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Getting DC All Access At Wondercon – From Jim Lee To Shelly Bond (UPDATE)
It was a full hall shortly after the opening of Wondercon and just as DC's booth at the con is front and center, DC snagged one of the earliest opening panel times for the show as well in their "all access" approach. Panelists included DC's Co-publisher, and penciller on Superman Unchained, Jim Lee, and 3 editors,[...]
A Look At Supergirl 30 And The Unwritten: Apocalypse #4
This is the second of the three-part Red Daughter Of Krypton story. The newest, most powerful Red Lantern can finally put her new powers to use! A cosmic menace from the darkest recesses of Kara's past is back! Only this time Supergirl is a Red Lantern and can channel all her rage against anyone – and[...]
The Batman By Chiang And Azzarello That Vertigo Never Published
  We mentioned the earlier New 52 version of Wonder Woman that was planned by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang, but in the new TwoMorrows magazine Modern Masters Volume 29: Cliff Chiang, we also get a look behind the scenes of the Vertigo Batman comic that never was Or, The Bat-Man, closer based on the character's[...]
A Comic Show – Carnage Vs. Deadpool Vs. Dante's Inhumans
Vertigo's Hinterkind volume one is here, and while it's not happily ever after for humans, at least we can read about our demise for just $10! Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Orlando, Florida, writes: Hey Fandom, I'm back with New Comics Now! This week I have a lot of All New Marvel Now that[...]
Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – From American Vampire To Hellboy: The First 20 Years
This week their special segment includes: Catfish Quiz. Books reviewed in this episode include: Vertigo: American Vampire Second Cycle #1 Marvel Comics: Superior Spider-Man Annual #2 Marvel Comics: Ms Marvel #2 Marvel Comics: Thor God Of Thunder #20 Image Comics: Sovereign #1 DC Comics: Batman And Aquaman #29 Marvel Comics: Uncanny X-Men #19 BOOM! Studios: Clockwork Angels #1 DC Comics: Batman: Bruce Wayne Murderer TP Dark[...]
Maxx's Super Awesome Comic Review Show – Triumphal Returns From Stray Bullets To Beasts Of Burden
It's quite a full line-up, so dig into this week's comic releases. Books featured in this episode include: DC Comics: Justice League Of America #13 Marvel Comics: All-New X-Men #24 IDW Publishing: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #32 Image Comics: Stray Bullets: Killers #1 Vertigo: Royals: Masters Of War #2 Image Comics: Mercenary Sea #2 Image Comics: Manifest Destiny #5 Marvel Comics: Captain Marvel #1 DC[...]
DC Vertigo's Mark Doyle Is The New Batman Group Editor – For One Year (UPDATE)
Bleeding Cool understands that Mark Doyle, currently a DC/Vertigo editor, will be the new Batman Group editor at DC Comics. He replaces the departing Mike Marts, who was escorted out of the DC offices by security, as is standard, after he announced he was moving back to work at Marvel Comics. One slight blip is that Mark[...]
Five Reasons Why Tom Strong Is a 21st Century Hero In The Planet of Peril #6
Even more pointedly, the final issue of the arc, #6, seems to encapsulate Tom's position as a relatable hero to us, right now, and explains why Tom Strong's survival, as a character in comics, has been far more than a nostalgic resuscitation of an ABC property into the Vertigo line-up. [*This discussion is written to avoid[...]
Bleeding Cool's 11 Best Comics of 2013
The Wake, from Vertigo, a division of DC Comics, written by Scott Snyder, with art by Sean Murphy The Wake follows its own star as a series, shuffling aside expectations and even the burdens of science-fiction and horror traditions in comics, and for that reason it swims rather than sinks Neither Scott Snyder nor Sean Murphy,[...]
D-Day For DC Comics Tomorrow
Tomorrow is the day when DC Comics staff working in the New York offices at 1700 Broadway will have to make a decision about what they'll be doing in April 2015. That is when DC Comics will move lock, stock, to the offices in Burbank, where an office has been waiting for them, empty, for a[...]
Will Dennis And Mark Doyle To Leave DC Comics/Vertigo
Will Dennis is Group Editor at DC Comics/Vertigo and Mark Doyle is an Editor there. I understand that both have decided not to move to the West Coast when DC Comics ups sticks from Manhattan to Burbank in April 2015. Recently responsible for publishing the likes of DC Vertigo publishing 100 Bullets, Scalped, DMZ, The Losers, American[...]
Remastering Breathtaker – The Return Of The Love, Death, Sex And Power
Breathtaker: Love Death Sex Power was a Vertigo book before there was a Vertigo imprint Now, more than twenty years later the duo is going back and remastering their original series and preparing to do the long awaited sequel They have put together an Indiegogo campaign to make it happen I got a chance to chat with Wheatley[...]
Unslabbed Preacher #1 Sells For $385. Slabbed For $650. Preview For $610.
Bleeding Cool was the first to officially confirm that AMC/Sony were making a TV pilot out of the Garth Ennis/Steve Dillon DC/Vertigo comic book, Preacher. And the market has sat up and taken note. And now, on eBay, a copy of Preacher #1 in Mint/Near Mint condition, though not CGC slabbed as these things often are, has[...]
Two DC Comics Find New Homes
The Light Brigade by Peter Tomasi and Peter Snejberg was published by DC Comics in 2004, collected and then republished in 2009. Reprinting a book allows
Diving Deeper Into The Wake #5: An In-depth Discussion Of The Series So Far
One of our New York correspondents, Elizabeth Heyman, writes for Bleeding Cool: The fifth issue of Vertigo's The Wake was already legendary among the book's readers a month before it was even released Simply alluding to the particular comic anywhere within earshot of a comic shop or an online forum would always be met with the[...]