Comics Archives

We told you this was coming. The AP reports, in an article arranged with DC's department, that Lex Luthor is joining the Justice League. And he's bringing

You can see why some might decide not to hand the comic out, or indeed get rather cross by the whole affair. Brendan Boyle, General Manager/Owner & Tournament Overlord of Coliseum of Comics writes, Love the cartoon and find it hilarious. Not far from the way many publishers think as they continue to attempt to herd the senseless[...]

Now confirmed by USA Today, DC Comics' Justice League of America series ends in April, and then later in the month Lemire relaunches it as Justice League United with a zero issue and a diverse superhero team that will split its time between Northern Ontario and cosmic locales. … Lemire was going to call the book Justice League[...]

And the best selling books for both DC and Marvel are $3.99. It can't have escaped anyone's notice that the $7.99 editions of Detective Comics, Amazing Spider-Man and the like topped the charts, with extra content. DC's digital-only titles have been shifting from 99 cents to $1.99 and still does well. And the All New Marvel NOW[...]

By David Dissanayake Here we are for the second (somewhat delayed) installment of Unsung Masterpieces (You can check out our first installment, "Enigma, with Duncan Fegredo, Peter Milligan, and Art Young", here). Warren Ellis once said that "American comics are hugely eager to put the future behind them."  He's right.  The nature of the comic shop is[...]

Did you grow up with the character? How familiar were you with the character/series when you got offered the chance to write it? JAMES KUHORIC: I think every kid that grew up in the 70s had The Six Million Dollar Man toys.  It just so happens I still have mine.  I was very young when the[...]

Kelly Sue DeConnick has let it be known. When asked, "I didn't see Avengers Assemble on the April solicitations. Is it over? :(" She replied, It is

In the eighties, DC Comics published a Batman comic called The Killing Joke By Alan Moore and Brian Bolland You may have heard of it. Controversial, hated and loved, cherished by some, seen as all that is wrong with comics by others, disowned by its writer and elevated by his fans, there have been essays, books,[...]

So this looks like one of the DC Comics Switcheroos we're expecting. I understand that Tony S Daniel has moved from Superman And Wonder Woman to an upcoming relaunch of Teen Titans And that his writer on Superman And Wonder Woman, Charles Soule, was offered the job, but turned it down. We discovered today that the current[...]

Well, that makes this volume's release even more sensible. As Marvel's solicitations for April 2014 are released, they basically list everything we've

We've been saying for a bit that April would see lots of creatives swapping books at DC Comics Well, not everyone it seems has something to swap to. On Facebook, Kyle Higgins has posted the following, So here's something I've put off writing for a while On Tuesday, DC solicits for April 2014 hit They'll introduce a[...]

Michael Davis is the co-founder of Milestone Comics and a current graphic novelist He runs The Black Panel at San Diego Comic Con And he now writes a weekly column for Bleeding Cool. When you're a black kid growing up in the inner city, many things can spoil your day That's true of white kids growing[...]

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! Wolverine #1[...]

Here's the resulting video, taken at Orbital Comics in London, yesterday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipMl39_7XQ[/youtube] Well that was a fun evening Here's the resulting video, taken at Orbital Comics in London, yesterday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipMl39_7XQ[/youtube] Well that was a fun evening Here's the resulting video, taken at Orbital Comics in London, yesterday. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ipMl39_7XQ[/youtube] [...]

In his column for ComicVine, Scott Lobdell has announced he's leaving Teen Titans from April with issue 30 and the Annual. The man who started the New 52

DC Entertainment's 2014 Free Comic Book Day title, DC Comics – The New 52 Futures End #1 FCBD Edition can be ordered with an edition specific to the comic store in question – as long as they order at least 5,000 copies of it Each copy will cost the store the same as the standard[...]

Hill's potential savior? M.O.D.O.K.! 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 NEW AVENGERS #17 JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • RAGS MORALES (A) Cover by LEINIL YU Variant Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ Captain America Variant Also Available • Must the New Avengers destroy a perfect world so that the Earth can live? 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 MIGHTY AVENGERS #9 AL EWING (W) • GREG LAND (A/C) Captain America Variant by[...]

Harley Quinn, as portrayed by Clay Mann, on the Harley Quinn #1 second printing... orders are due for retailers at the end of the week...

Marvelman/Miracleman has a history of people trying to sensor various bits and pieces, as it challenged a variety of social mores over sex, nudity and

X-O Manowar #21 by Robert Venditti, Cary Nord, Vincente Cifuentes and Trevor Hairsine comes out on January 22nd and the fine folks over at Valiant sent us

Looking for a 70s flashback of epic proportions? From Tommy Lee Edwards, Noah Smith and Dan McDaid comes Vandroid, an epic story of a washed up van designer-turned cyberneticist savant, his technological masterpiece, and the corporate baddies who want to tear it all down! Published by Dark Horse, the five issue comic miniseries Vandroid, will be released in[...]

Top Cow sent over an exclusive first look at the cover for Aphrodite IX #11 by Stjepan Sejic. This will be out in May and hasn't even been solicited yet.

ElfQuest is the longest-running independent fantasy series, with more than 15 million comics, graphic novels and other publications in print. You can check out the first few pages of the new comic here, and here's a preview of Nate Piekos' essay from the first issue:   Elfquest has been in existence since 1978 and has been[...]

In this intimate event he talked passionately about his experiences at DC Comics in the 1980's and expressed deep enthusiasm for the team books like Legion Of Superheroes and Teen Titans He spoke with great fondness about the man he called the best collaborator he'd ever had, Marv Wolfman. Perez was especially candid about his move[...]

I mean, I'm pretty sure no one in comics has had a deal exactly like that, except maybe the Image partners.  I'd probably the closest thing you can get to being a partner here without having to actually be a partner here.  And since I only do two comics, that's never going to happen. But it[...]

So DC Comics is set to move its entire operation to Burbank, part of the Warner Bros studios It should happen in April 2015 But there's one group of folk that haven't been mentioned. And that's the guys who create MAD Magazine, bought by DC Comics and moved into their New York offices. Back when the DC[...]

Here we are, live at the Orbital Comics signing for Miracleman #1, published today, from Marvel Comics… updates as they come in. We are all awaiting the great man… Ten to fifteen minutes late, apparently. At the Will Simpson event here last week, Steve Cook recalled Garry Leach's birthday party in 1983 in which Garry spend the[...]

Extolling digital comics over the "dated and dying medium of print" With an asterisk to point out that it's only a joke, and encourage any retailer to "relax". Do you think they will? A few emails in my inbox suggest otherwise… Deadpool: The Gauntlet #1 is published today by Marvel Comics Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, who[...]

This morning I talked to a shop assistant at Orbital Comics who was reading Miracleman for the first time. Because, today sees the publication of Miracleman #1, by Alan Moore and Garry Leach Originally published as Marvelman in the pages of Warrior Magazine, it was a revival of the believed-abandoned British ripoff of Captain Marvel from[...]

Okay, I've taken the kids to school, and popped into town for this week's comics and settled down at the Waterstone's Piccadilly fifth floor with its generous wi-fi and power points to have a look at this weeks comics. Yes, Ghosted #6, I had enough of that this morning Still, they'll be happy enough when I[...]