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Spurious Slow Horses in the Daily LITG, 19th of November, 2024

The Slow Horses/Children In Need story with Gary Oldman topped the traffic on Bleeding Cool again yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters.



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  • The Slow Horses and Gary Oldman story dominates Bleeding Cool traffic with its touching appeal.
  • James Gunn shares insights on The Batman universe, sparking fan discussions and excitement.
  • A peek at the top ten trending stories on Bleeding Cool, featuring DC, Marvel, and more.
  • Celebrate Alan Moore's seventy-first birthday with a nod to his influential works.

Back in London, and all is right with the world. And the Slow Horses/Children In Need story with Gary Oldman topped the traffic on Bleeding Cool again yesterday. Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years. Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip a further fifteen 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. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. And maybe you just have.

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Slow Horses/Children In Need and the top ten stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday

  1. Slow Horses: Jackson Lamb Brings Nation to Tears at Children in Need 
  2. James Gunn Comments on "The Batman" Universe Because That's His Job 
  3. New Gods as Much a Part of Absolute as Batman, Superman & Wonder Woman
  4. Bosch: Author Michael Connelly on The Future of His Aging Hero 
  5. James Gunn: "Everything" Not New DCU is "Elseworlds" (Including Us)
  6. Mezco Debuts Batman: The Animated Series (Series 2) 5 Points Figures
  7. Terrifier 3 Filmmaker Responds to Two Prominent Fan Theories
  8. SCOOP: IDW To Reboot Godzilla For Free Comic Book Day 2025
  9. Angel Wears the Mask in One World Under Doom February Spins Offs
  10. Hiya Debuts New The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Lived Rick Grimes

And a few of my other stories from yesterday…

LITG one year ago, Clothes Off For DC Comics

DC Comics And Nudity

  1. DC Comics And The Return Of Cover Semi-Nudity In February 2024
  2. A Return To Relative Risque in The Daily LITG, 18th of November 2023
  3. Justice League vs. Godzilla vs. Kong #2 Preview: DC's Monster Mash
  4. The Powerpuff Girls: Craig McCracken on Why The CW Series Didn't Work
  5. Marvel Will Fix Hank McCoy In 2024 For Reasons You All Already Know
  6. Reacher Universe: Delacorte Press to Publish 4 New Jack Reacher Novels
  7. Is Gail Simone The New X-Men Writer At Marvel?
  8. Ronda Rousey Betrays WWE for ROH in Shocking Backstab [Spoilers]
  9. Spawn Comics All Jump Six Months Forward After Spawn #350
  10. Superman #8 Preview: The Impotence of Superman 
  11. Songs By Alan Moore For His Seventieth Birthday Today
  12. Return Of Megatron? Transformers/GI Joe February 2024 Solicits
  13. PrintWatch: Transformers, Punisher, Lotus Land Get Second Prints
  14. Immortal Thor Tops Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, 18th November 2023
  15. Divine Power Made Me & Roman Ritual in Scout's February 2024 Solicits

LITG two years ago, Mike Hawthorne's Royalties

Spurious Slow Horses in the Daily LITG, 19th of November, 2024

  1. Mike Hawthorne Posts Royalty Statement For Comic Book, Goes Viral
  2. Mark Hamill Offers Essential Star Wars Holiday Special Reality Check 
  3. DC Comics February 2023 Solicits, Not Just Batman, Superman As Well
  4. New DC Comics For Jon Kent, Conner Kent, Doom Patrol, Steel & Cyborg
  5. Avatar: The Last Airbender Series Star Sure She Was A Waterbender
  6. Twin Peaks Star Jan D'Arcy on Series Return, Working with David Lynch
  7. Sergio Aragones Draws He-Man In Dark Horse February 2023 Solicits
  8. Image Comics Full February 2023 Solicits, from Spawn to Saga to Scurry
  9. Sarah Michelle Gellar Could Be Key to Saving Us from Herschel Walker
  10. Doctor Who: BBC Introduces Millie Gibson as Companion Ruby Sunday
  11. Bill & Ted's Princesses Get Their Own Comic In Opus Feb 2023 Solicits
  12. Ghost Rider Stays Hot, Taking Bids At Heritage Auctions Today
  13. Whatnot Launches Heavy Metal Vol 2 & Liquid Kill In Feb 2023 Solicits
  14. Rick And Morty's Time Zoo Tops Oni Press February 2023 Solicits
  15. Torunn Gronbekk's Red Sonja In Dynamite's Full February 2023 Solicits
  16. IDW Full February 2023 Solicits Launches Star Trek Day Of Blood Event
  17. Boom Studios' Full February 2023 Solicits- Harrower To Power Ranger
  18. Dave Sim Blacks Up Captain Antifa In Cerebus In Hell: Cancel America
  19. Full Details For 44 Free Comic Book Day 2023 Titles
  20. Forbidden Planet Opens New Comic Book Store In Hull
  21. Happy 69th Birthday, Alan Moore- Daily LITG, 18th of November, 2022
  22. Rick Remender & Max Fiumara's Sacrificers From Image Comics For FCBD
  23. Local Man & Draculina On Cover Of Next Week's Previews

LITG three years ago, Liv Morgan Vs Becky Lynch

WWE Raw
LITG: WWE Raw PR
  1. WWE Raw: A Single Word Took Liv Morgan vs. Becky Lynch Nuclear
  2. Doctor Who: BBC Confirming Whittaker/Chibnall Plans Raises Questions
  3. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Gang Drops First 3 Podcast Eps
  4. Marvel Spills Identity Of Spider-Man's Queen Goblin On Variant Cover
  5. Funko Debuts Their First Day of Festival of Fun 2021 Exclusives
  6. Full Marvel Comics February 2022 Solicits & Solicitations
  7. DC Comics February 2022 Solicits & Solicitations – Frankensteined
  8. Pokémon TCG Will Never Release Katy Perry, Post Malone Cards
  9. Marvel Comics February 2022 Solicits – Frankensteined
  10. South Park: Post COVID Teaser: 40 Years Later & Things Are Really Bad
  11. Priest & Michael Sta. Maria Launch Draculina Comic From Dynamite
  12. 1980s GI Joe Cartoon Universe Finally Returns… as a Comic Book
  13. Archie Comics Love & Heartbreak Solicitations For February 2022
  14. Free Comic Book Day Will Be On May 7th 2022 As Normality Resumes
  15. DC Graphic Novel Hero Collector February 2022 Solicits – And Muffit
  16. Strange Mysteries #3 Is Super Rare & Taking Bids At Heritage Auctions
  17. LATE: DC Misses Local Comic Book Day and New Mutants #25 Gets Later
  18. Eerie #1 CGC Copy Taking Bids At Heritage Auctions
  19. Top Cow Launches CyberForce 30th-Anniversary Hardcover Kickstarter
  20. Patsy Walker Learns How To Shoot A Bow, On Auction Today
  21. Dark Horse Seizes All-Ages Star Wars Comics Line From IDW
  22. DC's Bobbie Chase, Now Executive Editor of Webtoon Unscrolled
  23. Carnage #1 Ongoing Series Launches In March 2022
  24. Matt Fraction At The Hawkeye Premiere, Daily LITG, 18th November 2021

LITG four years ago, Pokémon GO, X-Men and Transformers

LITG: X-Men art by Jim Lee from Heritage Auctions..
LITG: X-Men art by Jim Lee from Heritage Auctions..

  1. Uncanny X-Men and Transformers Crossover to Create Ultimate X-Spanse
  2. Unseen Jim Lee X-Men Art Created Over Ten Years, Goes To Auction
  3. Swords Of Justice Raid Hour Is Tonight In Pokémon GO
  4. Shiny Slowpoke Has Been Released In Pokémon GO
  5. Nick Spencer Writes One More Day (Again) In Amazing Spider-Man #53
  6. The Death Of Batman In Death Metal #5? Or #1? (Spoilers)
  7. Franklin Richards – Another Mutant That Never Was? (FF #26 Spoilers)
  8. Rah Muzic Sues Marvel and Sony Over Venom Movie
  9. Terrakion, Cobalion, and Virizion Return to Raids in Pokémon GO
  10. Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 Preview: Burnham and Georgiou Go Rogue
  11. Dave Stevens Documentary Seeks Stories About Rocketeer Creator
  12. The Insult That Made A Man Out Of Rorschach (Spoilers)
  13. Man-Bat #1- The Last We'll See Of This Sort Of Thing For Some Time?
  14. The Death Of Batman In Death Metal #5? Or #1? (Spoilers)
  15. Duncan Jones Is Working On Something Very Big He Can't Talk About
  16. What Industry Secrets Does Female-Centric Revenge Saga Hide?
  17. Joëlle Jones' Wonder Girl Continue In DC Omniverse Stories in 2021
  18. Paul Allor, Paul Tucker Create New Queer Horror Comic, Hollow Heart
  19. Harley Quinn Still In Love With Poison Ivy – Batman #103 Spoilers
  20. Endless Winter Preview and Checklist in This Week's DC Comics

LITG five years ago, it was Alan Moore's birthday

And no more Batman from Bale.

  1. Alan Moore On His "Grouchiness" and "Cantankerousness"
  2. Yikes! Many Bans in Standard, Others – "Magic: The Gathering"
  3. "Batman": Christian Bale Turned Down Fourth Film Because of Nolan
  4. Marvel Comics February 2020 Solicitations – Force Works to Dark Agnes, Darth Vader to Wolverine, Frankensteined
  5. Meet the New Fantastic Four, Same as the Old Fantastic Four? Fantastic Four 2099 #1 [Preview]
  6. DC Comics Introduces the Anti-Eternia He-Man – Direct From German Audiocassettes of 1985 – 9-Page Preview
  7. Disney History "Hidden Gems" You Might've Missed on Disney+
  8. Foggy Nelson, Certified Bad-@#$ in Punisher Kill Krew #5 [Preview]
  9. "Doctor Who": Jodie Whittaker Anoints New Doctor, Brings the Feels [Video]
  10. HBO's "Watchmen": Notes From Upcoming Episodes [SPOILERS]

LITG six years ago, Dune wasn't afraid of anything

And solicitations were coming.

  1. 'Dune': Timothée Chalamet Doesn't Know What Fear Is
  2. Mini-Frankensteining DC Comics Solicitations for February 2019
  3. Frankensteining Marvel Comics Solicitations for February 2019
  4. 5 Amazing Movies That You Probably Missed in 2018
  5. Viz Announce My Hero Academia: Smash, Komi Can't Communicate, Beastars and Automatic Eve for 2019

Comic book industry birthdays

There may not be much of a party atmosphere right now. All depends on which state you are living in. But comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date.

  • Concrete Park and Giles writer, and actor, Erika Alexander
  • Frankie D'Armata, comic book colourist
  • Penciller on Wheel Of Time, MacGuyver, First Law and Tekken, Andie Tong.
  • Jonnie Allan, comic book creator of Stykman.
  • EIC of Golden Liberty Comics, Michael Sacal
  • Rick McCollum, writer and artist for FantaCo's Gore Shriek
  • Artist on Legion of Super-Heroes and Doom Patrol Steve Lightle

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

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from The Union Club on Greek Street, shops at Gosh, Piranha and FP. Father of two daughters. Political cartoonist.
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