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Ghost Machine Launches Grab The Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List

Ghost Machine Launches Grab The Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List

Two weeks worth of the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List. This weekend and…. I seem to have lost a week. Sorry about that.This week Batman #146 tops X-Men #33 but also see four comics from Image Comics smash their weay into the top ten, the usual Void Rivals but also all three Ghost Machine comic […]

Have Planetary Fans Been Sleeping On The Outsiders (Spoilers)

Have Planetary Fans Been Sleeping On The Outsiders? (Spoilers)

Bleeding Cool was the first to confirm that the twelve-issue series Outsiders series by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly and Robert Carey was a full-blown Wildstorm revival, at least of the Warren Ellis Authority/Planetary axis of it all. Luke Fox and Kate Kane, The Batman Of New York and Batwoman, taking on the Planetary roles previously played by Elijah Snow and Jakita Wagner, respectively, […]

Scott Dunbier On Batman&#8230 But Not On Batman

Scott Dunbier On Batman… But Not On Batman

IDW Special Projects Editor and creator of the Artist's Editor volumes, Scott Dunbier, has his last day at IDW today. When he gave his notice, he didn't realise he would be accompanying so many other people out of the door. Yesterday, he also had lunch with IDW founder Ted Adams, who was bought out some […]

More Marvel DC Dark Horse Titan 2000AD &#038 Oni Omnibuses For 2024

More Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Titan, 2000AD & Oni Omnibuses For 2024

Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Titan, 2000AD, Oni and more continue to push out their Omnibus collections, though some have seen their schedule slip. But here are a bunch planned for later 2024 courtesy of Amazon, PRH and more. And it begins with an Omnibus for Bruce Wayne: Murderer Turned Fugitive. Just don't ask […]

Tirso Cons Signs Exclusive With DC Comics Ahead of Allwinter Elseworld

Tirso Cons Signs Exclusive With DC Comics Ahead of Allwinter Elseworld

Tirso Cons, Spanish comic book artist on The Chronicles of Legion, Whispers in the Walls, 7 Cannibals, Marshals and Les Traqueurs for publishers such as Les Humanoides Associes, Glenat and Delcourt has, in recent years, been a cover artist on Catwoman, Batman, Titans and the like. But now he will be doing all his work for […]

DC Comics Ask What If&#8230 Jason Todd Had Lived For Four More Issues

DC Comics Ask What If… Jason Todd Had Lived For Four More Issues?

It may not officially be a What If…? comic, Marvel Comics has the trademark for that. But that's what this is in all but name. DC Vault: Death in the Family: Robin Lives! is a four part series by JM DeMatteis and Rick Leonardi, launching on the 10th of July. And following the publication last year […]

This Weekends Free Detective Comics #27 Selling For $30 On eBay

This Weekend's Free Detective Comics #27 Selling For $30 On eBay

Bleeding Cool reported that limited copies of a special Batman 85th anniversary printing of Batman's first appearance in DC's Detective Comics #27 were made available at SoHo News International, on the 30th of March for Batman Day – as well as other comic book stores in New York. As SoHo News International was transformed to […]

Gossip: Problems With The Search For A Batman Editor At DC Comics

Gossip: Problems With The Search For A Batman Editor At DC Comics

Bleeding Cool has some more Batoffice gossip spinning out of sources at Wondercon. The hunt for a Batman editor is still on at DC Comics within Warner Bros. in Burbank, California. A search for an external candidate has been made harder by the fact that most qualified publishing people outside of Warners are based in […]

Bruce Waynes Batfriends And Batenemies In Batman #146 (Spoilers)

Bruce Wayne's Batfriends And Batenemies In Batman #146 (Spoilers)

Bleeding Cool already ran a couple of bits based on previewed pages from the upcoming Batman #146 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez and Michele Bandini with the history of The Joker and Batman rewritten with key moments now given new perspectives and from leaked printed pages of The Big Bad Plans of Zur-En-Arrh. But now […]

The Big Bad Plans of Zur-En-Arrh in This Weeks Batman #146 (Spoilers)

The Big Bad Plans of Zur-En-Arrh in This Week's Batman #146 (Spoilers)

This coming week's Batman #146 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez and Michele Bandini sees the history of The Joker and Batman rewritten with key moments now given new perspectives. But there's plenty more besides as Bruce Wayne's backup personality Zur-En-Arrh, now in the Failsafe robot body, taking on the role of Batman in Gotham. Working […]

Geoff Johns &#038 Jason Faboks Joker: The World Is A Three Jokers Epilog

Geoff Johns & Jason Fabok's Joker: The World Is A Three Jokers Epilog

Recently Bleeding Cool reported on Joker: The World being published by DC Comics, including work by Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok, who created the Three Jokers story together announced for 2017 and finally published in late 2020, as well as the Justice League story that originally led into it (though that has now been written […]

Big Barda In The Buff In Birds Of Prey #8 (Spoilers)

Big Barda In The Buff In Birds Of Prey #8 (Spoilers)

Birds Of Prey #8 by Kelly Thompson and Javier Pina is published on Tuesday from DC Comics. As Bleeding Cool scooped, issue #7 ended with the characters taking part in a lingerie model catwalk as part of a deal to get the information they needed. Any excuse, eh? And now in BOP #8, we get to see […]

Jim Lee Promises To Draw One Last Batman Story

Jim Lee Promises To Draw One Last Batman Story

Jim Lee, famed X-Men artist, WildCATS co-creator, co-founder of Image Comics, and current Publisher/CCO of DC Comics, was in France yesterday (probably, still is) and conducted a signing at Album Comics at 67 Boulevard St Germain, on the corner of the famous Rue Dante in Paris, the street with more comic shops on it than […]

Batman #146: Jokers Killing Joke &#038 Robins Death All For Zur-En-Arrh

Batman #146: Joker's Killing Joke & Robin's Death All For Zur-En-Arrh

Next week's Batman #146 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez and Michele Bandini sees the history of The Joker and Batman rewritten with key moments now given new perspectives. And that includes just what The Joker really wanted in The Killing Joke and Death In The Family. The brutalisation of Barbara Gordon and the murder of […]

Marv Wolfman Returns To Nightwing To Talk To Dick Grayson (Spoilers)

Marv Wolfman Returns To Nightwing To Talk To Dick Grayson (Spoilers)

In order to fall, Dick Grayson has to do so from a very tall height. And right now, he's afraid of those. Nightwing gets a legacy 300th issue in three weeks with Nightwing #113/300. And just as the comic book is having a birthday, so is Dick Grayson. But because he is Nightwing, he has […]

DC Comics Giving Away Detective Comics #27 In New York For Free

DC Comics Giving Away Detective Comics #27 In New York For Free

Limited copies of a special Batman 85th anniversary printing of Batman's first appearance in DC's Detective Comics #27 at SoHo News International, on the 30th of March for Batman Day – as well as other comic book stores in New York. SoHo News International will transform their famous newsagents to give away the comic, one […]

DC Comics Puts Their Old Elseworlds Back Into Print

DC Comics Puts Their Old Elseworlds Back Into Print

DC Comics is launching a new line of Elseworlds books this year announced at New York Comic Con, and a release schedule from June to November for the announced comics. But alongside these new books, DC Comics is putting old Elseworlds back into print, some for the first time since they were originally published, in […]

Details Of DC Finest DC Comics Version Of Marvels Epic Line

Details Of DC Finest, DC Comics Version Of Marvel's Epic Line

DC Finest is a new publishing initiative for 2024 from DC Comics that is, basically, doing their version of the Marvel Comics Epic line, Marvel's only real bookstore success in recent years. Declaring that it will be "presenting comprehensive collections of the most in-demand and celebrated periods in DC Comics history, spanning genres, characters, and […]

A New DC Comics Young Super Team From Jeremy Adams And Travis Mercer

A New DC Comics Young Super Team From Jeremy Adams And Travis Mercer

Travis Mercer has been sharing sketches of an upcoming DC Comics project with Jeremy Adams, posting the following to social media. Travis Mercer: I feel like I have been doing a ton of character studies for things lately and I'm really enjoying them! Here's Stephanie Brown Batgirl/spoiler sketch. With Cass in birds of prey, what's […]

 DC Comics Outsources Joker: The World To Twelve Countries

 DC Comics Outsources Joker: The World To Twelve Countries

DC Comics is followiong up their internationally outsourced graphic anthology Batman: The World with Joker: The World. With creators including Geoff Johns, Satoshi Miyagawa, David Rubin, German Peralta, Alvaro Fong Varela and Jason Fabok, in total representing creators from thirteen different countries – including the USA – and to be published in hardcover in September […]