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Once upon a time, you could buy Harley Quinn vibrators on Etsy. Just the black and red diamond pattern, not an actual Harley or anything. Anyway, judging

Co-creator of Lobo and writer for Marvel, DC and many animation and video game projects, Roger Slifer, passed away today The 60-year old Slifer, who was still recovering from being seriously injured in a hit and run in 2012, died while on his way from the nursing home the emergency room. His sister Connie Carlton notified[...]

Helen Slater appeared in the eighties movie Supergirl in the lead. CBS have made a new TV series starring the character. But what role will she play in

Let's have another look at some changing credits for your favourite Big Two comic books, twixt solicitation and publication... Hulk #16 will be written by

Mignola is one of the most popular comic book creators in the industry today, and while it is fair to note that he did not DRAW this series (if he did, there's no doubt that it WOULD have been reprinted by now), he still wrote it and that should still be a major sales pitch. Well,[...]

In 2012, Jill Thompson told a fan at San Diego Comic Con that she might might working on Wonder Woman again sooner than they thought. Well, it has taken three years. As DC Women Kicking Ass reports, Jill Thompson is writing and drawing a new book, Wonder Woman: The Very Selfish Princess in a storybook style. WONDER WOMAN:[...]

  Here's the Tony Daniel variant cover for Convergence #2.. And a mini-version of the actual cover for Convergence #4. Work out from these what you can.

The movie variant covers helped DC by people buying the regular and variant cover of the same title Deathstroke still doing very well Guardians of the Galaxy as part of the Black Vortex crossover is very popular Walking Dead still going strong. Batman first series seeing movement Everything else back issue wise is pretty quite. Lazarus was[...]

Dan DiDio talked Convergence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4qunXMPd9E But I talk Columbo. Just one more thing, Mr DiDio, just one more thing. You said

By Tim Hanley The new year didn't exactly get off to a booming start for female creators at either DC or Marvel, but DC posted the higher percentage of female creators by rising into their average range for the first time in a while Marvel fell again, and started the new year with a paltry overall[...]

Convergence was originally going to be a Band-Aid, a filler, as DC moved coast to coast And that was okay, complete in and of itself, a way to wrap up past stories, past ideas, a love letter to fans and one more trip around the park. Then Secret Wars happened And suddenly everything changed, and it[...]

The bat is back in Gotham Academy #6 from DC Comics, written by Becky Cloonan and Brenden Fletcher, with art by Karl Kerschl Normally, we are used to characters feeling at ease when Batman comes around, but not in this case Olive is the opposite of comforted by Batman showing up, and as he attempts[...]

On the back of the last three weeks worth of DC Comics titles, is a back page ad for the DCBService.com and InStockTrades.com discount comic book subscription and ordering service. Naturally a number of comic book retailers, who operate with bricks'n'mortar costs that mean they can't match such online services, were a little upset[...]

And a line that will be reprised by many a cosplayer this season. "Just kiss me, space boy". T-shirts, Marvel? DC"s Gotham By Midnight provides a quick plug for another West Coast publisher… And Dynamite's Evil Ernie gives a more mixed message from New Jersey about any employees who may be leaving for DC Comics. While their King: Jim[...]

Occasionally the Diamond Previews monthly catalogue becomes a genuine collectible item, such as this catalogue with the first listing of The Walking

Secret Six by Gail Simone and Ken Lashley is late. Really late. The first issue came out on December 3rd. The second issue was a month late, February

When holidaying through the multiverse, it is sometimes tempting to elieve the grass is always greener. So in New 52: Futures End, the new Batman Beyond

Today sees the much-anticipated release of Multiversity: Ultra Comics #1. With a very self-aware lead character, whose secret identity is all of us

Tomorrow's Multivsity: Ultra Comics is the culmination of something that Grant Morrison has been doing since Animal Man (after being influenced by Bryan

  Tomorrow sees the release of New 52: Futures End #47. And US retailers, who seem to have got copies yesterday, are getting rather excited. Because,

Maxima was a Superman character created by Roger Stern and George Pérez. Originally she was created as a warrior alien princess insistent on finding a mate on Earth, with Superman in her sights, and repeated unsuccessful attempts to woo him. She was reintroduced to the New 52 DC Universe relatively, as a student of cosmic academy The Crucible but her motivations[...]

At least the original art should pay for a new car when sold. DC comics were that movers on the back-issue market Batman obviously and even the 3D covers for both sets are now on the hunt for new collectors. Batman Eternal weekly closing out strong Silk #2 held up nicely Movie poster variants definitely receiving some[...]

Tweeted by DC Comics earlier today… So, Wonder Woman, I suppose you have that option… Which follows a long line of stuff like this.. by DC, you don't have to rub it in like that!   Tweeted by DC Comics earlier today… So, Wonder Woman, I suppose you have that option… Which follows a long line of stuff like this..[...]

So DC Comics has cancelled the Batgirl #41 Joker variant, ostensibly at the request of artist Rafael Albuquerque, but also from the entire Batbook editorial and creative teams once they saw the art last week But they haven't been able to delete it from our mindspace. The only place you'll be able to buy the cover, officially,[...]

The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is the wonderful new replacement to The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, following the Daily Show. With a bias

Welcome! Based on Jeff King's revelations a couple of weekends ago that he was completely unprepared to write a comic book, after being given the gig to write the Convergence mini-series for DC Comics, I thought I'd provide a guide for the next Jeff King on what to do – and not to do[...]

Is this the return of Manhunter to DC Comics? The listings for Gotham By Night #1 tell us The Midnight Shift is in danger from both its members and the rest of the GCPD! In a deadly new Gotham City, does the paranormal really still pose a threat? As the task force struggles to rebuild after their[...]

Batgirl #40, From DC Comics, written by Brenden Fletcher and Cameron Stewart, with art by Babs Tarr is a chaotic, action-packed issue that answers a lot of the questions and concerns fans of the series have had over the past few months Now that Barbara has to deal with a past version of herself, and[...]

Not that it wasn't creepy, it still was. But apparently not creepy enough. I am told that Albuquerque received notes from DC Comics, redrew the cover, and it was accepted. Again, none of this came from Batman editorial or creatives, it was a promotional/marketing decision and commission. And one that has now had a few safeguards added. ——- Albuquerque has also[...]

We've noted how much the Star Wars and Darth Vader comics, set after the first Star Wars movie, nevertheless employ flashbacks to the new prequel films.