In the shocking conclusion to the previous issue of Avengers of the Wastelands, by Ed Brisson and Jonas Scharf, we learned that Captain America is somehow still alive! Now, in this preview of Avengers of the Wastelands #2, we find out whether that really is Steve Rogers under the mask. Our heroes are traveling with […]

AMC's The Walking Dead is back for the second-half of season 10 – and "The Whisperer War" is ready to shift from "cold war" mind games and behind-the-lines machinations to all-out warfare. Considering the season started in space, showrunner/EP Angela Kang has taken us on one helluva' journey over the course of eight episodes – […]

For those who may be curious about what the development process for Bayonetta 3 is like these days, we got some good news. It's going fine. In a brief interview with Ryokutya2089, Platinum Games' Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba discussed how things are going with the game. A few different sites have taken a crack […]

Being bitten by a radioactive spider gave Peter Parker his powers. But it was failing to stop a robber who later went on to murder Peter's Uncle Ben that taught him that with great power, there must also come great responsibility. Unfortunately, as we see in this preview of Amazing Spider-Man: Daily Bugle #2, in […]

JD Dillard, the writer/director behind Sleight and Sweetheart will develop a Star Wars project along with Luke Cage and Agents of SHIELD writer Matt Owens. Dillard, whose Sweetheart is currently available on Netflix and is a must-watch, has experience in the franchise, having worked on The Force Awakens with JJ Abrams and even donning stormtrooper armor in […]

This episode we're chatting with Daniel Kraus, author of Bent Heavens, a new, horrific SF novel from Henry Holt/Macmillan Books. As of this writing the book is listed by Amazon as the #1 New Release in "Teen & Young Adult Fiction about Death & Dying."   The publisher sums up Kraus's storied career thusly: Kraus […]

Justice League Dark #20 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by James Tynion IV, Ram V., and Kyle Hotz. And this preview continues a theme we've already seen this week, in the pages of Dial H for Hero. In that preview, we learned that the characters were "stuck in a K-Hole," a phrase […]

While describing itself as a "spiritual descendant" of the original series, Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels also wants viewers to know that it stands on its own merits. Which we're feeling is a nice way of saying that you don't have to know a whole heckuva' lot about the 19th Century England-set first run […]

Interesting news this week from Saber Interactive as the company has been bought out and acquired by THQ Nordic's parent company, Embracer Group. The announcement was quietly made last week, as the parent company promoted it on their company news blog. While most of the details are unknown about the deal, we do know the […]

Force Works 2020 #1 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Matthew Rosenberg and Juanan Ramirez, spinning out of the Iron Man 2020 event. As in all Marvel events, readers must choose a side. Civil War. Avengers vs. X-Men. X-Men vs. Inhumans. Civil War 2. Readers must decide who in any given story […]

Putative US President Donald Trump mocked Parasite's Oscar sweep at a political rally in Colorado Springs and literally has an American President never talked so much out his ass about art and popular culture in the history of our now-fragile republic. So make yourself a big ol' bowl of tasty Ram-Don and settle in while […]

As our New York Toy Fair ride comes to a close to finish off our night with Bandai America. Of course, they are mainly known for their hands in the anime game. We saw a great variety of Naruto, DragonBall, and My Hero Academia. Every figure seems like they came straight from their retrospective shows. For the sculpt to […]

Dial H for Hero concludes at DC Comics next week, and this preview of Dial H for Hero #12 takes a very unexpected turn. As Miguel pens an apology letter to Superman… …while seemingly floating in blackness with Summer, completely disassociated from reality. It seems these two kids have been engaging in the illicit use […]

We've all just finished watching the penultimate episode of this season of Doctor Who, Ascension Of The Cybermen, in the UK. And what a cliffhanger. 1. Unhand Me You Zealots 'Every empire has its time, and every empire falls. But that which is dead can live again in the hands of a believer'. The Cybermen, […]

Apparently, more of you out there are good rather than evil. At least, that's what the statistics of Mass Effect say from a recent brief reveal. If you're not familiar with the concept in Mass Effect, one of the many choices at your disposal is that you can choose an alignment of sorts. You can […]

Star #2 is in stores from Marvel Comics this week, by Kelly Thompson and Javier Pina. Let's check out the preview together. This issue sees Star joined by the Scarlet Witch. But is she here to help… or something else? It's not long before things devolve into a sword-measuring contest, however. Whatever Star does, she […]

Looks like if that Riverdale crossover with Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is going to happen next season (something we posted about earlier today), it will happen without Skeet Ulrich's F.P. Jones and Marisol Nichols' Hermione Lodge. Both actors will not be returning to the popular CW series for its fifth season, with Ulrich issuing the following […]

A small bit of news leaked out from the New York Toy Fair as we now have learned Baldur's Gate 3 will be coming to Steam's Early Access. The news  came from DOS Gaming, who reports that during an investor meeting at the event, Hasbro announced that the game would be released to the platform's […]

Giant-Size X-Men: Jean Grey and Emma Frost #1 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week, by Jonathan Hickman and Russell Dauterman, and with the book being both oversized and overpriced, we can probably expect a nice, meaty preview, right? Well, not exactly… Instead, we get just two pages, with not a lot happening. Well, […]

This week's episode of The CW's Batwoman finds Kate aka Batwoman (Ruby Rose) dealing with the fallout from having chosen Beth over Alice (Rachel Skarsten) – only for the "final decision" to be taken out of her hands. So that doesn't exactly leave her in a good place heading into this week's episode "Drink Me." […]

As our New York Toy Fair Coverage is slowly coming to a close we still have a couple of places left to stop. Eaglemoss is one of those places and oddly enough they were bringing there A game with some unlikely statues. There were mainly four focuses at Eaglemoss; Marvel, WWE, Harry Potter, Alien, and […]

Wonder Woman #752 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by Steve Orlando and Max Raynor, and we've got a preview below. Wonder Woman recently relocated to Boston (they have good lobster there, plus Dunkin Donuts), which concerned local authorities due to the fact that disaster seems to follow superheroes around. But they didn't […]

It's been teased for two years. Here is the trailer to next Sunday's Doctor Who finale, The Timeless Children. And then another 18 months wait… and yes it includes a fair few spoilers for the episode that just aired, The Ascension Of The Cybermen. So… could the Timeless Children be humanity? Just a thought… In the […]

Iron Studios is finally getting there time to shine as we continue our stroll through the 2020 New York Toy Fair. Iron Studios has been dropping a lot of nice statues lately from movies like Avengers: Endgame to Thundercats. While a lot of this stuff has been covered here at Bleeding Cool we finally got to see […]

The Amazing Spider-Man #40 is in stores from Marvel Comics next week by Nick Spencer and Iban Coello, as Spider-Man tries a new approach to keeping J. Jonah Jameson under control: being nice to him? Spidey agreed to guest star on Jonah's new podcast in hopes of giving Jonah recognition for trying not to be […]

After a record two-and-a-half month winter hiatus, ABC's The Rookie returns on Sunday February 23rd with its Spring Premier "Day Of Death." For viewers without a elephant's memory, the December fall finale ended with Officer Lucy Chen (Melissa O'Neil) being kidnapped by a serial killer. The premier picks up right where the finale left off: Chen […]

The tour continues as our collectibles heads are almost ready to explode after all of the amazing reveals so far. This time we take a stroll down to see what Good Smile Company has in store for us. We recently saw a massive amount of upcoming figures from prototypes, painted models and even concepts. This […]

Every week your Local Comic Book shop gets in the weekly assortment of comics, trades, posters, action figures, and other goodies from Diamond.  Now some of these goodies sell our fast from your LCBS, so Tuesday and Wednesday LCBS retailers get on the phone (more often the computer) and let Diamond know they need more.  […]

Even though The CW's Supernatural is still in the middle of a "winter's nap", that doesn't mean it's too early to start learning about what we can expect when the series returns – with a case of "Galaxy Brain" on Monday, March 16. With Sam (Jared Padalecki), Dean (Jensen Ackles), and Castiel (Misha Collins) looking […]

Apex Legends fans aren't too happy with Epic Games this week as Fortnite's Season 2 of Chapter 2 has copied one of the game's hallmark additions. Last week, the company finally launches Season 2 with a new spy theme going for it, and with it came a number of new additions to the game. One […]

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 […]

With Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould's Better Call Saul ready to return for its penultimate season (starting with a two-night premiere event on Sunday, February 23, and Monday, February 24) and AMC's cable premiere of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie still on the air and on demand, the Breaking Bad universe is as popular now as […]

Beast Kingdom is up next as we continue our stroll through the New York Toy Fair of 2020. With the popularity of their statues and Egg Action Attack figures, it is not surprising this booth was popping. It looks like they are taking a step into the action figure games as we saw not only […]

Four years ago, Dave Ryan was posting pages from his new planned comic World Wide Warriors, with art by Allan Goldman. Last year he launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to publish in print. He didn't get nearly enough. It didn't stop them though. And in May, from Red Anvil Comics Group, they will be bringing […]

With last weekend's "The Fiery Cross", the fifth-season of STARZ's Outlander is now officially underway- and it's hitting the ground running. Even with the joyous occasion of a wedding, Jamie (Sam Heughan) can't escape his obligations to the crown: hunt down and kill Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix) – and his Regulators, if necessary. Meanwhile, Claire (Caitriona Balfe) is […]

The mayor of Boston is pulling one most last-ditch effort to get Sony to be at PAX East as he asks the company to reconsider pulling from the event. According to WCVB, Mayor Marty Walsh has sent a letter to Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony's President and CEO, asking them to return to the convention next week. […]

DC Publisher Jim Lee was in for a rude awakening on Sunday — literally. The superstar artist reportedly settled down for a long nap in his office Thursday and woke up Sunday morning to find that all hell had broken loose at DC Comics. Dan Didio, also the DC Publisher at the time Lee went […]

Carrie (Claire Danes) and Saul (Mandy Patinkin) wasted little time before finding themselves knee-deep in international conspiracies and counter-conspiracies, as the eighth and final season of Showtime's Homeland heads into this week's "False Friends". Saul's path to Haqqani (Numan Acar) was met with some serious pushback, while Carrie dug up useful dirt dirt on Afghanistan […]

With a lot of the big companies already having their time to shine it is time for the underdogs to show off. We are now taking a look at The Loyal Subjects booth at New York Toy Fair. The Loyal Subjects have a massive fanbase if you are unaware as a lot of their products […]

ComicsPRO may be going on right now. But Marvel is making their Exclusive Retailer Summit Variants available to all stores, whether they attend or not. But if they don't, they may well be allocated on copies – or not receive them at all. With the warning that summit attendees who are registered by March 31st […]

When it comes to the possibility of a Riverdale/Chilling Adventures of Sabrina crossover (a real one, not like the ones we cover below), we're not sure anyone would be as excited about it becoming a reality as our own Riverdale reviewer Eden Arnold. She's been pushing the theory that a visit from Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan […]

Activison isn't taking the latest Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare leak lightly as the company has filed a DMCA against Reddit over the situation. The Hollywood Reporter picked up the filing, in which the company is calling on the social discussion site to "identify alleged infringers" who posted the leaked content about their upcoming battle […]

This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday. It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't wait till the weekend to get this week's comics. A lot of variety in the chart, with no clear […]

Tonight sees the penultimate episode of this season of Doctor Who – Ascension Of The Cybermen, ahead of next weekend's The Timeless Children. Big things are expected, a return of The Master, of the Fugitive Doctor, what happened with Gallifrey, why the Master said everything the Doctor believed was a lie, what the Lone Cybermen was doing, […]

LEGO is still going strong as we take a stroll through their booth at the New York Toy Fair. While not a lot of sets were shown off we got to see some that really counted. We got to see that the iconic Dreamworks Minions will be getting their own sets in the near future. […]

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 So Why Did Dan DiDio Leave DC Comics Anyway? New York Toy Fair 2020: 60 Photos from Hasbro Marvel Legends More […]

So heading into the next episode of Jim Carrey, Michel Gondry, and Dave Holstein's award-winning and critically-acclaimed series Kidding, there's two bits of good news and one bit of very bad news. Starting with the good news, Deidre (Catherine Keener) one-upped Seb (Frank Langella) by getting Jeff (Carrey) and the show back on the air. […]

Something odd happened this past week with Bethesda Softworks, as fans noticed the company pulled most of their library from GeForce Now. The NVIDIA cloud-based gaming service posted this notice on their forums, which simply says "Please be advised most Bethesda Softworks titles will be removed from the GeForce NOW service today. Wolfenstein Youngblood will […]

New Mutants #8 is in stores on Wednesday as we get another issue in the Earthbound storyline, by Ed Brisson and Marco Failla. We've got a preview below. We've seen the classic New Mutants in space, and we've visited the Morrison-era young mutants in Nevada. But now it's time to take a trip to South […]

While things might still be in a bit of flux on the film side, the Transformers franchise appears to be doing just fine on the television/streaming side, thanks to the fine folks at Netflix, Hasbro, Inc., and Rooster Teeth. Need proof? Look no further than the recently-released first teaser trailer for Chapter One ("Siege") of […]

We now know one of the villains that will be appearing in Square Enix's upcoming game Marvel's Avengers, all thanks to the New York Toy Fair. During the event, which we have been doing live updates for on our website, there have been a TON of reveals from basically every IP under the sun. Basically, […]

Ghost Rider #5 is in stores next week from Marvel Comics, by Ed Brisson and Juan Frigeri. Back in the 1990s, Wolverine, Ghost Rider, and the Punisher teamed up for a story called Hearts of Darkness. Now, it's time for a sequel… one which will be be decompressed across several issues each costing as much […]

One of the best things about covering television is that you can find news about it no matter where you go or where you look. Perfect example? This year's Toy Fair, taking place once again in my own backyard of NYC. Now while you expect lots and lots of toy and toy-related news (thus, the […]

One surprise from the New York Toy Fair was the Flame Toys panel. It was surprising to see so many Transformer figures and were packed with detail. Some might not know that Hasbro isn't the only place that makes Transformers figures. Flame Toys is defiantly bringing the heat this time with some great pieces like […]

Batman/Superman #7 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by Joshua Williamson and Nick Derington, and we've got a preview below. This comic has finally put that Batman who Laughs nonsense behind it and can move on to a story that doesn't star the stupidest character ever created for comics. And this new story […]

See? We told you HBO's Westworld wasn't done messing with us – not when there's still three weeks to go before Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy's series returns for its third season (Sunday, March 15). Following up on yesterday's "hidden trailer" that found a way to be darker than the original (not a laughfest there, either) […]

Enesco is up next as our tour of the New York Toy Fair continues. This exhibit was really something special and you can see that for yourselves below. A lot of bigger statues were shown here will the massive and beautiful Elvira statue. This statue is deadly as it is gorgeous from the sculpting to […]

Action Comics #1020 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by "The Great One" Brian Bendis and John Romita Jr. We've got a preview below. And in that preview we find, not Superman, but the teenage heroes of Young Justice, waiting outside the Hall of Justice, for Superman. Who loves nothing more than to […]

I speak now to all of my fellow Walking Dead fans across the globe! With the long-running AMC series set to return for the second-half of its tenth season this Sunday, I've noticed that the viewing fanbase on social media has been torn asunder over one hotly-debated issue since the midseason break… Will we be […]

Devolver Digital announced this week that they would be bringing the cyberpunk game Ruiner to the Nintendo Switch this year. The news came from the game's official Twitter account in which they basically did a little binary reveal of sorts. The action shooter title will put you in the middle of, shockingly, another dystopian future […]