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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