monsterwednesdays

Last week we told you that it's Doctor Kieron Gillen vs The-Then-Not-Yet-A-Doctor Kieron Gillen as Once & Future #1, kicking off his new series with Dan Mora from Boom! Studios, was tracking to potentially eclipse Die #1, the 2018 launch from Image Comics with Stephanie Hans. But not its sivth issue. And then the next […]

Well, Captain Marvel #8 just got very topical, out of pure blind luck. Or maybe it was inevitable. Just as Lois Lane #1 managed to stumble onto a plotline that was then replicated in reality, and Viz Comic similarly managed something the same weekend that it kicked off with upcoming Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson, […]

I thought last month's Spider-Man: Life Story by Chip Zdarsky and Mark Bagley was masterful, weaving together as it did the Clone Saga, the real plans behind the Clone Saga and the retcon upon retcon that had to be layered over it after negative fan reaction. The original plan was to have the presumed clone […]

So we were promised, okay, teased, okay hinted at, okay I may have read too much inbetween the lines, for a marriage between Aquaman and Mera in today's Aquaman #50 as part of Monster Wednesday. Arthur is back, bringing his crew of demi-gods who still call him Andy, after forgetting about his wife and their […]

Vampirella #1 is Dynamite's big anniversary re'vamp' (ha ha) of the classic Warren comic book character, from Priest and Ergun Gunduz, out today for Vampirella's anniversary Dynamite's anniversary and the 50th anniversary of San Diego Comic-Con. And all part of what we're calling Monster Wednesday here at Bleeding Cool. And we have a psychiatric episode […]

Robert Cale writes for Bleeding Cool for what we're calling Monster Wednesday. Batman #75 has landed, written by Tom King, with art by Tony Daniel, Mitch Gerads and Jordie Bellaire, and there's… well, a lot to digest. Trust me, you'll want to read until the end; I'm going to make it worth your time. When we last […]

If you are reading all the Year Of The Villain: The Offer issues then you may not just want to read today's Justice League one first as it comes before all the others – and the ones last week and the week before that too. While the Justice League Odyssey one from last week still […]

Welcome to Monster Wednesday, just in time for San Diego Comic-Con, Lots of publishers are putting out their biggest books today and it may be bedlam. This is an attempt to make a path through a few… use this handy tag to keep up with the others. Today's Loki #1 kicks off in the fashion […]

Not everyone will be able to pick up a copy of Captain Marvel #8 today. Before going on sale, copies are being pre-sold on eBay for up to $25 a pop with up to $140 for the 1:25 variant. Insanity. It's all part of what we're calling Monster Wednesday here at Bleeding Cool. So here, […]

  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. The 10 most-read stories yesterday Marvel to Kill Off Immortal Hulk in October's Immortal Hulk #25 Matthew Rosenberg Says It Was Painful to Kill Off […]

It still has a couple of weeks to go until this title gets to its Final Order Cut-Off date, so we are getting this early. But here's a look at DIE's Stephanie Hans' FOC cover for Weatherman Vol 2 #3 by Jody LeHeup and Nathan Fox, out from Image Comics in August. WEATHERMAN VOL 2 […]

David Andry whose debut book, Resonant #1 with Alejandro Aragon, comes out tomorrow from Vault Comics, will be at San Diego Comic-Con from tomorrow. But this is not his first rodeo at the show. Indeed, he has been working as a volunteer at the Skybound Entertainment side to the Image Comics booth since the studio's' […]

Gabe Yocum used to run the direct sales department at Double Take, the comic book line of Take2 Interactive that was run by Bill Jemas. He'll have been there when Bill Jemas fell out with Ken Levine so the original plan to publish comics in a shared gaming universe of X-Com, Civilisation and Bioshock fell […]

The Diamond Retailer Best Practices Awards: Summer 2019 will be announced as San Diego Comic-Con on the Friday. Submitted by retailers, the Diamond BPAs seek to identify and honour comic shops that demonstrate "best practices" in their stores, offering customers and community a consistently appealing shopping experience… Nominations for the Summer 2019 Awards span four […]

44 pages should be enough for someone to tell if they like a comic book or not. It's two whole issues worth. Well, Bleeding Cool is giving you, just before San Diego kicks off, the first 44 pages of' Chris Jaymes and Resonant artist Aléjandro Aragon's forthcoming historical graphic novel, Sons of Chaos from IDW, […]