Tom King Archives

Copies of Batman #89, out this Wednesday, has already sold copies on eBay for $35 raw and $130 in CGC 9.8. And all because it has the first appearance of

Tom King was a guest on John Sientres' Word Balloon podcast over the weekend During which he talked about all manner of comics and movie projects, but also the end of his run on Batman and his plans for Batman/Catwoman with Clay Mann. When being asked about his decision to kill Alfred Pennyworth off and whether[...]

A strong relationship with Jim Lee going back decades, Harras plays certain favourites among the creative teams and this year he was finally able to fire Tom King from Batman. Joe Quesada (Down) He used to be the modern face of Marvel Comics, though Joe Quesada has managed to grab a little of that magic[...]

DC Comics has revealed the release date for Strange Adventures, the upcoming project by Tom King, Mitch Gerads, and Evan "Doc" Shaner which breaks from previous Tom King works by being about Donald Trump instead of PTSD First announced at New York Comic Con as coming in 2020, we now know the first issue will[...]

And he happened to use pages from the upcoming final Batman comic by Janin and Tom King, Batman #85, seen here online for the first time. Go on, let's take a look Probably spoilers if you think about this too hard And you can also check out Tom King's own Batman #85 page reveal right here. And[...]

And it begins with Tom King's run on Batman. Tom King's run on Batman has seen Bane plan to break Batman, and for Bruce Wayne's parallel dimension father to come along and do the same And all as a parallel to Bane lifting Bruce Wayne above his head, dropping him on his knee and literally breaking[...]

At New York Comic Con, Tom King told Den Of Geek about his then-planned ending to Batman, "I think I still might do a scene I really want to do a scene with Batman and Kite Man in a bar, just drinking beers At Porky's bar, of course I had a big debate, should it[...]

=(DC Comics, creative team: Tom King, Andy Kubert, Sandra Hope, Brad Anderson, Clayton Cowles) There has been nothing wrong with the previous five issues in this series Superman, at his core, has been doggedly doing his Superman thing, hell bent on saving a single child, abducted by some alien warlord Here's the thing: writer Tom King[...]

Later Thomas Wayne Batman is seen in the Convergence crossover by Dan Jurgens, where he helps Clark and Lois give birth to their son, Jonathan. As part of Tom King's Batman run, after travelling on the Cosmic treadmill, the Flash and Batman found themselves in the presence of Flashpoint Batman just as Thomas was planning to[...]

Today sees Tom King's penultimate issue of Batman, with Mikel Janin Batman #84 And it's not about Bruce Wayne – not directly Instead, it's the story of Thomas Wayne, the Flashpoint Batman, a man who lost his son at the hands of Joe Chill, a gunman on the streets of Gotham, and became a Bat[...]

The conclusion to "City of Bane" arrives in Batman #85, the final chapter that both brings Tom King's acclaimed run on the series to a close, before he gets to finish what he originally intended with Clay Mann in a truncated spin-off series, Batman And Catwoman later in 2020 As the solicitation reads; BATMAN #85 (W) Tom[...]

Something that back in Batman #12 we learnt more about, That vow first appeared in Detective Comics #33 back in 1940, from Bob Kane, Bill Finger and Jerry Robinson. Seen again through the years, in Secret Origins #6 by Roy Thomas, Marshall Rogers, and Terry Austin from 1986. Reprised by the same art team in Batman: Dark Detective[...]

Could another unauthorized sequel to Watchmen be on the way? Superstar writer Tom King posted an interesting photo to Twitter on Thursday, showing all twelve issues of Watchmen (#7 looks like it's hidden behind #6) and noting that he's reading them as "research for a thing." Research for a thing pic.twitter.com/JQOS7qbx7s — Tom King (@TomKingTK) November 7, 2019 The[...]

Last month, Tom King said that the Batman Annual #4, out today with Jorge Fornes, would be his last word on Batman Even though he has more tales to tell… but he managed to get quite a lot of them into this one. Hell yeah He's doing the next annual, which is sort of my ultimate[...]

A while ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Tom King was fired off the ongoing Batman gig with #85, twenty issues shy of his planned run on the series, he was given one of his twelve-issue maxi-series, Batman/Catwoman to finish his story, with artist Clay Mann. DC Comics confirmed the news, but in a DC-PR-arranged interview with Entertainment Weekly, Tom King refuted[...]

When Tom King was fired off the ongoing Batman gig, twenty issues shy of his planned run on the series, he was given one of his twelve-issue maxi-series, Batman/Catwoman to finish his story, with artist Clay Mann But it wasn't in the DC Comics January 2020 solicitations as planned, though Batman #86 was What gives? He[...]

It's run talking about Tom King's Batman online, especially with people who think there just hasn't been enough Bane in City of Bane I would argue the title suggests it's about the city rather than about Bane, his effect on the place and the way it workd now – although setting two issues on a[...]

Tom King makes people cry And if they're not crying, they're definitely feeling something At New York Comic Con last weekend, the line to meet Tom King stretched across all of Artist Alley (Those people had to buy something from his booth to earn their spot in line.) So just why hasn't DC's most critically[...]

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[...]