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Death Of A Ballard Series Regular in The Daily LITG, 19th July 2025

Death of a Ballard Series Regular was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

Death of a Ballard Series Regular was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past six years. Founded sixteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further eighteen years before that, Bleeding Cool has become one of the longest-standing and most well-known pop culture websites around. The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and possibly the day ahead. In summary, you can sign up to receive Lying In The Gutters as an email here. And maybe you just have.

Death of a Ballard Series Regular and the ten most popular stories yesterday

1. Ballard: Did a Series Regular Die So Another Character Might Live? 
2. DC Comics Full October 2025 Solicits, More Than Just Absolute Batman 
3. Image Comics Full October 2025 Solicits Includes Spawn: The Dark Ages 
4. DC Comics October 2025 Solicits For Collections, Absolutes, Omnibuses
5. Image Says Diamond's Goal Is "Stealing" $3,000,000 of Comics From Them
6. Artgerm, Steve McNiven, Peach Momoko & Terry Dodson Do Deadpool/Batman 
7. Supernatural Returns To Comics In Dynamite October 2025 Full Solicits
8. Colbert Fallout: Jimmy Kimmel Posts Brutally Blunt Message for CBS
9. Marvel Teasing The End Of The Ultimate Universe With Ultimate Endgame
10. No, Gretchen Felker-Martin, Writer Of Red Hood, Has Not Read H2SH

And a few of my other stories from yesterday

• War Wolf #1, Political Paranoia by Steve Orlando and Marco Perugini
• Dynamite Reprints The Boys Omnibuses As Diamond Is Holding On To Them
• Little Nightmares, Conan & Rebel Moon in Titan October 2025 Solicits
• Terminator: Metal by Declan Shalvey, Rory McConville and Lorenzo Re
• Ice Cream Man: The Mortal Coil Shuffle Printed Once On A Deck Of Cards
• Image Comics: Frank J. Barbiere & Morgan Beem's The Author Immortal
• A Joker/Harley Sequel by Kami Garcia, Mico Suayan and Jason Badower
• Something Is Killing The Children: A Monster Walks Into A Bar
• Dynamite Unveils Blind-Item Black Bag Variant Comics Line
• Speed Racer & Endless Night – Mad Cave Studios At San Diego Comic-Con
• Temporal, New Time-Travel Comic by Stephanie Williams & Asiah Fulmore
• Helen Mullane & Tula Lotay's Groupies In Print For Thought Bubble
• The End Of The Ultimate Universe in The Daily LITG, 18th July 2025

LITG one year ago, DC All-In & Absolute Universe

1. Darkseid Will Divide Absolute And Classic DC Universes For DC All-In
2. Our First Look at Absolute Wonder Woman With Tattoos and Massive Sword
3. DC All-In & Absolute Universe Details, Creators & Comics Confirmed
4. Our First Look At Absolute Superman… With Floppy Hair
5. A New Look At The Big, Big, Absolute Batman
6. X-Men Bonus Page Reveals Jean Grey's Big Bad (Phoenix #1 Spoilers)
7. Mark Waid & Chris Samnee Launch Batman And Robin: Year One in October
8. Hasbro Rolls Out New Transformers: The Movie Optimus Prime Figure 
9. Renaming Marvel's Prince Of Power To Be Less Like… She-Ra?
10. Marvel Confirms a 'Brutal' Iron Man by Spencer Ackerman & Julius Ohta
11. Secret Origin of Matt Baker's Cinderella Love #25 Cover, at Auction
12. Robert Venditti's Tankers Comes With Free Fossil (When You Pay $450)
13. DC All In, Superwoman And Darkseid's Absolute Universe, Announced
14. DC Comics Creators' All-In Teasers Half An Hour Ahead Of Announcement
15. Matt Baker Covers Teen-Age Romances #32, Up for Auction
16. Deadpool & Wolverine Multiverse Hate in Weapon X-Traction (Spoilers)
17. Only One Blood Hunt Comic Matters This Week… But Which? (Spoilers)
18. Digital Comics Reader, Omnibus, Is To Close
19. Ultimate X-Men Says The Word X-Men For The First Time, Five Issues In
20. Will Marvel Launch West Coast Avengers After Iron Man? (Spoilers)
21. The Case of the Disappearing Matt Baker Series, Authentic Police Cases
22. Brian Azzarello & Vanesa Del Rey's The Creeping Below from Boom
23. Vampirella Black, White & Blood Jae Lee Kickstarter Cover Gets $5000
24. Ryan Parrott & Eleonora Carlini's Vicarious Launches From Boom Studios
25. Chip Zdarsky's Zdarsky Comic News in The Daily LITG, 17th July 2024

LITG two years ago, Superman back in the shower

And yes, it's Charles Soule's birthday today. Happy birthday sir!

1. Superman Still In the Shower in The Daily LITG, 16th July 2023
2. The Always Sunny Podcast "Has Been Put On Hold For Now": Details
3. Marvel Confirms The Death Of Moon Knight
4. Still In The Shower With Superman in The Daily LITG, 15th July 2023
5. To Cosplay or Not To Cosplay? SDCC 2023 & SAG-AFTRA/WGA Update
6. WhatNot/Massive Cancels Heavy Metal, Will Not Publish Volume Two
7. "A Babylon Event Has Begun"- Jonathan Hickman & Valerio Schiti's GODS
8. Frank Miller Will Be Supporting The Strikes At San Diego Comic-Con
9. Matt Lesniewski's Faceless & The Family Comes to Oni Press For SDCC
10. They Keep On Killing Off Batman- This Week's Knight Terrors Spoilers
11. Emma Mills & Sarah Nicole Kennedy Create The Greenies Graphic Novels
12. Safiya Zerrougui's Queer Gothic Romance OGN, Henna For The Jinn
13. A Vicious Circle #2 Does More Than Punch Nazis, But Does That As Well
14. The Return of Galaxy: The Prettiest Star to DC in Hawkgirl Spoilers)
15. Matthew Erman & Sam Beck's Graphic Novel About Teens in an Ohio Cult
16. Stuck In The Shower With Superman in The Daily LITG, 17th July 2023

LITG three years ago, Jon Hamm & Emma Frost

1. Of Course Jon Hamm & Emma Frost Were An Item – X-Men's Hellfire Gala
2. Chris Claremont's New Marvel Comic Is… X-Treme X-Men²
3. Star Trek: SNW: Melissa Navia to Anti-Ortegas Bigots: "We All See You"
4. Doctor Who: Christopher Eccleston Reveals 60th Anniversary Plans
5. GI Joe, Thundercats, Jem, And More COming To SDCC From Super7
6. Today Is Starly Community Day In Pokémon GO: Full Details
7. DC Publishes Tom King & Josh Adams' Tribute To Neal Adams This Week
8. Stranger Things 4: Jamie Campbell Bower Sincerely Apologizes For Vecna
9. Hasbro Debuts Legends Spider-Man: No Way Home Three Peters Pack
10. Obi-Wan Kenobi: Ewan McGregor Has Theory on Star Wars Prequels Hate
11. All The Comics Publishers You Have To Boycott If You Boycott NFTs
12. Jack Knight and Starman's Legacy in Starman #0, Up for Auction
13. Jose Gonzalez's Iconic Rendition of Vampi on Vampirella 19, at Auction
14. Hellfire Gala & Daredevil Top Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
15. New Biography, Bryan Talbot: The Father of the British Graphic Novel
16. Chris Claremont's X-Treme X-Men² in The Daily LITG July 17th 2022

LITG four years ago – Loki

1. Loki E06 Review: Marvel Still Fundamentally Misunderstands TV Writing
2. The Orville: Since "Hell Froze Over", Guess Who Shows Up in Season 3?
3. The Wheel of Time: Rafe Judkins Starting Season 2; Trailer Update
4. Star Trek: Discovery Star Sonequa Martin-Green Offers Season 4 Update
5. Funko FunKon Day 3 – MOTU, Harry Potter, DC Comics, and More
6. James Tynion IV Planned DC Vs Vampires To Avoid Writing 5G
7. Funko Ends FunKon 2021 Reveals With Shared Retailer Exclusives List
8. Pokémon GO Teases Shiny Cranidos & Shieldon For Ultra Unlock 2021
9. First Appearance Of The X-Men's Rogue To Set Records At Auction
10. Funko FunKon Day 5 Reveals – Marvel, Rocketeer, My Hero and More
11. James Tynion IV Planned DC Vs Vampires To Avoid Writing 5G
12. Speculator Corner: Moon Knight #1, Doctor Badr and Hunter Moon
13. James Tynion IV To Make His Gotham Head Canon Into Batman Continuity
14. Amanda Waller To Spark International Incident In Action Comics
15. Expanding Something Is Killing The Children Into "The Slaughterverse"
16. Low Key Loki In The Daily LITG, 17th Of July 2021

LITG five years ago, Pokemon and the Punisher

As well as the Wonder Woman 1984 movie, a new Pokemon Go story and an old Punisher story topped the charts.

1. Pokémon GO Friendship Event Is The Final Challenge Before GO Fest
2. The Punisher Has Words For Police Who Use His Skull Logo (#13 Spoilers)
3. Dancing with the Stars Made the Wrong Pick with Tyra Banks: Opinion
4. 15 New Images from Wonder Woman 1984 from Recently Released Books
5. American Horror Story: Angelica Ross' Season 10 Words Speak Volumes
6. Hasbro Retro GI Joe Line- Exclusive To Walmart, SDCC Commander In Sept
7. DC Comics Solicitations October 2020 – Frankensteining Ten Titles
8. Funko Announces Target Exclusive Designer Batman Pop Series
9. DC Cancels Batman Who Laughs Orders, Reschedules Criminal Sanity #5
10. Batgirl, Batman And The Outsiders, Justice League Odyssey Cancelled

Comic Book birthdays today

Comic folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date with twelve years for us as well.

• Charles Soule, co-creator of The Undiscovered Country, Letter 44, Curse Words, Eight Billion Genies, Hell To Pay, Strange Attractors
• Michael Vance, writer of Straw Men, Angel of Death, The Adventures of Captain Nemo, Holiday Out and Bloodtide.
• S. A. Bennett, writer of How to Write Comic Books.

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.

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