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Two Image Comics launches for today, Pretty Deadly #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios, and Velvet #1 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, have sold out of their 57,000 print runs, from Diamond Comic Distributors. Now, both books were made returnable if retailers ordered significant amounts, and this figure does not account for any[...]

So this week we have some new Image books, craziness from Marvel, and the Midnight Circus at last. First up we have Velvet, written by Ed Brubaker, with art by Steve Epting, colors by Elizabeth Breitweiser, and letters by Chris Eliopoulos The cover I've got has sepia tones and a movie-poster feel, but turning to the[...]

  Out this Wednesday, from Image Comics, the teaming up again of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, last seen on Captain America, now taking their pulpy tones to… well… Paris The year after I was born With a rather what-if-Moneypenny-was-James-Bond vibe… It was probably the star announcement of Image Comics Expo this year[...]

Joseph Schmidt writes for Bleeding Cool: Nick Dragotta, Joe Casey, Amy Reeder, Brandon Montclare, Rick Remender, Ed Brubaker, and J Michael Straczynski were in attendance for the Image Comics: What's Next? panel, moderated by Eric Stephenson. Brubaker started the discussion by summarizing the latest issue of his hit, Fatale, which is set in the grunge era in[...]

Her tale of retribution is as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage. VELVET #1 story ED BRUBAKER art STEVE EPTING & BETTIE BREITWEISER cover STEVE EPTING OCTOBER 2 32 PAGES / FC / M $3.50 ED BRUBAKER and STEVE EPTING redefined Captain America with the "Winter Soldier" saga… and everything they've done so far has been leading to VELVET! When the world's best secret[...]

Velvet is a new comic coming from Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, reuniting from their Captain America/Winter Soldier pairing, to be published in October from Image Comics – and just announced at Image Comics Expo. "Velvet Templeton is the personal assistant to the head of one of the world's largest intelligence agencies, a Moneypenny kind of[...]

The Image Expo takes place on July 2nd and they have released their schedule of events, At 2.15pm, Ed Brubaker talks about moving to creator owned comics "Join him as he talks about that decision and what's next for him at Image". So that's a new book from Brubaker to accompany Fatale. At 5pm, JMS will be talking[...]

Crossed fingers. Guests will include Robert Kirkman, Mark Millar, Ed Brubaker, J Michael Straczynski, Nick Dragotta and Kurtis J Wiebe All announcing new stuff Tickets available here…       This year's Image Expo is on July 2nd in San Francisco There will be five black-and-white variant cover exclusives for the show including a Sidekick ashcan[...]

The Lakes Comics Art Festival, to be held in England's Lake District later this year in the town of Kendal, has posted their guest creator list. They include patrons Bryan Talbot, Mary Talbot and Sean Phillips, as well as Phillips' most common collaborator Ed Brubaker, Alack Sinner artist Jose Munoz, comics journalist Joe Sacco, cartoonist-turned-film-spinoff Posy[...]

I expect Rich will have more to say on at least some of these subjects in a few hours… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: So Why Did Ed Brubaker Leave Marvel Anyway?  A couple of months ago we knew that Ed Brubaker was leaving Captain America, and now he's leaving Winter Soldier, being replaced by Jason Latour[...]

A couple of months ago we knew that Ed Brubaker was leaving Captain America, and now he's leaving Winter Soldier, being replaced by Jason Latour And what will he be working on at Marvel instead? Nothing He tweeted; To end all speculation: Cap 19 and Winter Soldier 14 are my last Marvel books for now But[...]

If you've suddenly become hot property, it can be nigh impossible, as Ed Brubaker discovered when he tried to get Deadenders back, the series ignored by DC after publication for years suddenly saw a trade paperback issued, and the publishing rights retained by DC for a decade or more. So how Kyle Baker got the rights[...]

Thanks to Dan Slott for pointing out a twitter moment worth noting:

Ed Brubaker has been interviewed at length by Tom Spurgeon about life, love and comic books Here are three of the many highlights… On leaving Cap (but staying on Winter Soldier) SPURGEON: Now, you told me that you're wrapping up on Captain America. BRUBAKER: Yeah By the time this interview comes out, I will have written my last[...]

I just slept till noon. SigningWatch: A few upcoming signing events at Gosh Comics, London…  A launch party for the Fatale collection, with Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips on Saturday, July 7th, 6.30 – 9pm And a launch party for Ellipsis by Tom Humberstone on Friday, July 27th, 7pm -8.30pm. ApeWatch: From Boom, in September… Planet Of[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXj6EH-Res[/youtube] Here's professional stand up comedian John Roy at Meltdown Comics introducing Ed Brubaker… but not before he's finished roasting the Winter Soldier. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGXj6EH-Res[/youtube] Here's professional stand up comedian John Roy at Meltdown Comics introducing Ed Brubaker… but not before he's finished roasting the Winter Soldier. [...]

Today sees the release of both Ed Brubaker's Fatale #2 and Winter Soldier #1 One with art from Sean Phillips, the other with art from Butch Guice And both told in a rather noir style So much so… that you can do this sort of thing. Go on, read them both at the same time, it's[...]

Before it had shipped to comic stores, Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips's Fatale had sold out to retailers, burning through the overprint and ensuring a second print coming out next month. But what of the first print? It's been well promoted and well sold and whizzing out of comic shops all over the place The reviews[...]

Just one day before the release of Ed Brubaker's creator-owned Fatale from Image, Marvel makes sure to remind everyone that CM Punk's favorite writer is still in their ranks too, with the release of the cover and first three pages of Winter Soldier #1, coming out this February from him and artist Butch Guice. And just[...]

X-Men, a 12-issue miniseries coming out this April involving all three of the above-mentioned women. Rather than one lead writer, the event will feature five: Matt Fraction, Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker and Jonathan Hickman, with two writers, Bendis and Aaron, kicking things off in a prologue drawn by Frank Cho. USA Today reports that, Bendis[...]

Today Fear Itself #7.1 is published. Which features the memorial service for Bucky Barnes - Captain America's sidekick in the war, who was revived as

Alan Davis has taken over Steve McNiven on the monthly Captain America comic book, still written by Ed Brubaker He will start work on the series from issue six in December, and will keep the "A-List" feel to the book through into 2012, with the spotlight of the DVD and then the Avengers movie being[...]

Where one French blog is reporting that he appears to have told the adoring crowd that Marvel's 2012 event will be co-written by the five so-called  "Architects" of the Marvel Universe,  Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, Brian Bendis, Jonathan Hickman and Jason himself, also suggesting that such a book may be drawn by Olivier[...]

In the final (and rather wonderful) issue of Criminal: Last Of The Innocent, out this week, Ed Brubaker talks about his and Sean Phillips' next project for Marvel's Icon imprint, in the back. It's called Fatale. Brubaker says; Fatale is a bigger story, one that'll run at least 12 issues, and I think it brings a new twist[...]

One is a comic book turned into a film against the writer's wishes. The other is a comic book about to be turned into a film with the writer's eager participation. Anyway, here's a scene from Watchmen #6 from 1985 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons from DC Comics, and from Incognito: Bad Influences #5 from 2011[...]

Captain America expanded the franchise as Captain America Corps. DC published a new ongoing series, Batman And Robin. Now Marvel have announced a new series, Captain America And Bucky, taking over the numbering from Captain America, by Ed Brubaker , Marc Andreyko and Chris Samnee. Okay, it's not quite the same, but damn these seem to be interesting[...]

Respectfully, We Informed You Of This… etc etc. The New York Daily News is running this morning with the story that… okay, look, I'll just write enough text so that the big spoiler won't actually show on the front page of Bleeding Cool, so as to give people a chance, but seriously, odds are this will[...]

In July, Captain America will relaunch with a new number one, a new cover by Travis Charest, the same writer Ed Brubaker. And, yes yes yes, it looks like Steve Rogers is back in the uniform Like he is in the movie What, did you think something else would happen? Expect announcements at C2E2! Maybe they'll[...]

One is the beginning of a big comics publisher event, another is the ending of one. Fear Itself Prologue: Book Of The Skull by Ed Brubaker and Scot Eaton is basically the flashback stuff that was originally planned for Fear Itself but then bumped for its own book And so we see two timelines here,  effectively[...]

Thanks to the tweets of  Ardaniel S. Collier from the Cupo Of CB Marvel panel at Emerald City Comic Con, we learn from Ed Brubker that Captain America