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Stranger Things: Tales From '85 in The Daily LITG, 3rd of January 2026

Stranger Things: Tales From '85 was the most-read story on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

Stranger Things: Tales From '85 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 seven years. Founded seventeen 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 runaround 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.

Stranger Things: Tales From '85 and the top ten stories from yesterday

1. Stranger Things: Tales From '85 Preview: The Future Lies in The Past
2. ASUS Has Released Its First Xbox-Certified Wireless Controller
3. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction 2025: Check Out Our Viewers' Guide!
4. The Top Nine Best-Selling Comics Of 2025 In Comic Book Stores
5. The Future Of Comic Books In 2026: Part One
6. Doctor Who: Jon Culshaw Set to Voice the Twelfth Doctor for Big Finish
7. Previews of Absolute Superman, Green Lantern and Batman: Ark M…
8. How X-Men Launches The Shadows Of Tomorrow (Preview)
9. Green Lantern "Scripts Were Great": Irvine on Canceled DCU Series
10. Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson And Their Other Halves (Preview)

And some other stories I wrote yesterday:

• Secrets And Lies In Ultimate X-Men And Ultimate Wolverine Next Week
• Betty Boop, Blondie & Nancy Drew Comics In 2026, Due To Public Domain?
• Dennis The Menace's 75th Anniversary & Jamie Smart's Arena Of Awesome
• Webtoon Expands Creator Programmes In 2026 To "Fuel Creative Careers"
• Cosplay Famous by Asia Miller, a New Graphic Novel For 2027
• Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in The Daily LITG, 2nd January 2026

LITG one year ago, Absolute Superman #3

1. Absolute Superman #3 Changes The Story Once More (Spoilers)
2. Return of Xander Cage Star on the Status of Another Installment
3. Lilo & Stitch: Live-Action Stitch Is Here To Ring In The New Year
4. Sean McKeever Has Had One Hell Of A Year
5. Creature Commandos Intros [SPOILERS] Into New DCU; Gunn Responds
6. Tintin, Now in Public Domain, Gets a Modern Day Reboot in The Big Lie
7. Jim Shooter's Schism From Defiant Comics To Be Published In 2025
8. The Ultimate Guardians Of The Galaxy Reveal True Cost Of The Maker
9. Crunchyroll Rolls Out Massive Winter 2025 Anime Season Lineup
10. Wicked: For Good Director Says The Sequel "Gets Messy"
11. Separated At Birth: John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew and Dead End
12. Joe Illidge Talks Bloodletter, The Woman With A Mission To Kill Spawn
13. Filip Sablik, Jamie S Rich & Jeremy Haun's Ignition Press 2025 Plans
14. Laurent Galandon & Michaël Crouzat's Journey To Tomioka Graphic Novel
15. Live-Action Stitch in The Daily LITG, 2nd of January, 2025

LITG two years ago, Zur-En-Arrh's future

1. Zur-En-Arrh/Failsafe's Big Future Plans in Batman #141 (Spoilers)
2. Clark Kent On Lois Lane Using The Men's Room… In 1978 (Spoilers)
3. Batman Gets A Brand New Cell Mate For Joker: Year One (Spoilers)
4. War Is Coming In Fall Of The House Of X (XSpoilers)
5. Professor X & Rasputin IV Have Own Fall Of The House Of X (XSpoilers)
6. New Five Nights At Freddy's Game Leaked By Its Creator 
7. DC Comics Reduces Paper Quality Of Covers, But Doubles Their Number
8. A Look Inside Greg Capullo's First Comic For Marvel In Over A Decade
9. Amanda Waller, Infecting DC Comics, Superhero By Superhero (Spoilers)
10. Venom's Future Bigger Than We Could Have Possibly Imagined (Spoilers)
11. The Return Of Metamind To Tomorrow's Fantastic Four (Spoilers)
12. Aquaman, Doing Its Best To Not Look Like The Movie, In Beast World
13. Lor-Zod At Odds With Zod Ahead Of Sinister Sons (Spoilers)
14. DC Does its Version of Jaws in Beast World Tour Of Atlantis (Spoilers)
15. Comic Book Paper Quality in The Daily LITG, the 2nd of January, 2024

LITG three years ago, Joss Whedon's Deal

1. Buffy: Joss Whedon Needs to Take a Deal, Take a Check & Take a Hike
2. Oy! Joss Whedon! No! Daily LITG, January 2nd 2023
3. Warner Bros. Discovery Cuts 250 Looney Tunes Shorts from HBO Max
4. Mortal Kombat II Sourcecode Reveals Tons Of Cut Content
5. Benjamin Sisko's Father Has Now Died In Star Trek
6. Jeremy Renner: Sheriff's Office Issues Statement on "Traumatic Injury"
7. English Pokemon TCG Collectors Will Get The 2022 Contest Promos
8. Pokemon TCG 2022 End-Of-Year List: Best Card of 2022
9. The Debate Over Uncanny X-Men #266 as the First Appearance Of Gambit
10. What Are You Meant To Call Batman: Shadows Of The Bat Anyway?
11. Marvel Asks Readers To Vote In More X-Men For 2023
12. The Joker Says The Mad Hatter Is Even Worse Than Him (BatSpoilers)
13. Cassandra Cain Only Gets to be a Robin in Another Dimension (Spoilers)
14. Three Comic Stores Closed In December – And One Opened
15. PrintWatch: MMPR/TMNT II & Once Upon A Time At The End Of The World
16. Viking Buys Graphic Novel Rights To Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle
17. Charger County, a New YA Graphic Novel by Cathy G. Johnson for 2025
18. Cyrena Lee & Julia Kuo's YA Graphic Novel on the Pressures of Prodigy
19. Spider-Man Is Back In Black in Spectacular Spider-Man #101, at Auction
20. Oy! Joss Whedon! No! – Daily LITG, January 2nd 2023

LITG four years ago, Brandon Routh

1. Brandon Routh Talks The Rookie, Nathan Fillion & Playing Against Type
2. The Umbrella Academy Issues Season 3 "Incoming" Warning
3. Sir Ian Livingstone, Founder Of Games Workshop, Gets A Knighthood
4. Did DC Comics Change Superman Son Of Kal-El #6? Seems So (Spoilers)
5. BC Toy Talk: Why I Decided 2021 Was My Last Year Collecting Funko
6. Always Sunny: McElhenney Reveals Show with Greatest TV Season Ever
7. Who Is Captain Krakoa? Revealed! (X-Men #6 Spoilers)
8. The Book of Boba Fett Viewers Have "Timely" E01 Complaint (SPOILERS)
9. Wetworks Join WildCATS Returning To DC Comics This Week (Spoilers)
10. Chappelle & I "100% Disagree" on Trans Rights & Representation: Oswalt
11. The Rise And Fall Of Arkham Tower – And Is That Bernard Dowd's Dad?
12. Nightwing #87 Review: Amazing Artistic Accomplishment
13. X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #5 Review: This Book Is Bad
14. Black Panther #2 Review: International Intrigue
15. Who Is More Meta, Suicide Squad Or Justice League Incarnate? Spoilers
16. Amazing Spider-Man #83 Tops Bestseller List, Marvel Dominates Top Ten
17. Catwoman Gets A New Logo With Her New Creative Team
18. A New Year With Umbrella Academy in The Daily LITG, January 2nd, 2022

LITG five years ago, Assassin's Creed to Star Wars Funko

1. Assassin's Creed Valhalla Will Receive A Transmog System
2. Star Wars Celebrates Valentine's Days With New Pops From Funko
3. Pokémon GO Announces The Last Date To Claim Shiny Celebi Research
4. Lucifer Season 5b: Dad Has Something to Ask His Son; NYE Preview?
5. It's Time For The Baby Pokémon To Return To Pokémon GO
6. Aubrey Sitterson Wrestled a Pit Bull to Ring in the New Year
7. Ho-Oh Raid Guide For Pokémon GO Players: December 2020
8. The Twilight Zone Served Up These 5 Perfect Episodes for the New Year
9. Pokémon GO Holiday 2020 Event Review: Another Odd Shiny Release
10. SEGA Adds Dark Easter Egg To Holiday Sonic The Hedgehog Art
11. Comic Store In Your Future – Lunar Makes Us More Money Than Diamond
12. Put An Original Grant Morrison Doom Patrol Page On Your Wall For $52?
13. Gene Colan Wonder Woman Original Art Going For A Song At Auction
14. Coronavirus Affecting Creators In The Comics Industry
15. Why Summit Comics And Games Of Lansing, Michigan, Is Expanding In 2021
16. What Will The Reign Of X-Men Bring? Vote, Vote, Vote…
17. Jim Lee Draws Ryan Wilder Batwoman For Comic Shop Charity

LITG six years ago, McFarlane DC Characters were hitting stores

And Michael Eisner was clearly a Last Jedi fan.

1. McFarlane Toys Reveals First DC Comics Figures, In Stores this Month!
2. Michael Eisner, Former Disney CEO, Criticizes 'Rise of Skywalker', Daisy Ridley
3. 343 Industries Shows Two New Images From "Halo Infinite"
4. "Better Call Saul" S05: Once More – With Something Like Feeling [Teaser]
5. All 36 Retailer Variant Covers for Wonder Woman #750
6. X-23, Synch, and Darwin Make a New X-Men Team in X-Men #5 as a Lead In to Jonathan Hickman's Future Plans
7. "Supernatural" S15 "Golden Time": Thoughts on Our #SPNBC Takeaways
8. Ubisoft Releases The "Just Dance 2020" Song List
9. Professor Xavier on Giving Up His Dreams Of Mutants and Humans Coexisting Peacefully (X-Men #4 SPOILERS)
10. Twitch Streamer PaladinAmber Creates Her Own "Australian Fire" PSA

LITG seven years ago, Lois Lane was Superman's best pal

And Immortal Hulk planted its position firmly.

Comic book industry birthdays

Comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date.

• Comic book artist Menton J. Matthews III
• Bob Almond, artist on Warlock & The Infinity Watch, Black Panther and Annihilation: Conquest, founder of the Inkwell Awards.
• Comic store employee, Richard Bruton
• Comic book letterer, DC Hopkins
• Bob Brodsky, Twomorrows Publishing

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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