In an interview with ComicsBlog, comic book writer Brian Azzarello talked about his recent comics career, his attitude, and his work at DC Comics and Image. The interview, translated into French, also sees Brian Azzarello talk about the controversy that dogged Batman: Damned a year ago. For those with short memories, the comic was the […]
Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo have been one of the more perfect creative pairings. With perennial sellers for DC Comics such the Luthor and Joker collections, the Rorschach chapter of Before Watchmen getting a new boost from the TV show, and the recent release of the collected Batman Damned topping the charts, they should be […]
Comic book creator Lee Bermejo talked on panel yesterday at New York Comic Con about his work and his process, at the New York Comic Con. Artist on books such as Joker, Before Watchmen: Rorschach, Lex Luthor: Man of Steel, the recent Batman Damned, and writer/artist on Suiciders and Batman: Noel, his work gained infamy when a […]
In 1989, Christopher Priest – then known as Jim Owsley – wrote a story for Batman Annual #13 called Faces, with art by Michael Bair and Gray Morrow. Which featured this scene, Bruce Wayne rising from bed in the nip, and heading out to change into his Batman clobber. A functional, non ezplicit nude scene. […]
The final issue of Batman Damned #3 by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo was originally solicited for March, on a bi-monthly schedule. But that was before Batman's penis appeared on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and newly appointed publisher Pamela Lifford had to tip the entirety of DC Comics' schedule in the bin and […]
Funko POP had a fair few items to show off at the Diamond Retail Summit held in Las Vegas last night. Including items that look like they may be exclusive to Diamond's Previews catalogues, orderable only by direct market comic book stores – and those with accounts. Gamestop, I'm looking at you. We'd already known […]
Roxxon CEO Dario Agger is featured in a very revealing pose on Giuseppe Camuncoli's connecting variant cover for War of the Realms. Marvel revealed the variant today, which features Agger in his minotaur form, sans clothing, enough to distract even the mighty She-Hulk. Unfortunately for fans hoping for an uncensored Roxxon: Damned type of situation, […]
Things aren't going great for The Punisher. First of all, he's in a prison in Bagalia, and second of all, there are no good barbers there. Also, the other residents really don't respect people's privacy. Confronted in a steamy locker room by a prison boss nun, Frank Castle lets it all hang out. You might […]
This leads to a scene that's eerily reminiscent of one from a rival publisher...Of course, we're talking about the infamous Batpenis scene that appeared in Batman Damned #1 Specifically, Dark Starhawk's shadowy nether regions remind us of the censored version released on ComiXology, pushing the exposed-in-print Batpenis back into the darkness.If not for the controversy[...]
When Phil Seuling set up the direct comics market in the seventies, the objectives was to allow comic book stores to order any number of copies of a comic book rather than having to order them all proportionally to each other, to get a greater discount swapping returnability for direct sale and, for a number of […]
Greetings from the coal face of the direct comics market. Where retailers try to increase their orders of certain comics ahead of sale. 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! And […]
I've been hearing more about how the reaction to the publication of Batman: Damned#1 is affecting other books, creators and employees at DC Comics. But over the weekend at MCM London Comic Con I heard a tale from comic book writer Chris Claremont that put in it perspective. He recalled the publication of Superman #75, which […]
Bleeding Cool has confirmed that a CGC 10.0 slabbed copy of Batman Damned #1 with the Jim Lee variant cover, signed by Brian Azzarello, Jim Lee and Lee Bermejo has sold on eBay for $2500. It was listed with a Buy It Now price of $2999.99but the seller accepted the reduced price. This is the […]
The first appearance of Batman's penis in Batman Damned #1 set the comic book world on fire, sending shockwaves throughout DC Comics, causing the comic to skyrocket in value (especially after it was announced there would be no second printing and any future collections would censor the Batawang), and leaving a Batpenis-shaped mark on comic[...]
Of course, we're talking about the reveal of the Batpenis, which spawned a thousand Bleeding Cool articles and brought the hammer of censorship down on DC's Black Label line, at least according to reports from Bleeding Cool's own Rumourmonger-in-Chief, Rich Johnston.And now, these two will team up once more in Batman #63 Will Tom King[...]
Bleeding Cool has been able to ascertain that a recent sale on eBay of Batman Damned #1 by Blaze PC Collectables of Florida was for around $1800. It was a 10.0 CGC graded copy of the comic by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo published by DC Comics as part of their Black Label mature readers superhero […]
The Return of Wolverine #1 was the most ordered comic of September 2018, in the North American direct market of comic stores. But then, it did have a tonne of variant covers, with every Wolverine costume conceivable getting its own, with plenty of retailer exclusive covers to boot. As ever this chart only records orders […]
Nightwing #50 was quite the turning point in the life of one Dick Grayson. Published last week, and following on from the same week's Batman #56, the events in which Nightwing was shot in the head by Bane and survived continue to resonate. Man, Nightwing, Black Mask, Penguin, so many people in Gotham get shot […]
Batman: Damned #2 is coming. Honest. Once they've covered up one of two things. The second part of this Batman series for DC's Black Label mature readers line is still destined to join Killing Joke, Dark Knight Returns, Year One, The Long Halloween, Hush and Arkham Asylum on everyone's shelves. It may just take a […]
and the Batpenis And the fuss that followed its publication, getting worldwide headlines and spawning many a joke on late-night chatshows like Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert.However, rather than appreciating the publicity that the book got, DC Comics chose to not reprint the comic book at all - leading it to currently selling from between[...]
