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Until today's Wonder Woman #10 courtesy of Tom King and Belen Ortega, with Damian Wayne, Jonatha  Kent and the young Trinity As Damian Wayne starts to tease Jonathan Kent about his power set. Well, that's new twist on the birds and the bees Though given Superman's history and alien biology, it's not an entirely ridiculous question[...]

"Archie, did you have any trouble rescuing me?" "I sure did Betty! I had to beat off three other guys!" Let's see if Tom King's Archie, also in the Archie Comics August 2024 solicits and solicitations, comes anywhere close to that kind of filth. BETTY AND ME #16 FACSIMILE EDITION It's the cover that snuck past the[...]

Tom King is to write his first Archie Comics project drawn by leading Archie creator Dan Parent, for a new comic, Archie: The Decision, being published in a traditional Archie style in August And focusing on the eternal choice Archie must make between Betty and Veronica. ARCHIE: THE DECISION (ONE-SHOT) Script: Tom King, Pencils: Dan Parent, Inks:[...]

Superman: Up in the Sky was originally a series of original stories written by Tom King and drawn by Andy Kubert that were serialised in the Walmart-exclusive and heavily-promoted anthology title Superman Giant It was later republished in a six-issue limited series for comic book stores, before being collected in a single volume for bookstores. One[...]

Popverse has been granted the PR from DC for news of a new Jenny Sparks comic book series from Tom King and Jeff Spokes under their Black Label imprint And Bleeding Cool has granted ourselves the right to press CTRL-C and then CTRL-V. Jennifer Sparks was created by Warren Ellis and Tom Raney during their 1997[...]

Wonder Woman #8 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere and Belen Ortega is published by DC Comics tomorrow. WONDER WOMAN #8 CVR A DANIEL SAMPERE & BELEN ORTEGA (W) Tom King (A) Daniel Sampere (CA) Daniel Sampere, Belen Ortega WONDER WOMAN VS THE SOVEREIGN! After being captured by a team of villains, Diana finds herself at the mercy of[...]

Tom King and Mitch Gerads topped yesterday's traffic at Bleeding Cool Here you can still read all about comics, merch, TV shows, games, movies, and more The Daily Lying In The Gutters remains a long-running run around the day before and the day ahead You can sign up to receive it as an e-mail here. Tom King and[...]

King Von Force Ghost of the Marvelous! Or, the Death of Cinema Podcast podcast, posted the following to social media two days ago, regarding a script page from the recent Strange Adventures series by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, with Strange doing the bookstore signing circuit He posted to social media, saying, "The sheer abuse of[...]

Tom King likes Douglas Adams' The HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy And in this week's Wonder Woman #7, taking a break from the main continuity story which has seen Wonder Woman fight a new Sovereign Seven on the steps of the Washington Mall, Superman and Wonder Woman are going to a very different mall A[...]

But in the back up strips by Tom King and Belen Ortega in Wonder Woman right now, it is set long before that We can collectively decide that this is canon, right? There's nothing stopping us after all. WONDER WOMAN #6 CVR A DANIEL SAMPERE (W) Tom King (A) Daniel Sampere, Belen Ortega (CA) Daniel Sampere WONDER WOMAN[...]

On the 6th of January, 2021, comic book writer and former CIA agent  Tom King went to the Capitol building in Washington, DC and tweeted videos of what he saw: "From about an hour back Eerie noise."… " From about a half hour back, east side of the Capitol as the police let people go[...]

In the upcoming Wonder Woman #6, with artists Daniel Sampere and Tomeu Moray, comic book writer Tom King will see Wonder Woman take on a team assembled by Sgt Steel and made up of Giganta, Circe, Grail, Dr Psycho, Silver Swan, and Angle Man They are fighting on behalf of The Sovereign, the true ruler[...]

It was a different time. Tom King has been notable, amongst other creators such as Chip Zdarsky, Mark Waid and Mark Russell, in bringing back characters and concepts from the past, those that might have been junked in times that learned for more realism So Batman now has his anti-shark repellent from the 60s movie[...]

Welcome to the DCU, Milly Alcock!" The new Supergirl movie is intended to be an adaptation of Tom King and Bilquis Evely's Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow eight-issue comic book sereis from 2021 Gunn explained at the time of the initial Supergirl announcement, "In our series, we see the difference between Superman who was sent to Earth[...]

And in tomorrow's Batman: The Brave And The Bold #9, we have the long-delayed finale to The Winning Card by Tom King and Mitch Gerads And time for another joke, this time being told by Batman to the Joker. It's an old joke Batman himself told it in the recent Batman #98 by John Tynion IV[...]

Edward Carne. And now it seems, in a new Wonder Woman #5, (no coincidence) that he is the new pick from the Sovereign to be the President Of The United States as well as a member of the Wonder Woman Revenge Squad. … and from this glimpse in the future, it looks like he does indeed get[...]

The bigger question is how many of these will Tom King pick up himself, and in which book, or will he just leave them hanging around for others to deal with? Wonder Woman #5 Stop trying to make Fetch happen, Trinity… Wonder Woman #5 out tomorrow is by Tom King, Daniel Sampere (front bit) and Tomeu Morey[...]

First as Director – Talent Relations in 2015, then as Batman Group Editor in 2019, which began with his hiring of James Tynion IV and Jorge Jimenez to take over from Tom King on the main Batman book, as well as later hiring Chip Zdarsky to replace Tynion As a result of such successes, Ben[...]

Wonder Woman, Penguin and Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow writer Tom King posts to Threads, "I am using too many 6 panel pages." James Gunn, head of DC and who is turning that Supergirl comic into a movie, replied, "Not possible." Tom King didn't reply to that vote of confidence from his new boss, at least not[...]

In the now-classic Superman story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, For The Man Who Has Everything, Batman and Wonder Woman visit Superman in his Fortress Of Solitude.. …to find him in the arms of a Black Mercy plant giving him his dreams of living in Krypton, and allowing Mongul free reign to conquer the Earth. The[...]

Today's Amazons Attack #2 from DC Comics sees the USA step up its rhetoric regarding Amazons from Paradise Island living on its shores after the Pool Hall incident in Wonder Woman #1 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere,  when an enraged Amazonian Emilie, and former rival to Wonder Woman, killed seventeen men But not the[...]

In Wonder Woman #800, when we first met Trinity, as told by Tom King and Daniel Sampere, she was described as the teenage daughter of Diana Prince, Wonder Woman, all grown up. She even met a phantom version of her mother as part of a Grecian test. One that was easily dismissed. Leading her to get The Sovereign[...]

Recently, James Gunn pointed out that the Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow series by Tom King and Bilquis Evely would be the basis of Supergirl in the new DC Cinematic Universe It also won the pair Eisner Awards and more and now they are back together again – not at DC, but Dark Horse Comics Helen[...]

The author's stylized trait is very effective, in particular in the rendering of the dystopian city as a forest of signs bearing only proper names, a visual metaphor of the prevailing proliferation of the ego". Gran Guinigi Best Script went to Tom King for Human Target from Panini Comics, originally from DC Comics, "Christopher Chase, the[...]

So what, then, for Animal Pound? Some tricky legalese? First teased at San Diego Comic-Con with a surprise appearance by DC mainstay Tom King at Boom Studios' primary publisher panel, the upcoming Animal Pound event series with Chosen/American Jesus/Chosen One co-creator Peter Gross promises to be Boom Studios' biggest releases of the year. King has described the series[...]

We first met Trinity, Wonder Woman's daughter, in Wonder Woman #800 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere, alongside the future Superman Jon Kent and the future Batman, Damian Wayne. In which Trinity entered a cave to confront The Sovereign, the king of America, and learned that Wonder Woman had defeated him. In the recent relaunch Wonder Woman[...]

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Now DC Comics has informed comic book stores that all orders are to be cancelled for the Batman/Catwoman softcover collected edition and the Batman: Killing Time collected edition. These are the DC Comics listings for the hardcover editions, and you can see the planned paperback versions are suddenly no longer there and no longer on the[...]

Last week's Wonder Woman #1 by Tom King, Daniel Sampere and Tomeu Morey hit with a bang, and DC Comics have already announced a second printing with a new cover from DC Publisher and CCO Jim Lee. This is intended to provide a middle section for two previous covers by Jim Lee for Superman and Batman[...]

Boom Studios' December 2023 solicits and solicitations leads with Animal Pound by Tom King and Peter Gross, which also nets them the cover of next week's Diamond Previews Underheist #1 by David and Maria Lapham, Book Of Butcher #1 by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edra, Stuff Of Nightmares: Slay Ride from RL Stine and[...]