2017 Archives

It really is a worthwhile event and the community bonding is intense. For 2017 they are featuring events that will cover (breath in) academic talks; architecture; meetups; Bifröst Cabaret; board gaming; books; cheese & cheese; comedy; comics; cosplay; crafting; creative writing; dealers' room; DJ sets; engineering; fandoms; fanworks; games design; hackers; history; knitting and yarncraft; LARPing;[...]

You can follow Mike Sangregorio's wonderful live blogging of the Eisner Awards 2017 at San Diego Comic-Con last night But here are the full results – as well as the reactions of some of the recipients and friends… Best Short Story "Good Boy," by Tom King and David Finch, in Batman Annual #1 (DC) Best Single Issue/One-Shot Beasts of Burden: What[...]

But courtesy of THR, SDCC Unofficial Blog, Sidequesting, EW and a tonne of original research, here's this year's San Diego Comic-Con Party List for Bleeding Cool, the biggest collection of the evening parties and meet-ups happening in and around San Diego Comic-Con 2017 during the week of the show, the public and the private, the P and[...]

The June 2017 Loot Crate was just dropped off by Mr Postie So why not slap up the phone, drag out the scissors, not even bother to brush my hair and get in with a video unboxing for Bleeding Cool? You know it makes sense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wArbtboIUZ4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Loot Crate June[...]

We've seen Titan Comics' Crime solicitations for September 2017 over the weekend Well, now we get a look at the Doctor Who titles, including their continuity Four Doctor crossover Lost Dimension, that seems to be adding Doctors by the second… oh, and some other TV/film-related titles and adaptations too… TENTH DOCTOR #3.9 Event Part 3 Writer Nick Abadzis Artists[...]

Hallowe'en Comic Fest is the Free Comic Book Day for October that everyone seems to forget. Run by Diamond Comic Distributors, it sees publishers put out

Marvel Comics solicitations for July 2017 are out in full We have the continuation of Secret Empire, with Miles Morales Spider-Man punching killing Nazi Hydra Steve Rogers Captain America The launch of Astonishing X-Men, Spider-Men II, Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again, Ragnarok Prelude, Guardians Of The Galaxy Telltale #1 and Spider-Man: Master Plan…   [...]

April 2017's Loot Crate offering is called "Investigate" For the standard Loot Crate, that means unnamed items for Jessica Jones, Stranger Things, Batman and X-Files. While the more expensive Loot Crate DX contains items from Jessica Jones, Daredevil, Batman and Twin Peaks. You can sign up for the monthly subscription Loot Crates here, and get extra discount with[...]

Thanks to Bleeding Cool reporter Ian Melton, and other friends of Bleeding Cool, we are off. Image Expo 2018 is announced for 1st February 2018 - the

Announced by Image Comics at ECCC, a new series by X-Factor's Pablo Raimondi and Dark Knight Returns' Klaus Janson, Sacred Creatures. Klaus talked to me

Announced by Image Comics at ECCC 2017… Mage: The Hero Denied by Matt Wagner Thirty-four years after the first Mage chapter comes the conclusion Or does it? Matt Wagner returns with the long-awaited conclusion to his epic fantasy trilogy MAGE follows the adventures of the reluctant everyman hero Kevin Matchstick who, after encountering a shaggy and[...]

Joseph Rojas reports from the front row of the DC Comics panel at Emerald City Comicon. He writes, he shoots, we post... Scott Snyder (on the left) says

Without further ado, here is where you can pick up select ECCC 2017 Funko exclusives this weekend (I can confirm these are in stores now, as I stopped on my way to work this morning at my local Hot topic and got both the First Avenger Captain America and the Upside Down Stranger Things two-pack): Hot[...]

Expect lots of these previously-unseen covers to be shown off at ECCC by DC Comics. But if you can't go and want a sneak peek... Justice League Of America

Former pro wrestler and current general manager of WWE Smackdown Live, Daniel Bryan, will wrestle a bear on the Emerald City Comic Con Exclusive cover of

Make this our third collection of ECCC exclusives for Emerald City Comicon 2017, starting this week… what will you be grabbing? Catch our previous three lists here, here and here Boom are latecomers… Over the Garden Wall Limited Edition hardcover cover by Kevin Jay Stanton Lumberjanes merit badges, ten different embroidered badges $5 each… …and new enamel pin of[...]

Make this our third collection of ECCC exclusives for Emerald City Comicon 2017, starting this week… what will you be grabbing? Catch our previous two lists here and here. Black Mask: Booth 834   THERE'S NOTHING THERE #1 – ECCC Exclusive – Limited to 99 SPACE RIDERS, Galaxy Of Brutality #1 – ECCC Exclusive – Limited to 99 Booth: A12 4 KIDS[...]

We had a batch yesterday but there are many more exclusives for ECCC to come! Oni Press Booth 216 WE LOVE FINE ELECTROGOR PLUSH* *Limited to only 100

Well, not everyone. Every comic convention has guests that are cancelled. Sometimes life gets in the way, deadlines, sickness, other shows, sometimes they

Here comes Emerald City Comicon! And there are plenty of items you can only buy there! Here are the comic books we're been able to find... AfterShock

Somewhere at ECCC in Seattle this week, a comic book will be announced from a creative team for a publisher. Okay, a lot of them will be. It's that kind

Well the big night is finally here, tinsel town is out in it's finest. Soon the awards ceremony itself will be kicking off and we'll find out if the

Dark Horse comics will be at the Emerald City Comic Con March 2nd - 5th and have quite a lot going on including participating in 10 panels over the four

Sometimes it takes a while for everything to eke out of company presentations. Such as the word from Marvel Comics last week at their ComcisPRO meeting

And then making a bunch of Image Comics announcements for their twenty-fifth year. On March 2nd, from 4:15pm to 6:15pm, in room TCC 304 Image Comics is bringing the Future of Comics to Emerald City Comicon in 2017 with this special two-hour presentation Featuring a keynote speech by publisher Eric Stephenson about the past, present, and future of[...]

Welcome to the Marvel Comics solicitations for May 2017 With commentary in red. Note there is no Patsy Walker aka Hellcat, Power Man & Iron Fist, Great Lake Avengers or World Of Wakanda But Spider-Man 2099, Uncanny Avengers, Moon Knight and Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur survive! And we have a new character Girl Moon! [...]

Thanks to Ray Flook and Alejandra Bodden for Bleeding Cool, the look of LEGO at New York Toy Fair 2017… and catch up with Day One here! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ [...]

Breaking this morning out of the ComicsPRO conference in Memphis, TN, Valiant has just announced via Entertainment Weekly that the award-winning publisher is partnering with the 2017 Vans Warped Tour for a first-of-its-kind artwork and branding collaboration spanning the festival's upcoming summer season. Not only has Valiant artist Kano designed the lead artwork and design materials[...]

Regardless, opening that door and finding a pissed Schwarzenegger standing there never bodes well for anyone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLBrkK-ZnI0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Aftermath (2017 Movie) – Official Trailer – Arnold Schwarzenegger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLBrkK-ZnI0) Aftermath, originally titled 478 is a revenge film, based on the Überlingen mid-air collision that happened in June of 2002 and stars Arnold[...]

The question is being asked. https://twitter.com/nathanfairbairn/status/825487015500091392 The current US immigration changes may be causing issue for upcoming comic book conventions, both regarding guests and attendees no longer allowed to attend, but also with those who choose not to come to the USA as a result. Can we reconcile our condemnation of the current administration and its racism and[...]