dc Archives

Thanks to Fox for this one. Honchos at Superman's comic book home, DC Comics, said this weekend that one of their most identifiable (but as of yet unnamed) straight characters will soon be coming out of the closet, according to a report. No, and I was there Dan DiDio, DC Comics co-publisher said that a previously established[...]

One of the odder moments at Kapow this weekend (and there were a number) was when Paul Cornell continued his commitment to panel gender parity (you can read about it here) and sat in the audience for the DC New 52 panel rather than sit on the all-male panel with Scott Snyder, Ian Churchill and[...]

Rich Johnston is embedded at Kapow. Why not come by and say hi? I'm in the Captain Britain T-shirt... Dan DiDio and Bob Wayne have just presented the

  Alan Moore once described DC Comics' repeated attempts to publish his work after he walked away from the company as that of a "'a really weird, rich stalker girlfriend". Which makes Dan DiDio's description of the project in The Guardian today as a rather apt one, saying; I hope he looks at them with an open mind[...]

Albert Moy sells Jim Lee's original art on his behalf. He's just put up the pages from the New 52 Free Comic Book Day volume. In which you get to see not

Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; DC stayed the same in March, but Marvel broke the record for the highest percentage of female creators since we began keeping track 15 months ago!! Marvel's on a bit of a tear lately Also, we take a look at our usual numbers in a different way. DC COMICS While Marvel was[...]

Expect a second print of #1 and #2 shortly. TOP 25 ADVANCE REORDER COMICS/GRAPHIC NOVELS/TPs 7th-13th May    Description SRP Supplier HIT-GIRL #1 (OF 5) (MR) $2.99 MAR AVENGERS VS X-MEN #5 (OF 12) AVX $3.99 MAR BEFORE WATCHMEN MINUTEMEN #1 (OF 6) (MR) $3.99 DC JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 8TH PTG $3.99 DC UNCANNY X-MEN #13 AVX $3.99 MAR WALKING DEAD TP VOL 16 A LARGER WORLD (MR) $14.99 IMA SPAWN #220 CVR G[...]

Not so much the New 52, as the New 17. This is the list I've been given of comic books that will still be offered by subscription after their tenth issues, halved from what it was earlier in the year. Action Comics Batgirl Batman Batman And Robin Batman: The Dark Knight Catwoman Detective Comics Flash Green Arrow Green Lantern Green Lantern Corps Justice League Nightwing Supergirl Superman Teen Titans Wonder Woman The other titles[...]

So what are you looking forward to next week already? A new Guild comic? The first issue of Resident Alien? The return of Batman Incorporated? Godzilla and True Blood ongoings? The return of Youngblood? The Caligula collection? The new CLiNT 2.0? A bit of Crossed Badlands? And what about the week aftr that? Can you be[...]

A number of DC subscribers have contacted Bleeding Cool rather annoyed that DC Comics have told them that they can no longer get their favourite books in this fashion, and they will be cancelled with issue 10. Which means Justice League International readers will miss the final two issues of that comic, and unless they object,[...]

Nothing else in the DCU really fits. Captain Atom #9 feels more and more like they are creating the Ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail, and I'm wondering if, All You Zombies style, if everyone is going to end up being Captain Atom. FuryMAX #2 takes us straight into bed with Nick Fury, and apparently[...]

In an interview he says; "So I called Marvel and DC and I let them know I was prepared to embark on something big Both companies were very interested in working with me and I ended up with  Batman because the kid in me was a Batman fan since I was four And he kept pestering[...]

I have mocked the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover for portraying a seemingly impossible and contradictory series of events in a variety of comics that, for

If there is a Big Bad of the Justice League, comprising Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Cyborg, then you can be sure

FedWatch: When the FBI went after stolen Joe Simon artwork. Towards the end even Joe Simon clearly had enough cause to believe that his own daughter might have been the culprit as he admitted as much to the F.B.I, but this might have been an admission of a man who wasn't up to facing yet another[...]

Can't Marvel and DC Comics fans get along? Isn't The Avengers 2012 a huge win for everybody? And does all this fan rage keep new readers from reading comics? Do you say I'm a Marvel, or I'm a DC? Is the success of The Avengers 2012 making you mad as hell? Why can't The Dark[...]

Bleeding Cool has been banging on a bit about DC Comics giving their New 52 all zero issues in September, returning to regular numbering in October, to commemorate the one year anniversary of the reboot. DC have not released all their August shipping details To back up our thesis, we could do with a lot of[...]

In September, DC Comics publishes zero issues of the New 52, to celebrate the year anniversary of the revamp. Some books however, it seems, may not make it that far. Justice League International #12 will be the last issue of the series. An interesting decision as it outsells the like of Suicide Squad, Superboy, Birds Of Power, Green[...]

DC gave that one to Out Magazine Or course they did.In the original Watchmen series, the covers formed the very first panel of the comic, the narrative continuing directly afterwards I wonder if that will be the same this time? And here's the relatively sedate Nite Owl #2 cover from Kubert & Son to match… [...]

   Bleeding Cool has been running the story that DC Comics will be renumbering their comics to issue zero in September, to tell earlier stories of their characters to celebrate the first year of the New DCU, before returning to issue thirteens in October, but carrying on threads of that zero issue And for some[...]

Two comics, two companies, two franchises, two company crossovers, both solicited at the same time, both on sale in the same week. It's an odd world isn't

Roger Langridge hasn't done a lot for DC Comics Gross Point, a little Big Books, some Bizarro World springs to mind, but not a lot more. He's done far more for Marvel Comics, especially of late, from Doctor Who to The Mighty Thor to John Carter, and Marvel are currently putting out his Muppets comics. But that[...]

From Teen Titans #1 cover...     And from a man watching Obama talk about gay marriage. In Swipe File we present two or more images that

Eight year old Luke Purcell, of Layton, Utah, likes to cycle round his block dressed as Batman. Last week, he was playing with a friend at their house,

When Bleeding Cool broke the story of the new DC logo, we were able to ask comic book logo designer Rian Hughes what he thought, and he was rather complimentary. He's less complimentary now He writes; As I've mentioned, a good logo should first and foremost work "bare", preferably without any 3D rendering and Photoshop fanciness[...]

Something has been tickling my head of late, reading the run up to the Court Of Owls. A theory, nothing more, not backed up by any actual evidence, that

Jim Lee and Scott Williams are drawing a 1:200 variant cover for all the first issues of Before Watchmen. Here is their black and white work for the cover

We knew that Lobo would return to the DC Universe in Deathstroke #9, the first of three monthly titles plotted by Rob Liefeld (and also drawn by him) But there was someone I wasn't expecting to see Jim Lee's Zealot from the Wildstorm series WildCATS. And yes, yes, yes, her hips are wider than her shoulders,[...]

Dr Manolis Vamvounis runs through last week's comics for Bleeding Cool. It's MULTIVERSE WEEK at DC, with not one, not two, but THREE stories set in alternate realities! EARTH 2 #1 begins "Five Years Ago", much like Justice League #1 back in September, and just like that series, it features the united might of that Earth's Big[...]

From the Free Comic Book Day DC Comic, The New 52, the Black Room… but what's in it? Here's ten to start you off Clicky for biggy. 1 The Spear Of Destiny 2 Eclipso's Black Diamond 3 A Demon Knights dragon 4 The Ark Of The Covenant 5 The Green Bell of Uthool 6 Etrigan's armour 7 The Haunted Tank 8 The Viking[...]