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Retailer's Edition Of DC Comics' Futures End #0 For Free Comic Book Day
DC Entertainment's 2014 Free Comic Book Day title, DC Comics – The New 52 Futures End #1 FCBD Edition can be ordered with an edition specific to the comic store in question – as long as they order at least 5,000 copies of it Each copy will cost the store the same as the standard[...]
Frankensteining Marvel And DC Comics Solicitations For April 2014
Hill's potential savior? M.O.D.O.K.! 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 NEW AVENGERS #17 JONATHAN HICKMAN (W) • RAGS MORALES (A) Cover by LEINIL YU Variant Cover by PHIL JIMENEZ Captain America Variant Also Available • Must the New Avengers destroy a perfect world so that the Earth can live? 32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 MIGHTY AVENGERS #9 AL EWING (W) • GREG LAND (A/C) Captain America Variant by[...]
Mad Magazine To Stay In New York?
So DC Comics is set to move its entire operation to Burbank, part of the Warner Bros studios It should happen in April 2015 But there's one group of folk that haven't been mentioned. And that's the guys who create MAD Magazine, bought by DC Comics and moved into their New York offices. Back when the DC[...]
Fifty-Two Thoughts About Fifty-Two Comics – Ghosted, Rat Queens, Black Dynamite, Dark Angel, TMNT, Skyman, Superior Spider-Man, Illegitimates, Justice League 3000, Ben 10, Peabody And Sherman, My Little Pony, Suicide Squad, World's Finest, Harbinger, Night Of The Living Deadpool, Stitched, Gravel, Crossed, Deadpool: The Gauntlet, The Curse, Archer & Armstrong, Secret Avengers, Batgirl, God Is Dead, Imagine Agents, Astro City, Nightwing, Carbon Grey, Peter Panzerfaust, Velvet, Alex+Ada, Darth Vader, Kiss Me Satan, Clown Fatale, BPRD, Fantastic Four, Catacylsm: Ultimates, Daredevil, X-Force, Egos, X, X-Men Legacy, 3 Guns, Adventure Time, Voice In The Dark, L'il Battlestar Galactica, Miss Fury, Next Testament, Unity, Popeye, Transformers And Regular Show  (UPDATE)
Hmm, you know, we pretty much have this in London already. Is it me or is Justice League 3000 #2 making the case for DC's editors, having to work in rather trying circumstances? This comic certainly has had some interesting editorial issues. So we get it, Power Girl in Suicide Squad Earth 1, for some reason[...]
DC Comics Confirms Dan Jurgens On Aquaman And The Others
Dan Jurgens on Aquaman And The Others, the rumour built over the weekend. And DC's PR department let IGN know, officially, earlier today, Aquaman And The Others #1, a new ongoing series running alongside the existing Aquaman comic, written by Dan Jurgens and drawn by Lan Medina and Ed Tadeo. Two ongoing Aquabooks, who'd have thought? The series[...]
Where's Wally West? Not So Fast, Flash Annual #3…
On Newsarama they say, So Wally is Electro-Supes now? What year is it in the DCnU? On CBR they say, Wally West's return to be ruined by Brett Booth? Not to mention Vendetti? Oh DC, you guys sure know how to poop a party. I think I'll need a lot more info before I decide to give this book a[...]
Swipe File: Iron Vs Gold
Kaare Andrews' Iron Fist #1 for 2014... Dan Jurgens' Booster Gold #11 from 2008... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to
Secret Origins Rumours And More Confirmed By DC Comics
Over the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a number of rumours about upcoming DC Comics. Now DC Comics PR department has confirmed a couple of them to CBR Namely Forever Evil Aftermath: Batman Vs Bane and a new ongoing series Secret Origins We were able to get further details about what Secret Origins was, a series of[...]
Dan Jurgens On Aquaman And The Others? (BOOTH UPDATE)
Dan Jurgens, who wrote Aquaman for a year during 2000, will be taking on the new DC Comics title, Aquaman And The Others. Jurgens is an accomplished writer/artist, mostly at DC Comics, with long runs on Superman and New 52 work on Justice League International and Green Arrow And the rumour goes he is using both[...]
Secret Origins, The New Ongoing From DC Comics
Yesterday, we ran some rumours about upcoming DC Comics titles Some were well sourced, others… less so. But the original rundown from Tako seemed pretty reliable And the elaboration at 4chan less so Maybe as you might expect. Because Secret Origins #1 is not a one shot, it's a new ongoing series, telling the origins of the[...]
John Layman On Leaving Batman Eternal
I'm writing 4 issues of the first 20, one of which I still have to turn in, and then moving on to solely concentrate on Chew for a while. People looking for scandal will be sorely disappointed, as my experience working with DC and the Bat-office was an overwhelming positive one I'm leaving after honoring my[...]
John Layman Off Batman Eternal Weekly Comic Already
Not for John Layman anyway. Layman, in a series of DC PR-arranged interviews told Newsarama, Seems to be going well We all get along No ego, lots of cooperation James and Scott have given us a fantastically detailed overview to work from, to pass the baton from issue to issue, but we're also free to put our[...]
Aquaman And The Others… And Others From DC Comics In April 2014
This does appear to be an article stub from DC Comics, indicating an Aquaman And The Others series from DC for 2014. That and other potential April delights have been running around the messageboards for the last couple of days. Such as this run down from our good friend Tako. Aquaman and the Others #1 Forever Evil Aftermath: Batman[...]
A New Sinestro Series By Cullen Bunn And Dale Eaglesham From DC Comics
The race for April solicitations is on! The game is afoot! And, as previously rumoured, Green Lantern bad guy-ish character Sinestro is getting his own DC New 52 series (but not Sinestro Corps). DC Comics PR department gave Newsarama the news today, that Cullen Bunn and Dale Eaglesham will be writing and drawing the book when it[...]
Marvel Takes 2013 Comics Marketshare Prize – But Not By Much
Here's the official chart below. Sales were up in 2013 on 2012, 9.04% in total, split between a rise of 10.22% in comics and graphic novels up 6.5%.Marvel took the top spots of marketshare for both numbers of comics sold (36.97% against DC's 33.35%) and revenue raised (33.50% against DC's 30.33%), but a series of moves[...]
Who Is Big Enough To Write John Romita Jr's Superman?
Bleeding Cool broke the news this summer that DC Comics was looking to poach a certain John Romita Jr, a comic book creator who, following in his father's footsteps, had become a very familiar artist at Marvel, drawing in his time, pretty much everything at the publisher He'd only strayed Image-wards for his own co-creator[...]
All Change April
April, a time of rebirth, or new life, of spring, of lambs, of chicks and a time to start over. Looks like some of the bigger comic book publishers will be doing the same. DC Comics will be moving to Burbank en masse (or at least a little under half of them will be, it seems) but[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 5th January 2014 – Unchained Unleashed
And with Marvel only publishing four new titles, only three of them managed to chart, with DC Comics dominating Might be a different story next week. Superman Unchained #5 New Avengers #13 Guardians Of The Galaxy #10 Damian Son of Batman #3 Batman the Dark Knight #26 Aquaman #26 Flash #26 Superman #26 Justice League Dark #26 Savage Wolverine #11 Thanks to the following retailers, Graham Crackers[...]
Gail Simone Back At Marvel. For Deadpool.
There she wrote books like Deadpool and Agent X before she left for DC Comics, where she kind of… stayed Writing books like Birds Of Prey and Suicide Squad, she relaunched the Batgirl comic for the New 52, controversially Barbara Gordon out of the wheelchair, as well as Firestorm, and starting The Movement Along the[...]
Brian Keene Confirms He Was On DC Comics' Five Years Later/Future's End
Last year we reported that Brian Keene and Greg Rucka were originally part of the writing team for the Five Years Later weekly comic event Future's End from DC Comics, but both pulled out. We couldn't get him to talk about it then, but now he's confirmed the story. I'd previously said "No" to many other projects[...]
Will Your Comic Store Get A Superman LED Sign In The New Year?
Though they still have to pony up a three figure sum to get one. They are not to be sold however, only displayed at the comic shop of choice. The sign features high durability LED illumination that is estimated to last for approximately 50,000 hrs, E/UL certified power adapter 100-230V, 2A, 12V DC with cable length 4[...]