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Absolutes, Omnibuses And Other Collections From DC Comics In 2016
3       Omega Men: The Complete Series (all twelve issues) by Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda for $17 in August, confirms that is when the book will end. Doom Patrol Book Two collects Grant Morrison and Richard Case's Doom Patrol #35-50 for $25 The Graphic Ink line of artist profiles and spotlights Batman Earth One artist Gary Frank with Graphic Ink: The[...]
Gendercrunching October 2015 – Dark Horse Steps Up
Gendercrunching October 2015 By Tim Hanley DC rose and Marvel fell, leading to DC logging the higher percentage of female creators at the Big Two in October We also make our semi-annual visit to Image, IDW, and Dark Horse and, SHOCKING SPOILER, they all topped Marvel but only one bested DC. DC COMICS DC's been all over the map[...]
DC Comics To Collect Justice League And Superman Elseworlds Of Old…
DC Comics are collecting more of their Elseworlds specials and series into combined packages. They include Elseworlds: Justice League Vol 1 out in August for $30. The Justice League as enforcers in the Wild West? A world where Superman and Batman never came to be and instead Supergirl and Batgirl protect Metropolis and Gotham City? Wonder Woman fighting Jack[...]
DC Comics Vs. The Vaping Industry
We recently looked at how DC Comics were challenging the trademark registration of a charity raising money for, and awareness of, cerebral palsy, using the nickname of the child who inspired it, Supermanny. But DC Comics have plenty of trademark registrations they are challenging right now And, for one reason or another, lots of them seem[...]
DC Comics To Collect All Previous Versions Of Prez
The new Prez series has been a real delight from DC Comics of late But for those who want a little history of the character, DC Comics is creating a collection including all of the character's previous appearances – even those that weren't published at the time You know, when Prez was a guy, One of the[...]
DC Comics To Publish The DC Universe By Neil Gaiman
DC Comics has already published a DC Universe By Alan Moore volume which, given DC's desire to seemingly recreate the events of his Twilight Of The Superheroes pitch, seems a more and more accurate title It collected a bunch of stories that Alan wrote for a variety of comic book series over the years for[...]
Harley Quinn To Get A Mask And Book Set Ahead Of The Suicide Squad Movie
It began with V For Vendetta. A project pushed through at DC Comics by Bob Wayne, in which folk could buy a V For Vendetta collection as well as a higher end V For Vendetta mask box set This was then followed by a Batman/Court Of Owls Mask set, a Batman/Joker Mask set and a Deathstroke[...]
Ethan Van Sciver Returns To The Corps
Picking up where Green Lantern: Lost Army left off, EoO is a six-issue miniseries written by Tom Taylor and DC has sent out a few samples of Van Sciver's work on the new series Here we have the covers for issues #2 and #3 and a penciled/inked page from issue #1 along with the colored[...]
The Flash Vs Quicksilver – The Battle Of The Blurs
Ismahawk, the folks that brought you the Green Arrow vs Hawkeye Minute Match-Up have released a new fan film pitting DC's scarlet speedster The Flash vs Marvel's hero who is so fast he can appear in two franchises Quicksilver They've combined the two versions of Quicksiver, giving him the outfit from the Avengers: Age of[...]
Bleeding Cool Bestseller List – 7th December 2015 – Star Bores
Vision, Nova, Howard the Duck- not so much. DC managed to land two spots Batman & Robin Eternal has been doing very well for us, even pushing us to increase orders as readers haven't really dropped off Unusual for a weekly Action Comics was our #10 seller. Paper Girls makes our only non-BigTwo book of the week. Oh,[...]
Ongoing Supergirl Comic From DC Confirmed As A Digital First Title
Bleeding Cool told you that DC Comics was rushing through a Supergirl comic book as a result of the warm reception the CBS TV series has received, but that it would be a Digital First title. Well, this listing for a collection of a Supergirl: Digital First collection on Amazon confirms it. The collection will be for August,[...]
DC Comics Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes And L-L-L-Late Books – What's Going On?
Jimmy Palmiotti talked about how such things can happen here. It has been a point of pride at DC Comics that they can get the comics published on time, month after month, and I have been told it can take only a small delay for he decision to be made to give pages from books to[...]
Marketshare Wars – All Change At DC Comics?
After October's direct market statistics were released, I received e-mails from certain industry folks shocked at how low DC Comics' marketshare was, and worried for the publisher I pointed out that October saw Marvel's All-New All-Different relaunch and the market for that month saw overall sales rise by a fifth DC's marketshare was down – a[...]
DC Comics Won't Admit That The Harley Quinn Variant Original Art Covers Exist
Waring drawn by Joe Quinones. I understand that there may be two or three of these for each of the Harley Quinn black bag variants of DC Comics titles running through the month. But DC Comics will not admit that they exist – not to reporters, not even to enquiring retailers Which may be down to Lottery rules – but[...]
There Are Original Art Pieces Hiding In Those Harley Quinn Black Bags
DC Comics launched Harley Quinn's Little Black Book today That comic, and others from DC this month, shipped with Harley Quinn black bag variant versions Opening each bag reveals whether you got a colour, ink or pencilled version of that cover It's quite fun, most people like it. But someone who really likes it is a[...]
34 Thoughts About 34 Comics – X-Men To Savage Dragon To Zombies Vs Robots…
Marvel and DC have a number of titles with lead robots or mixed-cyborgs but no openly robotic comic book creators Though some have suspicions about Charles Soule. You know, Rocket, the 31st century Guardians were created first… time travel would really play havoc with trademark and copyright law… You know that moment when your life flashes[...]
Is The Entire DC Universe A Drunken Illusion?
None of them happened in our new, shared continuity. He keeps going. Well, today sees the final issue of All-Star Section Eight, the mini-series from Garth Ennis and John McCrea that has seen Brown Bottle Sixpack attempt to re-recruit members of his Section Eight team, missing one person and cycling through the DC Comics heavy hitters. The previous[...]
Asterix Advertises In Today's DC Comics
So how can they fix that? Asterix And The Missing Scroll is the first non-DC comic book to be advertised in a DC comic book since… well, I can't remember the last time There are ads in today's Action Comics and Gotham Academy. I mean, it's not a very good ad This is what you call feature-led[...]
Dark Knight, Vertigo Style, By Paul Dini And Eduardo Risso
DC media partner The Hollywood Reporter reports that Paul Dini is writing an original graphic novel for Vertigo about a time when he was hospitalised after a vicious mugging on the street of Los Angeles in 1993. And it's also a Batman comic. Drawn by Eduardo Risso, Dark Night: A True Batman Story, is an autobiographical comic to join the[...]
Brett Booth Dives Into Aquaman?
Will this be with Dan Abnett? Or Geoff Johns? There are a lot of DC creative changes going on right now Look for something on that to follow He is also working on an Aquaman cover looks like, for February's issue 49 A taste of things to come? A salty, salty taste…   [...]