Tom King Archives

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[...]

Human Target by Tom King and Greg Smallwood may be taking a break from March to September, but fans looking for a little more PTSD in comic book form can look forward to a brief respite in August with the publication of Tales of the Human Target, a prequel one-shot that will get you in[...]

This one is always free to read (and for mature spectators only). Everlasting Productions by Elsa Charretier and Tom King: Elsa and Tom make available the latest issue of their always-free new series, LOVE EVERLASTING. Glass Eye Studios by Khary Randolph and Joanne Starer: Khary and Joanne debut the first full issue of their always-free new series, SIRENS OF THE CITY. Tales From the[...]

DC Comics has told retailers that all their orders for Danger Street by Tom King, Jorge Fornes, and Dave Stewart, have been cancelled The new DC Black Label 12-issue series was described as "a deeply layered crime drama featuring reimagined and updated versions of some of DC's most obscure and offbeat superheroes, from the DC 1st[...]

With Tom King and Chris Burnham working on Dark Crisis: Worlds Without A Justice League: Superman #1 While Brandon Thomas, Chuck Brown and Fico Ossio do the same in a back-up strip for Aquaman Poor Aquaman, has to share his main title with another Aquaman and si now relegated to a backup strip. Pariah The Great[...]

This week sees the second episode of what is already being seen as a perennial Batman comic book for DC Comics, Batman: Killing Time by Tom King and David Marquez It has the feeling of a new Long Halloween about it Even if it is half the size of a standard Tom King volume. #gallery-1 { margin:[...]

In his most recent Substack newsletter, as well as noting scenes in the recent The Batman movie that may have come from his work with Greg  Capullo on the Batman comic book, Scott Snyder also shared his thoughts on the use of Catwoman in the movie, and how it illuminates his own Batman work –[...]

Wiley Akins, Tom King, Ashley Underwood, Walt Holcombe, and Rob Bostick stories and art Not listed in Overstreet. Too Much Coffee Man explores issues of politics and the toils of urban society, often through the lens of the comics scene and coffee shop culture In addition to the titular character, the creator of the strip often[...]

For anyone who missed the first half, they'll be releasing a hardcover of 1 thru 6, out in September (a week before Issue 7)… Here's the credits page for 7." Writer Tom King followed up saying "Announcement This book is turning out to be something special, and we're going to work to keep it special Season 1[...]

Tom King, Jorge Fornes, and Dave Stewart, the creators who took a massive crap all over the wishes of Alan Moore and creator rights in general by participating in the creation of the unauthorized sequel to Watchmen, Rorschach, are getting the band back together for Danger Street, a new DC Black Label 12-issue series described[...]

Bleeding Cool regular readers may have seen this one coming, from back in October, when we suggested that Tom King and Elsa Charratier were working on a new Substack comics project together Substack is announcing the expansion of its comics program today with six new publications from high-profile comic writers launching on the free/subscription newsletter[...]

Today, DC Comics has published the Batman/Catwoman Special by Tom King and the late John Paul Leon, with Mitch Gerads and friends completing the comic book in question in tribute to John, including our own Michael Davis The comic itself was intended to branch two arcs in the main Batman/Catwoman series which, once upon a[...]

Superstar writer and former(?) CIA agent Tom King returns to Batman in March for a new mini-series with artists David Marquez and Alejandro Sánchez Batman: Killing Time sees Catwoman, The Riddler, and the Penguin team up to steal a priceless artifact from Bruce Wayne in a heist comic set in Batman's early days, before he[...]

This week, the Batman/Catwoman Special, originally to be created by Tom King and John Paul Leon, goes to Final Order Cut-Off from DC Comics Originally planned for earlier in the year, John Paul Leon died while working on the issue Now his friends and colleagues have completed the comic book in tribute and in memory[...]

Chronophage is a new graphic novel coming from Tim Seeley and  Ilias Kyriazis with a foreword from Tom King, being published by Humanoids in February 2022 Here's the solicitation, a preview, as well as a preview of the latest Humanoids is publishing from the Jodorowsky Library that month, Son of A Gun, drawn by Georges Bess and[...]

It's The Human Target time! Tom King as a writer is one heavily influenced by Watchmen and if anyone was going to do Rorschach, it would be him After all, in recent years we have had a number of unauthorised sequels and prequels to Watchmen DC Comics gave us a bevy of Before Watchmen prequels[...]

Tom King and Elsa Charretier Sitting in a Tree, T-W-E-E-T-I-N-G What could their secret project be? No idea, but we bet it's about P-T-S-D. Well, that's what all King's other comics are about Anyway, Tom King and Elsa Charretier have taken to Twitter to officially announce their collaboration on an unnamed creator-owned project that both have[...]