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The Million-Dollar Debut Of Barbara Gordon by Eric Glover
He has now read Batgirl #1. With Batgirl #1 now on shelves and DC's decision to undo Barbara Gordon's paralysis finally executed, the curtain has been pulled back on enough aspects of the Oracle debate to make more educated assumptions about the company's direction with the character and her place in the larger context of DC's[...]
North Carolina Comic Shop To Boycott Action Comics
This week, DC Comics published a new first issue of Action Comics, the series that introduced Superman to the world back in the nineteen thirties. In doing so, writer Grant Morrison, who had already written the insanely successful All Star Superman comic, took the character back to his original roots Reinvented as a social crusader, targeting[...]
Gendercrunching The DC New 52 – Week One by Tim Hanley
Tim Hanley writes for Bleeding Cool; I'll be doing the women in comics stats for DC and Marvel like always this month, but since the DC relaunch is sort of a big deal, we're going to have special reports on the New 52 as they're released… hopefully very soon after they're released, if[...]
Where Else Will We Find The Strange Woman Of The New 52?
So Bleeding Cool has been noting and looking out for appearances of The Strange Woman who first appeared in Flashpoint #5, through the new DC relaunch titles But does her influence go further back? Weve been looking through the our back issues… Superman #75 was a big moment for DC and one of their biggest icons[...]
DC New 52 Preview: Mister Terrific #1
Thanks to CNet's article on the future of DC and digital comics, here are four pages from Mister Terrific #1, by Eric Wallace and Gianluca Gugliotta, with a cover by JG Jones Here are pages 1, 12, 13 and 14. Thanks to CNet's article on the future of DC and digital comics,[...]
Geek Girl On The Street Reports: Joan Hilty On Being A Woman At DC Comics
Kate Kotler writes for Bleeding Cool; Joan Hilty worked for DC Comics as an editor for 15 years "I worked in every corner of DC's editorial universe I'm steeped in it," says Hilty of her time at one of the "big two" comic publishers "I started out as an editor in the trading cards department, I[...]
The Other Swamp Thing Relaunch
Today, Scott Snyder and Yanick Paquette's Swamp Thing #1 is in stores. It's not the only Swamp Thing relaunch out there. And I don't mean the China Mieville Swamp Thing relaunch for Vertigo which would, as I was told disdainfully by a DC person, have had a Swamp Thing combined with machine guns Which sounds awesome. No, I'm[...]
Spoiling The Ending To Detective Comics #1
Because it is a big, big spoiler, and you'll get so much more from reading it in context. But if you are still, honestly not going to pick it up, and you are a Batman fan, this cliffhanger may be the thing that tips you over the edge into buying it. I will run a few images[...]