Comic book writer Jim Zub has shared PDFs of the first full volumes of two of his creator-owned comics, Skullkickers and Wayward, to provide at least a distraction from the stressful coronavirus pandemic. On Patreon, Zub writes: 2020 has thrown us all a bunch of curve balls and it looks like a lot of people […]
Superstar comic book writer Matthew Rosenberg doesn't think Twitter is good for society, and he wanted to let people know, so he took to his Twitter account to say it Monday. Like all the best discussions, it started with a question about Hawkeye. I'm actually supposed to try and sell the book, not just tell […]
Superstar creators Tom King and Matthew Rosenberg sent shockwaves throughout the comics community after having lunch with each other Thursday. No, it's not because one is a Marvel and the other is a DC, nor is it because the pair of comic creators had the audacity to go out in public despite the looming threat […]
Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. From a place no longer in the European Union. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 10 most-read stories yesterday The Brand New Batmobile – There's An App For That – in […]
Matthew Rosenberg is the Axl Rose of comics. No, hear us out. After finding success as part of the biggest band in the world and releasing both the number one and number two album on the Billboard Charts at the same time with Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 at the same time, Axl couldn't […]
Everyone in comics loves a good sequel, well, except Alan Moore, and what better sequel could you imagine than one for the classic 2018 dispute between Marvel Comics writer Matthew Rosenberg and the FedEx delivery service? Rosenberg's fight to get FedEx to deliver his package went on for nearly a week, with Rosenberg providing live […]
Hawkeye's brand new solo series launched last week, from Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt, and while the issue has gotten rave reviews for a variety of reasons, the most important service it performs is letting people know just how terrible Hawkeye is. Here's three ways Hawkeye was revealed to be the absolute worst in Hawkeye: […]
Matthew Rosenberg is a member of the comics elite, a superstar writer EX-X-XCLUSIVE to Marvel Comics and past writer of X-Men and Punisher and current writer of the best Hawkeye series to come out this year, Hawkeye: Freefall. But once, Rosenberg was a certified indy darling, writer of such books as We Can Never Go […]
Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And welcome to 2020. Why Marvel has a comic coming out called Iron Man 2020 and not, say, 2020 Vision is beyond me. The 10 most-read […]
Former indie darling turned corporate superstar Matthew Rosenberg may be a highfalutin Marvel Comics EX-X-XCLUSIVE writer, but as Bleeding Cool has repeatedly noted, he's still, he's still Matty from the Block. Knowing that the holidays are coming up and his old friends in the comic book news business will be short for article topics (and […]
Today, Marvel released its special edition of The Pull List video, as well as mentioning NYCC reveals we got news of Tarot, an Avengers/Defenders comic book series written by Alan Davis and drawn by Paul Renaud. And a little something from Matthew Rosenberg and Otto Schmidt with a new take on Hawkeye in Hawkeye: Freefall. […]
Continuing their policy of staying ahead of the latest trends in pop culture, Archie Comics will publish a mini-series in which the Riverdale gang meets New Wave band The B-52s. Launching next February, the one-shot will be written by Alex Segura and Matthew Rosenberg, with art by Dan Parent. A press release provides more details […]
Marvel has revealed the December solicitations for Annihilation Scourge, following the Annihilation Scourge Alpha one-shot that launches the event in November. It looks like the event will include a series of one-shots in December and then wrap up with an Omega issue that same month. It's not revealed whether there will be any additional one-shots […]
Yesterday, months worth of stalking global entertainment superstar Donny Cates' every move and chronicling them in our All Donny, All the Time gossip column, Donny Cates Equals Clicks, finally paid off. After reporting on a romantic gesture wherein the Absolute Carnage writer bought flowers for fiancee Megan Hutchison and then made her dinner "just because," […]
When Matthew Rosenberg writes on Twitter (2, 3) that writers share some responsibility to promote an upcoming work, he accurately describes the reality of launching a new comic into 2019's retail landscape. He does not absolve publishers of the responsibility to promote the work at all. This isn't a big enough or healthy enough industry […]
Solving the woes of an ailing comic book industry is one of comicdom's favorite pastimes, with many a theory offered as to why any given direct market superhero comic book only seems to be able to sell to 100,000 or less readers, often far less, while superhero movies and television shows capture the imagination of […]
Teased at San Diego Comic-Con, with more clues found in a book catalog, we've known for a little bit that Marvel plans to revive the Annihilation name for an upcoming cosmic event. That event starts in December, but we'll get an Alpha issue in November, Marvel's full November 2019 solicitations reveal. And while we don't […]
With the Marvel Next Big Thing panel out of the way at San Diego Comic-Con, we now know what the X-Men's new status quo will look like in the Dawn of X era coming this Fall. And if you've been reading Matthew Rosenberg and Salvador Larocca's Uncanny X-Men, it probably looks a lot different than […]
With the rate at which Uncanny X-Men writer Matthew Rosenberg has been killing off characters, you might be tempted to think he enjoys it. That's apparently not the case, according to Rosenberg himself. Answering questions in this week's X-Men Monday column at Adventures in Poor Taste, Rosenberg was asked about the wanton character deaths during […]
Uncanny X-Men #20 hits stores next week, as Matthew Rosenberg and Salvador Larroca's run on the book edges closer to oblivion ahead of Jonathan Hickman's line-wide relaunch. With nothing left to lose, is Matthew Rosenberg including an anti-vaccination message in the pages of the book? Well, read the preview below and decide for yourself! It […]
