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By Graeme McMillan With the second issue of DC Comics' Batman and Robin released today, we asked writer Grant Morrison why we need a new Batman, how sane Bruce Wayne really was, and whether Batman is actually sci-fi or not after all. Batman and Robin #2 is in comic stores now.

By Glenn Hauman The one Michael Jackson comics reference I haven't seen mentioned yet is from Wasteland #16 from DC Comics, in a story entitled "Heartshadow" written by John Ostrander and drawn by Rick Magyar. It's a story where a young fan of "a dark prince named Michael" commits suicide.

By Graeme McMillan DC Comics launches two new series this week; Justice League: Cry For Justice is a six-part spin-off from the main Justice League of America series, written by soon-to-be-new-JLA-writer James Robinson. It focuses on Green Lantern, Green Arrow and their pals deciding to kick ass to work o...

By Dirk Deppey Mike Sterling asks, “What if the characters/teams from Marvel and DC were allowed one starring title, and that’s it?” He then discusses what such a move might mean for the Direct Market.   Literary Comics Pop Comics Comic Strips Digital Comics Comics Culture

By namtab29@comcast.net (rob!) Almost two years(!) ago, I posted an image of the live-action Super-Heroes Sea World show that was run in an issue of DC's in-house magazine, The Amazing World of DC Comics. The show featured what I believe is the first appearance of a live-action Aquaman, not to mention a live-action Mera!

By Dirk Deppey Literary Comics Pop Comics Comics] Smash Comics #49 Link: Golden Age Comic Book Stories Work by Jack Cole, Klaus Nordling, Fred Guardineer, Paul Gustavson and Bernard Sachs — some of it racist, mind you. Comic Strips Comics Culture

By Graeme McMillan The idea of "superheroes for grown-ups" has been promised many, many times in the twenty-plus years since Frank Miller made Batman old and Alan Moore took the underwear away from his glowing blue radioactive man, but rarely achieved. Sleeper manages it by downplaying the superheroics a...

By Robert Greenberger One of the first questions posed regarding digital comics is just how you make any money from a strip available for free. The usual answer is that the strip, if it’s any good, will find an audience who will then happily pay for a print compilation. That seems to be the model for DC Comics’ Zuda Co...

By orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) From what I gather, the original comic book used the reader’s unfamiliarity with the characters to play against the conventions of what a hero and villain means from a completely different perspective. I doubt Warner Bros would grant McBride access to the DC Universe, but if they did, it w...

Nightwing falls for the electrified cowl and cape trick, which also is bad, because Dick used that trick on someone else in another comic recently. They use some unmentioned dark horror that Jason endured as a youngster on the street, brought up by ...

Via PR, the Big Apple Con, newly acquired by Gareb Shamus, has announced it’s first guests: Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York-based Wizard Entertainment, today announced that Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, and Jim Lee creator/publisher of DC Comics’ WildStorm Productio...

By brucecastle 1. Detective Comics #853 Pretty even between Marvel, DC, and Indies, but DC did snag the top two. Then again, DC was also responsible for the worst book of the month. Overall, I’d say that April was a pretty good month for comics. All five of these books were a hell of a read.

By Andrew Wheeler The Bug came back to DC Comics Presents slightly wackier, but still vaguely villainous, seven issues later, with Giffen taking over plotting as well and getting Paul Levitz to write an ostensible Superman-Legion of Super-Heroes team-up. It turned into a chase-the-wacky-villain arou...

By blakemp In a few weeks, X-Men Origins: Wolverine will come to your local cineplex. This week, the guys discuss the characters’ origins, some of their favorite stories, the new cartoon show, and their hopes and fears for the upcoming movie. In the picks this week, Mike goes with Batman: Battle For th...

By Dirk Deppey Literary Comics Pop Comics Review] Secret Identities: The Asian American Superhero Anthology Comics] “Dangerous Competition” Comics] “Puglyon’s Crypt” Review] Various titles Comic Strips Digital Comics Review] The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels Art] Gwen Lee Comics Culture

By Travis The cover is fun, and that’s a good start. The Oans have taken notice of the new planet opposite Earth, setting up for some conflict with Green Lantern in a future issue, and the first couple pages show that the coloring is being given some good attention. I wish we had a separate inker, because...

By Travis Batman: Battle for the Cowl: Commissioner Gordon 1, Oracle: The Cure 1, Top Ten Season Two Special #1, and Trinity 43 Okay, no Marvel reviews this week, because I had to go out of town, but here's all of the mini-series and specials from DC: Batman: Battle for the Cowl: Commissioner Gordon 1

By Scott Most people know World’s Finest Comics as the Superman/Batman title. Those two characters had shared covers (along with Robin) since the title’s inception as World’s Best Comics. Oddly enough, they didn’t share any adventures until 1954, when they were brought together by necessity. Ac...

By Henry Chamberlain If there is anything I would fault the Mysterius series for it is that I am left with a desire for more. As it is, I think Parker and Fowler have packed in as much wit and style as one can hope for in a comic book, especially with such detailed art work to compliment such sharp writing. The strengths...

By Scott Thill When Alan Moore took charge of DC Comics' failing Swamp Thing in the early '80s, the writer revitalized several of the monster series' moribund characters while flipping the bird to the Comics Code. Images: DC Comics, Wikipedia See also:

By blakemp It’s time for a good old-fashioned listener request! This week, the guys delve into DC Comics’ Elseworlds imprint, the line that brought us such classics as Kingdom Come, Superman/Batman: Generations, The Golden Age and… um… Lobo Annual #2. Well, they can’t all be gems. In the picks this w...

By tonyrak Tony Rakittke Posted in DC Comics, Reviews   Tagged: Batman, Black Adam, Brainiac 5, Captain Marvel, Carlos Pacheco, Checkmate, Christian Alamy, Darkseid, Doug Mahnke, Final Crisis #6, Grant Morrison, Green Lantern Corps, J.G. Jones, Jesus Merino, Kalibak, Lex Luthor, Marco Rudy,...

By Dirk Deppey Literary Comics Review] Various titles Link: Sean Rogers Pop Comics How Alan Moore got Cold War politics exactly wrong. Comic Strips Comics] Failure Link: Boston Phoenix Digital Comics Comics] Nifty Gals & Gags Link: Harry Lee Green Comics Culture

By rss@youtube.com (UltraProductionsVids) Another vid for my friend, superag, at Naughty-Seduction.net, the community dedicated to the Smallville ship of Chlex (Chloe & Lex). This is a teaser trailer for her latest fanfiction The Upper Hand - http://forums.naughty-seduction.net/showthread.php?t=6516 Date of Production...

By blakemp 2008 ends in just days, folks, so let’s go out with a Showcase blowout! Joined by back-up geeks Mike and Kenny, the boys announce the winners of the Best of 2008 awards, as voted on by you! Then, it’s a long talk about everything that happened in comics in 2008! The Dark Knight, the rise of Marv...

By Johanna This should have been a great book. There was a tremendous amount of effort put forward to update it. There are at least 50 new pages of material spread throughout the book, including at least 60 new entries. Most of the major characters have one or two pages added to their entries, and the Encyc...

By Deamentia J. Montes Posted in Batman, DC Comics, Reviews, Superman   Tagged: Alex Sinclair, Carlos Pacheco, DC Comics, Final Crisis #5, Grant Morrison, J.G. Jones, Jesus Merino, Marco Rudy    By Grant Morrison (writer), JG Jones and Carlos Pacheco (pencils), Marco Rudy and Jesus Merino (inks),...

By rss@youtube.com (AngusGibsonT) Author: AngusGibsonT Keywords: Dark Knight Batman Joker fanfiction Angus Gibson AngusGibson Bruce Wayne Harley Quin Caped Crusader Chapter DC Comics Added: December 10, 2008

By Chris Marshall Share on Facebook Collected Comics Library Podcast #199 28,645Kb; 30m 17s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ Regular readers of the blog of listeners of the podcast, know that I’m a big fanboy of The Batman, yes “The” Batman. meaning the older and slightly more campy Batman of the G...

By Chris Marshall Marvel for January Marvel for February Marvel for March Superman/Batman: The Search For Kryptonite HC Green Lantern: In Brightest Day TPB Essential Marvel Horror Vol. 2 TPB Wonder Woman: Who is Wonder Woman? Superman: Camelot Falls Volume 2 Watchmen: Art of the Film HC

By Sebastiano In this tutorial we will be using real life textures to assist in color rendering the Lady Blackhawk drawn by DC Comics artist Ed… Creatin a Graphic Novel with Photos. This will help you achieve a comic book/graphic novel effect using ...

By Blinky the Tree Frog Though to be fair, DC Comics encompasses a lot of different comics and characters. Fandoms from which I've read a decent amount of Fan Fiction X-Men (my first ever fanfic obsession!) X-Files (around seasons 3 & 4) Forever Knight ...

By Ryan Written by Alan Moore Written by Alan Moore Written by Alan Moore ALL-STAR SUPERMAN VOL. 2 HC THE SPIRIT VOL. 3 TP Cover A by Joe Kubert Written by Alan Moore HEROES OF THE DC UNIVERSE: BATMAN BUST large triptypch of Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman! He likes Superman.

By Chris Marshall Podcast #187 35,232Kb; 37m 19s http://www.collectedcomicslibrary.com/ I’ve got a jammed packed show for you this week on the show. As I promised, the feature is Jack Kirby’s Silver Star (Image Comics), but I also throw in a bonus review of his O.M.A.C.: One Man Army Corps (DC Comics). I did so beca...

By Brian Cronin Brian Hibbs has a good article out (despite the rather odd stylistic choice to do the article in a style like All Star Batman) about how he feels about those retailers who decided to ignore DC Comics’ request to destroy their uncorrected copies of All Star Batman and Robin #10.

—– 18 - DETECTIVE COMICS 07/2001: Detective Comics #760 — 38,542* 07/2002: Detective Comics #772 — 48,661* 07/2003: Detective Comics #784 — 38,571 07/2004: Detective Comics #796 — 36,806 07/2005: Detective Comics #808 — 37,952 07/2006: Detective Comics #821 — 67,345 —————————————-...

By Brightbear Disclaimer: These characters are copyrighted to DC Comics. I own nothing, I'm just playing with them. Author's Note: This is taking place POST-The Dark Knight, so beware of spoilers. In Darkness Author: thelovehater ...

By Travis Batman and the Outsiders 10, Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds 1, Rann/Thanagar Holy War 4, Superman/Batman 51, Tangent: Superman’s Reign 6, and Trinity 12 Batman and the Outsiders 10 Superman/Batman 51 by Michael Green, Mike Johnson and Rafael Albuquerque Tangent: Superman’s Reign 6

By Travis Freddie Williams again?!? I feel sorry for the writers. Taking place after Batman R.I.P., but before R.I.P. is over in the other titles, we get to see Tim Drake, Jason Todd, AND a new Red Robin in play. Willaims messes up in his positioning of characters in the fight with Todd and Robin, and we have to s...

By Travis Is it a coincidence that the only editorial help also comes from the one magazine with a newly-arrived writer to the title, who links together other issues and events, and has a better handle of the nature of the characters than most other contemporary writers in the Batman universe? Or is...

—– 36 - SUPERMAN/BATMAN ANNUAL 03/2008: Superman/Batman Annual #2 — 46,899 An average limited series decline. Another Johnny DC book. Two new WildStorm Universe limited series that are largely ignored by the market. A Johnny DC book. Another Johnny DC book.

This comment reflects the general consensus of many respected observers on who reads superhero comics and why, but there is no denying that the Ultimate/Identity Crisis/52 generation of superhero comics readers IS a generation of superhero comics readers, and not just the lingering...

By Greg Hatcher I even enjoyed the followup-sequel-conclusion in Action Comics Weekly twenty-some years later by Martin Pasko and Dan Spiegle. You can find the Superman and Batman ones relatively easily from a number of secondhand dealers… but boy, the Captain Marvel one’s hard to come by.

By bdoherty@reason.com (Brian Doherty) While we are lucky to get even 40 pages every couple of years from some of our greatest comic book artists working in the non-superhero realm, Hernandez is unfailingly prolific on a variety of projects. This, Sloth, is his first standalone "graphic novel" produced without earlier serial...

Notes: While this is technically set in a mutual DC Movieverse that shares characters, characterizations, and backgrounds from both Batman Begins and Superman Returns, the actual story takes place long before either movie occurs. Written on request for likeadeuce. Much gratitude is e...

By T. Michael Testi Infinite Crisis was a seven-issue limited series of comic books published by DC Comics beginning in October 2005. It was written by Geoff Johns and illustrated by Phil Jimenez. The series storyline was based on the 1985 series Crisis on Infinite Earths, and it revisits characters and idea...

The question my comic book nerd friends and I ask whenever a new superhero movie or TV show is made is, "How will they screw this one up?" Continuity scares away new fans, we're told. And so it's rare to see something transferred whole to the screen.

Time stamps: 9:40 Don Sanderson from the Megacon, Emails from Art Lyon on Justice League of America #11 and Gene Ha at the NYCC. 32:00 We are joined by Peter Rios from Comic Geeks Speak, as we look at the Legion of the Super Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga.

Audio comments from Brent AKA Knightwingbk on the forum and Comic Timing Time stamps: 1:17:47 Manhunter Challenge: Manhunter #26 Review 1:51:09: Audio comment from Comic Timingâs Ian Levenstein and friend of the show, John Mayo.

Episode 20 Part 1: This episode is slightly different in format from our usual shows due to the special content: This is our Wizard World Chicago Special. Jim and I attended a variety of DC related panels. We will report on them and give you our thoughts on upcoming news and the whole conventio...