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Saturday Trending Topics: Avengers Ever After
 Because I think BCers have some pretty good ideas about the implications of that credits scene, and what it might mean for a certain character –or even characters — who have been in the news recently. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry Some have seen this as Editor-In-Chief Bob Harras slowly pushing[...]
FCBD 2012: Orbital, Gosh And Forbidden Planet, London, UK
On Saturday morning, we'll be getting the bus, then two tube trains into Central London with a gaggle of young girls to raid the comic shops of London like they are giving away free comics Which they are. Orbital Comics will have Simon Furman, Andy Wildman, Stephen Baskerville, John-Paul Bove and Jason Cardy signing copies of[...]
Saturday Runaround – An Off Page Death
4 Color 8 Bit Comics And Games, Jetpack Comics, Keith's Comics, Night Flight Comics, Chattanoogan Downtown Library and more find it an easy pitch. DevilWatch: David James Kelly is to rewrite the new Daredevil movie for David Slade to direct. SlottWatch: Dan Slott on leaving Formspring; I get that I'm someone whose work you don't like and it[...]
Friday Trending Topics: The Convergence Of The Marvel Empire
But in disguise. Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry  Nevertheless there does seem to be some editorial reorganisation going around the company, but little being stated and announced And gossip loves a vacuum. Is Marvel Making A New Marvel Family? (SPOILERS)  We knew it might well be coming in Secret Avengers #27[...]
Rumours Of DC Editorial Changes Circle Comics Industry
In recent weeks, David Hyde VP Publicity left DC Comics, Eddie Berganza was demoted to Group Editor from Executive Editor and Bobbie Chase was promoted to Editorial Director. Some have seen this as Editor-In-Chief Bob Harras slowly pushing Eddie Berganza out, but nothing can be further from the truth More reliable sources indicate the pair are[...]
"Mewling Quim" And That Mid-Credit Smile In The Avengers Movie
In the comics, the Avengers fly in Quinjets around the world No news yet if this will be changed to Quimjets, in the manner that The Bride drove The Pussy Wagon in Kill Bill… And here's the credit spoiler Your call Keep the spoiler out of the thread below as well, please. The big purple guy smiling[...]
DC New Logo Part Of A Peel Trend Of 2012
Bleeding Cool was the first to bring you news that DC Comics was getting a new logo, then to show you what it was. What we didn't know at the time was how prevalent that approach was. Logo Lounge has been looking at trends in new company logos, and identified the "peel" as one of them[...]
First Appearance of Iron Man In Tales of Suspense #39 Sells for Record $375,000
It's an Avengers world these days, and not only are they here to help save it, but also to help put the market for Avengers-related vintage comics into overdrive   Bleeding Cool has told you about quite a few eye-popping record sales over the past year related to Avengers team members first appearances — such[...]
Buffy Vs Aliens For Free Comic Book Day?
Dark Horse Comics does like to take its licenses and play with them a little Aliens Vs Predator, Robocop Vs Terminator… But it appears that for Free Comic Book Day a week from tomorrow, there are doing something very special. The cover is a clue. I thought it was just a play on words, an intriguing title, Buffy vs Vampires[...]
An Incomplete Sleaze Castle. You May Not Know What It Is. But You Should Buy It.
It's also incredibly, incredibly British. If you like good comics, if you have an Anglophilic bone in your body, take the chance Seriously, what's $50 between friends? And you can get a hardcover volume for the same price direct from the publisher…   Asking anyone to drop $50 on a comic book they've never heard of is[...]
Grace Randolph's Between The Pages: Nick Fury – Once You Go Black Can You Ever Go Back?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFL0DqIOZXU[/youtube] Grace Randolph presents Between The Pages from the shop floor of Midtown Comics in New York, as part of her Think About The Ink videos for Bleeding Cool. Samuel L Jackson is Nick Fury in The Avengers 2012! See how this Agent of SHIELD made the leap from the pages of Marvel comics to the silver[...]
FCBD 2012: Comics And Collectibles, Memphis, Tennessee
Another look at a comic store going above and beyond this Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May the 5th. Memphis Comics & Collectibles will have a signing with Chris Haley, artist on Lets Be Friends Again and Captain American Idol (yes that one) will be signing copies of our new comic… a lot of copies. He[...]
Friday Runaround – Are You Heavy Metal Material?
The fools. Installment One – MARK WAID I'm a huge believer that the first issue of a comics series–or, more applicable to what we're doing here, the first installment of a serial–fails miserably if the reader can't walk away with a clear idea of what the series is going to be about. Meltcast 2.0 with the Hernandez Brothers[...]
Is Marvel Making A New Marvel Family? (SPOILERS)
And Marvel Boy, sometimes referred to as Captain Marvel.   Just as DC Comics have abandoned the Captain Marvel and Marvel Family names, looks like Marvel are making their own Even if they'll all end up having the same name.   We knew it might well be coming in Secret Avengers #27 Because of, you know, the cover[...]
Will Mike Allred Draw Daredevil?
This letter appears in the new issue of Daredevil, out yesterday. Mike Allred's iZombie comic book has been cancelled at Vertigo, and while naturally he
Brendan McCarthy's Wolverine Pitch – The Wolvernator
File under Comics Curios. Considering what Marvel have done to Frank Castle of late, this doesn't seem that far out there, does it? Here, from Brendan McCarthy's files, is his rejected-by-Marvel Wolverine pitch from a while back. Tried this one out with Jason Aaron on script He liked it and christened it "Wolverine's Venom!" A faulty, old prototype[...]
In One Week, In Two Weeks
So what's coming down the pipe next week and the week after? Dark Horse have just the one comic, but it is Andi Watson's Skeleton Key so that's good. DC Comics start with the issue nines and the Second Wave issue ones Image bring us Epic Kill #1 and Mind The Gap #1. Marvel have Avengers Vs X-Men[...]