Legion Of Super Heroes

(DC Comics, creative team: Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Sook, Scott Godlewski, Wade Von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire, Dave Sharpe) Continuing the improvement arc, this issue establishes a little more about the Legion's origins and role in the future. As much marketing as actual extrahuman crisis response, the Legion exist to inspire disaffected youth across the stars […]

Oh had you forgotten all about 5G? Well, maybe in the light of the coronavirus pandemic, DC Comics has as well. But plenty of plans were already in place and have been moving forward. Including it seems, today's Legion Of Super-Heroes #5 by Brian Bendis and Ryan Sook. Now, those keen readers of Bleeding Cool's […]

As more and more states implement full lockdowns to combat the coronavirus pandemic, it seems like the entire United States will soon be ordered to stay at home. But has the pandemic reached all the way to the 32nd century? That seems to be the case in this preview of Legion of Super-Heroes #5. As […]

Dollhouse Family #6 has slipped just one week from the 8th of April to the 15th April. And Far Sector #6 has slipped from the 22nd of April to the 28th/ These are the kind of delays usually ignored by Bleeding Cool but they put the rest into some kind of context. Birds of Prey […]

While DC Comics has given up the ghost on continually delaying the schedule for Batman Vs Ra's Al Ghul #5 and #6 and Inferior Five #5 and #6, with all orders cancelled and plans to resolicit the remaining issues of the series pushed forward into 2020 (June at the earliest now). But there are some […]

(DC Comic, creative team: Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Sook. Mikel Janin, Wade von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire, Dave Sharpe) Welcome to the real first issue of the latest futuristic reboot, as Jon Kent, the son of Superman finally gets a chance to experience the orientation the team worked so hard to create for him. As a […]

Legion of Super-Heroes #4 is in stores from DC Comics this week, by "The Great One" Brian Bendis, Ryan Sook, and Mikel Janin. Why two artists, you ask?   Because this issue will tell us the origin of Bendis's reboot of the Legion. An origin that will be experienced through the eyes… or mind… of […]

(DC Comics, creative team: Brian Michael Bendis, Ryan Sook, Travis Moore, Wade von Grawbadger, Jordie Bellaire, Troy Peteri) Let's start with the good news: the future looks fantastic. The color palette, the lighting effects, the crisp linework, it's all gorgeous. The Legion hasn't looked this good since the late, lamented Waid Kitson Reboot Period (taken […]

Last month's MCM London Comic Con had Jim Shooter as a guest, and at his table were a number of folders, binders, full of memos, sketches, artwork from his long career at DC, Marvel, Valiant and more. He graciously allowed Bleeding Cool to take shots of a few of them, but these are just the […]

In Legion Of Super-Heroes: Millenium #2, Rose/Thorn finally reached the future by going the long way round. And we got to see what th Earth looks like in a thousand year's time. In today's Legion Of Super-Heroes #1, we get to find out why the Earth is that way. Sorta. It was saved, by the […]

Set up in the pages of Superman #16 and teased in an early look at the cover to Legion of Super-Heroes #3, DC's full January solicitations have definitively revealed that Damian Wayne will be joining Jonathan Kent as a guest of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the future. The solicit tells us that Wayne will […]

DC Comics has released an unlettered preview of Legion of Super-Heroes #1, from "The Great One" Brian Bendis and Ryan Sook. The book isn't set to hit stores until November 6th, but final order cutoff is on Monday, so DC is giving readers a glimpse at what to expect in hopes they'll ask their local […]

Legion of Super-Heroes returns in November from DC Comics with a new ongoing series by Brian Michael Bendis and Ryan Sook. Bleeding Cool was the first to tell you that DC Comics would be giving away free promotional Legion flight rings to stores who ordered heavy on the new series, And now they have added a […]

In today's Legion Of Super-Heroes: Millennium, we see Rose/Thorn's continuing immortal walk through a thousand years of DC Comics continuity to meet Superboy and the Legion Of Super-Heroes. It is known as going to the long way round. But there is a short cut. It's one that was taken by Booster Gold. Created by Dan […]

Legion of Super-Heroes Millennium #2 hits stores from DC Comics this week, by "The Great One" Brian Bendis, Nicola Scott, Jim Cheung, Jeff Dekal, and more. We've got a preview below. The comic takes us on a journey through the centuries of the DC Universe, leading up to the 31st century where the new Legion […]

Today sees the publication of Superman #15, solicited as part of DC's Year Of The Villain crossover, but is it really? There seems to be a real absence of villainy. Rogol Zaar has been defeated. And the time bubble caused by Dr Manhattan meddling in the time stream is closed as Jor-El's very existence is […]

Not too long ago, Bleeding Cool ran the story, What If… DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes and 5G Were Planning a Similar Story to House Of X? I wrote of HOXPOX writer Jonathan Hickman, Before he took the Marvel shilling (and I understand it was a sizeable shilling) I get the word that he proposed […]

Supergirl has been having a down year so far. The third season of the Melissa Benoist series has been down 25% in the 18-49 demographic, averaging just 0.55 %. This is the same as DC's Legends of Tomorrow and a bit better than Arrow, but both of those shows are in the 9 p.m. time […]

Supergirl continues to build up the Legion of Super-Heroes as word from TVLine is that Jesse Rath (Defiance) has been cast as Brainiac 5. The character is the 31st Century version of the Superman villain, but he is half computer and half organic life. He and other members of the Legion of Super-Heroes will travel […]

Tomorrow night kicks off the 4-series crossover event for the CW and the bad guys in it are the Dominators. The event follows the comic mini-series Invasion that DC did in 1988 / 1989. So before that starts, lets do a quick primer by going over the comic book history of the Dominators. Collectively known […]