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DC Comics Announces 25 Absolute Power Comics, All Written By Mark Waid
And all of them are to be written by Mark Waid He has been a busy boy since Dan DiDio and Bob Harras left, hasn't he? Writing such an extensive crossover from one brain might have last been seen with Grant Morrison on the Seven Soldiers crossover event, which had its thirty issues come out[...]
Absolute Power, DC Comics' Summer Event With Mark Waid And Dan Mora
And in July, DC Comics is launching their summer event Absolute Power around a four-issue series by the World's Finest team of Mark Waid and Dan Mora that focuses on Amanda Waller's plot to remove all superpowers from superheroes and villains in the DC Universe And for Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and the other DC[...]
Big Stuff Coming From Small People
Because Mark Waid is up to something at DC Comics Asked on BlueSky about DC Comics's April 2024 solicitations revealing he and Dan Mora is leaving the Shazam book with issue 8 out in March, replaced by Josie Campbell and Elizabeth Lupacchino, he replied, "I'm afraid so Reluctantly But it's for something big Stay tuned."[...]
IPI Comics March 2024 Solicits
IPI Comics joins Lunar Distribution for their March 2024 solicits and kick things off with Caped Fear: Superhuman Horror stories, collecting work by George RR Martin, Jim Starlin, Mark Waid, Neil Gaiman, Roz Kaveney, Colleen Doran, Jim Krueger and more As well as launching Bristleworth: A Cove Horror from Hayden Fryer, and a collection of[...]
William Shatner Joins Superman & Batman for World's Finest #25
And published on the 19th of March 2024. "This March, join DC in celebrating a storytelling milestone with an oversized anniversary issue of Batman/Superman: World's Finest #25! In the hands of iconic writer Mark Waid and fan-favorite artist Dan Mora, the Man of Steel and The Dark Knight have fought interdimensional demons, allied with other DC[...]
The (New) Powers Of Shazam (Spoilers)
Although that only happened the once way back… Other "versions" of Captain Marvel may do the damage thing as well. Notably, the recent Shazam movies seemed to show that Captain Marvel's lightning could damage people when it was summoned, such as when fighting Shazam on the rooftops. And in tomorrow's Shazam #5 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora,[...]
Phillip Kennedy Johnson Leaves Action Comics, Keeps Writing Superman
Earlier today, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Phillip Kennedy Johnson would be leaving Action Comics, as Jason Aaron, Joshua Williamson, Mark Waid and others would be coming in to take over the book in 2024 Johnson took to Twitter/X to talk about the change And how he will be continuing a number of storylines[...]
DC Comics Announces Superman Superstars With Jason Aaron
No sooner has Bleeding Cool run an article about changes being planned for Action Comics at DC Comics, than DC go and host a Superman panel at New York Comic Con to confirm, well, at least some of what we ran, as Superman Superstars. Previously (like, just over an hour and a half ago), we ran[...]
New York Bar Gossip: Action Comics To Be A Proper Anthology Again?
Including one from Action Comics #1057 that might have seen a very different Superboy than the one in the recent Superboy: The Man Of Tomorrow spinoff series. Recently, Bleeding Cool pointed out that it looked as if Mark Waid was going to start writing Action Comics in 2024 Well, bar gossip from New York Comic Con[...]
Bryan Hitch On Why Superman: The Last Days Of Lex Luthor Is "Late"
Bryan Hitch, Mark Waid and Kevin Nowlan's comic book series Superman: The Last Days Of Lex Luthor was first rumoured by Bleeding Cool back in August 2021, then planned for 2022 The project was confirmed by Hitch the following month and then announced by DC Comics eighteen months later in April 2023, to be published in[...]
Will Mark Waid Write Superman In Action Comics In 2024?
Famously Mark Waid was blocked from ever writing the main Superman comic books at DC Comics by then-publisher Paul Levitz, because he was part of the Hive 2000 group of writers who pitched jointly to write the Superman books, an act that was seen by some at DC Comics as trying to push out the[...]
Toyboy
Today's World's Finest: Titans #3 from Mark Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino sees the team visit TitansCon, a comic convention held in their honour, and with plenty of Titans programming And everyone p[resuming that they are in cosplay, until everyone realises And for Wonder Girl, for Donna Troy, the audience wants her more than anyone else. Wouldn't[...]
Tom Brevoort Expects Marvel Age #1000 To "Sell Out Pretty Instantly"
I do think that it was under-ordered, though, so if you've got any interest in seeing Mark Waid and Alessandro Cappuccio reveal how the original Human Torch learned about justice…" "…discover how Spider-Man's family and friends help him to be a hero as depicted by Ryan Stegman…" "… learn what Marvel Girl sees in Cyclops courtesy of Rainbow Rowell and Marguerite Sauvage…" "…[...]
Bad Idea Screw Up, Do A Great Reset On David Lapham's The Ends
Yesterday, Bad Idea launched a Kickstarter for David Lapham's The Ends, promising a premium digital comic book experience to shame Amazon, as well as a print collection and a number of comic books drawn by David Lapham and written by big names such as Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid, Jim Cheung,[...]
Bendis, Aaron, Brubaker, Waid, Duggan, Dastmalchian Write David Lapham
Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Ed Brubaker, Mark Waid, Jim Cheung, Gerry Duggan, Zeb Wells, Tony S Daniel, Gary Dauberman, Matt Kindt, Robert Venditti, Joshua Dysart and David Dastmalchian are the first writers announced for new stories written to be drawn by David Lapham for the new digital comic book from Bad Idea Comics, and[...]
DC Comics
Tomorrow sees the launch of the long-awaited Superman: The Last Days Of Lex Luthor by Mark Waid and Bryan Hitch In which Superman learns that Lex Luthor is dying, while Luthor wants Superman to cure him. And it turns out that, despite the events of The Flash, being hit by lightning and covered in chemicals doesn't[...]
Knight Terrors
Possibly with three letter Ls arranges around it, depending upon how you choose to view the symbol. #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 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */   But there are variants to the look over the years, a different logo, a Superman shield logo or,[...]
Mark Waid
Such as a certain Mark Waid, who wrote stories that the movie is based on, including coming up with the Speed Force, way back in The Flash #95 in 1994 in the opening chapter of a 6-issue story Terminal Velocity which finished in The Flash #100 That alone should have probably bagged him a credit. I[...]
Knight Terrors Begins In This Week's Shazam (Spoilers)
The end of Shazam #1 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, left Billy Batson in quite the pickle, losing it in front of the nation's cameras and smartphones. And the rest of the Batson family, in this week's Shazam #2 seem to agree with his shocked reaction. There are plenty of suggestions as to what went down[...]
Major Shazam And Superman Spoilers From DC Comics Today
The writer of the latter, Mark Waid, also wrote an entire comic book around the idea that Superman could become the big supervillain of the world. Irredeemable, drawn by Peter Krause With the world acquiescing to the demands of the Plutonian. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left:[...]
World’s Finest: Teen Titans by Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino
As well as a new Superman series from DC Comics, Mark Waid is launching a new series in the style of his recent Superman/Batman: World's Finest series World's Finest: Teen Titans by Waid and Emanuela Lupacchino will be a modern retelling of the early adventures of the Teen Titans by Marv Wolfman and George Perez. World's[...]
Mark Waid & Bryan Hitch on DC's Superman: The Last Days of Lex Luthor
On the 15th of August 2021, Bleeding Cool reported that Bryan Hitch was working on a new Superman comic book, for DC's Black Label line, then in September that it would be written by Mark Waid and inked by Kevin Nowlan. Mark Waid/Bryan Hitch/Kevin Nowlan Black Label Superman From DC Comics Once upon a time, Mark Waid[...]
Gail Simone Talks Up Mark Waid & Dan Mora's Shazam
She posted to Twitter and Facebook saying So when I found out that one of the best DC writers of all time (Mark Waid) was doing a new book featuring my favorite superheroes of all time (the Shazam Family), I did something I never do I wrote him and begged to read an advance copy. YES I[...]
Captain Marvel? Shazam? Just Call Him The Captain
After all, they didn't want to give  Marvel's Captain Marvel any free publicity. #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 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ But Mark Waid, currently writing the character in a new Shazam series launching from DC Comics in June and drawn by Dan[...]
Mark Waid Retcons Kingdom Come For Batman/Superman World's Finest
Massive spoilers for this week's Batman/Superman: World's Finest #10 by Mark Waid and Dan Mora, out this Tuesday – but also available in many comic book stores since last Thursday, as street date enforcement has been all-but-dropped in the current distribution system Some people may have been picking up this book, others may not have[...]
Marvel Tribute For Stan Lee's 100th Birthday In Today's Comics
With the headline "100 Years And Still Inspiring Us All" From Galactus above to the Mole Man's Moloids below, including Spider-Man, Daredevil, Mole Man, Skrulls, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Crystal, Doctor Strange, Dormammu, Scarlet Witch, Kingpin, Iron Man, Thor, Magneto, MODOK, The Watcher, The Enchantress, Black Panther, Mister Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Thing, Human Torch, Doctor[...]
DC's Lazarus Planet Is Their Magical Crisis
Spinning out of his Batman V Robin series, the event showrunner Mark Waid teams up with Riccardo Federici, Gene Luen Yang, Billy Tan, Nicole Maines, Skylar Patridge, Francis Manapul, Dan Watters, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Josie Campbell, and more, to transform DC's Super Heroes and Supervillains beginning in January 2023. "Following the events of Mark Waid and[...]
Gerry Duggan to Launch Substack Comics Too, But First a Book of Photos
It's a globe-spanning experience that provides a peek behind the curtain in Hollywood, and behind the scenes in comic books." Photos include those of Patton Oswalt, Meredith Salinger, Matt Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Brian Posehn, Bob Odenkirk, Weird Al Yankovic, Tom Lennon, Jon Hamm, Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Rick Remender, Clint Eastwood, David Lynch, Martin[...]
How Batman vs Robin Will Change The DC Universe In December
A planet where everyone comes back from the dead, again and again and again? We knew that magic had gone wrong in Dark Crisis, we expected a Magical Crisis to spin out of Batman Vs Robin, could this be the big one?   DC's new comic book event miniseries by Mark Waid, Mahmud Asrar, Jordie Bellaire and Steve[...]
Confirmed: Bad Idea Comics First Appearances In Diamond Previews #408
Bleeding Cool was the first to break the Bad Idea news that last week's Previews catalogue from Diamond Comic Distributors included a brand new and exclusive comic book strip from Bad Idea Comics, The First Supper by Mark Waid and David Lapham And we have a good chunk of it reproduced below. What we didn't know[...]