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Is he taking the Marvel Universe to its own Crisis? Now DC Comics looks as if they are launching a new Crisis event for April and May next year as well, the thirtieth anniversary of Crisis On Infinite Earths We reckoned this was happening a while back and it also marks the moment that DC Comics[...]

Boom! Studiuos and Archaia's comics out in August (mostly)… Fairy Quest will always top my list But what will you be looking out for? FAIRY QUEST: OUTCASTS #1 (W) Paul Jenkins (A) Humberto Ramos (CA) A: Humberto Ramos; B: Humberto Ramos B&W WHY WE LOVE IT: FAIRY QUEST is the passion project of Paul Jenkins and Humberto Ramos, the[...]

So where can you go for a little female action in today's comics? Thank you Magnus #3 I'm sure everyone will get the joke Everyone. The Shadow: Moscow #1 from Howard Chaykin counts us down into The Week In Kissing Because there is plenty to go around… Both imaginary, from Uncanny X-Men... And real! From the dangerous of Amazing Spider-Man… To[...]

Futures End #4 shows us a future New York practicing full blown apartheid, between those from Earth One and those from Earth Two. And for some reason, none of the superheroes seem to be particularly up in arms about this state of afairs. The fallout from what we presume is the war between the two Earths coming up[...]

We haven't had a new Strangers In Paradise comic since the series by Terry Moore ended in 2007. Well, the stars of the new Strangers In Paradise comic

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is coming soon, with it's blast to the past of the X-Men, from the future. Now the comics are full of that already with the All-New X-Men from the past and the Brotherhood from the future, and a total of four Icemen in all that. But more touching was today's scene from Uncanny[...]

And for Image Comics in August, the full list of new comics… the Rat Queens/Peter Panzerfaust crossover cover sticks out nicely, we have eight new titles, Fade Out gets an over sized version of issue 1, Dead@17 is coming to a dead end, Chew has Poyo, and lots more beside What takes your eye?   [...]

And no sign of Hawkeye… But there is Ultimate Spider-Ham! DEATH OF WOLVERINE #1 CLASSIFIED Variant and sketch covers by Joe Quesada and Alex Ross, covers by Skottie Young, Deadpool variant 9/3/2014 $4.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #2 CLASSIFIED 9/10/2014 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #3 CLASSIFIED 9/17/201 $3.99 DEATH OF WOLVERINE #4 CLASSIFIED 9/24/2014 $3.99   MARVEL 75TH ANNIVERSARY MAGAZINE (W/A/CA) TBD Marvel celebrates its diamond jubilee with a gem of a magazine spanning[...]

And do make sure you read Forever Evil before Justice League. Because after doing a little computer work that seems a direct reference to the scene above, he comes to another conclusion. Welcome to your new New 52, folks! Well, it's one way to blackmail yourself onto the team I suppose. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London[...]

Cerebus, one of the most highly regarded independent comic series by Dave Sim, ran for 300 issues from 1977 to 2004. From issue #26 to #50 ran a storyline

Last week convention director Matt Solberg (one of the nicest guys you'll meet in comics) sent out a letter talking about the plans for next months show and what to expect. Hi All – Convention Director Matt Solberg here. For the first time we are instituting limits on the numbers of memberships we sell for Phoenix Comicon[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, it's Aaron from A Comic Shop with a big stack of New Comics Now! This week made my month, not only were there great books from DC, Marvel, and Image, but I got my Geoff Johns fix! DC just rocked me 52 ways this morning[...]

So Superman/Batman #11 is out tomorrow, from DC Comics And this is the cover, honest. Which does, for the first time we believe, give Krypto a full spread naked butt shot. In such circumstances, we have no choice but to call in Chip Zdarsky…   Krypto, your days are numbered… So Superman/Batman #11 is out tomorrow, from DC Comics[...]

Our fine friends at Dynamite have sent over four extended previews for books shipping this week. SOLAR: MAN OF THE ATOM #2 Frank Barbiere (w) Joe Bennett

No, it wasn't pinkish hair or the warm inviting smile (but that does always help!), but her books! I could relate to her series called Busty Girl Comics She was living back east at the time, but since then, as moved to the wild frontier that is the West Coast As part of my look[...]

By Abdulkareem Baba Aminu [*Warning: spoilers below for Iron Fist: The Living Weapon #2 And Silver Surfer #2] Iron Fist: The Living Weapon #2 from Marvel Comics Writer/Artist: Kaare Andrews Earlier in the story, orphan Danny Rand, after defeating the dragon Shou-Lao and gaining the power of the Iron Fist, decided to avenge his parents and set out, leaving[...]

I loved to see my brother drawing and he worked on a comic book shop, so my love for comics started very soon I grew up reading comics, and drawing comics, and when I was 14 or 15, I decided to send samples to an agency that had Brazilian artists working for American comics They[...]

As seen at the Diamond Retail Summit in Las Vegas – The Wicked And The Divine #1 by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie, coming from Image Comics. Just a blurry, peek, anyway. Why am I getting an Eyes Wide Shut vibe at the top? The Wicked And The Divine knows how to count. And there is talking to[...]

Since 1978, the world of Elfquest has inspired the minds and artistic bent of generations of readers, and the unstoppable trajectory of its ever-expanding world has moved through various platforms, displaying the full versatility of the comics medium, from mainstream publishing, to self-publication, webcomics, and now back to print in a new incarnation with Dark[...]

Bleeding Cool ran a report on the cameo of Chris Claremont and Len Wein in the X-Men: Days Of Future Past movie. But there was no sign of the co-writer

Rod of Rodman Comics of Ankeny, Iowa, is one of the contributors to the Bleeding Cool Bestseller List This weekend, he attended Diamond Comic Distributor Retailer Summit for the first time, this year in Las Vegas And took a few notes for Bleeding Cool… For my first summit it went well over all[...]

Image Comics/Skybound is to enter the Artists Edition market started by Scott Dunbier over at IDW And they begin with the most recently completed Walking Dead story, All Out War. Similar formats from other publishers see the original art boards for the book reproduced as closely as possible, at full size on board pages, and bound with[...]

The cover to Original Sin #7 , there, for August. They couldn't be bringing him back already?  

Archie Comics have had a number of attempts to revive and republish the Red Circle line of superhero comic books with less than stellar results Beginning with the Shield created in 1939 for Pep Comics, The Black Hood and The Wizard, were relaunched in the sixties following DC Comics superhero revival, introducing The Fly and[...]

Mentioned to retailers at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, they are to publish a new Sabrina The Teenage Witch series very different from the previous comics and spinoff TV series Instead, it will be published as an out-and-out horror comic. Does it ever feel like you are living in a parallel universe? The new series[...]

Mentioned at the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, DC Comics representatives mentioned to retailers that they were considering publishing sets of playing cards marketed for playing poker, featuring the Ant Lucia-and-friends DC Bombshell Designs. It does feel that there are some rather geeky games of strip poker that will be being played around the world[...]

  Getting press all over the place after we first reported the story, including Time, Breitbart and Philly.com, here's a preview of the upcoming

A few years ago, Bleeding Cool reported on Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate's case against Dynamite Entertainment and concluded that while they had a real case against Dynamite's use of still-copyrighted stories in their Tarzan and Princess Of Mars-based comics, even under the names Lord Of The Jungle, Warlord Of Mars and Deja Thoris, that the lawsuit[...]

It's a bumper week with both 2000AD Prog 1882 out and Judge Dredd Megazine #348 and there seems to be a lot of "Chop Chop" going on everywhere. Both will

That was a line from a publisher in a Las Vegas bar last night, reading Bleeding Cool on his phone. Bleeding Cool has been running a fair few articles over the last few days, sourced from the Diamond Retailer Summit in Las Vegas, courtesy of a number of friendly comic book retailers. In case you missed them,[...]