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Aquaman Subscribers Rejoice! A Free Issue!
A while ago, Bleeding Cool reported on the changing subscription titles being offered by post by DC Comics. It looks like Aquaman has escaped the harpoon And subscribers who were told it was being cancelled are getting an extra free copy for their trouble. A while ago, Bleeding Cool reported on the changing subscription titles being[...]
Diamond Retailer Only Exclusives At San Diego Comic Con
Then, the more the merrier. Diamond are holding a retailer event on the Friday of San Diego Comic Con, in which retailers receive a number of presentations from comic book publishers, get fed and watered, and because they just turned up, get the following Batman #11 variant exclusive to the event. As well as a Vorin figure[...]
DC Comics Launch Blank Variant Covers For A Year For We Can Be Heroes
DC Comics are releasing a series of blank variant cover variants of a number of prominent comics, one each month from August until next July, each one raising money for the We Can Be Heroes campaign. They will all have the cover banner that ran on the regular covers when the campaign to benefit those living[...]
Amy Reeder And Brandon Montclare's Hallowe'en Eve – Grace Randolph's Between The Pages (UPDATE)
Amy Reeder and Brandon Montclare announce their new comic together, Hallowe'en Eve, on today's Between The Panels segment with Grace Randolph for Bleeding Cool. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd9Jm1M0eBA[/youtube] Kickstarter Rebels! Brandon Montclare and Amy Reeder announce their new creator-owned Halloween comic, Halloween Eve, thanks to Kickstarter! Kickstarter continues to change the comic book industry, and host Grace Randolph asks Brandon[...]
The Gotham Alphabat by Dan Schreiner
Dan Schreiner has a Kickstarter to put together a live action/animation 3D film showing Ariel and Helvetica fonts going to war "and most likely comic sans
Swipe File: DC Comics Vs Image Comics
DC's new San Diego Comic Con advertising campaign… and Image's Experience Creativity advertising campaign that has been running for months. DC Comics rarely use images of creators on advertising campaigns I wonder what could have inspired them to change their minds? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]
Thursday Runaround – Dan Didio's Preference For French Toast
The fools. DC ENTERTAINMENT GRAPHIC NOVELS NOW AVAILABLE ON NOOK® BY BARNES & NOBLE | DC Comics Burbank, CA and New York, New York – June 26, 2012 – Barnes & Noble, Inc (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced a partnership with DC Entertainment to bring its bestselling line-up[...]
Sending Waffles To Dan DiDio In Support Of Stephanie Brown
I hope Dan DiDio has a lot of maple syrup in the DC Offices. Fans of the DC character Stephanie Brown, whether as Spoiler, Robin or Batgirl, feel that they have been hard done by over the years Amateur crime fighter Spoiler, then Robin, then dead Robin, then revived Batgirl where she starred in her own[...]
George Perez Talking About Being Rewritten On Superman
I will try to be as open as I can…" [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b9Llfv-AQ0[/youtube] George Perez appeared at Metropolis, for Superman Day earlier this month… He talked about his work with HERO Initiative, and how even he had to go to HERO for help, on how he believed New Teen Titans would only last six issues and how co-plotting issue[...]
Sunday Runaround – Crumbwoman, Laser Lot And A Body Painted Punisher
The fools. He-Man returns: DC remasters a universe from the 1980s | Hero Complex – movies, comics, fanboy fare – latimes.com Sir Laser Lot is the creation of none other than Geoff Johns, the star DC writer and the chief creative officer at DC Entertainment, and he put a lot of time in on the project: He was a[...]
Between The Panels With Grace Randolph For Thirty-Five Minutes!!!
Settle down, break open a brew, or she'll get Kryptonian on your ass! Henry Cavill is Superman in Man of Steel 2013! Warner Brothers brings the Man of Steel back to the silver screen with Christopher Nolan producing and Zack Snyder directing! Host Grace Randolph, from Beyond The Trailer, and guest Alan Kistler talk about the[...]
The DC Comic That Doesn't Exist – Orange Ivy – And Their New Nielsen Survey
DC Comics are conducting new survery of comic book readers with Nielsen NRG You can participate here online, but I understand that a number of people were asked in store this week, specifically at Midtown in New York. And to make sure people don't just fill in surveys willy nilly, they have introduced a new book,[...]
Friday Runaround – Getting Loose
FurryWatch: Here's the cover to the third Grandville hardcover, Bete Noire, by Bryan Talbot Out in December in the UK and January in the US. EdinburghWatch: Comic bok writers Neil Gaiman, Grant Morrison, G Willow Wilson and Bryan Talbot are scheduled to appear at this year's Edinburgh Book Festival Anyone fancy reporting back for Bleeding Cool? CookWatch:[...]
Absolute Top Ten… But Where's The Second Half?
The DC Comics blog published a list of upcoming hardcover and trade paperbacks well into 2013 Which is usually a sign that the info has been given out to book distributors, so it will come out soon anyway, and this was it comes out under a DC Comics headline Lots of collections of the things[...]
DC Comics Liquidating Stacks Of Trade Paperbacks And Graphic Novels
DC Comics are looking to reduced their stock of the following books by offering them to retailers at a massive discount What that means is that in a few weeks, these books will be plentiful at comic books stores And then… not so much They will go out of print, or move to a different[...]
Fun And Frolics With The Continuity Of Batman Inc
I've been told that, while many DC Comics freelance writers have suffered rewrite upon rewrite, note after note, change after change, from the current editorial regime – leading some to leave the book they were working on – Grant Morrison MBE is among those who don't. He has his own get out of jail free card[...]
Doc Savage #18 Finally Released. Not That DC Comics Is Telling You About It.
A couple of years ago, JG Jones began writing a six issue story for his Doc Savage, with Phil Winslade on art, that started with issue 13. The comic was cancelled with issue 17, leaving a hanging "To Be Continued" tag… that was never picked up. Until now. Without fanfare, without announcement, almost hoping no one would notice,[...]
Swipe File: DC Nation's Vibe
Here's a still from the Vibe teaser for the DC Shorts videos playing on DC Nation. And here is a fan image of Vibe that preceded it, mashing up the logo with a shot of the character by Tom Derenick for a Justice League Detroit fan blog. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewIzFfwk-IU[/youtube] In Swipe File we present two or more images that[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks: Morrison Vs Moore Vs Millar!
Before Watchmen Nite Owl is scheduled, we get the second issue of the Doctor Who/Star Trek crossover, the launch of Idolized, the Spandex hardcover, and the second Spider-Men. The week after that, we have the first issue of Zak Penn's Hero Worship, the return of Sabretooth in Wolverine,  the unpublished Muppets book by Roger Langridge and[...]
Bedtime Adventures With The JSA By Dave Dellecese
Seuss, Goodnight Moon and the like. However, this past week, I was reading a copy of DC's All-Star Archives Volume 3 (as part of my ongoing effort to read every original JSA adventure from the 40s) and thought, "what the heck," and began just reading the tale aloud to my wife's stomach To her surprise, and[...]