Witter and Ash Maczko. Turning squirrels into

Mary Sue managed to get a response.., even if it doesn't seem to ally with the facts as portrayed. So what else were you reading this week? Top Twenty Traffic Stories Of The Week Humiliated At SE:NYC – A Cosplayer's Story Hail Hydra! Possibly The Coolest Marvel T-Shirt Ever First Look At The Guardians Of The Galaxy Cartoon Naming Today's Original[...]

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… Hulk #3 and #4 are getting second prints (one with a Daniel Opena cover, the other with a Mark Bagley cover). Ahead of the Death Of Wolverine, Wolverine #8[...]

Bleeding Cool has been running reports of next spring's DC Comics event which will see twenty two-part stories published over two months with a weekly series running through it, forty-eight issues in all. Last week we heard the news that we were to expect to see plenty of Pre-52 characters meeting others, which conjured the image[...]

Dynamite has been pushing their new Creators Unleashed line very hard. They're kicking it off with Joshua Hale Fialkov and his new series The Devilers

It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keenness you bring to your passion. Uncanny X-Men is booming across the board, overtaking the mainstay of Batman Eternal, with only the event book Original Sin beating them both (and[...]

Project: The Economics of Digital Comics Creators Involved: Todd AllenCampaign End Date: 7/18/14. Publishing Date: September 2014. Ye Olde Elevatore Pitche: Exploring how digital comics make money and where they fit in the overall comics market.   Todd Allen writes, I don't really get to engage in idle speculation very often over at Publisher's Weekly, but this is Bleeding Cool, so[...]

1X: short comics by Charles Butler, a Kickstarter campaign, close date: Wednesday, July 16th Charles Butler writes, At some point in high school I made the conscious choice to pursue becoming a professional banjo player It was a difficult decision to make, not for the obvious reasons, but because I felt I inevitably had to sacrifice another lofty goal,[...]

On Sunday at Heroes Con, it seemed like a perfect afternoon panel for thought, discussion, and reflection on the direction of "LGBT Characters in Comics" with Terry Moore, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, and Kate Leth, with Bryan Pittard and Eric Punzone of Flame On! Podcast hosting. Pittard speculated that this was the first dedicated LGBT panel[...]

But growing up in comics means that there are writers and artists they have always followed and are used to seeing creative team change while following characters they liked His favorite version of Turtles is his own version of the comics, though he appreciates all their incarnation. Blackard asked what place Mirage Studios had in creating[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Night Time Brewery: Lagunitas The night. All manner of things come from the night. Things that crawl, things that screech. And

In comics the word hero seems to have a very narrow meaning: in this story I want to broaden , or give the word back some more nuance Rory IS a hero, or at least he tries to be, though he doesn't set about saving people or fighting evil villains, at least at the beginning. BC:[...]

All of those are excellent cartoons based on comics (and in the case of original Batman it went on to influence the comics they were based on!) However in terms of the influence on the relationships of our characters this one just has the edge Oh and of course the theme tune and opening sequence. Samurai Pizza[...]

It was a combination of luck and creative frustration that drew us back together and fuelled our desire to make a proper go at the world of comics We discovered, quite quickly, that our influences were still extremely similar We found the same things funny, exciting and compelling, and although Malcolm Magic was a LONG[...]

Ian Harvey Stone writes, A few weeks ago, you may have read about my crowd funding project for The Devil Without on Bleeding Cool. It's on! It's going to

The 11th Hour. Timothy Lyon Jr., Johnny Morrow. Publishing Date: December 2014 (Planned).  Timothy Lyon Jr writes, "The 11th Hour is the journey of

Heroes Con once again proved somewhat innovative in bringing together this thematic grouping on Saturday, and it was a very interesting conversation among professionals, helping define what horror in comics means right now Adam Daughhetee moderated a panel featuring Ben Templesmith, Rafael Albuquerque, Rachel Deering, Matthew Roberts, and Vanesa Del Rey about their life and[...]

Now, the lastest in the creator driven comics is on it's way from Duane Swierczynski and Keith Burns… Ex-Con And the first issue will feature a cover by Tim Bradstreet. Ex-Con #1 begins in 1985 with L.A con artist Cody Pomeray, who had a gift for looking inside a mark's soul with just a glance[...]

Renegade are collecting the four issue series of The Dept Of Monsterology, along with the prologue that appeared in USA Today and Judge Dredd Megazine, as

Two trades are planned as well as a release through comiXology. The best way to get updates and news for Tin is by visiting facebook.com/TinComics or twitter.com/tincomics. By Ilya Dvilyanski I'm incredibly lazy. At least that's what I was saying until yesterday when it suddenly dawned on me that staying up till 3 to work on a comic[...]

It has been pointed out to Bleeding Cool that we may have had a scoop without noticing it. From the other day's look at Licensing Expo 2014, a look at the