Okay, so some people will look to concentrate on the Absolute Universe in the DC Comics' full July 2025 solicits and solicitations. Others to Batman H2SH. Some will look to the DC All in time travel shenanigans, or the New History Of The DC Universe. But why do I wonder what DC Comics has in […]
DC Comics loves a blackboard. A whiteboard. A chalkboard. Usually with Rip Hunter behind the chalk, behind the pen, jotting down notes from the future. And looking something like this, usually with Booster Gold hanging around. Usually they play out pretty much as written, with a few diversions or misinterpretations along the way. And it […]
Grant Morrison just talked to the Comic Book Couples Counseling Podcast about life, the universe and everything, but also Superman and Batman. Including that DC Comics stopped Grant doing the New 52 Superman properly, that they recommend their Superman Beyond to people rather than All-Star Superman and that the recently mentioned a Big Two project… […]
DC Comics has confirmed that their Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn solo books will skip their July 2025 issues in the upcoming DC solicits and solicitations. Instead, DC Comics will publish one weekly comic with all three of them, for the five weeks of July. Gotham City Sirens: Unfit for Orbit by Leah Williams […]
DC All In opened the box to the death of Darkseid, the Darkseid anomalies across the DC Universe and the Absolute Universe. And it's breaking out all over DC Comics titles today. We looked at a few of those in today's Summer Of Superman Special. With Validas giving us an Omega shoutout. But over in […]
The New Zealand AI and metaverse company Futureverse has today announced it has acquired Candy Digital, an NFT digital collectibles platform, that includes licenses to Major League Baseball, Netflix, and DC Comics. Decrypt quotes Aaron McDonald, co-founder and CEO of Futureverse saying that Brands like MLB and DC Comics already sit at the intersection of […]
Once upon a time, when Tom King was writing Batman, he had Bruce Wayne declare himself to be an atheist. Kinda. In Batman #53, Bruce Wayne was asked the question while he was on jury duty, and he was willing to answer. So he used to believe in God… …but now no longer does. Thomas Wayne, […]
Today sees the publication of the Summer Of Superman #1 Special, written by Mark Waid, Dan Slott and Joshua Williamson, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, Belen Ortega and Tomeu Morey, with an epilogue drawn by Dan Mora. These are the major folk writing and drawing the DC Universe right now, especially the Superman and Justice League […]
The Kyle Higgins Presents panel held at C2E2 earlier today revealed, as well as Radiant Black and Massive-Verse details, a new Batman Elseworldsproject from DC Comics for Kyle Higgins and Dan Mora, Immortal Legend Batman, alongside fellow Massive-verse creators Mat Groom and Erica D'Urso, and colourist Igor Monti, and letterer Becca Carey, a six issue […]
Marvel Comics takes the bestselling comic of the week for the first time in a while with Amazing Spider-Man #1, but the relaunch only just beat out the regular Absolute Batman #7 for the week. Marvel takes eight of the top ten with strong performance from Star Wars: Jedi Knights, DC takes its one Absolute […]
Adam Freeman of Prana Direct Market Solutions posted "Heard from my 4th retailer this week reporting double digit growth in QTR1. All of them have said it's been single issues that are driving the growth." The emergence of the Absolute and Ultimate line, the Energon Universe, Turtles, Batman H2SH, as well as stalwarts such as […]
These are the covers to Absolute Batman #8 featuring the new Absolute Mister Freeze. He looks rather different from the traditional DC version. There's no ice suit here; he's something more like Nosferatu or Slender Man right out of your nightmares. And in this week's Absolute Batman #7 by Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta, we […]
Created by Dennis O'Neil, Irv Novick, Dick Giordano for Batman #242 in 1972, Matches Malone was originally a Gotham gang boss whom Batman attempted to recruit to help take down Ra's Al Ghul, but he was accidentally killed by a ricocheting bullet that was meant for Batman. Batman then impersonated the man to use his […]
DC Comics is to focus new attention on their Young Reader programme in comic stores with their original graphic novels aimed at both middle-grade and young adult audiences, as well as early readers of Superman's Good Guy Gang, in July 2025. To help retailers promote these books, DC Comics is offering a 10% backlist sale on dozens […]
Bananaman is a parody of traditional superheroes, schoolboy Eric Wimp who is transformed into a muscled, caped superhero when he eats a banana. Appearing in the Beano comic book published by DC Thompson, he has parodied a number of current superhero themes over the years, depending on the creative team. Well, current creator, Ned Hartley […]
PrintWatch: We have second printings for DC X Sonic The Hedgehog, All-New Venom, Free for All, Blade Forger, Sister Imperator, Deadpool, Daredevil, Void Rivals, Transformers, and a fifth printing of Mark Spears' Monsters. PrintWatch: DC x Sonic the Hedgehog #1 is getting a second printing from DC Comics for the 30th of April with a […]
Originally solicited as written by Detective Comics series writer Tom Taylor, Absolute Green Lantern, All-New Venom, and Immortal Thor writer Al Ewing has come on board to write the new Detective Comics Annual 2025 for DC Comics, as revealed yesterday on social media for what we dubbed Al Ewing Day. Tom Taylor wrote on Bluesky, […]
After Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb conclude their first half of Batman Hush 2 later this year (with Batman Hush 2.5 coming sometime in 2026) Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez will relaunch the title for DC Comics with a new Batman #1 in September 2025. Or rather, Batman Vol 4 #1 for those still counting. […]
Consider this speculation regarding Batman: Hush 2, or H2Sh if you insist, by Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb. And other comic books that it may refer to. It is nothing more… but if true, could be quite the spoiler. Batman: Hush originally ran in Batman #608 to 619 from October 2002 until September 2003 by […]
Batman #158 tops the charts this week, followed by two Absolutes and two Ultimates… So DC gets the top three, but Marvel gets six of the top ten. Here's how it all breaks down. Note that Amazing Spider-Man is gaining on Ultimate… Top Ten Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price […]
