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A quick flick through a few of this week's comics, in the most popular regular column on Bleeding Cool, X Thoughts About X Comics. Get in touch if you

Spencer Ellsworth writes: The thing about reading Transformers comics: it's one of those nerd habits that one has to defend in the presence of other

Here's the variant cover to The Other Dead #4, the zombie animal comic published by IDW, in which President Obama gets involved during a zombie animal outbreak. The variant cover on the first issue promised a gun toting President, but the insides didn't deliver, the only person who has spend time in the White House in[...]

Diamond Comic Distributors have told UK stores that their IDW comic due this week may be a week late The comics include; Maxx: Maxximized #1 TMNT: Classics Vol 7 TPB GI Joe: Special Missions #9 Star Trek #27 X-Files: Season 10 #6 Thunder Agents #4 Godzilla: Rulers Of The Earth #6 Zombie War #2 Powerpuff Girls #3 Half Past Danger #6 Diamond Comic Distributors have[...]

Doctor Who comic book writer Tony Lee writes; My first story for @IDWPublishing was 'The Forgotten' – and the most iconic image of the whole story was the end scene with all 10 Doctors. — Tony Lee (@mrtonylee) November 20, 2013 So jump six years forward, and I'm at SDCC learning that my 4 parter is the last[...]

And who are those nine silhouetted figures in the back? Nine plus four equals thirteen, you know, IDW are starting a new storyline called "13 Badges"…   And who are those nine silhouetted figures in the back? Nine plus four equals thirteen, you know, IDW are starting a new storyline called "13 Badges"…   And who are[...]

IDW's solicitations for February 2014 starts out string with the Artist's Edition of Jack Kirby's New Gods, before giving us X-Files Vs Transformers and X-Files Vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as new Rogue Trooper ripped from 2000AD and the rather intruguing looking City: Mind in the Machine… dive in folks! Jack Kirby's New Gods[...]

Image and Dark Horse continue to roll out new titles along with some of their ongoing that are gaining a following, and noir and occult comics are still prominent from both, with IDW jumping in with Joe Hill's Wraith debuting But I'm going to settle on three that have contributed to my reading experience and[...]

I started with the franchise when it started with IDW about 5 years ago I was originally just what was supposed to be a 4 issue miniseries, and I was sort of writing it with Christos Gage It was popular enough that it ballooned up into two different ongoing series It is now the Cobra[...]

8 issues are available on ComiXology at the moment, with the 9th issue on pre-order, and its first collection is coming to print from IDW early in 2014. Never Ending is already on pre-order from Dark Horse and shows Knave and Kirkbride jumping into a super-hero tale with artist Robert Love The series is not without[...]

IDW launched a Rocketeer/Spirit series, Pulp Friction earlier this year, by Mark Waid and Paul Smith.The first issue came out in July The second… at the end of October with new artist Loston Wallace. So what happened? And what is happening now? IDW told me; We're also huge fans of Paul Smith and were ecstatic when he[...]

The comic series Kill Shakespeare launched from IDW in the Spring of 2010, featuring the work of co-creators Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery, and the artist Andy Belanger [aka Andy B.] and turns on the premise that some of Shakespeare's most famous heroes (Hamlet, Juliet, Falstaff, Othello, Romeo, Puck) undertake a journey to find[...]

We've already pointed out (and ran video) of IDW's plans to sell My Little Pony mini-comics in mass market retail stores, aimed at children Indeed, just seeing them opened up by my kids has apparently changed IDW's mind about how they'll package the comics They are serious about using this as a way to target[...]

The Other Dead is an IDW comic about a zombie animal outbreak, that not only featured Dick Cheney being gnawed to death by the deer that he'd shot, but an Obama in response The second issue out today sadly doesn't feature the gun-totoing Obama that last month's variant cover promised… but we do get a[...]

Brian Ruckley is a Scottish fantasy writer, author of the Godless World trilogy, Winterbirth, Bloodheir and Fall Of Thanes. And now, it seems, the new Rogue Trooper series from IDW, adapting the long running 2000AD strip created by Gerry Finley-Day and Dave Gibbons for the American market. The comic will be drawn by Dial H's Albert Ponticello,[...]

So I brought my little smashers a few of those My Little Pony Micro Packs, each containing a My Little Pony comic, stickers, tattoos and a poster, all for

Here come the IDW solicitations for January 2014… the start of a new Pony comic, an X-Files crossover with the rest of the titles, a new book called Purgatory by Joe Halpin Sr and Juanfrancisco Guerrero, Dan Goldman's Red Light Properties and Lorraine Turner's Calico Horses and the Patchwork Trail… lots to dig into The[...]

Recently, Bleeding Cool favourite Alex De Campi has been writing Grindhouse for Dark Horse, a series of nasty, exploitative, seedy and downright disturbing comics. It's not that much of a jump to writing My Little Pony. And she's joined on art by one of my favourite comics artists, Carla Speed McNeil from Finder, on IDW's second ongoing[...]

Today sees the release of Star Trek: Khan #1 in all good comic book stores. You may need to prepare yourself. Here, thanks to New York Comic Con is a

This, right here, is rather clever. What if The Lone Gunmen, of X-Files fame, were to investigate rumours of humanoid turtles living in the sewers of New York City? Or about alien robotic intelligences that have disguised themselves as innocent looking road vehicles in a parking lot near you? Coming soon from IDW, apparently…   [...]

Now IDW are doing the same thing, in a deal with Pandasaurus Games, creating IDW Games. IDW Games will specialize in high-quality big-box games developed around several of IDW's key properties, beginning in the late spring of 2014 with Kill Shakespeare and 30 Days of Night Readers and gamers alike will now be given the chance[...]

In November, IDW are giving a bunch of their comics 1-10 variant covers designed to resemble their Artist Editions, as if they were the original artwork, pasted up on the boards. Of course it's a bit of a con – original art doesn't look like this anymore in the digital age But they do look rather[...]

It seems zombies, nay animal zombies, nay animal zombies killing and eating Dick Cheney while President Obama packs heat was rather popular. IDW's The Other Dead sold out from distribution centres yesterday, of its entire print run of 10,500 copies, with back order mounting up Expect a second print run to satisfy that soon. 6700 were printed[...]

SO much smarter to just, you know, PAY ME ON TIME!! On IDW As I've mentioned before, I have waived my page rate and first publication royalties on all my books at IDW, to make it easier on their corporate wallets I get only the royalties from the trade paperbacks and other reprints. … and more recently… Meanwhile, found[...]

  On, the left, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as drawn by IDW artist Ross Campbell. And on the right, the work of Damon Bowie, as sold on eBay and his website. It's interesting, Bowie is clearly an accomplished artist and the work does have a rather polished appeal But it appear to be derived from Campbell's[...]

With the release of Transformers: Regeneration One #0, folks in the city of Halifax got a chance to see their home being visited by a six-pack of

Next week! A new issue of Bleeding Cool Magazine hits the stands, a new Criminal Macabre starts, everyone lines up and tries to grab a copy of Joker's Daughter before flipping it on eBay for $100, there's the launch of the Dick Cheney-killing The Other Dead #1 and Powerpuff Girls #1 from IDW, Rat Queens[...]

The Other Dead, a new comic book from IDW is published next Wednesday A story about animals, reanimated, coming back from the dead as bloodthirsty zombies But focusing on the people, a young cancer sufferer and his mother, a pair of strippers, a rock band with some seriously strange ideas, hunters, all in Louisiana, living[...]

In the midst of what seemed like a storm of creative furor, Hill descended on Baltimore Comic Con to participate in some panels and sign for what can only be described as starry-eyed hoards of book-toting fans. Courtesy of IDW, Hill sat down with Bleeding Cool to discuss his future plans and his take on storytelling[...]

Here's a look at IDW's solicitations for December… a new Sinister Dexter comic from the pages of 2000AD by Dan Abnett and Andy Clarke, and new comics The Illegitimates #1 by Taran Killam, Marc Andreyko and Kevin Sharpe, Indestructible #1 by Jeff Kline, Javi Garron and Salvi Garcia and Deadworld: Restoration #1 (of[...]