#NotComics: This Sunday, Soho Square saw the annual KirstyFest celebration. Where fans of the late singer/songwriter Kirsty MacColl gather around her bench to sing her songs, then head to the pub to do similar with acoustics and, in this case, out of the rain. Here’s a little video of what went down. Kirsty MacColl recorded […]

The upcoming film The Suicide Squad is currently slated to feature a large ensemble cast including new and returning characters. Despite several familiar faces appearing in the sequel, one star from the first film has made it known that he has little interest to return. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje who is known for his role as Killer […]

After one of the best PR stunts in video game history took place with 36 hours of anger and hilarity over a black hole, Fortnite has finally returned. While a great number of players were sleeping, the company finally kicked off an animation that relaunched the game. The black hole chimed, some music kicked in, […]

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 12 most-read stories yesterday Epic Games Trolls Fans By Ending “Fortnite”, Causes Twitch Errors “Oathbreaker” Ban List Updated – “Magic: The Gathering” Violent Trump Video […]

The cast of The Batman continues to get more and more interesting. It began when they cast Robert Pattinson in the lead role and it has only improved from there. The Matt Reeves directed movie has been in various levels of development for years but it seems to be finally moving forward. The Batman has now gained a Selina […]

When you think Totino’s, you probably think pizza rolls. Well, bow you can add gaming headset to that as they have partnered with ASTRO Gaming for a new pair. This is actually part of an extension to its existing collaboration with Activision over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. This is a specialty item that was […]

Teen Titans #35 is in stores this week from DC Comics, and it features a major milestone for Damian Wayne, according to this preview. As we look in on an intimate scene at Mercy Hall… As Damian and Djinn prepare to rekindle their almost romance, with Djinn apparently on the rebound after her confrontation with […]

Hello again, friend. Things are going to Hell in a hand basket, but Elliot seems pretty calm about the whole thing – while everybody falls to pieces at Whiterose’s plan. USA Network‘s latest Mr. Robot is full of excitement, anticipation, and of course – spoilers Oh, yes – there will be SPOILERS… So at the […]

Ready to head off on a new adventure? Life is Strange 2 is getting its turn at a physical release next winter, and if you want in on it, you’d better start pre-ordering soon. In February 2020, the game will be headed to retail in both Standard and Collector’s editions. While European gamers get both […]

A lot of things can be said about Batman. That he’s paranoid. That he is a psychopath who dresses up like a bat to beat up mentally ill criminals, for one thing. That he has a dumb mustache, for another. But most importantly, that he has severe daddy issues. Not only were his parents killed […]

With HBO‘s “remix” of/pseudo-sequel to Alan Moore and David Gibbons‘ celebrated comic book series Watchmen having had its world premiere at this year’s New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 and time “tick-tocking” away until its October 20th premiere, we’re kicking off “Watchmen Week” with some insight from none other than series writer/executive producer Damon Lindelof. […]

Chucky is probably one of the most recent iconic horror Icons to get a recent release, besides Pennywise. I am glad we have companies like NECA that are around that still keep the horror collectibles franchise alive. Horror collectibles are definitely an untouched market, with a lot of great ideas out there but not a […]

President Donald Trump has decried the impeachment inquiry being conducted by Democrats in the House of Representatives as a witch hunt and treason, but as we see in this preview of Flash Forward #2, Trump doesn’t know how good he’s got it! After murdering a bunch of people in Heroes in Crisis, Wally West wasn’t […]

The CW‘s Supergirl keeps rocking the pants as she confidently strides into her new season. This episode takes a sort of fun turn as its major axis actually revolves around our two newly-dating couples, Brainy (Jesse Rath) and Nia (Nicole Maines) vs. Kelly (Azie Tesfai) and Alex (Chyler Leigh). The “Stranger Beside Me” name refers […]

A while ago, the folks at WaterField sent us a new Nintendo Switch item to check out with their new Sutter Sling Pouch & Switch Taco. The company has sent us a couple of Switch-related carrying bags in the past, with some high-quality material inside each one. But no two are ever the same as […]

Jonathan Hickman has been answering questions about a certain comics about over at Adventures In Poor Taste, following the conclusion of last week’s Powers Of X and before this week’s launch of X-Men. Along the way we learnt; The door marked GALM in Krakoan was meant to be MARS, and they got the look of […]

The CW‘s Batwoman continues its freshman season as things get “curiouser and curiouser” (in the parlance of Lewis Carroll). The second episode “The Rabbit Hole” is heavy on exposition and family drama – not as much on the action. And the story revolves around the central question of whether Alice (Rachel Skarsten) is actually Kate’s […]

The Hulk really stepped his game up in Avengers: Endgame. He took on the full responsibility of changing Thanos is the universe wiping decision. It was almost like this is what he was made for. Hot Toys have recently announced a new 1/6TH scale Hulk Avengers: Endgame figure. The figure itself beautifully captures Mark Ruffalo‘s appearance as Doc Green […]

Has it been 12 weeks already? Powers of X #6 was out last week, which means HoXPoX is over. Was the relaunch ultimately worth it? Read on to find out… Sworn to sell comics for Marvel executives who feared and hated the fact that Fox owned their movie rights, The Uncanny X-Men suffered great indignities, […]

Combine our professional obsession with uber-creative genius Ryan Murphy (Glee, Pose, 9-1-1, Feud, and a billion more) with our love for 80’s horror/slasher film, and it’s easy to understand why we’re excited for FX‘s American Horror Story: 1984. In fact, executive producer Tim Minear only confirmed our excitement when he said this about the current […]

Thor could have stopped Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War but chose not to out of pride and arrogance. After the shocking events of the snap, Thor took it quite personally. Switching out weights for beer, Thor has taken a new personality and is ready for the cheese whiz. Hot Toys let us relive Thor in action yet […]

ICV2 recently ran a presentation to the comic book industry, ICv2 Insider Talks 2019 – The Future of Comics in the Age of Streaming, with a keynote speech from founder Milton Griepp that had two major takeaways. The first is that kids comics – stuff like Dav Pilkey‘s Dogman, Raina Telegemeir‘s Guts and Shannon Eric […]

We’ve officially made it to one of the greatest months of the year: October – which means The CW‘s “Arrowverse” shows have started sticking some sweet superhero three-point landings with the returns fans have seen so far. Arrow is shuffling off the network’s programming coil after an abbreviated 10-episode eighth season (making The Flash the […]

The biggest tournament in Magic: The Gathering: Arena, the Mythic Championship, is reaching its fifth go-around, and will be conducted this coming weekend. 68 players from across the globe are set to compete for thousands of dollars in prizes at that time, in Los Angeles, California at Thunder Studios. With that, Wizards of the Coast […]

Last week saw the final issue of Powers of X #6 by Jonathan Hickman and RB Silva, and the conclusion of the weekly run for the last three months between that title and House Of X, setting up the new Dawn Of X titles. It saw Charles Xavier abandon his dream of integration of mutantkind […]

After months of rumors, mindless speculation, and several instances of serious misdirection, Breaking Bad fans finally received the news they were waiting for: Vince Gilligan is returning to tell one more (???) tale with El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie. Written and directed by Gilligan and set to premiere on Netflix on October 11 (and […]

Microsoft launched a new aspect to the Mixer platform this week as streamers and viewers were introduced to Mixer Academy. Right now, all you have to do is visit this link with your Mixer account and check out the Mixer Handbook. It will give you a gist of how the Academy works before the launch, as it […]

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is running a series of retailer webinars to help promote their CBLDF 2019/2020 Retailer Membership program and donation incentives. Including dealing With schools, libraries, the law and media. Hey, I’m media. They’re going to teach you how to deal with me? Man… Here’s how it’s looking: Retailing to Schools […]

In case you haven’t heard – or checked your Twitter feed in the past three hours – Disney+ has released its line-up of additional content that will be available when new streamer goes live in the U.S. on November 12. Now, by the time you’re done reading this you should have control over your Twitter […]

Alice Johnston is the eleven-year-old daughter of Bleeding Cool founder Rich Johnston and she really likes Fortnite. Today, she writes her first article for Bleeding Cool. Fortnite, the game with approximately 250 million players across the entire world, has shut down and I do not know when it coming back. Before this horrible disaster, they […]

Wow, Jaime’s response to Naris intruders sure has come a long way from “threateningly brandishing twisted metal,” huh? Welcome to the fourth and final issue of Charlie’s Angels/Bionic Woman, your favorite comic that’s about classic TV properties and how capitalists would gladly mulch your mother if it meant an extra buck in their pocket. So […]

Sherlock and Doctor Who writers Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat are writing a brand-new adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic vampire novel for BBC One and Netflix, and they’re bringing a first look at their new series to MCM London on Saturday 26th October. Oh look, I’m already planning to go to the show. That just […]

While a lot of people, including us, are looking forward to trying Google Stadia, a new report suggests most won’t be able to use it much. Broadband Now released a new study into the streaming game service that shows if you intend to game in 4K, the service will consume as much as 15.75 GB […]

Batman kills babies. Tom King makes people cry. And if they’re not crying, they’re definitely feeling something. At New York Comic Con last weekend, the line to meet Tom King stretched across all of Artist Alley. (Those people had to buy something from his booth to earn their spot in line.) So just why hasn’t […]

With season 14 currently underway (and off to a strong start – check out our review here), FXX‘s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia is now tied with ABC’s The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as the longest-running live-action comedy series. Now that’s a title Mac (Rob McElhenney), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dee (Kaitlin Olson), […]

Cygames and Arc Systems Works had a couple reveals this weekend for Granblue Fantasy Versus as we got two new fighters and the special edition box. First up, we get two new faces in the form of Zeta and Vaseraga. Zeta is a badass ariel-attack hunter who has a seal weapon called the Spear of […]

Dav Pilkey‘s Dog Man can go swivel. One Piece, Bleach and Attack on Titan can get stuffed. Raina Telgemier can go kick a can. Marvel Comics EIC C.B.Cebulski and his dreams of another million-dollar selling comic book from Marvel can only look on in envy. Today we get a look at the guaranteed best-selling comic […]

The Flash is back after a somewhat slow start to the season – but it looks like we’re going full-multiverse in an attempt to stem the upcoming Crisis with a slew of new images and a preview from The CW. Here’s how the network is describing Episode 2, “A Flash of the Lightning” which (nerd […]

Overwatch is coming to Nintendo Switch this week, and you can finally play the hero-based shooter via handheld. You can pick up the game with both physical and digital editions available, but if you’re planning on going physical, you can forget about one important thing: the card. The physical edition is corporeal, alright. It comes […]

Welcome to the pretty-much-mostly-daily Lying In The Gutters. A run around the day before and the day ahead. You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. The 15 most-read stories yesterday Epic Games Trolls Fans By Ending “Fortnite”, Causes Twitch Errors “Oathbreaker” Ban List Updated – “Magic: The Gathering” Suspended “Hearthstone” Player […]

Jupiter’s Legacy is the upcoming Netflix adaptation of the Mark Millar, Frank Quitely and Peter Doherty superhero comic book from Image Comics. The word on the web is that one of the show’s writer Sang Kyu Kim will be its new showrunner, replacing Steven DeKnight, who left the production suddenly last month. Kim has previously […]

Magic: The Gathering has had a ton of new releases each year. Generally, expansion sets release each quarter, and other products release during the months not associated with those releases (though there are some glaring exceptions, such as the Brawl decks releasing with the Throne of Eldraine set as a whole). It has been revealed […]

Every month the comic book companies send out folded promotional posters to the comic book retailer / Diamond accounts. Each week different posters show up for the comic book stores  to put up and promote upcoming titles.  Most customers are familiar with the stores putting up new posters to show off upcoming titles, but which […]

Once of the standout scenes from Kingsman: The Secret Service, based on the Secret Service comic book by Dave Gibbons, Matthew Vaughn and Mark Millar involved Colin Firth‘s character finding himself in a rather fundamentalist church that suddenly gets a lot more fundamental, used as a test for something that turns everyone in there into […]

Niantic revealed today that Pokémon GO will be getting a Halloween event, which will kick off later this week on Thursday, October 16th. Everything will kick off at 1pm PDT in North America, as we have the complete details of what you’ll be doing. Basically, because its Halloween, you’ll be searching for Shadow Pokémon, and […]

I am a child of Spitting Image. The rubbery puppet satire show that ran on Sunday nights on ITV for over a decade in the UK taught a generation who their politicians are, at the same time as destroying them onscreen. Turning the work of cartoonists and comics writers into three-dimensional reality without any CG […]

While the cast and crew of AMC‘s The Walking Dead roll along with their deep-dive production-wise on the tenth season, life in the franchise’s universe has become a lot like the NFL: neither have off-seasons anymore. With a strong ensemble cast (and a “Big Bad” fronted by Samantha Morton in an award-earning turn as Whisperers […]

This weekend, the 10th annual Classic Tetris World Championship will be taking place in Portland, Oregon and will be broadcast live on Twitch. The championships will take place during the Portland Retro Gaming Expo at the Oregon Convention Center from October 18th-20th. Players will face off in the 1989 NES version of the game for […]

Earlier this summer I got a chance to talk and ask some  questions of the great Skottie Young at ACE Comic Con in Seattle.  Due to technical issues this video was unusable until now.  All the parts of this interview are still timely though as Skottie Young hints at his upcoming Marvel project and talks […]

While it seems cinematic debates can at times become divisive, one thing we can all agree upon is the medium’s impact on us all. No matter how many masterful examples of cinematic splendor or dumpster fires are released in theaters, each one of us can easily recall a certain scene or moment which impacted you […]

Just because The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt ended up on Switch, that doesn’t mean you should expect Cyberpunk 2077 to do the same. The Witcher is just about to make its official Switch debut. Naturally, fans wondering when or if the same will happen in 2020 for Cyberpunk 2077. In a recent interview with GameSpot […]

Bleeding Cool remains in awe at Mark Millar‘s manipulation of the media. We first noted it when he managed to get a local journalist to run puff pieces on his work in the Scottish Sunday Times, with relatively looser editorial strictures than the main paper. Only for the pieces to then appear on the main […]

Noted author and Castlevania creator Warren Ellis took some time out from New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2019 to sit down with Bleeding Cool to discuss the show and the method behind crafting what many consider to be the finest video game adaptation of all time. For those new to Castlevania or not completely caught […]

The first day of the Kyoto’s Nintendo Live event happened today, and plenty of festivities with it. Despite the typhoon that’s been roaring through Japan, the Splatoon 2 concert that had been scheduled still took place. During the concert opening, fans were treated to a fun cameo from a familiar face. K.K. Slider from Animal […]

Brian Garside is the founder of Manage Comics, subscription pull list software for comic shops, and he’s dedicated his life to helping comic stores grow, survive and thrive. This post is part of his series “Managing Your Shop”. The world of retail is making a drastic shift, and the comic store model will have to shift […]

Lacking for anime to fill your days with? I have this problem where I binge-watch anime for days and don’t know what to do with my life afterwards. Luckily, Netflix is one of those services that always seems to be there, to come to my aid and the one app that consistently works on my […]

First 4 Figures is hard at work on a new Luigi’s Mansion 3 figure that you’ll want to Hoover up ASAP. You should, because it’s up for pre-order now. The 9″-inch figure features Luigi himself, clutching his Poltergust G-00 while an LED-lit Polterpup hangs out beside him in the more expensive options. You can opt […]

Absolute Carnage: Avengers #1 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by Zac Thompson, Leah Williams, Alberto Albuquerque, Guiu Vilanova, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Cory Petit, tying into Absolute Carnage at the last minute, but better late than never when it comes to squeezing a few extra sales out of a super-mega-crossover event. We’ve got […]

While the cast and crew of AMC‘s The Walking Dead roll along with their deep-dive production-wise on the tenth season, life in the franchise’s universe has become a lot like the NFL: neither have off-seasons anymore. With a strong ensemble cast (and a “Big Bad” fronted by Samantha Morton in an award-earning turn as Whisperers […]

Kudos to Epic Games, their developers, and their PR and Marketing departments for trolling Fortnite fans with new issues that are making news everywhere. So in case you don’t know what happened, the devs killed the game and sucked everything into a black hole. But we already know, first from common sense, and second from […]