The Meaning And Impact Of Marvel and DC Comics''House Styles' (Or Lack Thereof)
Thumb through DC Comics' new releases this week and you'll find the above image -- a teaser for the upcoming Batman: Eternal weekly series -- in the back pages of a good many of them (all the books I...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Batman: The Best Batman Stories by Decade
Many of comics’ most popular heroes have been around for decades, and in the case of the big names from the publisher now known as DC Comics, some have been around for a sizable chunk of a century. As...
View ArticleAsk Chris #237: What The Heck Happened In 'Batman RIP'?
Q: Batman RIP: What's going on in this book? I like Morrison, but I do not follow the plot. -- @daingercomics A: My friend, you have come to the right place. I generally think Grant Morrison gets a bad...
View ArticleDC Announces Variant Covers For New York Comic-Con
October traditionally marks the end of the summer con season, when retailers, creators and exhibitors return to their caves for hibernation, secure in the knowledge that they have done everything they...
View ArticleDC Rebirth: All The Teams and Announcements From WonderCon
DC Comics hosted a special livestream event at WonderCon in Los Angeles on Saturday afternoon to unveil the creative teams behind its DC Rebirth event, which relaunches the entire DC Universe line with...
View ArticleArtisanal Killers And Bruce Wayne's Kids: Why 'Batman & Robin Eternal' Was So...
This week marked the final issue of Batman & Robin Eternal, and while we're still close enough to it that the honeymoon has barely even started, let alone ended, I'm pretty sure that I can declare...
View ArticleSuperman And Wonder Woman Team Up And Lock Lips In New Series By Soule And...
DC Comics' new Batman/Supermanseries hits stands later this month, but that book isn't the only one in which Big Blue is going to be teaming up with one of his Justice League cohorts. Continue reading…
View ArticleDC Unveils Covers For Action, Detective, Vigilante, Batman Beyond
While DC Comics has been killing it in a number of areas since the launch of its Rebirth initiative, one area that perhaps hasn't been getting enough attention is the amazing variant covers the...
View ArticleReading List: The Ten Essential Grant Morrison Stories
Grant Morrison is a polarizing creator, with some people writing off entire swaths of his career for being "too confusing," while others proselytize about its virtues, so long as you understand these...
View ArticleReading List: The Ten Essential Batman Stories
So you've decided to read about Batman! I would definitely applaud this decision, as I have spent the majority of the past thirty years doing exactly that, but I also know that it can be pretty...
View ArticleAction Comics #858 & Batman #670 Get Variant Covers
Press Release DC Comics has added special variant covers editions to two key titles for October: ACTION COMICS #858 and BATMAN #670! BATMAN #670 features the debut of new series artist Tony Daniel, who...
View ArticleTony Daniel Talks Batman and Then Goes Batman on an Unruly Dude [Video]
While at New York Comic-Con last weekend, ComicsAlliance's Chris Sims had the opportunity to speak to writer and artist Tony Daniel, who will taking over both the scripting and art on "Batman"...
View ArticleAmy Reeder Exits ‘Batwoman’ Over Creative Differences, Trevor McCarthy Takes...
DC Comics and Amy Reeder have confirmed that the artist will no longer draw issues #9-11 of Batwoman. Instead, Trevor McCarthy will handle those issues before series co-writer and co-artist J.H....
View ArticleDC Announces New Gigs For Ann Nocenti And Tony S. Daniel
DC Comics made a couple of unexpected announcements Friday afternoon, revealing high-profile new assignments for veteran writer Ann Nocenti, one of only two women writers working on the publisher's DCU...
View ArticleSyFy’s ‘Face Off’ Makeup Artists Have a Weird Concept of Superheroes [Recap]
If you're as unfamiliar with it as I was about a week ago, SyFy's reality show Face Off pits makeup artists against one another in character design and creation battles. Most of the time, those battles...
View ArticleDiggle And Daniel To Steer ‘Action Comics’ Starting In April With Issue #19
Following Grant Morrison, Rags Morales, Brent Anderson, Gene Ha, Brad Walker, ChrisCross, Cully Hamner, Cafu, Andy Kubert, Rick Bryant, Travel Foreman, Chris Sprouse and Sholly Fisch's 18-issue run,...
View ArticleAndy Diggle Exits ‘Action Comics’ For ‘Professional Reasons’
On the day Grant Morrison's final issue as writer of Action Comics is hitting the stands at comic shops, his successor, Andy Diggle, announced via Twitter he's leaving the book for...
View ArticleDOOMSDAY: Greg Pak Brings The Superman-Killer Into The New 52 For ‘Villains...
Formally announced earlier this week, September will see every title in DC Comics' "New 52" superhero line temporarily rebranded in the idiom of of the publisher's legion of super-villains. Among them...
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