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I once heard of an American newsreader who described Nelson Mandela as "African American". But in announcing the story DC gave them about Batwing #1, from Judd Winick and Ben Oliver, IGN made the classic slip up; "Batwing #1, starring the first ever African-American character to don the mantle as the Batman of Africa." When, of course, reading[...]

But here's the cover to the new Birds Of Prey #1 too, courtesy of the DC Source blog. Creative teams are Batwoman: J.H Williams III, Haden Blackman and Amy Reeder Batgirl #1: Gail Simone, Ardian Syaf and Vicente Cifuentes. Catwoman #1: Judd Winick and Guillem March. Birds of Prey#1: Duane Swierczynski and Jesus Saiz This may[...]

Bleeding Cool understands that DC exclusive creator Jeff Lemire, of Vertigo's Sweet Tooth and the Eisner nominated Superboy, is to write a new Animal Man #1, launching in September. Well, he is writing a comic about a young man who is a bit of an animal Typecasting there… UPDATE: Jeff Lemire has tweeted "I've been working like[...]

As well as writing Teen Titans, I understand that Scott Lobdell will also be writing the new Superboy comic from September. And not only that, there's one more new book written by him yet to be announced too. It's good to have Bob Harras as Editor-In-Chief… Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage [...]

IGN has been handed the full details of the Batman relaunch by DC Comics. Bleeding Cool has already shown you the covers to Batman #1 and Detective Comics #1, but IGN also has covers for Batman And Robin #1 and Batman: The Dark Knight #1 Batman #1 is written by current Detective Comics scribe Scott Snyder and,[...]

Bleeding Cool has run a number of pieces on the policy at DC Comics to offer big name artists the chance to write their own work, in order to keep them working at the company David Finch, JH Williams III and Tony Daniel are significant examples, and in the DC relaunch we have already seen[...]

Here is Guillem March's cover to Catwoman #1 shipping from DC Comics in September Could this be the new assignment he talks of being moved from Batman And Robin to work on? Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage Here is Guillem March's cover to Catwoman #1 shipping from DC Comics in September Could this[...]

We told you there was a Nightwing #1 coming in September from DC Well, here is the cover by Eddy Barrows… Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage We told you there was a Nightwing #1 coming in September from DC Well, here is the cover by Eddy Barrows… Links to Bleeding Cool's complete[...]

Cover by Tony Daniel there, for Detective Comics #1 shipping in September from DC Comics. Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage Cover by Tony Daniel there, for Detective Comics #1 shipping in September from DC Comics. Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage Cover by Tony Daniel there, for Detective Comics[...]

Here is Yanick Paquette's cover to Swamp Thing #1, a new series shipping from DC Comics in September. Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage Here is Yanick Paquette's cover to Swamp Thing #1, a new series shipping from DC Comics in September. Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage Here is Yanick Paquette's cover[...]

The writer? Let's find out tomorrow… Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage We'd teased it here, but now get the full thing Greg Capullo's cover to Batman #1 coming in September He'll be the artist The writer? Let's find out tomorrow… Links to Bleeding Cool's complete DC relaunch coverage We'd teased it here, but now[...]

I have no idea if Diane Nelson also came up with it, but I'm tending to think she did. As to why this is happening?: Apparently the higher ups are sick of seeing Marvel constantly take the market share every month from DC and they're convinced this is how they're going to[...]

A qucik check and, yes, it seems that DC Comics has had individuals and teams pitching for the new #1 relaunches  but in some cases, didn't tell the people involved that they were pitching, or at least that they were in competition with anyone And so certain people who were given[...]

It's now become incredibly tempting to look at every possibly planned DC project and declare it a ptential new #1 for the DC Relaunch Because, to be fair, that's happening a lot Billy Tucci's planned Cassandra Cain project… that Jock Detective Comics cover… It's all grist for the mill. As is this page posted by Darwyn[...]

Now… he isn't. Whoever they announce as the new writer on Supergirl #1, don't expect them to have any indepth plans yet… Neither Brian Wood nor DC Comics representatives chose to comment on this story. Photo by Luigi Novi James Robinson left the Hawkman #1 relaunch a few months ago Brian Clevinger was dropped from Firestorm #1 a[...]