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So who is that mystery man in Original Sin anyway? The one with mystical monster, Watcher and living planet killing bullets? Let's zoom in. Okay, it's not

And now we are running a crowd funding campaign to expand that bar at mygeekeasy.com. I know comics, that's not a problem, but the bar has been kicking my ass It won the award for best kept secret Orlando, then the secret got out and business exploded It was clear from the start that comic nerds[...]

From Demolition Man – the "Three Sea Shells" scene. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBI8uCKi2lI[/youtube] And selected panels from the very pretty future-set Rai #2 from this week's comics. Three seashells! I think we know what films Matt Kindt has a soft spot for. UPDATE: We receive the following note: I have it on good authority that was Mr[...]

  This is the solicited cover for Bloodstrike #35, published online in December 2012 for publication from Image Comics in March 2013… The series was never published though art from the series was used to illustrate Liefeld's Kickstarter appeal for a Brigade comic which raised $35,000 but still without the promised publication Currently Rob Liefeld says that,[...]

There's also a clip on YouTube, but as Mark says, If you click the iPlayer link you'll get an extra 2 min intro, a very cool thing I didn't expect being LOADS OF SPOILERS for issue 2 as we sent about 50 pages to Newsnight before the show [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnIotMTAZHQ[/youtube] There's the usual overclaim, and Mark Millar has deconflated[...]

Reprinting work from the original Detective Comics #27 that first features Batman, his name is up there in lights Probably not with a co-creator credit inside, Bob Kane's contract remains watertight after his death, but it's something… Because right now, all is not good with DC Comics and Finger's family…   It's a tale that most comic[...]

He seemed to have been out of sorts with Marvel and DC Comics of late. But the impending Spider-Verse event seems to have brought writer David Hine back to Marvel, reviving his popular Spider-Man Noir character with Fabrice Sapolsky, as the event sees to take in every version of Spider-Man ever portrayed, legally at least. The Edge[...]

El Jueves is a Spanish satirical magazine published for 39 years, weekly every Wednesday. Which is why it translates as "The Thursday". Except this weeks

Wonderworld comics owners Dennis Barger and Robert Bowman in Taylor MI are selling off their their 250,000 back issues of comic books to whoever will take them In bulk. Citing increases in rent and the reducing demand at shows for the dollar box –  as well as the DC Comics reboot – they say they have lost faith[...]

We've got an advance preview of Harbinger #24 – the penultimate chapter of "Death of a Renegade" from writer Joshua Dysart (Harbinger Wars) and Harvey

This is Margali, the original mother of Nightcrawler, and Jimaine, the sister of Nightcrawler, before it all got changed later on. As things are want to.

From yesterday's Amazing X-Men. Puck, recently of X-Force, getting a call... but who is his companion? He's old enough to be Talisman's... well...

Dynamite is relaunching Jack Kirby's visionary series Captain Victory. Now in the hands of Joe Casey and Nathan Fox, the new series sets the Captain on an

What would it be like if a twelve-year old from a technically advanced race got stranded in a world of swords, sorcery and dragons? An international team

Thanks also to the good folks at Midtown Comics in NYC for hosting Grant's appearance. Tony Wolf is an actor, voice-over guy, sometime illustrator and rabid pop culture fan in New York City.  He can be found lurking about at www.tonywolfactor.com and was the co-host of www.theactionroom.com. Michael Turney shot and edited this video[...]

It's written by filmmaker, actor, and comics creator Chris Miskiewicz, who's no stranger to the horror genre or New York set stories It's with some relief that I heard that it's coming to print a last, in all its water-colory glory as the supernatural invades the boroughs Rich Johnston, when he heard about it, called[...]

Chris Robeson continues his run on the Man of Bronze with Doc Savage #6 out this week. Battlestar Galactica writer Dan Abnett talked with Chris about what

Tell us a little but about how you and Kyle started cooking up this idea. Justin Jordan: The real origin of the book was two things that sort of bonded together in my head, which is often how comics come about I was watching some zombie thing, probably Walking Dead, and got to idly thinking that[...]

This week, we have Patrick Gerard as a guest, whose knowledge of business leads him to address the improved profit margin resulting from leaving Apple behind, resulting in the ability to lower the cost of comics and promote sales. Patrick Gerard writes: First of all, a bit of background on myself I'm the writer/publisher of the book[...]

It has reached my ear that at Tuesday's editorial retreat, Marvel Comics' Senior Vice President of Talent Co-ordination, CB Cebulski informed the folks present that he will be leaving to assume a larger role in the Marvel/Disney organisation. The details are sketchy, right now But could he be moving out West where his choice of shirts[...]

Last month, Boom! did the business with The Woods, their highest launching original series from their core Studios imprint since Mark Waid's Irredeemable. The Woods has sold over 17,000 copies  with strong reorder activity. Yesterday, Boom! announced that they were launching a new action spy comic series called Butterfly under their Archaia imprint, written by screenwriter Arash Amel. But it's also co-written by Marguerite Bennett, who[...]

J Scott Campbell is working on a retailer exclusive cover for Rocket Raccoon #1, the upcoming funny animal comic by Skottie Young that will be outselling every other comic book in the direct market this July. But for this one, you'll have to talk to Midtown Comics in New York or Limited Edition Comix in the[...]

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! Advance reorders[...]

This is a cartoon created by Chad Porter in 2013 and published on DeviantArt. At the time he said, This has been a running gag in my head for some time

Expect a third soon. Following on the unexpected success of Dredd: Underbelly, this may prove a successful new business model for Rebellion, recreating 2000AD comics in US format – and just not telling anyone that's what you're doing. And, you know, using nicer paper. IDW's new fantasy sci-fi release V-Wars has also done pretty well[...]

X-Men will match If not exceed ASM2's domestic box office, meaning lots of eyeballs, but there are no toy tie-ins. The Fox shut out is real. —

The Baker Street Irregulars is a comic book by Tony Lee and Dan Boultwood, published by Hachette but now out of print. That hasn't put of its fans however, and the series has now been adapted into a Milwaukee stage play. In October, the Todd Wehr Theater will be putting on Sherlock Holmes: The Baker Street Irregulars, by[...]

Fat Jack's, a comic shop in Philly is celebrating their 38th anniversary this month with both a progressive sale on back issues and a visit by wrestling duo Christopher Daniels and Frankie Kazarian. Now this duo has wrestled for WCW, WWE, TNA, ECW and Ring Of Honor over their 21 and 16 year careers… but recently[...]

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 is exciting! The art of Elektra had us drooling! The awkward familiarity of Eltingville Club had us in stitches! And getting to know The Watcher made us remember that we have[...]

Jonathan Evans (from JR Comics) was very pleased by the reaction their presence at BEA/Book Con received: In a word: overwhelming The first two days of the Expo were fantastic for us in terms of meeting librarians, teachers, booksellers, and people who have an industry interest in comic books and graphic novels And today (Book Con)[...]