Although Before Watchmen wins the story of the week, if you count up all the separate articles, it’s Doctor Who that wins the day by busting through them all. Go Doctor! Woo!

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. Moffat Sets Up Doctor Who Season Seven And A New Companion.

2. BEFORE WATCHMEN Announced Today With Azzarello/Bermejo

3. The Before Watchmen Gallery And Quote File (UPDATED)

4. Loki’s Army Revealed In Avengers Superbowl Trailer

5. And Finally… Don’t Make Hulk Constipated.

6. When Kevin Smith Turned Down Before Watchmen

7. Leah Moore On Before Watchmen

8. Spider-Man’s New Costume Gets A Colour Scheme

9. Buffy Season Nine Issue 9 Cover (SPOILERS)

10. The Top Half Of Spider-Man’s New Costume

11. The Avengers Superbowl Trailer Is Here

12. The Action Comics #6 Variant You Don’t Want

13. When Alan Moore Helped Write A Series Of Watchmen Prequels

14. A Dazzling Display Of Cosplay

15. And Finally… After Before Watchmen

16. So How Close Did Bleeding Cool Get To Before Watchmen

17. Swipe File – Swamp Thing 6 And Batman 5 SPOILERS

18. Spider-Men From Marvel In June

19. New Dark Knight Toys Make Me Want To Hug Tom Hardy

20. “It’s Like She Was Illustrated By Frank Cho Himself

And Ten You May Prefer…

1. Is This The Greatest Dark Horse Presents Ever?

2. Andrew Garfield Wants The Next Spider-Man To Be Half Black, Half Hispanic – Miles Morales?

3. That Two And A Half Hour Alan Moore Webchat You Missed

4. Set Shots And Gun Shots From Dredd

5. Remembering Al Rio by David Campiti

6. Miss Piggy To Host Red Carpet Coverage At The BAFTAs

7. January Stats: Marketshare And Top 100 Sellers

8. John Carter Would Like You To Read A Book

9. DC Continues To Support The Vertigo Relaunch

10.Sigourney Weaver Says She’s Read Early Drafts Of Avatar 2 And 3, Will Appear In Both

And special thanks to Grace Randolph, Adi Tantimedh and Mike Perkins,

But this is how I’m remembering him now. Making me laugh and laugh and laugh. Here’s to you, Triforce. I’ll try never to quantify happiness by dollar value…

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. First Image Of Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg “Hard At Work” on World’s End

2. The Robins – A New Comic From Jeff Lemire?

3. Is This The Return Of Raven To The New 52?

4. Frank Miller Redraws The Dark Knight

5. The Teen Titans Typo That ‘Tisn’t

7. Marvel Vs DC Omnibuses

8. Jim Lee’s Hidden Tribute To Carla

9. Will You Sign The Petition For Rob Granito To Come Back To Comics?

10. Everything’s Coming Up Celestial At Marvel

11. Justice League #5 – An Arms Race 

12. Loosening The Exclusive Chains At DC Comics

13. Al Rio Passes

14. George Perez And The Death Of Lana Lang That Wasn’t

15. New Sherlock Viral? Or Something Geekier?

16. A New DC Comic From Azzarello And Bermejo

17. Pics From Pron XXX

18. Marcus Johnson And The Injury To Eye Motif

19. So What Would Happen If You Dropped Aquaman In The Desert?

20. Warner Bros Nix Elfquest Movie, Pin Blame On The Hobbit

And Ten You May Prefer

1. An Informed And Engaging Hour Long Discussion Of 3D Filmmaking With A Genuine Expert

2. Avengelyne And Skullkickers Give It Away For Free

3. Extraordinary Red Band Trailer For God Bless America, Bobcat Goldthwait’s Spree-Killer Comedy

4. Now Bongo Comics Gets A New Logo. And Homer Tries To Eat It.

5.Shit Daleks Say

6. The First Page Of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Revealed

7. Max Von Sydow’s Handwritten Response To His Oscar Nomination

8. Walt Simonson OGN From DC Comics – The Judas Coin

9. Watch The Superb Oscar Nominated Toon, The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr. Morris Lessmore

10. Lies, Damn Lies And Comic Industry Statistics

And special thanks to Grace Randolph, Tri Force Mike, Aaron Haarland, Darin Wagner, Collectors Corner and Xavier Larcel. Abby Denson, Maxime Garbarini,  Mathew Quitney and Xavier Lancel.

This would have been the week of the DC logo at Bleeding Cool. But then the Russians all started tuning into our discussion of the ending of the second season of Sherlock. Nevertheless, the images above are how Mudman creator Paul Grist and friend of the site Mo Ali would redesign the DC Comics logo…

Later this week on Bleeding Cool, (I hope), in the light of allegations made against co-CEO Nancy Silberkeit of Archie Comics, a look into other bad behaviour from those who have run the company, an analysis of how comics statistics are being used to paint false pictures of what’s actually happening in comic stores, a possible new DC comic book from one of their upcoming stars and how I appear to be writing more comics in April than either Scott Lobdell or Jason Aaron. But for now, what you have been reading this week on Bleeding Cool…

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. How Sherlock Did It

2. DC Comics Launches New Logo With Watchmen Variant

3. Fox News Attacks DC Comics

4. Cullen Bunn Takes Wolverine, Symbiote Summer Event And The End Of Moon Knight

5. Rob Liefeld And Robert Kirkman Kill The Infinite

6. 4Chan Liefeldizes The New 52

7. DC Got A Logo Last Week. And Here It Was.

8. Did Stormwatch #5 Give Us A Glimpse Of The Justice Society?

9. DC Comics Demonstrates How The New Logo Will Be Used

10. Has The Most Mind-Blowing Of Possible Avengers Cameos Been Revealed?

11. Is Batman #5 A Vertigo Comic?

12. Marvel April 2012 Covers In Thumbnail Form

13. Robama Against Manga In This New DC Comics Funded Ad

14. John Rozum Speaks Out Over Creative And Editorial Differences On Static Shock

15. Rob Liefeld May Or May Have Not Seen Eight Minutes Of Deadpool

16. Marvel In April 2012 – Have We Lost All Generation Hope

17. Calm Down Dear, It’s Just A Mock Up

18. Green Marvel Monsters Ahoy

19. Will Public Domain Comic Characters Go Back Into Copyright?

20. Swipe File: The Infinite Vs X-Force

Ten Posts You May Prefer

1. Uncanny X-Men #5 Gives Plaintive Foreshadowing Of Avengers VS X-Men

2. Bone Movie Gets New Writer And Director

3. Gail Simone Spins Off Milhouse, Bart Simpson’s Pal

4. What It’s Like To Win An Oscar (From Jane Fonda) In The Words Of Dead Poets Society’s Tom Schulman

5. The BPRD Training Camp – Why It’s Cool To Be A Kid In Portland

6. Read The Script For The Sequel To The Best Zombie Rape Drama You’ve Never Seen

7. Paul Duffield, Co-Creator Of Freakangels, Needs Your Support

8. Warts-And-All Documentary To Show Behind The Scenes Wars On Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark

9. San Diego Comic Con Gets Zombified In Sam Humphries’ Fanboys Vs Zombies

10. Literally Hundreds Of First Look Images From Transit

Thanks to Grace Randolph, George Peter Gatsis, A Comic Shop, Adi Tantimedh and Paul W Franklin,

Anyway, a special congratulations to Orbital Comics of London, celebrating their tenth anniversary as a shop. I remember them when they opened on Old Compton Street in the basement below a tattoo artist, before moving opposite the Astoria and its crowds of queuing emos, before its current location off Leicester Square with galeries, exhibitions and last Saturday night, a small party for friends and family. Here’s to another ten!

Oh and a happy birthda to my mum as well…

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. DC Comics Get A New Logo. And Here It Is.

2. The Best Star Wars Lego Corporate Response Ever

3. New Prometheus Picture Features Two Familiar Faces

4. A New Superman/Superboy/Supergirl Crossover

5. DC Comics To Cancel Six Titles

6. A Rather Striking On Set Picture From The Man Of Steel

7. No Justice League This Week. Sorry.

8. Everything The DC Logo Has Been Registered For

9. A Brand New Day Of Future Past

10. When George Perez And Kevin Maguire Draw Power Girl

11. Is Journey Into Mystery “Sandman Done Right?”

12. Now We Know Who The Protagonist Of The Avengers Is

13. Big Bang Theory Bites The Ring That Feeds It

14. Walt Simonson Returns To Marvel With Brian Bendis For Avengers

15. New Image Shows The Other Side Of Bilbo Baggins

16. The Font Used In The New DC Logo

17. Evidence Of Marcus Johnson Being Nick Fury’s Son Is Mounting

18. Quentin Tarantino’s Top 11 Films Of 2011

19. Iceman Vs Storm?

20. Rob Liefeld On Deathstroke, Hawkman And Grifter

And Ten You May Prefer

1. Ariel Olivetti On His Two Year Marvel Exclusive

2. Scorsese’s Hugo Gets Plastered With Unwanted Product Placement

3. John Byrne’s Trio Look To Be Rock, Paper, Scissors

4. Terry Gilliam On The Most Sublime Shot Of His Entire Career

5. DC Comics And The Discovery Channel Logo

6. Trailer For Computer Error: The Worst Of CGI

7. When DC Comics Stopped Scott Lobdell Writing Youngblood

8. Leprosy Anti-Defamationists Condemn “Tasteless” Joke In Aardman’s Pirates Trailer

9. Huntress Writer Versus Sheriff

10. The Original Inspiration For The Joker Is Heading Back To Cinemas

Special thanks to Aaron and Mike, Adi Tantimedh, Grace Randolph, George Peter Gatsis, Darin Wagner and Evan Annett

A much better version of the Dr Seuss Batman that I ever came up with… so what have people been reading on Bleeding Cool this week then?

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. Why Cinema Audiences Are So Furious About The Devil Inside

2. PWNED!

3. How Liberalism May Be Hurting Comic Book Sales

4. What Will Join Batman And Detective Comics Together At $3.99? (UPDATE)

5. Marvel Takes Back Marketshare Lead From DC Comics

6. The Goon Dies, Relaunches, Turns Gay

7. Cracking The DC Code

8. Cumberbatch And Clarke In New Star Trek Movie

9. Saturday Rushes – Dark Knight Plagiarises

10. A Few More Avengers Details

11. Yanick Paquette And Scott Snyder’s Swamp Thing Easter Eggs

12. How Conservatism May Be Hurting Comic Book Sales

13. Twenty-Two Thoughts About Today’s Comics

14. Pics From Pron XXX

15. The Rumour Awards – Controversial Comic Of 2011

16. “The Least Essential Read Of AvX”

17. Has Nolan Already Buckled Over Bane?

18. Swipe File: Alex Ross And Fandom Rising

19. Benedict Cumberbatch Spills Another Hobbit Nugget

20. Avengers Reshoots In Los Angeles This Week

And Ten You May Prefer…

1. DC Pays Money To Tell Florida Where Babies Come From

2. Netflix Is Live Now In The UK At £5.99 A Month – But Does It Pass The Bleeding Cool Tests?

3. Joe Bennett On Savage Hawkman From Issue 9

4. Multiple Sources Linking Miranda Hart To Doctor Who

5. Get A Desk Job With The Avengers

6. The Hobbit Vs. Dark Knight Rises Vs. Prometheus – Breaking It Down, With Graphs And Everything

7. Garth Ennis – No More Hosrecocks

8. Biases And Weirdnesses: The BAFTA Longlist For 2012

9. Marvel Chooses Stickers Over Polybags For Free Downloads

10. An Exclusive Clip From Studio Ghibli’s Arrietty To Show You What This Film Can Do

A special Lying In The Gutters this week, not only the top twenty posts of the week, but also the top twenty posts of the year… and a very obvious demonstration of how the long tail works in website hit counts.

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. Amazing Spider-Man Building Blocks Confirm A Spoiler Rumour

2. Silk Spectre Art By Amanda Conner – Watchmen 2 (Not Anymore)

3. A New Superman Origin By Grant Morrison

4. Ten Thoughts About Ten Image Comics

5. What Exactly Does John Byrne Mean?

6. Watchmen Art They Can’t Stop Us Posting

7. Thirteen Moments From Today’s DC Comics

8. The Secret In Catwoman’s High Heels

9. There Seems To Be An Avengers Spoiler In These Toys

10. Is There A Watchmen 2 Reference In Justice League 3?

11. Watchmen 2 Art: The Comedian By JG Jones (Not Anymore)

12. Marvel To Actively Support SOPA

13. Bryan Hitch Announces The End Of An Amazing Decade At Marvel

14. Superman Invades Wildstorm With Helspont

15. 101 Films From 2011 That You Really Shouldn’t Have Missed

16. DC To Support Vertigo Relaunch With Incentive Scheme

17. Watchmen 2: Nite Owl By The Kuberts (Not Any More)

18. New Avengers Trailer Brings Fresh Clips

19. When DC And Marvel Were Less Litigious

20. More Watchmen Art The Lawyers Won’t Touch

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Year (Minus The XXX)

1. Dark Knight Rises Plot Thickens: Who Is John Blake?

2. Les Femme Fatales Cosplay Exhibition

3. 51 Films From 2010 That You Really Shouldn’t Have Missed

4. Misfits Season 3 Won’t Feature Robert Sheehan

5. Who On Earth Is Rob Granito?

6. New Thundercats Cartoon (First Pic)

7. When Hong Kong Takes On Iron Man

8. What If Male Superheroes Posed Like Wonder Woman?

9. DC Relaunch: A Brand New Look For Superman, Supergirl And Superboy

10. Behind The Scenes On Starfire, Red Hood And The Outlaws

11. An Updateable List Of DC’s New 52

12. Fixing The Wonder Woman Costume

13. No More Mutants: 52 Problems

14. The Complete New Captain America Trailer Is Here

15. Pajamas To Give You Marvel Women Physiques

16. Archie Comics’ First Gay Wedding

17. Barnes & Noble Pulls Watchmen, Sandman And 100 DC Graphic Novels

18. Why The Kick Ass 2 Movie Probably Won’t Even Happen (Oops, Looks Like It Is…)

19. Sacha Baron Cohen Is Freddie Mercury

20. More Fun With Rob Granito Before Megacon

One comic fan’s Christmas presents from his girlfriend… photo courtesy of Reddit.

You think you know what the biggest story of the week was? You’d be wrong… welcome to the final Lying In The Gutters of the year. Do pop by the site at the weekend for the Rumour Awards 2011…

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. The Dark Knight Rises Plot Thickens – A post from April, looking at the possible identity of John Blake in Dark Knight Rises… and it’s the biggest traffic story of Christmas week.

2. Watchmen Prequel Artwork: Nite Owl

3. Watchmen Prequel Artwork: The Comedian

The artwork of which has now been deleted, on the request of DC Entertainment. Which basically means it’s all true. More on that later,

4. Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry And Madonna Go Back To School In Batman: Leviathan Strikes

5. A Closer Look At The Hobbit Trailer

6. A Very Close Look At The Trailer For Prometheus

7. Has An Indian Newspaper Outed A Surprise Cameo In The Avengers

8. When Is A Black Character Not A Black Character

9. Sixteen Thoughts About Sixteen DC Comics

10. Who Knew Bane Had Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

11. Pics From Pron

12. The Year In Dark Knight Rises Easter Eggs

13. The Sand Superman Conspiracy That Wasn’t

14. First Trailer For The Hobbit UPDATED With Teaser Image

15. Now Infinite Crisis Gets An Omnibus

16. Simon And Alisha Won’t Return In Misfits Season Four

17. Tuesday Runaround – DC Comics Strikes Out

18. Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, The Trailer

19. Constructing Mike Deodato’s Avenegrs Cover

20. Friday Runaround – Hate, Prose And Suicide

And Ten Posts You May Prefer

1. Marvel Omnibi On The Way For 2012

2. How To Shoot And Edit An Action Scene

3. Is This The Return Of Daniel Way And Clayton Crain’s Ant Man MAX?

4. Danny Trejo – Epic Beard Man First Trailer For Bad Ass

5. Marvel Kids Comics In April _ Avengers And Ultimate Spider-Man

6. Disney’s Frozen Hand Drawn Animated Version Of Snow Queen

7. Captain America 5 And 6 To Ship Next Week

8. Ben Wheatley On Kill List

9. Those Venom Valentine’s In Full

10. ITV Cuts Tim Minchin’s Song

So anyway, that’s my Christmas card this year. Merry Christmas all, to those who get Lying In The Gutters by e-mail. Bleeding Cool will be running through the holiday season, including Christmas Day, though there may be a slightly reduced service as everyone shuts up shop.

But before then, what have you been most fascinated about at Bleeding Cool this week?

Top Twenty Posts By Traffic

1. The Shot That Starts Avengers Vs X-Men

2. Whatever Happened To The 1988 Death of Superman?

3. Barbara Gordon Back In The Wheelchair

4. The Frank Cho Vagina That Wasn’t

5. The Removed Dark Knight Bootlegged Trailer

6. Is Marcus Johnson The Son Of Nick Fury?

7. Catwoman, Storm, Wonder Woman And She Hulk Examine Their Breasts

8. Eduardo Barreto Passes At 57

9. Sixteen Thoughts About Sixteen DC Comics

10. What If… Herge Created The X-Men?

11. Can’t Understand Bane? Maybe These Script Pages May Help

12. Amazing Spider-Man “First In A Series”

13. Natalie Portman “Furious” And “Deeply Upset”

14. Jim Shooter Said, Steve Englehart Said

15. Pics From Pron XXX

16. The Avengers Cool New Banner… And Another One

17. James Bond Rumour Raises Its Head Again

18. Avengers Vs X-Men #0 Comes With Free Digital Download

19. Sherlock Season 2 Gets An Airdate,  New Artwork And A Blurb

20. Five Ways The Comics Industry Could Dramatically Change In 2012. Aside From Digital.

And Ten Posts You May Prefer

1. DC To Publish Batman Black And White Sequel

2. Why Not Spend This Winter Season At The Star Wars Snowboard Park?

3. What Is Bryan Hitch Counting Down Towards?

4. Two Terry Gilliam Christmas Cards – From 2011 And 1968

5. The Coffee Shop That Merged With A Comic Shop

6. Ridley Scott’s Most Revealing Prometheus Interview Yet

7. Whatever Happened To Terry Kavanagh

8. Noomi Rapace And Maybe Rachel McAdams To Get Caught In The Throes Of Brian De Palma’s Passion

9. Gareb Shamus To Sell His Shares In Wizard World

10. Two Grown Adults And Two Young Kids Take Alvin And The Chipmunks Rather Too Seriously

And special thanks to Adi Tantimedh, Patrick Willems, Aaron and Anna, DB Hughes,  Scott Edelman, Grace Randolph, Dave Wallace, Ian Mayor,

It’s off how one Facebook post can tear the internet in half. SO anyway, this is what you have been reading this week. Aren’t you all sophisticated sorts?

Top Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. JMS Vs Steve Wacker

2. The Ethics Of Watchmen 2

3. Numbercrunching Those Amazing Spider-Man Statistics

4. Will Christopher Nolan Have To Fix The Dark Knight Rises Prologue?

5. Marvel Announce Avengers Vs X-Men in April

6. Eric Stephenson Slags Off Marvel And DC Over 2012 Plans

7. Brian Bendis To Leave Avengers In 2012

8. DC Confirms Gail Simone Leaving Firestorm

9. SPOILERS: The Secret Behind The Collectors In Action Comics #4

10. Those Mysterious Defenders #1 Phrases Hint At Marvel’s Future

11. Richard Pace Responds To Frank Miller

12. Scarlet Spider #1 – A Taster’s Menu

13. Paul Cornell Off Stormwatch After #6

14. Whatever Happened To Stephen Platt – Right Here.

15. 3D Trailer – Emma Frost, Zatanna, Catwoman And Supergirl

16. The Five Best Things Dr Nemesis Says In X-Club #1

17. First Images Of Steven Moffat’s Irene Adler

18. The Wonder Woman That Katy Perry Bought

19. Avengers Vs X-Men To Have Less Crossover Tie Ins Than You Might Expect

20. First Trailer For The Three Stooges Movie

Ten Posts You May Prefer

1. Mike Costa Transforms Into Blatantly Honest Writer

2. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Review

3. Russian Scanlations Show Real Design Sense

4. Black Mirror – Fifteen Million Merits Has Ambiguities Worth Discussing

5. Marvel Starts To Close The Gap On DC Comics In November

6. Ever Wondered What The Script For A Silent Movie Looks Like?

7. Gareb Shamus Accused Of Tring To Get Artist Fired

8. Really Great Images From Imaginative Fantasy Film Upside Down

9. Cancelled Vertigo Series To Be Blogged Over Christmas

10. Ridley Scott On The Only Way To See A Film, And Why

Special thanks to Aaron and Anna, Greg Baldino, Philip Sandifer… and a big welcome to Grace Randolph, who will be appearing on Bleeding Cool every Tuesday and Friday fron now on.

Remember remember the Fifth Of December. This is Julius Caesar as designed by Jack Kirby for a 1969 production. Okay, so what have people been reading this week?

Toip Twenty Traffic Posts Of The Week

1. Andy Kubert To Draw Watchmen 2

2. Alan Moore Reacts To Frank Miller

3. Best Camera Test Ever – But Canon Didn’t Think It Was Funny

4. Watchmen 2 – Nite Owl, The Comedian And More

5. “Eye Or Eyes”

6. Diesel DC Boxer Shorts Licence Is Hilarious

7. That Fantastic Four #601 Self Cover

8. Free Comic Book Day – The New 52 To The Old Avengers

9. The Marvel Liquidation List For Late 2011

10. OMG Blames Stan Lee For Poor Profits

11. Comic Stores Stop Ordering Dark Horse Comics For The Shelf

12. Peter David Launches The Fan/Pro Bill Of Rights

13. Genderbending Hellraiser – A Very Female Pinhead

14. Four Thoughts About Four DC Comics On Fifth Week

15. Gareb Shamus Resigns From Wizard

16. Nicolas Cage Action Comics #1 9.0 Hits Record

17. Pics From Pron

18. Full Length Lizard

19. Marvel’s Madame Tussauds’ Poster Banned In The UK

20. Swipe File: Uncharted And Jessica Steele Allen

And Ten You May Prefer

1. José Padhila Tells Me What His Robocop Film Is About

2. Neil Gaiman Twitter-Agrees To Star In Bluntman And Chronic Cartoon

3. Charlie Brooker Talks To Us About Black Mirror, Twitter And The Ethics Of Insults

4. The Cheekiest – And Most Polite – Comic Book Pirate In The World

5. Stanley Kubrick’s Lost Debut Feature Fear And Desire To Play On TCM This December

6. BBC Report On The Decline Of Indian Comics

7. Snooping Around Inside Aardman – Bleeding Cool Goes On An Adventure With Pirates!

8. From The Writer Of Our Love Is Real Comes… Sacrifice!

9. Andrew Stanton Tells Me It’s On His Agenda To Completely Change The Way Movies Are Made

10. Gareb Shamus Accused Of Trying To Get Artist Fired From Their Day Job

And a special thanks to Adi Tantimedh, Dan Wickline, Dave Wallace, Patrick Willems and Collector’s Corner. Next week we get a very exciting addition to our columnists that makes me tingle just to think of it. A lot of people will be very happy…