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Marvel has revealed another five of their Un-Uncanny X-Men variants. Those are Uncanny X-Men variants that aren’t actually for the book Uncanny X-Men, because that book already has eight billion skillion variants and they’ve now spilled out all over the rest of Marvel’s line. Where will they stop? Will DC and Image soon begin announcing […]

Before arriving at the current Black Panther series, we are going to take a look back at a couple of teams he enjoyed before the newest series under Ta-Nehisi Coates. From my personal experience, I had actually become more interested in T’Challa after reading about him in Al Ewing’s Ultimates and Ultimates Squared. Jonathan Hickman’s […]

With an opening on its inaugural programming schedule due to the cancellation of The Mist after one season, the Paramount Network (formerly Spike TV) is looking to Image Comics spy series Velvet as their very first original scripted drama. Kyle Killen (Awake, Lone Star) has been tapped to adapt the 15-issue comic book series, from the creative […]

So who is the Winter Soldier? He’s Captain America’s long lost sidekick Bucky… we’ve seen it in two different films so far. But before Sebastian Stan put on the metal arm, it was a ground breaking storyline by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting. It involved Sharon Carter, Nick Fury, the Red Skull and the Cosmic […]

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent A couple of years ago, I came across Ed Brubaker when I asked one of my comic book retailer friends what should I be reading. He mentioned Saga, Mind MGMT and Ed Brubaker’s Fatale, which was around issue 10 by the time I started reading the series. […]

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: Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. This week’s episode includes part 2 of our interview with artist Aaron Campbell, who graciously […]

Marvel’s latest attempt to push their comic books into the mainstream, has seen Wal-Mart sell a series of exclusive trade paperbacks, geared to those familiar with the movies, all for $5 each. Their covers proclaim each is an “Exclusive Complete Graphic Novel” with a bonus free digital issue. One reader reports their placement on a standee […]

[youtube]http://youtu.be/p2vGWpL1dQ0[/youtube]   Introducing Bleeding Cool’s latest video feature, The Bleed! The Bleed is a weekly “book club” by some of the site’s writers including Erik Grove, Ian Mageto, Joseph Schmidt and David Dissanayake. Join them every Wednesday on the Google Hangout, where they discuss news, latest releases, interview creators and discuss a weekly pick. Check […]

[audio:http://www.orbitalcomics.com/images/blog/orbital-podcastcaptainamericaspecial.mp3] Bleeding Cool welcomes back The Orbiting Pod, the podcast of Orbital Comics in London. They say: Welcome to another special episode of The Orbiting Pod! With the new movie Captain America: The Winter Soldier in cinemas worldwide, we’ve decided to spotlight some of Steve Rogers greatest stories from across the decades. We kick things […]

I’m reviewing live with first looks at today’s releases here at my local comic shop, Conquest Comics in New Jersey, and it’s another week of tough choices so I’m casting my net wide and taking in the comics goodness. We’ve got books from Marvel, Avatar Press, Image, Vertigo, Archie, and Dark Horse just to pick […]

Two Image Comics launches for today, Pretty Deadly #1 by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios, and Velvet #1 by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, have sold out of their 57,000 print runs, from Diamond Comic Distributors. Now, both books were made returnable if retailers ordered significant amounts, and this figure does not account for […]

We’re back! Down with con crud last week courtesy of the madness of New York Comic Con, I’m catching up on my books, but if there’s one thing that’ll get me out of bed and down to my local shop, Conquest Comics in New Jersey, it’s a new Hellboy book. And it is worth it. […]

  Out this Wednesday, from Image Comics, the teaming up again of Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, last seen on Captain America, now taking their pulpy tones to… well… Paris. The year after I was born. With a rather what-if-Moneypenny-was-James-Bond vibe… It was probably the star announcement of Image Comics Expo this year. It’s not […]

Velvet is a new comic coming from Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, reuniting from their Captain America/Winter Soldier pairing, to be published in October from Image Comics – and just announced at Image Comics Expo. “Velvet Templeton is the personal assistant to the head of one of the world’s largest intelligence agencies, a Moneypenny kind […]

As well as Jonathan Hickman writing the Avengers Marvel NOW! Relaunch, he will also be writing New Avengers, with Steve Epting on art, with #1 on sale from January 2013. That means, of the NOW 21 titles, we currently know four, including All New X-Men and Uncanny Avengers… UPDATE: And Thor #1, Iron Man #1 […]