covers Archives

The front cover of the February Previews goes sideways for DC's Convergence event, but the back goes the right way up to launch Dark Horse's Rebels from

IDW must have noticed as well, because they have, today, brought it back into print, along with the Marvel Covers volume, both reproducing the original work from the artists boards and making the pages as similar to the original boards. The Nick Fury book was also designed by Steranko, who created the look of the book and the[...]

Art Adams broke into comics with 1985 Longshot miniseries for Marvel. Since then he has worked on many other titles including Uncanny X-Men, Excalibur,

Jedi News has the list of all the standard available and variant covers to the Star Wars #1 launch from Marvel Comics, Jason Aaron and John Cassaday. So we added the covers we could find But as well as these offered to all and sundry, there will be many, many, many retailer and sow exclusives Expect[...]

That Marvel might have canned any future covers after responding to negative pressure Or that Manara didn't want to do any more Marvel covers after receiving such criticism. So I approached Marvel representatives with the question and discovered that, no, this wasn't the case at all That Milo Manara's schedule was heavily filled working on his Le Caravage graphic novel about[...]

And here's one reason why it will be. One way to achieve this is by arranging exclusive retailer covers if, said retailer orders an inordinate amount of copies, then orders another inordinate amount with a cover exclusive to that store They won't sell them all that month, possibly not in the next year, but it becomes[...]

It's all gone a bit Buzzfeed here, hasn't it? Anyway... Some writers conceal hidden artistic talents. Often for a reason. But, with Bleeding Cool running

I see that John Layman is joining the creative team of Archer And Armstrong in November with issue #25. Well, as crazily tasteless as Layman is, he'll

Kenneth Rocafort and colourist Dan Brown – though sadly that's not their actual Twitter handles. But it, and all the covers below, mark a sea change at DC Comics with, for the first time, colourist names on the cover, something Bleeding Cool made quite the issue about. Blond, Hi-Fi, T&R Horie and more, take a bow[...]

The present... and five years later, courtesy of DC's September event. Swamp Thing is a robot. Constantine is Fate. And Charles Soule is writing four of

But the Bombshell variant covers of Detective Comics and Action Comics have topped the charts, ahead of all the Original Sin issues and Harley Quinn issues Nailbiter has clearly been a hit with retailers, upping orders on issue 2 and the reprint of 1 Woods didn't do badly either And Futures End #5 is the[...]

This is the promotional image for all three Midtown Spider-Man covers together, art by J Scott Campbell and colors by Nei Ruffino From left to right: Superior Spider-Man #31, Amazing Spider-Man #1, and Amazing Spider-Man #1.1 Final/individual covers will have full trade dress… This is the promotional image for all three Midtown Spider-Man covers together,[...]

The 3D lenticular covers used to launch Villains Month And hideously underprinted as China ran out of enough plastic to make them (apparently) leaving retailers heavily allocated and everyone scrabbling to get a 3D cover for Joker's Daughter. Some people got burned. But now… they're back! Announced at DC Day at ComicsPRO Retailer Summit in Atlanta, Georgia,[...]

Bleeding Cool recently reported how the Phantom Group of retailers, which negotiate shared exclusive cover variants to be shared among themselves, had

DC Comics writes; THANK YOU FROM THE CO-PUBLISHERS Dear Retailers: We’d like to take a moment to thank you for all your support for DC’s Villains Month.

3D covers allocated, severely in some cases, retailers made plans, got the 2D replacements and got used to the new status quo. Then there were more allocations They winced, but found a way Joker's Daughter seemed the hot ticket, heavily allocated, and advance copies selling for up to $130 on eBay. Retailers have received the following note; Due[...]

So… you've been picking up your 3D covers from DC Comics the past few weeks – maybe have some in a pullbox from your friendly neighbourhood comic store? So there's a big question hanging in the air. Just exactly how much can you flip them for? Here are the highest recorded September sales on eBay for each[...]

Comics will have three exclusive variant comic covers for New York Comic Con, for Batman #24, Forever Evil #1 and Superman/Wonder Woman #1. Where they will be selling them however, I have no idea Still waiting to find out what they will be doing at the show without a traditional booth. DC Samurai Jack #1 from IDW[...]

The London news yesterday included a story that a building in the city centre, nicknamed the Walkie Talkie, has been causing havoc due to the curvature of the windows acting as a magnifying glass and a) frying eggs, b) melting Jaguars and c) setting carpets on fire. I wouldn't like to buy my DC comics anywhere[...]

But in his actions, he uncovers a true father, as we mentioned earlier, the man in whose shadow we all read and work… Sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, there's a lot of that this week in DC's Villains Month And lots of justification to go around Consider it your own personal therapy session. And as a[...]

Here are a few creative changes to comic book already solicited... Rather than the full art for X-Men: Battle Of The Atom #1 being by Frank Cho as

An advance copy of Joker's Daughter #1 has just sold in eBay for $31. While The Joker #1 itself has just sold for $22.50. They will go on sale in comic

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 new, unanticipated desire! But in this case, it's full of retailers trying to make up for being allocated on the 3D Villains Month covers for September and trying[...]

Tomorrow's DC comics feature all the Villains Month covers with the backgrounds and everything added In glorious 2D. So a friendly retailer sent in a scan And here they are!                Tomorrow's DC comics feature all the Villains Month covers with the backgrounds and everything added In glorious 2D. So a[...]

Either they didn't get enough orders in the very short ordering time available (though it came top of the Advance Reorder chart his week), they discovered not enough retailers knew about it before the Final Order Cut Off date (maybe we didn't feature it prominently on Bleeding Cool enough) or they had a similar problem[...]

But in November, IDW are promoting the Artist's Edition format that reproduces original artwork as closely as possible, with Artist's Edition variant covers for a line of books, so as look as if the original artwork for a page is being reproduced on the cover. They will also run some blank versions to encourage people to[...]

DC Comics has been answering questions about the heavily allocated 3D Covers for Villain's Month in September Retailers, in many cases, have received far less than they ordered, far less than they normally get, and are making up the numbers with reduced price standard covers. But how did this happen? We find out. Why didn't DC print[...]

As Diamond and DC Comics close for the weekend, retailers are now being told exactly how many of the Villains Month 3D Cover titles they will be

DC announced 3D motion covers on all their September titles, one shots starring villainous characters, and each one given the subtitle of a popular book with an issue number and a decimal point Even if the book wasn't associated with that villain. So instead of Batgirl #23, for September we get Dark Knight #23.1: The Ventriloquist[...]

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