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Teen Titans relaunched as New Teen Titans with a new #1. Suicide Squad relaunched as New Suicide Squad with a new #1 Deathstroke relaunched as Deathstroke #1 with a new #1. So why, when Batgirl seemed to have a complete renovation of creative team, approach, look and style, did it not get a new #1? At the Spotlight On[...]

We've been noticing a few of the Easter Eggs in Gotham Academy, and brands such as Hooq crossing the Batbooks, but there is plenty more to come. As Hannah reported expect to see a certain brand of coffee in Batgirl appearing in Gotham By Midnight How a band established in Batgirl will appear in a plot[...]

Scott Snyder, Becky Cloonan, Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher and Babs Tarr squeezed into a packed concrete and glass walled event room on Sunday to talk to fans, and each other about their work on Batman, Gotham Academy, and Batgirl and the sense of community at the center of their work. Regarding the inception of the Stewart,[...]

Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show returns to Bleeding Cool, recorded at the one and only Astro-Zombies Comic Shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hosted by Maxx MacLennan. They say: Bringing you discussions of all the new exciting books in comicdom. No special guests this week, but we get into a TON of books with Image continuing to dominate[...]

I'm ready for the movie adaptation already! Over at DC there's another Batgirl in the all new, all fun direction If you liked last issue, this one takes the road built with that and puts samurai bikers on it Batman #36 is everything I love about Snyder, Capullo, and their whole run put into one issue![...]

From the preview of Batgirl #36, out tomorrow… She never even thought to backup her laptop, or store anything on the cloud… …but at the Robotics lab, she shows all the geeks up with her thought-fu. Thankfully no one thought to shout "Yeah, but you've never heard of Dropbox, have you?" at her, as she walked out…   [...]

Impressed by the commercial success of Harley Quinn and Batgirl, and critical sucess of Gotham Academy, the beancounters have been persuaded that a little more individual thinking might reap benefits Indeed, those books may have been part of an early attempt to mix things up and see what happened And creators, used to having to[...]

Milk And Cheese #1. There aren't a lot of comics in recent time to have reached a seventh printing. But now you can add one more with Ms Marvel #1 which will soon get its seventh printing, to be available in stores from the 19th November. And remember, it has still sold more in digital than in print. Also[...]

Her work on the new 52's Batgirl and Barbara Gordon's roommate Alysia Yeoh, who is a transgender woman, was referenced throughout the panel. Simone was on a LGBTQ comics panel at San Diego Comic-Con and witnessed a massive amount of attendees The entire conference room was filled and many had to be turned away due to[...]

The launch of Batman: Endgame, the launch of the new Batgirl, the launch of Axis, the launch of Wytches, more Time Runs Out, Spider-Verse and much more But Batman beat out the heavily hyped eventness of Axis, and Scott Snyder got two in the top ten. Batman #35 Avengers X-Men: Axis #1 Amazing Spider-Man #7 Avengers #36 Batgirl #35 Wytches #1 Batman Eternal[...]

Predator: Fire and Stone #1 Batgirl #35 Jack Hammer #1 Hawkeye Vs Deadpool #1 Earth 2: World's End #1 (DC Comics, $2.99) By Graig Kent One of the few big successes of DC Comics' linewide reboot was Earth 2, which arrived in their first wave of New 52 replacement books.  Earth 2 allowed writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott[...]

Batgirl #35 launches from DC Comics today We've already run a preview and I did rather enjoy the scene where Barbara Gordon walks around the flat remembering how it was the previous night – and who was there A very interesting use of comics that would be hard to replicate in other media. But my favourite[...]

Okay. So this is possibly the best book in the entire universe according to some readers. It smacks of the seventies with a rather nineties Spide Girls

If you been enjoying the DC weekly comics series that a been hitting the shelves, be sure to check out Earth 2 Worlds End #1! Archie Comics is bringing another classic character into the mature readers area this week with Sabrina #1! If you've been enjoying Afterlife with Archie, you will not want to miss this[...]

The AV Club have run an "exclusive" preview of Batgirl #35 Exclusive in that it has fewer pages than ours from a few weeks ago – and they don't have big DC COMICS lettering slapped across it I suppose. But the two do seem very familiar So here's a small look at some of the minor[...]

Then next week, relaunch of Batgirl from the new creative team (get a sneak peek here), Aliens Vs Predator, Earth 2 Worlds End, Klarion, Dead Squad, October Faction, TMNT/Ghostbusters, Birthright, Punks, Wytches, Avengers & X-Men: Axis, Jackhammer Usurper, Sabrina, Sabbath, War Stories, Pirouette, Evil Ernie, Vamiprella Feary Tales and Parallel Man. Just in time for the New York Comic Con[...]

Retailers who attend the Diamond Comic Distributors Breakfast Meeting at New York Comic Con will be able to pick up a few freebies and giveaways… Such as the Retailers-Only Batgirl #35 NYCC Variant above, The Fifth Beatle Collector's Edition, Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland #2 Exclusive Variant, Guardians 3000 #1 Ross Sketch Variant, a 2014 Fall Sampler from Titan Comics, Rai #1 Gold Variant,[...]

Sideshow Collectibles is giving away a Batgirl Premium format figure just for signing up here. They also announced the pre-order for a Deadpool Sixth Scale Figure from their new Marvel Sixth Scale Collection You can get it here. And finally a new Han Solo and Chewback Sixth Scale Figure set from Hot Toys that[...]

In one week's time we get the launch of Gotham Academy, Lobo, Cutter, Guardians 3000, Winter Soldier, Thor, Men Of Wrath, Critical Hit, Last Born, Fiction Squad, Damnation Charlie Wormwood, Holmes Vs Houdini, Mercy Thompson, Dash, Brides Of Helheim. Then next week,  relaunch of Batgirl from the new creative team (get a sneak peek here) Aliens Vs Predator, Eaath 2 Worlds End,[...]

You can pick up the exclusive Batman #35, Batgirl #35, The Multiversity #1, The Sandman: Overture #1 and two versions of Harley Quinn: Futures End #1 – a Love It and Hate It version. DC Comics has announced that they will have six exclusive cover for the New York Comic Con[...]

Where supply and demand and most accurately reflected, where you can see which books are hot, where new orders are coming in and how retailers are reacting to new, unanticipated desire! I'm told that this Monday gone, DC Comics and Diamond received a massive increase of advance orders from comic book retailers for more copies of[...]

Not too many credit changes to report this week, as opposed to last week's monster list. Just that Avengers #37 will be drawn by Mike Deodato, not Stefano Caselli. That X-Force #11 will be drawn by Rock-He Kim, not Tan Eng Huat. And Jordie Bellaire is no longer the colourist for Batgirl #35 as announced, replaced by Maris Wicks. But one retailer fellow[...]

Today is the Final Order Cut-Off date for retailers to order the new-look Batgirl #35 Orders are up, DC have already discounted the price for retailers further and they are going for a final push to boost the numbers for this new-look, yellow Doc Martened Batgirl, by Cameron Stewart, Brenden Fletcher, and Babs Tarr. Which is why[...]

One that has stood out in storytelling is Gail Simone's Batgirl Picking up from her pre-52 handling of Barbara Gordon with Birds of Prey, she's carried the character forward as a compassionate and intelligent crime fighter with a uniquely feminine voice Still, the art by Adrian Syaf was still nearly indistinguishable from other Batman contributors[...]

This week, Batgirl: Futures End #1 is all about the fanservice In a good way, of course…. Welcome to the League Of Batgirls, from Gail Simone and Javier Garron And in Gail Simone's final final issue of the series, she is finally able to give the readers What They Want. Which is the introduction of Cassandra Cain into the[...]

But there's one item worth expanding for it's own right. Bob Wayne told the assembled crowd at Batgirl orders are up Way up For the new look Batgirl, issue 36, out in Octover The one that looks like this. I have been told that considerable Tumblr support has led to a great increase in demand And to[...]

Gail Simone is relaunching Secret Six with Ken Lashley from DC Comics in December, announced in the LA Times. We Informed You Of This At A Previous Juncture, of course. When Gail Simone walked off Batgirl, she promised she had another DC project in the works, and this is… well, one of them. The new team will include[...]

Well, folk wondered how long we'd ave to wait until the return of Cassandra Cain in the New 52. Well, we finally have an answer. Five More Years. Maybe.

The fifth Batgirl New 52 Hardcover, Deadline, is getting a little fatter The solicitation read, BATGIRL VOL 5: DEADLINE HC Written by GAIL SIMONE and MARGUERITE BENNETT Art by ROBERT GILL, FERNANDO PASARIN and JONATHAN GLAPION Cover by ALEX GARNER On sale DECEMBER 17 • 232 pg, FC, $24.99 US It's a hazardous reunion between Batgirl and the former Court of[...]

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