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Who knew that when DC Comics teased the changes in Clark Kent and Lois Lane's relationship in the relaunch that they'd actually show the last two pages of

Superman #1 by George Perez and Jesus Merino was published today by DC Comics Now I'm no Supermanologist like some, but even I noticed some major changes, So armed with a scanner and access to Wikipedia, I tried to label a few… 1 Racebending Morgan Edge The Superman badguy media mogal, played by Rutger Hauer in Smallville[...]

And while it may be being portrayed as a meeting of Vertigo characters in the DC Universe, with appearances from Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Cyborg, alongside John Constantine, The Enchantress, Deadman, Madame Xanadu and Zatanna, there is only one character who really counts here. Shade The Changing Man. Written in the eighties and nineties by Peter[...]

Enter John Constantine and his Trench Coat Brigade, the DCU just got a lot darker, but maybe they can save the Super Friends. BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT #1 DAVID FINCH! Bruce Wayne faces the unexpected legal ramifications of Batman Incorporated! Yup, Arkham inmates sue him for Bat Brutality. SUPERMAN #1 GEORGE[...]

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 Nuclear Men #1 preview, as have CNN their Flash #1 preview... CBR have a preview for George Perez' Superman, Kotaku have a[...]

KMOV in St Louis have reported that one Gerry Arville Armbruster, suspected of being "Gary", who stole valuable Superman comics and memorabilia of disabled St Louis man Mike Myer, who he befriended, has been arrested by Illinois police. The arrest came after another robbery of a 76 year old man who was attacked and had his[...]

Action Comics #1 was 29 pages long, and subsequent issues look like they'll be of a similar or greater size. We've already heard that Brent Anderson of

Pretty much Warren Ellis' final word on the superhero. Until his next one. The end of the world, narrated by a survivor (for now) and a look at how the

The story of Granite City, Missouri  resident Mike Meyer, a big Superman fan who was tricked out of much of his collection by an unscrupulous acquaintance, has  turned into one of the best comic-related news stories of the year so far Everywhere I've seen this matter discussed over the past week — on blog posts,[...]

Above, Superman as seen in Action Comics #1 this week in a Superman T-short, blue jeans and with something red around his shoulders acting as a cape A reinvention of the character based on the original version as created by Jewish creators Joe Siegel and Jerry Schuster. Below, Egyptian activists celebrate as they demolish a concrete[...]

Bleeding Cool reported last week about McDonalds worker, one Mike Meyer of  Granite City, Missouri, who found he had been tricked out of his Superman collection worth many thousands of dollars It could have ended there. But instead, Superfriends from around the country have been stepping up to help The News Democrat reports that; Artists are drawing[...]

Thanks to Mark Waid, a very different take on GD-Gate from 1964...

On Tuesday, Colbert dissed the movie Green Lantern, today Jon Stewart gets a Superman reference into Mitt Romney's speech about how Obama is a payphone in a smartphone world and apparently payphones don't work. Um, payphones stil work, don't they? He then followed that with Ghostbusters and Never Ending Story references. Someone open the poor man's eyes. They've always[...]

St Louis Today reports that a mentally disabled man working for McDonalds and living in Granite City, Missouri, with his two dogs Kyrpto and Dyno, has had $5,000 worth of Superman collection stolen from him. Mike Meyer's collection contained Superman lunch boxes, radios, TVs, Monopoly, and comic books from the fifties to the present day. But[...]

Here's a preview of the now-sold-out Action Comics #1 available next Wednesday (or Tuesday midnight in the UK) courtesy of Yahoo... and true to Grant

The titles were: SUPERMAN BATMAN WONDER WOMAN GREEN LANTERN TEEN TITANS JUSTICE LEAGUE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES I projected that we would sell 39 million copies the first two years generating a pre-tax profit (gross revenues less cost of goods sold, royalties, staff, SG&A, etc.) of roughly $3,500,000. And the reason it didn't happen? Fear of anti-trust lawsuits; Very soon thereafter, First Comics launched a[...]

We get the big end to the Return Of The Doomsdays plot, and it doesn't end well, as the Superman family and the Doomsday family clash for the final time Not everyone is walking out of there in one piece. But there's also a final scene between Clark Kent and Lois Lane which revisists many of[...]

Two designs by Jim Lee for his upcoming Action Comics #1 variant cover, but both rejected by him. The former, apparently, does bear some resemblance to

Plenty of source material — even with the actors' faces, plenty of people with photoshop skills. As for the Superman pic, I bet it's meant to evoke classic Supes — always a good idea for a reboot. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today UPDATED – Catwoman Time Again: Full Length, FAKE Look At Anne Hathaway In Costume UPDATE: DC Women[...]

Most kids, when they saw Superman, wanted to be as strong as him I wanted to be as good as him So, still adolescent wish fulfillment but not the flavor most people had. Maybe that's why as more and more news about Zack Snyder's reboot of the Superman franchise have leaked out over the past few[...]

With each collection ranging from 224 to 320 pages, there should be from eleven to fifteen issues worth in each volume. The World Of Flashpoint Featuring Green Lantern contains Abin Sur – Green Lantern and well as Green Arrow Industries. The World of Flashpoint Featuring The Flash contains Reverse Flash and Grodd Of War The World of Flashpoint[...]

Laurence Fishburne will play Perry White in the upcoming Superman film Man of Steel, according to the LA Times Hero Complex The highly-regarded actor whose diverse credits include The Matrix trilogy and CSI joins a cast that includes Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, and Diane Lane. Laurence Fishburne is going to Metropolis The Oscar-nominated actor will join[...]

Especially effective is the cinema treatments of Captain America both giving Bucky spirit in his training, but also raising nagging doubts at to the very point of Captain America, when Bucky is in Europe and Cap isn't. Project Superman #2 has a very different tone Just as Captain America And Bucky doesn't have Captain America in[...]

Indeed, wuth Hal Jordan getting evicted from his own apartment, there may be some self experience involved here. Grant Morrison describes Superman's cape in terms of Linus and his blanket, that the indestructable cape would protect Superman when he was a child, and he uses it to this day. Scott Lobdell, just as when he wrote X-Men[...]

Here's what we've been waiting for: If you were at today's Superman panel at San Diego Comic-Con, you were treated to a first look into some of the art for the Superman group books in DC Comics-The New 52 But fret not if you weren't able to attend We here on The Source have got you[...]

Michael Straczynski, Scott Lobdell, Matt Idleson, and Mike Johnson were on hand at the Superman panel to discuss the future of Superman and related titles  Rich is currently sprinting like a madman back and forth across the convention center, so with thanks to newsarama and twitter, here are some bullet points: Morrison on the costume: A[...]

And even we couldn't quite believe the aspect that Superman may be hooking up with Wonder Woman as  result. Well, the first show has properly dropped, and it's now been announced that Lois Lane has a new boyfriend. The New York Daily News reports that in Superman #1, Lois Lane's chosen fellow is one Daily Planet co-worker[...]

There's been quite a media blitz over Superman early in this Comic Con week, including interviews with Jim Lee and Dan DiDio regarding the new take on the character among other things Overall, it paints a very different picture from the Superman we've come to know, and Lee, DiDio, and Grant Morrison go on[...]

DC Comics kicked off SDCC week with a new DCU Superman media blitz, and it's a safe bet that will continue with other relaunched characters for the next few days Meanwhile, the bootlegged The Avengers trailer has caused off-the-charts excitement among fans, to the point where you have to wonder whether its perfectly-timed appearance[...]

There's lots of news swirling around about Superman today, and DC has just issued a made-for-mainstream-news set of points covering what's going on with the relaunch, along with a bigger version of this morning's official, actual Action Comics #1 cover: He has been called the Man of Steel, the Last Son of Krypton and a strange[...]