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By Ian Melton One title, coming out every week, starring one character who has a huge supporting cast that is going to get a huge spotlight as the weekly

Bleeding Cool has been following the move from DC Comics to Burbank quite a bit since we first announced the news Right from the beginning, we knew that, say, Eddie Berganza would be going with the publisher to the West Coast, and Mike Marts wouldn't be, but we've been able to fill in a few[...]

Breaking news can come from pretty much anywhere in the comic book industry. But with DC Comics it generally tends to be an official statement given to a media organisation, whether specific like CBR and Newsarama or general, like USA Today. If not that, then a leak, such as the Five Years Later information we ran last[...]

So what have we learned? Marvel Comics dollar share continues to slowly rise from to 34.09% to 34.1% to 34.31% this year but their unit share takes a small jump, from 37.39% to 37.36% to 38.17% DC Comics saw their dollar share take a dive from 28.06% to 28.73% to 25.94% and their unit share from 30.77% to[...]

For the past week (after a reminder or two) DC Comics creators have been filling in a survey from DC Comics about their working practices and concerns at the publisher. It seems to have revealed a number of concerns at the publisher, from the impact of the move from New York to Burbank, to wondering why[...]

It began with a good review on Amazon for the recent release of Vampirella The Best of the Warren Years, though it had a proviso. And for some reason they

This can include trimming comics to remove untidy edges, colouring in creases or spots and many more techniques That gains a slabbed book a purple label, colloquially the Purple Label Of Doom that indicates that, at some point, the comic in question has been restored. There has also been some disquiet about comics, once slabbed as[...]

and appeared in this week's episode alongside a bevy of agents. But, as those of you who watched Winter Soldier know, he was an agent of Hydra all along. It's not unprecedented, in the comics, Sitwell was replaced by a Life Model Decoy before becoming Executive Director until the real Sitwell later turns up alive after having been brainwashed by Hydra. But in[...]

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: ANDREA Welcome to pop culumnist Andrea Shea, a new Assistant Editor at Aspen Comics. PORTLAND OF COMICS A new indie comic convention comes to one of the comic industry's capitals, Portland… and it's free to attend. Seeing the writing on the wall, François and Zach had begun working on Linework, which they promised would have a renewed focus on[...]

 What a difference 18 months of movie hype makes. The highest graded copy of Marvel Super-Heroes #18, graded CGC 9.8, has just sold at Pedigree Comics auction for $19,000  The January 1969 cover-dated comic by Arnold Drake and Gene Colan is the first appearance of the original Guardians of the Galaxy. There was widespread discussion shortly after[...]

The crew go on for a bit about silver age comics, classic artists such as Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and so much more We talk The Twilight Zone, what power we would take away from Superman and what character would we be a love interest for This is one episode you do not want to[...]

With every upcoming episode of Marvel's Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel will be releasing a piece of art to echo and tease the episode in question, the

Kelly Phillips is swelling the ranks of MoCCA Fest Debuts on offer this coming weekend, with The Edge, her 24 Hour Comic Day work, "a short story about

Plus an in depth look at the costumes of Captain America, Winter Soldier, Falcon, and Nick Fury. You can follow Comics and Cosplay here: TWITTER › https://twitter.com/ComixNCosplay TUMBLR › http://satmorncosplay.tumblr.com/ FACEBOOK › https://www.facebook.com/satmorningco… INSTAGRAM › http://instagram.com/satmorncosplay DEVIANTART › http://satmorncosplay.deviantart.com/ You can subscribe to Comics and Cosplay's channel here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… Also Check out Ian's weekly cosplay article at Bleeding Cool https://bleedingcool.com/tag/cosplay/ Theme Music Used: Morning Cruise by Machinimasound.com [...]

Scott Pilgrim is the kind of cultural marker that original art collectors tend to cherish: the meaning of it goes beyond the page, and encompasses a fandom which has pushed well outside the boundaries of the mainstream comics audience. There has been a little Scott Pilgrim art on the market before, but nothing in this kind[...]

 Luckily, now there is a free, really helpful, 24-Hour Comic Day Survival Guide to help you prepare and strategize for the big day. Created by Nathan Vargas and Anthony Francis of Blitz Comics, the guide is a phenomenal help in planning out your 24 Hour process  If you've ever done 24HCD before, you know just how[...]

This weekend, from April 5th-6th in New York, Z2 Comics is going to have pre-release advance copies available of both Paul Pope's Escapo and Dean Haspiel's Fear My Dear, two new graphic novel at their booth, #D25. Escapo is a remastering in full-color with a great deal of extra content of Paul Pope's 1990's work of[...]

Have you played it?  What are your thoughts on how it's interpreted your work? BW: Oh, I have played it, but I'm a terrible video game player.  The first time they ran it through for me, they didn't even let me play it, because they wanted to show me how the game could work, not how[...]

The twist ending captured the attention of some high profile advance readers – Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction. Yesterday, it seems that retailers and shops jumped on pushing the book… STAFF PICKS :: DEAD LETTERS #1 @xtop @chrisvisi0ns @boomstudios http://t.co/6fhNUbjTzl pic.twitter.com/nNIQoRDhoI — HEROESONLINE (@heroesonline) April 1, 2014 Bad memories, no memory, and Others! This week's issues to read: DEAD[...]

She was told that the statue had been delayed due to production issues and any such statues that stores had received were fakes. It's clearly nonsense, as this video from Midtown Comics shows But it's an entertaining excuse. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUDlDNHvOxw[/youtube] So comic stores, how do you feel about selling what at least one DC employee calls a fake? [...]

 The Des Moines Register reports how local conservative politician Bob Vander Plaats has been turned into a comic book schoolyard supervillain Bull Von

Tomorrow, at Meltdown Comics in Los Angeles, there will be a Dogeparty to explore the fiuture pf crypto currency And get free pizza. Meltdown Comics will also be the first comic store to accept Dogecoin as valid currency, and follows their move last month to be the first to accept Bitcoin. Tomorrow, at Meltdown Comics in Los[...]

After a series of seemingly failed cases over Superman and Kirby rights, Bleeding Cool Magazine dropped attournee Marc Toberoff from the Top 100 Power

From the year 2000, in an interview with Mark Waid, But for every Tom Brevoort, there's a bunch of guys who said, and this is an exact quote from a Marvel editor, and this is the thing that drove me off the brink: "We see writer-driven comics as an experiment that's failed." Well, first off, I'm[...]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! Amazing Spider-Man[...]

Look. Confirmed in the preamble… Who edited that comic again? Back to Tumblr! Tom New Avengers 45 dealt with Veranke in House Of M as Jessica and how her and the undercover Skrull's were aware of the change. Ah, you're right, I had forgotten about that! Well, to be fair, he does edit a lot of comics, he can't expect to[...]

WORLD WAR ONE COMICS The Independent looks at a new comics volume, intended to be rather topical – even if set a hundred years ago. To End All Wars, which includes 27 short stories based on real incidents, many told from a soldier's perspective, is intended as a corrective to Education Secretary Michael Gove's insistence that the[...]

The winners of the Diamond Comic Distributors Spring 2014 Best Practice Awards are  to be announced at the Las Vegas Diamond Retailer Summit in May. But before then, here are the nominees, to be voted on by fellow retailers (who can win $250 worth of swag for doing so…) Is your comic shop amongst them? Should it be? BEST[...]

The original version of The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson may end up inspiring the upcoming Batman/Superman movie from Warners. But

Our Bleeding Cosplay Columnist and Senior Cosplay Correspondent Ian Mageto was at MegaCon and has been creating more of his Comics and Cosplay videos. This is part 1 of 3 of Comics and Cosplay's visit to MegaCon at the Orlando Convention Center in Florida catching up with some amazing cosplayers. You can follow Comics and Cosplay here: TWITTER[...]