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And, after some fun with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Madonna, ended with a big To Be Continued in Leviathan! line. Well, the other shoe has dropped, as DC have today announced a new Batman Incorporated series from Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham (art above), continuing the crime family story, and the Bruce Wayne franchise[...]

We knew that Justice Society by James Robinson and Nicola Scott, set in the DC parallel universe Earth Two, was coming. What we didn't know until today was that it will be accompanied by Worlds Finest, starring Huntress and Power Girl, both from Earth Two, both stranded in our world, following on from the Huntress mini-series[...]

As part of the six new May  books being announced today, DC Comics has also announced six cancellations, all ending on their eighth issues Men Of War, Mister Terrific, O.M.A.C., Hawk And Dove, Blackhawks and Static Shock. While none of the titles have performed in a stellar fashion, Hawk And Dove was doing better than a[...]

Bobbie Chase, Scott Lobdell, Rob Liefeld, all we were waiting for was Bob Harras to hire Howard Mackie and Terry Kavanagh for a nineties Marvel revival at DC Comics. Well, Terry Kavanagh is busy elsewhere. But now USA Today reveals that Howard Mackie has been hired by DC Comics along with another nineties favourite, Ian Churchill to[...]

His Swamp Thing series for DC/Vertigo may have been slaughtered to make way for Brightest Day and then the DC New 52 relaunch "Swamp Thing with machine guns" is how one DC Comics executive described it to me. But now British fantasy horror writer and leftwing activist China Miéville is to write his first ongoing comic,[...]

Vertigo will preview their four new books for March in a comic shipping in February. The Vertigo 2012 Preview Book will be send, for free, to retailers

Basically a story about an invader of dreams as an action adventure comic rather than the introspective exposition of mythology, reality and fiction of DC Comics and Neil Gaiman's Sandman that created a comic book legend Because, as we all know, Sandman is Sandman done right But can there be any other challengers? It seems inherent[...]

I've given the thirteen-or-so thoughts of the week's DC Comics a bit of a break for now It was doing my head in, and I was reading too many comics that I just didn't like, which is never good for the soul. But if I was still doing them, then this scene from this week's Batgirl[...]

Demon Knights is one of the ten or so New 52 comics that I eagerly read by choice every month. But there's been something nagging at the back of my head,

Despite DC having a stellar end of year performance, their very rocky start to 2011 and Marvel's recovery in December seems to have given Marvel the edge in marketshare last year, though a reduced lead on 2010. In 2011, Marvel had a 37% share of dollars spent on comics through Diamond Comic Distributors and 41% of[...]

Star Wars and DC Comics flash drives have just got smaller… In March, Mimoco will launch a new line called Mimimicro, a smaller version of the popular licensed character USB flash drives, Mimobot. These can still be used as flash drives but will also work as a microSD memory card reader, enambling greater transference of information between[...]

Yesterday, we learned of the upcoming Batman/Detective Comics crossover Night Of The Owls from the official DC Source blog. But also at the Superman Homepage, Matt Idleson talked about a Superman, Superboy and Supergirl crossover this summer He wrote; Many things that will be factors in ACTION this year are being established in issues #5-6, Frank[...]

Marvel's short lived experiment with increasing the amount of $2.99 books against $3.99 books earlier in 2011, and DC's rather longer lived experiment in doing seems to have had real benfit for comic book readers this year. According to Comicchron numbercrunching by John Jackson Miller, the price of an average comic in the Top 300, fell[...]

As predicted, today's DC Source blog brings news of the Batman backups that will lift the book's price by a dollar and the page count by, I dunno, around eight? Batman #8 will begin the history of the Court Of Owls, the masonic body we've been learning about in the comic And that inspired the kind[...]

On Friday, Kris Longo, Manager of Advertising and Custom Publishing at DC Comics, posted "Goodbye DC" on his Facebook page, promising news of where he was going on Monday. Bleeding Cool understands that he is joining the Bonfire advertising agency as Vice-President, Advertising Sales & Business Development, and that news will be announced today. Longo worked with[...]