Alan Moore called it “a pitch-perfect narrative from two of my favourite creators.” Jeff Lemire called it “One of the most charming and wonderful comics being published today.” But hardly anyone reads it. That is going to change, fast. Resident Alien by Tom Strong‘s Peter Hogan and BoJeffries Saga‘s Steve Parkhouse is published by Dark Horse […]
Dark Horse Comics has announced a new original graphic novel by artist Benjamin Shipper, hitting stores in September and described as a cross between Mike Mignola, A Fistful of Dollars, and Johnny Cash’s Ghost Riders in the Sky. Though listed as a “debut writer and artist” in the press release, it’s a technicality. as this […]
The origin of Too Much Coffee Man is revealed for the first time in this new confessional graphic novel by cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, to be published in November by Dark Horse Comics. Featuring decades of strips and comics with new sequential work connecting and commenting on each era, Wheeler analyzes formative periods in his life as […]
Bleeding Cool mentioned a few weeks ago that the new comic book series BANG! by Matt Kindt and Wilfredo Torres had garnered a quote from Keanu Reeves. And that was enough for Diamond Comic Distributors to burn through all available stock of the comic ahead of publication on February 19th, and to rush out a […]
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. […]
Plenty of launches in Dark Horse Comics’ April 2020 solicitations, from The Last Knight of St. Hagan by Mike Mignola, Scott Allie and Andrea Mutti, the original screenplay to Alien before Ridley Scott got his hands on it, being adapted as a comic, a new Black Hammer comic, Colonel Weird: Cosmagog by Jeff Lemire and […]
Great news for fans of Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook’s award-winning horror series Harrow County who like the series exactly enough to pay $30 for the first volume of a paperback omnibus but not quite enough to pay $40 each for the library edition hardcovers (what’s your problem, cheapskate!?). Dark Horse has announced the impending […]
On a basic level, once could argue that the art book for the television adaptation of Umbrella Academy would be the comics upon which they’re based, which are Umbrella Academy books that feature art. Dark Horse Comics disagrees, however, as they’re releasing a 200-page, $40 art book called The Making of the Umbrella Academy. The […]
In space, no one can hear you scream… or can they? Everything we thought we knew could be wrong as Dark Horse is set to publish an alternate version of the 1979 hit film Alien with Alien: The Original Screenplay. Cristiano Seixas, Guilherme Balbi, and Candice Han will adapt the original screenplay written by Dan […]
Tyler Boss is launching a new series at Dark Horse in April called Dead Dog’s Bite. Though we were hoping for a zombie comic about anthropomorphic dogs, it seems this will be a mystery four-issue mini-series instead, which is still nice. Check out the press release below and look for Dead Dog’s Bite in April. […]
Dark Horse Comics has announced a new graphic novel from Eisner Hall-of-Famer Paul Levitz and Man With Two First Names Simon Fraser hitting stores this June. Unfinished Business, according to a press release at least so take it with a grain of salt, is a “tantalizing original graphic novel of dark mystery and magical realism […]
Courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors and Previewsworld, these are the top 100 comic books ordered through the direct market in North America, through Diamond. It is notable that Star Wars #1, Harley Quinn #1, Rocket Raccoon#1, Walking Dead #132, Bravest Warriors Tales #1, Orphan Black #1 and Big Trouble In Little China/Escape From New York #1 […]
Marvel Comics is launched its big Robert E Howard crossover series last year, Conan: Serpent War. With Soloman Kane, Conan and Dark Agnes. And now in February, Marvel Comics will be launching Dark Agnes, a new series by Becky Cloonan and Luca Pizzari in February 2020. Dark Agnes de Chastillon was the protagonist of three stories by Howard set in 16th […]
Will the third time be the charm for the comics career of Chelsea Cain? The first time around, Cain ended up quitting Twitter in 2016 following backlash to Joelle Jones‘ cover to Mockingbird #8 where the character wore a t-shirt with the slogan “Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda.” Cain returned a few years later […]
As Bleeding Cool reported back in September, Spawn #300 was the second best-selling comic book in the North American direct market, selling around 300,000 copies, only beaten by DC Comics’ Detective Comics #1000 at around 600,000 copies. Annual comic book sales in the direct market of comic shops increased in 2019 by nearly 4% over […]
Jeff Lemire and Tyler Crook will expand Lemire and Dean Ormston’s Black Hammer universe with another series launching in April from Dark Horse. Colonel Weird: Cosmagog will be a four-issue mini-series telling the strange origin story of Colonel Randall Weird. Check out the press release below for more info. MILWAUKIE, Ore., (January 15, 2020)—From the […]
Here you go folks, in full, the Top 100 Power List of Comics, 2019 Edition. Every year, Bleeding Cool runs its Top 100 Power List of members of the English-speaking comic book industry, weighted towards the direct market. It is judged by all manner of attributes, the ability to influence what comics exist and sell, […]
We only head the names, publishers and assorted details for the Silver Free Comic Book Day 2020 titles the other day. now we have them all. So… what will you be picking up, come the first Saturday in May? GOLD TITLES: FCBD 2020 ARCHIE BLUE RIBBON PRESENTS ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS (W) Micol Ostow, Jamie L […]
Next week’s Diamond Comic Distributors’ Previews catalogue, for comics shipping in March 2020 and beyond, should reach comic stores by Friday 27th, territory-depending. And on its front cover, a new comic book by Jonathan Hickman of East of West and House Of X and Mike Huddleston of Harley Quinn, The Strain and Butcher Baker described […]
Mike Allred‘s X-Ray Robot #1, his first new creator-owned superhero character since Madman launched from Dark Horse Comics in March 2020, as well as Starship Down #1, a brand-new thriller drawn by Andrea Mutti and Dark Horse begin the Neil Gaiman Library Volume 1 hardcover with four stories for 2020. Here are Dark Horse’s full […]
