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Another nifty little mystery kicked off by DC's FCBD offering:  The New 52, the Black Room… but what's in it? Here's ten to start you off Clicky for biggy. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: An Avengers Yearbook Photo  Gotta love Mullet Hawkeye And Chachi Iron Man And Inbetweener Simon Captain America. Ten Spots From The DC New 52 Black Room[...]

From the Free Comic Book Day DC Comic, The New 52, the Black Room… but what's in it? Here's ten to start you off Clicky for biggy. 1 The Spear Of Destiny 2 Eclipso's Black Diamond 3 A Demon Knights dragon 4 The Ark Of The Covenant 5 The Green Bell of Uthool 6 Etrigan's armour 7 The Haunted Tank 8 The Viking[...]

It looks like DC's FCBD release has kicked off another interesting New 52 mystery: So we've all read the DC New 52 issue now right? Right? After all, Free Comic Book Day was yesterday, so you know It's time to start asking exactly who the new wizards of the DC Universe , the creators of Shazam,[...]

So we've all read the DC New 52 issue now right? Right? After all, Free Comic Book Day was yesterday, so you know It's time to start asking exactly who the new wizards of the DC Universe , the creators of Shazam, and the damners of the Trinity Of Evil, are? Um… well See, this is[...]

DC Comics have commissioned a new TV advertising campaign, which will focus on the first hardcover and paperback collections of the DCU New 52, that have now started to be published, and will roll out over the summer. And they are willing to pay 75% of the airtime costs for any store who runs the ads[...]

And how long will their hat be? Dial H, the new series from China Miéville and Mateus Santolouco for the New DCU, most unusually edited by Karen Berger,

A boob French window that is, left wide open. In the new World's Finest comic, out today, Huntress and Power Girl adopt their new identities in the world of the New 52, as Power Girl gets her new costume And it's a choice that's made out of necessity it seems, given the state of Karen's state[...]

 Then there's New 52 wave 2 and Before Watchmen sneaks And the week is just getting started. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Is Boy Chimney The Great DC Character Find Of 2012? BuzzFeed, in its tour of DC offices the other day, had a sneak peek about The New Six, the new books joining the New 52 Let's have[...]

BuzzFeed, in its tour of DC offices the other day, had a sneak peek about The New Six, the new books joining the New 52 Let's have a quick look and further examination… with thanks to Dan Hart for assistance. G.I Combat: The War That Time Forgot by J.T Krul and by[...]

Earth 2 is the surprise, it's one of the DC Second Wave of New 52, which may not have had the retailer support that the other New 52 titles have had But retailers seem to be realising that, actually, this will sell gangbusters, bumping up the first issue of World's Finest as well Dial H[...]

Still no Gail Simone. We start with the second wave of the DC New 52. Batman Inc – Burnham "You think it's hard to understand his comics, try to interpret it to draw it for a comic." Themes are grim and gritty Batman and crazy pop art "I hope you like it, and if not, I can't[...]

 Of course, Kid Eternity is also a Quality character (and we've seen Quality-related titles The Ray and Blackhawks in the New 52 — and even a Plastic Man reference, I think), DC acquired the line in the mid-1950s and has used numerous of the characters and titles since then  And of course you know that[...]

Wired reports that in July, DC Comics are launching a new 52 series, National Comics, a book that will switch the spotlight character every issue. The first four will be Eternity, Madame X, Rose And Thorn, and Looker. Jeff Lemire and Cully Hamner will create Eternity, which appears to be similar to Kid Eternity They describe it; This[...]

These were the images of the DC New 52 toys, when released in a flyer by DC Comics in January. This, however, is how they look in adverts in some of the New DCU titles today (yes, even the likes of Animal Man and Swamp Thing, which just looks weird) Batman it seems, hasn't changed a pip[...]

Judging by my twitter stream, there was quite a line to get into the DC New 52 panel today  If you didn't get in, Bleeding Cool's Judd Morse has you covered Here's another missive from ECCC's front lines: Not a ton of new info was given out during DC's New 52 panel, but there were some[...]

REALITY Considering sales and customer feedback, how did a particular big-ticket series or event perform at your store? I think the obvious thing to talk about here is DC's New 52 It enjoyed a level of hype that I've never seen in the comic world And it worked… at first We sold out of literally everything DC[...]

From Dan DiDio's own highlights of his first ten years as a DC exec: THE NEW 52 If you look at everything I've mentioned from one to nine, it feels like we were building to this moment All that we learned over the years, from every success and mistake came into play as we terraformed the[...]

He's had many other key moments since then, and it looks like he's getting another major moment now thanks to the rising tide of the New 52. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: All Marvel $2.99 Comics Go Self-Cover From April  Marvel have recently been experimenting with a new publishing format that's been more recently associated with Image or Dark[...]

Scott Snyder's Batman run brings in more and more new fans to the New 52, and continues to rival Justice League as the top book of the relaunch.  Also, Adventure Time and Ralph Wiggum Comics have both shown huge legs as the kind of surprise cross-over hits that many retailers under-estimated, and end up becoming[...]

Poor Jay Garrick.  Not unlike one of today's mysterious topics, his already-drawn adventures have had a way of not making it to the printed page since the

This is the first week that DC's new logo will appear on the front cover of their books. And it does so with a banner over all of them, celebrating the

 The New 52 is a little bit about testing that, I think  And 2) Captain Marvel is just cool There's been a huge amount of interest in every post about his return since word started leaking out last fall. (aside: holy crap that Edgar Church copy Whiz Comics #22 is smokin') Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Shazam! The New[...]

NO one knows the date of his return no one including the angels in Heaven. Behold for he shall come as a thief in the night and in the blink of a eye. Nothing shall stop the end times or the rapture or the tribulation that WILL follow the rapture. THat said Pandora have a nice day. Not sure[...]

With all the various discussions over which stories "happened" in the new 52, we now have positive on panel proof that, yes, Batman did get his back broken in the Knightfall story, by Bane. Zatanna's Plunging Neckline | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors This is Mikel Janin's cover to Justice League Dark[...]

Since it's looking like March Madness is going to be a bust for me this year, it's particularly nice to see con season picking up steam: better weather is right around the corner, the industry is shaking off the last of its winter frost, and con panelists and other guests start dropping info of interest[...]

It also includes some examples of John Rozum's script, which is rather rare for New 52 books, as well as how certain ideas were generated, and DC's decision making process for which books are published and which are not, and how he really doesn't like Rozum describing the comic as a "total turd" I'm not sure[...]

It sounds like precisely the kind of thing that DC is trying to accomplish with the New 52, and Jeff Lemire would be a good candidate to accomplish it Quite a bit of support for this concept around the internet too, I see, so there seems to be plenty of fingers crossed over this one[...]

Thanks to the good folk at 4Chan/co who decided, on a whim, that Rob Liefeld should work on more books at the New 52 And considered what they might look like… And its seems that Hawk And Dove itself could do with a little more Liefeldizing….     Thanks to[...]

 Today from DC we have word of New 52 changes — 6 books in, 6 books out, and sure to be much more detail to come on all of it.   Most-Read Comic Stories Today: DC Comics To Cancel OMAC, Men Of War, Mister Terrific, Hawk And Dove, Blackhawks and Static Shock As part of the six new May [...]

DC Comics polished off the first busy news day of the year with a bit of continuing old business — five months in, the presses are still rolling on several New 52 #1's: Earlier this morning, we announced the "Second Wave" of DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 And earlier this week, USA TODAY revealed that JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 was the bestselling[...]