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Announced at MCM London Comic Con today, at the Diamond Retailer event, Titan Comics announced their next Tank Girl series, World War Tank Girl, for February 2017. Cover by Brett Parsons there. Watch for more stories from MCM London Comic Con here. Announced at MCM London Comic Con today, at the Diamond Retailer event, Titan Comics announced their next[...]

But re-announced at MCM London Comic Con, I thought would be worth giving it a spotlight. As IDW's Revolution changes their Hasbro titles into a unified universe, with crossovers happening all over the place, so Franco and Art Baltazar have their own all-ages take on Transformers, GI Joe, Mask, Action Man, Rom and more… Coming in February. Watch for[...]

Announced at MCM London Comic Con today, at the Diamond Retailer event, Dan Didio excitedly showed off a first look at Garth Ennis and Mauricet's reworking of Hanna-Barbera characters Dastardly & Muttley. After all, they are both fighter pilots in Stop The Pigeon… and very different to their appearance in Wacky Raceland. Watch for more stories from MCM London[...]

Announced at MCM London Comic Con today, at the Diamond Retailer event, David Gabriel of Marvel announced a new Elektra, Kingpin and Bullseye series to start in February, and, alongside Daredevil, will be creating a crossed continuity Daredevil universe within Marvel Comics – oh and a new Iron Fist series too… Watch for more stories from[...]

Announced at MCM London Comic Con today, at the Diamond Retailer event, Titan Comics will be publishing a new comic book series based on Kim Newman's award-winning Anno Dracula novels, written by Kim Newman and drawn by Paul McCarthy. Look for them next year… Watch for more stories from MCM London Comic Con here. [...]

Announced at MCM London Comic Con today, at the Diamond Retailer event, Dirk Wood of IDW and Matt Parkinson of Dark Horse took the opportunity to announce a new crossover series for April next year With Dirk pointing at me and saying "this is for you, Rich". The first Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover with[...]

Today is the first day of the MCM London Comic Con, Britain's biggest comic convention and the only show now at the Excel Centre in London's East End It is also the host of the Diamond UK Retailer Summit which I will be covering as in depth as they allow. I've spent a few days in[...]

Unveiling at MCM London Comic Con this weekend, from the Japanese company Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited and Marvel Custom Solutions, comes The Unbeatables. A new super-hero comic designed to highlight both the daily battles and the strength of the global inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) community And part of wider promotion called IBD Unmasked – it has its[...]

The robots are back. The stars of Channel 4's Humans are coming to MCM London Comic Con next weekend to celebrate the Kudos produced sci-fi series' return to our screens, with cast members taking part in an exclusive on-stage panel a day before the show's highly-anticipated second seriespremiere. Taking place at 3pm on Saturday, the Humans panel will see[...]

Next weekend sees the UK's biggest comic con, MCM Comic Con London, now the only comics show taking place at the Excel Centre. It's also the only place to be for comic book retailers, on the Friday for the Diamond UK Retailer event. As well as presentations from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Valiant and IDW, with exclusive retailer giveways and[...]

Watch for spoilers a week on Saturday, folks. Because while Doctor Who spinoff goes live on the BBC iPlayer streaming channel BBC 3 this Saturday evening, with the first two episodes going up together… The Saturday afterwards, MCM London Comic Con will get an early viewing of episode three, by a few hours. Writer Patrick Ness and the[...]

By Joe Glass On the weekend, at the huge MCM London Comic Con at the ExCel Convention Centre, there was a slightly different screening Different because this trailer screening featured something as yet pretty much unseen on the big screen: LGBT superheroes. While I was tabling at the convention with my own LGBT superhero book, the director[...]

By Olly MacNamee With a more spacious layout at this Spring’s con, the flow of fans and families was less of an issue than ever before with people able to

By Olly MacNamee There has certainly been a change in the air and the coming of Spring to Birmingham can just as easily be marked by the return of MCM's Birmingham weekender at the NEC next weekend (March 19th – 20th). Back in November, they brought with them none other than The Bionic Man, Lee Majors, and[...]

By Olly MacNamee One of the smaller MCM shows, but always a good one for cosplay, MCM Midlands was a chance to look around without the throngs that can descend on the larger shows, giving time to take it all in Bringing a bit of much needed colour to an otherwise drab part of the country,[...]

But it seems the traffic is travelling in the opposite direction. MCM, Britain's largest and most popular comic book convention organisers by far, are spreading their wings to mainland Europe with MCM-branded shows in Germany and Belgium this summer, with MCM Hannover Comic Con coming to Hannover Messe on 4-5th June and MCM Belgium Comic Con[...]

By Olly MacNamee The Birmingham MCM Comic Con once again impressed on the cosplay front, with a number of cosplayers bringing with them multiple outfits for the two days There was even a social-network organized DC versus Marvel shoot put together by cosplayer and Marvel fan, Marcus Jones, coming dressed as the Ultimate universe's Nick Fury. Feast[...]

By Olly MacNamee Closing down an increasingly busy con season here in the Midlands is the two day end-of-year blowout that is MCM Comic Con Birmingham serving up a big, bold slice of TV and film memorabilia, stars and celebrities, as well as the indie-centric Comics Village where I will be once more bumping into some[...]

Jess Bradley is a regular exhibitor at MCM London Comic Con And my kids have become regular customers of here and I always know that passing her at a show with my girls in tow will leave me financially worse off. To be honest, if probably would even if they weren't there. But with Hallowe'en Week upon[...]

The MCM London Comic Con promotes the principle that cosplay is not consent It was being enforced as well, by staff and cosplayers alike. I heard a number of people ask photographers if they had permission to shoot the shots they were taking But people were looking after each other, inside and out of the show, and I[...]

Joe Glass, who was exhibiting at MCM Comic Con, took photo of cosplayers who came to his table in Comic Village More cosplay pics from the past weekend's MCM London Comic Con Seems that Dragon Age is a very popular choice this time around, with Steven Universe also seeing an increasing presence at the show, which[...]

This weekend, Diamond held a retailer day at MCM London Comic Con Press were excluded, but Marvel and Mark Millar sent out PR summaries of what they wanted the world to know they announced Bleeding Cool was the only media outlet to have people at the actual retailer day reporting what was actually announced, that[...]

DC Comics Senior VP Derek Maddalena addressed comic book retailers at MCM London Comic Con yesterday It can't have been that easy with the guy who always used to do that, Bob Wayne, at the back of the room representing CBLDF. DC's biggest message to retailers was that of trade paperback persuasion Getting them to stock[...]

Mark Millar announced a lot of things at the Diamond Retail Summit at MCM London Comic Con yesterday But not everything made the PR burst that was sent to ComicBook. Such as how he sees Huck with Rafael Albuquerque as an 18 issue mini-epic, told over three years, with six issues a year. How the high concept of Empress is "what if[...]

From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of games sch as Uncharted, Executive Assault and Dark Souls III… From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of games sch as Uncharted, Executive Assault and Dark Souls III… From MCM London[...]

From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides by those folks at AudioBoom, coverage of television show panels like Sherlock, Flash, Arrow, Eve, Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad and Battlestar Galactica Films like The Journey, YouTube stars like Tomska And Andrew Lee Potts and Augusta Woods from Wireless x From MCM London Comic Con, a little audio provides[...]

Cometh the hour, cometh the cosplay – on the tubes, in the bars, on he show floor, in the open air of London MCM London Comic Con October 2015 It's official, Homestuck has all but gone, but there was more Deadpool, Harley Qunn and female Loki here than at New York a couple of weeks[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Marvel were to publish a Doctor Strange Omnibus, a full colour reprint of the Doctor Strange comic books of Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Another big book will be a Star Wars Droids/Ewoks Omnibus reprinting the 8 Droids comics, 14[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that Star Wars: Vader Down, the new Star Wars crossover between the two lead titles Star Wars and Darth Vader, already had over 450,000 units ordered He described it as  "so hot it burns your skin off and leaves you[...]

At the Diamond Retailer Day at MCM London Expo this weekend, Marvel's Senior VP David Gabriel announced that April would see the the first ever printing of the long lost unpublished Neil Gaiman/Mark Buckingham Miracleman #25 comic, twenty years after it was completed. Then, as expected, Gaiman and Buckingham will finish of the Silver Age story with[...]