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Marvel is commemorating their 80th-Anniversary by releasing a series of frame variants homaging the special cover frames they used when they celebrated their 25th-Anniversary 33 years ago. Wait, what? Look, it's Marvel math, and it all depends when you consider the starting point, just like with legacy numbers Okay, fine How about this It's magic They[...]

Modeled after Bruce Banner's transformation on the Joe Bennett variant cover of Immortal Hulk #16, the variants will appear on other Marvel titles and show their characters transforming into alter egos in a similar manner 22 variants will be featured across 17 titles, with Fantastic Four getting four of them, presumably one for each member[...]

Now, Marvel has unveiled another 6 variants, this time for Powers of X #1, and this time featuring a cover by Jack Kirby. So where is this one from? Well, you may notice it bears a resemblance to the cover to X-Men #10, with the X-Men fighting Ka-Zar…   And indeed, this cover was reprinted in 1999 as[...]

Marvel has revealed 7 new variants for Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz's upcoming House of X #1, hittins stores in July and kicking off a line-wide reboot of the X-Men Amidst the variants you can see a connecting variant by Mark Brooks which comes from the promo art first revealed for House of X and Powers[...]

According to the press release, 23 comics as currently announced will feature Marvel villains as variants this Summer, and Marvel has revealed six of those covers as well. Check out the press release below for more info as well as the Bring on the Bad Guys variants. BRING ON THE BAD GUYS! Marvel Heroes take on iconic villains[...]

Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios has unveiled Kevin Wada's variant cover for the upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer #5, featuring the star of his own new

Image Comics has unveiled Mike Mignola's variant cover for Sea of Stars #1, the first issue a new series by Jason Aaron, Dennis Hallum -- who is actually

But Spidey has enough costumes to warrant ten variant covers across select Marvel titles! Listen, wall-crawler, how many of those costumes spark joy? You gotta Marie Kondo your wardrobe, Spider-dude! Check out the press release and nine of the variants below. This June, Marvel Showcases the Best Suits of Spider-Man! New York, NY—May 9, 2019— This June, celebrate Spider-Man[...]

pic.twitter.com/RTpeKwW5Bk — Tom Taylor (@TomTaylorMade) April 8, 2019 Will she eat Poison Ivy's brain? Taylor also showed off two variants Sunday featuring Batman, the first by Clayton Crain… I've mentioned how safe every one of your favorite DC superheroes is in #DCeased, right?Here's proof in Clayton Crain's variant cover Look at Batman watching over some heroes while they… have[...]

Instead, Oni revealed today that Julieta Colás will produce two variant covers for Rick and Morty #50 in the style of the headshot variants Colás has done for the Rick & Morty trade paperback collections These covers, however, will dissect Rick and Morty creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland. Oni didn't reveal the covers themselves, and[...]

Philosophers have long asked the question: if a tree falls in the forest but no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? But Marvel comics has taken this thought experiment into the modern age of comics, asking: if Marvel publishes an super-mega-crossover event comic but it doesn't inspire 25 variant covers[...]

The 80th anniversary… that's the foil one, right? DC seems to think so, as the publisher is planning a birthday bash for Batman at WonderCon next weekend and they're bringing along a collection of foil variants for Batman and other books to the party Sadly, no hordes of rampaging bats will be released amongst the[...]

Not content with slowly destroying the comic book industry through shameless abuse of variant covers, Marvel has now declared war on the entire realm with six new international variants for War of the Realms Each cover, for a different issue of the series, celebrates the backgrounds of the artists: Humberto Ramos, David Lopez, Sean Izaakse,[...]

Marvel Comics has revealed two EX-X-XCLUSIVE variants they'll be giving away for free at panels at C2E2 this weekend Attendees to Marvel's War of the Realms panel will get a Thor #11 variant by Giuseppe Camuncoli, while Next Big Thing attendees will get an Avengers #17 variant by Mike McKone Of course panel attendees at[...]

At current count, we're at an incredible seventeen clickbait articles about Detective Comics #1000 (more than we had enough words to link in that sentence), while DC has produced 33 variants. Or so they say We're pretty sure Bleeding Cool has reported more of them than DC announced in their press release, including one extra from[...]

It's not every day you get to do something new in comics. It's like Chaotic Dischord once said in their iconic 1984 track, Anarchy in Midtown Comics: Went into Midtown Comics To buy some Punk Mambo A bloke came up and said "Hey, check out the velvety feel of this paper!" What did he do? He said "Check out the[...]

In his rousing speech at ComicsPRO calling out all of the self-destructive and shortsighted business practices that are damaging the comic book industry, retailer Brian Hibbs said: The SKU explosion has expanded out past just number of series, but also into the number of covers and variants we offer on those comics In January 2019, I[...]

(press releases are also not punk rock) New York, NY (March 1, 2019) – Comics publisher Valiant Entertainment and metal band A Sound of Thunder are teaming up to offer collectible comics paying homage to classic Iron Maiden cover art. The special editions of the debut issue of Valiant's upcoming title PUNK MAMBO comic feature exclusive cover[...]

Even the mighty She-Hulk must take a break from smashing to stare at Agger in all his minotaur glory on this variant cover from Marvel.

Marvel has heard the complaints levied by Brian Hibbs about their abuse of the variant cover gimmick (amongst other things) to extract more money from existing readers rather than trying to sell actual comics to new readers, and they have responded with… more variants! Hey, Marvel is nothing if not consistent, right? First up, two variants for[...]

Is it War of the Realms, or War of the Variants? Marvel Comics is planning to make War of the Realms their biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event, and part of that strategy includes releasing a @#$%load of spinoffs and tie-ins — there are $110 worth of them coming out in May, in fact — and another part[...]

Sure, May will offer readers the opportunity to purchase $110 of War of the Realms comics (main covers only), but if you're lucky, true believers, you could end up spending that much on just War of the Realms #1! Marvel has revealed two more variants for the first issue of their biggest-ever super-mega-crossover event, this time[...]

Artists such as Phil Noto, Khoi Pham, Patrick Zircher, Mike McKone, Carlos Pacheco, Olivier Coipel, Will Sliney, and more are taking part in the promotion. Check out the press release, including a full listing of the titles that will get Asgardian War of the Realms variants, and some of the covers, below. This April, all hel will[...]

'Okay, then maybe Image and I could help out with that a bit,' was my thinking when I came up with this tribute series of variants And luckily, Keith Pollard, Arvell Jones, and Ron Wilson were willing to help us out with their tribute variants—homages, in fact, to their own vintage comics covers[...]

These variants will grace the covers of Murder Falcon #6, out March 13th, and Murder Falcon #7, out April 10th, as part of an ongoing series of variants for the series homaging classic metal album covers. Check out the press release and the variants below. PORTLAND, OR, 02/01/2019 — Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment are pleased to[...]

It's basically the only way Marvel knows how to celebrate anything, so enjoy this new variant cover by Elsa Charretier and Sarah Stern.

Superstar writer and alleged former CIA operative Tom King is always teasing hot new art coming up in his DC Comics series on Twitter, but you won't

Now it's just up to fans to choose who they really are deep down inside and pick a side. Check out the variants below. Explosive publisher BOOM! Studios continues to release new information about their upcoming Buffy the Vampire Slayer comic reboot, or "reimagining" as they call it, or "reVamp" as they're also more cutely calling[...]

Instead, in a move that would have made Steve Ditko proud, the covers lock together in a 9-panel grid to form one full image. Check out the press release, and the covers, below. In celebration of Marvel's 80th Anniversary, Marvel is excited to kick off 2019 with a series of special variant covers, designed by acclaimed superstar artist Phil Noto![...]

Face front, true believers! Marvel Comics is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross's Marvels in the only way they know how: with a @#$%load of variant covers, baby! We already knew about Alex Ross's Marvels 25th Anniversary variants launching in January, as well as the February release of Marvels Annotated, which will[...]