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Instead, China enjoyed things from swamps, seven issues of Swamp Thing taking up the majority of the top ten – in reverse chronological order, too! United States The Walking Dead #118 $2.99 Justice League (2011-) #25 $3.99 Batman (2011-) #26 $3.99 Justice League 3000 (2013-) #1 $2.99 Justice League of America (2013-) #10 $3.99 Uncanny X-Men #15.INH $3.99 Wolverine and the X-Men #39[...]

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! The second[...]

The Hachette Group's catalogues for distributing Marvel's titles have gone live for the end of 2014. Obviously, much of what is listed are what we'd

We did rather suspect this was coming. TALON #17 Written by TIM SEELEY Art by JORGE LUCAS Cover by EMANUEL SIMEONI On sale MARCH 26 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

Here comes Magnus Robot Fighter #1 from Dynamite Entertainment, out in March. (W) Fred Van Lente (A) Cory Smith (CA) Gabriel Hardman THE GOLD KEY UNIVERSE

Here we go folks!!! Magneto #1 John Cassaday variant, New Warriors #1 J Scott Campbell variant, Superior Spider-Man #27.NOW Mark Brooks variant, All-New

And for share of actual comics sold, Marvel is ahead on 33.65% to DC's 31.90%, a hauntingly similar to October's 33.63% and 31.15% So what changed? Image? No, their retail marketshare was down from 9.26% to 8.67% , while unit share dropped from 10.85% to 9.77%. Instead DC, Marvel and Image's loss seems to be spread[...]

UPDATE: We've now confirmed the Survive creative team as Brian Bendis and Joe Quinones, with Olivier Coipel on the cover. There are no Ultimate titles

Looks like DC Comics have a challenger for September domination. For the first time, Marvel is offering an exchangeability program for the upcoming March launch of a new Wolverine ongoing comic as part of All New Marvel Now, by Paul Cornell and Ryan Stegman. Retailers are encouraged to order lots and lots – and rather than make[...]

Previewed at New York Comic Con (preview embedded belowed) by relatively new publisher Blue Juice Comics, a new pirate comic Annie Bonnie, by Tim Yates. "There are many tails in the world: rat tails, cat tails, skinny tales and fat tales but the only ones worth speakin' of… the only ones worth tellin'… are the tall[...]

UPDATE: Here's the full info; (W) Michael Moreci, Steve Seeley Welcome to the world of the Horse-He, middle-aged men who share an unusual devotion to My

As the television series Grimm hits the midpoint of it's third season, Dynamite Entertainment is chugging along with their comic adaptions. Jai Nitz takes

They are: Steve DeJoseph Photo-Op Frazetta VHSPS Hot Flips Mike DeCarl JP Hobbies Zombie, Inc. Sam McCain Paramedic Zombies Glenn tippett Scare Tactics Frank Frai Kolpack Living Corpse Jeff Zornow Damon Bowie Michael Pomeroy Shadows on the Wall Sean Posters Primo Cardinelli Fangs by Horror Show Jack Roundstone Publishing Zenescope Bloodline J&J Collectibles John Powers DVD Brian's Alter Egos John Pross Equinox Art Studios Davey Jones Locker Terry Hudelston Michael Lutrario Megafest Stormwatch Comics Richard Masso Lisa Conrad Comic Explosion Pete Collectors Den Mike Decarl Manda Craig Blake Jason Paul Guidry Glen Tippett Jason Casey Martin Grams Stan Lee Charities Gary Platt Scott Strata Pasquale[...]

I'd contacted him awhile back wondering if he'd be interested in writing a piece on my adventures as a cartoonist in the wild world of comics and to possibly talk about my self-published comic MAN FROM SPACE It seems he runs they a pretty cool paper, interested in what was really going on in the[...]

Dingle, Christopher Priest, and I founded Milestone Media. Milestone was a worldwide phenomenon when it launched, and it sold millions. Our groundbreaking arrangement with DC Comics, the largest joint venture deal ever done in comics, is still the gold standard for independent publishers seeking distribution with a major one. 20 years later, Milestone is still regarded as the[...]

There have been a rash of very poorly executed "rough drafts" of the Wizard Magazine  #205 cover by Whilce Portacio and Todd McFarlane, with equally

I'm shocked sometimes I'll be at shows and a Browncoat will walk up and say, There's Serenity COMICS! Our niche industry needs to do a better job getting the word out there. Yeah, okay, um, that's probably my fault The march starts here! So how do Browncoats compare to Buffy fans in your experience? That is a[...]

The Comedy Comics Magazine The Devastator ran a poll among indie comics creators to learn what their needs are when it comes to conventions and shows in an effort to help make those shows more welcoming for creator-owned projects The wide array of shows that the survey ended up reporting on is truly impressive, including[...]

Plus another exclusive variant with Cards, Comics, and Collectibles. Day Men #1 was a big hit for BOOM! With a potentially under-ordered issue #2, are we looking at more aftermarket heat and a potential sold out status?   Bleeding Cool has been tracking the BOOM! Studios original series, Day Men, since before the first issue released The[...]

Two weeks before Christmas, And all through offices Not a creature was stirring Except for some promises. A letter was sitting On the co-publisher's desk From a reader, a subscriber Who was feeling most vexed. "I'm appalled" said the letter. "I live out in Devon. And I won't get Detective Comics #27". I'm far from a shop I'm far from a store And the start of Gothtopia I won't see[...]

From the new Marvel solicitations, we get an end for A+X… A+X #18 BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS & GERRY DUGGAN (W) KEVIN NOWLAN & DAVID YARDIN (A) Cover by KEVIN NOWLAN A+X GOES OUT IN STYLE! • Superstar BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS and comics legend KEVIN NOWLAN tell a scintillating tale of KITTY PRYDE + VISION! • Gerry Duggan (DEADPOOL) and David Yardin (X-FACTOR)[...]

This is all very well timed for… that. Batman: The Dark Knight writer Gregg Horwitz posted, in what now seems to be DC's official policy of announcing the end of comics by getting the writers to do it on their personal blogs; Batman is forever, but sadly not all of his titles are Batman: The Dark Knight[...]

Lots of comics, available free from your local comic book store, a mix of reprints and new material, all with the intention of grabbing new eyes to the medium, and teasing upcoming comics for old hands. It's only 142 days folks! Get with it! First up, the Gold comics, which every participating retailer has to order to[...]

A lot better than any expected, with Jeff Lemire, Travel Foreman, Steve Pugh and more, driving the character forward, gaining fans and, it seemed, also gave us the only married lead character in the New 52. Well, that wasn't going to be allowed to last was it? Jeff Lemire writes; My run as the writer of Animal Man,[...]

David Morrell, creator of Rambo, had been recruited for a top secret, behind enemy lines mission, scripting a copy of the Spider-Man comic book.

The top advanced reordered comic for last week… suddenly no longer existed. Detective Comics #27 Cover B used to be the Frank Miller cover But then DC Comics cancelled the cover So the entire order for that separately-ordered variant has gone… poof! And since FOC was set before the cover was cancelled, retailers may well not[...]

As you say, so much has been built up about him in film, television, comics, and post-Doyle Holmes novels and short stories, so the real trick, I thought, was to ignore everything I thought I knew about Moriarty and go back to the source Rather than that being difficult, it's more of a blank check[...]

2D Cloud, an independent publisher handling some of the most notable darlings of the indie comics circuit, produces comic works in a wide array of formats and styles, but the guarantee is that they'll be weird and wonderful In the lead up to Christmas, they've announced five big books coming in 2014, and also a[...]

When Five Years Later was first envisioned at DC Comics, it was designed to fix a few of the continuity goofs that had happened when the New 52 was launched. Well, from today's Justice League #25, here's another to add to the pile. Rather well executed, we get the origin of the New 52 version of Plastic[...]

Welcome to another massive week for comics, and I'm writing live from my local comic shop, Conquest Comics in New Jersey I may have been elevated to the dizzying heights of EIC here at Bleeding Cool, but very little can keep me out of my local shop on a Wednesday, particularly when I saw the[...]