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Bleeding Cool reported from DC Fandome that director of The Batman movie Matt Reeves talked about the upcoming The Batman movie starring Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne, and specifically named the late Darwyn Cooke's Batman: Ego comic book as a major reference point for the psychology of the new movie It's been mentioned before, but never[...]

The Batman trailer debuted to much excitement and acclaim over the weekend, and part of that is the teasing of The Riddler being the main antagonist in the film Look for Riddler stuff to shoot through the roof on the aftermarket, as people begin snatching up copies of anything the villain has been in, especially[...]

XM Studios continues with their original Batman Samurai designs and this time the Joker has been unleashed The Joker Orochi statues fuse the madness of the Clown Prince with the mythical eight-headed and eight tailed dragon The Orochi is placed at the base of the statue while Joker is wearing a uniquely designed samurai armor[...]

For Batman, he became who he was because of the death of his parents The comic resisted this approach by the Joker trying to give Commissioner Jim Gordon a very bad day indeed, crippling his daughter and former Batgirl Barbara Gordon Jim didn't snap, indeed, he insisted that Batman do things by the book Whether[...]

XM Studios is back with some new DC Comics samurai designs with Batman This time Batman has taken the title of Shugo and becomes the protector of his are providence He is standing on top of a bat-signal light that is designed after a ceremonial drum The signal will be able to rotate 360 degrees[...]

Todd McFarlane took to Twitter as well as a press release to announce a new Batman figure The McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse has been heavily dedicated to the Dark Knight but this is not a bad thing as he is a beloved DC character This time though, it looks like the DC Multiverse getting its[...]

Batman will be donning his blue and grey suit and we get the new Robin, Carrie Kelley at his side Both are packed with detail and will get a nice variety of interchangeable pieces Both will get swappable head sculpts, swappable hands, and wired capes so fans can pose them just right This dynamic duo[...]

And it shows both Batman and Wonder Woman wrapping up somewhat As we are told "You can't bury the past forever" and "We thought he was dead, but he's back." Promethea? Here's what we ran before: DC Comics has teased a new event for December, Endless Winter Initially, I had heard this maybe some kind of Justice League/Sandman[...]

If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact  richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Top ten bestselling comics of the week The best-selling comic book for every single store, this week, was Batman, with Death Metal and Thor fighting it out for second place – with Maestro also placing consistently high across reporting stores… Batman #97 Death Metal: Guidebook[...]

In September 2019, Bleeding Cool first reported that DC Comics was to give us a new black Batman to replace Bruce Wayne in the comic books., and then learnt it would be Luke Fox, son of Lucius Fox We then learnt it would be would be written by John Ridley, screenwriter of 12 Years A[...]

But Jim Lee confirmed that Ridley will be writing a series with a Black Batman He confirmed it is a mini-series (rather than the ongoing series we know was originally planned) and he says that Ridley will address his own relationship with his two sons in the comic book Which, given Ridley's comments regarding how[...]

More specifically, the newest McFarlane Toys DC Multiverse that features the first Build-A-Figure featuring Batman the Merciless The DC Comics event, Dark Nights Metal is heavily present in this way with all four figures being released to the storyline somehow The four figures in this wave will be Dark Night Batman, Batman Who Laughs (Tyrant[...]

The game picks up right where the last Batman: Arkham Knight left off with Batman gone and the family left behind having to pick up the pieces and defend Gotham in his absence The four members being Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin, and Red Hood The game features an open-world environment again as you explore a slightly[...]

Batman #99 goes to FOC from DC Comics tomorrow night, so they would really like you to pay it some attention now The issue before the big one, and it looks like plenty of the Batfolk are back to normal – including Nightwing And even Barbara Gordon is standing strong after a couple of assaults[...]

Just to be clear, this isn't including any news that might drop on upcoming series that don't have sessions: Matt Reeves' The Batman spinoff, J.J Abrams' Justice League Dark, Greg Berlanti's Green Lantern, Strange Adventures, and other possible surprises. 10 – 10:40 a.m "The Flash": Well, we know we're getting a Season 7 teaser/trailer, so that's[...]

And we get to see Harley Quinn stitch herself up, as seen in Batman #96, until Batman #97 comes gallumphing along, with {Poison Ivy still on Harley Quinn's mind it seems) as it is time for Batman to wake from his poisonous assault from the Joker. Art from Batman #97 It's not the first time Poison Ivy[...]

Including a five year plan for Batman for which he says "some of it doesn't work any more, but I think it would be pretty rad" Alfred will be back, Donny, I am sure of it. Donny Cates Has a 5 Year Batman Plan – Also Constantine and Authority He also says he would like "a crack[...]

WB Games Montreal dropped a small teaser today for their upcoming Batman game, as it looks like we're meeting the Court Of Owls The studio posted this message to their Twitter, along with a link to a website called r3dakt3d.com, leading people to a message that eventually says "We Have Been Expecting You" with tomorrow's[...]

One of the biggest moments from the crossover came during the ninth episode of Batwoman, with "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two" when Kate Kane aka Batwoman (Ruby Rose) and Kara Danvers aka Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) met Earth-99's Bruce Wayne (veteran Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy)- and let's just say this was definitely not the[...]

12:30 PM – 2:30 PM ET If DC Comics was the Cadillac of comic book publishers at the dawn of The Silver Age of Comics (circa 1956-70), then artist Carmine Infantino was their man at the wheel: his slick, streamlined style was the sine qua non of The Silver Age! Which famous Golden Age superhero influenced[...]

This particular page is from Batman/Aliens #1 from 1997 and is page #35 This is the preliminary drawing, so a lot of Wrightson's process lines are still on the drawing Other than that, what more could a Batman fan and art collector ask for than a page with the Caped Crusader in multiple panel shots?[...]

What seems like a lifetime ago, Bleeding Cool broke the news that the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years a Slave, John Ridley was to write the ongoing Batman comic book for DC Comics, Not only that, but Bruce Wayne would be replaced in the role by the son of Lucius Fox, Luke Fox, otherwise known[...]

DC Comics has been promoting the upcoming Detective Comics #1027 as an extra-sized thousandth issue Detective Comics featuring Batman, since Detective Comics #27 in 1939 However, as all pedantic Millenium celebrants from 2001 know well, this is not the case If Detective Comics #27 was the first appearance of Batman in the series, then #1027[...]

We looked at the first five covers to Detective Comics #1027 on Bleeding Cool the other day, as we pointed out that the next Batman event to follow Joker War and Death Metal will begin in the extra-long issue, and that it also confirms the cancellation of the Generations series with this prebiew as at[...]

Chris Claremont is the famed writer of the Uncanny X-Men books that everyone loves the most, from Dark Phoenix to New Mutants to Wolverine to Days Of

DC Comics has sent a number of Batman comic books back to the printer, including Batman #90 getting a third printing, and the first two issues of Batman: The Adventures Continue getting second printings, and all for September 1st/2nd. BATMAN #90 3RD PTG (W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Jorge Jimenez The mysterious master criminal known only as the Designer[...]

We would have also seen a new timeline, pushing Wonder Woman's origin back to the beginning ot the twentieth century, expand Batman's timeline to that every Robin had their day, and move onto a bright future, with a rich legacy to explore That was the plan anyway. And it would begin with the Generations volumes, numbered[...]

If you thought DC Comics published an unhealthy percentage of Batman books, you ain't seen nothing yet The Batbooks, most of the Justice League books and some of the Superman books will stay safe, as will the digital line, the original graphic novel line But a lot of comics will have to disappear as there[...]

But the … exposure of Batman: Damned still casts a long shadow at the publisher. We have heard mention from various sources, of various reliability, that Vice President, Global Publishing Initiatives & Digital Strategy Bobbie Chase. DC Editor Andy Khouri, DC Senior Story Editor Brian Cunningham, SVP Publishing Strategy & Support Services at DC, Hank Kanalz and DC[...]

And now we know what it takes to topple Batman from its top of the chart Another Batman comic book… This is the Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List, as compiled by a number of comic stores from their sales on Wednesday and Thursday It measures what are known as the "Wednesday Warriors", those who can't[...]