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This week's Lazarus Planet introudces the new characters who will be making it big in Detective Comics next month, The Vigil.
Damian Wayne will be starring in The Brave And The Bold, a Batman movie being lined up by James Gunn from DC Studios. And naturally, eBay went mad.
Looks like we will be seeing more of City Boy in Dawn Of DC in 2023, courtesy of of Lazarus Planet: Legends Reborn out tomorrow.
DC Comics looks like they will be bringing Vixen and Batwing closer together for 2023 in the Dawn Of DC. Is it too soon to use the hashtag #vixwing?
It seems that DC Comics is setting up a Batwing & Vixen comic book series for 2023, with Batwing and Vixen as a romantic couple.
Punchline gets a new look in the Gotham of Batman #132. Might we get toys for Christmas? DC does like it when the comics create variants...
DC Comics has a summer event as part of Dawn Of DC and we are one letter closer to finding out just what it is.
DC Comics launches a new Green Arrow and Superboy as part of their Dawn Of DC relaunch... will these stick? Full solicits below.
DC hardcovers are getting decently sized first printings of their latest collections in hardcover, with Batman grabbing 80,000 and Sandman booking 60,000.
No one has told me that Nightwing is bisexual, not yet anyway. Just nipping this particular rumour in the bud, if that's okay with you.
5G was the attempt by DC Comics to refresh their entire line with a new Batman, a new Superman, a new Wonder Woman and more. But there was an out.
Once upon a time, DC Comics planned for Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent's death as part of 5G... and this is how it would have happened.
This is what DC Comics originally planned for the Superman and atman titles - indeed, every title - for 2024, when they were still doing 5G.
The 5G Files continue, looking at DC's original plans for the Superman and Batman books in 2023, and how they differ from today.
Batman would have been on trial for the Joker's murder of Bane. One of the many events that were planned for DC Comics' 5G.
5G did away with the Justice League. In its place would have been a Justice Alliance. More from the 5G Files on Bleeding Cool.
Tamara Fox is the daughter of Lucius Fox who hasn't become a superhero. But in 5G that would not have been the case. She'd have been Robin
DC was originally going to publish a Batman V Robin series for 5G - just with a different Batman. And driven Damian and Jon apart.
When DC Comics planned for Bruce Wayne to retire from being Batman, and Luke Fox to take over the role in Gotham for 5G.
Once upon a time, DC Comics was going to end the stories of their biggest names, to be replaced by newcomers. It was called 5G. And these were The Last Days of Batman.
Changing Of The Guard would have followed Death Metal: Dark Crisis for DC Comics' 5G, with Jon Kent, Yara Flor and Luke Fox taking over.
The 5G Files is Bleeding Cool's attempt to look at the DC reboot/relaunch that wasn't, and how the characters would have been affected. Consider this the big What If that almost was.
The Court Of Owls is popping up in WildCATS and Batman Urban Legends in a way that suggests much more is to come through 2023.
Batman Incorporated #4 introduces a Batman wannabee from Dublin who may not be entirely everything Ghost-Maker is after. But then, neither is Clownhunter.
Lazarus Planet Alpha hits tomorrow from DC Comics, and it's not just new superheroes that are being created by this thing...
Remember Batman readers, you don't have to read, let alone understand a comic book anymore to have a judgement on it, if you are a reactionary sort, politician or media conglomerate
Batman Vol 3 #135 is coming, otherwise known as Batman #900
DC Comics has licensed DK Books to publish a periodic table for the DC Universe, to be published in Sepember this year.
I wonder what Fox News will make of the Joker in The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland?