Tom King Archives

Tom King is writing his final issue of Batman. Writing my final Batman. — Tom King (@TomKingTK) October 10, 2019 Jason Aaron is writing his final issue of Thor You know what this could mean? Crossover? — Tom King (@TomKingTK) October 10, 2019 After all, what can Marvel and DC Comics do… fire them? Yes, yes, as I said, I'm drunk[...]

At the DC Nation Panel at New York Comic Con, Tom King swore the roof off the place, as the former CIA Agent-turned-Batman-writer decided to drop F-Bombs all across the DC Comics stage Amid the falling epithets, he talked about writing the twelve-issue Vision comic book series he wrote for Marvel, and that Disney was[...]

Jim Lee, Lee Bermejo, Nora Jemisin, Tony Daniel, Tom King and more to chat about the line, As well as the new DC Continuity Timeline that Dan DiDio has been promising since San Diego Comic Con, we also got a very sweary Tom King Clearly he has a bit of a reputation for this, and the[...]

At New York Comic-Con's World's Finest panel and then on Twitter, DC Comics revealed a first look at the upcoming Strange Adventures by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Doc Shaner First announced at San Diego Comic-Con, King expressed an interest in finally writing a story that wasn't about PTSD, instead making it something that reflects[...]

This is how the solicitation to Batman Annual #4 ran, ahead of going on sale at the end of the month. BATMAN ANNUAL #4 written by TOM KING art by LEE WEEKS and JORGE FORNES cover by LEE WEEKS In this new annual, it's two unique stories by BATMAN mastermind Tom King! First, King reteams with Lee Weeks, his collaborator[...]

But if DC are, indeed, scrambling around for something that fits, they could do well to read the following…and steal it. And it begins with Tom King's Batman He writes, Tom King's Batman King's run has gone downhill as of late for many reasons One is that it feels disconnected from continuity Another being how he doesn't really[...]

He does like to eke things out, doesn't he, that Tom King After issues of City Of Bane that were set in deserts, on mountaintops, or wandering along beaches clearing up stray continuity caught in the dunes, we actually get an issue of City Of Bane set in a city And Gotham to boot. Bane is[...]

And in 2011, Vetigo published a 80-page Strange Adventures #1, anthology one-shot. Recently it was announced that Tom King, Mitch Gerads and Evan "Doc" Shaner are to revive the series as a 12-issue Adam Strange comic book, which King has said will be about the Trump era. And now DC Comics and Warner Bros are nailing down[...]

October 30th sees the publication of the Batman Annual #4 by Tom King and Jorge Fornes And, with his final issue., Batman #85, staring at him on the December schedules, with Batman/Catwoman to run during 2020, nevertheless, King has something big to say about the upcoming annual, when asked if he wa working with Jorge[...]

pic.twitter.com/S88xIU85Tp — Tom King (@TomKingTK) 20 September 2019   But wat of Copperhead or Dr Phosphorous?   Hush, otherwise known as Tommy Elliot, is a Batman villain created by Jeph Loeb and Jim Lee back in 2003 A childhood friend of Bruce Wayne, thy used to play strategy games and  Tommy taught Bruce to think like his opponents, to[...]

#BatmanDay #Batman80 — Jonathan Sellers (@coldironsbound1) September 21, 2019 James Tynion IV just announced as taking over writing from Tom King on Batman!! Exciting!! #BatmanDay #JamesTynionIV #DC #Batman80 pic.twitter.com/1k1Szr06aQ — Jack Tobias (@JackTobias1) September 21, 2019 James Tynion's first Batman will be #86, out in January 2020 The artists are yet to be named. It will be an interesting Batmonth,[...]

Tom King may have been fired from the main Batman book (whatever the official PR line may be) , finishing his planned run in the spinoff Batman/Catwoman mini-series (at the more traditional Tom King length of twelve issues). Well, in his final few issues, King may be revisiting the reality of the man who Bane used[...]

Bleeding Cool reported earlier today that we had the word that tomorrow, for Batman Day, DC Comics was to announce who was to write the ongoing Batman comic book series in 2020, taking over from Tom King, with issue 86 in January. And then that the person in question would by James Tynion IV James is[...]

Participating comic book stores will have giveaways of reprint Batman comic books, as well as a variety of comic book ephemera. Bleeding Cool also understands that DC Comics will take the opportunity to announce the new writer of the Batman ongoing comic book series, after Tom King was fired King's final issue will be in December,[...]

Today, in the utterly gorgeous Batman #79 by Tom King, Clay Mann, Seth Mann, Tomeu Morey and Clayton Cowles, we get a resolution on whether Batman or Catwoman met on the street or the boat It's been quite a matter of contention in the series, reflecting both origins of Catwoman, from the forties and from[...]

A not-entirely ignominious ending, we look forward to whatever it is he will come up with over 2020 – especially as it will be running alongside the main Batman ongoing comic, probably studiously trying to ignore it as much as Superman and the Justice League comics ignore Doomsday Clock. But for now, we can look forward[...]

Tom King is the current writer on DC Comics' Batman comic He is writing the New Gods movie for Warner Bros, has recently come off on DC's big 2019 event Heroes In Crisis, wrote the award-winning Mister Miracle for DC and The Vision for Marvel and now has Strange Adventures lined up from DC, which[...]

I mean, to be fair, it's better than anything Sanctuary came up with. Although over at Event Leviathan #4, there's at least one rumour (ironically) brewing courtesy of Silencer… World-famous journalist Lois Lane, Clark Kent's husband, already facing rumours of her involvement with Superman – now linked to late-night assignations at Wayne Manor with Bruce Wayne? Maybe Catwoman[...]

DC Comics has revealed the next project by Eisner Award winning creative team Tom King and Mitch Gerads, and this time, they're bringing Evan "Doc" Shaner along as well for a creative threesome Strange Adventures will be a new series starring Adam Strange. 2020 KING • SHANER • GERADS#DCStrangeAdventures pic.twitter.com/7Eg2fFeRsy — DC (@DCComics) July 21, 2019 Following DC's[...]

Robert Cale writes for Bleeding Cool for what we're calling Monster Wednesday. Batman #75 has landed, written by Tom King, with art by Tony Daniel, Mitch Gerads and Jordie Bellaire, and there's… well, a lot to digest Trust me, you'll want to read until the end; I'm going to make it worth your time. When we last left Bruce[...]

Neither Tom King nor Tony S Daniel responded to the tweet despite being tagged. It looks like joker&riddler are the new cops of gotham.What's going on in gotham??#batman75 by @tomkingtk and @tonydanielx2 pic.twitter.com/ZyfDkMIOlf — Adam Black (@AdamBlack77) July 12, 2019 It does look enough like Daniel's art, and fits the solicitation for Batman #75 and the City of[...]

Just saying. Could Batman have two daddies and a mommy? Superman only has to deal with one father coming back… and I wonder how the new Apex Lex Luthor will cope over in today's Justice League? Batman #73 is published today. BATMAN #73 (W) Tom King (A/CA) Mikel Janin, Jodie Bellaire "The Fall and the Fallen" part four! Batman has[...]

Superstar writer Tom King may let his editors choose the characters for his stories, but everything after that is tightly controlled by the former CIA operative King took to Twitter Tuesday to reveal that he doesn't know how to write comics "Marvel style," apparently something he's put in the notes of his comics for a[...]

Superstar writer and former Jack Bauer, Tom King, is one of the most powerful people in comics, and not just because of his access to the C.I.A.'s surveillance apparatus In addition to writing Eisner-bait comics at both Marvel and DC, as well as DC's flagship title, Batman, King was also recently spotted traveling the globe[...]

As Batman engages in hand-to-hand combat with Bane, an unseen narrator speaks (even if you are bound to get who it is before the eventual reveal) taking the opportunity to run through Tom King's first fifty issues, summarising all the plots and machinations that occurs as part if Bane's big plan Every nuance – The[...]

Batman #72 by Tom King, Mikel Janin, Jorge Fornes and Jordie Bellaire previewed below, is published on Wednesday In which it is revealed just how Bane has been pulling all the strings in the storyline that has run since Tom King's first issue, leading to an ultimate destruction of Bruce Wayne, the Batman But it[...]

Tom King may have been removed from Batman before finishing his planned 100-issue run after Batman #85, with the remaining issues cut short to a 12-issue upcoming Batman/Catwoman series But don't think that means King is on the outs with DC It seems that both King and DC Publisher Jim Lee are still pretty chummy,[...]

I'll try to be quieter." – Tom King, co-creator of The Sherrif Of Babylon, writer on Mister Miracle, The Vision, Batman. "Bleeding Cool, where I go to find out who I've disappointed and to what degree I've done it before it's actually happened!" -Rob Liefeld, co-creator of Deadpool, Cable, X-Force, creator of Major X, Brigade and[...]

Pictures planned film adaptation of Jack Kirby's New Gods with Ava DuVernay in the director's seat, it sounds like we may know who'll be handling the script. According to a report over on The Wrap, a source confirmed to them that King would be co writing the script with DuVernay for New Gods. DC Comics characters Big Barda and Mister Miracle from[...]

But was it always meant to be these characters? Well… as it turns out, Tom King recently gave readers a glimpse into how he makes his sauce, and the ingredients turn out to be somewhat… arbitrary? Read on, assuming you've read Heroes in Crisis #9, as some of this could be considered minor spoilers[...]