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Manny Trembley writes for Bleeding Cool: Are Comics "Fun"? Comic book super heroes and villains have become a dime-a-dozen There is a malaise in our culture over these caped, underwear-wearing individuals There seem to even be questions about whether "serious" comic books are better Does more mature mean more better? Under Where? is a book that flies in the[...]

John Higgs, the author of The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band Who Burned A Million Pounds, a book which includes a chapter about Alan Moore, recently

Which also answers the question that began "Now with Steve Wacker leaving…." So what did everyone have to say? Scott Lobdell told us, "Mike Marts follows the First Rule Of Editorial:  Make it better!   I'm not sure what being an executive editor entails but I'm sure he's going to rock out." RT @bleedingcool Mike Marts Leaves Batman[...]

One of the amazing regular events at Angouleme is the twenty-four hour comic event, in which comic creators, professionals, amateurs and students all

Starting today at 1PM EST, you can stream the National Pro Wrestling Day event on YouTube Live from the Palmer Center in Easton, PA. Just click on this

It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait to the weekend to get this week's comics We salute you, and the keeness you bring to your passion. Superior Spider-Man still tops the chart – can you believe Marvel will cancel this title in favour of mealy mouthed, wishy washy liberal do[...]

Whether someone is terrible, overrated, married, a hack, racist, ruining DC and/or Marvel, these are the questions that people have been asking of Google,

By Ken Haeser for Battlestar Galactica #12 subscription variant cover from Dynamite... sadly not in time for Valentine's Day.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are joining IDW Publishing's popular Micro Comic Fun Packs on April 1st. There will be four separate packs available,

The penultimate issue of the 5 part mini-series that revives and refigures the Silver Age pulp hero The Fox, from Red Circle/Archie Comics is coming February 5th, and the trailer teases plenty of the madness and artwork this Mark Waid/Dean Haspiel collaboration has been known for so far The question looming is whether The Fox[...]

Marvel has been advertising Winter Soldier: The Bitter March on all their titles of late. A series intended to tie in (in money terms if nothing else)

I was promoting my new/upcoming comics Love Stories to Die For (Image Comics/Shadowline), The Legend of Oz: The Wicked West (Big Dog Ink), and Tales of Mr Rhee (Devil's Due), as well as many of my other books such as the Nightmare World trilogy (Image Comics/Shadowline) and Write or Wrong: A Writer's Guide to Creating[...]

Today, we will take a look at a storyline from 2007 that eventually led into one of the most explosive events of the Modern Age of Comics That event is Final Crisis; the lead-in, and today's topic, is Batman: The Black Glove. (Note: As this story was pre-New 52 continuity, there are no spoilers for the current incarnation[...]

Timothy Carson writes: The Walking Dead and Saga make for excellent tango partners, nimbly keeping pace with one another’s dance steps; this week, though,

#Loki #AgentofAsgard #comics — Mandy P (@Brown_Ajah) January 31, 2014 Think I'm going to get a monthly sub for Loki: Agent of Asgard Because when it comes to Loki I have a… thing. — Ashley Lukens (@AshleyLukens) January 31, 2014 And next week, the launch of Royal Masters Of War, City: The Mind In The Machine, Fuse, Mercenary[...]

David Schulner has talked about the upcoming TV adaptation of Image/Skybound comic book Clone at Bloody-Disgusting. The script is done. It was a blast to

Next week's Bleeding Cool Magazine has a lot to say about weekly comics, with DC launching both a Batman Eternal weekly comic as well as the Five Years Later-set Future's End weekly comic. But they are not alone. We knew that we were getting a new Earth 2 title to accompany the current monthly Well, we're now[...]

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! New Warriors[...]

It's a full-blown crossover that DC Comics seem to have forgotten telling too many people about. Basically, if you read Batgirl, you need to read The Movement for the next two issues as well That is if you can find a copy Because ICV2 estimates have Batgirl selling 35,000 and The Movement selling 7000 You can[...]

ComiXology are at Angouleme, and are surveying people passing by the booth... and these are the results so far. And they have Jeremy Nguyen writing and

With his The Most ADJECTIVE Romance Comics Ever in which a fifties-style romance comic has been recreated, with missing words, allowing an audience to fill them in with hilarious consequences. Nat writes, The game can be played in a group of two or more, with one player calling out the word types for other players to suggest[...]

GLAAD has announced its nominees for its 2014 awards for the treatment of gay characters and themes, including for comic books. The awards usually favour

AFTERMARKET WITH ARCHIE Going to the ComicsPRO meeting of retailers at the end of February? Archie, as well as sponsoring Friday night cocktails will be bringing Francesco Francavilla, to sign the ComicsPRO variant edition of Afterlife With Archie… THE MARVEL UNIVERSE WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY Mark Millar makes big plans for Millarworld Though presumably without Flash Gordon…. Stan[...]

The variant cover from The Other Dead #5...

Bob And Bobette is a classic Belgian comic strip. It looks like this. Or rather it did. Because it's getting a revamp and now looks... like this.   Quite

Johnston (Unearthed, Jurassic) "Sleeps with Monsters" by Liz Bourke (Tor.com) The winners will be announced in a ceremony at the Satellite4 Eastercon Convention  at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Glasgow on Sunday, the 20th of April, 2014. José Luis del Río Fortich is a child of the seventies who grew up with comics and MSX[...]

Have you seen this artwork? Martin Tirtawigoena writes, This jam piece by Ryan Stegman, Humberto Ramos and Edgar Delgado was supposed to get signed by

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode74.mp3] After last week's enlightening discussion with Clifford Meth (which you can still listen to here), this week I take some time to chat with Zack Whedon about his film & television work, as well as his return to comics this week with Serenity: Leaves On The Wind from Dark Horse Comics! Zack & I[...]

In the 75 years that have since passed, the publication has had to evolve to suit an ever-changing audience, societal shifts and even fashion trends, if taking into consideration the amendment of Dennis' dad's haircut in August 2012. The Beano stands on higher ground on the valley of British comics sadly dampened by a downpour of[...]

By Alasdair Stuart Ales Kot is one of the most interesting, innovative writers working in the field today. His previous work including Change, Wild