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In One Week, In Two Weeks
And in two weeks we get Ghosts #1, some DC annuals,  Bedlam #1, Happy #2, A+X #1 with all its covers, In one week… DARK HORSE COMICS BRIDE OF THE WATER GOD TP VOL 12 $9.99 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SPIKE #3 FRISON CVR $2.99 BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SPIKE #3 MORRIS VAR CVR $2.99 DARK HORSE PRESENTS #17 $7.99 GAME OF THRONES DAENERYS BUST $125.00 GAME OF[...]
Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen Comics – Nudity, Baiting And Naughty Words
How are they handling it over at DC? That's right, Catwoman in Catwoman #13 hates skin Hates it Especially when that zipper keeps coming down showing off as much as it as possible. From Star Wars: Agent Of The Empire: Hard Targets: The Search For The Colon Graveyard #1 Whereas most Star Wars fans merely know how[...]
You Have A Week To Return Your Flash Omnibus Volume 3
If you have a copy of  Flash Omnibus Vol 3, you may be aware that certain pages appear out of sequence, in a fashion that rather spoil the story. As we suggested, DC Comics has made the book returnable through the comic store retailer you bought it from, and will replace it. But the retailer needs to[...]
Spoilercrunching – Wonder Woman And An Impending Death
Tim Hanley of Bleeding Cool's Gendercrunching fame takes a closer look at one of the many pages put up by DC Comics on their From Concept To Screen panel at NYCC Including the proposal for issue 0 of Wonder Woman And then put up by DC on their website Which delivers a honkingly big spoiler[...]
The Curse Of Stephanie Brown Continues
She was in Batman Inc: Leviathan, but it was declared part of the Old DCU and never referred to again. She was no longer a Robin. There was no Spoiler. She was Nightwing for a short time in the Smallville comic but that decision was reversed. At NYCC, Grant Morrison said they had pitched her in a projects but[...]
Preview: The Girl With A Dragon Tattoo – The French Version
The one from DC Vertigo, which has been sending out press copies before NYCC, and the one from Dupuis, which has released the following preview And despite telling the same story, they blook and feel so very different And it's likely hat the Japanese version, also licensed separately, will be very different still… But now we[...]
Tim Drake Is Not Robin, Was Never Meant To Me Robin
Will Romine reports for Bleeding Cool from NYCC; The DC Entertainment Meet the Co Publishers Panel was a lot like a glass of warm milk: refreshing, intimate, and unpretentious My friend Tre-Lin and her husband Rick agree. Misters Dan Didio, Jim Lee, and Bob Wayne held court in a small room and engaged in a little q[...]
Kevin Smith Brings Back The Old DCU With Batman: Widening Gyre 2
Shawn Schillberg writes for Bleeding Cool; Do you miss the pre-New 52 DC Universe? Kevin Smith has you covered He's written all but two issues of a sequel to Batman: The Widening Gyre Walt Flanagan is providing art again and has completed near four issues so far. Promoting AMC's Comic Book Men, with the rest of the[...]
Fables To Appear In Unwritten
No problems with copyright either. A nice piece of meta fiction with DC Comics there Quite literally. Mike Greear writes for Bleeding Cool from NYCC at the Vertigo panel According to Bill Willingham, issue 50 of the Mike Carey-penned series, "The Unwritten," will begin an event that sees characters from "Fables" come over into Carey's book[...]
You Will All Submit To ComiXology
Mike Greear writes for Bleeding Cool from NYCC; Members of Comixology took time during their 2:45 p.m. Thursday panel at New York Comic Con to discuss
DC Comics Take The Top 100 Comics For September 2012
Marvel may have the top title, but this was very much a win for DC Comics again. Let's see how Marvel NOW changes that. TOP 100 COMIC BOOKS Based on Total Unit Sales of Products Invoiced in September 2012 QTY RANK DOLLAR RANK INDEX DESCRIPTION PRICE VENDOR 1 1 106.88 AVENGERS VS X-MEN #11 $3.99 MAR 2 2 100.00 BATMAN #0 $3.99 DC 3 3 80.40 JUSTICE LEAGUE #0 $3.99 DC 4 6 57.43 GREEN LANTERN #0 $2.99 DC 5 4 53.69 DETECTIVE COMICS #0 $3.99 DC 6 5 50.22 ACTION COMICS #0 $3.99 DC 7 14 46.58 BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #0 $2.99 DC 8 20 44.17 BATMAN AND ROBIN #0 $2.99 DC 9 21 44.14 EARTH[...]
NYCC: Tony S Daniel To Join Andy Diggle On Action Comics
I'm told by DC sources that he's switching to art-only for a while after writing Detective Comics for a year, to give him a bit of a mental break. Still, I wonder how smooth such a switch would be? I've rather enjoyed Daniel's writing work of late, as well as his art, it will be interesting[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks
Next week we get new Creep, Buffy, Conan and Massive, new Batman, Demon Knights, Phantom Stranger and Punk Rock Jesus, the launch of Uncanny Avengers, AVX Consequences, Transfusion,  Point Of Impact and… MacGyver! The week after, we have the launch of BPRD 1948, Ex Sanguine, Alan Robert Killogy, Zaucer Of Zilk, Bedlam, Cyberforce, Marvel Now Point One[...]
Thursday Runaround – Little Death Of A Family
The fools. DC Comics gives the Joker some new face time It will feature the Joker's first encounter in a while with his old foe, but also will have him face Batgirl — whom the Joker shot through the spine and crippled in Alan Moore's Batman: The Killing Joke — and Todd, now resurrected and going by[...]
Speculator Corner: Swamp Thing #1
Next week today, Bleeding Cool believe that DC Comics will announce a new ongoing Superman comic book, entitled Man Of Steel, written by Scott Snyder and drawn by Jim Lee. Which will, no doubt, be the best selling comic book in the month it is released Possibly a few after that as well. Scott Snyder is a[...]
Last Week's Comics In Twenty-Four Panels
Lara in particular is a joy to read and her chemistry with Jor-El could easily fuel more stories in this same setting, mirroring some of the old Lois-Clark magic that is sorely missing from the current DCNu. GIVE A FLYING FUCK In HAPPY #1 from Image, a professional merc is running from the mob and his only[...]
Comic Creators, Healthcare And Minnesota
Ryan Kelly, artist on DC Vertigo's Saucer Country, and part-time Minneapolis College of Art and Design tutor, has been tweeting about an issue that rather affects comic book freelance creators; You're now looking at a guy with no health insurance #imfucked I have #trigeminalneuralgia, medications, appointments w/ doctors and MN axed my health insurance because I have[...]
NYCC Debut: Joker In A Bat Mask
  Is Joker wearing Batman or is Batman wearing Joker? Three NYCC exclusive cover edition of Batman #13 and Justice League #12, coutesy of DC BFF Buzzfeed…   Is Joker wearing Batman or is Batman wearing Joker? Three NYCC exclusive cover edition of Batman #13 and Justice League #12, coutesy of DC BFF Buzzfeed…   Is Joker wearing[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 1st October 2012
Another strong week at Bleeding Cool, with a weekend full of comic conventions… so let's find out what you're been reading durig it – and what you may have missed! But what everyone seems to have read and it beat the already-massive Frank Miller Justice League story, in just two days, is DC's attempt to run[...]
Joker Die Cut Cover Is A Real Freakout
Courtesy of CBR, here are the Greg Capullo variant die cut covers for the Death Of The Family crossover comics, each featuring half the face of one of the
Vertigo To Increase Sci-Fi Comics For Its Twentieth Anniversary In 2013 (UPDATE)
And of course, there's a new sci-fi series from Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy that I mentioned last year. Speaking to Mark after the panel, he confirmed that "there are more sci-fi books coming from Vertigo", and while he was tight-lipped regarding details we can expect at least two big announcements at NYCC. 2013 is the twentieth[...]