Crisis

Scott Snyder has been talking about Death Metal, Doomsday Clock, 5G - and what he is planning to follow it all.

Ian Levine is known for many things, as a record producer and pop mogul, working with Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Bananarama, Kim Wilde, Billie Piper, Simon Cowell, producing Take That's first singles. As a big Doctor Who fan, Ian Levine is known for working on the TV show as a Continuity Advisor, composing the theme tune to K9 And […]

Legendary comic book creator Jim Lee is the sole publisher of DC Comics, in Burbank, California. But like everyone else, he is stuck at home right now. And with some comic book retailers screaming blue murder over DC Comics' plan to continue with digital comic distribution this Wednesday, and potentially using regional print distribution channels, […]

Oh had you forgotten all about 5G? Well, maybe in the light of the coronavirus pandemic, DC Comics has as well. But plenty of plans were already in place and have been moving forward. Including it seems, today's Legion Of Super-Heroes #5 by Brian Bendis and Ryan Sook. Now, those keen readers of Bleeding Cool's […]

There's no appearance of Punchline in any DC Comics book today, just saying. Not Nightwing #70, not Batman #91 and not Hell Arisen #4. Red lettering on black balloons, it's not great is it. Hang on, let me squint… You think you destroyed the Justice League but they were pulled to safety by the great […]

Today's Flash #750 reveals a new self-contradictory timeline, which Wally West's Dr Manhattan-powered up Pariah must find a way to sort out. But maybe it's more that just the machinations of Manhattan that got it that way? Because today's Justice League Odyssey #19 has Epoch. The Lord of Time, making big plans for everyone and […]

On the 13th of June, 2019, Bleeding Cool made the first mention of something DC Comics was planning called 5G. We had no idea what it was. All we knew was that it was 'something that is, or has, been planned at DC Comics at the upper creative and editorial echelons.' It took until October […]

Tomorrow, DC Comics will announce the sequel to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Metal. Bleeding Cool has been reporting that it is called Death Metal, but they could have changed it. It will also serve as a capstone to Snyder's Justice League, which ended on a cliffhanger before the new team took over the book. We understood that it was […]

Bleeding Cool has been reporting on Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Metal 2, the sequel to Dark Nights: Metal for a while. We understood that it was planned before Greg Capullo drew Reborn at Image Comics – and if Capullo hadn't returned to the project, Snyder would have written it as a Justice League storyline rather than as a stand-alone event series. But he did. We also knew it was called Death […]

The DC Giants for January started being sold at Walmart around January 17th and included five comics: Batman Giant #3 The Flash Giant #3 Swamp Thing Giant #3 Wonder Woman Giant #3 and the one-shot Birds of Prey Giant #1. Bleeding Cool covered that information and arrival around the same time and noted that four […]

So who wants some more half-truths and misinformation? As a result of yesterday's address to retailers by DC publisher Dan DiDio, much of which can be found in this series of articles, Doomsday Clock no longer being in DC Universe continued seemed settled – though, if someone wants at DC Comics wants to give it […]

When it was announced, Doomsday Clock, the unauthorised sequel to Watchmen by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, was also a crossover with the DC Universe. Specifically the very-near-ahead DC Universe, the plan was that as the story reached its conclusion, that the events of Doomsday Clock would marry up with the DC Comics Universe then […]

Over 2017 and 2018, Bleeding Cool ran a number of articles looking at the relationship of Doomsday Clock to the rest of the DC Universe – and even The Three Jokers too. We saw what once was clearly intended to be the tightest of structured continuity, fall apart as a result of delays, personnel changes […]

Gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip gossip… The run-up to the holidays seems to have been quite a time for 5G […]

The Shazam series by Geoff Johns and Dale Eaglesham has been repeatedly delayed, resolicited and delayed again. Issue 12 was solicited for March by Geoff Johns, Dale Eaglesham and Marco Santucci with a variant cover by Ken Lashley but was withdrawn even before Previews was published, leaving but a stub listing on certain comic book […]

Almost 35 years later the CW has brought Crisis on Infinite Earths to our television screens, and in addition to that DC Comics will bring us two issues of Crisis on Infinite Earths Giant.  In the first issue we've gotten the start of two tales attempting to weave into the crossover as a whole.  Besides […]

(DC Comics, creative team: Marv Wolfman, Mark Guggenheim, Tom Derenick, Tom Grummett, with a cover by Jerry Ordway) As the Crisis on Infinite Earths' crossover is now on hiatus until January 14th, 2020, viewers are wanting more to tide them over during the month off.  So in the spirit of corporate synergy DC has released […]

Doomsday Clock is an unauthorised sequel to Watchmen, by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank, published by DC Comics, and concluding with this week's long-awaited twelfth issue. Initially, the links to Watchmen were obvious, as well as the returning characters and history, we had the nine-panel grid, transitional scenes, mysteries baked in, the world-building with documents, […]

For the last seven months, Bleeding Cool has been reporting on something called 5G. That it would be the fifth Generation on the DC Comics Timeline. That it is part of the Timeline being radically changed, and the original Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman etc suddenly being a lot older than they have previously been portrayed. […]

No, we don't find out how Alfred Pennyworth is alive. No, we don't get to find out what actually happened with Saturn Girl. Nor what Adrian Veidt was really playing at. But you may be able to work out why the events of Doomsday Clock, especially the Supermen Theory, haven't played large in the DC […]