Tom King Archives

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[...]

Because earlier this week, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Tom King was being fired from the Batman twice-monthly ongoing series, but that he would be able to continue his storyline in a truncated Catwoman-related mini-series. Today, DC Comics made that all official Eventually. Firstly that the upcoming storyline by King, City Of Bane would conclude with[...]

Yesterday morning, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Tom King had been dropped by DC Comics from the Batman ongoing comic, and that his final issue would be Batman #85 It seemed to take the industry by surprise and we received word from a number of senior industry figures asking if we were quite mad[...]

Earlier today, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Tom King's Batman run will end at issue 85, with King being removed from the title by DC Comics, not by his own choice The news is shocking not only because King has long said his run will be 100 issues long, but also because he only[...]

Earlier today, with great personal regret, Bleeding Cool ran the story that writer Tom King was being dropped by DC Comics from the Batman twice-monthly comic book I wasn't happy, I'm still not I am getting more information as to how this all may be going down, which I will share once it coagulates into[...]

Bleeding Cool has been informed by multiple senior industry sources that the current writer of DC Comics' twice-monthly leading title Batman, Tom King, is to leave the series with issue 85 – and that this was not his decision King retains an exclusive contract with DC Comics and will likely be working on other projects[...]

Batman has always been kind of a dick, but the Caped Crusader has evolved into something more, at least according to this preview of Batman #71, by Tom King and Mikel Janin, in stores this Wednesday In this preview…   That's right We said it Well, technically, Kitty Pryde said it. Just take it from Jim Gordon… Wait, what? Uh… But[...]

Batman writer Tom King is a former C.I.A spy, so it's reasonable to assume he's well-versed in the art of propaganda and foreign coups, and King puts one of those talents to good use regularly in promoting his upcoming comics King often posts small teases from the interior art of upcoming Batman comics on Twitter,[...]

agent Tom King has reported receiving at least one death threat on Twitter following Wednesday's release of Heroes in Crisis #8. The issue featured big revelations about the killer at Sanctuary, a superhero PTSD treatment center, which you can read all about here Of course, Tom King would prefer you actually buy the comic, but to[...]

Batman writer Tom King isn't playing mind games when it comes to writing a naked Bane into his Batman comics King was asked about the villain's feelings on nudity on Twitter, and he responded with the explanation that Bane is simply more comfortable without clothes, as established by continuity Apparently, growing up alone in an[...]