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After Twenty-Six Years, DC Comics to Finally Close Vertigo?
Bleeding Cool has been informed by a number of sources this morning that DC Comics is planning to shutter its Vertigo imprint This has come as quite a surprise to some, as I also understand that DC Comics has just greenlit a number of Vertigo projects for publication Indeed, there are plans for a big[...]
Five Spoilers For This Week's DCeased #2
The string sales success, seemingly out of nowhere, on this DC Comics superhero take on Garth Ennis' Crossed, sees a world population infected vy the Anti Life equation spread by smartphone use And how the DC Comics superheroes deal with this threat – those who haven't already been turned into murderous arseholes. Here are five things[...]
Whose Trademarks Are DC Comics Opposing Now?
So who are DC Comics arguing against in the US trademark courts? There have been quite a few since we last checked in, mostly involving the Superman shield shape DC Comics lawyers are targeting another lawyer, Maryam Parman of Irvine, California for trying to trademark 'Super Woman, Super Lawyer'  for legal services They are also[...]
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Presenting himself as the polished CEO of a legitimate venture capital firm, Ellery's smooth corporate veneer hides his willingness to resort to extreme measures to achieve his goals. The streaming service's upcoming 10-episode drama adaptation is based on the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Written by showrunner Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, and directed by Len Wiseman (The[...]
Tom King Co-Writing 'New Gods' Film With Ava DuVernay for Warner Bros. Pictures
Pictures planned film adaptation of Jack Kirby's New Gods with Ava DuVernay in the director's seat, it sounds like we may know who'll be handling the script. According to a report over on The Wrap, a source confirmed to them that King would be co writing the script with DuVernay for New Gods. DC Comics characters Big Barda and Mister Miracle from[...]
LATE: Batman Damned #3 Slips Another Month, Joined by Goddess Mode and Shazam!
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 start again, while the entire line was gone over with a microscope, many changes were imposed not only on the Black Label[...]
swamp thing
Beach (If Beale Street Could Talk) is set to play nefarious businessman Nathan Ellery, a man with an agenda who's willing to do anything to achieve it. The streaming service's upcoming drama adaptation is based on the DC Comics character created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. Written by showrunner Mark Verheiden and Gary Dauberman, and directed by Len Wiseman (The Gifted, Lucifer), the series[...]
Frank Miller Superman Year One
The label is intended to tell mature readers storylines featuring DC Comics characters out of continuity – but already it is no longer to be a mature readers labelled title and has has editorial changes to fit. However, it turns out that Superman: Year One is intended by Miller to be in continuity with another mature[...]
'Titans' Season 2: Conor Leslie Shows Off Some Sweet (Golden?) Lasso Skills [VIDEO]
Case in point? Conor Leslie, who wasn't going to let Brenton Thwaites grab all the pre-season headlines with talk of a new Nightwing suit. Conor Leslie If you're playing Donna Troy/Wonder Girl and you're looking to get viewers psyched about your bumped-up second-season role, there's no better way to prove your "Wonder Woman approved" than by demonstrating[...]
Why Devil’s Due Should Resist DC’s Cease & Desist Over AOC Comic
[Editor's Note: Guest author Tony Panaccio writes about Devil's Due troubles over the DC Comics trademark for Wonder Woman in the recent Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez cover.]  DC Comics' intellectual property attorneys still don't have a clue, but maybe Devil's Due can give them one.By now, most folks have heard about DC Comics' claim that Devil's Due's AOC[...]
The Morning After... The Tom King Batman News Broke
Yesterday morning, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Tom King had been dropped by DC Comics from the Batman ongoing comic, and that his final issue would be Batman #85 It seemed to take the industry by surprise and we received word from a number of senior industry figures asking if we were quite mad[...]
swamp thing
Niles tweeted out his approval of the character's look, with Millar responding with his approval as well as reflecting back on his time writing the character (Millar wrote issues #144-#171 of the DC Comics character's second series) as well as the influence writer Alan Moore's run had on him as a teenager: New Swamp Thing[...]