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It was meant to come out two years ago. It didn't. Now Top Cow have made it available to retailers without going through the usual channels. Which means

It was a tiny crack, but for the first time, it looked like maybe there was a way for Moore and DC to get along. LoveWatch: Anna Plunkett and Luke Sales got together over comic books, it seems. MovieWatch: How to superhero movies affect superhero comic book sales? Comic stores sound out. Over the last few years, Joss[...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4Od9A2Nto Mike Wellman, the manager of The Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California, takes us through all the Free Comic

We also take a look at sales by gender, but that discussion gets quickly sidelined by how few women there are in Diamond's Top 300 comic books. DC COMICS After an off month in January, DC was back at their usual total In February 2012, DC Comics put out 82 new comics with 662 credited creators, 589[...]

As is, surprisingly, Hardcore #1 from Image Comics. What the hell is that you ask? It's a book that was solicited two years ago – TWO YEARS AGO – as part of Top Cow's Pilot Season Created by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri, written by Robert Kirkman, originally  drawn by Brian Stelfreeze Rather than resolicit, the[...]

We've been following the rise of Kickstarter and its affects on the comics industry One pertinent trend is the increase of name comic creators using the system to crowdsource advance payments on books that may not be profitable in other ways Some comic book creators have been, publicly and privately, rather dismissive and critical of[...]

Bleeding Cool continues to celebrate comic book stires that are going above and beyond for Free Comic Book Day in 2012, this May the 5th. Collectors' Corner in Baltimore, Maryland, will run FCBD 9am until 9pm.Although you may want to be there earlier. The first twenty-five in line will get a Free Movie Pass to see AVENGERS[...]

It's clearly a good day for parody superhero comics… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London Their Roger Langridge signing is on Saturday, as well as their new Roger Langridge gallery exhibition into May. Bleeding Cool ran the cover to Goon #39 a while back, and I made a point to buy it as a result[...]

The alternate DC Comics history that reshaped the DC Universe and led to the DC Relaunch and the New 52 last year. And now, it appears, to be the next DC Direct-To-DVD movie, according to Kevin Conroy who commonly plays Batman in such animations, and recorded his role in the new movie the other night… Check in[...]

So, the massive incentives retailers were given to order massive amounts of Avengers Vs X-Men comics have not only see the comics sell through once but also twice. I understand that Marvel is going back to print on Avengers Vs X-Men #0, #1 and #2 for a third time. That all Avengers Vs X-Men tie-in titles are[...]

New Avengers gives as a reworking of the opening of Avengers Vs X-Men, seeing the planet of plant people destroyed, but in terms of our own world... a

But it does paint a rather possible future, with Superman hunted down, referred to as an "it" rather than a person of any description… given recent issues of Justice League, is this the way Superman is going? Chris Sims wrote a piece mocking Before Watchmen by suggesting other DC Comics by Moore that they could prequelise[...]

That could also happen. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London Their Roger Langridge signing is on Saturday, as well as their new Roger Langridge gallery exhibition into May. In today's Astonishing X-Men, Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins give us a big old fashioned superhero fight scene between these X-Men and the Marauders, both physical and[...]

This comic is not quite as silly though. And it seems that despite the fluster and the bluster, the wit and the whimsy, Uncanny X-Men is taking the Palestine/Israel and Waco allegories and moving it on, yet again. In other AVX news, Secret Avengers has a massive plot twist just waiting to be spoiled (not by me)[...]

Where they have just got last week's comics…   In AVENGERS VS X-MEN #2 the fight is ON! The second issue of the mega-event contains a whole lot of punching, shields being thrown, optic beams and stabbing, along with an insane amount of deliciously Claremont-by-way-of-Fraction hyperbolic narrative The focus jumps across different battle match ups, ranging from[...]

StanWatch: Stan Lee doesn't know why Jack Kirby would get a credit on The Avengers movie. TeamWatch: Phil Hester and Todd Nauck are reviving the Kirkman/Benito Cereno series Guarding the Globe, and will launch in a story in the Image Free Comic Book Day issue. ReprintWatch: Lots of Batman and Batman-related comics are being reprinted. SwipeWatch: The Eagle[...]

Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool; For everyone who receives this, Tony DeZuniga was the first Filipino artist whose work was accepted by an American

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je6f3T63BN4[/youtube] Aaron and Tony of A Comic Shop in Florida, look through tomorrow's comics today… and offer a rather controversial promotion for Bleeding Cool Magazine! It's another great week of comics! We're all gearing up for Northstar's Big Gay Wedding (don't know why David Gabriel is keeping it in the closet)[...]

Second prints are like syphilis these days. You've either got it or you haven't. And The Shadow has most certainly got it. This is the first look at the

Tomorrow is new comics day Yay! While you are picking up your copies of Avengers Versus X-Men, Aquaman or the final issue of The Twelve, as you pass by the counter, do please be minded to ask the staff member in question if they can put aside a copy of Bleeding Cool Magazine when it comes[...]

But I see it as far more playful, the intent is certainly different even if not all of the audience appreciates it in that fashion. Here are some performances from Comics, Issue #3 by Geek Girl Burlesque at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York last month… We have Murder Nurse as Deadpool… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y_SETWDkfE[/youtube] and as Cassie Hack. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSUI-AdzycY[/youtube] There's Scarlet[...]

Oh look, tomorrow I have two comic books coming out. Captain American Idol by me and Chris Haley, off of Let's Be Friends Again.... And then Scienthorlogy

In tomorrow's final issue of Battle Scars, all right minded readers of Bleeding Cool are expecting Sergeant Marcus Johnson, now revealed as the son of

Every year Jetpack Comics hosts a Free Comic Book Day Festival, across Rochester in New Hampshire Thousands attend what has to be one of the largest Free Comic Book Day events in the country. The event starts in Jetpack Comics at 10am but then extends across the town with many other businesses giving away comic books[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDqkfZMTrw[/youtube] The Dark Knight Rises, comics review! The Dark Knight Rises and the rest of Christopher Nolan has raised Batman's popularity to even new heights, so host Grace Randolph gives you a primer on how to experience the Dark Knight as he began, in the pages of DC Comics! Enhance your The Dark Knight Rises movie[...]

In that parallel world, this list would probably place their run on the mutant superhero title a lot higher up than fifth place. Yet despite the many fill-in artists that would later come to characterise the New X-Men saga (with some artists faring better than others), the early Quitely-illustrated issues of this book were fantastic superhero[...]

We've all seen and enjoyed the Augmented Reality that Marvel has been introducing into its comics of late. But that's nothing, as usual, compared to what the French get up to with their comics Here's an example using the graphic novel "La Douce" or The Twelfth by Francois Schuiten, published by Dupuis. Wow However at no point[...]

Over the years, I've had a few messages from those who have met comics conman Josh Hoopes to say that he doesn't actually look that much like the common photograph of him And that I should probably find something a little more recent. Well, here you go Gaze upon the face of Hoopes! And hey, you remember[...]

Joe Quesada, on defending his decision to publish Spider-Men, when previously he'd said such an Ultimate/616 crossover would mean Marvel was officially

If you need a reminder of what's been nominated, you can find the entire list right here, and see what I chose last week right here. Who is not eligible to vote? Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees) Non-creative publisher staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.) Fans Before I get back to work on my authentic Stan[...]