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 […]

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 […]

In 2017, Capcom launched Resident Evil 7, which was possibly the most well-received Resident Evil title in a decade. To follow-up that specular outing, Capcom is releasing Project Resistance, an a-symmetrical survival game. It might not be the direction fans expected the series to go in, but it’s certainly a blast. Project Resistance’s main draw is […]

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 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 […]

In one of the most confusing plays Niantic has ever done, Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will be getting a feature that Pokémon GO fans asked for. The developers will be adding a new update soon to the Raid Battles options that will give everyone a “Ready” button. Basically, when you do a raid and it […]

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 […]

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 […]

Mad Men was one of AMC’s He claims the television shows. It is nice to see that we will be getting some recognition for such an amazing show. Funko has announced madman Funko’s a while back but we finally see them hit stores. These collectibles are for the faint of heart as a show wasn’t […]

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 […]

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 […]

This week, The Irregular Corporation and Mediatonic announced a new single-player puzzle game on the way called Murder By Numbers. The game is designed to be much akin to Phoenix Wright, in a sense, where you play as detectives solving cases by completing puzzles. With a style that looks like a dating sim. You can […]

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 […]

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 […]

A little good news/weird news from the world of Resident Evil as the long-rumored prequel to Resident Evil 7 has been confirmed, but not how you may want it. Capcom will be releasing Biohazard 7: Walkthrough The Fear this month, but the game is a VR experience that will only be in select arcade locations. […]

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 […]

Ratched star and executive producer Sarah Paulson is not exactly what you would call “lacking in things to do” lately. Currently filming FX‘s upcoming miniseries Ms. America with Cate Blanchett, Paulson is also set to star as Linda Tripp in and produce (alongside Monica Lewinsky) Impeachment: American Crime Story. But it’s her work on Ryan […]

Iron Man is the first character to get a solo movie out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is no surprise that Hasbro has marked Iron Man as the first figure to come out for the next wave of Gamerverse figures. These set of characters will be based on Square Enix’s upcoming Marvel’s Avengers video […]

The Top Ten Kids Graphic Novels in the book channel in August 2019, based on NPD BookScan data below, tells quiet a story. At number one, Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls by Dav Pilkey had recorded and reported sales of almost 450,000. The second item on the list at less than a tenth […]

Heading into the next episode of NBC‘s New Amsterdam, Max’s (Ryan Eggold) ingenious efforts are working out (for the most part) in his patients’ favor. This time, things don’t go as smoothly when he oversteps and interferes with the patients’  personal affairs – against their wishes. On the bright side, “Kapoogy” fans (like myself) will […]

Well, let it never be said that Epic Games and their PR department never made an impact, as Fortnite came to “an end” today, causing Twitch to error out. Let’s explain a little. The end-game event that happened today saw a meteor come crashing into the island as a shield tried to protect it, causing […]

Captain Marvel #11 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by Kelly Thompson, Carmen Carnero, Tamra Bonvillain, and Clayton Cowles. We’ve got a preview below. Carol finally figured out how to stop Star from draining her powers, but as a result, Star has moved on to draining the life force of everyone in New […]

So the season premiere of The CW‘s Riverdale was a sentimental and fitting tribute to the late Luke Perry, as friends and family said goodbye to both the actor and Archie’s father Fred Andrews. Which brings us to this week’s episode “Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fast Times at Riverdale High” – and as the title is pretty […]

During the first day of New York Comic-Con 2019 Hasbro held an off-site event where it unveiled its new Transformers’ line, the second part of the War for Cybertron franchise, called Earthrise. This is a follow-up to the Siege line and will leave one more, currently unnamed, chapter of the story still to come. Offerings […]

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist Hardcover is the upcoming memoir by Adrian Tomine, both in and out of the comic book industry and his place in it, to be published by Drawn & Quarterly on May 26th, 2020. A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller What […]

As long as Hollywood decides to try to continue to siphon from the nostalgia farm, there are numerous franchises yet to get the live-action film treatment. As studios can CGI backgrounds and characters, placing them in the real world isn’t as laborious compared to early blended live-action and animated media. Here are five franchises that […]

This coming weekend of October 18th-20th, Magic: The Gathering will host their fifth Mythic Championship tournament. During those three days, 68 players will compete for $750,000 in prizes. Players will be facing off in Long Beach, California at Thunder Studios, via the Magic: The Gathering: Arena interface. And among those 68 players stands 31-year-old Czech former Hearthstone […]

Guardians of the Galaxy #10 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by global entertainment superstar and fashion icon Donny Cates, Cory Smith, Victor Olazaba, David Curiel, and Cory Petit. We’ve got a preview below. The recap page will get you up to speed on all the changing allegiances here. Basically, The Magus is […]

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 […]

Dark Crystal fans can rejoice. We were finally blessed with a prequel series that just came to Netflix, Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Take your fandom and love for the series to the next level with Weta Workshop’s newest statue. Princess Brea daughter of All-Maudra Mayrin is getting her own 1/6 scale statue. The statue […]

Absolute Carnage: Scream #3 is in stores this week from Marvel Comics, by Cullen Bunn, Gerardo Sandoval, Erick Arciniega, and Cory Petit. We’ve got a preview below. The recap page can be summed up with two words: Symbiote Drama. Carnage is here to clear things up and convince Scream to do her symbiote duty and […]

In the next episode of NBC‘s This Is Us, love – and tension – is in the air! So let’s not hesitate – here’s a look at a preview for “Flip a Coin” as well as a look (with my thoughts thrown in) at the recently-released preview images: “This Is Us” season 4, episode 4 […]

Cotton Reboot, the modern remake of the classic X68000 shoot-’em-up, is finally releasing in Japan in spring 2020. The reboot, which was originally announced May 2019, is a spruced-up version fo the game’s original arcade release. It will include a new “Arrange Mode” as well as the original version of the game. Japanese video game […]

This week’s The Batman’s Grave when it wasn’t reinventing the Wayne family graves, alongside the freakiest gift that loving parents can get their child, and getting thematically interrupted by adverts for chocolate bars, had Alfred Pennyworth destroying the entire concept of The Batman. It would have been cheaper to buy Gotham. Or, at least, buy […]

Welcome to our final season of The CW‘s Arrow. We have ten episodes – and in the eighth episode, we get to the “Crisis” crossover event. Place your bets now, start your “death pools”, and we’ll get you all the latest info (and speculation) we can. Here’s what we know about the season premiere, “Starling […]

There have been some retro games lost to time for every console, and a holy grail from the Atari 2600 has always been Pursuit Of The Pink Panther. Originally conceived in 1983 under the original title, Adventures of the Pink Panther, the game was based on the cartoon character. More specifically, the cartoon show that […]

Captain America #15 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, from Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jason Masters, Matt Milla, and Joe Caramagna. We’ve got a preview below. Steve Rogers is still dealing with the fallout of Secret Empire as the Power Elite continue to try to convince the world that the Secret Nazi is really a […]

Happy October, horror lovers! With spooky season finally upon us, it seems like a perfect opportunity to celebrate one of horror’s best extensions, the brutal slasher genre. Slasher films have been around since the early days of horror and between the 80’s and 90’s, they truly began to find success amongst moviegoers for their realistic […]

After all these years, The 7th Guest is getting another sequel – though it’s all by some enterprising fans. Attic Door Productions has been working hard on The 3th Doll, the follow-up to classic PC adventure The 7th Guest. Now, after dealing with several delays, the game is nearly ready. It’ll be available for PC […]

Aero #4 is in stores this week from Marvel Comics, by Zhou Liefen, Keng, Greg Pack, Alyssa Wong, Pop Mhan, Federico Blee, and Joe Caramagna. We’ve got a preview below. Poor Aero was just trying to enjoy a date with her boyfriend, but he planned to propose. Aero wasn’t feeling it. Awkward! Luckily, the shifting […]

It’s the last installment in our “series scorecard” series (you can find my previous installments here, here, here, here, and here), but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a lot of content here to cover. Because the streaming giant that basically started the game and then rewrote it still has the biggest line-up of them […]

This past Friday (October 11th), the WeirdCards Charitable Club members responsible for the Oathbreaker ban list decided to do something amazing for the format: they unbanned Recurring Nightmare, one of the most controversially-powerful cards still on the Commander ban list. Recurring Nightmare is a three-mana enchantment that, if not countered, can potentially evade all removal […]

Late comics into London this week saw be go digital. Which is also how I missed out on another Snickers ad managing to destroy a perfectly good comic book story. In the past we have had Snickers ads drawn by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado that seemed to follow on from one of the comic […]

Funimation‘s My Hero Academia season 4 premiered this weekend, and it definitely did not disappoint – serving as an effective “welcome back” to the series for viewers. I am usually a fan of the transitions between seasons and arcs but can be cautious with how they’re handled – but no worries this with “The Scoop […]

Funko has been releasing a lot of Marvel 80th-Anniversary Funko Pop! figures. These figures have been paying tribute to the past 80 years of Marvel with new sleek boxing as well as first appearance, pictures on the back. We have already seen X-Men members Iceman and Beast but this time we were able to get […]

Absolute Carnage vs. Deadpool #3 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by Frank Tieri, Marcelo Ferreira, Jack Jadson, Roberto Poggi, Rachelle Rosenberg, and Joe Sabino. It took six people to make it, but only one of you to read it. We’ve got a preview below. If you haven’t been following along, Deadpool got […]

The names just keep on rolling into AEW, as ECW alumni Taz will be joining the company for a night to do some commentary. The retired pro-wrestler has spent nearly two decades behind the mic, doing commentary for WWE and TNA/Impact, along with his own morning show Taz & The Moose on CBS Sports Radio. […]

JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Last Survivor continues to look awesome, if the newest footage is any indication. A new character trailer for Stand user Noriaki Kakyoin just debuted. It’s got plenty of footage of Kakyoin’s Stand Hierophant Green kicking butt and taking names. He’s not as cool as Jotaro Kujo, but that’s just something you have […]

John Bamber writes to tell Bleeding Cool that he is selling the original artwork to the first published Judge Dredd comic book story from 2000AD #2 in 1977. Created by Pat Mills, John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra, the first story was written by Peter Harris and drawn by Mick McMahon. And its those five pages […]

On this week’s Food Network Freakshow Cakes, contestants brought us horrors in snake handling gone seriously wrong. The carnival allure of the backdrop, the creepy music and the enthusiasm for all things abnormally enticing made Snake Charmer Showdown another very enjoyable episode. Hosted by Zac Yung and Vivian Chan, 3 passionate “freaks of nature” create a […]

Some new information on Project Resistance found its way online as a familiar character was leaked due to a bug in the game. Right now, Capcom is allowing certain players to try out a closed beta of the game as they experiment with the lobbies and other mechanics. While the beta doesn’t have a ton […]

Paul Rainey is the creator of There’s No Time Like The Present, Thunder Brother: Soap Division and Book of Lists and is an occasional contributor to Viz Comic. His current big project, Why Don’t You Love Me, appears regularly in ACES Weekly. His new project however is a little more… public, in the centre of […]

USA Network‘s Mr. Robot is a zeitgeist-tapping pulp thriller about computer hacking, mass surveillance, paranoia, and the evils of Late Capitalism. Elliot Anderson (Rami Malek) is a hacker who wants to bring down the evil company E Corp with a hacker group called the Dark Army. He discovers that their leader Whiterose is a backer […]

One day after Blizzard released their response to suspending Chung “blitzchung” Ng Wai from Hearthstone for six months, he has responded. Ng Wai posted his response on TwitLonger, and you can read the full English translation below. The main takeaways are that he seems appreciative of the decision, but wishes Blizzard would reconsider the suspensions […]

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 21 most-read stories yesterday The DC Comics Timeline From New York Comic Con Was Not Ready to Be Published “Star Wars”: John Boyega’s Agent Confirms […]

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), […]

An interesting bit of news from the weekend as it appears Captain Marvel does indeed exist in the upcoming Square Enix game Marvel’s Avengers. In an interview with Comic Book, they spoke with Crystal Dynamics’ Head of Studio Scot Amos, as well as their Narrative Designer Hannah McLeod, about the game. Part of the interview […]

Comic book creator Joyce Chin, most recently drawing Vampirella in Playboy Magazine, did not have a great C2E2 and it did not get better. Thankfully New York Comic Con went a lot better. However, she did have one moment to share which may be very familiar to all manner of in-demand comic book creators. She […]

On this week’s new episode of The CW‘s Supergirl: with Kara (Melissa Benoist) now a Pulitzer Prize winner, Catco Media making a hard left turn to become the world’s best clickbait site, and Lana Luthor (Katie McGrath) plotting revenge against Supergirl, we’re on a collision course between several freight trains. This week’s episode “Stranger Beside Me” […]

Fans have been ecstatic over some newly released footage for Pokémon Sword & Shield showing off the first town you come across in the game. A few people have pointed out this new video, which you can check out below, is similar to the one people saw at Gamescom this year. But it has a few changes […]