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Stolen From NYCC: Doctor Who Sketch Cover
This original art Doctor Who sketch cover by Brian Kong, was stolen from behind his table at New York Comic Con between Saturday night and Sunday morning. If you see it offered anywhere, do please get in touch...
Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen Comics – Nudity, Baiting And Naughty Words
This is, more than anything, the Acme Novelty Library of DC Comics When JH Williams III leaves for Before Sandman, he will be much missed. I think Captain America got the same reaction in World War II on the frontlines It's a shame he wasn't a master in snappy reparte as The Comedian, in Before Watchmen:[...]
Free Cyber Force #1 Arrives Today
Co-written by Silvestri and Matt Hawkins and penciled by Khoi Pham, this series does not pick up from previous Cyber Force stories and is a great jumping-on point for new readers. According to Silvestri, this is a "reboot origin story in the truest sense." However, fans of the earlier series will appreciate this new incarnation, as[...]
Massive Iron Man Foreshadowing In Avengers Assemble #8
Courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, gearing up for their Hallowe'en Hullaballoo! Josh Kopin at the Cup O Joe panel was rather taken by a character on the cover of the upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy #1 who apeared to resemble Iron Man quite a bit Quite a lot actually Could that be space armour? Could[...]
Did Cyclops Have A Peek At The Floor Of NYCC?
Say, does the power inhibitor-by-pain collar also work on his mutant power of calculating angles? No one seems to remember that one. But it does seem as if Cyclops was able to take a peek on the floor of New York Comic Con this past weekend… Bleeding Cool's Dapper Dan Hart? Years? How about minus six days? Courtesy[...]
Uncanny X-Men Brings You A Brand New Xorn Moment (SPOILER)
But the Magneto/Xorn reveal was one of the better plot twists in recent superhero comics. And it seems that Kieron Gillen rather liked it. Because in today's Uncanny X-Men #20, we get another reveal for anyone who has been reading the book during his run It's fairly early on in the book, but you might really want[...]
A Comic Show – Walking Dead, The All Ages Book?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv_LH3uMaRg[/youtube] Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom! I'm back from NYCC and there's new comics! Everybody wins! DC has the Death of Catwoman's family Justice League continues the Super Friends with benefits subplot with WW and Supes as well as a Thundercats nod New Guardians has a flashback with Kyle's girlfriend, Alex, killed by…who knows? Major Force is ret-conned,[...]
Tuesday Trending Topics: Red Hood And The Outlaws
Leading to instant sellouts and climbing eBay prices. Spoilercrunching – Wonder Woman And An Impending Death Tim Hanley of Bleeding Cool's Gendercrunching fame takes a closer look at one of the many pages put up by DC Comics on their From Concept To Screen panel at NYCC Including the proposal for issue 0 of Wonder Woman[...]
Where Hip Hop And Comics Cross, Criss Cross, And Jump Up
Camille Manhat writes for Bleeding Cool; On Saturday night in the midst of all the mania, feeling like herded cattle trapped in clustered chaos we heard someone scream , "Superman is black in the building!" A Hip Hop and comic collision resulting in the birth of a bad ass panel consisting of Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of[...]
You Have A Week To Return Your Flash Omnibus Volume 3
If you have a copy of  Flash Omnibus Vol 3, you may be aware that certain pages appear out of sequence, in a fashion that rather spoil the story. As we suggested, DC Comics has made the book returnable through the comic store retailer you bought it from, and will replace it. But the retailer needs to[...]
Getting Stan Lee A Chair – A Confession From NYCC
Seeing a man of Stan's stature act like that takes a bit of the mysticism away from him, as he stopped "looking" like the co-creator of Marvel Comics and more like a fragile 90 year old man Stan regained his composure after a minute of two, but was still looking weak His handler then looked[...]
Spoilercrunching – Wonder Woman And An Impending Death
Tim Hanley of Bleeding Cool's Gendercrunching fame takes a closer look at one of the many pages put up by DC Comics on their From Concept To Screen panel at NYCC Including the proposal for issue 0 of Wonder Woman And then put up by DC on their website Which delivers a honkingly big spoiler[...]
The Curse Of Stephanie Brown Continues
Both Grant and Scott have the reputation of getting their own way in comics And a number of other creators have reported similar experiences. And last week, as she appeared in Young Justice, the episode "Before the Dawn", as a civilian character who barely speaks two lines, the episode was pulled from the schedule and replaced[...]
Monday Trending Topics: DC Cancellations
All puffed up, I then opened an e-mail from Bleeding Cool reporter, Dr Manolis V of the Last Week's Comics column, which knocked me to the floor The Guardian reports; DC Cancels Frankenstein: Agent Of S.H.A.D.E With Issue 16… And What About DC Universe Presents? With the announcements of Justice League Of America and Threshold, DC are[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 15th October 2012
Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics 5 Maybe Jason Aaron Isn't Quite As Much A Bastard As We Thought 6 Batman #13 And Infinite Crisis 7 Agent Coulson Lives? 8 Agent Coulson Lives – On Joss Whedon's SHIELD TV Show 9 Frank Miller And Kimberley Cox Sued By Former Employee 10 UPDATED: (Brand New?) Iron Man 3 Clip Shown At NYCC[...]
Bleeding Cool Writer Manolis V Attacked By Greek Fascists
All puffed up, I then opened an e-mail from Bleeding Cool reporter, Dr Manolis V of the Last Week's Comics column, which knocked me to the floor The Guardian reports; Thursday night the Athens premiere of Terrence McNally's play, Corpus Christi, was cancelled following protests by members of the far-right party Golden Dawn (including some MPs)[...]
Become A Marvel Intern… In The UK?
Would you like to work for Marvel? Worried that living in the UK makes for a rather laborious commute and they probably won't cover your expenses? Well,
Matt Hawkins, From Think Tank To Control
I mean there's nothing I'm doing that's classified, a lot of that's available online, but it's pretty crazy stuff. RK: What made you transition to comics then? MH: You know when I graduated college in the early 90's it was the end of the Cold War and there were not a lot of science based jobs available[...]
Two Completed, Unpublished, Quantum And Woody Comics To Be Published On ComiXology
The other evening I popped into the Valiant offices, officially the closest comic book publisher to the New York Comic Con. What I found was a proper, working Bullpen of comic industry staffers preparing comics for publication, arranging their NYCC schedule and and the midst of it, arranging me. I grabbed a few comics, flicked through Shadowman[...]
Marvel Is Bringing Back Spider-Man 2099… Sometime
At the Marvel Amazing Spider-Man NYCC panel, when asked by a young fan why Marvel don't make Spider-Man 2099 comics anymore, to a roar of the crowd, Spider-Man Steve Wacker replied that they would do it for him That the fans do love a little Miguel And that "we don't know when and where", but[...]