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Which brings me, via a Scottish Cardinal, the town of Riverdale, a promotional advert from Marvel and one of the few times I've entirely agreed with the current British Prime Minister, to another recent occasion on which comics and real life smashed into each other. Last week, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, the head of the Roman Catholic[...]

Marvel has been moving fast on the digital front this year, and things accelerated today as we  got a glimpse at some of their Infinite Comics concepts  But that's just the beginning, according to Mark Waid: "I promise you Marvel's announcement today about digital comics is only the first salvo as I storm the gates[...]

Announced at SXSW, its one of those augmented reality things that I best remember for putting an Iron Man mask on your face, for the Iron Man movie. You'll also be able to use it to strip back the comic, looking at the comics' inks and pencils on screen. Here's a video of the AvX trailer you'll[...]

The next issue of CLiNT Magazine accidentally shipped to comic stores three weeks ahead of schedule, requiring Diamond to request that shops not sell the

In February, Marvel was meant to have republished Silver Sufer: The Parable by Stan Lee and Moebius, created in the eighties and one of the few Marvel owned projects that pays the creators royalties. That was the deal agreed before Jean Giraud would work on the book, as it is standard for European contracts. The book is[...]

The first graphic novel beased in and around the metafictional world of ABC's Castle was written by Brian Bendis and Kelly Sue DeConnick and drawn by Lan Medina. Well, at yesterday's PaleyFest, it was announced that Marvel would publish a second volume, also by Bendis and DeConnick, but drawn by apidly heating up artist Emanuela Lupacchino. A[...]

Marvel's Talent Director and international gourmand CB Cebulski is too, and the local comic book creators are getting ready to show him their portfolios through the National Book Store. Deadline is tomorrow to get them in folks. And as part of a motivational drive, Eisner nominee Gerry Alanguinan has been posting… well… his rejection letters from Marvel[...]

Here's the new Punisher Premier Hardcover, just bought by a Bleeding Cool reader. Promising much! From the back cover;   And the Amazon listing for

Bleeding Cool has been following the way in which Marvel incentivised retailers to order large numbers of Avengers Vs X-Men #1 and spinoff books, giving generous discounts and attractive variant comic covers to those who ordered up to 200% of their number of Fear Itself #7 On current figures, they succeeded well beyond that. But the[...]

Bleeding Cool has been so concerned with the identity of Sergeant Marcus Johnson's father in the Battle Scars, and the implications of the face that Marvel gives to the world in both movies and comics, that we hadn't spared a thought as to the other person in the equation. So meet Nia Jones, SHIELD Team Leader,[...]

Is it a hoax? Is it a dream? Is it an imaginary story? Or maybe a flashback? Anyway, Spider-Men, the comic that Marvel teased to break the news cycle of DC's Before Watchmen releases, featuring both the Peter Parker and Miles Morales Spider-Man logos is now being teased again This time with a credit or two[...]

But Marvel have regained both retail and unit market share And as to that Top Ten, I expect Avengers Vs X-Men #0 may throw a fly in that particular ointment in March. Also congrats to Dynamite Named the Under 4% Publisher Of 2011 in the Diamond Gem Awards (seriously, why has nobody else reported the results?),[...]

In January, Marvel led DC on share of dollars by 35.17% to 33.55% while DC led Marvel on the actual number of comics sold, 39.86% to 37.51%. In February, possibly as a result of Marvel taking advantage of a five week month, with DC again abandoning the final week of the month to non-52 comics, Marvel[...]

The print run was set on Monday, with extras for reorder. That reorder has now been sucked up, and today Marvel will start accepting orders for a second print. In other news, Marvel have confirmed the date that all their $3.99 comics will contain a digital code, for free, in the back, as June They have announced[...]

Marvel have recently been experimenting with a new publishing format that's been more recently associated with Image or Dark Horse comics. Traditionally, comic books covers have has a thicker stock than the insides of the comics, and are printed separately That used to be glossy-newsprint but these days is mostly glossy-thick and glossy-thin. "Self cover" prints cover[...]

But love was in the air at BC today, including this list of comic book kisses for the week. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Marvel Invites You To The Wedding Of Northstar And Kyle  When people ask you to "save the date" for a wedding they're usually a little more specific than giving you an entire month. The Brazilian Military[...]

The dark spin on the Wizard of Oz mythos as seen in No Place Like Home also grabbed a lot of attention. As far as Marvel and DC offerings, Daredevil continues to pick up steam and build buzz, and issues #1-3 of Avengers: X-Sanction have been flying off the shelves as people prepare for Avengers Vs[...]

Still, Marvel is asking is to forget all that and just clear our schedules to concentrate on reading Astonishing X-Men #51, by Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins. Well, I suppose it is a same-sex wedding after all… Northstar and his partner Kyle I look forward to One Million Moms' response. When people ask you to "save[...]

Four kisses that mean a lot. And all of them spoilers to some degree or other. Go in, knowing that it may make a difference if you haven't already read

We've got lots of other stories on the site and some of them really aren't too bad. If you're still here, we'd like to tell you about a new Marvel storybook for The Avengers If you're still here and you're in the UK we'd like to tell you about a new storybook for Marvel Avengers Assemble. The[...]

It can't be a sudden surprise to people that the current Journey Into Mystery comic from Marvel is a bit like Sandman Hell, even Bleeding Cool has made the comparison, describing Journey Into Mystery as "Sandman done right" in honour of the apocryphal story about Tom DeFalco and Sleepwalker I've actually had discussions with people[...]

Come on Marvel, you know it makes sense… Uncanny X-Men #7 is published today from Marvel Comics Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London, currently showcasing the Stripped collection in its gallery More of that later. From today's Uncanny X-Men #8, by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land Slightly spoilerish but I think you'll live.   Hope and Namor[...]

In the scene below, cropped from a page to try and avoid spoilers, eight months in the Marvel Universe passes And Wiccan's hair stays fixed in position, not growing, not changing, but held fast. As the child of the Scarlet Witch, this is obviously some arcane use of her hex power to alter reality and keep[...]

Some people think that the giant flying snake is an ancient Chinese dragon. Some think it's an Asgardian serpent. But there is...another.

I now understand they've gone further, and have it confirmed they are now ahead of Justice League #1. I did show the other day how, for some retailers, Marvel are all but giving their copies away, but this is spilling over into other titles as well Avengers Vs X-Men #0 is Marvel's best selling prelude book[...]

We saw Nova on the promo for whatever this Stuart Immonen Infinite Comics Marvel thing is, and appearing in Point One Even though last time we saw him, Nova was a goner. Jeph Loeb stated that Nova appearing in the Ultimate Spider-Man TV animation would be a new character, Sam Alexander, following the death of Rich[...]

From the CBR boards, posted by Sabrewulf. I just feel like dropping everything Marvel right now I guess this will be the first of many to get the price raise The argument will be if we want the book to continue we have to pay the extra. X-Factor has been steadily hovering over the cancellation line for[...]

All you can eat subscription that includes new comics? Maybe comics projected onto the inside of our eyelids? Aw hell, I don't know. But it's Marvel's Infinite Comics. Find out at the Marvel panel at SXSW next Sunday We are invited to "Join The Revolution."     Told you something like this might be happening[...]

A couple of interesting mysteries emerged on the net today: one having to do with the New 52 character Pandora, the other having to do with Marvel Entertainment COO Joe Quesada Based on nothing more than a hunch, I wonder if Joe's infinite mystery (I see he's said he'll have a new twitter icon on[...]

He tweets; The future of storytelling is ∞ The possibilities are ∞ The future is ∞ I understand that whatever this is in reference to, it it all about Marvel's plans for the future With SXSW round the corner, could this be the all-you-can-eat Marvel digital catalogue, new and old, Netflix style that people have been clamouring for? Or is[...]