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Two comics, both event crossovers, both issue ones, both out today, both starring Frankenstein's Creature. Or just Frankenstein as they're calling him

It appears you can't have a big event crossover without a significant B-character death. That's how you know it matters. Crisis On Infinite Earths gave us

It used to be an observed comics publishing maxim, that you spread the comics you publish through the month. That certain buyers have a fixed amount they

FF continues its journey into the creation of a superhero comic book tesseract, infinitely complex and folded in on itself. We have Reed Richards teaming

Two comics out today, both seem to be telling stories already told. Reading Uncanny X-Men #537, the silent, intangible Kitty Pryde being pursued across

I just went to see X-Men First Class with the good lady wife and Tom Daylight from the Bleeding Cool boards. Post show, we popped into the nearby Pizza

Another week, another Doctor Who. I just love typing that still. Anyway, spoilers for this week's episode, obviously. Let's talk. 1. There Are Some Things

Oh look, they found a way to get a Green Lantern ring on the cover. The new issue of CLiNT magazine is out in the UK, just as the previous issue hits the

Two Ultimate comic books out today. Both part of the Ultimate Death Of Spider-Man. And both back to being incredibly separate from each other. Read

Last week I pointed out how Kieron Gillen in Journey Into Mystery was able to summarise the entire issue of Fear Itself, poetically, into a couple of

What is it with American writers destroying Europe these days? Last week in Flashpoint #1, we saw that hundreds of millions of Europeans had been plunged

I can't take The Watcher seriously anymore. I mean I'm not sure I used to anyway, but I definitely don't now. I can't even take the ones in Fringe

Two comics. Two tie ins to big company crossovers. How do they stack up? For those coming off the Thor movie, Journey Into Mystery by Kieon Gillen and

Peter Kennard is a world renowned activist photographer and photomontage artist who came to prominence in anti-war activism after the Vietname war and

Here, courtesy of Marvel, is a worldess preview for Supreme Power, a new chapter for the Squadroin Supreme, revived as a MAX title by J Michael

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool Art and politics have been forever involved with one another. Living in the age of short-term high-speed media, it

Sorry for the delay, folks, yesterday got on top of me rather. There was a time, once, when the hegemony of the superhero book looked like it was about to

Two comics, both published on the same day, both with reveal endings I don't particularly want to reveal but it's probably too late and I'd much rather

Comics supplied by Holy Goat Comics of Kingston Upon Thames, London. Pop by and say hello. It's hard not to read Matt Fraction's Iron Man and Brian

Comics supplied by Holy Goat Comics of Kingston Upon Thames, London. Pop by and say hello. Never has war looked quite like a string of fairylights. DC to

Comics supplied by Holy Goat Comics of Kingston Upon Thames, London. Pop by and say hello. For weeks I've watched Aaron and Mike going on and on and on

Comics supplied by Holy Goat Comics of Kingston Upon Thames, London. Pop by and say hello. It's back baby and it's oh so sweet. Concrete's on the cover,

Two comics. Both tied into Marvel and DC's respective crossovers. But a world apart. Kieron Gillen has a rather malleable voice. We've seen how the author

Vertigo is probably my favourite comic book publisher, in that I buy more of a percentage of their published titles than any other. But here I find myself

One is a comic steeped in decades of Marvel continuity. The other is something very new indeed. Fear Itself is the beginning of the big Marvel crossover.

I usually like to review disparate books together if possible. Well, despite having two X-Men comic books, that couldn't more so be the case with this

Jimmy Olsen Oneshot is a strange beast to sell, initially made up of the Jimmy Olsen back up strips that ran in the $3.99 Action Comics before a reverse

Paul Cornell writes for Doctor Who and is a friend of Steven Moffatt. As a result he is very acquainted with the Comic Relief special from ten years ago

In FF #1 no one dies. But everything changes. For years the book has twisted and turned with different approaches, occasionally changing team members,

Batroc The Leaper is a joke. A character designed in full French stereotype, but one as a criminal with honour who will play the game. But as likely to