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And while that predates, say, Peter Milligan and Mike Allred on X-Statix, as well as Warren Ellis, Bryan Hitch, Mark Millar and Frank Quitely on The Authority… it doesn't predate The Enigma, by Peter Milligan and Duncan Fegredo. Originally created for Disney's Touchstone Comics, but picked up by DC Comics when that publishing plan went pear[...]

With the revelation that Iron Patriot is, in some form, to appear in Iron Man 3, there suddenly appears to be a rush on the character's first appearances.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIZ–Tu87VA[/youtube] Top Ten Male Superheroes! Host Grace Randolph welcomes former DC & Vertigo editor and current writer Brandon Montclare to help her come up with a list of Top Ten Male Superheroes in comics! Find out where Wolverine, Daredevil, Damian Wayne, The Hulk, Batman, and Superman stand on the list – plus a few surprises! Which[...]

It won't be news to any readers of Bleeding Cool who originally broke this story (a number of times), but today DC Comics let news organisations run the news that Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, was to be reinvented as a gay man for the Earth 2 series The issue in question ships to[...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMkTQSbE6Bc[/youtube] The clue comes with the crumbling DC Peel logo A trailer for a new console/PC game, Injustice: Gods Among Us, featuring the icons of the DC Universe in their DC New 52 So that's probably the new look for Solomon Grundy, too Developed by the Mortal Kombat team, time to do some screencapping I think… [...]

The book will feature Plastic Man and hopefully lead to this character entering the Nu52 in some capacity and turn this character into a serious player in the DC universe." And they also recorded this look at what could have been with The Flash a whole universe ago… Lastly EVS left us with this[...]

Green Lantern Vol 3 #144. Might be worth a quick peek. If only for scenes like this, with Kyle Rayner and Alan Scott... Although scenes with his daughter

DC Comics are trying to increase the amount of copies MAD Magazine stocked by comic stores To that effect they are going to overship the next four issues to comic store retailers, encouraging them to see how much it could sell on the shelves. Issue #516 will be Spider-Man themed, with a Spider Alfred E Neuman[...]

Before Watchmen begins next week, DC Comics continue to show off new variant covers from the likes of Jim Lee and Kevin Nowlan, below. One they can't show off, however is John Byrne's Byrne hasn't produced new work for Marvel and DC in some time, and has seemingly fallen out with the management to such an[...]

Nora Freis, the frozen wife of Victor Freis, and the inspiration for his transformation into Batman villain Mr Freeze, was introduced in Batman: The

One week ago, Bleeding Cool first reported the news that a DC superhero would be reinvented as a leading gay character The rest of the news went ballistic, with all sorts of organisations around the world reporting, rightly or wrongly, as to what was going This weekend we named the character as Alan Scott, the[...]

Si Spurrier instructs; THE GODDAM COUTURE BATMAN Let’s do something pure and redesigny. 2012. Bruce Wayne realises his relentless crusade against the

If you need a reminder of what's been nominated, you can find the entire list right here, and see what I chose last week right here. Who is not eligible to vote? Comics press or reviewers (unless they are nominees) Non-creative publisher staff members (PR, marketing, assistants, etc.) Fans Before I go get plastered and have a fever dream[...]

iZombie co-creator Chris Roberson famously announced his decision to stop working for DC Comics publicly on Twitter, only to find that decision stepped by rather rapidly by DC, and his Fables arc disappear in a puff of magic Something that one could read into the most recent iZombie issue… Still, it doesn't look like he's too[...]

Possibly. If so, then it's possible that this could be a new title starting in September with the rest of the DC zero issues Or maybe a few months later. Or, you know, it might not be. What do you think, Katana? Well, she seems keen Maybe someone should make it happen, eh? This story comes indirectly from a good[...]

The following is mindless speculation. DC Comics is cancelling the title Justice League International with #12 and its Annual, despite the book selling well It is expected to be replaced by a similar title. In Justice League, we have seen moves to create a new Justice League featuring Green Arrow that is more aligned with US national[...]

A few days ago, I ran semi-sourced stories indicating that the character who DC Comics announced as being reintroduced to the New 52 DC Universe as a gay man, was Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern, who appeared in Earth 2 #1 briefly, Well, at Phoenix Comic Con, I had a much stronger source confirm to[...]

"I will write in words of fire. I will write them on your skin. I will write about desire. Write beginnings, write of sin. You’re the book I love the

After stints at Boom! Studios, fill-in work for Marvel and DC, and creator-owned stuff like Mondo Urbano, he's finally got a shot at starting a series from scratch: Dial H, at DC He's joined by another newcomer to monthly comics, writer China Miéville. Santolouco is set to illustrate at least the first 5 issues of Dial[...]

Here's a small detail from a new DC Entertainment mural at their Burbank offices With a classic Alfred E Newman "What, Me Worry?" moment. Here's a small detail from a new DC Entertainment mural at their Burbank offices With a classic Alfred E Newman "What, Me Worry?" moment. Here's a small detail from a new[...]

We've mentioned that after issue twelves of the New 52, as well as every comic getting a Zero Issue to explore earlier stories in the comics' characters

One Million Moms, the pressure group with a lot less than a million members (almost a million less) failed spectularly targeting Archie Comics from depicting a gay wedding on its cover. Buoyed by that lack of success, they have now moved on to target Marvel and DC Comics encouraging members to email the companies because they[...]

"Compgate", the supposed scandal at DC Comics that saw the accepted practice of staff selling or trading their comp copies of comics to comic stores or on eBay to supplement their oft-meagre incomes, become a hot political topic within Warner Brothers, with tax liabilities, firings and a change in policy all round… remember that? Scott[...]

DC is to rush-solicit the DC Sandman slipcase above for its recent reprinting of the Sandman volumes, in time for Christmas, containing all the books, for $200 And for those who have them already, they will also be releasing a version with just the new reprinting of Sandman volume 10…. You know, with the success of[...]

Here's a portrait of Batman by Jim Lee as part of a Darkness and Light exhibition held at DC's new Burbank offices, featuring work by DC creators and others based on DC characters The exhibition will travel to promote their We Can Be Heroes charitable program, including the The Michael J Wolf Gallery during San[...]

Not like DC Comics renumbering all their New DCU comics to issues zero through September, say. This is based on a number of well sourced people and involves considerable hearsay. It does however make a lot of sense. Who is the, as yet unknown gay character being reintroduced to the DC Comics superhero titles? Male, an iconic character,[...]

It's a good show, but no one really expects any of the kind of big news that comes out of, say, SDCC Not yet, anyway. This question on this Sunday at this Kapow, however, seemed to set off a lot of speculation and mass media attention, and still has people talking about it, from here on[...]

This is rather interesting, Despite the appeal of the Olympics, and demand for the British pound this will bring, financial forecasts are for the pound to

Yesterday, Fox News decided to suggest that because DC have plans to reintroduce one of their iconic characters to the New 52 as a gay man, that meant that Superman might be gay. Today, the closest (and I originally mispelt that as "closet") thing the UK has to Fox News, the Daily Mail does the same,[...]

"One of the major iconic DC characters will reveal that he is gay in a storyline in June" That's the comment DC's Senior VP Publicity Courtney Simmons gave to ABC News from Burbank when asked for comment on the story we ran yesterday, that DC were to reintroduce a preexisting character into the New DCU, and[...]