Tom King Archives

Tom King, Peter Gross, Tamra Bonvillain and Clayton Cowles are taking advantage of Animal Farm and other works by George Orwell moving into the public domain recently, with a new series from Boom Studios, Animal Pound Though rather than making it an allegory for the Soviet Union, it's about modern American politics And that was[...]

Previously, Bleeding Cool reported that Batman: The Brave and The Bold #3 would have a lead story by Dennis Culver and Otto Schmidt in place of the lead story The Winning Card by Tom King and Mitch Gerads, continuing from issues 1 and 2, originally solicited for the issue, which would instead shift to #4 It read[...]

Tom King tweets "Just got comps for this very cool, very shiny SDCC Supergirl 1 exclusive See you there." Because, yes, it's time for DC Comics at San Diego Comic-Con 2023. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Their first return to[...]

But it gives Tom King and Mitch Gerads a chance to revisit the earliest days of Jim Gordon That early life has hardly been touched upon, though the Gotham TV series showed Peter Gordon as the District Attorney for Gotham, but also a member of the Court Of Owls Peter Gordon was killed in his[...]

Or rather the same Wally West, but of a different time. Hang on, didn't they do this in Heroes In Crisis? With multiple Wally West's including a dead Wally West who turned out to be a cloned Wally West, created to complete the time loop os that the original dead WallyW est would still be there? It is[...]

This week's Wonder Woman #800 will set up the new ongoing series Wonder Woman #1 by Tom King and Daniel Sampere One aspect of which will follow the 19-year-old Elizabeth Marston Prince, Trinity, the daughter of Wonder Woman, around twenty years in the future, who hangs around with Jonathan Kent and Damian Wayne's Superman and[...]

Batman: The Brave and The Bold #3 will now have a lead story by Dennis Culver and Otto Schmidt, in place of the lead story by Tom King and Mitch Gerads continuing from issues 1 and 2, originally solicited for the issue The synopsis for the Culver and Schmidt story follows below: While investigating a string[...]

Today sees Tom King and Mitch Gerads return to the Batman in The Brave And The Bold for a very nasty four-part retelling of the first clash between The Joker and the Batman But it turns out that it's not just Mitch Gerads who is drawing this comic book. But it's Tom King as well[...]

Tom King and Daniel Sampere are to be the new creators of the ongoing Wonder Woman comic book from DC Comics later this year And now artist Sampere has tweeted some big news about the comics, posting "I'm very excited to introduce you Wonder Woman's daughter, TRINITY! Making her debut in issue #800 Our short[...]

while we are at it.   DANGER STREET #5 (OF 12) CVR A JORGE FORNES (MR) (W) Tom King (A/CA) Jorge Fornes What does a small-town murder have to do with the mysteries of the Multiverse? Lady Cop is on the case, but time is running out! Gods from beyond the stars are battling over the boy who could[...]

Chip Zdarsky, Tom King and more have been talking to Gregg Katzman of CBR about the upcoming Dawn Of DC publishing initiative at DC Comics But they also talked about how they owed their careers at Marvel and DC Comics to James Gunn, the new DC Studios head. Chip Zdarsky, current Batman writer, said "I wouldn't[...]

Wonder Woman #1 is being relaunched by Tom King, Daniel Sampere and Tomeu Moray, in either September or July with the following description "After a mysterious Amazonian is accused of mass murder, the U.S Congress passes The Amazon Safety Act, barring all Amazons from American soil To carry out its new law, the government sets[...]

In addition, the duo revealed they had assembled a writers' room to assist them in formulating an 8-10 year plan that included Drew Goddard (The Martian), Jeremy Slater (Moon Knight), Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey), Christal Henry (Watchmen), and Tom King (Batman, Wonder Woman) – with some of those names expected to follow certain projects[...]

Just as The Flash #1 is relaunching in September for Dawn of DC, so Wonder Woman #1, from Tom King, Daniel Sampere and Tomeu Moray, will also be relaunching in September (or July, DC isn't too sure it seems) "After a mysterious Amazonian is accused of mass murder, the U.S Congress passes The Amazon Safety[...]

Tom King will be drawing covers for Batman #135 and The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing #7, on sale for the 4th of April, and for his own comic, Danger Street #5, for the 11th of April, dubbed April Fool's Day Tom King variant covers In order to preserve the April Fools' Day surprise,[...]

Batman: The Brave And The Bold will kick off in May with a new 64-page issue one, with four new stories. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ Tom King and Mitch Gerads will deliver a "horrifying four-part retelling of the[...]

As we were posting it, the same was happening to Tom King & Bilquis Evely's Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow, which is also being made as a movie by DC Studios But whereas The Authority was published 25 years ago, Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow was only published last year, with a collection of its eight issues published[...]

Tom King does like to have fun with DC Comics' superheroes Even if not everyone finds them fun For the record, I do Today, he does both with Human Target and Danger Street for DC Comics. The first issue of Danger Street drawn by Jorge Fornes saw the return of Travis Morgan, better known as Warlord[...]

A few weeks ago, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Gotham City Year One, a new DC comic book series by Tom King, Phil Hester and Eric Gapstur, set many years before Batman and Bruce Wayne, and starring the original Detective Comics police detective Slam Bradley, would come with a new warning for DC Comics[...]

Spoilers for Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler by Tom King and Mitch Gerads published by DC Comics today But first, we go back seventy-five years In the Riddler's original origin story in 1948 in Detective Comics #140 by Bill Finger and Dick Sprang, he was Edward Nigma, beat a school puzzle test by breaking[...]

Today sees the publication of Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler from Tom King and Mitch Gerads, and it is utterly glorious There will be much that people will want to talk about it It is even more of a take on The Killing Joke than I expected, not just the themes and tones but[...]

And today's Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler by Tom King and Mitch Gerads – just as The Killing Joke did with The Joker – this comic attempts to underline the ultimate seriousness of the threat to Batman posed by The Riddler, beyond any other. As the preview showed, it started with The Riddler revealing he[...]

The following January that saw Tom King & Elsa Charretier, Brian K Vaughan & Niko Henrichon, Khary Randolph & Joanne Starer, Rodney Barnes, Jen Bartel, and Grant Morrison join Since then many projects have been launched and published with a dedicated Substack comics reading app. So I looked into the latest gossip, and this is what[...]

Joshua Williamson, Daniel Sampere, Jeremy Adams, Meghan Fitzmartin, Tom King and Ram V were joined by moderator and DC executive editor Ben Abernathy to discuss what's happened in Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths up until now and things to come. Writer Ram V announced that he—alongside Joshua Williamson, and two of Ram's White Noise studio mates[...]

It is written by Tom King and drawn by son of Neal Adams, former contributor to Bleeding Cool, and Pulitzer-Prize winner Josh Adams. DC Publish Tom King & Josh Adams' Tribute To Neal Adams This Week The three-page story sees Neal Adams talking to his own creation Deadman about the art of imagination and the imagination of[...]

"One Bad Day" echoes the Killing Joke line (and uses the Killing Joke title font) where The Joker believes it only takes one bad day to turn someone into a monster, whether that's the Joker or the Batman. August's Batman: One Bad Day – The Riddler is the first of eight Batman: One Bad Day one-shots,[...]

But then you probably guessed that. Tom King has said that his run on Batman, from 2016 to 2019, was the story of Batman and Catwoman A year into his run, with Batman #24, he specifically got David Finch to draw this proposal scene, even firing his own editor, to do so The huge sales that[...]

Batman: One Bad Day: The Riddler: Dreadful Reins by Tom King and Mitch Gerads is the first in a series of graphic novellas from DC Comics, each featuring one of Batman's rogue gallery, in the manner of Batman: The Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland Like the Killing Joke, each is a 64-page story, the[...]

What could be better than reading Love Everlasting, the creator-owned series by Tom King and Elsa Charretier, for free on Substack? How about paying to read it in analog form from Image Comics? Okay, you know what, we may not have thought that one fully through, but it's too late to back out of this[...]

Artist Mitch Gerads tweeted out the news, of a Riddler graphic novella, Batman: One Bad Day, drawn by him, written by Tom King He tweeted "#BatmanOneBadDay THE RIDDLER, a 64 page OGN by @TomKingTK and myself! My genuine long-time dream book, and @TomKingTK delivered the absolute perfect script for it I've never been this excited[...]