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William Insignares of DemolitionComics.com and Blockbuster Comics Inc went to the DC Comics Retailer Roadshow in Orlando And got to speak with some folk… I had a chance to speak with some of the wonderful talent at DC Comics at the DC Orlando retailer road show a couple of days ago[...]

From today's Batman Eternal. And from YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecJGIQDsr-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEi4I6UWuDQ

Almost as if there's a bit of a Snyder/Johns war going on at DC to replace the Johns/DiDio war that has captured many of the titles at the publisher in recent years. And both seem to have major effects Batman has given us a brand new explanation for The Joker, albeit from an unreliable narrator. And today's[...]

Medical procedure in South Africa had done their trick and her career as Oracle was rather… conflated. Or was it? The Oracle Barbara Gordon is appearing during the extra-dimensional Convergence from a parallel reality, in the much anticipated Nightwing/Oracle two parter. And today's New 52: Futures End teases that reality to come. But the actual New 52 Batgirl comic[...]

From tomorrow's Multiversity: Mastermen by Grant Morrison and Jim Lee.   Ouch.  

Thanks to ComicBook.com, Blastr, ComicVine, CBR, Hitfix, IGN, Nerdist, Newsarama, Gamma Squad and Topless Robot… what do we have? Rev up the oscillator! Raise the conducting pole! Attach the bolts! It lives! It lives! DC solicitations for May 2015…. Note the repeated line about "This extra-sized issue includes a sneak peek at what's coming up in the DC[...]

Really going to miss DC's weeklies when they are done Marvel's weekly Wolverines series sells less than even the weekly Earth's End and Wolverines is only on its sixth issue Walking Dead is far and away Image's best selling title Thor still holding strong. The upcoming movie Suicide Squad hasn't even started filming yet but their[...]

After the launch of the New 52 at DC Comics, Geoff Johns, Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics working out of Burbank, wrote a number of comics for DC every month Aquaman, Justice League, Green Lantern, Forever Evil, Earth One, Superman and more. He was then told by DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson that he could[...]

At the retailer roadshow in Orando with DC Comics, retailers were told the latest on Neil Gaiman and JH Williams III's Sandman Overture, which has been running at a rate well behind DC's initial projections. With four issues out in eighteen months. However retailers were told that Sandman Overture will be out in May. And that pretty much the primary[...]

Since the DC relaunch back in October 2011, DC Comics have published "Combo" editions of certain titles While Marvel gives away digital versions of their comics with each $3.99 title, DC Comics rather sells $2.99 books and charges an extra $1 for a bagged version with a digital code Or $4.99 for a normally $3.99[...]

the launch of Ei8ht, Mutiversity Mastermen,  Monster Motors, Robert Heinelin's Citizen of The Galaxy, Secret Identities, Sparks Nevada: Marshal On Mars, Marvel Universe Guardians Of The Galaxy, Silk, Pirate Eye, Stray, Plunder, King: Mandrake The Magician, Legenderry: Green Hornet and Pathfinder Origins. And the week after? Suiciders, Orphan Black, TMNT Mutanimals and… Spider-Gwen #1! And the week after? Mister X[...]

Retailers at the Orlando retailer roadshow with DC Comics were told that the goal of the 24 new titles from the June mini-relaunch is to reach out to new readers Meanwhile the other 25 continuing series will be aimed at longer time readers. The June 2015 the branding will simply be DC Comics with no events, save for Darkseid War[...]

Told to retailers at the Orlando DC Retailer Roadshow yesterday… The new Robin: Son Of Batman title from Patrick Gleason is described as a Johnny Quest-style book, though with very different adventures Part Johnny Quest and part How To Train Your Dragon, one retailer described it as like Stanley And His Monster. We Are Robin shows how Batman has so many[...]

Spilling out of yesterday's retailer meeting in Orlando with DC Comics, a look at the Convergence event, week by week, laying it out. Convergence is intended to tie the storylines from the weekly titles World's End and Futures End together Each week has a theme and a conceit. The first week has the Pre 52 characters appearing, their[...]

At DC's retailer roadshow at Orlando yesterday, the assembled crowd were told a story about the original plans for the 2011 Flashpoint event from DC Comics. The event from 2011 saw the DC Universe reality change, Age Of Apocalypse style, and the DC books replaced by twisted parallel dimensional versions, before the New 52 relaunch that soft rebooted[...]

Plenty of bits and pieces coming out of yesterday's Orlando DC Comics Retailer Roadshow to brighten a Saturday Valentine's Day…. First, a few details about the upcoming Convergence series and spinoffs. Look for a scene in Convergence featuring Warlord riding a herd of triceratops into a castle of time travellers Mind you, bet that happens to time[...]

Mark Bristow writes for Bleeding Cool, and has a theory…   Is DeMatteis, Giffen and Porter's Justice League 3000 technically taking place on Earth 51? Earth 51 was a world that Ray Palmer found where his friends and family were alive shortly before Final Crisis. After the multiverse was reborn in Infinite Crisis, Earth 51 was shown to be[...]

DC / Vertigo is going to collaborate with George Miller, the director, producer and co-writer for the upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road on two projects tied to the film The first is called Mad Max: Fury Road: Inspired Artist where 65 different artists will create pieces inspired by the world created in the film The[...]

The comic, by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, hated by DC who published it, is the story about three people Jesse Custer, a bad boy turned bad priest who is literally possessed by the word of God Tulip, the tom boy bad ass gun toting woman from his past who he fall in in love[...]

DC Entertainment has come up with a few Valentine's Day cards featuring some of their most popular characters like Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Harley Quinn, Supergirl and more These are cute for young comic fans to take to school and cheaper than buying a box at the store Though the Bizarro one might need a[...]

Here's a look at the New New Suicide Squad, straight from the backs of this week's DC Comics titles With the new team ready, in order, Parasite, Black Hand, Poison Ivy, Reverse Flash, Cheetah and a Talon. And not one of them from the upcoming Suicide Squad movie A bit of a departure from Marvel's usual work[...]

iZombie was the comic that Chris Robertson and Mike Allred created for DC/Vertigo That's before they cancelled the series and fired Robertson from the Fables Cinderella comic, after he spoke out against their publication of Before Watchmen. But then iZombie got picked up for a TV series on the CW and suddenly they had to revisit the comic[...]

As well as DC's promotion of the title in recent weeks, suggesting that readers "commit to Suicide"… that's one easy way to a) get a media storm and b) reduce your reader base. Empty #1, the new Image comic from Jimmie Robinson gives us a fantasy parallel of xenophobia and racism, fear, superstition and just plain[...]

So we have a Secret Wars and a Convergence coming, with all manner of dimensional travel, worlds fighting worlds and Marvel and DC fighting to tell the same story So what signs are there in today's comics of what might be happening? This is the Old Logan dimension/time, known as the Wastelands on the Secret Wars[...]

Darkseid has been rather prominent in the DC Universe in the New 52, even if he hasn't been on the page as much From the beginning of Geoff Johns' run on Justice League, he has been setting up Darkseid as the Big Bad to come We saw him attacking a variety of dimensions searching for his[...]

Paul Levitz is continuing his run on World's Finest with the fifth part of the Secret History of Superman & Batman? You have to love a title with a

Here's a look at a few of them… Harley Quinn: Valentine's Day Special #1 solicited with art by John Timms, has added Ben Caldwell, Aaron Campbell and Thony Silas. Avengers #43 will be drawn by Mike Mayhew, not the solicited Stefano Caselli. Injustice: Gods Among Us – Year Three #9 solicited written by Tom Taylor, but is actually by Brian Buccellato, was[...]

Superman: Earth One Vol 3 by Joe Michael Stracyzynski, Ardian Syaf and Sandra Hope has a nice embossed cover., with the Superman symbol given a little

We ran a couple of pieces as the DC Comics creators headed to Burbank for a creative summit Their names were in lights and everything So we got a little peek via Twitter through the heavy security demands… as ever, Scott SNyder seemed to be having the most fun! On my way to the DC talent[...]

At the DC retailer meeting on Friday, they showed off the cover to Mad Magazine, featuring Star Wars. Mad Magazine will be one of the "lifeboats" left in New York when DC Comics makes the move to Burbank in April I wonder if any of the the DC New York lifers will find a home there?  And[...]