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"What would happen if you dropped Aquaman in the middle of the desert?" I didn't expect DC Comics to answer me quite so literally. This is a preview of Aquaman #5 courtesy of Wired, out from DC Comics tomorrow, by Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado. That was the conversation I found myself in[...]

Grace Randolph takes a look at tomorrow's comics tday - but first, what is the impact of the Avengers movie having on comics? Should it have one? And what

Another wonderful short film by Patrick Willems aimed directly into this week's geek zeitgeist, from Patrick Willems as part of his Afterwards They Will

Of late there has been a bit of a battle of words over market share, sales figures, chart positions and the like. DC execs state that they don't care about market share but have then commented on how December's figures were calculated with factors for returnability that mean DC may have really "won" the marketshare in[...]

Marvel's definitely stepped it up this autumn, while DC's remained fairly steady. DC COMICS While DC is up a smidge from October, the breakdowns by category are sort of disheartening, particularly in terms of the gigs that get your name on the cover In November 2011, DC Comics released 82 new comics featuring 634 credited creators, 563[...]

From Midtown Comics in Time Square, New York, Grace Randolph and Alan Kistler discuss Catwoman and the Fox 5 News of Washington DC's report that labelled it pornography, for the Think About The Ink vblog, Between The Pages. Naturally, they are not totally 100% on Fox's side. From Midtown Comics in Time Square, New York, Grace[...]

John Rozum wrote the first four issues of Static Stock in the DC New 52 relaunch, a replacement for the previously announced Felicia Henderson, before walking off the book after four issues At the time he wrote "I've been very happy overall with my time at DC over the roughly 15 years that I've worked[...]

There was one time when Ron Perazza was consider one of the most powerful up and coming comics employees, DC's digital expert and founder of their now-abandoned Zuda Comics line He then was appointed Vice President of Online, managing DC's move to digital comics through comiXology He was once tipped by some people for the[...]

When DC Comics showed you how they would be using their new logo on the front of comic books, they put out a few examples. Including a Batman 708 dated May 2012. Cue minor internet explosion with people asking whether DC would be going back to the original pre-relaunch numbers? So soon after their big relaunch? Unlikely…[...]

DC Comics has shown how their new logo will be used on current books and current branding Looks like the edge of the D will be pushed hard against the spine of a comic, so the "peel" comes right off the edge of the comic. The press release reads "DC Entertainment, a Warner Bros Entertainment company[...]

Welcome to the new DC Comics logo… that you saw first at Bleeding Cool, obviously Revealed at Fast Company who ran an interview with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee earlier, this is the real deal And they come in a variety of colours, and designs, including a Watchmen yellow-with-blood-splatter variety, that, presumably, will be on[...]

"Graphic violence and sex, that's what you'll find in the pages of DC Comics today." That's how the Fox 5 News in Washington DC report began, taking on Catwoman, Red Hood and Detective Comics But see if you can find the disconnect here. "Today's superheroes would make Archie and Veronica blush" – Sherry Ly, Fox reporter. "They more[...]

Out next week, at comic shops supplied by Diamond Comic Distributors… followed by a preliminary list of what's out from Premier publishers in two weeks! Dark Horse ANGEL & FAITH #6 AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 01 PROMISE PART 1 BPRD HELL ON EARTH RUSSIA #5 CARDCAPTOR SAKURA DARK HORSE OMNIBUS ED TP VOL 03 CREEPY ARCHIVES HC VOL 12 CREEPY COMICS[...]

Thanks to the good folk at 4Chan/co who decided, on a whim, that Rob Liefeld should work on more books at the New 52. And considered what they might look

Scott Snyder is a writer who came to fame working on American Vampire Stephen King for DC Vertigo But then he was picked to write Detective Comics and then Batman in the New 52 He's also writing the previously-Vertigoed Swamp Thing. But this week's Batman #5 is vertigo on a different level. Back in the seventies, Dave[...]