DC Comics Publisher Dan DiDio is coming to London, with a few other DC executives, for the premiere of Birds Of Prey (And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn) on the 29th January at the British Film Institute on London’s South Bank. No I don’t have an invite. But have people been prepared? I […]

Standing as one of the best moves by a network, NBC saved the series (and renewed it for an eighth season) – and then last week, Brooklyn Nine-Nine dropped its Season 7 trailer and it’s looking bodaciously rad. Staged with a 1980’s vibe, all that was missing were leg warmers and big hair. Jake Peralta […]

The Marvel Universe has so many characters and stories that it is easy to forget. It is always nice when we get new Marvel characters as collectibles to show off our comic book love. Diamond Select Toy has announced four new Marvel Gallery statue that is ready for your collection. The first one up was […]

 Nat Gertler of About Comics, which specialises in excavating comic book, cartoon and cultural elements of the twentieth century, has turned to attention to the work of Sergio Aragonés – and some of his seemingly forgotten risque cartoons from decades past. Gertler writes, Beloved cartoonist Sergio Aragonés, back in his early years of doing cartoons […]

The BBC released their latest Doctor Who video. This time, it’s a compilation of the historical figures who appeared in the show since its revival from 2005 to 2018. If they included historical figures who appeared in the old show, we could be here for days. The original brief for the show was to use […]

During the League Of Legends Spring Split this weekend, Riot Games had a special announcement as they revealed the LCS Spring Finals 2020 would be in Texas. The event will take place from April 18th-19th at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, with ticket info coming out on February 14th and sold on […]

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 Transformers Soundwave and Ravage Get Expensive with Prime 1 Studio Let’s Take a Look at The McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse Hellbat […]

This weekend marks the start of the Lunar New Year, and of course, Doctor Who is here to remind everyone of that. BBC America released a video on their Twitter feed of the Doctor and her fam wishing everyone a happy one and firing off big, loud, red firecrackers. For ages, we in the West […]

Batman and the gang are back as Diamond Select Toys announces more statues. This time it looks like more of the Dark Knights Rogues Gallery is ready to join your collection. First up is Poison Ivy who is getting a seductive statue as she stands in a flower. This was originally a GameStop exclusive but […]

Norm Konyu writes, I’ve been working in the animation industry for longer than I care to mention. Commercials, TV series, movies, online media – I’ve probably worked on something you’ve seen. But none of it was really mine. Animation is generally a team effort; it’s just too time-consuming for it to be otherwise. So, I’ve […]

For a show about the growing war between the old gods and new gods, you would think American Gods fans wouldn’t be too thrilled with things being quiet – but STARZ‘s series had a bit of a bumpy ride heading into its second season. After a return that gave the series a much-needed gritty, ensemble […]

The Call Of Duty League is only one day in and there’s already controversy as the Los Angeles Guerrillas have protested the outcome of their first match. Yesterday during the inaugural launch of the league, the LA team faced off against the Minnesota RØKKR. The team was forced to forfeit a map after one of […]

Fallen Angels #6 is in stores from Marvel Comics next, mercifully wrapping up the first dud of the Dawn of X. We’ve got a preview below. As Psylocke steels herself for the final battle, which will surely be a difficult test, since she can barely see anything as the artwork is so dark and murky. […]

As the “Stephen King-ification” of the world rolls along to our total and utter liking, HBO‘s adaptation of the author’s bestselling supernatural novel The Outsider finally reached its January 12, 2020, premiere date – and what a two-episode premiere (“Fish in a Barrel”/”Roanoke”) it was! But third episode “Dark Uncle” was the one we were […]

It looks like Bluepoint Games are gearing up for something special with the PS5, as the company has made a bold claim on the front of their website. A number of outlets picked up an update to the company’s mission statement on the front page with an interesting tidbit for the future. The company claims […]

Comic book publishers are notoriously secretive about their finances. Comic book sales numbers are guestimates based on an opaque index ranking published by Diamond, and that doesn’t include digital sales or bookstore numbers. But as a publicly-traded company, IDW Media Holdings, the parent company of IDW Publishing, releases quarterly financial reports that provide us with […]

Whether skateboarding, playing a role on set or photographing the great Midwest, Jason Lee’s always looking for new challenges. He spent a few years on hiatus from acting in front of a camera to shooting from behind one. Lee returned to reprise his role as Mallrats’ Brodie Bruce for 2019’s Jay and Silent Bob Reboot […]

Could Street Fighter V Champion Edition be coming to the Nintendo Switch? According to the official Twitter account for EB Games Canada, the fighter will be touching down on the Switch soon enough. You can see a screenshot of the tweet below, just in case this was some sort of a mistake, but it certainly […]

Suicide Squad #2 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo, and we’ve got a preview of the issue below.   And this preview does offer us a typical dose of superhero black ops action… …which is as we’d expect from a book like Suicide Squad. But this book […]

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 released a new character trailer for SoulCalibur VI in Japan, showing off Haohmaru from Samurai Shodown. The trailer shows him in action against Heishiro Mitsurugi, as the two samurai clash in one of the best showdowns gamers probably wanted for years. We see several of his moves from his game come to […]

X-Men #5 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Jonathan Hickman and R.B. Silva, and we have a preview below. This preview was only available as an EX-X-XCLUSIVE at SuperHeroHype (isn’t that redundant? Aren’t all superheroes all hype?), but we mobilized Bleeding Cool’s covert ops team, BC-Force, to infiltrate the website and, using […]

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 […]

Robin is finally here for us to pre-order! We recently covered the Robin Premium Statue from Sideshow Collectibles as they released the first look at it during their 12 Days of Sideshow. Now it looks like the famous Boy Wonder is ready to get his debut. The statue is 19” tall and shows off Robin […]

David Avallone has a Writer’s Commentary on Bettie Page Unbound #9, on sale now from Dynamite. It’s a new-ish year, and we’re bringing the INVASION OF THE BETTIE SNATCHERS arc to its conclusion. Excited? You should be. Did you read BETTIE PAGE UNBOUND #9? Because here comes the spoilers… Covers: John Royle’s “Bettie-as-Elsa” cover cracks […]

The gang is back together again to pass the torch again to the next generation in Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Despite the mixed response of the all-female 2016 Paul Feig-directed soft-reboot, the 2020 film serves as a true sequel to the Ghostbusters franchise. Bill Murray, who played Dr. Peter Venkman since the 1984 original Ghostbusters, […]

Just in case you missed the announcement, Final Fantasy VII Remake was pushed back from March to April. If, like many fans across the world looking to get their fill of the upcoming RPG, you pre-ordered a special edition via the Square Enix Store, you’re going to need to confirm your order if you want […]

Bleeding Cool has reported on a number of comic stores getting broken into and suffering thefts. Well, Kathryn “Kat” Jones-Elstad and husband Jeremy Jones-Elstad had had all that and shootings besides. And so decided  last year to relocate their comic shop from the Citadel Mall on Colorado Springs’ east side, for the west of Old […]

So it’s been an interesting couple of months on the Star Wars side of the Disney+ streaming service. On one hand, they had a hit with The Mandalorian – and should be helmet-deep in cash from Baby Yoda merchandising by the time the second season rolls around in the fall. On the other hand? There’s […]

There’s a lot of Rocket League fans who are unhappy with Psyonix and Epic Games this week after the devs released important info about Mac and Linux. After the next update goes out for the game, it will be the last one added to the game on those systems as they will discontinue service beyond […]

New Mutants #6 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Canadian Hero Ed Brisson and Flaviano, and we’ve got a preview for you. When we last checked in on this group of young(ish) mutants, a wasted Boom Boom had arrived on Beak and Angel’s farm to save the day as a group of […]

The New Mutants is actually coming. Boy does it feel good to say that. Maybe the most anticipated mutant film in a good long while, a new poster was just posted online showing the group with half x-rayed faces. Very striking stuff. How could one not be excited to see this at this point? After […]

Beast Kingdom is stepping its game up with more statues and this time it’s from the world of DC Comics. Batman and the Joker are here to spice up your collection with their newest statues. The first one is a kooky Joker statue here he is riding a unicycle and jiggling a wild amount of […]

Tom Hoover, founder of Hyper Epics writes,   It all started out of necessity. Hundreds of story ideas rampaging through my mind. Surely, it was not realistic to churn out a screenplay for each concept nor produce a graphic novel per idea. It would take an endless budget or a hundred Kevin Feiges! So the […]

What can possibly follow such an intense mid-season premiere of FOX‘s Prodigal Son? Bright (Tom Payne) finds out his father wanted to kill him, cuts a piece of his hand off, and saves his family from a serial killer. Next Monday. “Internal Affairs” questions Bright’s sanity through a psychiatric evaluation after something happens at the […]

Counterplay Games has announced this week that the servers for the PvP strategy game Duelyst will be shut down on February 27th, 2020. No specific reason was given for the closure by either Counterplay or the publisher, Bandai Namco. But more than likely it probably stems from lack of popularity and/or activity with the game […]

X-Force #6 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Benjamin Percy and Stephen Segovia (nevermind what the solicit says), and we’ve got a preview below. It’s a brave new world in the Dawn of X, a chance for the X-Men to take control of their destinies and write their own stories. But if […]

While the cast and crew of AMC‘s The Walking Dead enjoy the response they’ve been getting for 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 […]

Funko is constantly giving us new collectibles to look forward too. This one, in particular, is for anime fans as they have announced Boruto: Naruto Next Generations is getting a nice wave up Pop vinyl figures. We are even getting two retailer exclusives and on is even getting a chase! I do know the fandom of this […]

The Springfield News-Sun reports that the closure of Victoria’s Secret’s outlet in the Upper Valley Mall, Springfield, located northeast of Dayton, Ohio, and the only regional mall located in Clark and Champaign counties. This will leave only twelve storefronts in the entire shipping mall. After J.C. Penney, Macy’s and dozens more left… the twelve remaining stores also include a […]

Now that we’ve made our way out of the holidays and into 2020, Outlander fans’ thoughts are turning more and more towards Sunday, February 16: that’s when STARZ‘s series adaptation of author Diana Gabaldon‘s novels returns for a fifth season. As fans continue to debate and speculate Claire (Caitriona Balfe) and Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) fates, […]

Greetings, loyal readers! Today I have a treat for those of you who are invested in Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, one of Games Workshop‘s beloved wargames, in the form of a battle report. On Thursday, I took my Maggotkin of Nurgle over to my local gaming store to test the waters of combat and see how […]

Weapon Plus: World War IV #1 hits stores from Marvel Comics on Wednesday, by Benjamin Percy and Georges Jeanty, continuing the revamping of the Weapon X mythology for the modern Marvel Universe, and we’ve got a preview below. The issue debuts a new version of Man-Thing, Man-Slaughter, a government agent that the solicit bills as […]

In this week’s horrifying episode of Food Network‘s Worst Cooks in America, recruits were pretty much traumatized by hosts Anne Burrell and Alton Brown – surprised no one lost consciousness or threw up. Brown was like a shark navigating the kitchen and the recruits could almost hear the theme song from Jaws playing. Brown even […]

Spider-Man is back and this time he is not only fighting his inner demons but his outer ones too. That’s right Venom is back and he is ready to take on the spider one more time. Beast Kingdom has announced an awesome Marvel Comic Spider-Man Vs Venom statue. The statue shows off the web-slinger and […]

The ongoing series Rick And Morty will end with #60 in March, at the end of The Rickoning. But what happens then? It turns out Oni Press must have reupped because they are launching a new series. And just as Dave Sim gave us  Cerebus Goes To Hell to follow Cerebus (or at least follow […]

FOX‘s The Masked Singer definitely didn’t suffer from a “sophomore slump” with its second season – series host Nick Cannon and our “core four” judging panel of Ken Jeong, Jenny McCarthy, Nicole Scherzinger, and Robin Thicke proved why the celebrity singing competition has become an international sensation. So what could they possibly do to one-up […]

Inkyard Press announced this week that the debut novel from author and book blogger Eric Smith, Don’t Read The Comments, will be out on January 28th. The book revolves around a pair of teenage gamers who find each other through gaming. But while they have a slowly blossoming romance, they also have to deal with […]

Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! And […]

This week’s episode of ABC‘s Modern Family was much more light-hearted, perfect to follow the one from last week. It truly got a few laughs off of me and I enjoyed all storylines. They seriously keep tugging at my heart-strings and seemingly setting more groundwork for what is to come to finalize the show. It […]

This week, Activision Blizzard announced that they had entered into a new multi-year “strategic relationship” with Google to power new player experiences. The main takeaways from the deal are that Google Cloud will serve as the preferred provider for Activision Blizzard’s game hosting infrastructure, while YouTube will serve as its exclusive streaming partner. (Except for […]

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 11 most-read stories yesterday Marvel Studios Greenlights 2 Unannounced TV Series [SCOOP] Lion Forge Breaks With The Beat “Obi-Wan”: Disney+ Shuts Production Over Script Concerns […]

Welcome back to the ‘Dale, friends! In case you missed it, you have homework: The CW‘s Riverdale came back this week with an all new episode. But fear not! I’m here to fill you in on what you missed on Wednesday’s “Varsity Blues”. Before we begin, two things: first, there are MAJOR SPOILERS! ahead, and […]

Konami has announced two new Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game Speed Duel Starter Decks with “Match of the Millennium” and “Twisted Nightmares”. Each one is going to be slightly different and offer you options depending on how you play. “Match of the Millennium” will come with a 31-Card Yugi Deck, a 31-Card Pegasus Deck, 4 Skill […]

Last month, we asked if Courtney Ross was coming back to the Marvel Universe, after seeing this note in Excalibur. Courtney Ross was a character created by Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe and Fred Kida for Captain Britain Weekly #3 back in 1976 as a love interest for Brian Braddock, Captain Britain. A well to do young woman, she […]

The latest Star Trek: Picard featurette from CBS All Access revealed what makes Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) quit Starfleet. Focusing on a scene in the premiere episode “Remembrance”, Picard reluctantly responds to the end of his professional career – putting blame on the Federation for abandoning their humanitarian duties and responsibilities. The Federation allowed the […]

Earlier this week we announced that Karl-Anthony Towns would be in the Call Of Duty League Hype Battle, and now we know who his opponent will be. Michael B. Jordan has officially signed on to be his opponent as the two will be engaging in a little 2-v-2 gunfight. Playing with Towns will be his […]

Bleeding Cool reported on the attempts by Ablaze Media to publish European Conan comic books – where the work of Robert E Howard is in the public domain – in the USA, in far more lurid detail than the US adaptations ever go in for. In the US, the rights to publish Conan comics – […]

Taking to the stage at this year’s Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press event, Hulu Senior Vice President of Originals Craig Erwich revealed that he had screened the first four episodes of both Helstrom as well as M.O.D.O.K. – and liked what he’s seen so far. While he didn’t use the occasion to reveal any […]

McFarlane Toys new line of DC Multiverse figures are hitting stores all over right now. We have already taken a look at the Batman and Superman figures, and shortly the rest of the first waves will be in stores. This will include the Armored Superman, The Batman Who Laughs, Batgirl, Nightwing, Arrow, and the figure […]