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Last month, I told you how DC Comics was creating a new Vertigo promotion for the launch of new titles, giving retailers discount if they ordered the launch titles at certain percentages to Sandman Overture #5. Well they are doing the exact same discounts for the launches of Jacked, Red Thorn, Slash & Burn and Unfollow. And again if they[...]

He is the new ongoing artist for Superman, for now at least. But what of John Romita Jr? I understand, despite some scurrilous rumour mongers, that he has not quit the title, rather he was offered a new project by DC Comics, something so enticing that he couldn't help but grab it with both hands. I wonder[...]

So, yes, the last few issues of Harley Quinn have seen them battling Captain Horatio Strong, a buff Popeye lookalike with an addiction to power-giving

Maybe not until we get to here… via here…? Yeah, who says DC Comics doesn't do continuity any more? It's all fitting into place… Superman #43 is published today from DC Comics Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London With a signing for Doctor Who and Planet of The Apes artist Rachel Scott today, and launching an exhibition for Jessica Martin on[...]

It's a dangerous business being Batgirl… Batgirl #43 is published today from DC Comics Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London With a signing for Doctor Who and Planet of The Apes artist Rachel Scott today, and launching an exhibition for Jessica Martin on Saturday. Today's Batgirl #43 sees a danger in the form of rogue tigers[...]

Today's Grayson is an example of the success of innovation and experimentation at DC Comics – Batgirling if you will – with the comic taking a narrative approach you might be more likely to expect in Promethea, Cerebus or Sandman. But this is Grayson so there are other concerns upon meeting a duplicated version of himself[...]

That's kinda the point….   Justcie League 3000 #3 is published by DC Comics today Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London With a signing for Doctor Who and Planet of The Apes artist Rachel Scott today, and launching an exhibition for Jessica Martin on Saturday. JM DeMatteis promised some kind of clarification of language in Justice League[...]

From a Comic Vine preview of Grayson #11, out tomorrow... Grayson comes face to... well, not face, with his doppelganger. And unlike everyone else of

A few changes 'twixt solicitations and publication.... Batman '66 #26, out tomorrow, was solicited as by Lukas Ketner, but is actually by Jesse Hamm. Teen

Okay, so it may just be for a few issues. But I understand that Howard Porter, the current artist on Justice League 3001 will be drawing the ongoing Superman comic for DC Comics. Presumably while John Romita Jr takes a well deserved break. I really like Howard Porter's current work I also think he's rather undervalued at the[...]

Andrew Wheeler wrote for Comics Alliance, At Emerald City Comic-Con earlier this year I was lucky enough to be on a panel on diversity and representation

This morning we mentioned that DC Comics was down over $2 million on planned revenue/expenditure for 2014/2015. Here's where the other shoe gets dropped I understand from a number of senior sources that DC editorial have been told to "stop Batgirling" and go back to "meat and potatoes". Batgirling was the internal phrase at DC Comics, inspired[...]

Word reaches Bleeding Cool from numerous well-connected sources that, according to the books, DC Comics are down over 2 million dollars for the financial year beginning in 2015 than they were originally budgeted for, so far. And why? I'm told that it's a mixture of excess costs from the move from New York to Burbank, over and above[...]

Hosts Randy Young and Chris Hunter say: Thanks for pressing play! It's another great week of comics for August 26, 2015, and this week we get to see the actual origin of the Arkham Knight in the new series, Batman: Arkham Knight Genesis #1, from DC Comics Fan favorite writer, Peter Tomasi, takes over writing, and any[...]

The DC Bombshell artwork by, and based on, the work of Ant Lucia, has transformed the women of DC Comics characters into vintage pin-up illustrations, as well as a series of spin-off T-shorts, posters and statues In fact the DC Bombshells have been so good at taking money out of fanboy and fangirl wallets – that they've[...]