year of the villain Archives

So far, Muñoz has delivered 2,600 comics to local elementary schools, with thousands more to come, with an initial focus of the DC superhero event Year of the Villain. But at a time when schools are closed, and his store is closed, he needed a different plan, one that came from his mother He told the[...]

But there's just one problem standing in his way. The stupidest character ever created in all of superhero comics: The Batman Who Laughs. Hell Arisen #4 hits stores on Wednesday. YEAR OF THE VILLAIN HELL ARISEN #4 (OF 4) JAN200518 (W) James TynionIV (A/CA) Steve Epting This is it! Lex Luthor has gathered a strike force of villains he's leveled up[...]

This March, Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen concludes with Hell Arisen #4, and it looks like we're getting a showdown for the agest That's right, it's Lex Luthor and his team of people who received his "dark gift" (not a euphemism) will face off against the stupidest character ever created in comics (yeah, we[...]

Things aren't looking good for the multiverse in this preview of Justice League #35, in stores this week from DC Comics, by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV,

Harley Quinn: Villain Of The Year #1 is a DC Year Of The Villain oneshot with a difference You get to vote And today DC Comics has revealed in their comic books who is being nominated for this most prestigious of prizes. Bane (Batman) Black Manta (Aquaman) Captain Cold (The Flash) Catwoman (Catwoman) Controller Mu (The Green Lantern) Deathstroke (Deathstroke) Flashpoint Batman[...]

Today sees the publication of Year Of The Villain: Lex Luthor #1 from Jason Latour and Bryan Hitch, that sees the Apex Lex Luthor travelling the multiverse collecting other Lex Luthors along the way And one in particular, a young version of Lex Luthor in a Smallville-like environment, with a dead drunk father Who Apex[...]

Today sees the publication of Superman #15, solicited as part of DC's Year Of The Villain crossover, but is it really? There seems to be a real absence of villainy Rogol Zaar has been defeated And the time bubble caused by Dr Manhattan meddling in the time stream is closed as Jor-El's very existence is[...]

The wait is finally over! DC Comics has finally announced a Year of the Villain one-shot starring your favorite villain! What? No, not the Joker No, not Lex Luthor Not Cheetah Not Captain Cold No, not Sinestro Not Deathstroke Not Parallax Not Darkseid Not… …not Onomatopoeia Not Gentleman Ghost Come on! Oh, did someone say Ocean[...]

Batgirl #38 is in stores from DC Comics next week, by the creative team of writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Carmine Di Giandomenico. Throughout the

We opened the door to find these 3 pages from Batman #77 in a neat bundle, along with 1 page from Black Mask: Year of the Villain #1. The Batman preview starts out with a battle of the sidekicks, as evil Batman's sidekick, Gotham Girl, takes on Robin… Not only with burning eye lasers… but with a[...]

The Year of the Villain ties in with Deathstroke this issue, as the book grapples with the aftermath of killing off its protagonist in a different crossover… See the rest in a media partner EX-X-XCLUSIVE next week… and then the full Deathstroke #46 in stores on Wednesday. DEATHSTROKE #46 YOTV DARK GIFTS JUN190492 (W) Christopher Priest (A) Fernando Pasarin,[...]

Bleeding Cool, sadly, is not on the list of DC media partners. However, thanks to a mysterious benefactor, we have three pages from Sinestro Year of the Villain #1 before it debuts in an EX-X-XCLUSIVE on another website next week In this three-page preview of Sinestro's Year of the Villain One-Shot, we find the titular Sinestro[...]

But the best reason to go to Comic-Con? The chance to see superstar comic book writer Tom Taylor balance a freaking chair on his face. Bleeding Cool's Mike Sangregorio was on the scene at the DC Year of the Villain panel when this particular Comic-Con dream came true for everyone in attendance And yes, he captured[...]

DC's Year of the Villain has reached across the entire DC Comics line with Lex Luthor offering dark gifts to all the DC villains, and in November, it will lead to "Hostile Takeover," with more acetate variant covers than you could shake a stick at (and yes, we frequently shake sticks at variant covers) But[...]

DC's Year of the Villain isn't done unleashing gimmicky variant covers on the DC Universe just yet! Following the cardstock variants for Year of the Villain and Lex Luthor's "offer," DC is planning another line-wide event in November with Hostile Takeover This won't surprise you, but Bleeding Cool scooped the name of this event way[...]

Legendary filmmaker John Carpenter will write DC's The Joker: Year of the Villain special Carpenter will be joined by frequent collaborator Anthony Burch as co-writer and artist Phillip Tan The book will focus on The Joker trying to be a bigger villain than all the other villains given "The Offer" by Lex Luthor because he's[...]

Uh, is DC Comics up to date on their vaccinations? The comic book publisher is giving off an anti-vaxxer vibe with their latest teaser for Year of the Villain and the upcoming Batman/Superman series, asking the question: "who are the infected?" Why do you want to know, DC? Oh, we suppose a press release might shed[...]

Well, it seems as if this month may strike a similar vibe – and Harley Quinn knows all about it. The opening of The Year Of The Villain sees the ex-Lex Luthor making offers to DC Comics villains – or villain adjacents – to soup up their powers, tech, and join him on a mission of[...]

That's the Premise behind The Riddler: Year of the Villain #1, a one-shot hitting stores in September by Mark Russell and Scott Godlewski Multiversity had the EX-X-XCLUSIVE reveal of the solicit, along with an interview with the creative team, where they talk about why Lex Luthor dissed the Riddler so badly. "I think Lex sees the[...]

Lex Luthor is convening the Interdimensional Council of Lexes in an upcoming Year of the Villain one-shot in September Jason Latour, Bryan Hitch, and Andrew Currie will create a one-shot, Lex Luthor: Year of the Villain #1, in which Lex takes a travels the multiverse and meets interesting other Lex Luthors… and then destroys them?! In[...]

At the Diamond Retail Summit, DC Comics has been laying out their event plans for the rest of the year and in 2020… with these presentation slides showing how Batman Who Laughs' final seventh issue will lead right into Batman/Superman and beyond. How DC's Year Of The Villain will continue up to the end of 2019[...]

The big DC ultra-super-mega-crossover event Year of the Villain centers around Lex Luthor visiting superheroes and making them "The Offer," which certainly sounds creepy enough to begin with But when Year of the Villain comes to the pages of Harley Quinn in August, Lex Luthor takes things to the next level. "Harley's tried everything to avoid[...]

Now, he's running errands for Lex Luthor, picking on old gods, and weilding a new power ring that gives him the POWERS OF THE RAINBOW. //Credit: DC Comics   SINESTRO: YEAR OF THE VILLAIN #1 written by MARK RUSSELL art and cover by BRANDON PETERSON As the universe tilts towards doom, great forces awake in an effort to stop Lex Luthor's[...]

But can he pull off the perfect heist before Batwoman kicks his teeth in? //Credit: DC Comics BLACK MASK: YEAR OF THE VILLAIN #1 written by TOM TAYLOR art by CULLY HAMNER cover by MITCH GERADS Black Mask was one of Gotham City's most ruthless crime lords He had money, power and respect But after months in the Teen Titans' secret[...]

Year of the Villain is a celebration of DC's bad villains, one which sees each of the villains' headshots commemorated on $4.99 cardstock variant covers But what we've found interesting is which characters that are not straight up bad that grace a few of these covers Like Catwoman, who we know will be getting "The[...]

But it looks like there was good reason for the change, as the series now lines up with Year of the Villain, launching in July, and seeing Lex Luthor visit the villains of the DC Universe to make them something called "The Offer" in an attempt to finally defeat the DC Universe heroes once and[...]

Look, this stuff is kinda all relative. But in July, DC is celebrating the Year of the Villains, and Lex Luthor is going around the DC Universe to give his fellow villains "The Offer." And according to DC's solicitation for Catwoman #13, Luthor sees Catwoman as a villain, and he'll be putting "The Offer" on the[...]

Acts of Vengeance was a 1989 Marvel crossover that ran through the company's entire line of titles, in which Loki convinced Marvel supervillains to attack the Marvel superheroes they don't normally fight in an effort to throw them off their game. If it sounds like you've just heard about a similar concept recently, that's because DC[...]

DC Comics has revealed the details of their Year of the Villain event conglomerate super-mega-crossover event launching this May with the Year of the Villain One-Shot, which will lead into major villain-centric stories in Justice League, Event Leviathan, and Batman. From the press release, these are the Justice League details: JUSTICE LEAGUE In DC's YEAR OF THE VILLAIN[...]

DC Comics has declared 2019 the Year of the Villain, which begs the question: isn't every year at DC the "year of the villain" while Dan Didio is in charge? Setting that aside, the Year of the Villain seems to be a theme to promote some of their upcoming comics, which kick off with a 32-page[...]