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DC Senior VP Sales, Bob Wayne, has sent a new letter to retailers; To our comics retail partners, See? He promises a retailer tour from DC Comics across

DC Comics has announced that the oversized Justice League #1 by Geoff Johns and Jim Lee will be available as a print-and-digital edition for $4.99, as

Appearing in DC comics this week as a special advertising insert, and also being given away at select outlets, this is the Super 8 free mini-comic by

Here's the character design for the new Firestorm by Ethan Van Sciver and Moose Baumann. The Fury Of Firestorm, as announced, will be written by Ethan and

Bleeding Cool understands that novelist Duane Swierczynski will be writing a Batman ongoing comic for DC, with issue 1 starting in September. Whether

Apparently Marvel are publishing comic books too. Crossgen books to boot., Here is a rather gorgeous looking preview of Mystic #1 by G Willow Wilson,

And so it begins. Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang on Wonder Woman #1 Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis on Aquaman #1 Brian Buccellato and Francis Manapul on

Following an interview between CBR News editor Kiel Phegley and Valiant's Jason Kothari and Peter Cuneo, Bleeding Cool received a press release announcing

Thanks to this post and this art tease, we know that Brett Booth is the artist on DC's Teen Titans #1, relaunching in September. And as we'd said - and

Here's a preview of Roger Langridge's Snarked #0, shipping from Kaboom! in August, before the October #1 launch proper, reinterpreting the Lewis Carroll

In March I wrote; There has been a fair deal of fuss concerning the second rescheduling of the Batwoman comic. Well, I’ve been told by a DC source that

Welcome to the adventures of Methadone Man and Buprenorphine Babe.... in both graphic novel and video forms... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRsgg0A7ofk

Apparently Winston Churchill was just a pig in a hat, part of a cigar advertising that got out of control. Here's the second part of last night's Stewart

TurtleWatch: By Andrew Degraff from the Autumn Society's "Shell-Shock - A TMNT Art Show and Tribute" opening this Friday at Brave New Worlds in Old City,

Jim Lee has posted his pencils to the JLA image that was given to USA Today, to prove that, yes, he did include the Green Lantern ring - and presumably

Blimey, they're not doing anything by half measures. No sooner have they introduced Riverdale's first openly gay character, then given him his own book,

This is the back cover of all Marvel books this week, including Fear Itself #3 While the Fear Itself: The Deep only helps remind Marvel customers of the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5fZP9AYMq4 There you go folks. A run through today's comics - and the impact of the DC relaunch from a radical retailer A

Here we go. Two covers to unseen, upcoming Batbooks, a full cover tweeted by Jock and a partial cover facebooked by Greg Capullo. Would it be too much to

Bleeding Cool understands that the DC Relaunch will also bring back a number of Wildstorm titles, as part of the new DC Universe. Jim Lee's Wildstorm

The Weird Worlds series from DC featured three strips, including Tanga by Kevin Maguire which was planned as a twelve parter - even if Weird Worlds was

In yesterday's Flashposts, Bleeding Cool posted a piece about a new OMAC #1, noting that there was a piece of art by Scott Kolins floating about to that

So Superman may not be wearing his underwear over his trousers anymore. But he's not the only one to get a major change in nethergarments. I understand

Well, it looks like there will be a new Batgirl #1 amongst the 52 relaunched books in September. What will be different this time is that the book will

It used to be a joke in comics, especially DC Comics. How do you know if a comic book is set in Paris? You can see the Eiffel Tower out of the window. Any

It appears you can't have a big event crossover without a significant B-character death. That's how you know it matters. Crisis On Infinite Earths gave us

Morning, morning, morning, okay, where were we? Oh that's right, the relaunch of the DC Universe. Mark Seifert ably held the site together, last night, as

Randy Myers of Collectors Corner writes  for Bleeding Cool As a comic store owner (Collectors Corner, in Baltimore, MD) I wanted to provide some counter

Morning everyone. I think Bleeding Cool is working. *tap* *tap* Yeah, just about. It was a close thing last night. Okay, so where were we? TokyoWatch:

Okay, out of all the post-Flashpoint stories I'm running, this is the one on the least firm foundations. But, if true, will have the biggest multi-media