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Thirteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – New Avengers, Secret Avengers, Hit Girl, Avengers, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Earth 2, Snapshot, All New X-Men, Superior Spider-Man, Hellboy, Youngblood, Epic Kill and Mudman

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Rich Johnston

New Avengers #3 is full of lots of important Marvel Universe moments that will no doubt have implications for stories across the next year. But it also has a rare Doctor Strange moment using his earlier skill as an actual …

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Kick Ass 3 In May

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Mark Millar has hinted that we may be getting all sorts of death finales in the final chapter of Kick Ass. And we may be getting them sooner than we thought as well, according to this ad from today’s final …

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Twelve Thoughts About Twelve Comics – New Mutants, Fashion Beast, Justice League Dark, Aquaman, Revival, New Deadwardians, Happy, Fatale, Hit Girl, Swamp Thing, A Plus X and Invincible

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The New Mutants comes to the end of its run before the Marvel NOW! clear out. So what would you do? That’s right, have a party… everyone is invited from aliens to demons to demi-gods to, well, humans. Radical choice …

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Kick-Ass Writes For Comic Book Resources

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I thought this panel from the new issue of Hit-Girl merited a post of its own. Apparently Kick Ass, in his secret identity, writes for Comic Book Resources. About the history of superheroes and Vertigo’s paper stock… So basically David …

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Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – Wolverine & The X-Men, Axe Cop, X-Treme X-Men, Astonishing X-Men, Prophet, The Manhattan Projects, Eternity, Justice League Dark, Crossed, Comedian, Debris, X-Treme X-Men, Avengers, And Hit-Girl

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  In Wolverine & X-Men, the artwork seems slightly off in places, Whilce Portacio anatomy put through a smoother filter, which doesn’t quite work – except for one aspect. In that it emphasises Colossus’ nature as a power mad nut …

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Fear Agent, Hit Girl And X-Treme X-Men Dominate Advance Reorders

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Welcome once again to the only industry chart that accurately tracks what’s happening on the coal face of the comics industry, week by week, as retailers scrabble to increase their orders on certain items before they hit the stores. Extra …

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It’s 2012. Do You Know Where Your Comic Book Children Are?

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Rich Johnston

What is up with children in comic books today? Or, rather, this week? Picking up a few comics and reading them, we have Miles Morales hitting his icon and inspiration with a dabilitating venom sting. The young Talia Al’Ghul taking …

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Shmuggy & Bimbo From Howard Chaykin And John Romita Jr In 2013 (UPDATE)

Posted on June 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Bleeding Cool first mentioned this comic by Howard Chaykin and John Romita Jr a while ago, back in 2009. Then it was being referred to as Shmuggy & Bimbo. It seems to have lost an H. This is what we …

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Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic – The Legend Of Korra And The Future Of Hit Girl

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Grace Randolph’s geeks out over Avatar (no, that Avatar) before diving into this week’s comics… The Legend of Korra Season 1 is over! Host Grace Randolph gives her Season 1 review after the season finale! Is The Legend of Korra …

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Ultimate Comics And Forbidden Planet Give Hit Girl #1 A $10 Variant

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Hit Girl #1 by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr launches next week, with around 50,000 in preorders, impressive especially considering someone forgot to list it on the order form originally and, basically, all its orders were made up of …

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Kick-Ass Cast Lining Up To Return, Millar Reveals What Nicolas Cage Will Be Doing

Posted on June 1, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

A Big Daddy says what?

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Kapow 2012: Millarworld And The Future Of Kick Ass 2

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Mark Millar, Frank Quitely, Dave Gibbons and Nacho Vigalondo held host to the Millarworld panel at Kapow in London today. Giving us a first look at this Quitely Jupiter’s Children cover… and a barrage of Hit Girl and Secret Society …

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Who Reorders The Watchmen?

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Well, the word is getting there, and I think Bleeding Cool played its part. Retailers have finally worked out if they don’t make an advance reorder of Hit-Girl #1 then they aren’t getting any copies, as Diamond missed the comic …

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John Romita Jr To Attempt Fifty Hour Signing And Sketching World Record For Heroes For Jordan

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Rich Johnston

John Romita Jr, co-creator of Kick Ass, The Gray Area and long standing Marvel artist will be attempting to sign and sketch continually for longer than anyone else. The prevous Guinness Book of World Record is for forty-eight hours, set …

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Hit-Girl #1 Missed Off Retailers’ Order Form

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Last year, Kick Ass 2 #5 by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr was accidentally left off the order form. It was in Previews, but not on the form that retailers used to order the comic. They did their best …

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Is There A Hit Girl Movie In The Works Instead Of Kick Ass 2?

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Let’s join some dots. Purely speculation. Nothing more, let’s make that clear. No inside sources. Just reading between the lines. Exactly. Mark Millar has been teasing a “huge announcement” that will make Kick Ass 2 fans “very happy”. There seems …

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Leandro Fernandez Off Hit Girl

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Rich Johnston

It was only weeks ago that I talked to friends of Leandro Fernandez who told me he was still working on Mark Millar’s upcoming Hit Girl series. Well, today Mark Millar has announced that Fernandrez no longer drawing the book …

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Is Mark Millar Paving The Way Back To DC Comics In The Next Ten Years?

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Rich Johnston

Mark Millar got an early start at DC Comics, working on books including Swamp Thing, JLA, Flash, Aztek and The Authority. Then he was headhunted by Marvel, said some heady things about Paul Levitz and that was that. And he …

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