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Russia-based goth-metal band, The End Of Melancholy, has released the music video for their cover of famed rock band Led Zeppelin's iconic "Immigrant Song." This cover is a track on their latest album, Nature Unleashed, now available on Spotify and Bandcamp. A glamour shot of the Russian alt/metal goth band The End Of Melancholy[...]

Taking to Instagram, Mack now only shared his thoughts on those developments but also on other characters both he and Brian Michael Bendis created (together and individually) before offering a brief update on how things are looking with the Cover adaptation over at HBO Max. Image: Marvel "Looks like a character I created at #MARVEL is getting[...]

CoverWatch: It's a while since we did a runaround of the retailer exclusive comic book covers that Marvel and DC Comics are making available to retailers DC Comics is offering covers for: Static: Season One #1 (Order by 03/29/21) Batman: The Adventures Continue Season II #1 (Order by 04/22/21.) The Nice House On The Lake #1 (Order by[...]

CoverWatch is an irregular Bleeding Cool feature looking at variant covers for comic books, especially exclusive retailer variant covers, and the weird and odd places they sometimes go. The first sees Second Sight Publishing and The Collective : A Comic and Game Community create a pecial variant cover for their Freakshow Knight horror title from Jonathan[...]

In addition, HBO Max announced that here are a number of other animated originals in development- including an adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and David Mack's DC Comics series Cover. Images: HBO Max Here's a look at what's ahead, starting with HBO Max Original Series: Image: HBO Max "Clone High": – A modern refresh of the Phil Lord, Chris[...]

The first Punchline cover, featuring the new girlfriend of The Joker, drawn by Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau, was to have been the cardstock cover on Batman #94 That has now switched to Batman #92. Bleeding Cool had been pointing out that some people had been paying up to $15 in advance for copies of that Batman #94[...]

Here's a look at Pepe Larraz's new cover for the House Of X/Powers Of X hardcover, hitting comic book stores on December 11th, and bookstores on December 24th A two week lead for the direct market, handy in the run-up to Christmas. That's the standard cover, while the Direct Market-only version not available to bookstores is[...]

The only remaining Image Comics title at that price point, and the only one amongst the main comic book publishers, aside from Looney Tunes and Scooby-Doo comic books over at DC Comics. SPAWN #302 WRITER: Todd McFarlane ARTIST: Jason Shawn Alexander COVER A / COVER B / COVER C: Todd McFarlane, Greg Capullo NOVEMBER 06 / 32 pages / FC/ T / $3.99 "HELL HUNT,"[...]

Teaming up with ex-MCR lead guitarist/backing vocalist Ray Toro, Way's cover of Paul Simon's "Hazy Shade of Winter" (popularized in 1987 when pop group The Bangles covered the song for the film Less Than Zero) puts to music the crazed intensity of the grieving Hargreeves. You can watch (not much happens) the video below – but[...]

Bendis was chatting with DCComics.com about Cover, his new creator-owned comic with superstar artist David Mack about a comic book creator who gets pulled into an espionage adventure. In depicting the life of a comic book creator, Bendis and Mack will show pages from protagonist Max Field's own in-world comics, which includes, as Bendis says, "a soulless[...]

There, she reveals that she is a CIA analyst, and she mysteriously leaves in the middle of dinner. Cover #1 cover by David Mack Cover's premise comes off like a Tom Clancy-style wish fulfillment narrative What if being a comic book artist made you an ideal recruit for the Central Intelligence Agency? What if you were recruited[...]

How many Marvel comics are canceled before they've even published 8 months worth of issues, which means a comic could launch and be canceled before a top Marvel executive has even read the first issue! Might Brevoort have noticed Ryan Ottley's hidden message in Amazing Spider-Man if he'd read it? Of course, there are comics that[...]

Mack stressed that this work began under the last President, not the current regime. Mack is currently providing covers for each issue of Neil Gaiman's American Gods through Dark Horse, similar to what he did for Fight Club 2 He is also currently working on a new creator-owned series with Brian Michael Bendis called Cover, which[...]

And with the last issue teaming Gail Simone and Ryan Sook, with one of the late Len Wein's last stories with Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez, it will also be accompanied by a cover by Frank Miller. And here it is, seen for the first time, the black and white original artwork, in time for DC's Final Order Cut-Off dates, The[...]

Just revealed at the Marvel's Next Big Thing panel at C2E2, we have been shown this cover to the oversized Marvel Legacy one-shot that launches the big Marvel Legacy rebranding that is part of Marvel's yearly refresh. First up, this cover by Joe Quesada is gorgeous I mean just….GORGEOUS. But something sticks out a bit[...]

And now the comic has sold out and gone to a second print, with Todd McFarlane providing a new cover… Diamond code JUL168317, the second print will be out on September 14th.     This sold extremely well yesterday I'm assuming due to @bleedingcool We're almost out https://t.co/SrM9IetNbQ — Twilite Zone (@TZComics) August 18, 2016 Last Wednesday, Bleeding Cool ran a[...]

Babs Tarr has drawn the cover to this year's Souvenir Book for San Diego Comic-Con, celebrating the 75th Anniversary of Wonder Woman. It's one of those years, the catalog also recognises the 75th anniversary of Aquaman, Archie, Captain America, Green Arrow, Plastic Man, the 50th anniversary of the Batman TV show, Black Panther, the Silver Surfer[...]

 This is the retailer exclusive cover to Civil War II #0 from Wonderworld Comics by Phil Noto. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Sinead O'Connor ripping Pope picture – Fight the real enemy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dKdBlKgquw) And this is what it riffs off… Though it also seems to have this kind of vibe as well. [...]

While DC Comics' Justice League: Rebirth #1 and Justice League #1 take the back cover. Premier publisher titles spotlighted by Diamond's Gems include Bounty by Kurtis Wiebe and Mindy Lee, Jill Thompson's OGN Wonder Woman: The True Amazon; Rom #1, Throwaways #1 by Caitlin Kittredge and Steven Sanders and Civil War: Kingpin by Matthew Rosenberg and Ricardo Lopez Ortiz. Other spotlights[...]

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 certainly had a lot of exclusive retailer and event covers to help launch it Selling over 100,000 should put it into the top ten, even in a month of Batman #50, Avengers Standoff and the like. But one is going to be really hard to get, at least for ten months. Because the[...]

The C-3PO comic book from Marvel intended to reveal the true story behind the droid's new red arm, as seen in Star Wars: The Force Awakens – and that has been rather delayed as a result – is getting another boost to sales. Any retailers confident enough to order over a thousand copies will get one[...]

We listed as many as we could. Well, more are making it out into the wide wide world. Blank cover versions of the Harley Quinn Little Black Bag variant covers that ran through January, with original art from major comic creators, slipped in. And we now have more from Joe Madueira, J Scott Campbell, Darwyn Cooke, Yanick Paquette…[...]

We mentioned that Marvel was to launch a new series of variant covers called "Classic", hiring veteran creators associated with a character (maybe) It hasn't been announced yet as a line, but here are a few more. Deadpool #8 will have a classic variant by Howard Chaykin. Doctor Strange #6 will have a classic variant by Bruce Guice.   Guardians[...]

This is one of the Harley Quinn original cover art sketches that have been placed inside DC Comics Harley Quinn's Little Black Book bagged variant covers Due to federal lottery laws, DC Comics have not promoted them – or even admitted they exist But people believe there are one or two per issue. Which makes it[...]

This is Ben Caldwell's original art cover sketch for the Harley Quinn black bag variant cover edition, slipped into a random issue of the black bagged Wonder Woman #47. And, it seems, no one has found it yet. Is it sitting in a back issue box unopened? Sitting in a pull list, waiting not to be unopened? Sitting in[...]

Here's a variant cover for the first issue, drawn by Jeff Lemire. Jeff Lemire is currently writing Extraordinary X-Men, and this does seem to have the X flavour about it. Matt will be writing and drawing with Sharlene painting. This woman gets tasked with going down to the deepest underwater base in the world to figure out what[...]

I'm told that there were around twelve qualifying copies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNz-fdrYq44Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: A Retailer Unboxes An Original Dark Knight III Jim Lee Sketch Cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNz-fdrYq44) Well here's one being opened up And the finished article… So, you know, the sketch is about a third of the cover size.   [...]

Can you read a book by its cover? These people hope so! The new cover for the upcoming novel Captain America: Dark Designs by Stefan Petrucha from Marvel Comics. Here are the retailer exclusive Fried Pie covers for Spider-Man #1 by Khoi Pham… …and Deadpool & The Mercs For Money #1 by Reilly Brown. An exclusive show variant cover for Doctor Who:[...]

This was the Alex Ross cover, as solicited, for Amazing Spider-Man #5. This is how it was received by the creator of The Thick Of It. Ah Well if Marvel are up for a Thick Of It/ Spiderman crossover, I'm happy to help https://t.co/vL5kkhkDmD — Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) September 16, 2015 And this is it as it has been[...]

Cullen Bunn, AC Zamudio and Carlos Zamudio are releasing their four issue MonkeyBrain series The Remains with Dark Horse as a graphic novel next May, renamed Death Follows. It also comes with this new Simon Bisley cover…. Birdie, her sister, their pregnant mother, and their sickly father all live together on a struggling farm[...]