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James Tynion IV & Marguerite Bennett Launch New Horror Comic, Odin
At ComicsPRO yesterday, during the Tiny Onion presentation, James Tynion IV announced that he is teaming up with co-writer Marguerite Bennett, artist Letizia Cadonici, colourist Jordie Bellaire, letterer Tom Napolitano, designer Dylan Todd and editor Steve Foxe for an all-new horror tale in the upcoming nine-issue comic book series, Odin, from Image Comics in May,[...]
DC Comics Full May 2026 Solicits And Solicitations
DC Comics May 2026 solicits was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday as ComicsPRO kicked off everywhere Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years Founded seventeen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip[...]
Marvel Returns The X-Men to Australia With X-Men Outback in June
Announced at ComicsPRO by Marvel's David Gabriel is the news that the next Marvel retro series will be X-Men: Outback, returning to the time after the Fall Of The Mutants when the X-Men hid in the Australian outback and discovered the teleporting Aboriginal mutant, Gateway And Steve Orlando and Stephen Segovia will be returning the[...]
Chip Zdarsky On Avengers Armageddon And Something Never Done Before
At the ComicsPRO retailer event happening this week in Glendale, California (have you been following along?) Marvel executive David Gabriel talked about the upcoming Armageddon summer event for the publisher and said of its author, Chip Zdarsky, "he's been crafting this new version of the Avengers for us, very quietly setting things in up Captain[...]
Marvel Launches Changes For Blind Bags And Mystery Bags For 2026
David Gabriel told the retailers at ComicsPro that, unlike previous blind bags Marvel has done for Ultimate Endgame and Daredevil, they will now only contain exclusive variant covers not available for regular ordering. So there is no chance of getting a cover that you could have easily just picked up off the shelf The main cover[...]
A New Black Wonder Man For The Marvel Universe In 2026
Marvel is about to start publishing a new Wonder Man comic book series with the classic look of the character on the cover, but over in the Ultimate Impact Reborn series, looking at the impact of the Ultimate Universe Origin Boxes, creating new superheroes and supervillains in the Marvel Universe, we just got two new[...]
Batwoman, Deadman, Jonah Hex, More DC Next Wave
At the ComicsPRO retailer event in Glendale, California, ten minutes from DC Comics' offices in Burbank, DC Comics provided more details on the 2026 DC Next Level slate No creators attached, but we know that Joshua Williamson is on The Legion Of Super-Heroes and James Harren is on The Demon We will also have new[...]
Absolute Green Arrow #1
At the ComicsPRO retailer event being held at Glendale, California, ten minutes from DC Comics' offices in Burbank, we had Absolute Group Editor Chris Conroy taking the lead at a retailer event DC Comics announced a new Absolute Universe series, unnamed, for later this year "It's the first Absolute Universe event This will be in[...]
Bat Seeds: A Batman And Gotham Event For 2026, With Mayor Poison Ivy
Matt Keller, Director of Speciality Sales, took to the stage at ComicsPRO in Glendale today, following the Absolute line, to talk about Batman books Well, not the Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb Batman #163, you needed Bleeding Cool to tell you about that, and no one in the room was asking about it But Bleeding[...]
A Brand New Star Trek Series In 2026 With Captain Seven Of Nine
A Brand New Star Trek Series In 2026, With Captain Seven Of Nine was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday as ComicsPRO kicked off everywhere Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years Founded seventeen years ago and steeped[...]
What If
At ComicsPRO, David Gabriel talked about a return to What If…? for the fiftieth anniversary of the first What If comic book series (almost, 2016 is the 49th anniversary, but what's a year between friends) You can follow along more comic book announcements with ComicsPRO right now Marvel's What If presentation at ComicsPRO screencap David Gabriel says,[...]
The Return Of Paul Chadwick's Concrete For His Fortieth Anniversary
The character's first appearance was in Dark Horse Presents #1 in 1986, Dark Horse's first comic book… check out more ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tandy tag. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ "Concrete: Stars Over Sand, a five-part story of[...]
IDW Launches First Hello Kitty Comic Book... But She's Lost Her Bow
Announced by IDW at ComicsPRO, IDW Publishing and Sanrio are publishing a new line of Hello Kitty comic books, beginning with Hello Kitty: Hello World!, a brand-new comic book series featuring a classic depiction of Sanrio's characters as Hello Kitty and Friends go on a world tour to solve a riddle As they discover new[...]
Marvel Teases The Death Of Dylan Brock At The Hands Of Torment
Marvel's David Gabriel has been dropping big news bombs at the ComicsPRO retailer event happening today in Glendale, California And that includes the world of Venom, with Queen In Black and Death Spiral coming to stores imminently You can follow along with ComicsPRO right now And talking of what's going on in the Venom book,[...]
Jay And Silent Bob Joins Marvel Universe With Jays Of Silents Past
Kevin Smith's long-awaited Jay & Silent Bob Marvel crossover arrives this June, featuring art by Giuseppe Camuncoli, announced by David Gabriel at ComicsPRO today in front of comic book retailers in Glendale, California You can follow along with the other announcements at ComicsPRO right now. Jay And Silent Bob Joins Marvel Universe With Jays Of Future[...]
The New Look For Mary Jane's Venom Will Arrive Early At Marvel Comics
Marvel's David Gabriel has been dropping big news bombs at the ComicsPRO retailer event happening today in Glendale, California And that includes the world of Venom, the look of Venom, and who Venom actually is these days You can follow along with ComicsPRO right now with this handy tag We have already had the new[...]
The Queen In Black Will Be A Cosmic, Symbiote Version Of Civil War
Marvel's David Gabriel has been dropping big news bombs at the ComicsPRO retailer event happening today in Glendale, California And that includes the world of Venom, with Queen In Black coming to stores in July 2026, with a tease for Free Comic Book Day You can follow along with ComicsPRO right now. With Hela, goddess of[...]
Marvel Comics To Publish DDoom Day One
It's ComicsPRO in Glendale, California, right now, and everyone is announcing new comic books And at the Marvel retailer address by David Gabriel, that includes a new Doctor Doom series, Doom: Day One, set on the day of Victor Von Doom's birth, telling the collected retailers that it was "because you can't have enough Doom[...]
Phillip Kennedy Johnson To Launch Hulk War: Infernal Rage In 2026
Just announced at ComicsPRO by Marvel's David Gabriel, the third in Phillip Kennedy Johnson's Hulk trilogy, Hulk War: Infernal Rage, which will follow the current Infernal Hulk series, which will conclude with its tenth issue Gabriel told retailers, "Hopefully you all are enjoying Philip Kennedy Johnson's Infernal Hulk series, something so different for us to have[...]
Marvel Comics' May 2026 Full Solicits And Solicitations
Marvel Comics has dropped their May 2026 solicits and solicitations right in the middle of their ComicsPRO presentation with an hour embargo… so that was fun Will sort out the images later but for now… things kick off with Armageddon As well as the launch of Doomquest, the finale of Reborn: UItimate Impact, the launch[...]
Marvel Comics Teases Hel on Earth
Stay tuned later this week for the official announcement out of ComicsPro." … check out more ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tandy tag. Hel On Earth The Queen in Black is a major Marvel Comics crossover event scheduled to launch in July 2026 by Al Ewing and Iban Coello and spins directly out of the ongoing Venom series[...]
Vertigo Wave Two from DC Comics
At the ComicsPRO retailer event being held at Glendale, California, ten minutes from DC Comics' offices in Burbank, with Vertigo Editor Chris Conroy taking the lead at a retailer event, DC Comics announced more from DC Vertigo coming in 2026, including where Wave Two will be lined up And he began by announcing that the[...]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 Gets Blind Bag For Kevin & Peter Laird Cover
Some help in the comments, maybe? To commemorate the milestone, and for ComicsPRO week, IDW has crafted a blind bag programme featuring multiple versions of a never-before-seen cover from co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, a J Scott Campbell variant, and more surprises to be revealed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #300 comic will kick off[...]
ComicsPRO Attendees Wake Up To Something Under Their Hotel Room Doors
… check out more ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tandy tag. Photo courtesy of retailer And everyone was quite content to have a new Mind MGMT comic book coming Until today … because Oni Press has unveiled that it is has devised an elaborate means to taking Kindt's signature work on psychic espionage and paranoid tension off[...]
Marvel Teases Spider-Man, Wolverine And Captain Marvel For Armageddon
Stay tuned later today for the official announcement." That will be at the ComicsPRO event later today Maybe they'll tell us who Pruet or Pruett is … check out more ComicsPRO coverage with this handy tandy tag. ARMAGEDDON ASSEMBLES Which Spider-Man that is being teased we can't say, though Miles Morales is involved with the impact of[...]
ComicsPRO Late Night
It's all go at ComicsPRO, the comic book industry event being held in Glendale, California, with retailers, publishers, distributors and creators ready to glad hand, or glad any part of the human body you'd care to name However, disaster has struck as there is currently only one elevator/lift working for the hotel.  They are hopeful[...]
Batman #163 By Jim Lee And Jeph Loeb Delayed Till End Of March 2026
And it was probably handy that they cancelled Red Hood as well… And even if we get the final issue of  H2SH Part One, will we ever get Part Two, meant to be its own mini-series, let alone H3SH? It will join the 1963 Annual and Pearl Of The Deep with Alan Moore, WildCATS with Grant[...]
Marvel Summit, Then ComicsPRO, Then DC Summit, Then Collapse
How did this time of year suddenly get so busy in comics all of a sudden? We just had the Marvel Creators Retreat in New York, ComicsPRO is about to kick off in Glendale, and next week, the not-reported-anhywhere DC Comics Summit will be taking place in Burbank We noted how She-Hulk and Daredevil writer[...]
Mark Waid & David Lapham's New Bad Idea Comic Has A 200 Copy Print Run
When I Was Five by Mark Waid and David Lapham is another of the very rare Bad Idea "Secret Six comics" and will only be available to and from 99 specific comic book stores whose owners or employees are attending the comic book retailer activist group annual meeting ComicsPRO in Glendale, California next week Expect[...]