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Two weeks ago, Bleeding Cool scooped the news that, if you'd just read Batman #160 and were looking forward to the next chapter of H2SH in Batman #161 in June, you were going to have to wait an extra month until July. Batman #161 by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams, and Alex Sinclair has been delayed from the 25th[...]

Batman #161 by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair has been delayed from the 25th of June until the 23rd of July Batman #162 is also scheduled for that date but I expect that will slip at some point, as well as Batman #163 currently scheduled for the 27th of August. The series[...]

Jim Lee and Gary Frank are swapping comics in June, as they will provide covers for each other's title, Batman H2SH storyline by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee from DC Comics, and Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's Geiger from Ghost Machine/Image Comics. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1[...]

Batman #159 by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams and Alex Sinclair is published on Wednesday from DC Comics, and is following up on the preview issues last month, with Batman rescuing the Joker and saving his life from Hush, with a certain visitor pressing a gun against Bruce Wayne's Batcowl. Batman #159 No one is going[...]

Note that Amazing Spider-Man is gaining on Ultimate… Top Ten Bleeding Cool Weekly Bestseller List No. Title Publisher Writer Artist Price Ratio 1 Batman #158 DC Jeph Loeb Jim Lee, Scott Williams 4.99 100 2 Absolute Martian Manhunter #1 DC Deniz Camp Javier Rodríguez 4.99 56.1 3 Absolute Wonder Woman #6 DC Kelly Thompson Dustin Nguyen, Mattia De Iulis 4.99 45.0 4 Ultimate Spider-Man #15 Marvel Jonathan Hickman David Messina 4.99 44.1 5 Ultimate Wolverine #3 Marvel Chris Condon Alessandro Cappuccio 4.99 40.0 6 Amazing Spider-Man #70 Marvel Joe Kelly Ed McGuinness 5.99 37.1 7 Godzilla Vs[...]

This week, DC Comics publishes Batman #158 by Jeph Loeb, Jim Lee, Scott Williams, and Alex Sinclair. It also includes an ashcan for the subsequent Batman #159, kicking off the Hush 2 or H2SH storyline, a sequel to the original from the same creative team quite some time ago[...]

Following the reception to Batman #158 Giant-Size Special Edition, a massively oversized version of the full first chapter of Batman: Hush 2 or Batman: H2SH by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, DC will now release each instalment of this six-issue story in the 11" x 17" Giant-Size format. These Giant-Size Editions follow the same Final Order Cutoff and release schedule as the standard size issues[...]

In ten days time. Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee are returning to the pool for Hush 2 in Batman #158, twenty-plus years on Tommy Elliot was a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne who attempted to murder his own parents and inherit their fortune, but Bruce Wayne's father saved Elliot's mother's life Tommy grows up to become[...]

With ratio variants to encourage comic book stores to order more and more copies, 1:25, 1:50, 1:100,1:250, two signed 1:608 variants and at the top of the range, a 1:1000 variant for comic stores who order a thousand copies of Batman #158, signed by both Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top:[...]

The time reflects the original Jim Lee/Jeph Loeb Batman #608 in 2002 that launched the original Batman Hush And have a little Batman #158 Launch party As a bonus for fans participating in Batman #158 Launch Party events, DC will also offer them a Batman #159 ashcan previewing April's second chapter of Batman: H2SH. Batman #159[...]

As seen in the many previews and preludes to Batman Hush 2 by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee… Batman Hush 2 by Jeph Loeb & Jim Lee … there is a new character for Hush 2 known appropriately as Silence, mentioned in the solicitations for Batman #160, part three of Hush 2, which read "The gentleman's name[...]

Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee talked about the creation and planning of Batman Hush 2 at the show but now you can get a better look at what is coming to comic book stores next month… and start your speculation engines Batman #158 has a Final Order Cut-Off FOC date of the 3rd of March[...]

Today, Jim Lee woke up at 11 am in Glendale, California, showered and got to the ComicsPRO comic book retailer summit in twelve minutes to join Jeph Loeb in time to give the following presentation Such a slacker, Jim, I'm been up for twelve hours. Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee at ComicsPRO screencap But they were here[...]

Batman #157 by Chip Zdarsky, Jorge Jimenez and Tony S Daniels, the final issue of their run on the character, before Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb take over next month for Batman #158, the first chapter of Batman: Hush 2, or H2SH But how will he leave the Batman Gotham landscape that has seen Mayor Nakano shot and killed[...]

Omnibus Watch: Jim Lee X-Men, The 'Nam. Conan and Something Is Killing The Children get new Omnibuses for 2025

Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee's Batman: Hush 2 begins in Batman #158 on the 26th of March, 2025, will be dubbed BATMAN: H2SH, will run monthly for six issues through August's Batman #163, and then a second set of six issues will run as their own book, currently scheduled for 2026 Batman #158 will feature[...]

The Hollywood Reporter's Borys Kit conducted a rather PR puffery "interview" with DC comics executives Jim Lee and Anne DePies, part of a long history of such puff pieces It's not as bad as the 2021 one with Jim Lee and Daniel Cherry III, someone that DC Comics has done its best to forget ever[...]

This Wednesday's Justice League Unlimited #1 by Mark Waid, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain includes a prelude to Batman: Hush 2 by Jim Lee, Jeph Loeb, Scott Willams and Alex Sinclair And it is, indeed, a different prelude to the one that previously ran in a Batman 85th Anniversary special that set Hush 2 up, with[...]

Lunar Distribution has told retailers why they may not have gotten all of the Jim Lee and Scott Williams Wraparound variant cover of the DC Versus Marvel Omnibus last week with the main George Perez cover Turns out that there may be more on the way They stated, "The warehouse has received a partial quantity[...]

Josemaria Casanovas loves to do connective covers, and his current one for the Ultimate Comics line is going for a homage to the most famous of them, the Jim Lee connective cover for 1991's X-Men #1 Which has recently returned for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and the Valiant Universe. X-Men #1 cover by Jim Lee and[...]

At New York Comic Con, DC Comics confirmed the Bleeding Cool scoop that Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee would return to DC Comics' Batman comic book next year, following Chip Zdarsky's run on the series As a sequel to their Hush storyline from 2002, as Hush 2.  But it's not just the comics, Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb showed off[...]

At the beginning of the month, I ran the news that all other comics news websites seem embargoed from suggesting that Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee will return to DC Comics' main ongoing Batman comic book next year, following Chip Zdarsky's run on the series And we suggested that it would likely be a sequel[...]

In an interestingly timed decision, DC Comics is to reprint Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb's Batman Hush in individual Facsimile Editions starting with Batman #608 and #609 in January 2025 Bleeding Cool previously scooped the news that all other comics news websites seem embargoed from suggesting that Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee will return to DC[...]

The original article continues: In 2002 Batman: Hush by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee, ran in Batman #608 to #619 It was a monster of a sales hit featuring Thomas Elliot, an example of what Batman could have been had he used his intellect and wealth for malice A childhood friend of Bruce Wayne who attempts to murder[...]

Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee returning to Batman was the most-read article on Bleeding Cool again yesterday Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well as over the past six years Founded fifteen years ago and steeped in a history of comic book industry[...]

Then it wasn't, and it has been pushed out to every month again. But what comes next? And why the change in schedules? Well, the headline of this article should have filled you in. The Batman Hush team of Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb are returning to the ongoing Batman comic book next year, in March or April 2025. They were originally expected to return[...]

Josemaria Casanovas loves a connective cover, such as this one he did for Marvel's Star Wars: Dark Droids crossover and then for subsequent issues of Thunderbolts. Well, it turns out for the current connective covers for the Ultimate Comics line, he's going for a homage to the most famous of them, the Jim Lee connective[...]

Back in January, Bleeding Cool reported on the Robservations podcast by Rob Liefeld, that stated that Jim Lee came close to returning to the X-Men comic books last year And that Marvel Comics approached Jim Lee to leave DC Comics in the spring of 2023 and come to Marvel to return to draw X-Men and[...]

Jim Lee's Absolute DC Comics in the Daily LITG, 23rd of August, 2024 topped traffic on Bleeding Cool yesterday Welcome to Lying In The Gutters, the daily runaround for the biggest stories the day before – as well over the past five years Founded fifteen years ago, and steeped in a history of comic book industry[...]

I mean, I say new, Bleeding Cool had previously run Jim Lee's covers as sketches But now they are coloured. #gallery-2 { margin: auto; } #gallery-2 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-2 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-2 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ ABSOLUTE BATMAN #1 Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta introduce fans to a new Batman with the[...]