You may recognise Peter Pantazis‘ name for his long carer as a colourist, colouring comics including 51 issues of Trinity, 30 of Justice League of America, 26 of Earth 2, 35 of Powers, 23 of Astro City, 18 of New X-Men and 17 of Blue Beetle. Hundreds and hundreds in total. But in recent years, […]

One of the best things Netflix‘s Altered Carbon has going for it? Trying new things is pretty much built into the DNA of the series’ concept via “sleeves”. Which is why Joel Kinnaman can spend the first season playing Takeshi Kovacs – only for the role to be handed over to Anthony Mackie (Disney+’s upcoming series […]

The folks at Emerald City Games are giving away free characters in G.I. Joe: War On Cobra, and you can get one to help out your forces in the game. The mobile game launched this week on iOS and Android devices, in which you can fight with Joe’s or Cobra to control the game board. […]

Veteran comics editor Joe Illidge (Milestone, Valiant, A Wave Blue World) and writer Hannibal Tabu (2012 Top Cow Talent Hunt, 2019 City of Los Angeles Cultural Trailblazer) joined together to create a journey through a formative time in American musical history. Publisher’s Weekly revealed some details about a new original graphic novel from Humanoids called […]

Fans of Adult Swim‘s Rick and Morty had been counting down the months and days until Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland‘s animated mayhem returned to their screens once more. That wait ended with season premiere “Edge of Tomorty: Rick Die Rickpeat” (reviewed here), where we got a crash course in “death crystals” and gained a […]

This morning, Secretlab announced a brand new collaboration for a gaming chair, this time with two-time Dota 2 The International champs OG. As you can see below, the “Dream OG” chair comes with the team’s official logo and branding, not to mention their team colors. Plus, as an added bonus, the right shoulder has two […]

Here’s a look at the new Batman character Punchline, potentially a new partner for The Joker, and to be seen in The Joker War, designed by Jorge Jimenez, and revealed by James Tynion IV. And here’s a reminder of Sara Pichelli‘s designs for Faye Ito, the future Black Cat, as seen in Spider-Man from JJ […]

Now that the dust has settled from “Crisis on Infinite Earths” – and The CW‘s Arrowverse is a bit more “cozier” because of it – the changes are starting to be felt across all of our shows. Arrow is ending its run after eight seasons – only to become Green Arrow and the Canaries; while […]

Another performer has jumped on to perform during the Royal Ravens inaugural home series, as Wale will perform during the Call Of Duty League event. ReKTGlobal was happy to announce today that the rapper and lyricist will kick off the opening night concert for fans in attendance. Wale joins DJ Nicky Romero, who will headline […]

A few months, Bleeding Cool noted that an old friend, Joseph Elliott-Coleman was getting some rather major comics-related work, contributing a prose story to the new Judges Vol 2 anthology, set in the 2000AD world of Judge Dredd and published by Rebellion. I’d been talking with Joseph about his creative writing plans for some time, and I couldn’t be happier. […]

Now that the dust has settled from “Crisis on Infinite Earths” – and The CW‘s Arrowverse is a bit more “cozier” because of it – the changes are starting to be felt across all of our shows. Arrow is ending its run after eight seasons – only to become Green Arrow and the Canaries; while […]

Bandai Namco has announced this morning a new entry into the Captain Tsubasa series, game Captain Tsubasa: Rise Of New Champions. Based on the works of Yoichi Takahashi, the game chronicles the athletic adventures and mishaps of Tsubasa Ozora. As well as the team he plays for and the success they have under his leadership. […]

Courtesy of tomorrow’s Batman Beyond #40, spoilers for which are all over the place regarding the identity of the new Batwoman of the future, Batman Beyond #25 has been jumping in value. Copies have sold on eBay for up to $30, while a combination of issues #36 and #37 have sold for $36 together. While […]

Following up on yesterday’s debut of our “Countdown to Star Trek: Picard“, we continue our trip down memory lane with Star Trek: The Next Generation. We look at the introduction of one of the franchise’s most memorable characters Hugh, played by Jonathan Del Arco – and also take a look at Spock’s (Leonard Nimoy) post-Federation purpose […]

Remember when they first released the new Sonic The Hedgehog film trailer last year and everybody started calling for classic Sonic the Hedgehog rather than the strange redesign we originally got? The producers were obviously listening (and came back with a new trailer) but it seems the folks at Hero Collector were listening as well […]

We normally do this for Marvel and DC Comics. But now we find ourselves doing it for IDW Publishing, The changes between solicitation and publication. Transformers Valentine’s Day Special #1, solicited as being written by Patrick Ehlers, Kate Leth & Cohen Edenfield will now be written by Patrick Ehlers & Sara Pitre-Durocher. Transformers #18, solicited […]

Forty years in the future, things still suck in familiar ways. There’s a space leisure industry now, and Avenue 5, the title cruise liner, is the top of the line. When a gravity mishap causes the 5,000 people onboard to crash against one side of the ship, it tips if off its course and a […]

Epic Games has gotten together with TikTok to have another crossover event in Fortnite, but this time around, there’s immortality at stake. Kinda. The two are throwing an Emote Royale, which is basically a contest to create a new emote for the game. The entry process is free and pretty simple. First, you need to […]

Four years ago, we started to hear about a revival of the classic comics-and-music magazine Deadline that originated the comic character Tank Girl by Alan Martin and Jamie Hewlett. It featured reprints of American strips like Hate, Love And Rockets and Milk & Cheese. It profiled the British music industry and rising bands, through Madchester and into […]

Created by David Schulner and well into its second season, NBC‘s New Amsterdam has expanded the series to not only embrace Dr. Max Goodwin’s (Ryan Eggold) personal and professional struggles but also the amazing depth to the series’ ensemble cast – thankfully, Bleeding Cool‘s resident show expert Tiffany Tchobanian has been here to make it all […]

We’re still chugging along through the month of January, recovering from the holidays and the snow, waiting for video game releases to get back to normal. We got a few new ones for you this week, but the majority of what’s out are re-releases on new consoles. Plus some DLC here and there. Check out […]

Free Comic Book Day this year on May 2nd sees Udon Studios publish their hundredth Street Fighter comic, if you add all the series up. And so, naturally, it will be dubbed Street Fighter #100. And be totally free. What better way to usher in UDON Entertainment’s 20th Anniversary than with the release of our […]

Series creator Dan Fogelman promised viewers a season of NBC‘s This Is Us unlike any they’ve seen before, and Bleeding Cool‘s resident show expert Tiffany Tchobanian has been your tour guide through a good chunk of the fourth season universe – one that’s now been blown wide open with new faces and possibilities. Which brings […]

Private Division and V1 Interactive have announced that there will be a technical beta taking place next week for their upcoming title Disintegration. If you’re not familiar with the game, this is the new first-person shooter from Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto‘s studio V1. We had a chance to play a little of the game at […]

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 10 most-read stories yesterday America’s Favourite Superhero Movie Is Black Panther, Britain’s Is Captain Marvel “Solar Opposites”: Hulu, “Rick and Morty” Duo’s New Series Lands […]

In case you’re not in the know or you’ve been too busy getting your own service off the ground, NBCUniversal is officially launching their own streaming service later this year called Peacock. Yes, that’s also the name of a large, colorful animal – but it’s also been the mascot for NBC since just after the […]

This is the final reveal to come from Funko from the London Toy Fair and it brings the voices of many angels. To finish off their day of madness they are using some sweet voices in this set of reveals as some music artists are finally getting popified. The first one is the only one […]

I’ve been a fan of Jason Reeves and his work with his printing and publishing company 133art for quite some time now. Robert Jeffrey has also done stellar work with his creator-owned Route 3 and his short John Stewart comic for DC Comics, released last year. After releasing Ret:con, they now embark on adapting stories […]

Not a whole lot is available at the moment, but in the midst of this week’s Television Critics Association‘s (TCA) winter press event, Apple TV+ announced a partnership with comedy legend Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Veep, Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live). Per the multi-year contract, Louis-Dreyfus will both produce and star in shows and projects solely for Apple’s […]

If you’re planning on picking Animal Crossing: New Horizons when it debuts, you might want to put your pre-order in at Best Buy. You can get a special reusable Tom Nook badge for your trouble by doing so. It’s technically a “phone and tech badge” from the likes of Controller Gear. You can remove it […]

Marvel’s Lilith is used to giving birth to demons, but it’s something even more evil that she will be birthing next month: an extraneous tie-in one-shot for a series that just launched a few months ago. Sure, you might have thought, deciding to pick up the new Ghost Rider series which explicitly purported to be […]

Mondo is now offering for sale the excellent new book Stuck on VHS: A Visual History of Video Store Stickers by Josh Schafer. The book is just what it sounds like: examples of the various different stickers that could be found on the VHS tape boxes at rental stores. It even includes stickers you can […]

Music is one thing that can bind people together and the other thing is obviously collectibles and Funko is finally bringing them closer. We are finally coming to a close of the Funko Pop reveals from the London Toy Fair and these last ones are really bringing down the house. We are looking at some […]

Livio Ramondelli just launched his first creator owned series, The Kill Lock, published by IDW last month.  In the first part of Bleeding Cool’s interview with him we talked about the first issue and what is to come, in part two we’ll be talking about how Livio got started and his past work. Bleeding Cool: […]

When it comes to debating Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) greatest enemy, the most popular answers range from Q to the Romulans to the Borg on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Film fans got to see a Borg confrontation in Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Over the next few days, I will look back at some […]

Some cool news from Playtonic and Team17 as Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair will be getting a free demo to try out the game. The news came down on the developer’s Twitter feed, letting fans know there will be a version of the demo for all platforms they’re releasing on. Steam will get the first […]

Earlier this month, we told you that Valiant’s Heroes would be In Crisis thanks to an Incoming murder mystery comic called Final Witness. However, despite naming the comic and its premise (and Bleeding Cool actually had the name months earlier — pip pip), the comic was announced with no creative team. However, Valiant has revealed […]

When it came to the pitch of Medical Police, I imagine Netflix came to the creators of Adult Swim’s Children’s Hospital and said, “You know that funny show you do for them?” They followed up with, “Do that and add one additional thing to make it our own.” The result became Medical Police. From the […]

Fans of The Legend of Korra are about to lose their minds as Funko reveals an upcoming release of Korra Funko Pops. I know a lot of fans have been talking about these and we have even seen rumors but they re finally here and they are awesome! On top of that Korra will be getting a […]

And here is a transcript… I expect you think you know this story. Child finds alien, Small-town America meets sci-fi schmaltz, You’re wrong. There are three children for a start. The angry boy who yearns to be seen but dreads being known. The fallen It Girl fleeing the sins of her past. And the chameleon, […]

Mulan is hitting theaters in a few weeks, and the cast and director Niki Caro are starting to make the rounds out there doing press for the film. One of the hotly debated topics surrounding the live-action update is if the popular character Mushu would make an appearance. The animated dragon, voiced by Eddie Murphy […]

If you’re a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, you’re going to want to pay attention each month on the 20th from now on. Sega announced the Sonic 2020 project, which is an initiative in which the company will begin announcing additional Sonic-related information on the 20th of each month. With that in mind, the announcement website […]

In the lead up to its landmark 300th issue, Heavy Metal is going back to its sci-fi roots with a special preview release of Heavy Metal Magazine #298, The “Furthest Reaches” Special to be launched March 2020, exclusive to Bleeding Cool. Murky World Chapter 12, by Richard Corben, continues. In a bizarre land populated by […]

Once Doctor Who Series 12 brought the Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and her companions Ryan (Tosin Cole), Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) back to BBC One and BBC America screens to kick off our new year, it wasted no time throwing our heroes into a grand adventure filled with spies, intrigue, world domination, and… […]

It is time for the Creepshow as Funko announces the new Shudder series is getting a wave of upcoming Funko Pops. I have heard nothing but great things about the new Creepshow show and these Pops really want me to check it out even more. Three figures are coming out of this wave and none are exclusive […]

Taboo of The Black Eyed Peas will be reviving Marvel Comics’ Werewolf By Night, co-written with Benjamin Jackendoff and drawn by Scott Eaton. And bringing us a brand-new Werewolf by Night character, a young man named Jake who will be dealing with the effects of a family curse while trying to protect his people in […]

Spenser Confidential, the new film starring Mark Wahlberg, debuted its trailer on Ellen this afternoon. Based on the novel Wonderland, Wahlberg stars as an ex-cop Spenser, who gets out of prison after being framed for murder. When two of his former colleagues are murdered, he and his new boxing student (Winston Duke) and ex-girlfriend (Iliza […]

Funko is not holding back at London Toy Fair as a character a lot of fans have been waiting for is finally here. Murder She Wrote Jessica is now an upcoming Funko Pop. While I am not a fan of the series I do know a lot of Funko fans have been wanting this figure for quite […]

James Tynion IV has been writing on his newsletter about Batman again, You really should sign up. And he’s talking about this week’s Batman – and the beginnings of Joker War in April. This is the story that started in the epilogue to Batman 85, and will be the biggest Joker story since Batman: Endgame […]

Now that the dust has settled from “Crisis on Infinite Earths” – and The CW‘s Arrowverse is a bit more “cozier” because of it – the changes are starting to be felt across all of our shows. Arrow is ending its run after eight seasons – only to become Green Arrow and the Canaries; while […]

The reveals continue and this time it is a nice variety with Funko. London Toy Fair reveals just continues to dish out a lot of new movies and shows. This time they are throwing The Rock, dinosaurs, and aliens at us in these reveals. First up is the Fast and the Furious spin-off film Hobbs & Shaw with a set […]

(DC Comics, creative team: Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Sook, Travis Moore, Wade von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire, Troy Peteri) Let’s start with the good news: the future looks fantastic. The color palette, the lighting effects, the crisp linework, it’s all gorgeous. The Legion hasn’t looked this good since the late, lamented Waid Kitson Reboot Period (taken […]

Now that the dust has settled from “Crisis on Infinite Earths” – and The CW‘s Arrowverse is a bit more “cozier” because of it – the changes are starting to be felt across all of our shows. Arrow is ending its run after eight seasons – only to become Green Arrow and the Canaries; while […]

Ohhhhhhhh Who lives in a giant pineapple under the sea? Spongebob Squarepants! This beloved yellow sponge is getting a new wave of Funko Pops as Funko announced three new figures at London Toy Fair. The wave is based on the upcoming 3D Spongebob animated film, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge on the Run. It looks like these […]

At the weekend, former Marvel employee and EIC of Comic Book, James Viscardi, tweeted the following. Had a really interesting #comics market conversation with some retailers RE: Image Comics. They’re frustrated they don’t know what books to order because there’s no central push from the company. They all saw IDW and Boom! overtaking them by […]

Looking to fill that Game of Thrones gap with a new comedy series from HBO? Yeah, I don’t think anybody is. But that’s the comparison that actor Josh Gad made during the press junket for his new series Avenue 5 (“It’s the ‘Game of Thrones’ of comedy”). The new space-bound series is a futuristic show set […]

Much like how Overwatch has skins from the Overwatch League, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare is getting skins to match the new Call Of Duty League. In a now-deleted blog post, Activision revealed this week that they will be adding all of the teams from the league into the system. As you can see from […]

(Marvel Comics, creative team: Dan Slott, Christos Gage, Pete Woods, Joe Caramagna) There are a lot of decisions in this book that may lead you to say, “wait, what?” Arno Stark, alas, is probably the Iron Man we deserve. He’s rude, boorish, entitled, rich, unrestrained, motivated and in the purest definition of the word, racist. […]

Netflix‘s upcoming adaptation of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez‘s comic book Locke & Key has had a bit of an adventure of its own over the past year or so. Originally Hulu-bound, the ten-episode, supernatural-fantasy drama from Hill, co-showrunner/EP Carlton Cuse, and IDW Entertainment went through some major behind-the-scenes creative changes as it switched streamers. Now, the streaming […]

It is time to get a little magical, wondrous, and observant as Funko announces more Pops at the London Toy Fair. This time we are introduced to the upcoming Disney film Onward featuring Chris Pratt and Tom Holland. There are six releases in this wave with one being an Amazon Exclusive and another getting a Chase variant. Ian and Barey […]