new 52 Archives

I've been quite open about saying that Men Of War was one of my favourites of the New 52, even though it was not much loved I wasn't blown away by the real war back up strips, but the soldiers dealing with the after effects of superhero war was, I thought, stellar Well, Ivan Brandon[...]

Batman: Leviathan Strikes collected the final two issues of what would have been the end of Batman Incorporated, before a stretched schedule and the impending New 52 relaunch knocked them off the schedule And, after some fun with Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Madonna, ended with a big To Be Continued in Leviathan! line. Well,[...]

We knew that Justice Society by James Robinson and Nicola Scott, set in the DC parallel universe Earth Two, was coming. What we didn't know until today

Blackhawks was another, and was probably the closest thing I could find to the writing of Warren Ellis in the new 52. It is notable that two of the books, Mister Terrific and Static Shock featuired a single male black lead, leaving Batwing A modicum of self recognition is superhero titles is sometimes necessary, and it[...]

Bobbie Chase, Scott Lobdell, Rob Liefeld, all we were waiting for was Bob Harras to hire Howard Mackie and Terry Kavanagh for a nineties Marvel revival at DC Comics. Well, Terry Kavanagh is busy elsewhere. But now USA Today reveals that Howard Mackie has been hired by DC Comics along with another nineties favourite, Ian Churchill to[...]

His Swamp Thing series for DC/Vertigo may have been slaughtered to make way for Brightest Day and then the DC New 52 relaunch "Swamp Thing with machine guns" is how one DC Comics executive described it to me. But now British fantasy horror writer and leftwing activist China Miéville is to write his first ongoing comic,[...]

  It was one of the most controversial topics of last year, and it is certain to be regularly discussed in 2012 as well.  Of course, it's almost

Firstly Mandi Odoerfer of CSICON noticed that alien language text used in a number of DC New 52 comics… were the same alien language. DC may have revealed the name of the mysterious hooded woman, but it appears they still have a few more mysteries up their sleeve Early on in two of this week's books[...]

Bleeding Cool previously reported the rumour that Rob Liefeld may be writing Deathstroke in the near future - but also underlined that's all it was. Well,

 But it looks like one of the earliest villians of the Silver Age (it doesn't get too much more Silver Agey than Showcase 8) is making a relatively early debut in the New 52   There's quite a debate over this one in the forum, so dive in and get your opinion out there. Most-Read Comic[...]

Rich nails it in his post on what makes New 52 Action Comics #5 so potentially interesting Action Comics volume 1 number 1 page 1 by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster is the big bang of the comic book multiverse It's the start of everything we know, and evidence of it can be detected everywhere[...]

There was the fact that it was a late arriving conclusion to a series that has now been canceled for months; that, because of this lateness, it is part of the old, pre-New 52 continuity; and, most importantly in a crappy economy, it has a $6.99 cover price With all of those strikes against it,[...]

Today we got our first trend-topping New 52 story in some time, and while it's a holiday news week, it does bring to mind what a crazy year 2011 was for comics news (and closing out strong with Watchmen 2 in the panic room) as we turn our attention to wondering what 2012 will bring. Most-Read[...]

1152 pages worth. In other Amazon news, we're starting to get a sense of a divide in the New 52… a class distinction, if you will Who gets the hardcover, who gets the soft… here's how it's breaking down.  Hardcovers:  Paperback:  Batman Swamp Thing Action Comics Batwoman Green Lantern Wonder Woman Batman And Robin Justice League Detective Comics  Batgirl Catwoman Justice League International Animal Man Batwing Superboy Red Lanterns Green Arrow Demon Knights Stormwatch Suicide Squad Frankenstein OMAC Legion Of[...]

But he's just updated his website with a whole load of new logos, including work for the DC New 52… some used, some not Batgirl, it seems, presented quite a challenge Here are a few examples from his website.       Rian Hughes is best known by many as the artist on Grant[...]

This could well be the book to flesh out the history of he new 52, if it is allowed to Superman may be the first public superhero and Batman the first hidden one, but the Thunder Agents are carving out an era before that, one that the seventies managed to hide A bitchy, sarcastic present,[...]

Men of War is the latest DC book to have a new creator announced for issue 7, and as Rich notes, there have been several other creative changes made in the New 52 around that point   Some time ago, Rich also mentioned a whiteboard somewhere in the DC offices tracking these things I'd love[...]

The plan was to give comic stores a week's worth advance sales of the DC New 52 Hardcover in the run up to Christmas A week for stores to handsell the thick brick of a monster, to recommend as gifts, to take advantage of those looking to buy their loved one this thick wodge of[...]

And big." The New 52 DCU compilation hardcover featuring all 52 of September's first issues plus extra gubbins ships in a couple of weeks. But here's the thing It's currently on sale at Amazon.com for $90, as opposed to the $150 retail price That's a whopping 40% discount. Now normally retailers will get a larger discount than[...]

By scheduling all of the New 52 to the first four weeks of the month, when there are five weeks in a month, things are really lacking The next time this happens is in February, and DC seem to have shifted more of the non-new 52 comics to that date But it's still not great[...]

When DC took the reins of the top slot on the sales charts for the first time in years due to the launch of the New 52, they also took over the back issue market, with sellouts across the board causing a massive rise in prices across the line How are those prices holding up[...]

A couple of panels in the new issue of Justice League Dark #3 may be rather revealing. They appear to show the Flashpoint comics Secret Seven and Deadman

 BC forumers pointed out that recent DC backmatter has been taking the New 52-centric approach mentioned in today's Green Lantern post consistently with other characters as well, and a few further noted that reboots typically bring with them… a fresh directory structure  Still, it's a little jarring to see that info, even in that context,[...]

Although the move towards returning Vertigo characters once a part of the DC Universe back to the DCU proper began before the New 52, with the return of Animal Man beginning in 52, Swamp Thing during Brightest Day, and Death as part of the "The Black Ring" saga in Action Comics, the return kicked in with[...]

An unusual alignment of the calendar and post-52 shipping schedules will apparently leave us with a light new Comic Day on November 30.  It'll be the week

Fresh from his training in the BC danger room, new team member Mark Allen Haverty hits BC like a sledgehammer with a pair of reviews at the top of today's

I said something positive. Through three issues, we have yet to receive any indication from the writer that there is any real sort of direction here, and this feels far more like a throwaway miniseries than a well-conceived long-term series that belonged amongst the New 52. Mark Allen Haverty writes for Bleeding Cool; As an English major[...]

A glimpse at some upcoming Marvel releases took the top two slots today, with Rich's take on today's New 52 releases rounding out the top of the charts for the day  If you don't wanna know, you don't wanna scroll… Most-Read Comic Stories Today: The Winter Soldier #1 From Brubaker And Guice In 2012 Today Fear Itself #7.1[...]

But issue 3 does it's best as Boston Brand, Deadman (currently appearing in three New 52 titles) possesses Barack Obama, or whatever stand in for the President Of The United States DC has this week That in itself is worthy of extra stars. Animal Man #3 enters pure Clive Barker territory Lumbering semi-humanoid monsters filling the[...]

No matter what the underlying distribution reason and no matter what the printing, it's interesting to see copies of the New 52 #1's continuing to flow into customer's hands  And I'm damn curious to see how same day digital might effect the Speculator's Corner in the months and years to come. Most-Read Comic Stories Today: Speculator's Corner:[...]