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With only three weeks to go until the escalating war between Wednesday's (Ian McShane) old gods and World's (Crispin Glover, Dominique Jackson, Danny Trejo) new gods rolls on for a third season, STARZ's adaptation of author and EP Neil Gaiman's famed novel, American Gods continues getting viewers up-to-speed on the who's who and the what's what[...]

As detailed last week, Valiant are teeing up the new Bloodshot Salvation #1 – the upcoming series presenting a new beginning to writer Jeff Lemire's "Eisner Award-nominated Bloodshot saga" with artists Lewis LaRosa and Mico Suayan – as the publisher's next major series in the wake of Matt Kindt's X-O Manowar and Arrival screenwriter Eric[...]

July sees the launch of two new creator owned series from AfterShock Comics by Mark Waid, Tom Peyer, Wilfredo Torres, Tim Seeley and Gus Storms… welcome to Captain Kid and Lifespanners Oh and look, the second print of Insexts #1 gets a solicitation – that's how they used to do things in the old days… welcy to[...]

Lots of heavy black, feathery lines and big bold blocks of colour. Yesterday, on his Facebook page, he announced his new project, a comic coming from Image Covet Thy Neighbour with Brian Buccelatto and J Young. Brian is best known for his work for DC Comics on titles such as Detective Comics and The Flash but was absent from the[...]

IDW had previously announced that in September they'd be collecting those new Bloom County Webcomics that Berkeley Breathed has been doing for the past year. Peter S Svensson, writing from WonderCon for Bleeding Cool, tells us that IDW announced that they will be releasing a print softcover edition in September for $17.99, printing the strips for the first time[...]

So that's confirmed it's real then… On Monday I talked about the script to Riverdale, the new CW teen drama based on the Archie Comics series Well, today I have the script to the DC Comics TV show Powerless, written by Ben Queen, dated January 5th 2016. And… yes It is exactly as promised[...]

Tumblrs, twitters, FTP lists, on one occasion typing the word "Batman" into the DC Comics search engine and finding a roster of unannounced projects. Publishers are a lot more discrete these days, but even so, these things still find their way out. Such as this visual, with the filename "sispurrierprojectnew.jpg" So, that's London writer Si Spurrier.  And signed[...]

But, for Bleeding Cool owner Avatar Press, they are starting something new. Cinema Purgatorio, a horror anthology comic book including their work and the work of their friends, including Max Brooks, Kieron Gillen, Christos Gage and more. And, yes, it's being funded on Kickstarter. The lead strip of Cinema Purgatorio is by Moore and O'Neill This ongoing monthly series will feature[...]

Bleeding Cool was the first to report that Scott Snyder would be leaving the Batman monthly comic he has flourished on, as it goes bi-weekly and starts from a new #1 as part of the DC Rebirth relaunch project And that Snyder will instead take on the also-relaunched-but-staying-monthly Detective Comics, also starring Batman. As part of…[...]

When I think about the Best Graphic Album-New category, I equate it to the Academy Award for Best Picture All the nominees have been praised for the past year for being the best that comics has to offer, and being nominated for several awards from multiple organizations simply validates the power they hold over the[...]

Yesterday, Top Cow/Image Comics published the second issue of Genius, by Marc Bernadin, Adam Freeman and Afua Richardson. It seemed like it had been ripped from the day's headlines. That a new issue is being published every week this month can only help that feeling of being right on the button, even though it was produced over[...]

In the final Brian Bendis Avengers comic, New Avengers #34 out today, as well as Mike Deodato's fine work (and the final double page splash is really rather wonderful) there are a bunch of guest artists portraying the big battle between Doctor Strange and, well, everyone Here's a peek at what you can expect from[...]

They're the New Ghostbusters Coming in February from IDW Written by Erik Burnham, drawn by Dan Schoening and Luis Antonio Delgado….     They're not the Ghostbusters They're not the Real Ghostbusters They're the New Ghostbusters Coming in February from IDW Written by Erik Burnham, drawn by Dan Schoening and Luis Antonio Delgado….     [...]

On his TV show last night, Stephen Colbert officially announced his new book America Again: Re-Becoming The Greatness We Never Weren't his followup to 2007's I Am America (And So Can You!) Okay, it was actually announced to the book trade press back in February, but it's starting to come out now I'll probably pick up[...]

Another wonderful short film by Patrick Willems aimed directly into this week's geek zeitgeist, from Patrick Willems as part of his Afterwards They Will

The only shop in London to bite the bullet, selling DC's thirteen New 52 titles at midnight There were doughnuts And Tony Lee They've also done a review podcast which should be up around now… So, what do we have? Stormwatch #1 by Paul Cornell and Miguel Sepulveda. Possibly the most disappointing of the first week of titles[...]

Hmm, with all the preview pages of Hawk And Dove #1 released so far, you could probably put a while issue together now… here are the new four pages. There she is again, appearing in a preview of Hawk And Dove #1 by Sterling Gates and Rob Liefeld on Modern Man Hmm, with[...]

Let's get that quote stright, from new Wonder Woman writer Brian Azzarello, to The Coventry Telegraph. "It's not going to be a superhero book I can guarantee you that, it's not a superhero book It's a horror book." The DC New 52 writer also talked to the newspaper about his work on Spaceman, how he plans to[...]

And issue three has been solicited as being drawn by Scott Clark and Dave Beaty. Other changes in November officially see Astro City's Brent Anderson joining Rags Morales on Action Comics #3, Victor Ibanez inking Yanick Paquette on Swamp Thing #3, Geraldo Borges replacing Fernando Pasarin on Green Lantern Corps #3, Hendry Prasetya is now inking[...]

There are those of you who have viewed the DC New 52 books with envy and suspicion Which will be the break out books? Which will sell lot hot cakes and which will be left unmourned and unloved on ths shelves Which is Anatomy Lesson, which is Rise Of Arsenal? And how much will it[...]

Uncanny X-Force! IRON MAN 2.0 #2 NICK SPENCER of Morning Glories and Infinite Vacation adds a little military espionage to his futurist mystery mix! Also, he adds a black guy. BRIGHTEST DAY #22 GEOFF JOHNS! Wake up sheeple, Hawks = Air, Aquaman = Water, Firestorm = Fire and[...]

From the London Toy Fair, taken under maximum security conditions, a first look at the new Thundercats cartoon… SECOND UPDATE: Second image added to the site Better image? Worse? UPDATE: We have more details… The character designs seem to be very anime-inspired, making them radically different to the originals However, it didn't give me the negative[...]

Or some such. But this week's issue of New Avengers was pretty much exactly this stereotype. The cast of New Avengers sitting around a table talking And then two of them interviewing for a nanny to look after their child No one hit anything No one stood up and carried the troops to action No one even[...]