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If Free Guy had come out a year ago, it could have been disastrous. I’m not sure the general public was in the mood for a feel-good, quasi-philosophic movie about video games, let alone willing to go into a movie theatre. That’s why it was delayed a total of three times: once from July 2020,

The Humble Manga Bundle: Isekai by Kodansha is available now through August 26, 2021, on Humble Bundle and features over $840 worth of Isekai manga ebooks, including popular titles like The Hero Life of a (Self-Proclaimed) “Mediocre” Demon!, Am I Actually the Strongest?, Shangri-La Frontier, I’m Standing on a Million Lives and many more. “Humble

In Rechargeable by Bilvy, readers will be introduced to the Immortals, a street gang trying to scrape by in New Portland, a seedy city in a futuristic version of Australia. Featuring a mixture of interesting character dynamics, futuristic technology, and “Australian levels of swearing,” this webcomic is sure to seize your attention and refuse to

I have called Mark Stafford one of the greatest cartoonists you have never heard of, though I have done my best to rectify that. I published him in my Dirtbag and X-Flies comics back in 1995, gave him advertising work on the video game KKND, he did covers for my Avengefuls comic books and for

August is here, and now more than ever there’s new content coming to DC UNIVERSE INFINITE! Harley Quinn: The Animated Series: The Eat. Bang! Kill. Tour’s first chapter dropped on August 2 and is dominating the conversations in the DC Community, and Suicide Squad: King Shark arrives on August 6! And if you missed it

The development of the television adaptation of Y: The Last Man, the acclaimed Vertigo comics series from writer Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, has been a long journey since FX first ordered a pilot back in 2018. Years later after cast changes and Eliza Clark replacing the original showrunners Michael Green and Aida Mashaka

As big-scale comic cons threaten to return, alongside the industry social networking opportunities nicknamed “BarCon,” there has been some criticism over how such a BarCon system might be challenged when it returns. BarCon Racial Slur twitter screencap Malissa White is a comic book creator, writing on webcomics such as Nightmare, Soundbox, A Wailing Blade, and

There are over a dozen super-villains, antiheroes and outright psychopaths at the core of James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, the new DC blockbuster hitting theaters and HBO Max today. From superhero celebrities like Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn to little known Z-listers like Javelin and Mongal, the cast is absolutely packed. And yet, over the course

Later this month AfterShock will release Seven Swords #3, the next installment of the series from writer Evan Daugherty, colorist Valentina Bianconi, and letterer Dave Sharpe. After two issues featuring art by Riccardo Latina, artist Federico Dallocchio joins the series for its next issue, which finds series lead D’Artagnan thrust into a leadership position he never wanted. Here’s how AfterShock

We haven’t done this a while, but it can often expose the thoughts, priorities, and plans for a company such as DC Comics going forward. Of late DC Comics has been pushing their registrations for trademarks for Fandome, The Flash, Live Fast Die Clown, Gifter, Super Hero, Superman & Lois, and Black Adam. But what

As Covid-19 infections surge due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, just how and when comics conventions will return is still very much a work in progress. New York Comic Con just added an advisory to its front page: On August 3, 2021, the city of New York announced that it will be putting in place requirements

Lo And Behold! Wendy Mass is an author of young adult novels and children’s books whose titles include A Mango-Shaped Space, 11 Birthdays, The Candymakers, Bob and Every Soul a Star. Her novel Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life was adapted into a feature film in 2011. And now, it seems, she is moving

TWO brand new Tom the Dancing Bug books are coming out this November: Tom the Dancing Bug Awakens; and Tom the Dancing Bug, Without the Bad Ones! You can reserve your copies by pre-ordering (at a lower price) today! RIGHT HERE AND NOW. “Ruben Bolling’s craft and commentary are as powerful and as pointed, as

This week, the breakout character of the current Guardians of the Galaxy series takes the spotlight as the complete and unabridged secret origin of the Prince of Power is revealed! What secrets hide behind the hero’s spectacular smile? And how do they relate to the ongoing “Infinite Destinies” storyline? We’ve got a review of Guardians

Kindred is a demonic version of Harry Osborn, who has been running around the Spider-Man books for most of Nick Spencer‘s run on the series. Bleeding Cool has from the beginning theorised that this is the Harry Osborn who died before One More Day and went to hell. That Mephisto created a replacement Harry Osborn

The Suicide Squad’s sprawling cast includes a lot of colorful characters, but Mayling Ng’s real-life resume is just as impressive. An actress/black belt martial artist/figure competitor, Ng plays Mongal, an orange-hued alien warrior who is recruited by Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) for Task Force X’s mission to Corto Maltese. Led by Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman) and

Fantastic Four #1 is a pretty good comic, but a lot of people believe that it could be much better if old school artists like Jack Kirby had access to modern comics-making technology, such as putting gradients on everything and making the artwork really shiny. Luckily, Marvel has a solution: getting modern artists to redraw

Back in June publisher Dark Horse Comics announced Mazebook, a new five-issue series from writer/artist Jeff Lemire. The series follows a building inspector, Will Warren, who has cut himself off from making personal connections with the rest of the world in the decade following the death of his daughter, Wendy. A mysterious phone call leads Will

Christian Cooper is a writer and editor based in New York City, currently a senior biomedical editor at Health Science Communications. But his career also included working Marvel Comics as a writer and an editor, writing Marvel Comics Presents, Darkhold series Excalibur and editing X-Men, as well as writing the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic, co-creating

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DC Kremlinologists rejoice! For the first time in a long while DC CCO Jim Lee and sr. vp and GM Daniel Cherry III have given an interview. The Hollywood Reporter’s Borys Kit spoke with the duo on DC’s publishing plans, the coming Discovery take over, digital comics and much more. It’s Lee’s first interview about publishing

Fantoons, the critically-acclaimed leading publisher of music graphic novels, will be publishing their second Motörhead graphic novel biography, the much-anticipatedMotörhead: The Rise of the Loudest Band in the World: The Authorized Graphic Novel (Fantoons/Simon & Schuster). The book is available for preorder on the Fantoons official site at a list price of $29.99. Fans who purchase in advance

Vault Comics’ latest fantasy series Barbaric has been a huge success for the company, and now the publisher has announced the series will return in 2022 “and beyond” for multiple new miniseries from co-creators Michael Moreci and Nathan Gooden. If that’s not enough, there will also be a set of different  one-shots written and drawn

Borys Kit at the Hollywood Reporter virtually sat down with DC Publisher Jim Lee and DC Senior VP & General Manager Daniel Cherry III to receive the biggest amount of marketing and media spin possible, while avoiding any questions with an impact greater than that of a blown dandelion. I have been aware that, internally at

It’s the first Wednesday of August! And while you may be lamenting how quickly the summer is flying by, you can find joy in this week’s Small Press Spotlight! Today, we take a peek at Tiny Wizards from Eben Burgoon. Read the synopsis of the comic below: “When an ancient realm of magic finds itself

Is Mike Moreci and Nathan Gooden’s Barbaric the new Star Wars? We’re not saying it is, but we’re not saying it isn’t either. All we know is that Vault Comics has announced plans to rapidly expand the comic into a full-fledge franchise featuring new mini-series and spinoffs and bringing in top industry talent to work

There comes a point in even the greatest leader’s career where they have to admit they made a mistake. The moment when what seemed like a perfectly good plan at the time has become an unmitigated disaster and it’s time to scrap it. Unless, that is, you’re Amanda Waller. Then, in the face of repeated

Elvira has seen and done it all, facing off with witches, monsters, shady Hollywood types, and even Satan himself. Now she may have met her match—rabid comic-con fans. The horror hostess has a new tale currently running on Kickstarter thanks to Dynamite Comics, Elvira: The Wrath of Con. The campaign’s goal was reached in record

Yesterday’s Suicide Squad: Get Joker gave us a brand new look for The Joker, as the Suicide Squad have him in their sights, only for him to flip the script and go for Amanda Waller himself. Suicide Squad: Get Joker #1 All dressed up like Malcolm McDowell and The Droogs in Stanley Kubrick‘s film adaptation

Recently, Wizards of the Coast announced the release of Jumpstart: Historic Horizons. And it is HISTORIC. Jumpstart: Historic Horizons follows up on the heels of last year’s smash success of Jumpstart, a set that allowed players to smash together two themed booster packs and start playing Magic: the Gathering immediately. No muss, no fuss– no time spent searching