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The following Swipe File concerns the final page of the final issue of Thanos Rising, issue #5, from yesterday. So, you know, spoilers. This is that final

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! I think[...]

Bill Meeks, our Senior Dragon*Conrespondent writes; Did you know Dragon*Con has a film festival every year? Well if you followed our coverage from last

1 queue, 4 artists at a time on the Saturday, and 3 artists a time on the Sunday, once you get to the front of the queue you will get a sketch from whichever artist is free. The cost of this sketch is included in your ticket price, along with your goodie bag that will contain[...]

The Age Of Ultron hardcover. Throw in the launch of Jonathan Hickman's God Is Dead for Avatar, The Mocking Dead for Dynamite. Here comes Monster Week… DARK HORSE COMICS ADVENTURES INTO THE UNKNOWN ARCHIVES HC VOL 03 $49.99 BALTIMORE INFERNAL TRAIN #1 $3.50 BLOOD BLOCKADE BATTLEFRONT TP VOL 04 $12.99 CATALYST COMIX #3 (MR) $2.99 GARY BASEMAN CYCLOPS CAT PIN $14.99 GARY BASEMAN EYE PIN $14.99 GARY BASEMAN SKULL & CROSSBONES[...]

The challenge (as set by Spurrierminion#1 Oldhat.) You have been hired to be the art side of a reimagining of LITTLE BOY BLUE AND THE BLUE BOYS, a comic that ran from 1942-1948 in Sensation Comics The writer, of course, is in her hovel crying trying to make the story "perfect" While she's tweaking the script[...]

But with the likes of Nancy Silberkleit, Mark Millar, Steve Geppi, Nick Spencer and others getting directly involved with politics – and President Obama being a comics fan – maybe it's worth asking what the comics creators-and-related folks think of it all Or maybe not You decide. UPDATED WITH MORE: Before anyone takes Paddy Ashdown's gung-ho comments[...]

When we flagged this auction for your attention a couple weeks ago, I was expecting a strong result — but this sale has re-written the record book for Copper Age Marvel comics:  The first and only CGC 10.0 copy of New Mutants #98 – the first appearance of Deadpool — written by Rob Liefeld and Fabian Nicieza and drawn by Liefeld, has just[...]

Bill Meeks, Senior Dragon*Conrespondent for Bleeding Cool writes; If Dragon*Con... I mean Dragon Con... was High School this would be my senior year. I’m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bleifRKHgw8 Previews editor Marty Grosser on twenty-five years of editing the Diamond Comic Distributors Previews catalogue

That makes it the perfect time to grab a few quieter moments and appreciate some of the solid storytelling that's ongoing and splash around a little in genre comics I'm here at my local comic shop Conquest Comics in New Jersey to check out the books as they come in and I'm anticipating some pretty[...]

Walt Simonson describes where exactly Beta Ray Bill came from, at Fan Expo Canada... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hd-CEIxsQ

Unfortunately, Kirby died in 1994, robbing the comics world of one of its pioneers and most talented creators A few years ago, comic fans created a web holiday, to be held on his birthday, to promote the reading of comics Calling it Read Comics in Public Day and doing precisely that, these denizens of the[...]

Over in Avengers Arena… And don't worry, Marvel have something for the heterosexuals amongst you as well, over in Wolverine & The X-Men! Okay, feel free to Tumblr the above… but if you want Leah content, I'm sorry, you're going to have to smack down your pennies. Comics courtesy of Dave's Comics in Brighton[...]

  This is the Time In A Bottle pub, created by Paul Cornell and James Hodgkins for the Knight And Squire comic, a pub filled with Britain;s superheroes,

In today's battle between Batman and Superman from the New 52 and Earth Two past, in hyperdetailed and stylised gorgeousness from Jae Lee, we get an early

Is it really a spoiler to run the image that plays out in Justice League #23? Considering it is basically the same?

Bishop resides in Edinburgh and lectures at Napier University, with courses that just happen to involve comics I say, meant to be, as Paul was so obviously delighted and excited to be at Stripped, his enthusiasm gushed forth It almost felt like this was the moment he had lived for I have heard his presentation[...]

Gail denies the following makes her a superhero. I disagree. She put herself in potential harm's way to save a stranger, and did something that most

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7ZE7mB1-Uk Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom! This week's New Comic Now is the calm before the storm. It's still a

There's a lot we know about Trinity War. We know that the Crime Syndicate are on their way. We know how they are travelling from Earth Three to Earth Two.

Every week, Marvel add new titles to their all-you-can-eat digital comics buffet Indeed of late they've really been ramping up the amounts, countering previous criticism (including from Bleeding Cool) of offering sporadic titles with large gaps. But Marvel have been charging the same amount And even though the amount of titles in has rapidly increased, the[...]

Here it comes, folks the Cable And X-Force/Uncanny X-Force crossover you've all been waiting for, courtesy of Amazon... Cable and X-Force Volume 4 Father

So, here's the thing. Tomorrow's Catwoman is going to be a hot book. Except not many people know it right now. And revealing why is going to give a load

Scott Mills writes in from Fan Expo Canada with a few more Marvel bits. He tells Bleeding Cool that the Shuster Awards winner for best cover artist, Mike

It was the first day back to school for many students in America, there's a hint of fall in the air in the midwest, there's 8 days until Nightwing

Years before All Star Superman, years before New X-Men, even before Flex Mentallo, Frank Quitely contributed to the much-mourned Big Books line from Piranha Press for DC Comics, anthologies of themed short stories Graphic Ink: The DC Comics Art of Frank Quitely will be collecting all of these along with his covers for All Star[...]

We also take a look at the Top 300 comics from June and dig into how the Big Two compare to the rest of the comics industry. DC COMICS It was an up and down month for DC, and one that ultimately resulted in a decrease in female creators, albeit a tiny one In June 2013, DC[...]

As well as his upcoming Spider-Man: Family Business project with Mark Waid and Gabriel Dell'Otto, James Robinson told fans at Fan Expo Canada that he will

This is Yondu from Guardians Of The Galaxy. And this is Yondu from the upcoming movie version. This is Rogue Trooper. And this is Rogue Trooper without