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I like the contrast of today's top two stories: Marvel vs DC in the marketplace, Marvel vs DC in the comics  And of course,  there's a fair bit of talk about Marvel vs DC at the box office this summer Come to think of it, Marvel vs DC in a movie would probably break the[...]

This Wednesday, the Marvel Previews catalogue hits stores, listing Marvel's solicitations for September, the month in which DC relaunch everything with an #1. However, unlike the online listings, pretty much every full page solicitation for a comic has a star splash emphasing the issue number "Still #669! Still #17!" And in Uncanny X-Men's case "Still 543!"[...]

By Joe Casey, Scott Kolins and Will Rosado. DC will publish the DC/Marvel Crossover Classics Omnibus Vol 1 at 512 pages, that's a lot of crossovers over the years to collect And emphasis on the Vol 1… will Marvel get the rights to publish Vol 2? Out in February. They also have Kubert Covers War in hardcover,[...]

But in an attempt to grab some headlines in the midst of DC's dominance of late, Marvel appear to have been going later and later into their publishing cycle We've already had X- Men plans for October and November Now we have news of a new Carnage series starting in December as well, with covers[...]

A look at the statistics regarding the number and price of Marvel comic books shipping in September using the brands of the Marvel Universe This does not include Icon or licensed titles, but it does include any Marvel Adventures or Ultimate books. As of now we are assuming that $2.99 books with 32 pages contain 20[...]

Which is possibly the shortest cancellation in existence. It will be accompanied by Wolverine & The X-Men in October, as the X-Men splits along ideological lines, Cyclops taking one team , Wolverine taking the other in what Marvel are called X-Men Regenesis. Kieron Gillen will write Uncanny X-Men with Carlos Pacheco and Greg Land on art[...]

Last month, DC and Marvel tied for a pretty middling overall total, but this month we have the biggest gap between the two publishers we've seen all year In doing so, DC's set a new overall record for monthly stats while Marvel's set a new low. DC COMICS Not only did DC set a record for monthly[...]

Diamond Previews has a reputation amongst for publishers for erring on the prudish side when publishing their solicitations for comics and comics-related

I hate Breakworld. I really do. And as a Joss Whedon fan it pains me to say so. But I really hate Breakworld. I'm not that enamoured of SWORD either. So

A change to the very landscape of the Marvel Universe And potentially another death added to the Fear Itself morgue. Like I said, I wasn't expecting much And I got a lot more Maybe now I've raised your expectations, you won't get as much, But I doubt it. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics in London[...]

Watching the reaction (and indeed my own reaction) to the DC Relaunch, I got to thinking... what if the Bleeding Cool forums had been around when this

DC's hammerlock on the comic book news loosened a bit for the first time in 14 days, as Marvel fans got a taste of the kind of  major breaking news they've been waiting for with the announcement of Joe Madureira and Zeb Wells on Avenging Spider-Man I saw one fan say on twitter that it's just one[...]

At the Marvel Live Blog today, Marvel announced a new ongoing monthly series, Avenging Spider-Man from Joe Madureira and Zeb Wells, starting in November, and at least initially, tying in with characters from The Avengers. Zeb Wells was quoted as saying "With Dan Slott nailing all the Peter Parker soap opera stuff in Amazing Spider-Man,[...]

The character designs for the upcoming Japanese anime Blade have been chopped about and thrown around the net like chopped liver, even on the site's

You can sense that fans are waiting for Marvel to punch back They're like the southpaw boxer who takes on his opponent just using his right hand You keep waiting for him to bring it for real, round after round And there's Tom Brevoort as the cranky but wise trainer in the corner. Fans[...]

I don't know what Marvel are planning to announce at the LA Times Hero Complex Film Festival shortly… …but here are a few Marvel covers that I haven't seen anywhere else, just in case it's anything to do with that Invincible Iron Man #508,  Iron Man 2.0 #9,  Heroes Of Hire #12 and Anita Blake: Circus[...]

According to both Wikipedia and my go-to industry birthday guy Tom Spurgeon, Neal Adams turns 70 today. I can't let that pass without a post. As I told

by Tim Hanley With the full solicitations for DC Comics’ relaunch now revealed, we have a special edition of Gendercrunching!! In terms of female

Marvel printed a hundred copies of  this special poster for the cast and crew of Captain America: The First Avenger And the LA Times Hero Complex Film Festival will be giving five away at Marvel Day today, alongside airing the Captain America.trailer John Favreau appears to be announcing something And Neal Kirby, Jack Kirby's son[...]

At 4pm Marvel will be showing the trailer to Captain America: The First Avenger "as part of a Marvel presentation that includes some other surprises". Other surprises. Hmm. Because on Monday, Marvel is also running a live blog at 3pm EDT … So, um, and it pains me to say this… any ideas? And are the two events connected? [...]

How has holding the line helped DC? What about the crossovers? Well, as the headline points out, the first issue of DC's big event crossover comic couldn't beat even the second issue of Marvel's Both have gone to second printings, so the match isn't totally won or lost, but that's still an impressive result for Marvel,[...]

Here's a worldess preview to the next issue of the maga-event crossover from Marvel Fear Itself #4, by Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen, out later this month. Note how the fall of Thor to Earth rather mirrors that in the recent movie… Here's a worldess preview to the next issue of the maga-event crossover from Marvel[...]

$3.99. I expect this may be the beat before Marvel announce two new ongoing X-Men books, one with Cyclops' X-Men and one with Wolverine's X-Men, as previously BleedingCooled… Here you go folks The cover to the final issue of Uncanny X-Men, issue 544, by Kieron Gillen and Greg Land. It's part of Schism, it will no doubt[...]

A number one from Marvel in September Spider-Island: Avengers #1 by Christopher Yost and Mike McKone $2.99 Here's the Leinil Francis Yu cover… And, yes, that is Frog Man. A number one from Marvel in September Spider-Island: Avengers #1 by Christopher Yost and Mike McKone $2.99 Here's the Leinil Francis Yu cover… And, yes, that is Frog[...]

Today, Marvel Comics publish Mystery Men #1, the first issue of a five part series,  The indicia of the comic however says that all characters featured are trademarks of Marvel Characters. The title, while the name of a forties DC comic book, is better known these days as the Mysterymen comic written and drawn by[...]

I like this Deadpool. This Deadpool wants to have a laugh, cause chaos, with no apparent end game in mind. Stuck at the beginning superhero-proofing

And we see a much earlier change in the world that led to Flashpoint than anything we've seen so far, a USA army creating super soldiers to fight the war, in the the process creating monsters , vampires, werewolves and merwomen rather than the Super-Aryan Captain America of Marvel Comics The Creature Commandos rewritten as[...]

Elektra by Greg Horn for Marvel, from Elektra #6. A flyer for a psychic reader left on Vito Delsante's windscreen. I wonder if they saw this coming? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or[...]

Marvel released the following preview of Daredevil #1 by Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera, and Marcos Martin to a number of places, such as CBR, IGN, Newsarama and MTV Geek last week. Well Bleeding Cool has that last page in colour, and a couple more to boot… Marvel released the following preview of Daredevil #1 by[...]

Apparently Marvel are publishing comic books too Crossgen books to boot., Here is a rather gorgeous looking preview of Mystic #1 by G Willow Wilson, David Lopez and Nathan Fairbairn, coming out in August. Apparently Marvel are publishing comic books too Crossgen books to boot., Here is a rather gorgeous looking preview of Mystic #1[...]