Game of Thrones: The Mad King Group in The Daily LITG 2nd August 2026

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Game of Thrones: The Mad King Group was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround.

Published Sun, 02 Aug 2026 04:55:08 -0500 by Rich Johnston

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Last updated Sun, 02 Aug 2026 19:53:48 -0500

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Article Summary

• Game of Thrones: The Mad King Group leads Bleeding Cool’s most-read stories, with new details on the portrait and play.
• The Daily LITG rounds up yesterday’s biggest Bleeding Cool hits across TV, comics, games, and collectibles.
• Past LITG charts revisit seven years of top stories, from Marvel 2099 and Grotesquerie to Pokémon GO and DC.
• Also featured are fresh comics reports, marketshare updates, bestseller charts, events listings, birthdays, and signup links.

Game of Thrones: The Mad King Group was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool yesterday. Lying In The Gutters is the daily runaround for the most-read stories the day before, as well as over the past seven years. Founded seventeen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry gossip for a further seventeen years before that, Bleeding Cool has become one of the longest-standing and most well-known pop culture websites around. The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running runaround the day before and possibly the day ahead. In summary, you can sign up to receive Lying In The Gutters as an email here. And maybe you just have.

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Game of Thrones: Mad King Group and the most popular stories on Bleeding Cool yesterday

1. Game of Thrones: The Mad King Group Portrait, Play Details Released
2. Super7’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mutagen Ooze ReAction 4-Pack
3. Spyro: A Realm Beyond Releases New Teaser Trailer
4. Doctor Who Tender: Steven Moffat’s Reality Check for Future Producers
5. Megatron Rises to Power with Hasbro’s New Transformers Icons Release
6. Make Your Own 6″ Star Wars: TBS Clone Trooper with New Exclusive Set
7. Stuart Fails To Save The Universe Variant Covers For DC Comics
8. Hasbro Debuts New Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu Embo 2-Pack
9. The Energon Universe At San Diego Comic-Con With Transformers & GI Joe
10. Booster Gold Creator Dan Jurgens Puts It All Into Proper Perspective

And a few other stories I wrote yesterday…

LITG one year ago, The End Of 2099

The End Of 2099

1. Marvel Confirms The End 2099 by Steve Orlando With Spider-Man 3099
2. Marvel Confirms Venom’s Red And Blue Spider-Man Costume In Venom #252
3. Alliance Claims Diamond Bankruptcy Auction “Rigged From The Beginning”
4. That Valiant San Diego Comic-Con SDCC 2025 Preview Ashcan In Full
5. The Sandman: How Allan Heinberg Got Superman Into “Death” Bonus Ep
6. Hasbro Debuts Transformers NYCC 2025 Armada Nemesis Prime Set
7. Jorge Jiménez Gives Gotham The Creeps For Batman Ongoing (Spoilers)
8. The Vampire Lestat Season 3 SDCC Teaser Was Exactly What We Needed
9. The Force is with Hasbro’s New Star Wars NYCC 2025 Exclusive 3-Pack
10. Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) Set to Close Operations

And a few of my other stories from yesterday

LITG two years ago, Grotesquerie Niecy Nash-Betts

Image: Instagram Stories Screencap – Grotesquerie’s Niecy Nash-Betts

1. Grotesquerie Star Niecy Nash-Betts Finds Set Life One “Bloody” Mess
2. Comic Creators Respond To Roy Thomas’ Wish For Lead Wolverine Credit
3. McFarlane Announces Dark Knight Returns Gold Label Figure 3-Pack
4. NFL Quarterback Colin Kaepernick Raises $4 Million to Create AI Comics
5. Comic Book Creators Come Down With COVID After San Diego Comic Con
6. What Does X-Force #1 Mean For Krakoa’s Legacy? (Spoilers)
7. Ultimates #4 Cover Sheds Light On Robert Downey Jr/Doctor Doom Mystery
8. Scott Shaw Would Like To Be Paid For Todd McFarlane’s Captain Carrot
9. Hasbro Announces New Transformers Dinobot Dinoking Multipack
10. Blood Hunt Finale Changes The Marvel Universe For Vampires (Spoilers)
11. The Deceptively Intense Beginnings of Headline Comics, at Auction
12. The Arrow’s Debut and Other Stories at Centaur, Up for Auction
13. Heavy Metal Magazine Promises A Relaunch
14. Marvel-License Spider-Man Octo-Girl Manga in Viz October 2024 Solicits
15. The Rare, Complete Saga of Amazing Man Comics, Up for Auction
16. One Punch Man’s One’s Manga, Versus, in Kodansha October 2024 Solicits
17. Silk Cotton – Caribbean Comics at The Cartoon Museum Next Thursday
18. The Future Of Vampires in The Daily LITG, 1st of August, 2024

LITG three years ago, DC Comics’ Cocaine-Powered Superhero, Snowflame

1. Marvel Won’t, So DC Introduces A Superhero Called Snowflake (Almost)
2. Lackadaisy Webcomic Hits A Million Dollars Fundraising After One Week
3. Knight Terrors Finale Rewrites Batman’s Origin (Spoilers)
4. The Justice Society Of America Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow (Spoilers)
5. DC Comics Looks To Give Natasha Irons An Upgrade (Spoilers)
6. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Posts S02E09 “Subspace Rhapsody” Trailer
7. Tomorrow’s Marvel Comics On Sale Right Now, If You Can Be Australian
8. City Boy Hears What Superman Has To Say – To Be Fair He Has No Choice
9. Will Amanda Waller Help Peacemaker Get Bruce Wayne Back?
10. Frazetta Girls Debuts New Frazetta:Â ICON Collectibles 1:12 Figure Line
11. Kickstarter Introduces New A.I. Policy Guidelines From End Of August
12. Alex Segura, Lisa Jewell & SA Crosby Write Adult Marvel Crime Novels
13. Pay $3,500 to $10,000 to Appear in the Good Omens Graphic Novel
14. Shelfdust’s Steve Morris Joins 2000AD/Rebellion as Marketing Manager
15. DC Comics’ Cocaine-Powered Supervillain- Daily LITG, 1st August 2023

LITG four years ago, McDonald’s Pokémon

McDonald’s Pokémon TCG promos. Credit: TPCI

1. McDonald’s Pokémon TCG 2022 Promotion Begins in August
2. The Orville: New Horizons S03E10 Promo: Future Unknown In Many Ways
3. Doctor Who: NPH Talks Ncuti Gatwa; David Tennant Posts ECCC Apology
4. When Robin Told Joker Batman Is Bruce Wayne in Red Hood #1 Preview
5. Legion of X #4 Preview: Nightcrawler Does WHAT With His Tail?!
6. Cobra Kai EP Jon Hurwitz Teases He’s “Obsessed” with Season 5 Trailer
7. Thor: How Marvel Gave Natalie Portman What Star Wars Couldn’t
8. Tini Howard On Betsy Braddock And Rachel Summers As Girlfriends
9. LEGO Wakanda Forever Namor Set Teases New Black Panther? (Spoilers)
10. Pokémon GO Announces August 2022 Spotlight Hours & Breakthrough
11. DC Comics To Start Publishing 85th Anniversary Collections
12. TOLDJA: Mark Millar’s New Comics With Pepe Larraz & Jorge Jiménez
13. San Diego Comic-Con 2022 – A Super Spreader For Comic Creators?
14. Harley Quinn Writer Tee Franklin Receives $50,000 Disability Grant
15. The Rare and Possibly Inspiring Sure-Fire Comics #4, Up for Auction
16. Zoot Comics #16 Featuring Rulah The Jungle Goddess, Up for Auction
17. Skottie Young Makes All Content Free On Substack
18. The Second Appearance of Captain Marvel in Whiz Comics, Up for Auction
19. James Tynion IV Makes Bid to Keep $250 Substack Subscribers For Year 2
20. 5 Pages of The Big Book of Wild Women by Amanda Conner to be Published
21. Laura Perlmutter’s Lawsuit, Alleging Stolen DNA, Can Continue
22. Things To Do In London If You Like Comics: August 2022 Edition
23. Neil Patrick Harris on Ncuti Gatwa in the Daily LITG, 1st August 2022

LITG five years ago, Excelsior! Dan Lee

Excelsior! Dan Lee in the Daily LITG, 2nd of August 2021

1. Dan Lee Is The Stan Lee Lookalike Appearing At A Comic Con Near You
2. Domino’s Threatens to Slice Ties with AEW Over Pizza Cutter Incident
3. Seth MacFarlane: Family Guy Needs Fox News/Tucker Carlson Divorce
4. Top 10 Most Valuable Cards Of Pokémon TCG: Chilling Reign: 5 – 1
5. American Horror Story: Billy Eichner Okay Trading Sex for Evan Peters
6. Law & Order: Christopher Meloni Goes Searching for Mariska Hargitay
7. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Charlie Day’s Looking to Get Paid
8. DC Comics, Please Fix Your Batman Dark Knight Detective Vol 6 Cover
9. Obi-Wan Kenobi Star Joel Edgerton Doesn’t Seem to Like Imagining Trees
10. Resident Alien Season 2: Elizabeth Bowen Shares “Frickin'” Good News
11. The Overlooked Artistry of Maurice Whitman’s Jumbo Comics, at Auction
12. French Teens on Le Dole Blow Government Cheese on Manga Binge
13. Mashle: Magic and Muscles Vol. 1: What if Superman Went to Hogwarts?
14. The Mystery of Mr. Manhattan in EC’s International Comics, at Auction
15. Review: What We Don’t Talk About & Racism At Home
16. Detective Comics Beats BRZRKR To Top Bleeding Cool Bestseller List
17. Nice House On The Lake #2 Review: A Winner
18. The Return of Captain America in Avengers #4, Up for Auction
19. How Marvel and DC are Collecting Their Pride Comics for Bookstores
20. A Man Among Ye #5 Review: An Intriguing Choice
21. Michael Uslan To Spill All About Turning Batman Into Movies
22. Star Wars #15 Review: A Moment of Spectacle
23. DC Comics Publishes Complete Talon By James Tynion IV
24. Six Sidekicks Of Trigger Keaton #2 Review: Engaging Work
25. Kaare Andrews’ Amazing Fantasy To Get Emergency Treasury Edition
26. Hey, He Looks Like Stan Lee- The Daily LITG, 1st of August 2021

LITG six years ago, Pokémon GO

Pokémon GO not only takes the lead but three slots in the year’s top ten of traffic. Even if people weren’t actually going anywhere.

1. Where & When To Spend Rare Candy In Pokémon GO
2. Rumor: Former WCW/WWE Star to Debut on AEW Dynamite Next Week
3. Castlevania Reportedly Moving on From Warren Ellis After Season 4
4. Funko Announces New Line of Pop Vinyls: Retro Toys!
5. PUBG Receives The 8.1 Update With A Loot Truck
6. Christopher Priest’s Writers Commentary, Justifying Vampirella #10
7. Authors Ask That Their Work Be Removed From Flashing Swords #6
8. Sierra Counters: Defeating Team GO Rocket Leaders In Pokémon GO
9. Rayquaza Raid Guide: How To Catch A Shiny Rayquaza In Pokémon GO
10. Thor is the Newest Marvel Universe Bring Arts Figure from Square Enix
11. Did Marvel Comics Block Sina Grace From Writing IDW’s Spider-Man?
12. Bryan Hitch To Write, Draw 48-Page Dark Nights: Death Metal One-Shot
13. Eric Gapstur Sells Sort Of Super Graphic Novel For Six Figures
14. Run DMC Playboy Comic Book With Rob Guillory, Amy Chu and Larry Hama
15. HarperCollins to Publish Laura Gao’s The Wuhan I Know Graphic Memoir

LITG seven years ago.

Then there was the time that bad actors online faked tweets to try and get a Marvel writer fired.

1. Fake Tweet Used to Try And Discredit New Marvel Comics Writer, Alyssa Wong
2. DC’s Geoff Johns Latest Victim of Hollywood Con Queen
3. DC Comics Cancels Orders for Warren Ellis and Ramon Villalobos’ Wildcats #1-3
4. Professor X Back in the Chair in Jonathan Hickman and Leinil Francis Yu’s X-Men #1 #DawnOfX
5. “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” Season 6 Finale Preview – Reading “The Sign” For “New Life” [SPOILERS]
6. “Supergirl”: Jennifer Cheon Garcia Cast as Midnight for Season 5 Premiere
7. LATE: Shazam! #7 Now Twelve Weeks Late
8. “NCIS”: CBS Entertainment Prez – Pauley Perrette Claims “Resolved”
9. Now We Know Why Powers Of X is Pronounced ‘Ten’ – Meet Cardinal, Rasputin, Percival and Cylobel
10. Todd McFarlane Yelled at Robert Kirkman About Cancelling The Walking Dead and Sees Spawn Going to #600

Comic Book birthdays today.

Comics folk are still getting older and still celebrating that special date. With twelve years for us as well.

• Andréa Gilroy, runs Comics Crash Course, soon to open Books With Pictures – Eugene.
• Shawna Gore, senior editor at Lion Forge.
• Reed Waller, co-creator of Omaha The Cat Dancer.
• Marco Regalado, owner of Pop Culture Paradise.

If you are in comics and have a birthday coming up – or you know someone who has – get in touch at [email protected].

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