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This month sees DC Vertigo launch four new comics, Fairest, Saucer Country, The Deadwardians and Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child, in something that no one else but me is calling the Vertigo Relaunch. And while it may not be as glamourous and newsworthy as the New 52, DC are still doing what they can to back the[...]

Bleeding Cool's Grace Randoph and Newsarama's Alan Kistler discuss the comic industry's week of news in this Between The Pages edition of Think About The

Amid all the Before Watchmen hype, the appointment of Jae Lee as the artist on the Ozymandias series is an interesting development, if only because for years, he has been considered a Marvel and an Image boy — and mostly Marvel at that. He's basically had just one DC book — Jekyll And Hyde —  from seven years ago. His[...]

That DC Comics have taken the top unit marketshare for January, the number of actual comics sold While Marvel have taken the top dollar marketshare, for the revenue raised. So both DC and Marvel are top in January Everybody wins! However, also of note, I'm told by numerous sources now that in January, DC Comics have a[...]

When reporting early rumours about Before Watchmen, almost every name I was given turned out to be true - Darwyn Cooke, Brian Azzarello, JMS, Amanda

I'm writing a very specific character." Out compares him to a Project Runway contestant and calls him "DC Comics' first major gay teen superhero" along with writer Scott Lobdell's oft-repeated line "If the comic book industry doesn't create another white, straight male superhero, that will be OK" The aryticle also recalls Scott Lobdell's contribution to the[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Myth Making is a difficult book to review here at the start of 2012– and not just because it weighs fifteen pounds and takes up almost as much space as a Torah scroll when open* The past year has seen DC Comics change[...]

Scott Snyder writes both Batman and Swamp Thing for DC Comics, as part of the New 52 relaunch of the DC Universe. But in the past couple of weeks, it seems like he can only come up with one cliffhanger for the both of them. Okay, as the title and the visual says, there are spoilers ahead[...]

This morning I discovered that the Brian Azzarello/Lee Bermejo DC comic we heard about at Angouleme was going to be Rorschach. I sent a few emails out for confirmation Then this landed on me. A  full confirmation of the Watchmen prequel project from DC Comics we have previously referred to as Watchmen 2, Before Watchmen, with writing[...]

Watchmen 2? The Death Of Superman Again? Wonder Woman to get a new thong? I have no idea what DC Comics is announcing tomorrow But whatever it it, it is meant to have big media interest, and something that will attract national news coverage.  Which should appear on the DC Source blog at some point. So sleep well, America[...]

Retailers have been complaining about the DC New 52 fifth week When a month has five Wednesdays, with all the New 52 titles slotted into the first four weeks, it leaves kids books, Vertigo titles and the lower selling non-52 comics, which don't quite have the punch to the pocket that the New 52 comics[...]

At the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a piece in which Kris Shaw demonstrated issues with recnt DC Omnibus volumes. So someone asked Dan DiDio about it on Facebook And he replied. The next Wolfman/Perez Titans omnibus is published in April Let's take a look then, shall we? At the weekend, Bleeding Cool ran a piece in which[...]

Static Shock has been one of the most… let's go with "controversial"… comic at DC right now, after John Rozum spoke out about his decision to leave the book And now, the book has been cancelled with issue 8 But it's not going down without a fight Here's a trailer to the sixth issue, published[...]

Marvel stopped all their characters smoking, DC pulped a copy of Superman because the cover featured the grown Clark Kent drinking from a bottle that close examination revealed to be root beer, but having the characters appear on gambling machines was fine, apparently, even if playing them online is illegal in the USA. Now Microgaming has[...]

DC Comics is starting to reveal what's inside its Free Comic Book Day offering this year. In a letter sent to retailers, they state that Geoff Johns will write a new story for the comic, with art from Jim Lee and others. The comic will also preview the "second wave" of the New 52, Batman Inc, Dial[...]