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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