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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,[...]

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

A group of men who, the rhyme goes, rule the city from the shadows and enforce their will by means of an assassin named the Talon, a highly trained killer the Court keeps hidden in bases around the city." First, Gotham must be a really depressing place to grow up as a kid, second, this[...]

Detective Comics #3. Shock values aside, one of the biggest surprises for me has been Tony Daniel on Detective Comics. I've usually found his work in the

They may not get a mention, but the comic store set of The Big Bang Theory is rather DC Relaunch full right now. Say, is this the only comic shop in America with all the issue one first prints – and seemingly no gouging price tags? 1 They may not get a mention, but the comic[...]

When the first cover visuals for Justice League International #1 were shown, there was one unknown woman on the cover. Then, for reasons also unknown, she

Here are a few design sheets from the New 52 DC Comics relaunch that Jim Lee shared at the New York Comic Con today. There are lots of Animal Man ones, but the page designs also indicates how Animal Man will be combining text and images, with controlled and specilly placed captions, which also matches the[...]

DC made most of their DC relaunch books returnable for a small fee, for the first four months of the relaunch, allowing retailers the ability to stock high on books with less risk if they didn't sell And they sold. Well now, at the New York Comic Con Retailer's Breakfast, courtesy of Diamond Comic Distributors, DC[...]

DC have released a bunch of sales statistics… so far. That they have sold of more than 5 million copies of the DC Relaunch comics in only six weeks, which averages out at around 75,000 for each comic. That JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 has sold more than 250,000 copies. That ACTION COMICS #1 and BATMAN #1 have both sold[...]

Dr Mamoulis Vamvounis writes for Bleeding Cool In which I bitch and moan about comics on a weekly basis, in broken english and syntax. Hey, it’s all in

Flash artist/writer Francis Manapul, Animal Man/Frankenstein writer Jeff Lemire and Blackhawks artsit Ken Lashley are profiled together by their local paper, The Star, in the light of the DC Comics New 52 relaunch. Manapul expressed his excitement "The more you think about this initiative and the books that are spawning out of it, potentially what[...]

Here's the lineup for the month... note Justice League #2 is shipping seven weeks after the first...

But Bleeding Cool has an inside track. For September 2011, the DC Relaunch, DC Comics had a 35.74% share of dollars spent on comics and graphic novels. And Marvel had a 35.37% share. It's a half point difference, but considering earlier in the year, DC were double figures points behind Marvel, it's a remarkable shift. But the biggest change[...]

You have been warned. The new relaunched Batman: The Dark Knight #1 sees Batman dealing with a breakout at Arkham Asylum Nothing new there, he did it in Batman #1 out this month as well. What is different is Two Face Transformed, Hulk-like into a new One-Face And, it seems a bit of a homophobe with it[...]

I've been told that orders for Action Comics #2 have "gone to backorder" on Diamond Comic Distributors' site, which means retailers are currently unable

Back to the Florida comic shop, A Comic Shop, that can. Aaron boasts that he still has all the New 52 comics, first prints, in stock before he goes

Fantasy author Michele Lee has let her superhero comic reading seven year old daughter, and fan of Starfire, read the new Red Hood And The Outlaws #1 from

She's never seemed to have been able to escape that lifestyle, even if she actually wanted to. Now she's been reinvented, relaunched and rebooted for the DC New 52 And she's back on stage But unlike, say, Action Comics, where you see Clark Kent as a journalist for a couple of pages, In Voodoo, you see[...]

There has naturally been rather a lot of commentary on the portrayal of Starfire in Red Hood And The Outlaws and Catwoman in her own title, pointing out

She's putting herself through the task of reading the DC relaunch in its entirety, a comic universe of which she is only vaguely familiar… Hey, light week this time Only twelve books! So let's jump in with a book that people are so excited for that we had to limit one to a customer at the[...]

CBR have a preview for George Perez' Superman, Kotaku have a preview for the new Blackhawks #1... while MTV has embedded their Fury Of Firestorm: The

So how are the New 52 comics faring in the speculator aftermarket? Let's look at some recent sales on eBay. Well, the fuss about Catwoman #1 seems to have

Special thanks to Random_Target for the inspiration...

It all just happened by accident! Imagine what they could have achieved if they had been trying! The shockingly low number of female creators on the relaunch must be a major factor in this unhappy accident, and it's a problem that DC promised to address after the PR disaster at San[...]

I seem to be sitting in a whirlwind of DC creative changes rumours right now. It's a mission to try and strip out the emotion that people are feeling and

Bleeding Cool recently pointed out how DC Comics had bought Twitter search keywords for the likes of Marvel, Spider-Man, Iron Man and X-Men. So it naturally behooves us to point out when Marvel appears to have does similar, buying DC Comics or similar as YouTube keywords. The side effect meaning that they end up getting links on[...]

Well, the Spanish Inquisition has been at December's solicitations… So what changes are coming on board for Month Four of the DC Relaunch? Here's a brief rundown. On Action Comics #4, Joshua Hal Fialkov, Rick Bryant and Matt Camp are contributing a back up story, while Gene Ha joins Rags Morales on the art for the main[...]

A preview to the new Supergirl series from Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Mahmud Asrar and Dan Green, from DC Comics. Out this week. And courtesy of USA

At the end of last week, I received a shedload of rumours from respected individuals in the industry claiming there were major changes afoot at the DC Relaunch And even though the sources were very separate, some of the stories coincided, often a sign that there's some truth here However that wasn't the case. Such as[...]

The Washington Post has news of a new DC Comics mini-series coming in December, a relaunch of the Quality Comics character The Ray, by Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray and Jamal Igle. Palmiotti and Gray wrote The Ray in Uncle Sam And The Freedom Fighters, and Palmiotti also wrote and inked the character back in the nineties[...]