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Nineteen Thoughts About Nineteen Comics – Superman Unchained, Suicide Squad, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Walking Dead, Avenging Spider-Man, The Crow, Green Lantern Corps, Bravest Warriors, Six Gun Gorilla, Breath Of Bones, Batgirl, Supurbia, Manhattan Projects, Savage Wolverine, Wolverine, Uncanny X-Force, A1 And The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys

Superman Unchained #1 makes a lot of fuss about the foldout page (video here). But my favourite is one panel tucked away near the back. Big weapons, small church… Talking of weapons, why can’t Obama hire Harley Quinn as his …

Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic! The Fate Of James Gordon Jr

Grace Randolph writes; James Gordon Jr is an unlikely star of the New 52, popping up in Batman, Batgirl and now Suicide Squad! I’ll give mythoughts on this higher profile for the son of Commissioner Jim Gordon. Is this a …

Orbiting Around Fast And Furious – The Comic Adaptation That Isn’t

Chris Thompson writes; Welcome to Episode 112 of The Orbiting Pod! This week, we get Kot off guard by Suicide Squad #20, put the needle on the record with 12 Reasons to Die #1, keep it cool with Astonishing X-Men …

Six For Suicide Squad #20

Alasdair Stuart writes for Bleeding Cool I was always rather fond of Suicide Squad. The combination of moral ambiguity, superpowers and deniable espionage is a heady one and when the book’s at its best it reads like very little else …

Pop Culture Hounding Ales Kot And John Oatrander On Suicide Squad – Plus, The Hot Bearded Men Of Orbital

by Chris Thompson In a very special episode of the Pop Culture Hound podcast, I’m joined by the legendary John Ostrander and upcoming writer Ales Kot to discuss their work on Suicide Squad. We look at the pressure on writers …

Suicide Squad #20 – Sharks, Soldiers, Surprises And A Swipe File

The new Suicide Squad #20 is a pretty decent comic, Ales Kot’s debut working for DC Comics. Ales has a bit of a reputation as a hipster and started by having King Shark reading the works of Rumi while ordering …

Ales Kot Is The New Suicide Squad Writer With Timothy Green II On Art, And Sterling Gates Jumps On Vibe

We told you there were plenty of creative changes coming at DC, but even we didn’t expect this much. DC Comics is continuing its recruitment policy from the likes of Image Comics, by signing up the writer of Wild Children …

Last Week’s Comics In Thirty Four Panels

The internet’s most opinionated (and Greek) comics column.  By Dr Manolis V. GREEK, LIKE MORBIUS Morbius? Michael Morbius, pasty-rat-faced vampire in a unitard, THAT Michael Morbius? According to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #699.1 (really MORBIUS #0.1 a backdoor pilot to the upcoming Joe …

Suicide Squad #14 Selling Copies For $15 On eBay

Okay, it’s no Walking Dead #1. But give it time. Raw, unslabbed copies of Suicide Squad #14, which went on sale today, are selling copies on eBay for $14.95. Considering it only went on sale a few hours ago at …

Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – Batgirl, Amazing Spider-Man, Walking Dead, Thief Of Thieves, Saga, Ultimates, Wolverine And The Uncanny X-Men, Avengers, The Boys, Suicide Squad, Phantom Stranger, Punk Rock Jesus, Locke & Key And Saucer Country

And there we have it. Saucer Country out and says it, conflating conspiracy theories about political assassination and alien abduction, and giving one who has experienced the one, a close call with the other and finding the parallels. The new …

Deathstroke #0, Rob Liefeld And Feet

Mini-Deathstroke #0 spoilers ahead. It’s been a common joke to say that Rob Liefeld can’t draw feet. And that he will do anything he can to hide them, so that he doesn’t have to draw them. It’s patently untrue, the …

Nightwing And Suicide Squad Steaming Up On eBay

I’ve been looking at the performance of the DC New 52 titles for the Bleeding Cool Magazine #1 Price Guide. And Nightwing is really doing rather well, isn’t it? I knew Suicide Squad had been getting attention, but Nightwing had …

Warner Bros. Have A Whole Host Of DC Comics Movies Lined Up

Lobo and The Flash we know about. Wonder Woman and Justice League came back to life just this week. Superman will be back next year, Batman next month. Any more for any more?

Sixteen Thoughts About Sixteen DC Comics – The Ray, Legion Lost, Suicide Squad, Grifter, Batgirl, Mister Terrific, Batman And Robin, Frankenstein, The Shade, Deathstroke, My Greatest Adventure, Resurrection Man, Green Lantern, Demon Knights, Batgirl and Batwoman

This week brings five of my current favourite New 52 books. Guess which ones they are? I talked about the new Batgirl earlier and how smart it is, so there’s only one more thing I want to say about this …

Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen DC Comics – Batwoman, Batman And Robin, Batgirl, Huntress, Penguin, Legion Lost, Green Lantern, Demon Knights, Superboy, Suicide Squad, Resurrection Man, Mister Terrific, Grifter and Frankenstein

Twleve issue threes and two issue twos, the DC relaunch is starting to bed in. Which is probably why so many books try to do a little something different this week. Resurrection Man is into its third issue and already …

Adam Glass On The Thinner, Younger Amanda Waller In Suicide Squad #1

The end of Suicide Squad #1 seemed to bring about a couple of surprises. First, the new nature of the Task Force X. Second the missions they are being sent on may not quite be of the same nature as …