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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 rush for advance reorders for the DC Villains Month is upon us – seventeen of the top twenty-five reorders, DC dominating this chart more[...]

Hannah Mears-Shannon writes from Conquest Comics in New Jersey; When Superior Foes of Spider-Man launched (with Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber), it set the

In today's Kick Ass 3 #2, our hero Dave Lizewski has a plan. And it's one inspired by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli's Batman: Year One. He's a bit

At Boston Comic Con this weekend, Scott Snyder took to the DC Comics panel to talk about his plans for Batman We referred to a few of them yesterday. But he also revealed the original plan for Death Of The Family was, in the second chapter, for the Joker to take Alfred's hand off and to[...]

Is this the first DC appearance of Batboy? Luther Strode there, folks From the writer DC wanted to work on Superboy That was always going to end well, wasn't it? So what have we learned this week? That guns don't kill people, neighbourhood watch kills people That the Weekly World News is true And That thing about[...]

From today's Avengers A.I. #2 by Sam Humphries and André Lima Araújo... Dimitrios, downloaded into one of the old Iron Man suits, indeed on that had a

And we get, for the first time, the new rules of DC heaven And they seem to be along the lines of the Savage Dragon. And along the way, they meet the late, nice, non-rapist Dr Light And The Phantom Stranger has a plan. Yes, because, for some reason, in the New 52, as long as you[...]

I love Panda's, my nickname is Panda Baron! DC didn't disappoint with new writers clicking on three titles Venditti's GL has the build toward Relic and the Lightsmith's going, can't wait for the Relic villains issue next month Swamp Thing added Soule, Whiskey, and Constantine and it's been just like heaven Phantom Stranger's Trinity War tie-in[...]

Expect a lot of people to get jumpy over orders. It won't affect any of the orders for DC's New 52 books though. As Bleeding Cool reported earlier today, following up on an earlier report, DC Comics have now confirmed to all retailers the following points; The print run for the 3D covers for September had to be[...]

This week is the Final Order Cut Off date for the first of the 3D Villain's Month covers from DC Comics. Except, the print runs were set quite a while ago, to ensure the 3D cover production process. As we reported earlier, Dan DiDio announced to retailers that some of their orders would be heavily allocated, so[...]

(Mind you, that's before the Vertigo Universe had rejoined DCU) Platinum from Metal Men, trying to be her own woman She would adopt the team's unofficial colors, red and white Bizzaro would also join the DP but now that he's a superhero he'd have a superhero identity "THIS AM A JOB FOR CLARK KENT!" Zatarra[...]

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At the Boston Comic Con, Dan DiDio led the DC Comics panel, a little smaller in size than San Diego a couple of weeks ago. And Scott Snyder, Tony Daniel, Brian Azzarello, and Aaron Lopresti seemed a little less pressured by PR reps Especially Azzarello who appeared to want to be anywhere else. Scott Snyder told people[...]

David Chelsea's take on Wonder Woman as the Venus Of Willendorf. And a recent Rick Parker sketch cover for Wonder Woman #19  

At the Boston Comicon, currently underway, I understand that DC Comics Co-Publisher Dan DiDio has been heard telling retailers that orders on the September "Villain's Month" titles have been allocated up to 40% in some cases. For the month of September, DC are publishing a new style of 3D cover for every one of the Villain's[...]

Thank you, TMZ. You have justified your existence forever.

The collection, part of an earlier, superior 'Greatest Ever Told' line put out by DC in the early '90s, featured ten stories with art by Carmine out of sixteen – nine from his classic Flash run from 1956 to 1967, and one earlier Jay Garrick story from 1947 The copy, which I was also lucky[...]

Congrats to Los Angeles photographer Aniz Adam Ansari, who has just landed an Associate Editor gig at DC Comics Digital in Burbank. He already messes with his photographic work in a variety of entertaining fashions, now we get to see him do it to DC's comics as well. Could this be the kind of thing we could[...]

I love these little preview/final page changes that pop up publicly from DC from time to time And so do the rest of you, my analytics tell me An interesting little meta viral that keeps us paying close attention  I could almost believe DC is doing it on purpose at this point. Most-Read Comic Stories Wednesday: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes[...]

So what did we learn from the Forever Evil #1 preview? A flying/superstrong woman with heels and a cape... and two flying men descending from the sky to

A senior DC exec told me never to expect it to be published ICV2, ask the question next year when it still hasn't been published…. The first Before Watchmen trades are coming out Did the periodical side meet your expectations? Didio: Absolutely Realistically, when we went out there we had a certain expectation and it exceeded those[...]

A preview page of Batman Inc #13 reveals a last minute change from Jason Todd as Wingman on the left, replaced by Dark Ranger on the right in the finished

It's a time of reckoning, a look back through the entire run, a meeting with Commissioner Gordon and a kiss with Talia. And in the run through we get a tie in with Zero Year, just to show Grant's happy to play with the others, and then he gives DC a gift Remember once upon a[...]

By Hannah Means-Shannon Sitting down to read a new Tom Strong comic is incredibly nostalgic for me, and probably for many readers. Alan Moore’s ABC comics

One punchline. From today's Red Lanterns by Charles Soule and Alessandro Vitti. I look forward to the sex education manual to follow, The Joy Of Zox in

That's a scene from today's Guardians Of The Galaxy. More on that later. But it's another of the timequake scenes kicked off by the end of Age Of Ultron.

My mind is still playing catch up with reality, which is how I missed a relatively long promotional interview with Grant Morrison in USA Today, timed for

From Justice League Of America #4, a look at the latin motto used by the Secret Society Of Super Villains, there to prepare the way for the Crime Syndicate Of Evil.   But who else might be using the coin? From the sold-out Lazarus #2 from Image, a wall emblem in a disc shape using the exact[...]

 Yesterday's Batman TV post is a little more eyebrow-raising in light of this morning's Flash TV news, and it'll be interesting to see how the Marvel and DC approaches to this situation differ over the coming few years. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Yesterday: Rumours Of A New Batman TV Show Without Batman At San Diego Comic Con I heard rumours,[...]

Tim Hanley writes; DC improved noticeably from last month while Marvel fell slightly, but it wasn't enough to stop Marvel from reaching a full YEAR of having the higher percentage of female creators How times have changed; DC was tops for ages when we began this project We also stop by four different publishers this month:[...]