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Shawn Schillberg writes for Bleeding Cool; Do you miss the pre-New 52 DC Universe? Kevin Smith has you covered He's written all but two issues of a sequel to Batman: The Widening Gyre Walt Flanagan is providing art again and has completed near four issues so far. Promoting AMC's Comic Book Men, with the rest of the[...]

"With Zero Month drawing to a close we're wondering: How do you want to learn more about the history of the characters in DC Comics-The New 52?" Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC's New 52 Facebook Poll Backfires Just A Bit It started as a simple poll on the DC Comics Facebook page "With Zero Month drawing to a[...]

"With Zero Month drawing to a close we're wondering: How do you want to learn more about the history of the characters in DC Comics-The New 52?" The problem was, as well as the expected choices, they left the poll open So people could add their own choices The top three have the majority of votes… UPDATE:[...]

His response was "not my concern …coordinate that with DC editorial please." with the follow-up comment "I was given deliberate marks and direction by the Team 7 editorial to hit in my story and I did.") Given the massive scale of The New 52 relaunch, there were bound to be details that were later rethought References[...]

Which shows us this. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: As Assistant Editor Brian Smith Leaves DC, Rob Liefeld Sticks The Knife In. Brian Smith, assistant editor at DC Comics, and co-writer of Stuff Of Legend just tweeted; The Parents Of The New 52 – Warning, Major Tim Drake Spoilers Today, we get fourteen New 52 Zero issues and, even given that[...]

Thompson writes; This is it! After four weeks of reading and discussing every single one of DC's New 52 zero issues, Taylor and I finally reach the end of our epic voyage … We finish on a high as we cover the remaining issues in depth and give our views on the how the month has[...]

Where's Clock King when we need him? It's hard to be a Batman fan these days if you want all your New 52 timelines lined up like an exact chronology Which all Batman fans do We were originally told that five years before the present, when the Justice League were formed, Batman had been active as[...]

It's hard to be a Batman fan these days if you want all your New 52 timelines lined up like an exact chronology Which all Batman fans do. We were originally told that five years before the present, when the Justice League were formed, Batman had been active as an urban legend for some time Which[...]

Gail Simone talks about working on the New 52 And why Birds Of Prey was taken away from her. Part of the idea of the New 52 was to change people's perceptions of long-running characters, to get people to think of them in a new light That, I can understand and agree with, but the unfortunate[...]

A continuing continuity caper: In the light of San Diego Comic Con announcements by Scott Lobdell that Tim Drake was never Batman’s Robin, it was pointed

In the light of San Diego Comic Con announcements by Scott Lobdell that Tim Drake was never Batman's Robin, it was pointed out (by people like us) that in

The source of much discussion in the BC Forums today: So how close was Deathstroke’s origin in Deathstroke issue zero, to the original in Tales Of Teen

 At the Marvel panel, Tom Brevort and Mark Waid showcased the Marvel Now! offerings coming in the next couple of months. DC At Baltimore – New 52 Writers Told To "Write As If They Were Writing Fan Fiction" The DC Panel at Baltimore Comic Con marked the first DC panel following the first year of the New[...]

There were many things to be learned at Baltimore Comic-Con today... some are here, some are there, and I see some highly interesting tidbits queued up

Will Romine, the fan with one of the most ingenious cosplay costumes ever devised, reports from Baltimore: The DC Panel at Baltimore Comic Con marked the first DC panel following the first year of the New 52 Present were Dan Didio, Scott Snyder, Jeff Lemire, and Greg Capullo The panel started off with DiDio stating that[...]

And that in the New 52 Zero issues out on Wednesday, as well as articles in the back detailing a new "Who's Who In The New 52", with the book's characters getting a  profile ahead of a new guide to the New DC Universe, Ian Sattler writes in the back talking about the upcoming DC[...]

writes for Bleeding Cool; This week marks the first anniversary of the "The New 52" from DC Comics, and I thought this might be a good time to take stock of the back issue market for titles involved in the relaunch Of course, 52 titles provides a wide variety of variables, and there's no one-size fits[...]

Lots of 2013 news emerging over the past week. Here's today's future: Because the comic has an epilogue, after the smoochy smoochy, to show us where the

And more theories on the longterm significance of that to come… Justice League has been the key book for the New 52, in many ways totemic for what it every book should be A freshened look at the characters, taking on their heritage, but looking forward, trying to tell new stories, even if that uses elements[...]

Such as Batman: The World Of The Dark Knight, which tells the story of Batman from his beginning up to date, including the New 52 It even has Talon in it And it has this entry for Stephanie Brown as Spoiler The forum is skeptical. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Big Massive Retcon Spoilers For Today's Wolverine[...]

A turn of events we've been anticipating for quite some time: This is no one-issue stunt: “This is the new status quo,” says Johns, adding that the

It's been just over a year since New 52 Aquaman first trended on BC, in response to a preview of Aquaman #1 pages by Ivan Reis and Geoff Johns  Good sales, critical acclaim, and at least a month or two during which the book outsold every Marvel title, and the character still has more than[...]

But today they were taking no chances. The New 52 Twelve Issues On – Week Three – Batwoman, Wonder Woman, Red Hood, Catwoman, Green Lantern, Shade, DC Universe Presents, Supergirl, Blue Beetle, Birds Of Prey, Nightwing And Captain Atom A year into DC's New 52 and its the third week of looking at the twelfth issues… and[...]

We've been discovering tales of the old gods in the rebooted Wonder Woman over the last year. Hard edged retelling tales of the Greek pantheon and Wonder

UPDATE: Now with added Birds Of Prey A year into DC's New 52 and its the third week of looking at the twelfth issues… and the series so far. In its twelfth issue of Birds Of Prey, the cracks in this coalition of interests break open and crumble It's been entertaining to watch the good guys, bad[...]

Bold emphasis ours. TEAM 7 #2 Written by JUSTIN JORDAN Art by JESUS MERINO Cover by DOUG MAHNKE 1:25 Variant cover by BRETT BOOTH On sale NOVEMBER 14 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T • The secret history of The New 52 is told here – with bullets! • Set five years in the past, Team 7 races into the[...]

But of late it's been getting ridiculous, wiped from the New 52, ripped out of Batman Inc and recently removed from Smallville in the role of Nightwing, to the extent taht they even denied they'd announced she'd be in the book And inspiring the Waffles For Stephanie campaign to bring the character back. I didn't buy[...]

The second week of the Issue 12s of the New 52 So how are the books holding up compared to last week's look? As we learnt in Wolverine #311, when your characters start complaining about the plot, something is wrong This would be acceptable if Suicide Squad actually tried to be a proper dark comedy, but[...]

 Plenty of varied opinion on this one in the forum as well, but what do you think?  And what do you think of that logo now that you've seen it in situ for 5 months? Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Black Panther And Storm Split Up In Avengers Vs X-Men  Man, what is it with marriages these days? They always[...]

Today begins the twelfth issues of DC Comics's increasingly inaccurately named New 52 (no longer new, and with annuals and the extra zero issues, creeping past 52 So how are they standing up?   Well Justice League International is a walking dead title, cancelled with this issue (though there's an Annual still to come from a different[...]