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Okay, so the big new X-Men event thing (not to be confused with the current X-Men Age Of X thing) is to be MMXI - Year Of The X-Men, It may well be this

Yeah, so this was really the day to read comic books all about death and mourning. Both Fantastic Four #588 and Amazing Spider-Man #655  take the silent

It's tomorrow's comics today! Aaron and Tri-Force Mike, nominated for Florida's A Comic Shop in the Bleeding Cool Fan Awards, share their love for comics, Action Comics, Teen Titans with Damien, Death Marvel comics, the lack of Death in the Death Of Ultimate Spider-Man, Avengers with Heroes For Hire embedded in it, War Machine hiding[...]

Hercules gets his own book with his own numbering system, albeit a reduced name. Maybe they'll take the "ULES" and add it to another comic. X-MENULES?

ComiXology created the Marvel and DC Apps and getting all sorts of exclusive content, while iVerse signs up with Diamond for a digital retail solution for comics But what of the British startup that suddenly went all American on us? It seems they have just launched a comics reading App – and the first one to[...]

And if it counts as a licensed property – then doesn't Walking Dead count as one too? Slightly odd… but then so is the realisation that Marvel only picked up awards for Kick Ass The Gem Awards, more than any, reward "sales achievement", nothing else And Marvel dominated sales, yet DC win Publisher Of The Year[...]

We all loved his X-Men Family Tree... now it's time for the Fantastic Four - with one recent... subtraction. So yeah, you know, spoilers. Ish. Oh come on,

Or Chris Hemsworth's if that's what floats your boat. Clothes that the pair wore during the making of the Thor movie, available in teeny tiny sections for

Marvel's promotion for a series of less-than-A-list characters getting a relaunch in 2011, using gunsight imagery… Marvel's promotion for a series of less-than-A-list characters getting a relaunch in 1992, using gunsight imagery…… In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, [...]

We haven't even had Fantastic Four #588 yet but Marvel are previewing FF #1, now standing for Future Foundation and co-starring Spider-Man Here's a Flash-based preview… We haven't even had Fantastic Four #588 yet but Marvel are previewing FF #1, now standing for Future Foundation and co-starring Spider-Man Here's a Flash-based preview… We haven't even[...]

Marvel's Tom Brevoort tweeted; Is it really true that, for the Marvel-generated Doc Savage stories that DC has been collecting, they're not paying the creators anything? DC has indeed been publishing collections of Doc Savage material, originally published serially by Marvel, as DC now has the Doc Savage comics licence and, it seems, these comics rights came[...]

Here is cover art for the Marvel Vs Capcom 3 comic book that came with preorders of the video game title. Looks fine, yes? A nice take on the old Secret Wars cover So what's wrong? Well, this is the promotional cover file, it isn't the cover that was printed and bought by Little Bleeder Craig[...]

During a conference call this afternoon Marvel announced a new Alpha Flight 8-issue maxi-series written by Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente with art by Dale Eaglesham The series will debut during Fear Itself, beginning in May with a prelude .1 issue drawn by Ben Oliver. Here are some tidbits from the accompanying liveblog at[...]

After a bit more than a year at tcj.com, the powers that be have come to their senses and sent us packing. 'Heroes for Hire' Is The New 'Marvel Team-Up' [Exclusive Preview] What's interesting about a comic like Heroes for Hire, Marvel's new series about Misty Knight coordinating street level heroes, is that it doesn't really have[...]

Love is in the air, can you feel it? Unless of course you are a fictional Marvel character lined up for execution Or a DC character seeing your book cancelled Again And as Flashpoint and Fear Itself prepare to go head to head, lots of peripheral titles and projects are being slashed While all this[...]

Okay, it's true, Bleeding Cool can't get enough of this walking double trademark violation. The flying effects especially, the fact that her powers seem

Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting's final arc on Fantastic Four hasn't finished yet. But you can pre-order it in hardcover from Amazon.com for 53% off the

Here's a selection of other Marvel toys on display at Toy Fair 2011. [...]

Straight from Toy Fair 2011 comes these Marvel Vs Capcom 3 Minimates design sheets – for enyone who though that all X-23  needed to be more appealing, was to be a little blockier and stocky. Actually, it kinda works Straight from Toy Fair[...]

A TV Movie in Indonesia showing from today on MNC TV and made by Soraya Intercine Film, that bears no relation to the DC Comics character. And also no relation to Marvel's Spider-Woman The only question is… who will sue first? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree[...]

Gotta love that John Byrne. This is a New Avengers cover for Hero Initiative, the charity dedicated to raising money to help comic creators who have

This past November, a court decision on a series of Marvel motions essentially focused the Marvel v Kirby family case on one key issue — the Kirby family's quest to terminate Marvel's copyrights on 45 characters Jack Kirby created between 1958 and 1963 would hinge on whether he created them for Marvel as works for[...]

In Dallas, right now, comic book retailers propping up the bar, thinking about going to bed, as part of the ComicsPro retailer meeting, with presentations by a number of companies. We know about Marvel's upcoming death count and DC's upcoming Batman OGN NÖEL with the dieresis on the wrong letter, button and badge count, but what[...]

Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool ran a story that Marvel's plan for the X-Men books is to split tham along two political lines I wrote I'm told the members of the X-Men are planned  split into two very distinct teams and books, each with a different moral outlook, aligning along the traditional Xavier/Magneto divide[...]

From the ComicsPro retailer summit, David Gabriel, Senior Vice President of Sales at Marvel Comics has announced that as a result of the Fantastic Four sales and media coverage, Marvel are going to kill a main character every quarter. He also added "this is not a joke". But as I revealed earlier this week, they already killed[...]

I have been led to understand by a reputable comics source certain details about the future direction of the X-Men books, post-Fear Itself, possibly

You can buy issue 1 of Halcyon on eBay for 99 cents But if you want issue 2 as well (right), you might have to pay up to $28. Diamond/Diamond UK losing

It is flawed – self selecting, based on recall, but it does cover Marvel, DC and IDW apps, ComiXology, iVerse, Graphic.Ly, even PDFs, anywhere you can pay to download a comic book This is the top ten (okay, top eleven) paid digital comics downloaded in January 2011. 1       The Walking Dead #80 (Image) 2.       Justice League:[...]

The information hasn't been officially officially released yet. But I understand that, despite losing overall unit marketshare in December to DC Comics, Marvel has regained it in January, and then some And their dollar marketshare is not only maintained but increased. In December, Marvel had 32.28% of the market share of the number of comics shipped in[...]

But in a discussion on the Byrne Robotics board about offense in comics, starting with the rejection by DC of the previously-approved Swamp Thing #88, John Byrne gave his recollection of Marvel offices back in the day. I have commented before, on more than one occasion, that some of the current "generation", so eager to[...]