The recent trailer for the upcoming new season of Doctor Who sees Ruby Sunday step on a butterfly in prehistoric times and suddenly, in front of the Doctor, change species. Well, this week's Wonder Woman #8 is going to get there first, courtesy of Tom King and Belen Ortega's back-up strip to the main event […]
For a little while now, Bleeding Cool has run gossip about an upcoming publishing project at DC Comics being spearheaded by Scott Snyder. One that has been compared to Marvel Comics' Ultimate line, that reimagined a number of main characters in a new continuity, recreating them from the ground up. Marvel has also revisited the […]
I was writing up a piece about DC Comics's decision to publish the Stormwatch Compendium by Warren Ellis, Tom Raney and Bryan Hitch, as The Road To The Authority. All ahead of a planned Authority movie sometime in the next decade. With The Engineer appearing as a lackey to Lex Luthor in the upcoming Superman […]
In 2022, to publicise his new comic book series, The Ambassadors, Mark Millar, tweeted "It might take me a year or two to get ahead on my schedule, but I'm 100% going to do another Superman story at some point. I've had a notebook I've been noodling in for quite a while now…" following it up saying […]
Welcome to the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List which sees the second Ultimate X-Men from Peach Momoko top the charts again, just beating out Transformers. The launch of new Spawn title Rat City makes it into the top ten, while House Of Brainiac boosts Action Comics. And I am so glad that people are reading […]
Dark Crisis On Infinite Earths, by Joshua Williamson, Daniel Sampere, Jim Cheung, Jack Herbert and Giuseppe Camuncoli, saw Amanda Waller returned from Earth 3, back on Task Force X, tasked with a new mission from the Council Of Light. The Light was an Illuminati-style group of figures in the animated TV series Young Justice, formed […]
In the first and second issues of Power Girl, in her secret identity of Dr. Paige Stetler, she encountered one Axel Gust, a possible CIA agent, or similar. And there definitely seemed to be his spark. She got his number in more ways than one. A James Bond for Power Girl? He attempts a recruitment […]
A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran a little late night Superman gossip. We followed that up yesterday with something specific about Lobo. But while we may need to wait for confirmation about the backstory of Miss Tribb, it looks like this week's Action Comics #1064 will back up some of out gossip from last […]
At the end of the War For Earth 3 crossover event written by Robbie Thompson, Denis Hopeless and Jeremy Adams and drawn by Steve Pugh, Dexter Soy, Eduardo Pasarin, Pasarin and Matt Ryan, saw Amanda Waller left on Earth 3, in charge of her very own Justice League. Then, in time for Dark Crisis On […]
Fancy some more Superman House Of Brainiac gossip? In the first Lobo series by Keith Giffen, Alan Grant and Simon Bisley, published by DC Comics all of 34 years ago in 1990, Vril Dox II, the head of L.E.G.I.O.N. hired Lobo to transport a prisoner to him safe and alive. Who turned out to be […]
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 […]
Superman first appeared in 1939, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, published in Action Comics #1 by National Comics – later to be known as DC Comics. And in doing so, created the superhero genre. But it was a long road to publication and was hawked round studio after studio, publisher after publisher for […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Recently, Bryan Hitch launched new work for Ghost Machine, the creator-owned-and-shared imprint at Image Comics with his series Redcoat written by Geoff Johns, as well as Ultimate Universe with Jonathan Hickman at Marvel and The Last Days Of Lex Luthor with Mark Waid at DC Comics. But, with Ghost Machine Day approaching on the 1st […]
In two weeks time, Superman titles kick off the House Of Brainiac crossover between Action Comics, Superman, Green Lantern and Power Girl. So what have we heard at Bleeding Cool? I mean, okay, some we read in the solicitations. But not all… Action Comics will see Lois Lane take a day off as acting EIC […]
Another week (without Batman or Amazing Spider-Man) sees an Energon Universe title, Cobra Commander #3, top the Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List, by Joshua Williamson, Andrea Milana and Annalisa Leoni from Image Comics and Skybound. Selling 50% more than Joshua's work on Superman, also on sale this week. No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio […]
DC Comics is putting out some big books for the end of 2024 and beginning of 2025, with details dropping in the usual places such as Amazon and Penguin Random House, with Omnibus, Deluxe, Absolute and Book volumes collecting titles in large collections than you might normally expect. We've run a few individual Omnibus items […]
DC is collecting the start of the Superman Triangle Era in an Omnibus form. The Triangle Era covered the period from 1991 until 2001, when the Superman line of books held continuity between the three – then four – monthly titles, effectively creating a weekly Superman comic book series. It emerged after John Byrne left the […]
