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WonderCon's Convergence Panel for DC Comics is kicking off this Saturday afternoon We'll be bringing you that panel live: The panelists included Mark Andreyko, Len Wein, Scott Lobdell, Peter Steigerwald, and Dan Jergens hosted by Jeff King.  The panel started with animations for DC All Access and an intro to Braniac's behavior and the trapped dome[...]

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! Star Wars comics may take the top spots, four out of the top five to be precise, but Convergence does very well, with eight spots[...]

In Convergence #0, Superman learns a few things about the Ultimate Brainiac as Dan DiDio calls him (without Bob Wayne to stop him using the word "ultimate".) Domed cities, with prisoners inside… So he decides to express his outrage about this by punching Brainiac rather hard without provocation, while condemning him for running a zoo.  And condemning Brainiac for keeping them captive[...]

So here are 26 that didn't make it to the front page on their own. New 52: Futures End Concludes With A Happy Ever After As was always planned. Avengers Try Baby Tossing As A Way To Appease The Gods And Prevent Secret Wars Surely more likely than that pretend Earth trick they tried before. Convergence Redesigns Metropolis So[...]

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, I'm back with a stack of New Comics Now for April Fool's Day! First up is Convergence #0, it's all New 52 Superman vs Brainiacs Van Sciver's art really carried me through all the different versions of Metropolis and Brainy, but I am totally ready[...]

More details to come! This is a huge week with the biggest event being DC Comics' biggest event this year and that is the Convergence Event Every DC Comic story you have ever read has led up to this moment as we finally get to see what Brainiac has in store for Telos Tons of people[...]

  Here's the Tony Daniel variant cover for Convergence #2.. And a mini-version of the actual cover for Convergence #4 Work out from these what you can. Here's the 1:25 cover from Star Wars: Kadan: The Last Padawan #1 coming out from Marvel next week and already sold out online… written by the Gargoyles/Star Wars Rebels guy and everything! Collector's[...]

Dan DiDio talked Convergence. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4qunXMPd9E[/youtube] But I talk Columbo. Just one more thing, Mr DiDio, just one more thing. You said "This is the Ultimate Brainiac who steals cities at the moment of their destruction and places them under large domes and brings them to a planet outside of time and space where he can experiment on." And directly after,[...]

Convergence was originally going to be a Band-Aid, a filler, as DC moved coast to coast And that was okay, complete in and of itself, a way to wrap up past stories, past ideas, a love letter to fans and one more trip around the park. Then Secret Wars happened And suddenly everything changed, and it[...]

In one week's time… the launch of Convergence #0, Witcher: Fox Children, My Little Pony: Fiendship Is Magic, No Mercy, Avengers Millenium, Avengers Ultron Forever, Empire Of The Dead Act Three, the 100,000+ selling Star Wars: Kanan, The Last Padawan, Sharazad, Space Riders, Ufology, CBLDF Defender, Looking For Group, Uncanny Season 2, Hoax Hunters, Rick & Morty, Poet[...]

Welcome! Based on Jeff King's revelations a couple of weekends ago that he was completely unprepared to write a comic book, after being given the gig to write the Convergence mini-series for DC Comics, I thought I'd provide a guide for the next Jeff King on what to do – and not to do[...]

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! The death of Deadpool tops the charts, beating out Convergence #1 and Darth Vader #4. Worth noting strong performances from Descender and Howard The Duck on[...]

Here is the Convergence #1 1:100 Variant.cover by Greg Capullo, showing the design of the new-look CHAPPIE Batman, published here for the first time.   And while we're at, it the Brian Bolland variant too… Here is the Convergence #1 1:100 Variant.cover by Greg Capullo, showing the design of the new-look CHAPPIE Batman, published here for the first time.   And[...]

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! This week Convergence #0, buoyed by a little press, has rocketed to the top as retailers increase their orders, over and above a bevy of[...]

If you are planning a trip to another dimension, it's always good to take some precautions. For example, take Earth Two in World's End #23, it might be

Bleeding Cool has told you how the Convergence titles from DC Comics will contain new, original preview stories for the June mini-relaunch titles, that won't be reprinted until the collections of the series they promote And how those stories will also be made available free on all platforms Well, on Friday at the DC Retailer Roadshow in New[...]

Two previous retailer roadshows, in Orlando and Burbank, as well as a presentation in Portland and the May solicitations had told a lot of folk what they needed to know, but there was lots of artwork from the Convergence series of series to pore through. Though much interest was exactly how DC intends to promote the[...]

Welcome to today's guide to the dimensional ins and outs of the Marvel and DC Universes as they approach their respective convergences, incursions and crises. Spider-Verse gets its epilogue in Amazing Spider-Man as everyone goes back to their respective times and dimensions But not everyone We saw in Avengers how the Captain Britain Corps were wiped[...]

I spoke with Jim Lee first, and I mentioned to him that my staff and I are presenting Convergence to our customers as a "Huge all DC family event" I asked him what he thought of that, about us selling it as a "DC all family event". Jim told me that Convergence was a "tribute to 80[...]

It's been strange to see how both Batman and Justice League have been running stories about viruses that escape and transform the local population, both

Thanks to ComicBook.com, Blastr, ComicVine, CBR, Hitfix, IGN, Nerdist, Newsarama, Gamma Squad and Topless Robot… what do we have? Rev up the oscillator! Raise the conducting pole! Attach the bolts! It lives! It lives! DC solicitations for May 2015…. Note the repeated line about "This extra-sized issue includes a sneak peek at what's coming up in the DC[...]

Retailers at the Orlando retailer roadshow with DC Comics were told that the goal of the 24 new titles from the June mini-relaunch is to reach out to new

Spilling out of yesterday's retailer meeting in Orlando with DC Comics, a look at the Convergence event, week by week, laying it out. Convergence is intended to tie the storylines from the weekly titles World's End and Futures End together Each week has a theme and a conceit. The first week has the Pre 52 characters appearing, their[...]

At DC's retailer roadshow at Orlando yesterday, the assembled crowd were told a story about the original plans for the 2011 Flashpoint event from DC Comics. The event from 2011 saw the DC Universe reality change, Age Of Apocalypse style, and the DC books replaced by twisted parallel dimensional versions, before the New 52 relaunch that soft rebooted[...]

Plenty of bits and pieces coming out of yesterday's Orlando DC Comics Retailer Roadshow to brighten a Saturday Valentine's Day…. First, a few details about the upcoming Convergence series and spinoffs. Look for a scene in Convergence featuring Warlord riding a herd of triceratops into a castle of time travellers Mind you, bet that happens to time[...]

So we have a Secret Wars and a Convergence coming, with all manner of dimensional travel, worlds fighting worlds and Marvel and DC fighting to tell the same story So what signs are there in today's comics of what might be happening? This is the Old Logan dimension/time, known as the Wastelands on the Secret Wars[...]

So, the DC event-to-end-all-events, Convergence, is going to cost a lot If you buy it all that is 40 two-issue series, plus nine issues of a weekly running through it all… Collector's Paradise will give you 30% off, dropping the cover price down by over $100 from $357 to $249.99 DCBS is doing a 50% bundle of the Convergence issues-[...]

A shot of 'Doomed' from yesterday's retailers meetings at Burbank Revealed at yesterday's DC Comics retailer meeting in Burbank, every one of the forty Convergence comics in May will feature a new eight page insert of an upcoming June mini-relaunch comic book. Not a preview, these will be original stories by the title's creative teams and will[...]

It's on all the solicitations for the variant covers running through DC's Convergence event. But what is missing is the name of the original art that Chip has taken and twisted into a uniform look The covers look great, the lack of credit certainly isn't Chip's fault, e's doing a great job, but does this mean[...]

Until they get with the plan… Say, maybe Secret Wars has more in common with Convergence than I first thought… Oh go on, let's have a look at some Silk pages while we're here. Let us take three articles on CBR Why not, they can probably do with the traffic. Regarding All-New[...]