With ABC's long-running hit comedy series Modern Family set to shuffle off the network's programming coil after eleven seasons, Bleeding Cool's Alejandra Bodden is offering viewers an episode-per-episode critical look at the final season (with her recent review of "The Prescott" here and her thoughts on the issue of ethnic stereotyping here). Because let's face […]
Today (November 18th), Wizards of the Coast has announced a smattering of additions to their Banned and Restricted List for Magic: The Gathering. The additions are as follows: Standard: Oko, Thief of Crowns is banned. Once Upon a Time is banned. Veil of Summer is banned. Brawl: Oko, Thief of Crowns is banned. Legacy: Wrenn and Six is banned. Vintage: Narset, […]
Magic: The Gathering has announced a new format! It's called Pioneer, and it comes with some rather interesting parameters – and some very interesting baggage. Pioneer, the format Pioneer, as indicated from the infographic above, is going to support sets from 2012's Return to Ravnica all the way to the present. Masters sets and supplemental […]
Over the past year, I've been looking at the prices of individual Magic: The Gathering cards get progressively more expensive. It's disheartening, but with a growing player base, cards of many kinds are becoming more and more in-demand for quite a few different decks. This only got worse when Wizards of the Coast, the company […]
While actress Jessica Parker Kennedy's Nora West-Allen may have met her "fate" by the time the dust settled on the CW's The Flash fifth season finale, there's no denying the long-lasting impact her role had on the long-running series. In fact, as viewers saw at the end of "Legacy," Nora's action are going to have […]
Last we left the CW's The Flash, Eobard Thawne was about to escape his death sentence – and this week in our fifth season finale "Legacy," we get the showdown that has been teased all season long as well as the daddy-daughter team-up to end all team-ups. As the title suggests, we investigate the legacy […]
The CW's "Arrowverse" is facing off against a serious wave of change in the new year – both in front of and behind the camera. Goodbye, Arrow. Hello, Batwoman. Which makes The Flash the senior show in their DC shared universe. Now with the series speeding towards its fifth season finale "Legacy," fans are starting […]
Ah, the 400th anniversary, traditionally known as the "money" anniversary. That's where you congratulate the happy comic book publisher by shelling out more money than usual to purchase an oversized anniversary issue. You know what, come to think of it, that's actually every anniversary at Marvel, isn't it? And sometimes for no specific reason at […]
Everyone is excited about the upcoming Uncanny X-Men relaunch, starring every living X-Men and nearly every Marvel creator. But the problem with the comics business is that everything starts off great with a #1 issue, but when it comes to sales, it's all downhill from there. That's why Marvel relaunches all their titles roughly once […]
BOOM! Studios has announced a new format of "value-priced" softcoverse collecting "every issue of the most popular BOOM! Studios series in chronological order" via press release today. Dubbed Legacy Editions, the new line will launch with collections of BOOM!'s Sons of Anarchy and Big Trouble in Little China comics. "Legacy" isn't the only trick BOOM! […]
Last week, Bleeding Cool reported on Marvel's plans to add a new trade dress to the number one issue reboots. Its primary feature: dual numbering, consisting of both the semi-annual reboot numbering and the original series legacy numbering. Though we heard about the news via the Diamond Retailer Summit, we didn't know exactly what it […]
Earlier this month, Bleeding Cool told you that Despicable Deadpool would be canceled with May's Despicable Deadpool #300, only to be relaunched with a new number one issue in June. Now that Marvel has released the April solicitations, at least the first part of that report has proven true. April's Despicable Deadpool #299 will be […]
Dark Horse is publishing a new edition of Legacy: A House of Night Graphic Novel next May, and it's getting a new cover from Joëlle Jones. Based on the best-selling series of vampire novels by P.C. and Kristen Cast, the new printing will also come with a new forward by the latter Cast. Kent Dalian teamed […]
First announced back at New York Comic Con, Marvel is planning a new ongoing series for Weapon H, otherwise known as Hulkverine, the Hulk/Wolverine hybrid created during the Weapons Of Mutant Destruction crossover between Weapon X and Totally Awesome Hulk. The series will fill the perfect niche for efficiency-minded fans who are interested in both […]
Marvel has been dropping clues about their 2018 plans in a series of increasingly more ridiculous press releases. Yesterday, a press release asked, "Where Is Wolverine And What Is His Shocking Secret?" Today, a press release declares, "Captain America: Back On Ice…The Answer Will Shock You!" The move to clickbait press releases is fitting in […]
Wolverine is the best he is at what he does, and what he does is single-handedly prop up the sales of 70% of Marvel's product line by appearing in everyone else's books. Since his "death" in 2014, Marvel has been in a sales slump, but since the furry little runt finally reappeared in Marvel Legacy […]
Mojo's magical mystery tour continues as news stations struggle to cut through his global broadcast. Inside his arenas, more and more X-Men are being picked off as one team fights the recreations of the Avengers and the other battles amalgams of their worst threats. Magneto, Polaris, and Danger finally enter the fray, but Mojo already […]
For a company that's always complaining about Bleeding Cool's tabloid journalism, Marvel sure has taken a page out of our book in the promotion of its upcoming Legacy relaunch for The Spectacular Spider-Man. On Marvel.com, the company has published the actual NYPD arrest warrant for Spider-Man, whose fugitive status will be the subject of the […]
Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics, writes weekly for Bleeding Cool. Find previous columns here. I have written before about Marvel's lenticular covers. I felt it was wrong how Marvel was forcing stores to order more product than they could sell. Marvel has announced changes to ordering their lenticular covers starting next year. Starting next year their lenticular […]
Written by Joe Glass Hosted by Nick Lowe, the panel of Ed Brisson, Charles Soule, Matthew Rosenberg, Rainbow Rowell, Javier Garron, Erica Henderson and Gerry Duggan to discuss upcoming elements of their comics. Sorry, but I did come late to this panel, and missed a bunch, as I was at the thoroughly entertaining and informative […]
