Category Archives: Top Stories

You Will All Submit To ComiXology

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Mike Greear writes for Bleeding Cool from NYCC; Members of Comixology took time during their 2:45 p.m. Thursday panel at New York Comic Con to discuss their newly announced submission system, Comixology Submit. The platform, which was announced earlier that …

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Marvel Announces Marvel Season One Graphic Novels For Iron Man, Wolverine And Thor

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  Marvel have, at the NYCC Retailer Breakfast, have announced three new Marvel original graphic novels in the Season One line. Iron Man by Howard Chaykin and Gerard Parek, which we had previously revealed, as well as Thor Season One …

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Dan Slott Reveals That Spider-Man And Mary Jane Will Get Back Together – But Peter Parker Is NOT Spider-Man (UPDATE)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Dan Slott is Marvel’s special guest at the NYCC Retailer Breakfast to talk about Amazing Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man. He again says people haven’t ordered enough Amazing Spider-Man #698. He stated that Peter Parker would not be the Spider-Man in …

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NYCC: Marvel To Launch New, Free MMRC For Retailers

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We mentioned something like this was coming earlier this week. As found on the tables at the NYCC Retailer Breakfast. Marvel replacing their paid retailer minisites with a new free system…

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Bryan Hitch Confirms Existence Of Scott Snyder’s Man Of Steel

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool reported a Rob Liefeld tweet about the existence of a Brad Meltzer/Bryan Hitch Superman/Batman comic in the works. However, a Bleeding Cool source at DC pointed out that this, while planned at one point, was not anymore …

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Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Uncanny Avengers #1 has the most bizarre, most ridiculous ending to any comic book this week. And no, I am not going to turn it. Not today anyway. Maybe tomorrow. If there’s time. But there is a time to mourn, …

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Rob Liefeld Teases Bryan Hitch On Batman/Superman, And A Bunch Of DC Cancellations (UPDATE: Not Any More)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Before Rob Liefeld blazed out of DC Comics, firing twitter cannons at everyone, he was writing three books for the publisher, involved with crossovers and would have been intimate with all sorts of issues regarding the future of the New …

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IDW To Publish Cerebus High Society. Dave Sim To Draw Mars Attacks Cover.

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

For the last few weeks, we’ve been watching old sparring partners Dave Sim and Fantagraphics circle around the possibility of Fantagraphics publishing Cerebus in a series of hardcover volumes. Dave seemed to want to start with Form And Void, aimed …

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The Final Act Of Faust Is Close

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In November, we are getting Faust: Love If The Damned Act 15, the final chapter of Faust, twenty-five years after the original comic was published by David Quinn and Tim Vigil, and caused quite the media storm. Faustian John Jaspers …

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NYCC: Tony S Daniel To Join Andy Diggle On Action Comics

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool already ran the news that Andy Diggle was to take over Action Comics as writer after Grant Morrison‘s departure with issue 17. But who will join him as artist? Turns out it’s Tony S Daniel, recently seen on …

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A Very MorissonCon Saturday by Rob Bass – A Clinking Of Cans

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Rob Bass’ Friday at Morrisoncon was here. But this is last Saturday. I’m up at nine, showered and out the door fifteen minutes later. The coffeeshop line for smoothies is insane but there’s no one at the bar, a Bloody …

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Chris Claremont – Still On Contract At Marvel?

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Chris Claremont took to the stage with Mike Conroy at the Entertainment Media Show in London this weekend, with Stay Puft Marshmallow Man towering above him. During which he talked about his career, the state of the X-Men comics, his …

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When Dan Slott Got A Photo With Matt Smith Doing The Spidey “Thwipp”

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I bumped into Dan Slott at the Entertainment Media Show in London today. Just after he had met a certain Matt Smith, star of Doctor Who, and managed to wangle a photograph… with a certain familiar pose…

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DC Comics Increases Marketshare In September, Marvel Keeps Avengers Vs X-Men At The Very Top, And The Market Slips From Last September’s Performance

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Last month saw both Marvel and DC benefiting from Walking Dead #100 not taking away their marketshare, and saw DC again beat Marvel on marketshare by dollar but also saw Marvel claw back the volume marketshare. But that was a …

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MARVEL NOW! – Afterwards They Will Explode

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Marvel NOW! starts next week with Uncanny Avengers #1. All eighteen covers of it. But this week Bleeding Cool’s Patrick Willems takes it on with another instalment of his amazing Afterwards They Will Explode… this time starring his own parents. …

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Tales Of Tattoos At MorrisonCon And Blondie’s Next Cover Artist

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Stace Inveigus writes for Bleeding Cool; The Hard Rock Hotel hosting MorrisonCon last weekend, has a tattoo parlour onsite, conveniently one lob of a beer bottle from the convention hall. And one bottle of beer was about all it took. …

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MarvelNOW Teases Frank Cho’s Wolverine

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Oh you beauty. Marvel are teasing the new Wolverine comic, relaunching as part of Marvel NOW in January. We first wrote about this back in June.  

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Amazing Spider-Man #695 Reveals The Future Of Marvel NOW (SPOILERS)

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Today’s Amazing Spider-Man #695… as Madame Web goes a bit ballistic, we get a very special douple page spread, made up of images taken from upcoming Marvel titles.

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