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Look, this stuff is kinda all relative. But in July, DC is celebrating the Year of the Villains, and Lex Luthor is going around the DC Universe to give his fellow villains "The Offer." And according to DC's solicitation for Catwoman #13, Luthor sees Catwoman as a villain, and he'll be putting "The Offer" on the[...]

But Barbara Gordon returned to being Batgirl with DC's Nu52 relaunch, part of an effort by DC to, for some reason, stomp on the hopes and dreams of fans of Stephanie Brown and Cassandra Cain, as DC considered them "toxic" characters. Then there was a new Oracle, a hacker named Gus, but now he's dead. Except, now[...]

We learned that the book would have a humorous tone, that Jimmy Olsen's video journalism is the only thing keeping the Daily Planet afloat in these perilous times for newspaper journalism, and that Jimmy would be traveling around the DC Universe for the series. But DC was saving the biggest reveal for the solicits, because it[...]

Our heroes have battled the evil of the Foot Clan in Gotham City and Bane in New York, but now Krang has gotten his hands on the most dangerous technologies in the DC Universe-and no universe is safe from his wrath! Co-published with IDW. The new series will hit comic shops on May 1st, and features[...]

Ric Grayson (yes, he is still going by that name) is looking to join the Nightwings, a team of police vigilantes who have taken up his old superhero

DC Comics has revealed a first look at the new series, Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen, debuting in July by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber You heard about this new series, which spins out of May's Leviathan Rising one-shot, first here at Bleeding Cool Pip pip With the DC solicits neither officially out nor leaked by[...]

DC Comics has revealed a first look at Lois Lane, the new series by Greg Rucka and Mike Perkins spinning out of the Leviathan Rising one-shot in May, and which of course you heard about first here at Bleeding Cool Lois Lane launches in July, but with the DC solicits neither officially out nor leaked[...]

Acts of Vengeance was a 1989 Marvel crossover that ran through the company's entire line of titles, in which Loki convinced Marvel supervillains to attack the Marvel superheroes they don't normally fight in an effort to throw them off their game. If it sounds like you've just heard about a similar concept recently, that's because DC[...]

DC Comics has revealed the details of their Year of the Villain event conglomerate super-mega-crossover event launching this May with the Year of the Villain One-Shot, which will lead into major villain-centric stories in Justice League, Event Leviathan, and Batman. From the press release, these are the Justice League details: JUSTICE LEAGUE In DC's YEAR OF THE VILLAIN[...]

Following the explosive events of "The Great One" Brian Bendis's Man of Steel mini-series, kicking off the former Marvel stalwart's takeover of DC's Superman books, Supergirl started an adventure into space to learn the truth about the destruction of Krypton by Rogol Zaar In Supergirl #22, the Girl of Steel learned from a recorded message[...]

TV series are set to air during the 2019-2020 broadcast season When the decision was finalized, Amell took to Twitter to make the announcement official… and personal: Playing Oliver Queen has been the greatest professional experience of my life… but you can't be a vigilante forever Arrow will return for a final run of 10 episodes this[...]

Recently in Superman, a reunion between Jonathan Kent and his parents was marred by the unnerving fact that he suddenly grown from a child to a teenager,

What a guy! Of course, this special assignment is probably highly illegal, highly dangerous, or both… but which one of you wouldn't try to kill Superman to have their student loans forgiven? Yeah, we thought so. The AV Club was given this preview as an EX-X-XCLUSIVE gift by their corporate masters at DC Comics in a sad[...]

She wanted to kill him. But Jor-El finally arrived to save the day… toting the biggest, most Liefeldian gun the DC Universe has ever seen! Will Jor-El be staring in a spinoff, DC's version of Major X? DC Comics threw this EX-X-XCLUSIVE preview bone to their dogs at CBR, who promptly marked their territory with a watermark and[...]

DC Comics has announced that Batman: Curse of the White Knight, the follow-up to Sean Gordon Murphy's Batman: White Knight will launch in July In a press release on their website, DC shared official details on the long-awaited Black Label sequel as well as some preview pages Check out the press release below: This July, DC[...]

Batman: Last Knight on Earth may be the final Batman story by superstar writer Scott Snyder and superstar artist Greg Capullo, but DC probably wishes they would make more Snyder took to Twitter today to begin teasing the comic, which hits stores on May 29th, and he casually let slip that the book has already[...]

Superstar writer and former C.I.A. badass Tom King isn't just the writer of Batman wedding tragedies, gruesome Lois Lane death scenes, and shocking

Nick Sax, then by all means forward me some of your fanfic – cause we need a better sense of what's going on in your world. HAPPY! — "Some Girls Need A Lot of Repenting" Episode 203 — Pictured: (l-r) Chris Meloni as Nick Sax, Patton Oswald as Happy! — (Photo by: SYFY) Next up for him[...]

In an instance of inter-corporate collusion, DC gave this preview to Lion Forge subsidiary The Beat as an EX-X-XCLUSIVE. Supergirl #29 (W) Marc Andreyko (A) Eduardo Pansica (CA) Yanick Paquette The sins of the Circle-revealed! With a galaxy-wide bounty on Supergirl's head, she, Krypto and Z'ndr must hide out at an abandoned planet until it's safe enough to[...]

Conventional wisdom says that Batman can beat anyone in a fight... as long as he has prep time. But even absent prep time, one would expect that Batman

In what the company is calling a stress test for its DC Universe digital comic reading app, DC Comics announced that they will release their entire digitized catalog of Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age comics this week, comprising a total of almost 3,000 comics. "In advance of our release of the full digital comics library, we[...]

Writer Tom Taylor has taken to Twitter to reveal more variant covers for DCeased #1, for which final order cutoff is today Taylor shared a variant by artist Jee-Hyung Lee featuring Harley Quinn in full zombie mode Monday: Today is the final order cut-off for #DCeased #1.And we saved one of our creepiest variant covers for[...]

In Titans #36, the Titans have just one issue to save all of reality from Mother Blood, as this is the final issue of the series. And with most of the

Who knew a weekend-focused opinion article deigning to rank our favorite Lex Luthors of the TV and film multiverses would cause such... appreciation???

Even Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo attempted to portray the man himself as an immortal entity, born from the idea that he stumbled into the Lazarus pits before Ra's Al Ghul, later even bringing in the idea that there have been three Jokers in DC history. The stories about him are endless and fans are lucky enough[...]

But when their adventure results in a huge dimensional rift opening in Central City – and thousands of refugee super-speedsters pouring out into the streets. Serving as the first in the "Crossover Crisis" trilogy (with future books focusing on Supergirl, Superman, and the heroes from DC's Legends of Tomorrow), ere's a portion of EW's exclusive excerpt[...]

Following up on the reveal earlier today of a DCeased #2 variant featuring Poison Ivy homaging A Nightmare on Elm Street, writer Tom "King" Taylor revealed another variant cover, this time for issue #3, and going a little more modern with a reference to last year's The Nun Taylor posted the variant on Facebook, writing: Happy[...]

Writer Tom Taylor has revealed a new variant cover for DCeased #2 on Twitter, the first in a line of horror movie poster homage variants and featuring Poison Ivy in the role of Nancy from the iconic movie poster for A Nightmare in Elm Street DCeased is a comic which sees a virus infect 600 million[...]

It's no secret that the DC Universe's Captain Marvel (that's the name we're going with here so chill, DisneyInc) is "The World's Mightest Mortal" – but New York City can be a tough town… even for those who can life buses and shoot lightning out of his hands (and fly, but that still looks a[...]

Pictures presentation at CinemaCon 2019, we're are getting our first look at the new teaser trailer for Todd Phillips' upcoming Joker origin film – set to be unleashed upon an unsuspecting Bat-universe. Set to open wide on October 4th and starring three-time Oscar nominee Joaquin Phoenix in the DC Comics' iconic villain role, the following look at[...]