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Who Is Punchline and Where Does She Come From?
In last Wednesday's Substack subscriber missive, James Tynion IV talked about the creation of the character Punchline for the Batman books, and how it began with the character of The Smiler that he had planned for his Joker 5G comic book that never happened But that her origin was far earlier, in Erica Slaughter. How –[...]
Miracle Molly As A Fable Of Work-For-Hire And Creator-Owned Comics
It's Miracle Molly time! James Tynion IV is quitting Batman in November, in order to focus on his creator-owned line, including his Substack Comics, The Blue Book, and The Department Of Truth: Wild Fictions He is also using his Substack subscription to talk about his many frustrations working for DC Comcis (and the good stuff[...]
James Tynion’s House of Slaughter #1 Nets Nearly 500,000 Copies
Okay, Todd McFarlane, something for Gunslinger Spawn to beat? In a year of massive record-setting orders, we can add House Of Slaughter, the first spinoff from James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera's  Something Is Killing The Children, to that rarified list Which is, of course, an opportune moment to remind you that we predicted it[...]
Cover image for DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH #15 CVR A SIMMONDS (MR)
James Tynion IV and Martin Simmonds' The Department Of Truth has been a smash hit for Image Comics, in a world where conspiracies become true when enough people believe in them, with an investigative body headed up by Lee Harvey Oswald And now Tynion is taking it to Substack With The Department Of Truth: Wild[...]
James Tynion IV On Being Told To Write Alfred Pennyworth's Funeral
James Tynion IV has continued to talk on his Substack newsletter about his work on the Batman comic book and the editorial and creative challenges it faced, working on a run that was basically a fill-in, something to lead up to 5G, which is all anyone was interested in and, in November 2019, there was[...]
Julia Pennyworth Returns to The Batbooks With The Joker #7 (Spoilers)
Julia Pennyworth was created as Julia Remarque by Gerry Conway and Don Newton, the long-lost daughter of Alfred Pennyworth, first appearing in Detective Comics #501 as the daughter of the French Resistance fighter Madamoiselle Marie. Detetcive Comics #501 by Gerry Conway and Don Newton However, she was recreated for the New 52 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion[...]
The Nice House On The Lake Can Get You Anything - Almost
And even if it is a choice that we have already made… but mostly about what comic books you could order if they could appear from thin-air and the effect this would have overnight on the collectable market of anything at all… also if this is a virtual reality, what happens when you use VR[...]
James Tynion IV & Michael Avon Oeming's Blue Book for UFO Abductions
James Tynion IV and Michael Avon Oeming have released the first chapter of their new comic series, Blue Book, on Substack The first of several original series that Tynion will debut in this fashion Blue Book is a new ongoing comic book feature recreating stories of real UFO encounters in comic book form, based on[...]
John Constantine Brings The Swears Back To Death Metal
Okay, okay, just one more DC Comics insider reveal from James Tynion IV's Empire Of The Tiny Onion Substack newsletter look back at his time on Batman, with all of the politics, competing publishing drives, and writing by the seat of his pants We already looked at his creation of a new Joker for 5G,[...]
When James Tynion IV Planned A Brand New Joker, Chase Kerry, For 5G
In James Tynion IV's subscriber-only Empire Of The Tiny Onion Substack newsletter, he is continuing to talk about his Batman run at DC Comics, as editorial ructions were bursting out around him, including the arrival of 5G – which it seems a number of DC Comics creators were relying on Bleeding Cool to tell them[...]
Mark Millar, James Tynion IV Gerry Duggan Talk Getting Off Twitter And More
This week saw James Tynion IV, Mark Millar, and Gerry Duggan newsletters address Twitter and beyond Batman writer and Substack exodus leader James Tynion IV writes about his anxiety; "For years, I stopped feeling present in my day to day interactions Social Media made that feeling a thousand times worse, with the artificial responsibility to be on[...]
James Tynion IV Planned For Batman To Leave Gotham Before 5G
It is possible, just possible, I may have posted too much of James Tynion IV's paid Substack subscriber mailing last week Been a little too overzealous in my cut and pasting Well, there's no danger of this week, it's mostly his original overview plans for Batman as submitted to DC Comics when he got the[...]
Batman Fear State
Where does James Tynion IV get his ideas from? Batman Fear State Alpha #1 We know James Tynion IV wasn't even allowed to kill off The Joker, killing off The Batman would be well above his paygrade All he's managed to do is sent him off on his holibobs from November. Batman Fear State Alpha #1 The Scarecrow is[...]
Harley Quinn Takes On The Joker In Batman #100 (Spoilers)
It's James Tynion IV time! Bleeding Cool first broke the news of 5G's existence in 2019, as we built up what it was meant to be Generation Five, the fifth generation of DC Comics as seen in the new planned DC Timeline, which would assign major stories a year in which they happened, how old characters were, and in[...]
So, DC Comics, What is 5G?
It's 5G time! In his Tiny Onion newsletter for Substack, James Tynion IV looked at his entire approach to Batman and the history of the characters, dividing it into five generations And about his pitch to take over the Batman book from Tom King for a year-and-a-bit as it was then planned. When I first started[...]
Danny DeVito Writes Penguin In DC Comics November 2021 Solicitations
DC Comics November 2021 solicitations mark James Tynion IV's last issues of Batman from DC Comics (though he will stick on The Joker for a bit longer) And as the new upcoming event The Shadows Of The Bat comes after Fear State's End, so Batman is leaving Gotham The credo goes that every Bat-writer should create[...]
Substack Comics Creators Criticised Over Site's Offensive Content
At least, according to James Tynion IV, who posted on his the-moring-after-the-night-before Substack announcement. James Tynion IV: Last night I slept for more consecutive hours than I have in a month I woke up feeling a little drunk on sleep, and then stumbled over to the computer to see where we landed over the night[...]
Substack Comics Creators Criticised Over Site's Offensive Content
So far, Jonathan Hickman, James Tynion IV, Scott Snyder, Skottie Young, Molly Ostertag, Saladin Ahmed, and Chip Zdarsky have gone public, as well as engaging in a number of other monetising and merchandising opportunities It is clearly one of the biggest stories to hit the comic book industry this year in a year of big[...]
So, DC Comics, What is 5G?
James Tynion IV was in the middle of this, he had taken over Batman as a last-minute fill-in replacement on Batman when then-EIC Bob Harras had found an opportunity to fire Tom King off the book Tynion IV was to write the series until Batman #100, when 5G would kick in and the series would[...]
Fear State: Scarecrow Wants To Help Gotham As Joe Chill Helped Batman
He may be leaving Batman, but James Tynion IV is going out with a bang with Fear State All it takes is one bad day, that was The Joker's theory, to take a normal person, break them and turn them into a monster Bruce Wayne's parents, The Joker's wife and unborn child, though he failed[...]
James Tynon IV Launches Substack Publisher For $7 A Month
James Tynion IV, writer of Batman and The Joker for DC Comics, has quit work-for-hire superhero comic books in favour of a new gig at Substack, who coincidentally have been distributing his newsletter of late His first comic book published through Substack will be UFO-themed The Blue Book with Michael Avon Oeming, starting in September[...]
James Tynion IV & Michael Oeming's Blue Book - Substack in September
As part of James Tynion IV's new Substack gig that he is quitting Batman and The Joker for, on his newsletter, he announced the first of his new Substack comic books The Blue Book, a new UFO comic book drawn by Michael Avon Oeming, and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. "I started digging back into UFOs last[...]
Batman #111 Sees Batman Fear State Rewrite The Future State
James Tynion IV has just announced that he is leaving Batman with #117 and The Joker with #14 Tynion is the comics creator who took over Batman after Tom King was fired with #87 and managed to turn his fill-in job into the main gig after DC fired publisher Dan Didio and cancelled 5G, took[...]
Miracle Molly and The Gardener Get Batman: Secret Files In October
Fear State not only continues the Scarecrow's vision of a fear-controlled Gotham, but also Mayor Christopher Nakano's mission to protect the city with his ground-breaking deal with the Magistrate. Batman: Fear State Saga Hardcover – April 26, 2022 by James Tynion IV, Jorge Jimenez The Batman: Fear State Event is collected like never before! Gotham City is on the brink of[...]
The Department of Truth #1 Sixth And Final Covers Were Switched By Mistake
What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth? Bestselling writer JAMES TYNION IV (Batman, Something is Killing the Children) debuts his first Image ONGOING SERIES alongside breakout artist MARTIN SIMMONDS (Dying is Easy)! In Shops: Aug 18, 2021 SRP: $3.99   Image Comics has let comic book stores know that they accidentally swapped[...]
Will House Of Slaughter #1 Be James Tynion IV’s Biggest Launch Yet?
Since 2019, James Tynion IV has been bringing what we dubbed "Big Tynion Energy" to the comic market and enjoying a meteoric rise at both DC and in the creator-owned space rivaled by few in the industry Beginning with early excitement for his creator-owned series Something Is Killing The Children, and followed quickly by his[...]
DC Comics October 2021 Solicits And Solicitations
such as  James Tynion IV's in his latest Empire  Of The Tiny Onion newsletter talking about the announcement of DC Vs Vampires written with Matthew Rosenberg and drawn by Otto Schmidt And how he would have written that a couple of years ago when he was meant to leave Batman with #100 and replaced by John[...]
James Tynion IV To Make His Head Canon Into Batman Continuity
Reading James Tynion IV's latest Empire  Of The Tiny Onion newsletter I suddenly got a Batman-style flashback to Evan Dorkin's return to The Eltingville Club I mean, even more than usual Remember this? Eltingville Club by Evan Dorkin James Tynion IV, as well as writing the two big indie hits from Image and Boom, The Department Of Truth[...]
Something Is Killing The Children Gets House Of Slaughter Spinoff
It's Something Is Killing The Children time! James Tynion IV is currently moving his social media on Twitter from his personal account to his company account, Read Tiny Onion, and stated that his personal interaction with fans will be switching to that newsletter This might mean that more people will see the gems that Bleeding[...]
Department Of Truth, Spawn, Ice Cream Man Top Advance Reorders
Scott Snyder would have had one, James Tynion IV would have had one, and, yes, Warren Ellis would have had one – and that would have led the approach The pandemic scuppered the launch, and clearly, Warren Ellis' imprint wasn't going to happen either Some projects and creators will have gone elsewhere; might this still[...]