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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

The final page of Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #1 has a line after its big big spoiler… Unlike DC Comics, Marvel have kept print letters pages for a number of titles Is this a sign that, once again, the letters pages are to be dropped from the print versions? No… or at least not for long. A[...]

Maybe in Five Years Later? So, you know, DC Comics never actually have to get around to it…   Remember this scene from the final page of The Green Team: Teen Trillionaires? What a cliffhanger to end on Well, in this week's Teen Titans Annual #3, concluding the first volume of the New 52's rendition (and amongst some truly[...]

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool broke the news that ex-Marvel EIC and current DC writer Tom DeFalco would be getting an editorial role at DC Comics to pitch in during the move from New York to Burbank Indeed, now it's looking that only a quarter of staff will be joining them in the move, it[...]

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 unanticipated desire! Southern Bastards #1[...]

Did you pick up your copy of Original Sin #1 today from Marvel? And while the prints by Skottie Young were just fabulous, there was that other little

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V-Wars, the new IDW series seems to have benefitted rather well from Free Comic Book Day. In its wake, issue 1 that came out last week is now sold out at

This week Original Sin stole our eyes, The Woods made us remember high school, Futures End had us thinking that maybe global warming isn't so bad, and Cyclops made us wish we were space pirates. Don't forget to check out our Facebook page! Books reviewed in this episode: DC Comics: Batman Detective Comics #31 DC Comics: Batman Superman #10 Image[...]

We showed you the unboxing of the new Marvel Heroclix: Deadpool set by Scott Porter on Saturday. Now Scott is back to do a more in-depth review including

All-ages publisher Papercutz have produced a series of graphic novels based on Geronimo Stilton, a time travelling mouse and his sister Thea Stilton. The

5 – THE SPACE EXPLORERS CLUB Writer/Artist Name(s): Jack Katz, Cover Artist(s): Jack Katz Marketing Description: With the conclusion of The First Kingdom, human champion, Tundran, and his children, fulfil their ultimate destiny and bring down the pantheon of the gods, heralding a new epic! From a far-flung future of space-faring humans to races of strange new[...]

Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. [audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/podcasts/orbital-podcast-spider-man-special.mp3] They say: Welcome again to another special episode of the Orbiting Pod! This time, we tackle that wall crawling menace known as Spider-Man! As with our other specials, we look at 4 different tales from web-heads career: not necessarily the best, but a good representation[...]

As The Lone Ranger series from Dynamite hits issue #24, it seemed like a good time for Byron Brewer to check in with series writer Ande Parks to see what

Today, I had a particular interest in seeing how Loki: Agent of Asgard panned out in issue #4 so headed down to my local comic shop, Conquest Comics in New Jersey to write about it. I was following the series and appreciating the characterization of Loki building on Journey into Mystery and Young Avengers and found[...]

The dust has settled a little now on the initial surprise regarding Amazon's purchase of ComiXology but predictions and attitudes to the purchase still vary widely, mainly pivoting on accessibility of comics, cost of comics, and how this will affect what products are available For ComiXology Submit creators, however, who market their creator-owned comics through[...]

 He allegedly used some of those funds to buy high-end collectibles, including comics… Several other of the recovered comics in question  (including an Action Comics #1 CGC 3.0 that just hammered for $388,375) are selling at Heritage Auctions… Amazingly, the drama didn't end with Chiofalo's arrest and the recovery of the comics[...]

Sam Humphries may best be known in the comics industry for his self-published micro-distributed hit Our Love Is Real, a rather outrageous science-fiction comic. Since he started at Marvel Comics, his work has been less controversial And, for his sins, he has just signed an exclusive deal with Marvel. The final issue of Avengers A.I, the less-than-bestselling[...]

If you are in London today, why not pop by Orbital Comics? They have a signing with David Lloyd, David Hine, David Leach as well as other people not called David like Steve Marchant, Mark Montague and Chris Geary for the ComiXology launch of their digital comics anthology Aces Weekly, now at its tenth volume. So what[...]

This is what they have to say about it: DYNAMIC FORCES presents their latest and greatest contest of 2014! One lucky winner in a random drawing will receive the Grand Prize of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 signed by the modern day author who changed the face of Spider-Man comics for many years to come: DAN SLOTT! That's[...]

Marvel Comics has just relaunched its Ultimate line of comic books and it hasn't exactly set the market on fire The new Ultimate FF was well reviewed but its sales were pitiful What was once a byword for excitement and innovation has become tainted after ludicrous plots poor characterisation and, basically, gaining a reputation for[...]

It's Wednesday, it's new comics day, which means it's time for 36 Thoughts About 36 Comics' traditionally fabourite way of opening its column Some gratuitous male nudity. Courtesy of Woods #1 there Any more for any more? Okay, that's painful Thank you Rat Queens. And Suicide Risk #13 gives you some topless restaurant action Seriously, you'd have thought[...]

During C2E2, Bleeding Cool ran this image, flipped up during the Spider-Man panel, that seemed to show a future for Superior Spider-Man, the Doc

Next week… the funeral? Comics bought on ComiXology, today.   By stint of the book being set five years in the New 52's future, this is of course a changeable timeline As Alan Moore wrote in his pitch proposal for Twilight Of The Heroes, which this series draws on significantly, talking about the lessons of Batman: The[...]

He was recently the subject of the book Bill the Boy Wonder: The Secret Co-Creator of Batman. However, due to original agreements between the publisher and the credited creator of Batman, Bob Kane, he is never credited as such by DC Comics and he died penniless and unknown outside of committed fans In comparison, Bob Kane and[...]

From today's Original Sin #1, sent in by a friendly retailer. You know, I'm sure Pol Pot would want to challenge that. Or in the Marvel Universe, surely

Nailbiter #1 is published tomorrow. The Phantom group of retailers have an exclusive variant designed for selfies, it seems. Here is Wonderworld retailer