Once upon a time, he reported comics industry gossip in his fanzine The Comic Reader. Then he began editing and writing comics for DC Comics, rising over the decades to become both President and Publisher of DC. He was then knocked off his perch with a triple whammy of Dan DiDio, Jim Lee and Diane […]
At the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas this weekend, Rebellion had lots to promote. Such as that in one month's time, we will get the July Diamond Preview catalogue promoting Dredd month in September. This will include a huge Judge Dredd backlist sale, heavily discounted Omnibus collection, heavy promotion from Rebellion, digital Dredd starter […]
Dark Horse Comics came to Diamond's Retail Summit, held in Las Vegas this weekend, adding to the tally of comic book publishers pushing returnability for a number of their new titles, joining DC Comics and Boom in that endeavour. So that Tommy Gun Wizards — the first mainstream comic written by Eisner Award-winning artist Christian […]
Dark Horse Comics came to Diamond's Retail Summit, held in Las Vegas this weekend, to promote their upcoming politics to comic book retailers across the USA – and beyond. Dark Horse has the comic book license to the web TV series Critical Role in which a group of professional voice actors play Dungeons & Dragons. […]
Boom Studios had a lot to boast about at Diamond's Retail Summit, held in Las Vegas this weekend, including the stat that Boom had gained more market share than any other publisher in 2018, growing sales three times faster. Which is nice. You can follow the rest of Bleeding Cool's coverage of Diamond Retail Summit, […]
Cobra Kai is an web TV series, based on The Karate Kid film series created by Robert Mark Kamen. The series was created for YouTube Premium by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald and stars William Zabka and Ralph Macchio reprising their roles from the films, who also serve as co-executive producers. It takes […]
Courtesy of John Mizzer of Comics World of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, a look around the diamond retail Summit in Las Vegas this weekend – and the journey there. Oh and the tattoos – or course there were going to be tattoos… it's Vegas after all. Presented at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, check out […]
Mark Waid took to the stage at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas, to talk about his work at Humanoids, launching the H1 shared superhero universe – and how it also stands for Humanity First, launching Ignited, Strangelands, Omni, Meyer, The Big Country and Nicneven and the Bloody Queen. One thing of note… in […]
Marvel Comics had their presentation at Diamond Retailer Summit last night in Las Vegas. You may have seen bits of it stripped and stranded. Videos and presentations from Jonathan Hickman for House and Powers Of X, Donny Cates on Absolute Carnage, Marvel Comics #1001 to follow #1000, a new Conan comic written and drawn by […]
DC Comics had their presentation at Diamond Retailer Summit last night in Las Vegas. You may have seen bits of it stripped and stranded. Videos and presentations from Brian Bendis on Event Leviathan, Returnable DC Comics, the extension of Year Of The Villain, an absence of Doomsday Clock, and more. Well here's the whole gamut, […]
At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas yesterday, the Marvel Comics presentation ran through all manner of comics, projects, promotion and the like. But also recognised the eztraordinary sales success that Immortal Hulk has been enjoying, pointing out that the most recent issue sold at the same numbers as the first heavily promoted, multiple […]
The DC Comics Presentation at the Diamond Retail Summit at Las Vegas yesterday was full of newsy bits. Returnability, Year Of The Villain being an actual year, and something going on with Watchmen. But we also got some details for Batman Day, held on September 21st and, basically, getting us some freebies. A chapter of […]
At Diamond's Retail Summit in Las Vegas last night, Marvel Comics had a lot to present to the assembled throng of comic book. You can catch up with a lot of what we ran last night, but there's still plenty more to come. Such as a look at Guardians Of The Galaxy, the comic currently […]
Mark Waid was at the Diamond Retail Summit for Humanoids as Director of Creative Development (more on that later). But since he was in the room, Marvel Comics got him up on stage to talk appreciative comic book store owners through the upcoming History Of The Marvel Universe series he is writing – and while […]
Last night at the Diamond Retailer Summit, Dirk Manning of Nightmare World gave a keynote address on behalf of Source Point Press, a relatively new comic book publisher on the block with some impressive names behind it. Did you see how fast Hope was picked up on Free Comic Book Day? We can look for […]
Funko POP had a fair few items to show off at the Diamond Retail Summit held in Las Vegas last night. Including items that look like they may be exclusive to Diamond's Previews catalogues, orderable only by direct market comic book stores – and those with accounts. Gamestop, I'm looking at you. We'd already known […]
We knew that 2000 AD publisher Rebellion had bought the rights to the classic Trigan Empire comic book by Mike Butterworth and Don Lawrence, along with the rest of the IPC Publishing rights. And now, announced at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas last night, Rebellion is to republish and recollect the Trigan Empire […]
A few days ago, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Greg Capullo would be returning from DC's Batman to Todd McFarlane's Spawn and suggested that Spawn #300 might be his destination. We didn't know the half of it. At the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, Todd McFarlane just made his big pitch for Spawn […]
Jonathan Hickman was available for a little video at the Marvel Comics presentation, part of the Diamond Retail Summit being held in Las Vegas today. And he had plenty to say about the upcoming House Of X and Powers Of X mini-series, which you can hear below… With this little slide to hammer things home. […]
It's a busy show at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vega you've been hearing about and following all weekend long on Bleeding Cool. Donny Cates was too busy popping the question at Megacon but he was able to send a message to retailers in Vegas about the upcoming Absolute Carnage event from Marvel for […]