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Spotted on the corner of 86th and Lex, a phone box with a special message… This is new evidence that the quarter of a million dollar advertising budget boasted of by Shelly Bond is being spent… On more than Sandman Overture. Hinterkind, the new Vertigo series by Ian Edginton and Francesco Trifolgi is certainly getting a push. [...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This week is exciting! The art of Elektra had us drooling! The awkward familiarity of Eltingville Club had us in stitches! And getting to know The Watcher made[...]

Since taking over for Geoff Johns, Jeff Parker's run on DC's Aquaman has been getting a lot of positive buzz, so we are happy to give you a preview of issue #30 that hits stands this week along with the Vertigo title Dead Boy Detectives #5. [...]

By Devon Sanders Recently, artist Yanick Paquette drew attention to the fact that certain publishers don't pay any sort of royalty or give cover credits to some of comics' most important and hardest working creative, its colorists, and we covered it here at Bleeding Cool. I reached out to one of the medium's best, Rico Renzi, colorist[...]

It was a full hall shortly after the opening of Wondercon and just as DC's booth at the con is front and center, DC snagged one of the earliest opening panel times for the show as well in their "all access" approach. Panelists included DC's Co-publisher, and penciller on Superman Unchained, Jim Lee, and 3 editors,[...]

Timothy Carson writes: With the upcoming release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2, it’s no surprise that Peter Parker’s comic variation is flying off the

This is the second of the three-part Red Daughter Of Krypton story. The newest, most powerful Red Lantern can finally put her new powers to use! A cosmic menace from the darkest recesses of Kara's past is back! Only this time Supergirl is a Red Lantern and can channel all her rage against anyone – and[...]

When I got an e-mail last January while traveling in the UK from Cliff Galbraith, one of the co-founders of Asbury Park Comic Con asking me if I would be

  We mentioned the earlier New 52 version of Wonder Woman that was planned by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang, but in the new TwoMorrows magazine Modern Masters Volume 29: Cliff Chiang, we also get a look behind the scenes of the Vertigo Batman comic that never was Or, The Bat-Man, closer based on the character's[...]

Timothy Carson writes: It’s one hell of a week for Aquaman; Japan, Mexico, and Russia are submerged in Senior Undertow himself, drowning the majority of

Vertigo's Hinterkind volume one is here, and while it's not happily ever after for humans, at least we can read about our demise for just $10! Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, I'm back with New Comics Now! This week I have a lot of All New Marvel Now that[...]

But there's no turning back now, that's for sure. Well, it's hard to recover from the deep thoughts in Overture enough to read any other comics, but we forge ahead with the also very high-minded series The Wake by Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy from Vertigo The previous issue, #6, peeled back the layers on the[...]

So we waited. And waited. And it was worth every second, Sandman Overture #2 is published today, and it is as beautiful and wondrous a comic book as issue

By Timothy Carson It seems The Walking Dead lost some steam this week, for the latest issue of Ms. Marvel blasts its way to number one in some pretty

This week their special segment includes: Catfish Quiz. Books reviewed in this episode include: Vertigo: American Vampire Second Cycle #1 Marvel Comics: Superior Spider-Man Annual #2 Marvel Comics: Ms Marvel #2 Marvel Comics: Thor God Of Thunder #20 Image Comics: Sovereign #1 DC Comics: Batman And Aquaman #29 Marvel Comics: Uncanny X-Men #19 BOOM! Studios: Clockwork Angels #1 DC Comics: Batman: Bruce Wayne Murderer TP Dark[...]

By Dylan Gonzalez Beer: Dark Hollow Imperial Stout Brewery: Blue Mountain Brewery Darkness enveloped my night as I poured out a bottle of Dark Hollow, an

This Saturday, the  Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco will have special guest JH Williams III popping by to their Sandman exhibition for a presentation

It's quite a full line-up, so dig into this week's comic releases. Books featured in this episode include: DC Comics: Justice League Of America #13 Marvel Comics: All-New X-Men #24 IDW Publishing: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #32 Image Comics: Stray Bullets: Killers #1 Vertigo: Royals: Masters Of War #2 Image Comics: Mercenary Sea #2 Image Comics: Manifest Destiny #5 Marvel Comics: Captain Marvel #1 DC[...]

Well, you seemed to like it last week. So let's do it again... To quote Mallrats "what, in the back seat of a Volkswagen?" Welcome, one and all to another

Bleeding Cool understands that Mark Doyle, currently a DC/Vertigo editor, will be the new Batman Group editor at DC Comics. He replaces the departing Mike Marts, who was escorted out of the DC offices by security, as is standard, after he announced he was moving back to work at Marvel Comics. One slight blip is that Mark[...]

Ahead of the Final Order Cut-Off date of February 3rd for Sandman Overture #2, DC Comics are encouraging retailers to up their orders with the promise of

Yep, issue 8 breathes and moves well as a development on "Coastlines" and, as usual, makes more enemies to keep Fabian running to stay one step ahead. Hinterkind, from Vertigo, has been a series to watch as a potential long-running page-turner establishing a new kind of cross-genre that deals in science, apocalypse, environmental themes and mythology[...]

Even more pointedly, the final issue of the arc, #6, seems to encapsulate Tom's position as a relatable hero to us, right now, and explains why Tom Strong's survival, as a character in comics, has been far more than a nostalgic resuscitation of an ABC property into the Vertigo line-up. [*This discussion is written to avoid[...]

It's a book to keep your eye on in 2014, and its nothing if not an adventure story prepared to kick things into higher gear. I've been watching out for Dead Boy Detectives coming from Vertigo, and am glad the first issue arrived in 2013 (though it's of course cover-dated 2014) The artwork by Mark Buckingham[...]

The Wake, from Vertigo, a division of DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder, with art by Sean Murphy The Wake follows its own star as a series, shuffling aside expectations and even the burdens of science-fiction and horror traditions in comics, and for that reason it swims rather than sinks Neither Scott Snyder nor Sean Murphy,[...]

Tomorrow is the day when DC Comics staff working in the New York offices at 1700 Broadway will have to make a decision about what they'll be doing in April 2015. That is when DC Comics will move lock, stock, to the offices in Burbank, where an office has been waiting for them, empty, for a[...]

Will Dennis is Group Editor at DC Comics/Vertigo and Mark Doyle is an Editor there. I understand that both have decided not to move to the West Coast when DC Comics ups sticks from Manhattan to Burbank in April 2015. Recently responsible for publishing the likes of DC Vertigo publishing 100 Bullets, Scalped, DMZ, The Losers, American[...]

We've got plenty from Image, Dynamite, IDW, Vertigo, and Dark Horse this time around. New Titles Skybound from Image released Dead Body Road by Justin Jordan (writer), Matteo Scalera (pencils and inks), Moreno Dinisio (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters) To be fair, any book by Justin Jordan is one I'm going to check out and see what craziness[...]

Breathtaker: Love Death Sex Power was a Vertigo book before there was a Vertigo imprint Now, more than twenty years later the duo is going back and remastering their original series and preparing to do the long awaited sequel They have put together an Indiegogo campaign to make it happen I got a chance to chat with Wheatley[...]

All in all, an excellent issue for Flash and Sprouse fans. But why not continue with the Sprouse-fest with Tom Strong and the Planet of Peril #5 of 6 from Vertigo? With the triple-play of Peter Hogan, Chris Sprouse, and Karl Story, you really can't go wrong It's a heavy issue as the heroes of the[...]