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Before the DC Relaunch… all the Green Lantern issues are getting a little reshuffle, creatively Here's a look at some the way they were… and the way they are now. Then: Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #12 Written by PETER J TOMASI; Art by FERNANDO PASARIN and CAM SMITH; Cover by FELIPE MASSAFERA; 1:10 Variant cover by RAGS MORALES With[...]

Here's the cover to the DC Comics DC Relaunch Sampler comic hitting stores next week. And Green Lantern spoilers at the bottom aside, Let's check have a closer look at that Wonder Woman image and compare it with the one that was previously released. Looks like someone decided that by hook or by crook, Wonder Woman was[...]

Bleeding Cool reported a month ago on what was dubbed Kittengate, the pulling of Superman #712 from the printers and its replacement with an inventory issue. Chris Sims of Comics Alliance compared the solicitation and promotion of the original issue and concluded that this was because of the appearance of the character Sharif, a Muslim superhero,[...]

The new October solicitations being dribbed and drabbed out through DC's Source and friendly websites And everything is looking pretty shipshape, exposed genitalia aside. One change appears to be Marco Rudy no longer being the listed artist on Suicide Squad #2, replaced by Federico Dallochio and Ransom Getty already. Other amendments include Al[...]

Check out their Grant Morrison podcast interview here. It was the realisation a couple of months ago that War Of The Green Lanterns was less about plot, character and dialogue, but pretty pictures – and how that wasn't a bad thing – that made me warm much more to Green Lantern of late I was[...]

So DC released their solicitations for Batbooks in October And Paul Jenkins is listed as the writer on The Dark Knight #2 with David Finch as artist. A curious affair, since it was reported that this was David Finch's big writer/artist project. So I had a wee Skype with Paul Jenkins Who's having a mad time of[...]

"From The Joker hardcover" Bleeding Cool understands that creator Lee Bermejo has called for the latest Italian print run of the recent Lex Luthor: Man of Steel collection to be withdrawn from sale. He told Comicus that he wrote a biography for himself for The Joker that quoted Daniel Day Lewis in the movie There Will Be[...]

 The DC Relaunch is one obvious reason, but are casual readers more aware of  release cycle mechanics due to the info being pushed at them for digital releases? Will this be the side effect benefit of digital for paper releases that pubs are looking for? Along with that, we're see major Kickstarter successes like Womanthology[...]

This is the cover to Batman #2, by Greg Capullo, for October. And it's really rather nice. But you know what? It's even nicer in black-and-white...

So we're having the big fifty-two DC Relaunch in September But what about October? How many issues ones could we expect then? Probably a handful But there are quite a lot of candidates for those few spots So how another Updateable List to bookmark? Number ones that have been confirmed. The Huntress #1 by Paul Levitz, Marcus To[...]

These Wayne Casino chips from the Flashpoint crossover will be given away by DC Comics at San Diego Comic Con, colour coded for different days… Expect the white chips on limited entry Preview Wednesday and the black chips for the best questions at DC panels to have some actual value outside of the show, as well[...]

TV ads on prime time television, newspaper campaigns,  nationwide distribution on every newsstand in the country, and no more single issues but collections of three to four issues worth every week. Welcome to DC Comics in Chile Here's a national TV ad for the Batman RIP storyline. These are accompanied by online advertising and wraparound front[...]

So, what is DC Comics up to over San Diego weekend? Let's have a look at the panel programming, already being inserted into the Bleeding Cool Massively Updateable San Diego Comic Con Programming List… It looks like Bob Wayne is really earning his increase in salary… six panels Bob? Do you have enough dry wit to[...]

When the cover to the relaunched JLI #1 was first shown, there was an unidentified female figure on the left, the identity of whom caused some debate. Then suddenly, DC removed the figure from the cover in all its previews The now-unbalanced image caused even more debate as to why DC would do such a thing. [...]

And there's a surprise or two. Artosts Alley is always a heady mix of the name creator taking commissions, newbies trying to push his latest thing, attempting to find an audience and old hands keeping the flame burning. But this year, one of the creators, at table II-16 will be ex-DC President and Publisher, Paul Levitz, between[...]