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Expect a lot of people to get jumpy over orders. It won't affect any of the orders for DC's New 52 books though. As Bleeding Cool reported earlier today, following up on an earlier report, DC Comics have now confirmed to all retailers the following points; The print run for the 3D covers for September had to be[...]

However, due to the length of production process, the orders for the covers had to be set well before the usual FOC date, and DC Senior VP – Sales, Bob Wayne talked at San Diego Comic Con about having to make his best guesses for setting the print runs early. But it seems that in some[...]

With the released of Red She-Hulk #67 today, Francesco Francavilla posted all five interlocking covers on his blog The covers started with issue #63 with this issue written by Jeff Parker and interiors by Carlo Pagulayan concludes the Route 616 story arc. Interlocking Red She Hulk Covers   Red She Hulk #63   Red She Hulk #64 Red She Hulk #65 Red[...]

All the ones we can get, anyway...    

Bleeding Cool broke the story of DC's gatefold covers in April, each hiding what were then referred to internally as "Holy Shit" moments When it went official, Senior editor Bobbie Chase instead referred to them as "What The F" moments And now, according to BuzzFeed, that's the official terminology. They also shared a few plot points[...]

Written and drawn hy an actual member of the Adventure Time team, and going in some rather unexpected directions, it's been a bit of a hit. Naturally it was available in a number of covers, thirteen in all, each cover displayed on the inside front cover for easy collectable reference. Except they forgot one. By Dean Haspiel, and[...]

The 60th birthday for MAD Magazine in April. And cartoonists Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond and more will be will be drawing variant tiered covers for certain DC titles. So the availability of Justice League Of America #3, Justice League #3 and Batman #19 Mad variant covers will depend upon the lowest DC New[...]

So what is going to be on the other side of all these covers? UPDATE: In the Bob Harras/Bobbie Chase interview at CBR; There's also some sort of unnamed event in April that will feature a lot of the April covers having "shocking" moments for their lead characters What's going on with that? Harras: That is going to[...]

Zenescope are coming to the London Super Comic Con next month. And they are bringing some London exclusive comics with them, with Wonderland #7 committing

I understand that, across the New DCU line, we are to get some sort of "surprise" covers for April Something that will really stand out on the comic shelves. And that they're being referred to internally as "Holy Shit!" Month. No one go changing the punctuation on that, okay? I wonder what they will actually call it? And[...]

Jorge Molina's variant cover for X-Men Legacy #5, replacing Mark Bagley's solicited piece… Hellboy In Hell #1 second print… The new printing covers to Hawkeye #1 and #2 take a more silhouettey version of the original covers. Jorge Molina's variant cover for X-Men Legacy #5, replacing Mark Bagley's solicited piece… Hellboy In Hell #1 second print… The new printing[...]

Pity your poor comic shop retailers this month, coming face to face with... JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1 JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #1 COMBO PACK JUSTICE

More variant covers need to be like this; illustrated with paints instead of inks Perhaps for the variant of this variant, Mack uses glow-in-the-dark paints to make things even more interesting. Fairest #9 by Adam Hughes In the wise words of George Takei, "Oh my!" Honestly, this has to be one of the more titillating covers of[...]

So Justice League Of America #1 is to have 52 state-specific covers They will no doubt be drip fed to a number of websites over the next few days, weeks, months even. So let's beat them to it by making ourown. There is no prize No prize save for the admiration of Bleeding Cool readers And me. Whether[...]

I wonder how long it will take Equestria Daily to link here? Starting the clock… now. The six A B C D E F covers that will also be collected in the box set. They form the following hexatych. There is the "Subscription variant" by Jill Thompson intended to be available to those who reserve copies from their[...]

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool A-Babies vs X-Babies One-Shot by Skottie Young It's a shame this one-shot wasn't a 12-issue event, for I got more excited for this cover than any of the actual Avengers vs X-Men covers Young's playful style works well when depicting the mightiest mini marvels of the 616 Universe, as they epically rough-house as[...]

Nguyen definitely killed it with every one of these covers, for his art style in particular brought this genre to life Consistently disturbing, just how I like 'em!   Batwoman #13 by J.H Williams III Is anyone else's skin crawling after looking at this cover? Gives me the willies, through and through As you can see from[...]

And justifies further the reason he is on Bleeding Cool Magazine #1's "list". But IDW is to publish a book collecting Cerebus' 300 covers, which do not appear in the Cerebus phonebook collections Dunbier has gone to Kitchener in Ontario to start scanning in all the covers, and any associated bits and pieces. With Cerebus High Society[...]

Bleeding Cool has, with a mixture of trepidation and fear, been cataloguing all the covers to Uncanny Avengers #1, out next week The last time we had it up to eighteen. Well, it looks like we missed one, the Deadpool Call Me Maybe Sketch Edition. But that does make for nineteen covers for Uncanny Avengers #1 in[...]

This is from one who lived through the comics industry in the nineties and saw it follow the speculator market with horrendous, yet predictable results. For those who weren't with us for that period, comic books were hyped up and sold at large markups for the traditional first issues and first appearances, but also for multiple[...]

Marvel has been showing off new variant covers to retailers today… here's what they are, and how hard it will be to get them Firstly,  first five interlinking covers for the new Thunderbolts series… THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #2 ACUNA VARIANT 1:50 JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #646 NOTO VARIANT 1:20 AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #10 DELL'OTTO VARIANT 1:50 THOR: GOD OF THUNDER[...]

We ran a batch of Marvel NOW! Variant covers earlier Well here are some more, including a look at Milo Manara's Psylocke, and a bunch of pre-finished Joe Quesada covers, some of which we saw finished here earlier. A Fantastic Four #2 Adam Kubert variant and an Uncanny X-Force #35 variant   A Deadpool #3 variant and[...]

Today, in the light of retailer Brian Hibbs' attack on variant covers as immoral, and Bleeding Cool's look at exactly how the variant covers of Marvel NOW! can boost the sales of some comics dramatically, David Gabriel has been talking to retailers on Diamond's website about the impact of variant covers And showing off a[...]

A bunch of Mike Deodato cover paintings for Conan, were created for a Brazilian publisher in the nineties but were never returned to him are showing up in

   Minutemen #3 (Variant) by Cliff Chiang Camron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; Besides Darwyn Cooke, do you know who else does a good job of

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; Fables #120 by Joao Ruas Artist Joao Ruas really outdid himself this week with this glorious stained glass

Seriously, some variant covers I may actually want to purchase Following on from the Avengers Vs X-Men variant cover comissioned by Midtown and the A Babies Vs X-Babies comic that it inspired, come the reast of the Skottie Young Baby Variant covers for Marvel books, part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch. I'll just shut up and[...]

Here's a look at the Pendleton Ward-derived comics from Boom! for November. Adventure Time #10, Marceline And The Scream Queens #5 and Bravest Warriors

And it went rapidly to a second print. But it seems that while Diamond US burnt through all its copies in record time, Diamond UK… didn't. And they still have all the standard covers available, including the 1:200 Charlie Adlard Black and White retailer incentive issue. So, you know, if you can't wait for that second print, talk[...]

Here are Marcos Martin's Spider-Man Through The Decades variant covers for Amazing Spider-Man #692, designated the fiftieth anniversary issue of the title That's the original Spider-bite, the death of Gwen Stacy, the symbiote costume that would become Venom, the Clone Saga and the New Avengers. BuzzFeed chats to Steve Wacker about the 50th anniversary andissue 700,[...]