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I am super happy Justin is working on the titles he has and look forward to reading them, but in the end, I am not the biggest fan of crossovers to begin with, so I thought my time would be better spent on the projects in front of me. RJ: Your new creator-owned (or creator-participant) comic[...]

But it's certainly a significant addition to Boom!'s ranks. Jimmy Palmiotti, the man who turned around Marvel with Joe Quesada, who turned Harley Quinn into a comic that outsold X-Men, with Amanda Conner, and who had the foresight not to sell his Image comics through Graphic.ly  (and thus has the still only four Image titles available[...]

Boom have made quite a few headlines over the last couple of years recruiting both experienced, high level talent like George Pérez, Brian Stelfreeze, JG Jones and Grant Morrison alongside hot, up-and-coming creators who might normally gravitate to Image with their original projects like James Tynion IV, Justin Jordan, Frank Barbiere, Cullen Bunn and Marguerite Bennett. We're still[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a post detailing the wishes of writer Ian Brill and editor Christopher Burns for their names to be taken off the upcoming Darkwing Duck Collection for Joe Books, as the solicitations stated that the work would be rewritten in accordance with. Joe Books publisher is ex-Boom! editor Adam Fortier[...]

While the order form… …is all abut the webcomic Help Us! Great Warrior by Madéleine Flores debuting in print from Boom! The look of the new Diamond Previews for December…   Suiciders from Lee Bermejo and DC/Vertigo on the front… …and Eric Powell's Goon from Dark Horse on the back[...]

#1 as well as the All-New Miracleman Annual #1. Boom will publish Roger Langridge's Abigail And The Snowman #1. And Valiant will publish X-O Manowar #31. Shops will get all these titles a week early, but Diamond will have secret shoppers othe prowl in case anyone is selling them too soon and breaking the New Year's Eve street[...]

And it's not the only Image Comics title doing well. UPDATE: Oh yes, as we first reported, Walking Dead was in the Loot Crate last month… which might also have really helped numbers! But it does also mean that Image's unit marketshare will be higher than that of Dark Horse, IDW, Boom and Dynamite – combined. Something I'm[...]

Is everyone excited about today's comics? Thank you Regular Show: Skips. Well, let's get on with it then! And... all the excitement has gone. Man, it's a

We have so many great comic books out today. Little Nemo #2 demonstrates the treats in store. Such as Savage Dragon #199, where every page in this comic

You wait for ages for comic books about birdlike people then two come along at one. Marvel has already announced the Max Ride series adapting the

Next week sees the launch of Father's Day, the new Colder series, Predator Fire And Stone, Arkham Manor, Deathstroke, Multiversity: The Just, D&D Legends Of Baldur's Gate, Edward Scissorhands, TMNT/Ghostbusters, Goners, Axis: Hobgoblin, Afterlife With Archie Magazine, Memetic, Jack The Lantern: Salvation, 13 Coins and Grimm's Fairy Tale: Dark Shaman… And the week after, Baltimore: Wolf And The[...]

Firstly, Sleepy Hollow is, yes, a licensed property from Boom!, but they have amazing artists and a rising star, Marguerite Bennett, writing, not to mention the art of Jorge Coelho and another strong female presence on the comic with Noelle Stevenson writing and drawing back-ups For me, that means I'm going to get stories that[...]

By Randy Young and Chris Hunter Bleeding Cool welcomes the return of Talking Comics, from Excalibur Comics, Cards, and Games in Shreveport, Louisiana, to

At NYCC on Saturday morning in a Boom! panel, Matt Gagnon said that the pitch for The Woods was one of the best he'd ever read and loved it immediately Tynion said Scott Snyder once asked him, "If you could only write one comic for the rest of your life, what would it look like?"[...]

It's wonderful to see different styles portraying characters that you might nor normally see, providing something special for fans, collectors, and artists alike. BOOM! Studios certainly has a colorful collection of variant covers available for their titles Noelle Stevenson offers a lovely take on Ichabod Crane and Leftenant Abigail Mills with her cover for the recently[...]

Boom Studios is definitely been upping their original series of late with the likes of Lumberjanes, Sirens, Wild's End, Hexed and Translucid. And one of them was The Woods by Batman writer James Tynion IV Boom's best original series launch since Waid's Irredeemable, itself broken by George Perez' Sirens. With a nicked-from-Image Comics first collection for $9.99 price point, and a new[...]

Well, X-Files Year Zero, I just bought some comic books. Let's see what's going on? Well, we seem to have another confluence between Marvel and DC, with

And colour is used as a way to simulate the effects of music and song in a very unmusical medium, creating a whole new visual language. And on Wednesday, Archaia/Boom! are publishing it If you have interest in what comics can do when challenged – as well as some Muppet archaeology – you owe it to[...]

Another wonderful week of comics, so what have you been buying? Psychic occultist Cassandra Craft returned to the New 52 with a racebending change from

When was the last time a toy took the front or back cover of Diamond's Previews cover? A reprise of Rob Liefeld's classic cover to New Mutants #87 for

This week sees the launch of Booster Gold, Oddly Normal, George Perez's Sirens, Purgatori, Itty Bitty Bunnies and Six Million Dollar Man Season #4. And the week after brings launches for GI Joe, Roche Limit, Aliens: Fire And Stone, A Voice In The Dark… And plenty of Dead Wolverines, 3D DC and Multiversity too…. DARK HORSE COMICS BILLY THE[...]

From the creator of Knuckles The Malevolent Nun... Comes the story of a very different character. Or characters. Abigail and the Snowman, a four-issue

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: This week the Futures End event kicked off with some really awesome titles and the 3-D lenticular covers were fantastic! Marvel had their fair share of awesome titles,[...]

Abigail And Her Yeti, Abby's Yeti, Abby And Abomnible, Abbymnible or something like it, from Boom. In the manner of The Beano's comic strip Betty's Yeti. We ran a first teaser for this yesterday and did our best to unpack it. Didn't do too badly, it seems Abigail And Her Yeti, Abby's Yeti, Abby And Abomnible, Abbymnible[...]

The new star of a new comic book series from the All Ages imprint of Boom! Studios, Kaboom. Oh yes and she has a friend. Hairy, smoking a pipe, possibly a Yeti Hasn't she heard of stranger danger, let alone the evils of secondary smoking? We look forward to finding out more at… Baltimore Comic Con maybe? UPDATE: Tom[...]

Boom has slowly been adding to their top name creative lists over the last couple of years Mike Carey, Paul Jenkins, Brian Stelfreeze, the return of Mark Waid, JG Jones and Grant Morrison are all on board And that also included George Pérez launching his new comic, Sirens. Originally announced as She-Devils at last year's Baltimore Comic-Con, then changed[...]

In for a penny… Rocket Raccoon #1 from Marvel will be getting a third printing as it inched towards a 400,000 print run in total. Bee And Puppycat #2 from Boom! continues to perform and will be getting a second printing. Outcast #1 from Skybound/Image is going to a fourth printing. While the newly launched Fade Out #1 from Image[...]

Two teens investigate the origins of these curious creatures and how they can stop those who are trying to destroy them. Boom Studios had been sending out teaser images for a new series from their all-ages imprint throughout last week while I was in surgery featuring strange looking elemental animal/creature hybrids Respectfully, we worked out that the[...]

This is Jim Campbell's cover to the Boom! adaptation of animated series Over The Garden Wall coming in November And from it, I'll make certain assumptions It feels like The Wind In The Willows crossed with Coraline-lite, something that's slightly spooky, but not enough to make the kids cry  Everything is safe Until you see[...]

Boom's newest imprint, Boom Box has been the home of comics like Lumberjanes and the upcoming Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo collection It seems to have the company mission statement to bring Tumblr into comic shops, something Boom also managed with Adventure Time and Bee & PuppyCat And I've spent a little while pointing out such moves to retailer who may[...]