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Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, and Damian Wayne come together to discuss the big thing that binds them together: Was being Robin, and Batman's sidekick, the best choice they could've made? But before they can get to the heart of the matter, they're ambushed by an unknown assailant with a bone to[...]

Batman Secret Files Clownhunter #1 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, and the titular anti-hero is doing to clowns what we all wish we could Have a little taste of your own, medicine, clowns! Now you're the ones that need to be afraid! Check out the preview below. BATMAN SECRET FILES CLOWNHUNTER #1 (ONE[...]

Though thanks to DC, Tuesday Titans too. If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Batman '89 #1 Joker #6 Detective Comics #1,041 Defenders #1 Infinite Frontier #4 X Force #22 I Am Batman #1 Hardware Season One #1 Batman Urban Legends #6 Star Wars High Republic #8 Thanks to the following Bleeding[...]

DC Comics November 2021 solicitations mark James Tynion IV's last issues of Batman from DC Comics (though he will stick on The Joker for a bit longer) And as the new upcoming event The Shadows Of The Bat comes after Fear State's End, so Batman is leaving Gotham The credo goes that every Bat-writer should create[...]

But which ones? Because in DC's November 2021 solicits, Superman and Action Comics writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson is also writing a Superman/Batman: The Authority Special for DC Comics' November 2021 solicitations, drawn by Trevor Hairsine, Jonathan Glapion, and Ben Templesmith And will be bringing The Authority – or rather the version filtered through DC Comics[...]

DeVito played The Penguin in Batman Returns back in 1992 – and that's just about to have its thirtieth anniversary as well… here's what to look out for, as well as the rest of DC Comics November 2021 solicitations. Danny DeVito Writes The Penguin Comic Story For DC Comics GOTHAM CITY VILLAINS ANNIVERSARY[...]

DC Comics has their full November 2021 solicits and solicitations out and about for the direct market through Lunar and Diamond UK, with Batman comics, more Batman comics, even more Batman comics and occasionally Wonder Woman as well… BATMAN: THE IMPOSTER #2 Written by MATTSON TOMLIN Art and cover by ANDREA SORRENTINO $5.99 US | 48 PAGES | 2[...]

DC Comics had revealed the dream project teased earlier this week by superstar writer Tom Taylor, created with a dream artist now revealed to be Yasmine Putri, and starring medieval reimaginings of Batman, Superman, Harley Quinn, Black Lightning, Wonder Woman, and more Called Dark Knights of Steel, Taylor has spend two years working on the[...]

By now, we're sure you've heard about the whole controversy surrounding whether or not Batman likes to get orally intimate (you try coming up with phrases that won' get Google red-flagged) with Catwoman It started when HBO Max's Harley Quinn co-creators and EPs Justin Halpern and Patrick Schumacker revealed that DC Comics put the kibosh on[...]

Bisexual energy! Earlier this week, Bleeding Cool broke the confirmation of the story that has been bubbling under for some time in the pages of Batman: Urban Legends, that Tim Drake, the third Robin, was coming to terms with his feelings for an old friend, Bernard With a meeting of old friends turning into a[...]

Batman/Catwoman was a twelve-issue series that existed because writer Tom King was fired off Batman, and it enabled him to finish the storyline he had planned Tom King then specifically delayed the Batman/Catwoman series so that his Heroes In Crisis artist Clay Mann could draw all twelve issues and the series was further delayed[...]

Bob Kane, co-creator of Batman (and for decades credited as the sole creator of Batman, thanks to the kind of deal with DC Comics that they would never give to others), lived to both see and benefit from the success of the character Indeed, he was one of the most financially successful comic book creators[...]

Dick Grayson is finally getting on top of Batman in a new DC Comics series launching in November by Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen No, we don't mean sexually Jeeze, readers, why is your mind always in the gutter? DC may be cool enough to make Tim Drake bisexual, but they are not yet cool[...]

Generation Five, the fifth generation of DC Comics as seen in the new planned DC Timeline, which would assign major stories a year in which they happened, how old characters were, and in the process aging up Superman and Batman to their fifties, Wonder Woman even older, with new characters like Jonathan Kent, Luke Fox[...]

It'x Jorge Jiménez time! Because James Tynion IV has announced he is leaving Batman for Substack, and other creator-owned comics already published by DC, Boom, and Image Comics And there has been much erroneous speculation on who will replace him on as head Batman writer, or even take over his current showrunning role across the[...]

James Tynion IV wanted the Batman comic book line from DC Comics to reflect the Jonathan Hickman X-Men line, all interlinked, all moving forward with a creative lead, all singing from the same songsheet, and a destination in mind Before he jumps ship of course Well, in that case, just like Bar Sinister's Red Diamond,[...]

He may be leaving Batman, but James Tynion IV is going out with a bang with Fear State All it takes is one bad day, that was The Joker's theory, to take a normal person, break them and turn them into a monster Bruce Wayne's parents, The Joker's wife and unborn child, though he failed[...]

Purporting to be a screencap of the page, and a URL that didn't work because Bleeding Cool was meant to have pulled the piece for unknown reasons – although with this article, it now does work! I mean, there are just not enough typos, how did they think it would pass muster? Nevertheless, the rumours[...]

We have the DC Fear State checklist, through to completion with Omega #1 in December, as well as including the previously Bleeding Cool-mentioned Batman Secret Files for The Gardener for November… August I Am Batman #0 Catwoman #34 Harley Quinn #6 Alpha #1 September Batman #112 I Am Batman #1 Batman #113 Batman Secret Files: Miracle Molly #1 Catwoman #35 Nightwing #84 Detective Comics #1043 Harley Quinn #7 October Batman #114 Arkham[...]

Spoiler time! You have been warned! In Batman: Urban Legends #6, Zealot returns… properly The Batman anthology series Batman: Urban Legends has been telling stories of Grifter, the Jim Lee, and Brandon Choi-created character from WildCATS, who was reintroduced to the DC Universe in the Batman comic book. DC Comics has teased several other WildStorm characters arriving in the DC Universe[...]

Spoiler time! You have been warned! In Batman: Urban Legends, Jason Todd – Red Hood, has done a very bad thing And he knows it, mostly Indeed he confesses it to Batman He's a murderer He may justify his killing, but it was cold-blooded murder. And not the first, in this continuity or another This was[...]

Spoiler time! You have been warned! Two months ago, Batman: Urban Legends #4 featured Tim Drake – Robin – in the strip "The Sum Of Its Parts" by Meghan Fitzmartin, Belen Ortega, and Alejandro Sanchez With Tim Drake looking at his future plans, reassessing his life, with Barbara Gordon telling him that "what you find is[...]

An error? Deliberate? Do they just not care? Can comic shops do the same too? #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 25%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Batman Special Edition (Free Comic Book Day) #1: 2021 The Batman creative team of James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez take[...]

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James Tynion IV has just announced that he is leaving Batman with #117 and The Joker with #14 Tynion is the comics creator who took over Batman after Tom King was fired with #87 and managed to turn his fill-in job into the main gig after DC fired publisher Dan Didio and cancelled 5G, took[...]

Which probably makes Marvel grit their teeth when they saw the solicitation for Jock's Batman: One Dark Knight about just one night when the electricity in Gotham is turned off At least they managed to get Dark Ages #1 out a month before – but it could have been a whole year before! But it[...]

I Am Batman #0 is in stores from DC Comics on Tuesday, bringing the new Batman from Future State into the mainline DC continuity This story is really special to us here at Bleeding Cool because we told you about it first (pip pip), and despite all the doubt, we were right (pip pip again)[...]

For decades, Batman has been tortured by the death of his parents, spending his nights dressed in a bat suit making mentally ill criminals @#$% their pants But thanks to good guy Cheer, Batman can finally find happiness, and all he has to do is get high as @#$% on Cheer gas! Is the start[...]

Batgirl can't seem to catch a break in Batman The Adventures Continue Season II #3, in stores on Tuesday from DC Comics First, Batman is totally trying to ditch her And now, another vigilante, The Huntress, is looking to beat her to taking revenge on her target The world of Batman: The Animated Series continues[...]

Sean Gordon Murphy is working on a new Batman comic book Is this his promised White Knight threequel, Batman: Beyond The White Knight? On Instagram he says that he can't name it or when it's scheduled for, but it seems to fit his previous descriptions He previously said that Batman: Beyond The White Knight would include[...]