Death Metal Archives

Though thanks to DC, Tuesday Titans too.  If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller List of the week Death Metal Beats Batman In Bleeding Cool Bestseller List 22/11/20 DC take the Bestseller List Top 3 with their biggest writers still, Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV and[...]

  In previous issues of Dark Nights: Death Metal by Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion, the world was turned upside down, and both Batman and Superman had a secret they were keeping from everyone else. Art from Dark Nights: Death Metal #3. Including one that would let Batman survive a new and improved Anti-Life bullet from[...]

This week four titles, X OF Swords raised Wolverine to the very top of the charts, above Death Metal and Punchline But last week's Crossover also made it in for a second week.  If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller comics of the week Wolverine[...]

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Death Metal #5 is published this Tuesday But, as Bleeding Cool pointed out, since DC Comics switched from Diamond Comic Distributors to Lunar and UCS, DC titles are being distributed earlier than ever before to comic shops but there is no monitoring of street date compliance being adhered to any more, and no sanctions to[...]

Scott Snyder has been saying that the current DC comic book Death Metal is a celebration of all that DC Comics has been up to the present day, rather than anything pointing to the future But that's when the DC Comics future was 5G, Snyder was doing whatever he could to resist it and aside[...]

Super-Pets time! Another Dark Nights: Death Metal anthology is published by DC Comics in November We now have the full creative credits for Dark Nights: Death Metal The Multiverse Who Laughs #1 – including a Dark Dimension take on the Super-Pets from the Harley Quinn reunited team of Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner and Chad Hardin. A Zsasz[...]

While Superman, Aquaman, Barry Allen and more had to start from scratch, Buddy Baker still had his wife Ellen, his son Cliff, and his daughter Maxine. How The Robin King Takes Down Animal Man In Death Metal (Spoilers) Today, The Robin King plays the role of Grant Morrison in his world, also restoring Animal Man's family back[...]

It's a late-night Dark Nights: Death Metal #3 special Because tonight is the Final Order Cut-Off for DC Comics titles through UCS Comic Distributors, Lunar Distribution and Diamond UK And someone at DC Comics had realised that there's the third printing of Dark Nights: Death Metal #3 by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo up for[...]

And this week, it's the Death Metal, Amazing Spider-Man and Rorschach three-step. If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact richjohnston@bleedingcool.com And apologies for the day – the weekend was hell More hell than usual, I mean. The Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – Death Metal Beats Rorschach Top Ten Bleeding Cool Bestseller[...]

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Dark Nights: Death Metal #3 is getting a third printing, out on the 10th of November And it's not alone, joined by Spawn #309 going to third printings, with #308 and #310 get second printings each for the 11th of November Here are the solicits for each: Second and Third Printing for Death Metal and Spawn DARK[...]

Today sees the publication of Death Metal #4 – with one very notable scene featuring Wonder Woman and Superboy Prime, on one of the three Crisis worlds that have gone very wrong indeed We already highlighted the idea of Superman being a "shot in the dark", literally and figuratively But there's also some reading between[...]

You're stronger than you think you are." Today it feels as if Scott Snyder brings another one, courtesy of Wonder Woman, debating with Superboy Prime in Death Metal #4, drawn by Greg Capullo. Placed in a rocketship by parents, as their own planet was being destroyed A chance, just for their son, sending him out who knows[...]

Scott Snyder has been talking to James Tynion IV and Marie Javins about Death Metal at the NYCC/MCM/Metaverse event Javins asked him to be careful about spoilers, but half way through his monologue he decided to throw that the wind and talk about what Death Metal is, how it is going to conclude – and[...]

Last week in Dark Nights: Death Metal: Speed Metal, we learned that the Reverse Flash had been whispering into the ear of Flashes and associates all through time, including persuading Wally West to cover up the deaths in Heroes In Crisis. Art from Speed Metal. Looks like Perpetua beat him to it Today's Dark Nights: Death Metal:[...]

We have heard rumours that it was intended that Superman would lead The Authority as part of the comic book's 5G transformation, but 5G is no longer happening as planned and Brian Bendis is off the books sooner than planned. But I am told that this week will see the return of the Justice Incarnate, the[...]

More hell than usual, I mean. Bestseller list – X Of Swords: Creation artwork. X Of Swords: Top ten bestseller comics of the week X Of Swords topped the bestseller charts with its launch issue, but even Immortal She-Hulk beat out the Death Metal one-shot this week Juggernaut had a strong launch, Maestro has been really strong and[...]

He has recreated the entire DC Universe into a far darker place, with twisted versions of fans favourite characters but in today's Death Metal: Speed Metal there is something else. Art from Death Metal: Speed Metal. Chasing after them all, screaming "Hey Flash family, is it true a Flash has to die in every Crisis"[...]

We noted a depowered Lex Luthor has reappeared in Hell Arisen #3, and in Death Metal #3, then doing his best impersonation of Destiny Of The Endless in the Death Metal Guidebook.  He's got a notebook with sketches of the Daily Planet building, and a bunch of little Death Metal boxes located by Lobo And[...]

If any other retailers would like to report their top sellers, please contact  richjohnston@bleedingcool.com. And it's Dark Nights: Death Metal:Trinity Crisis #1 that takes the top – but not everywhere One reporting store didn't even have it in their top ten… Top ten bestselling comics of the week Trinity Crisis Dark Nights: Death Metal: Trinity Crisis #1 X Force #12 Amazing[...]

DC Comics has announced three new Tales from the Dark Multiverse comic book one-shots in December, playing off previous big event storylines including for

Dark Nights: Death Metal: Trinity Crisis by Scott Snyder, Francis Manapul, Ian Herring and Tom Napolitano sees another raft of evil Batmen for our heroes to fight against Yes even more evil Batmen The Batman Who Laughs has industrialised the process But two of them may punch a little closer to home. Especially the one in[...]

But it looks like he's getting busy in the upcoming Dark Nights: Death Metal: Trinity Crisis, out tomorrow We also noticed that in some website's previews of the comic in question, the design of the narrated boxes is different In some the captions and blue boxes with red outlines – and in some there is[...]

Including Death Metal #4 and The Joker War Zone #1 . Hey Comic Retailers, This Week;s DC Comics FOC Is Tonight, Not Sunday Arkhamaniacs TPB Batman Superman Annual #1 Batman Superman Vol 01 Who Are The Secret Six TPB Batman The Joker War Zone #1 (One Shot) Cover A Ben Oliver (Joker War) Batman The Joker War Zone #1 (One Shot)[...]

So what can they use? Justice League #53 Reveals New DC Comics-Approved Swear Word The preview of this week's Justice League #53, the first of a five-part Death Metal crossover Doom Metal by Josh Williamson and Xermanico has a good go It shows the first time Nightwing saw Batman with the rest of the Justice League, when[...]

Death Metal #3 ended with Lobo having been to Bone planet and the Fifth Dimension collecting little boxes, checking in with his boss. Art from Death Metal #3. A rather damaged version of Lex Luthor… Art from Death Metal #3. …who had fought with and lost against The Batman Who Laughs and Perpetua and was exiled to Earth without[...]

This morning, we noted how the new Harley Quinn #75 and Batman #97 include Harley Quinn along with Poison Ivy but seem to be set firmly in the past. Art from Batman #97 The new Dark Nights: Death Metal Guidebook published today seems to be going down a similar path, as Harley Quinn fights with the Mutant Gang[...]

With no ongoing Batman comic book it was left for the big DC and Marvel events, Death Metal and Empyre to battle it out The Robin King saw Death Metal win, but only just There was also a very strong showing for the launch issue of Seven Secrets... Death Metal #3 Beats Empyre #5, Just –[...]

Here's more of the Death Metal stuff coming from DC in November, as well as the Justice League crossover…   Multiverse Who laughs cover. Dark Nights: Death Metal The Multiverse Who Laughs #1 With the multiverse is destroyed, the worlds of the DC universe are nightmares! The DC Multiverse is a collection of alternate-reality worlds where anything is possible[...]