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Svensson reads and reviews comics for Bleeding Cool. Image has asked that we not spoil the massive major game-changing holy shit did I just read that aspect of the latest issue So I won't. Skullkickers 14 is one of those rare issues that make you go back and reread everything with a new understanding There are precious[...]

Here you had girls, many of which could be considered "unconventionally attractive" owning the pin up image, and using it in a new way They were making fun of the traditional portrayal image of women as sex objects, while also making some incredibly sexy images, with no shame I thought it fit great with the[...]

Looks like it wasn't just the AVX-fueled Uncanny X-Men and Avengers that knocked Aquaman out of the top ten for the first time in ages. Wolverine And The

And losing solid black lines on such a comic lets your eyes slip off the images They tried, they really did but… no. Moomins/Anna & Froga 5/10 I grew up with The Moomins This comic is just as idiosyncratic as the books, with a comic style that makes me feel I'm wrapped in honey[...]

This year's Image Comics Free Comic Book Day volume celebrates the 20th Anniversary of the publisher And in doing so, previews a bunch of all new comic books. It's a bold, confident statement that seems intended to say as much about the company as the comics it previews We have G-Man with Chris Giarrusso… Guarding The Globe[...]

There is only one gun in the world of Skullkickers, by Jim Zubkavich and Edwin Huang from Image Comics But how did it get there, into this fantasy world? Next week's issue tells all… here are a few teasers to help you on your way. There is only one gun in the world of[...]

Next week, Dark Horse put out more than one comic, retailers go blind trying to see the difference between Batman, Batgirl and Batwing on the Night Of The Owls listings, DC publish the Bible, John Byrne's new book Trio starts, Bendis' Takio starts, and there's more confusion over those two as well, Avatar brings out[...]

Lots of good comics this week. Just in time for Free Comic Book Day... Before there was Locke And Key, there was Skeleton Key by Andi Watson. A key that

Max Schlickenmeyer will create the video for this final mission for Picard and Kirk. ChildWatch: Ales Kot (the man who rather exploded on Twitter in a hilarious fashion a couple of days ago) and Riley Rossmo (of Cowboy Ninja Viking) have an original graphic novella from Image in July, called Wild Children, about school shootings. Kot is[...]

It's a great piece of original art. Sam Kieth drawing Jim Lee's Deathblow and Rob Liefeld's Bloodwulf as well has his own Maxx in a series that predated

Mind The Gap #1 by Jim McCann, Rodin Esquejo and Sonia Oback comes out this week from Image Comics I've read the first issue already… and something strikes me. Jim McCann has said that the comic started out as a TV pilot Well, it feel very much like the first two acts of a pilot, with[...]

Walking Dead #100 comes out the same day San Diego Comic Con 2012 opens. And it is so on. I've already got a Vannen Walking Dead wristwatch signed by

New Avengers gives as a reworking of the opening of Avengers Vs X-Men, seeing the planet of plant people destroyed, but in terms of our own world... a

The book has been burning up the shelves, with even the most recent issue performing aftermarket loop the loops. Currently issue 1, first print, is actually selling for up to $50, with issue 2 hitting $13 and issue 3 for $10. Issue 1 second print has sold for $18, issue 2 second print for $8 And as for[...]

Okay, I think we can say that Batman #9 is going for a sell out and a second print. The issue, kicking off the Night Of The Owls crossover, has received

Here's a pinup for Raff Ienco's upcoming Image comic Epic Kill, by Viktor Bogdanovic. I hear sales have been, relatively, rather large on this upcoming comic Around 13,000 But, as Bleeding Cool pointed out earlier, there has been a lot of advance reordering going on as well. Schoolgirl samurais Who'd have thought they'd be popular, eh? [...]

You know how last week I said that The Justice League was now the same as The Authority? I still hold to that. But today's issues sees them also pretty

SuperWatch: Variety reports that US appeal courts have ruled that Warner Bros can use documents stolen from Marc Toberoff in their case against him over the Superman legal fight, because he handed copies over to police when requested to, when they were investigating the crime. WalkingWatch: Walking Dead Issue One Page Two sells for over $8000. CheWatch:[...]

July in Image Comics means a bunch of new titles from Revival to Wild Children, the hundredth issue of Walking Dead and a bunch of celebratory covers from A-list artists, Todd McFarlane swiping Amazing Fantasy #15 for the cover of Spawn, and just some great looking comics Take it away folks! THE WALKING DEAD #100 story[...]

When Image Comics publish The Walking Dead #100 in July, they'll be doing so with a bang As well as Charlie Adlard doing a cover, a wraparound cover and seeing his work transformed into a Chromium cover, there will also be covers by fellow Image stable mates Frank Quitely, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri, Bryan Hitch,[...]

Superman always ended up fighting some crazy monsters. From Bubba the Redneck Werewolf to Image Comics how was the transition? I actually pitched stuff earlier to Image in 2002 when I first started pursuing comics in the Jim Valentino era Yeah I was rejected everytime So I had actually given up on Image being a home from[...]

Comic Book Movie have scored the first Hi-Def image of Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle as Catwoman and the result is, well, very Christopher Nolan It's an image that raises more questions than it answers and gives one pretty honking great indicator of a moral choice Miss Kyle makes at one point Thoughts about shoes,[...]

So what looks good? Resident Alien from Dark Horse is a must, as is Boba Fett Is Dead, there's the long awaited Shooters from DC, a little Next Men, a pinch of Manhattan Projects, some Amazing Spider-Man, a modicum of Stitched, Pocket God, Castle Waiting and Harvey Pekar... DARK HORSE COMICS 3 STORY SECRET FILES O/T GIANT MAN[...]

That's the thing about these Image comic books No matter how many Jokers faces get pulled off or guts gets sliced by Wolverine, they genuinely have the power to go that little bit further. Okay, not in today's Peter Panzerfaust #3, unless you think that the Boys Own adventure through World War II France is grossed[...]

After all, you need to come back fresh for round two. America's Got Powers is published by Image Comics on the 10th of April. Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool; America's Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch is a comic entirely about fighting It's also a very, very clever comic about fighting. The set up is[...]

Both Palmiotti and Gray have spoken of the book as one of their favourite works. It will now be collected and published by Image Comics, the first volume being printed in a European-style oversized hardcover collecting the first three issues, including the double sized issue one, in July. Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray have waited the right[...]

The Sun newspaper reports that David Tennant is the model for the Simon Cowell-alike character in America's Got Powers, with writer Jonathan Ross

Right now, and I mean right now, in a metropolitan area, someone should set up a Walking Dead shop. Selling Walking Dead comics, trade paperbacks, DVDs

On the Bleeding Cool forums, in response to an ECCC interview with Tony Harris, a number of readers wanted to know why Tony was creating new work for Image when he hadn't finished the long-delayed War Heroes series with Mark Millar. It touched a rather sore spot Tony responded on the boards; Cheers please go to Millarworld,[...]

Saga #1 from Image Comics debuted at number forty on the Diamond charts in March, beating out the higher profile fantasy title Fairest #1 from Vertigo I understand that The Walking Dead from Image may well be joining it in the top fifty for April. But the comic that should really be busting the charts for[...]