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From today's Chew/Revival crossover... an interesting flipbook that has two separate crossovers between the cast of each book, in their own separate and

Interesting Drug has come to the right place if they're looking for weird people… welcome to a few thoughts about a few of today's comics. Jim Gordon there, world class diver, fully clothed, feet down, from the top of a Gotham skyscraper, in today's Batman #31. Nightwing has a fashion dilemma in Nightwing #30. Amanda Waller meets a[...]

Got a nice collection of four new books from Dynamite due out this week. The first issue of the Gold Key character Doctor Spektor: Master Of The Occult,

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom! This week Image gave us some new hotness, DC had lots of Bat books, and Marvel

As we reported here at Bleeding Cool a few months ago, a play is in the works to stage the events surrounding the performance of the play Illuminatus!,

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/The-Orbiting-Pod-X-Men-Special.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to another Special Episode of The Orbiting Pod! This week, things get x-treme, astonishing & uncanny as we delve into the world of The X-Men! Tying in to the recently released installment in the film franchise, we kick things off with a[...]

By Gary Turner So last time was a REAL challenge. We covered Wonder Woman. She seems to be a character with a lot of passionate fans from many walks of

By Alasdair Stuart Matt Miner is the brain behind Liberator, one of my favorite comics of the last couple of years Matt's a tireless creator, hard at work on the second Liberator series, Earth Crisis, as well as Toe Tag Riot, the story of a zombie punk band battling the Westboro Baptist Church The creative team[...]

But closer to home in comics, there's a certain red-haired woman warrior who is often known as the She-Devil With A Sword  Did Dynamite Entertainment or Red Sonja LLC force the title change? Well, considering the first piece of teaser art for the newly dubbed Sirens does feature a red-haired, female barbarian… it could be. Anyway, Sirens is a[...]

From the first press release for Grant Morrison's Multiversity... Comprising seven complete adventures -- each set in a different parallel universe -- a

Comic creators, film producers, convention organizers, toy makers... lend me your ears. (Yeah, I went there.) I’ve done a few articles so far about

Because that's what ants do. Which is what happens to humanity in Trees, the new comic from Warren Ellis and Jason Howard, published from Image Comics tomorrow The sticks are called "trees" from the human's perspective, high, mighty, going who knows where There is no invasion, aside from the after effects of just being there, they[...]

"Not so much pushing the envelope of comicbook storytelling as folding it up to make a nice hat." Electricomics Coming tomorrow The Facebook page lists it as an "app" so it may well be a comics app coming to devices near you. Twitter or Tumblr or Facebook, you choose. "@mo_ali: @johnreppion @Electricomics @leahmoore TELL ME NOWWW" there's a big clue in the[...]

This morning we reported that digital publisher Graphicly was shutting down and staff moving to book publisher Blurb. Michah Baldwin talks about the move

Cosplayer Nicole Jacobs writes about experiences of harassment at recent comic conventions. Jacobs writes: I have been cosplaying since September of 2013,

I don’t normally do reviews. Mainly because I’m a comic writer myself and I feel like critiquing my peers is kind of pretentious. So for me to do a review

 I'm glad we waited to establish our book's voice before we attempted our own look at childbirth, but there must be other examples of "realistic" birthing scenes in comics, right?  I'm sure we could all find at least six graphic decapitations from this week's stack of books alone, so there must be other depictions out[...]

Indie book publisher Blurb that specialise in allowing authors to self publish books through them is hiring key members of the digital comic publisher and

Taken on the NYC Subway, a poster for the upcoming Special Edition NYC Comic Convention, a show focussing on comics and used to promote the larger NYCC later in the year, and an opportunity for Marvel Comics to establish themselves very much as a New York publisher – and one that is staying here Most[...]

I was born in 1972. Just before that momentous occasion, DC co-publisher Dan DiDio was writing letters to The House of Secrets #99 (August 1972) aged

It's actually a triple-whammy this week as we say in the USA, with three big things happening at once on the 2000AD front. First, there's this week's

What makes them such a treasure trove of stories for today's comics market? CR: I think there's a certain purity to those characters The most successful of them have a strong visual element to them, and their basic character set up can be explained in just a few short sentences It's not necessary to understand a[...]

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, folks! This week is a big week! Tons[...]

By Jared Cornelius It's not really a secret to anyone who knows me that I'm a wrestling fan.  It's not a passion I wear on my sleeve, but in the 31 years

It currently stands as the fifth highest-grossing movie of the year so far, and received a largely positive critical reaction to boot. Well, I can only hope that the success of the movie translates into a similar reception for the accompanying graphic novel by Aronofsky and co-writer Ari Handel – because their collaboration with artist Niko[...]

Here's hoping we see more comics following in tow For now, enjoy Brass Sun, previewed courtesy of 2000AD: Brass Sun #1 hits shelves this week, on May 28th I recall hearing about the possibility of this book a couple of years ago and feeling fascinated by the core principles[...]

When I first heard that the previous publisher to publish Doc Savage comics no longer held the license, I immediately contacted the good people at Dynamite to let them know that, if they ever got their hands on the license, that I wanted to write the comic And I mentioned it again the next time[...]

In grading final papers, reviewing course evaluations, and speaking with students outside of class, I have garnered several insights about young people and comics I'm pleased to report that the views I held in January about these young men and women and their interest in comics might have been overly pessimistic. The course itself, or the[...]

We've looked into the very, very early work of Alan Moore, uncovering what appears to be his earliest published work, written in 1969. Today we have

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… Batman Eternal loses its regular top spot, with the eventness of Forever Evil, Amazing Spider-Man and Original Sin beating it out[...]