A new Champions #1 was meant to launch out of the Outlawed mini-event, but only the Outlawed #1 one-shot made it out before shutdown and the books fell off the scheduling list. But according to the Marvel website, it looks as if Champions #1 by Eve L Ewing and Simone Di Meo is getting a […]
In today's Fantastic Four, Marvel Executive Editor and Senior Vice President of Publishing, Tom Brevoort is quoted as saying the following "Hopefully by the time you are reading this, the situation will have resolved itself, but at the moment, we at Marvel are all in the midst of the self-quarantine measures being taken to slow […]
Valiant Entertainment is announcing a Virtual Portfolio Review programme during what would have been convention season. Instead, Valiant will offer a digital one-on-one portfolio review for aspiring interior artists, cover artists, colourists, and letters. These virtual one-on-one sessions will take place with senior editors Heather Antos or Lysa Hawkins and will run for approximately ten minutes. Here's the when and […]
From the Supergirl digital comic book published yesterday – a new social distancing ad with the Flash and Plastic Man to accompany all the print ones that DC Comics has been running of late. Has this one been better thought through than the others? Not a bit of it. No, the Flash should be able […]
Currently, the London ExCel Centre is still on reserve as an emergency hospital. It's better known to Bleeding Cool readers as the home of the MCM London Comic Con, run by ReedPOP. And as may be expected right now, they have cancelled their October show, just as they had their spring-delayed-to-summer show. In an announcement […]
OK Comics is a great comic book shop in Leeds, and was the home for many an agent during the Thought Bubble Comics Festival when that was held in the city. Bleeding Cool reported on when the store was in trouble ten years ago, but ten years later it was still going strong – until […]
Earlier this month, DC Comics ran a socially distancing message with Bruce Wayne and his son Damian Wayne which seemed rather cold since they were family. And may even live in the same mansion. If Damian Cummings can drive 160 miles for his kid, then surely Batman could step forward two metres? Anyway, today's version […]
We have had the full Marvel Comics solicitations for September 2020, but there are still a few missing titles. Quite a few actually, not just the ones we missed out on this morning. Ghost Rider #7 by Ed Brisson and Aaron Kuder has a publication date for July 7th but nothing for August or September, Will […]
Thought Bubble, the UK's largest comic art festival, has announced that this years festival and convention in Harrogate planned for November 2020. have been postponed to 13th-14th November 2021 and that a digital comic con will take place this November on the 14th and 15th in its stead. All exhibitors and ticket holders have been […]
Today sees the publication of Savage Dragon #249, the first issue in quite some time after the global pandemic set in. Also, because of the length of publication process, the shutdown of the industry and the reticence of superhero comic books to address topical events directly, these days, it's the first to reflect the shutdown, […]
There have been a lot of comic book publishers and groups who have put out socially relevant messages at this current time of trial. But today's DC Comics titles have a new one that asks more questions than it answers. The following image appears in a number of titles, demonstrating social distancing or two metres […]
Image Comics did it first for this week, Bleeding Cool running the news a week ago. But Marvel Comics will be joining them. Including the Diamond #BackTheComeback stamp on their covers on books coming out on July 15th. Including a certain Empyre #1. They will also have Back the Comeback in-store promotions for game stores […]
Lots of comic book publishers have been rescheduling their releases as a result of the current pandemic and the industry shutdown. Not all of them, like Dynamite Entertainment , are putting everything out in one day. July 1st will see Dynamite release all five titles for the month, The Boys: Dear Becky #2, Vampirella #10, […]
On today's Pull-List video from Marvel Entertainment, the publisher announced a number of reschedulings of Marvel Comics titles that had been Missing In Action. Recently, Bleeding Cool ran a Marvel Missing In Action list, looking at solicited Marvel comic books that had been rescheduled and those that had not been. Now Marvel has added Black […]
Last month, Bleeding Cool reported on IDW Publishing of San Diego making a number of employees redundant, permanently, some of which took to social media to elaborate on their position. We now understand that Valiant Entertainment of New York has had to make similar decisions. After making enquiries, Matthew Klein, Valiant Entertainment's VP of Sales […]
I took a socially distanced bicycle ride into London this morning. Today is the day that the UK government has decreed that non-essential shops are allowed to open across England, and that includes comic shops. Boris Johnson has read all his Tintin books three times over and was clearly in need of something new. So […]
DC Comics has rescheduled a number of titles of DC Comics titles that were solicited before the shutdown and haven't been resolicited since. Here's a list of those coming through FOC this weekend, and rescheduled for early July 2020, coming through UCS, Lunar and Diamond UK. On the 7th of July DC CLASSICS THE BATMAN […]
A year ago, I went with the family to Parc Astérix, just outside Paris for the launch of the name of the best selling comic of 2019, Asterix and The Chieftain's Daughter. It was aces. But naturally, it has been closed for a while and those with tickets have been wondering what is what. That […]
It's been quite some time since I ventured to my local comic book shop, Piranha Comics of Kingston Upon Thames. But the store will be reopening to the public from Monday – and I plan to be doing a bicycle tour of a bunch of London shops doing likewise on the day. But what I […]
Valiant Entertainment was one of the first comic book publishers to stop creators working in the worldwide shutdown and lockdown. And not in the nice UK way where everyone still gets 80% of their pay, but the harsher US version where everyone gets a cheque and tries to claim unemployment benefit. Well, it looks like […]
