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Scotland is the home of many of Britain's most prestigious comics, specifically The Beano and The Dandy, both running for almost eighty years. But a more

Seriously, I'm sat in the pub and I just fancy getting all the people here to stand round in a circle going "Fight! Fight! Fight!" until teacher breaks us

Vertigo will preview their four new books for March in a comic shipping in February. The Vertigo 2012 Preview Book will be send, for free, to retailers

Starting in Dark Horse Presents #8, out the first week in February, a surprise listing! Almost as much a surprise to me! The Many Murders Of Miss

It was an apocryphal tale, one that Tom DeFalco has denied. But at the time it was rather popular. That the editor-in-chief of Marvel had declared that

From San Francisco comic store Isotope and the Noise Pop Music Fest, comes Ben Templesmith drawing a page from Fell, his Image comic with Warren Ellis, on

I've given the thirteen-or-so thoughts of the week's DC Comics a bit of a break for now. It was doing my head in, and I was reading too many comics that I

I have been backwards about coming forwards about my admiration for Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo's work on the new Wolverine And The X-Men series. Set in

Demon Knights is one of the ten or so New 52 comics that I eagerly read by choice every month. But there's been something nagging at the back of my head,

Bleeding Cool has been following the theory that Marcus Johnson, mysterious star of Battle Scars, is Nick Fury's son, and potentially creating a new black

Aaron brings back Tri-Force Mike this week, as the staff of A Comic Shop in Florida look through today's comic books and makes their recommendations. Do

This article originally appeared on Bleeding Cool on December 7th, 2011. So, I've read a copy of Scarlet Spider #1, the new title spinning out of

TransformersWatch: A new Transformers series is starting today. Here's a teaser image - one of twelve going around the internet round now. Gotta catch 'em

According to estimates made by John Mayo, DC Comics sold the most of the Top 300 trade paperbacks and hardcovers in December 2011, taking 27.21%

How can Spider-Man fight Ice Man? Isn't he one of the Amazing Friends? Was my childhood watching terrible Marvel cartoons in vain? And what about Ms Lion,

Every week, I get more grateful that Grace Randolph creates her Think About The Ink videos for Bleeding Cool. And I don't know if it's the cold, but she

Despite DC having a stellar end of year performance, their very rocky start to 2011 and Marvel's recovery in December seems to have given Marvel the edge

Going to San Diego Comic Con this year? Remember how tricky it was last year? Well this year it's different. This time, before you register, you have to

From the Marvel Liveblogs today.. Walt Simonson is the new artist of The Avengers comic, with Brian Bendis, starting with issue 25, for six issues. And

The Sun Journal of Lewiston, Maine, reports that last night the ten strong board of the Regional School Unit votes that Stuck in the Middle: 17 Comics

As a Christian, I find myself often in conflict with what are touted as official Christian responses to some matter or other. Whether that be Christian

  IDW are now advertising brand new series digital only Transformers series, Autocracy by featuring it on the iPad and iPhone. Tranformers: Autocracy

When Titan Books published trade paperbacks of Swamp Thing in the UK, well ahead of the US, they used the black and white art of Steve Bissette, John

As part of "C-Day" on March 14th, Avatar are reissuing Crossed #0 as Crossed C-Day edition entitled Crossed: Get Infected, to be given away or used in

Star Wars and DC Comics flash drives have just got smaller... In March, Mimoco will launch a new line called Mimimicro, a smaller version of the popular

Yesterday, we learned of the upcoming Batman/Detective Comics crossover Night Of The Owls from the official DC Source blog. But also at the Superman

The Early Learning Centre is a British retail chain specialising in toys for young children with an educative agenda. Videogame developer Ross Mills found

At the time of the arrest, police called it the largest collection of images of child abuse they had even seen. Rob Barrow, organiser of the London Comic

SimileWatch: Richard Cohen compares Mitt Romney to Reggie off of Archie Comics. He has the coldness of Reggie from the “Archie” comics — the guy who had

I’m travelling, so in lieu of a regular column, I’m going to run something different. Below is the treatment for a movie adaptation of Arthur Machen’s