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Last night, Bleeding Cool was the first to run 16 of the DC Comics "Bombshells" covers, designed by Ant Lucia and appearing as variant covers on DC titles in June. But the female focus of these vintage sexualised style images made some wondfer if there was an equialent for the menfolk of the DC Universe Well[...]

Dynamite is doing another ComiXology sale this weekend, this time focusing on their Pulp characters. In honor of that they've given us not on, but two

A few days ago, I made Hannah, Bleeding Cool Editor-In-Chief do this with Marvel's Original Sin promotional glow-in-the-dark eyeballs. It seems to be catching… @bleedingcool Watcher eyeball soup…mmmmmm #OriginalSin @Marvel pic.twitter.com/7Ql47djDao — TheOhioHydra (@DrewAntonRose) May 9, 2014   @bleedingcool pic.twitter.com/PPoOBI3GpM — Patrick McDuffee (@SuperDuffBoy) May 8, 2014   @bleedingcool The One eyed monster is always watching (•) pic.twitter.com/GiS4yC47VF — Nick Romeo (@grifterR1) May 8,[...]

We've got a double shot of previews for next weeks new comic book day. Valiant has Quantum And Woody #10 and Bloodshot And H.A.R.D Corps #22 coming out

Dynamite is continuing their new FOC (final order cutoff) retailer incentive program, this time with Chaos! #2. The initial orders for Chaos! #1 were very

May is the official month to celebrate Women in Comics (though I don't think there'd be any objection to making that a year-round fest), and Dark Horse is leading the way with several of their female comics creators featuring here on Bleeding Cool throughout the month This week we talk to one of the most[...]

With the recent news of Extinction Parade getting optioned for television by Legendary Pictures and the announced second series Extinction Parade: War...

Okay, so it's clear I have a problem with Candy Crush. Well now all comic books are being viewed through the eyes of a guy who has just got to level 305

Way talks about the craft of comics, the role of masks, and the ways in which we find our very personal messiahs in this interview with Bleeding Cool. Hannah Means-Shannon: To start with something technical about the comic, how do you think that using radio broadcasts or even music lyrics in comics influences the way a[...]

One week he was exhibiting at MoCCA Fest in New York with his fellow Hang Dai Studio members, the next week couldn't make it to show in New Jersey due to having a flu, and by the following weekend he was being admitted to hospital. [Seth, far left, with Gregory Benton and Dean Haspiel at the[...]

As the series winds down he and John Layman have lots planned to see Tony Chu off in great style, but he and Layman are not looking to see other creators really play in their sandbox unless it is something like the Revival/Chew crossover.  The two creators are talking new ideas for after Chew is[...]

I have been writing and drawing stories about Wolff & Byrd for 35 years and I've used whatever medium was available to me to do the comic. In 1979, I had an opportunity to do Supernatural Law (then titled Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre) as a comic strip for weekly newspapers (the strip appeared[...]

So what have we learned? Marvel Comics dollar share continued its rise, but sharper this month with their dollar share rising from 34.31% to 39.27  and their unit share does the same from 38.17% to 41.15%, possibly due to a rather highly priced Amazing Spider-Man #1 DC Comics saw their dollar share continue to dive from[...]

Ian Melton and Alyssa Pack wrote from Emerald City Comic-Con a few weeks ago. But this issue is beginning to affect more and more shows... Emerald City

It's my favorite superhero universe outside of the Big 2. SMARTASS8, Milestone Media is not now nor has it ever been owned by DC Comics So they can't have us 'for good' nor can any company have another company if said company is not the owner of that company DC has a publishing and distribution deal with[...]

DC Comics production staff are coming to terms with the challenge of working on their standard books, alongside what are described as the "interim" books that Tom DeFalco and his team are preparing internally to cover the two month move from New York to Burbank, that we reported on earlier this week and have had[...]

For comic coming out in June, here are fifteen of the variant covers, created by Ant Lucia, that accompany a number of DC Comics titles… For comic coming out in June, here are fifteen of the variant covers, created by Ant Lucia, that[...]

Farscape, the late nineties sci-fi TV show has been through a number of comic book adaptations. In 2002, Wildstorm produced a two-part Farscape comic. And

Archer & Armstrong kicks off their 20th issue with a new story arc, American Wasteland. Writer Fred Van Lente and artist Pere Perez pit our two heroes

  In November Marvel Comics will be releasing it's Marvel 75th Anniversary Omnibus – a 1200 page book featuring stories chosen by the fans. Marvel is asking for their fans to choose what they think are the best stories from their 75 year publishing history Everything is open from 1939's Marvel Comics #1 to the books hitting[...]

We discuss his continuing work on Ghosted and his new series Nailbiter from Image Comics Then I catch up with the hugely talented Brian Churilla to discuss how he plans to juggle two new ongoing series (Hellbreak and Big Trouble in Little China) at the same time! To get in touch, send feedback or submit projects[...]

By Ian Mageto In this episode Comics and Cosplay host Ian Mageto, also Bleeding Cool's Senior Cosplay correspondent and Bleeding Cosplay columnist, reviews DC's latest animated film Son of Batman Also he gives his thoughts about the costumes of Deathstroke and Damian Wayne (Robin). *Warning: this video covers slight spoilers from the movie. You can follow Comics and[...]

With the return of Chaos! Comics, Dynamite Entertainment is offering up an art contest You draw your best version of Evil Ernie, Purgatory or Chastity and send it in by midnight PST on Monday May 12th and you can win a complete set of Chaos! #1 including the retailer incentive covers. We will choose the best[...]

She leaps in Captain Trevor's repaired fighter and give chase. Why change Steve Trevor to a father figure? Well that'd be because his character is the Ken doll of DC Comics One of the most predictable, two-dimensional romantic interests of all time Wonder Woman deserves far better than to just fall for the first man she ever[...]

Recently, fan-favorite writer Gail Simone announced that she would be extending her run on Dynamite's Red Sonja series. I got a chance to ask the writer

By Spencer Ellsworth It's Women in Comics Month this may, so it's a particular honor to welcome G Willow Wilson to Bleeding Cool G Willow Wilson has been writing comics for Vertigo, Marvel and DC since 2008, and is the author of the novel Alif the Unseen, from Grove Press, 2012 She's recently become a geek[...]

By David Dissanayake   Ted McKeever's Eddy Current series changed my life.  I discovered it early in my comics-reading, at a time when I was mostly reading superheroes and didn't fully understand all the different and exciting things happening in the broader medium.  McKeever's work found its way into my life at one of those perfect intersectional[...]

Stan Sakai'sUsagi Jojimbo, the tale of a samurai rabbit, has been charming audiences for thirty years. And in August, the comic get a new six-issue

We've talked a lot about the British Library exhibition Comics Unmasked: Art And Anarchy In The UK But still possibly not enough. The exhibition included tablets featuring Sequential, an iOS app that acts as a graphic novel boutique, featuring the finest comic books in digital form. And they've also made available, for free, a guide to some[...]

It was unannounced when Rise Of The Magi #1 was solicited, but we have learned that Marc Silvestri drew half of the interior pages on the book. Rise of