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This past weekend Ed and I headed up to beautiful New York City to check out Big Apple Comic Con. If you read my previous con report, you'll know that

Here is a second batch of exclusive first looks at the solicitations and covers for Dynamite's fantasy books shipping in June of 2017. These include Red

Dynamite has exclusively sent us the solicitaitons and covers for their books shipping in June of 2017, but they've grouped them together into some

What does a snow day mean to a comic book artist? If you're former Catwoman artist and creator of Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose, Jim Balent, it means to

Warren Ellis is changing things drastically for the Wildstorm characters in his new series The Wild Storm, but to go along with his words are the

Titan Comics is expanding its Hammer Horror line to include Captain Kronos The new series will be written by Dan Abnett and drawn by Tom Mandrake. The series is the second from Titan, following The Mummy by Peter Milligan and Ronilson Freire, and is based on the 1974 film that starred Horst Janson and Caroline Munro[...]

There are plenty of big books coming through the DC Comics system for late 2017 and early 2018 Here's a look at some of them… Omnibuses Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus over here. DC Rebirth Extended Omnibus over here Justice League Detroit and Justice League International Omnibuses here Bronze Age Swamp Thing and DC Horror: House of Secrets Omnibus here. Grayson Super Spy[...]

In October 2017, DC Comics collects the Grayson run from Tom King, Tim Seeley and Mikel Janin that gave us scenes like this. And this. And this. The Grayson: The Superspy Omnibus is out on 24th October for $99.99 With Dick Grayson, exposed as Nightwing, believed dead, and operating as Agent 37 for Spyral, planted by Batman. This oversize omnibus collects[...]

And DC Comics are lining up the big books to celebrate it. Harley Quinn: A Celebration of 25 Years 19 September $39.99 300 pages Celebrate 25 years of Harley Quinn in this brand new hardcover collecting the infamous Suicide Squad outlaw's most memorable stories! Since her debut in 1992's Batman: The Animated Series, Harley Quinn has wreaked havoc throughout the[...]

In 2003, DC Comics collected the first volume of Rick Veitch's Aquaman comic book, Waterbearer, with the first six issues of that year's Aquaman comic. Fourteen years later, they are getting round to the second volume and the final six issues. Aquaman: The Waterbearer Vol 2 9th January 2018 $19.99 In the aftermath of THE WATERBEARER, Aquaman must battle[...]

We know there's a Fourth World Omnibus – possibly the biggest book DC Comics has ever published But it doesn't stop there, for celebrating the 100th birthday year of the late Jack Kirby Here are some more books that DC are publishing for close to his birthday. Jack Kirby's Mister Miracle (New Edition) 26 September $29.99 300[...]

Image Comics is announcing a sequel Bulletproof Coffin: The 1000 Yard Stare one-shot by David Hine and Shaky Kane, for June. And it's all rather meta. When indie publisher Image Nation hires Shaky Kane to write and draw his own comic book, the artist finally finds himself free from the tedium of visualizing the geriatric ramblings of washed-up[...]

2017 isn't just Image Comics' 25th Anniversary It's also the anniversary of WildCATS, Jim Lee's first Wildstorm imprint comic book Or so it would later be called And it's time for a volume that blows up the page size…   Absolute WildC.A.T.S. 19 December $125.00 Industry titan Jim Lee presents ABSOLUTE WILDC.A.T.S., a collection of the greatest WildStorm characters[...]

 There are always some chart-busting sales during this period, and here's one example this year: A Detective Comics #33 CGC 8.0 has just sold from Metropolis Comics for a record $150,000  The comic book which has a November 1939 cover date and hit the newsstand at the end of September, shows Batman's origin for the[...]

But Harley isn't satisfied with her comics creation and thinks a little of Ms Moone's special paint will really help her drawings come to life! The problem? Harley's drawings literally come to life! DC SUPER HERO GIRLS VOL 5: OUT OF THE BOTTLE continues to develop the relationships forged in DC SUPER HERO GIRLS: FINALS CRISIS,[...]

In 1983, Alan Moore was hired to write The Saga Of Swamp Thing from #19 by the character's co-creator, now editor, Len Wein at DC Comics And everything changed. And everything changed Swamp Thing – and American comic books would never be the same again. But there was a decade of Swamp Thing published before that And[...]

"Justice League Detroit" was the mocking name given to a certain era of the Justice League Of America when it was filled with what were regarded as

  Did you buy the DC Universe Rebirth Omnibus? Featuring all of the DC Rebirth issues of all the relaunched comics? All 21 comics and 568 pages of it? Weeeellll… In September, DC Comics are publishing the DC Rebirth Omnibus Expanded Edition. With everything in the original omnibus, but now the addition of Justice League Of America: Rebirth #1, The Ray:[...]

The Invisibles Omnibus from DC Comics collected 55 issues of the series. Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus is out for 12th December for a mere $150, collects 57 issues. Here's the solicit. After co-creating comic book heroes such as THE FANTASTIC FOUR and THE HULK, legendary writer/artist Jack Kirby came to DC Comics in 1970 to write and[...]

Klinger has been putting together The Annotated Watchmen for DC Comics He writes, This came about because, when we were wrapping Annotated Sandman, I happened to say that my other dream project would be to take a similar approach to Watchmen, one of the great works of art of the 20th century[...]

But finally, after three decades of requests, DC Comics is to collect The Atlantic Chronicles, his series with artist Esteban Maroto that set a history for Atlantis in the DC Universe, that would birth Aquaman An in-depth historical fantasy, calling it Game Of Underwater Thrones wouldn't be a stretch. So in November we are getting Aquaman: The[...]

Out on 19th December, this $39.99 hardcover will contain Untold Legend Of Batman #1, New Teen Titans Annual #2, Outsiders #11, Green Lantern Annual #3, Secret Origins Annual #1, World Of Smallville #1-4, Superman Annual #2, World Of Metropolis #1-4, Power Of The Atom #6, Christmas With Super Heroes #2, Green Lantern: Ganthet's Tale #1,[...]

But DC Comics look to be reviving the appeal. Hence the collection planned for September from DC Comics, Catwoman by Jim Balent Book One. Jim Balent is the modern architect of Catwoman's look all the way up until the New 52 His epic run on Catwoman from 1993 to 1999 defined Selina Kyle like never before and solidified[...]

This was a scene from yesterday's Batman by Tom King and David Finch. A "war of jokes and riddles" shared between the Riddler and Batman and the idea that

In the MCU they're called the Infinty Stones, but in the comics they are Infinity Gems and one of the most powerful is the Mind Gem This blue gem grants the barer psionic powers like telepathy and telekinesis and can augment any pre-existing mental powers When combined with the other gems, it allows the user to connect with every[...]

Marvel has released a new trailer for the Graphic Audio version of Stuart Moore's prose novel, Thanos: Death Sentence. In the story, Thanos continued

Tomorrow… Thursday, March 16th… from 4:30 to 5:30 PM, Mike Wellman and Rafael Navarro will be at the Palms – Rancho branch library teaching a course on making comics This is open to teens from 11 to 18. Mike Wellman has written many comics over the years as well as owns the Comic Bug stores in[...]

If you didn't know, most colors in comics are done digitally, which maybe sounds like it's easy to you, but each color on this page needs a line definition, which means someone has to TRACE every single little detail on this page in Photoshop before it gets filled with color, than rendered This is called[...]

Dynamite has sent us a new writer's commentary, this one from James Robinson on James Bond: Felix Leiter #3 which hits stores today. Cover by Mike Perkins

"Lark" is now shade, thrown by Isabella Ortiz of the We Are Robins crew. However it looks like there is a name out there. Just neither Duke – or us – are getting it yet. All-Star Batman #8 is published today from DC Comics.   We have seen Duke Thomas as a kid in Batman Zero Year. We have seen him[...]