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Here are fifteen pieces of vital comics information, imparted by Bleeding Cool's TJ McDonald and Schedel Luitjen from MorrisonCon A signed table from attendeed And a post-coital Thor by Chris Burnham… There will be 10 new pages in Absolute Final Crisis, a huge battle scene formerly cut New Final Crisis pages feature "Captain Carrot fighting zombies"[...]

Imagine! So, Americans, be prepared to pledge that you won't spoil the comics in question on Twitter and the like for a whole week. Or Brits will just twitpic the last page of Avengers Vs X-Men #12 at 5am ET as part of a preemptive strike… Also, no Doctor Who #1 or Black Kiss 2 #3, but that's[...]

Gosh Comics is one of my favourite comic shops in the worls Now located in the heart of bustling Soho, London, surrounded by a great street market, record stores, strip joints, brothels, burleque performances and delicatessans, it's also part of Knockabout Comics, the British publishers of the likes of Alan Moore, Eddie Campbell and Hunt[...]

Check this out here, and more... and why this deisgn may have been rejected quite some time ago.

Before Bleeding Cool, there was TRIPWIRE magazine. In 2012, it celebrates its 20th anniversary and so it’s crowd funding at Unbound

Not sure what the occasion is, but here's an eighteenth cover for Uncanny Avengers #1. The other seventeen are here...

A few pencilled pages from Fathom #8 from Aspen Comics, written by David Wohl and drawn by newcomer Alex Konat… A few pencilled pages from Fathom #8 from Aspen Comics, written by David Wohl and drawn by newcomer Alex Konat… A few pencilled pages from Fathom #8 from Aspen Comics, written by David[...]

Frank J. Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham will be at table BB7 at NYCC to debut their new comic, a 32 page story, oversized, printed on vintage newsprint with

Three more covers for Uncanny Avengers #1, two featuring Neal Adams from The Lair and one from Midtown by J Scott Campbell. This is what we have so far.

With all those suits you expect the comics to look more like, well, I don't have to point, do I? Which brings us to this month's issue of FF by Jonathan Hickman and Andre Araujo If you're like me, which of course you are, after finishing the issue you probably thought, "Who the hell is Andre[...]

Vertigo hasn't had the greatest reputation for sci-fi comics V For Vendetta was, Transmetropolitan had to be inherited from another imprint, Helix, and the rather wonderful DMZ and Spaceman have been and gone And right now they have no sci-fi book on their… books. That will change next year Bleeding Cool writer Colin O' Mahoney reporting[...]

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool; Space: Punisher #3 by Mark Texeira I don’t know about the rest of you, but this cover screams “Absolute 90’s”

You see right before the Amazing Arizona Comicon in January last year, I dug up my copies of Walking Dead #1-10 that I had bought off the shelf at Samurai Comics back when they came out years ago They had sat in my short boxes untouched I had Robert sign them and had the CGC[...]

Always some poll closing controversy during an election year: It started as a simple poll on the DC Comics Facebook page "With Zero Month drawing to a close we're wondering: How do you want to learn more about the history of the characters in DC Comics-The New 52?" Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC's New 52 Facebook Poll Backfires[...]

Scott Snyder proving that he has the T-shirt and jeans look for Superman long before Grant. That Thursday panel on Superman at New York Comic Con can't

DC Comics has sent notice of legal action to Supermen Fades And Fros, a barber shop with two outlets in Orange County. It's pretty much an open and shut case, the shop appears to be using the Superman trademark, as well as the Shield symbol in its livery or advertising It's debatable as to how[...]

At their live drawing panels at MorrisonCon, Frank Quitely draws Fat Superman for Bleeding Cool's Schedel Luitjen... and then Jim LEe speed-draws the

TJ McDonald is keeping Bleeding Cool informed from MorrisonCon. Just as in Watchmen, the cover to Pax Americana (DC, with Frank Quitely, out next year) is

Schedel also described the contents of the MorrisonCon hardcover for those planning a run to eBay. A list of the main creators at the event with big pictures of them and lists of major works from the past, then a sketchbook of several drawings from the artists- a penciled Jim Lee variant Action Comics #1 cover,[...]

Jérémy Manesse, who works for Panini Comics in France as a consultant, editor, community manager and, mostly, as a translator for is also an actor and a playwright, with staged plays over the last ten years And, naturally, comics gets involved – he confessed that his second play in 2003, La Partenaire de l'Inspecteur Murdock, was[...]

This week, a number of websites have been running panel excerpts of art, along with the script. Well, since we were left out of the party, we thought we'd

  HighWatch: Sam Humphries shares designs from Higher Earth; TwitWatch: Did someone at Image forget to log out of the official account before tweeting something of a more personal nature? 101Watch: Remember those newspaper articles about how comics aren't all just superhero comics from the eighties and nineties? They're back. GuardianWatch: The Guardian fetes Mark Millar in the light[...]

Which shows us this. As Assistant Editor Brian Smith Leaves DC, Rob Liefeld Sticks The Knife In. Brian Smith, assistant editor at DC Comics, and co-writer of Stuff Of Legend just tweeted;     I like Rich's 5 possible theories so much we're going to take it to a poll  Which one will it be? Join the Revolution: [polldaddy poll=6569659] <a[...]

Are you going to MorrisonCon in Las Vegas this weekend? Bleeding Cool was meant to have some people on the ground, but the organisers suddenly stopped

In recent days, there has been some worry about Stan Lee's health, after a couple of show cancellations. But those close to him shooed such worries away.

This is from one who lived through the comics industry in the nineties and saw it follow the speculator market with horrendous, yet predictable results. For those who weren't with us for that period, comic books were hyped up and sold at large markups for the traditional first issues and first appearances, but also for multiple[...]

We tried to stop him but he threatened us with a lawsuit. When I started collecting comics, choices were easy I walked into the Friendly Neighborhood Comic Book Store and threw down my 60 cents for my new issue of Avengers It was that simple, I didn't have the store owner say, "Did you want the[...]

Matt Harding writes for Bleeding Cool; Madefire Studios, the makers of interactive digital comics "Treatment," and "Mono" introduced us yesterday to their new iPhone app, which mirrors their existing iPad application perfectly. The stories remain completely interactive, including "Mono's" insane 360 panel The app exists for almost all iPhone models, including my clunky 3GS, as well as[...]

At NYCC, Marvel will probably announce this new Young Avengers series from Phonogram creators Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie. But we already know one