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DC Villain's Month Titles To Be Allocated By 40% In Some Cases
However, due to the length of production process, the orders for the covers had to be set well before the usual FOC date, and DC Senior VP – Sales, Bob Wayne talked at San Diego Comic Con about having to make his best guesses for setting the print runs early. But it seems that in some[...]
Francavilla Shares Red She-Hulk Interlocking Covers
With the released of Red She-Hulk #67 today, Francesco Francavilla posted all five interlocking covers on his blog The covers started with issue #63 with this issue written by Jeff Parker and interiors by Carlo Pagulayan concludes the Route 616 story arc. Interlocking Red She Hulk Covers   Red She Hulk #63   Red She Hulk #64 Red She Hulk #65 Red[...]
WTF Certified DC Comics
Bleeding Cool broke the story of DC's gatefold covers in April, each hiding what were then referred to internally as "Holy Shit" moments When it went official, Senior editor Bobbie Chase instead referred to them as "What The F" moments And now, according to BuzzFeed, that's the official terminology. They also shared a few plot points[...]
The Adventure Time #1 Cover Everyone Forgot About
Written and drawn hy an actual member of the Adventure Time team, and going in some rather unexpected directions, it's been a bit of a hit. Naturally it was available in a number of covers, thirteen in all, each cover displayed on the inside front cover for easy collectable reference. Except they forgot one. By Dean Haspiel, and[...]
DC Comics Get Mad Magazine Variant Covers In April For 60th Anniversary
The 60th birthday for MAD Magazine in April. And cartoonists Sergio Aragonés, Al Jaffee, Peter Kuper, Tom Richmond and more will be will be drawing variant tiered covers for certain DC titles. So the availability of Justice League Of America #3, Justice League #3 and Batman #19 Mad variant covers will depend upon the lowest DC New[...]
In April, DC Comics Brings Us "Holy Sh!t Month"?
I understand that, across the New DCU line, we are to get some sort of "surprise" covers for April Something that will really stand out on the comic shelves. And that they're being referred to internally as "Holy Shit!" Month. No one go changing the punctuation on that, okay? I wonder what they will actually call it? And[...]
A Few New Comic Covers To Consider…
Jorge Molina's variant cover for X-Men Legacy #5, replacing Mark Bagley's solicited piece… Hellboy In Hell #1 second print… The new printing covers to Hawkeye #1 and #2 take a more silhouettey version of the original covers. Jorge Molina's variant cover for X-Men Legacy #5, replacing Mark Bagley's solicited piece… Hellboy In Hell #1 second print… The new printing[...]
Cammy's Covers – Fairest To The Shadow
More variant covers need to be like this; illustrated with paints instead of inks Perhaps for the variant of this variant, Mack uses glow-in-the-dark paints to make things even more interesting. Fairest #9 by Adam Hughes In the wise words of George Takei, "Oh my!" Honestly, this has to be one of the more titillating covers of[...]
Eighteen Of The Nineteen Covers For My Little Pony #1
I wonder how long it will take Equestria Daily to link here? Starting the clock… now. The six A B C D E F covers that will also be collected in the box set. They form the following hexatych. There is the "Subscription variant" by Jill Thompson intended to be available to those who reserve copies from their[...]
Cammy's Covers A-Babies vs X-Babies to Unwritten
Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool A-Babies vs X-Babies One-Shot by Skottie Young It's a shame this one-shot wasn't a 12-issue event, for I got more excited for this cover than any of the actual Avengers vs X-Men covers Young's playful style works well when depicting the mightiest mini marvels of the 616 Universe, as they epically rough-house as[...]
Cammy's Covers – American Vampire To Hawkeye
Nguyen definitely killed it with every one of these covers, for his art style in particular brought this genre to life Consistently disturbing, just how I like 'em!   Batwoman #13 by J.H Williams III Is anyone else's skin crawling after looking at this cover? Gives me the willies, through and through As you can see from[...]
IDW To Publish Cerebus Book Of Covers
And justifies further the reason he is on Bleeding Cool Magazine #1's "list". But IDW is to publish a book collecting Cerebus' 300 covers, which do not appear in the Cerebus phonebook collections Dunbier has gone to Kitchener in Ontario to start scanning in all the covers, and any associated bits and pieces. With Cerebus High Society[...]
Rich Johnston On Why Variants Are The Worst Thing To Happen To Comics
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[...]
Twenty New Marvel Variant Covers Hit The Pipes
Marvel has been showing off new variant covers to retailers today… here's what they are, and how hard it will be to get them Firstly,  first five interlinking covers for the new Thunderbolts series… THOR: GOD OF THUNDER #2 ACUNA VARIANT 1:50 JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #646 NOTO VARIANT 1:20 AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #10 DELL'OTTO VARIANT 1:50 THOR: GOD OF THUNDER[...]
Marvel Variant Covers – And The Thinking Behind Them
Today, in the light of retailer Brian Hibbs' attack on variant covers as immoral, and Bleeding Cool's look at exactly how the variant covers of Marvel NOW! can boost the sales of some comics dramatically, David Gabriel has been talking to retailers on Diamond's website about the impact of variant covers And showing off a[...]
All The Skottie Young Marvel NOW! Baby Variant Covers
Seriously, some variant covers I may actually want to purchase Following on from the Avengers Vs X-Men variant cover comissioned by Midtown and the A Babies Vs X-Babies comic that it inspired, come the reast of the Skottie Young Baby Variant covers for Marvel books, part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch. I'll just shut up and[...]
The Walking Dead #100 Still Not Sold Out In The UK
And it went rapidly to a second print. But it seems that while Diamond US burnt through all its copies in record time, Diamond UK… didn't. And they still have all the standard covers available, including the 1:200 Charlie Adlard Black and White retailer incentive issue. So, you know, if you can't wait for that second print, talk[...]
Amazing Spider-Man Across The Decades By Marcos Martin
Here are Marcos Martin's Spider-Man Through The Decades variant covers for Amazing Spider-Man #692, designated the fiftieth anniversary issue of the title That's the original Spider-bite, the death of Gwen Stacy, the symbiote costume that would become Venom, the Clone Saga and the New Avengers. BuzzFeed chats to Steve Wacker about the 50th anniversary andissue 700,[...]