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And in today's Batman #117 and Nightwing #86, the Batfolk get on board. Batman #117 by James Tynion IV, Jorge Jimenez But as for the Seer? She had other plans – and it seems that even this was part of hers. Nightwing #86 by Tom Taylor and Robbi Rodriguez So what of The Seer now? And who was she? Nightwing[...]

Comic book creators James Tynion IV, Mike Perkins, and Ram V were on the Swamp Thing at Thought Bubble in Harrogate earlier today, talking about their history with the character, their approach to creating Swamp Thing stories and why the forests in eighties' Swamp Thing used to be purple Turns out it used to be[...]

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James Tynion IV may be leaving the Bat-books for his creator-owned Image, Boom, and Substack comics, but he is leaving his mark on Gotham's comic books Not just the bevy of new characters he added to the mix, from Punchline to Ghost-Maker to Clown Hunter, but in The Joker, which he is extending his run[...]

James Tynion IV writes on his Substack newsletter talking about the latest Razorblades anthology self-published horror comics magazine of his, "I am also extremely excited to announce that the whole first volume of RAZORBLADES: THE HORROR MAGAZINE is going to be collected in a Deluxe Hardcover edition, that will be released by Image Comics in April[...]

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and a group of friends and acquaintances certainly don’t feel fine. In The Nice House On The Lake #5, people

James Tynion IV has been talking on his Substack newsletter about when his run on Batman began, alongside the launch of Something Is Killing The Children Talking about what it takes to launch a comic book series, whether for an established character or for a creator-owned book, and the different markets you need to appeal[...]

In last Wednesday's Substack subscriber missive, James Tynion IV talked about the creation of the character Punchline for the Batman books, and how it began with the character of The Smiler that he had planned for his Joker 5G comic book that never happened But that her origin was far earlier, in Erica Slaughter. How –[...]

It's Miracle Molly time! James Tynion IV is quitting Batman in November, in order to focus on his creator-owned line, including his Substack Comics, The Blue Book, and The Department Of Truth: Wild Fictions He is also using his Substack subscription to talk about his many frustrations working for DC Comcis (and the good stuff[...]

Okay, Todd McFarlane, something for Gunslinger Spawn to beat? In a year of massive record-setting orders, we can add House Of Slaughter, the first spinoff from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's  Something Is Killing The Children, to that rarified list Which is, of course, an opportune moment to remind you that we predicted it[...]

James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' The Department Of Truth has been a smash hit for Image Comics, in a world where conspiracies become true when enough people believe in them, with an investigative body headed up by Lee Harvey Oswald And now Tynion is taking it to Substack With The Department Of Truth: Wild[...]

James Tynion IV has continued to talk on his Substack newsletter about his work on the Batman comic book and the editorial and creative challenges it faced, working on a run that was basically a fill-in, something to lead up to 5G, which is all anyone was interested in and, in November 2019, there was[...]

Julia Pennyworth was created as Julia Remarque by Gerry Conway and Don Newton, the long-lost daughter of Alfred Pennyworth, first appearing in Detective Comics #501 as the daughter of the French Resistance fighter Madamoiselle Marie. Detetcive Comics #501 by Gerry Conway and Don Newton However, she was recreated for the New 52 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion[...]

And even if it is a choice that we have already made… but mostly about what comic books you could order if they could appear from thin-air and the effect this would have overnight on the collectable market of anything at all… also if this is a virtual reality, what happens when you use VR[...]

James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming have released the first chapter of their new comic series, Blue Book, on Substack The first of several original series that Tynion will debut in this fashion Blue Book is a new ongoing comic book feature recreating stories of real UFO encounters in comic book form, based on[...]

Okay, okay, just one more DC Comics insider reveal from James Tynion IV's Empire Of The Tiny Onion Substack newsletter look back at his time on Batman, with all of the politics, competing publishing drives, and writing by the seat of his pants We already looked at his creation of a new Joker for 5G,[...]

In James Tynion IV's subscriber-only Empire Of The Tiny Onion Substack newsletter, he is continuing to talk about his Batman run at DC Comics, as editorial ructions were bursting out around him, including the arrival of 5G – which it seems a number of DC Comics creators were relying on Bleeding Cool to tell them[...]

This week saw James Tynion IV, Mark Millar, and Gerry Duggan newsletters address Twitter and beyond Batman writer and Substack exodus leader James Tynion IV writes about his anxiety; "For years, I stopped feeling present in my day to day interactions Social Media made that feeling a thousand times worse, with the artificial responsibility to be on[...]

It is possible, just possible, I may have posted too much of James Tynion IV's paid Substack subscriber mailing last week Been a little too overzealous in my cut and pasting Well, there's no danger of this week, it's mostly his original overview plans for Batman as submitted to DC Comics when he got the[...]

Where does James Tynion IV get his ideas from? Batman Fear State Alpha #1 We know James Tynion IV wasn't even allowed to kill off The Joker, killing off The Batman would be well above his paygrade All he's managed to do is sent him off on his holibobs from November. Batman Fear State Alpha #1 The Scarecrow is[...]

It's James Tynion IV time! Bleeding Cool first broke the news of 5G's existence in 2019, as we built up what it was meant to be Generation Five, the fifth generation of DC Comics as seen in the new planned DC Timeline, which would assign major stories a year in which they happened, how old characters were, and in[...]

It's 5G time! In his Tiny Onion newsletter for Substack, James Tynion IV looked at his entire approach to Batman and the history of the characters, dividing it into five generations And about his pitch to take over the Batman book from Tom King for a year-and-a-bit as it was then planned. When I first started[...]

DC Comics November 2021 solicitations mark James Tynion IV's last issues of Batman from DC Comics (though he will stick on The Joker for a bit longer) And as the new upcoming event The Shadows Of The Bat comes after Fear State's End, so Batman is leaving Gotham The credo goes that every Bat-writer should create[...]

At least, according to James Tynion IV, who posted on his the-moring-after-the-night-before Substack announcement. James Tynion IV: Last night I slept for more consecutive hours than I have in a month I woke up feeling a little drunk on sleep, and then stumbled over to the computer to see where we landed over the night[...]

So far, Jonathan Hickman, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Skottie Young, Molly Ostertag, Saladin Ahmed, and Chip Zdarsky have gone public, as well as engaging in a number of other monetising and merchandising opportunities It is clearly one of the biggest stories to hit the comic book industry this year in a year of big[...]

James Tynion IV was in the middle of this, he had taken over Batman as a last-minute fill-in replacement on Batman when then-EIC Bob Harras had found an opportunity to fire Tom King off the book Tynion IV was to write the series until Batman #100, when 5G would kick in and the series would[...]

He may be leaving Batman, but James Tynion IV is going out with a bang with Fear State All it takes is one bad day, that was The Joker's theory, to take a normal person, break them and turn them into a monster Bruce Wayne's parents, The Joker's wife and unborn child, though he failed[...]

James Tynion IV, writer of Batman and The Joker for DC Comics, has quit work-for-hire superhero comic books in favour of a new gig at Substack, who coincidentally have been distributing his newsletter of late His first comic book published through Substack will be UFO-themed The Blue Book with Michael Avon Oeming, starting in September[...]

As part of James Tynion IV's new Substack gig that he is quitting Batman and The Joker for, on his newsletter, he announced the first of his new Substack comic books The Blue Book, a new UFO comic book drawn by Michael Avon Oeming, and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. "I started digging back into UFOs last[...]

James Tynion IV has just announced that he is leaving Batman with #117 and The Joker with #14 Tynion is the comics creator who took over Batman after Tom King was fired with #87 and managed to turn his fill-in job into the main gig after DC fired publisher Dan Didio and cancelled 5G, took[...]